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198092 pages. Features: Glaze Painting; Toward Self-Sufficiency (in clay), Tri-axial Blend, 16 North Georgia Potters; Slab Rollers, Sources of Sodium as vapour glaze, The Craney Hill Oxidation Kiln, Oxidation/Reduction, and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. Undated. Circa 1980? Book
1932Features: Sanity, Prohibition, and the federal deficit; A gasser blows in - heroic measures necessary to combat flames in oil fields; Where diamonds earn their keep - interesting life of a diamond in an industrial plant - whence it comes, how it is used, and how it ends; Editorials - radium waters - Philippine Independence - Frightfulness in warfare; A Nerve center of communication - how your radio or cable message is speeded through; Eclipses and the Sund's atmosphere - solution of an outstanding solar problem; Flying as fast as sound - considerations of what the future may hold for aviation - some physiological and mechanical aspects of the question; An early Christian cemetary - the Libyan desert gives up further secrets of antiquity; Viscount Grey and Lord Haldane - conclusion of a study of two famous World War personalities; Power from pipe lines to wires - natural gas used as fuel in steam electric plant; Watching the creation of the stars - more concerning the evolution of the galaxies; Unusual fishes - they build nests, walk on land, live in dried mud, and breathe air; Forty-noners starved in the midst of plenty - survey of plants and animals in Death Valley shows that pioneers could have survived the trials of the desert; Modern alchemy - photographing the birth of an atom; What next in elevator technology?; Inter-glacial man in England - human remains and artifacts tell an interesting story of pre-glacial migrations to and from England. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
1931Features: A button industry from ocean pearl; Editorials - more speed in the air; voices across the world; Wild life in a fire; Flying instruction as it should be; How you are influenced by color - color requirements, particularly in foods, are so rigid that methods of color comparison are widely employed in industry; Interstellar space wholly empty?; A day with a locksmith; The perspective of modern physics - has modern science reached an impasse?; A tinted statue from Pompeii's ashes - portrait statue of Livia, a notable discovery of last year; It pays to be a pioneer - a salaried employee who developed a great corporation of his own for noise-eliminating work; Natural gasoline from oil wells - Kettleman Hills field produces gasoline and natural gas; Pose yourself for your portrait - new portrait cabinet removes mental hazards from photography; Into a hidden world - observation of microscopic life in stagnant ponds is a fascinating hobby; Asquith and Kitchener - conclusion of a biographical study of two great British war leaders; Form letters with a personal touch - an automatic typewriter; World affairs and the telephone - circuits now reach most countries; How ancient is modern man?; Cotton cloth fit for a king. Few small white blemishes to lower left corner of front cover. Back cover is a colour Lucky Strike advertisement graced with a painting of a lovely Emily Boyle of Bronxville, N.Y. beneath the caption "Consider your Adam's Apple!! Don't rasp your throat with harsh irritants." Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1994293 pages including index. A self-help book that will help you find fast relief from a wide range of GI disorders. Book
1978206 pages including glossary, bibliography and index. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. An anthology of more than 250 chronologically arranged exerpts and articles by proponents and opponents of psychiatry's most controversial procedure, which every year is administered to hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world. "A compelling and important addition to the lay literature in this field" - Jessica Mitford, author of The American Way of Death. "What the rack and the stake were to the Inquisition, what the concentration camp and the gas chamber were to National Socialism, the mental hospital and electroshock are to Institutional Psychiatry... This book is a carefully researched documentation of psychiatry's final solution." - Thomas S. Szasz M.D., author of The Myth of Mental Illness and the Myth of Psychotherapy. Minimal high-lighting and prior owner's name inside front cover, else unmarked. Above average wear. Remains a useful working copy. Book
