James Daglish (editor)MareMagnum
13.744 Ergebnisse
1982No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 11 pages adverts + 167-186pp. The monthly information bulletin of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Features on Living with Nuclear Energy, RWMAC Annual Report plus reviews and parliamentary report.
1982No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 16 pages adverts + 143-165pp. The monthly information bulletin of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Features on The Case for Sizewell B, Engineering a Safe PWR, European Nuclear Conference plus reviews and parliamentary report.
1982No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 26 pages adverts + 187-208pp. The monthly information bulletin of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Features on Energy : Boon or Birthright, Radioactive Waste Management plus reviews and parliamentary report.
2006Appears unread. Book and jacket in as new condition. 160pp. The history of the so-called Royal Art or alchemy which actually paved the way for modern science and helped to revolutionise aspects of medicine.
1996No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 387pp. Authoritative reference guide to the world's leading scientists past and present. Biographical details and clear descriptions of scientific contributions. Explanations of named scientific laws, units and effects. Illustrated to enhance clarity of information.
2008Book appears in unread fine condition. 90pp. A biographical account of the pioneer chemist Joseph Priestley who spent seven years of his life in the Wiltshire town of Calne. The book gives a full appreciation of an important 18th century figure in science, religion and politics who turns out to be as fickle and fallible as the rest of us.
2005Appears in mint unread condition.. 422pp. Science thriller from Paul McAuley.
1979Small label removal mark to lower front corner. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to slightly sunned spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright otherwise unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 153pp. An extensively researched and delightfully illustrated selection of the most unlikely early Edwardian inventions. For example 'Gillet's Appliance for Enabling a Performer to Appear to Stand Upon One Finger' and 'Device for Preventing Self Abuse in Horses'.
1972No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked blue cloth boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 345pp. A well researched account of possibly the greatest engineer of the 19th century. It includes the conflict between Brunel and John Scott Russell over the Great Eastern which venture was directly responsible for Brunel's financial ruin and his early death at age of fifty-two.
1980No inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. No dust jacket. 96pp. The author recalls the heyday of these independant branch line railways along with some real photographic gems of their operations.
2001Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, lightly tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 505pp. Novel about aliens from Callisto, a moon of Jupiter, who threaten to destroy the Earth.
1988No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly sunned spine and no bumping to corners. 248pp. A study of the administrative, financial and legal aspects of engineering projects as well as the more obvious technical aspects. Management of all of these are necessary for the successful completion of a project. This book provides that expert guidance from a Brunel University team under Richard Stone.
1993No marks or inscriptions. Light creasing to covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor bump to spine foot and no bumping to corners. 351pp. An account of the inventions of Nikola Tesla, born in Croatia in 1857, who went on to work extensively on new electricity devices including transmission without wires, a death-ray, a submarine, a vertical take-off machine, thought photography, anti-gravity, time travel, Atlantis and much more.
1982No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 117pp. Discussion paper from the National and Local Government Officers Association (a precursor of Unison) on energy policy for the UK. Scarce.
1920All pages very dusty. The booklet has been stored folded. Rusty staples only just holding. 12pp. The works and method of the B.S.A. Tools Ltd Sparkbrook. Fascinating piece of engineering history. Reprinted from 'Machinery' June 10th 1920..
1986No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 144pp. The construction of the engineering wonder of the American Southwest in 1931-1935 - the 726 foot high Hoover Dam on the Colorado River. The material is taken from five booklets which Compressed Air Magazine published over the construction period to give its readers a progressive account of the work. Also includes details of the railroad system, the gravel-treating and concrete-mixing plants, the cofferdams, the aerial cableways, the penstocks and how the concrete was poured and cooled. Very well illustrated.
1945No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked slightly sunned boards, dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped but torn with some large pieces missing mainly from front. Undated, about mid 1940s. 256pp. Detailed information on world-wide, many famous, engineering works including bridges, canals, lighthouses, electricity supply, tunnels, railways and dams
1990No marks or inscriptions. Faint creasing to lower rear corner, none to front or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 268pp. Getting started on Turbo C++.
1980No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with rubbing to upper and lower rear fore-edges and tiny nick to spine foot. 271pp. A wide-ranging study of astronomical discovery and the means to it. The three sections of the book are 'Ancient Cosmology' which includes Neolithic astronomy and early observations, the 'Era of Discovery' - Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Newton and Herschel and finally 'The Exploding Universe' which traces the acceleration of astronomical discovery since Einstein and Quantum Theory.
1958Paperback in good condition. Covers are tanned and lightly edgeworn. Stamp on front cover. Staples on spine are rusty. Creases on upper leading corners, affecting pages. A few marks in the volume. Contents are clear. AM Used
1948Paperback in good condition. Covers are tanned and lightly edgeworn. Stamp on front cover. Staples on spine are rusty. A few marks in the volume. Contents are clear. AM Used
1989Lecture Notes in Computer Science 398; Ex-Library. Spine head slightly scuffed and bumped. Ex-Library. Ink stamp and previous owner's sticker on the front cover. Small pen inscription on title page; library catalogue sticker on reverse of front cover; minute traces of sticker residue and faint bumps across the spine head. Foot of page block slightly grubby and marked due to age. Sound, clean book with tight binding. ADG. Ex-Library
1964Last owner's name on the inside of the cover, rubbing along the edges and ends of the cover.
