MacDonald, Leslie; Gerber, HenryMareMagnum
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199080 pages. Index. Bibliography. Glossary. Colour photos. "Intended for professional turfgrass managers in British Columbia. Contains information on the diseases and pests that occur in B.C., along with the appropriate cultural recommendations and registered fungicides or insecticide recommendations for Canada." - from Introduction. Average wear. Unmarked. Small clip from top corner of front cover. Sound copy. Circa 1990? Book
1994Features: Earthly Treasure - Join a harrowing and humbling raft trip through B.C.'s Kitlope rainforest - cradle of native culture and a global ecological gem; Designer of Do's and Don'ts - pictogram pioneer Paul Arthur gives orders to the planet - without using a single word; Last Call? - are we silencing the loon's classic cry?; The Reel Thing - could the modern evils of TV and rock 'n' roll kill the vintage art of Celtic fiddling? - not in Cape Breton; Doctored by DNA - scientists are on the edge of engineering cures fro the deadliest diseases of our time. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
2004209 pages. "The cause is in the blood. The cure is in the food. Recipes and diet information for use in treatment of cancer, virus, bacteria and vascular diseases. Diet information in this book has been used by victims in successful treatment of each disease." - from front cover. Brand new copy. Book
2002224 pages. Index. Details 30 of the Health Sciences Institute's most urgent health discoveries, including remedies for: cancer, stroke, heart disease, migraines, arthritis, infectious diseases, lagging libido, fatigue, depression, anxiety, aging, high blood pressure. Average wear. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1980177 pages. Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium, Newport Beach, California, February 22-24, 1979. Topics include: From Occlusal Theory to Oral Physiotherapy; Classification and Diagnosis of Temporomandibular Joint Disturbances; Temporomandibular Joint in Function and Dysfunction; Radiology of the Temporomandibular Joint; Arthrography of the Temporomandibular Joint; Significance of Occlusion in Temporomandibular Function and Dysfunction; Surgery of the Temporomandibular Joint; Changes Related to Dental Occlusion; Diagnosis and Treatment of Internal Derangements of the Articular Disc and Mandibular Condyle. Prior owner's details blacked out upon front free endpaper else clean and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Book
1992327 pages. "More than 600 species of insects and mites that feed on trees and shrubs in the prairie provinces are discussed in terms of their distribution, hosts, and importance, life cycle and appearance and damage. There are approximately 1100 colour photographs; the life cycle and damage of major pest species are illustrated, and for less important species, primarily the larval stage is shown. Pests attacking coniferous hosts are separated from those attacking hardwoods, and each group is subdivided according to the kind of feeding damage and type of insect involved. Includes an extensive bibliography. A taxonomic index lists the order and family of each insect or mite. A diagnostic index lists the host species, feeding site of the pest, and species of insect or mite involved." - from Abstract. Light to moderate wear. Prior owner's details neatly atop title page else unmarked. Slight lean to spine. A quality copy of this superb reference. Book
1911334 pages. Papers include: Health Needs and Civic Action; Housing and Health; Scientific Research by the Public Health Service; The Census and the Public Health Movement; Sources of Information upon the Public Health Movement; Work of the Committee of One Hundred on National Health; Public Health Movement on the Pacific Coast; Protecting Public Health in Pennsylvania; Health Problems of the Indians; Health Problems of the Negroes; The Rural Health Movement; Sanitation in Rural Communities; Tropical Diseases and Health in the United States; The House Fly as a Carrier of Disease; The Mosquito Campaign as a Sanitary Measure; Clean Milk and Public Health; Ventilation and Public Health; Social Service Work in Hospitals; Mouth Hygiene and its Relation to Health; The Physical Care of Children; What American Cities are Doing for the Health of School Children; The Elimination of Feeble-Mindedness; Prevention of Infantile Blindness; The Warfare Against Infant Mortality. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