1979174 pages. The unforgettable story of courageous men and women who had only a rusty riverboat to carry them in their desperate fight from Hitler's gas chambers. The product of years of intensive research. Translated into English from Romanian. Unmarked. Average wear to book. Above average wear to dust jacket which is now in an archival-grade Brodart dust jacket cover. Solid copy. Book
1984536 pages including index. Contents: preface; ideal fluids; viscous fluids; turbulence; boundary layers; thermal conduction in fluids; diffusion; surface phenomena; sound; shock waves; one-dimensional gas flow; the intersection of surfaces of discontinuity; two-dimensional gas flow; flow past finite bodies; fluid dynamics of combustion; relativistic fluid dynamics; dynamics of superfluids; fluctuations in fluid dynamics. Unmarked but for prior owner's name and date atop half-title page. Moderate wear. Binding sound. Solid working copy. Book
191868 pages. Presents data in tabular form. Documents 22 Alberta Coal Field regions, Alberta Natural Gas, Alberta Oil and Northwest Territories Oil. Average wear. Binding intact. Writing atop front cover. Sound copy. Book
191825 pages. Presents information in tabular format. Topics include: Quebec Peat Bogs; Ontario Peat Bogs; Miscellaneous Samples including coal, briquettes from organic city refuse, anthracite, oil shale and natural gas. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Sound copy. Book
195664 pages. Features: How should we bring up our next child?; What you don't know about C.D. Howe; The double life of Injun Joe; The bear cub is everybody's baby; When the world went bicycle crazy. Excellent colour full-page ad for White Rose gas stations. Wonderful full-page colour ad for Leonard appliances. Interesting colour ad inside back cover is sponsored by Massey-Harris-Ferguson and shows a farmer hooking up a rooftop TV antenna - text explains how the lives of farmers will be improved. Above-average wear. Centrefold loose but present. Cover detached but present. Magazine
1964Features/Photos: Large feature on Mexico; Belfast Troubles - several photos; The election; Oil and gas search in the North Sea; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Magazine
1974115 pages. Index. Black and white archival photographs throughout. "Here is an important contribution to Western Canadiana, for surely the struggles to establish new farms and obtain power for those farms deserve to be remembered, just as the stories about the fur trade, the rush of immigration, transportation, and the search for oil and gas should be remembered." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's ink stamp upon illustrated front free endpaper else unmarked. Average wear overall. Sound working copy. Book
193996 pages. Features: Bats Fly Too - 'Bats' Trevor came within an Ace of Death before a flaming raider in the NIght Skies of London showed that Bats fly best at night; Battlefleet in Blue - A short moment of intense fright upon an Aircraft-Carrier; The Colonel Remembers - A Dramatic Story of Warfare in the Desert; Thunderbirds Fly Fast - Dick Reynolds was almost the Perfect Pilot of the Canadian North; The Gas Cow - Down from the clouds above the western front fell a strange derelect of the skies; Behind the Lines - An R.F.C. Officer experiences the Dark Labyringhts of Espionage; and more. Above-average wear. Small doodle upon front cover else unmarked. Binding intact. Book
198798 pages. Features: Five Years of Legal Flying with Auto Gas; Sand Casting; Ross Grady's Kittyhawk Mk.III; Midget Mustang 1944; the Whitehead No. 21. Sound copy. Book
198698 pages. Features: John Shively's D.H. 5; First Flight Impressions in the Voyager; Judging the Homebuilts; The Q2 and Me Too; For Tri-Motor NC8407; Experimental Aircraft Certificates; Who Says - Bad Gas. Sound copy. Magazine
1982161 pages. Index. 117 figures. "A complete, self-contained discussion of hydrodynamics for geologists and geophysicists actively searching for accumulations of oil and gas." - from back board. Corporate library stamp upon front free endpaper and fore-edge else clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. Quality copy. Book
1985Features: New trouble in the tide pools; Northern elephant seals return; Sunburst after nightfall; Will the Caribbean hawksbill turtle survive?; Unwanted oil and gas production; Li'l Red; Shark hunting on the Arkansas ocean deep; Follow up - Source of the Bermuda freak waves. Sound copy. Book
194359 pages. A small but information-packed booklet prepared for the guidance of the Canadian public by the Office of the Director of Civil Air Raid Precautions during the second world war. "This is a valuable booklet and the supply is limited. Preserve it carefully, study it, and have all members of your household do likewise." - from back cover. Provides surprisingly comprehensive yet practical guidance on many topics including: Types of War Gases (tear, nose irritant, lung irritant, blister, blood destroying, Paralysing, and other); How gas is likely to be used (gas bombs, gas sprays, poison smokes); How weather conditions and surroundings affect gas. How to detect gas; How to protect yourself (13 pages); The civilian respirator (gas mask) - 10 pages; First aid for gas casualties; and more. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding sound. Minor moisture exposure to back cover. Despite its age, this work is still full of very practical and valuable information. Quality copy. Book
198298 pages. Marion, Ohio - The Haunted City; Western Pacific's F-7 Revival; Cookin' with Gas - Union Pacific's Gas Turbines were an interesting experiment; Early Rock - 1st Generation diesel locos of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Diesel hydraulics - tried and failed; The Diesel comes to California's Cajon Area; The Maybrook, NY Yards - a spooky place; The story of steam 1920-1950 and why it came to an end; Amtrak's new Superliners; Oregon Live Steam; Old Stations gain new lives. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
1953Features: What's new in railroading?; The trains that cost too much - Western Maryland; I rode the 'big blow' (gas turbine 54 of Union Pacific); Erie's mighty Kinzua - a steel viaduct over 2000 feet long and 300 feet high erected in only four months!; Hiawatha 4-6-4s; The Western Pacific Story - 1 - a railroad through the Feather River Canyon; Famous steam locomotive - 17; and more. One inch opening at base of cover-fold. Small date stamp upon front cover else unmarked. Book
1970Features: Most deadly cargo of the century? - hauling nerve gas across the south; Railroad news photos; Thoughts on 30 years of train watching, by David P. Morgan; Super Restaurant on the rails; Steam over India - many photos, long article; Nader's raiders have attacked the ICC - Ralph in the roundhouse; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1915Cover portrait of Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert C.O. Plumer, K.C.B. The fighting around the Persian Gulf. Centerfold shows two wide photos of first the British Cyclist Section, then the Regiment of chasseurs Alpins, marching past General Joffre and others. Botha's Victorious Campaign in German South-West Africa. Photos and illustrations: The first territorial V.C. - Second-Lieutenant Geoffrey Harold Woolley, of the Queen Victoria Rifles; Three Highlanders who defeated fifty Huns; Poison gas; Camera pictures of the campaign in the Persian Gulf; Full-page photo of General Joffre with Sir John French and Sir Douglas Haig at the front; Indian Cavalry; 10th Mule Corps; Map of German South-West Africa; Map of Mesopotamia; General Smuts; and much more. Covers secured by tape. Above-average wear. Book
1915Cover portrait of Admiral Sir Percy M. Scott, K.C.B., K.C.V.O. The War and the Worker - The Battles Round Hooge. The Battle of Rue D'ouvert and Stoney Mountain and the Struggle for Round Hooge. Photos and Illustrations: periscope attachment for rifles in action; 4-photo montage of England's youth making bombs; full-page photo of French troops removing their dead and wounded from a trench in Argoonne; Full-page photo portrait of Rear-Admiral Charles Lionel Vaughan-Lee; Centerfold depicts munitions-making in England; multiple photos of anti-poison gas masks worn by allied troops; Flanders crater photo; Photo of captured German 'Flammenwerfer' or flamethrower/projector in use; and more. Sound unmarked copy with moderate wear. Book
1915Cover portrait of Major-General Michael F. Rimington - commanded the Indian Cavalry Corps at Douliens. The Great Drivve in the west and the Battle of Loos. The Conquest of Togoland and the Cameroon. Photos/Illustrations: British Gas attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt; Devastation near Loos; and many more. Above-average wear. Covers secured by tape. Book
1941312 pages. Index. "Covers all aspects of war gas. The history of the subject is covered as are the men behind the story, the various classifications of gases according to their composition and physiological effects, tables, figures, statistics, and all other pertinent material. The author has kept in mind the practical military applications of the gases as well as protection against them - he reveals a thorough understanding of the whole subject, its past history and future possibilities." - from dust jacket. Formerly of the U.S. Air Force Library at Fort Bragg, N.C. Usual library markings. Dust jacket preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Book mildly musty with above-average wear. Binding sound. A worthy copy of this fascinating reference. Book