1892128 pages. This second volume deals with 'genital topics' which the publishers wished to keep out of the hands of inquisitive youngsters. Fascinating colour plate illustrates the male and female organs of generation, another excellent plate illustrates progressive enlargement of the womb and natural position of child at full term. Eight other black and white illustrations. Chapters include: Reproduction; Male Organs of Generation; The Male in Childhood; Female Organs of Generation; Puberty; The Female During Childhood and Youth; Men and Woman; Sexual Intercourse; Development of the Body after Birth; Marriage; Diseases of the Male Organs of Generation; Diseases of the Female Generative Organs. Nice marbled endpapers. Prior owner's two small address labels inside front board. Somewhat above-average wear externally. Binding intact. Gilt lettering mostly worn from front board. Top corner of page xiii rumpled. A sound copy of this interesting volume. Book
1956Features: Banff tea house survives roaring avalanche (ad); Leon Koerner's one-man giveaway program - Canada's happiest spender is this Czech millionaire who arrived here 17 years ago; A blueprint to stop our cities' decay - one in every 8 Canadian homes is slowly falling apart, soon to become part of a slum with its by-products of disease and distress - here's what Baltimore, Maryland found; Can science beat the virus diseases?; We're wasting millions on an obsolete air force - Guy Simonds charges that in this atomic age of guided missiles we're still committed to a costly, outdated concept of military strategy based on the airplane; We gambled our love on freedom - James Pegg, a British soldier, met Olga, a Ukrainian slave worker in a German prison camp - they had to choose... stay and be parted, or escape together into unknown dangers; The town that wants to stay old fashioned - Niagara-on-the-Lake; The secondhand love letter, by Edward Kaylin; The private lives of Byng Whitteker; Throw out our cruel divorce law - Kent Power, QC. Nice colour Chevrolet ad on page 5. Front cover heavily torn with chunks missing - it illustrated the construction of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. Colour Coke ad on back cover. Magazine
1935Iconic cover photo of Albert Einstein at blackboard proving the principle of Equivalence. 56 pages. Features: Exploring Prehistoric Georgia; Radio Facsimile (early fax machine development) - article with great photos; Building the World's Deepest-Water Bridge - connecting San Francisco and Oakland; Preserving rose bushes with paraffin for shipping; Nova Herculis recently discovered; Amazing growth in the packaging industry; Sundials and their construction - part IX - the principle and construction of the armillary sphere; The Oddest Thing About the Jews - Why Jews have some diseases more and others less than Gentiles - they often are first-class insurance risks; Stout "Scarab" auto photos and write-up; Photo of Einstein with Leo J. Scanlon; Tiny race cars - a developing sport; Astounding facts about American homes and sanitary conditions; Creative photo enlargement; Rapidly growing hybrid poplars; Frederick H. Ecker on progress in this age of science; Photo of harvesting American-grown rubber in California - Guayule; and more. Above-average external wear and soiling. Openings at each end of coverfold. Chip from lower corner of back cover. An uncommon Einstein collectible. Please note that large faint text appearing on image is not on magazine. Magazine
194978 pages. Features: Battleship Killer - The War's Strangest Story - Torpedo-riding Italians sank enough British ships in Alexandria Harbor to give the Axis the advantage in the Mediterranean - but the Axis never knew it!; Our Reeking Halls of Justice (part 1 of 2); The Glory Road (part 2 of 2); Stampede in Stamps - Stamps become a popular investment - with photo of Joe Granville (presumably the same Joe Granville who went on to a successful career on Wall Street); Oh, You Beautiful Blonde! - Marie Wilson; Is the Witch Doctor Helping You? - century-old secrets of primitive medicos are turning out to be cure for diseases that have baffled modern medical men for years. Fiction: There Are Older Things Than War; Brood of Evil; Set in Concrete; Willow Woman; No Sentiment; Pride's Castle (part 3 of 8); Cleveland Indian reliever Gene Bearden; Back page opinion column regarding the recommendations of the Hoover Commission. Includes these ads: B.V.D. Sports Shirts, Zenith Televisions, Mercury cars, GM (nice 2-page color ad), Ford car color photo ad with black lawn jockey appearing twice, Nice color one-page ad for the U.S. Army, Pincor lawn mowers, Spam, Durkee's margerine, Mallory hats, Lucky Strike colour photo ad features pretty lady river fishing. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1907601 pages. Index (at front). Occasional black and white illustrations. "An invaluable collection of practical recipes for merchants, grocers, saloon keepers, physicians, druggists, tanners, shoemakers and harness makers, painters, jewelers, blacksmiths, miners, gunsmiths, furriers, barbers, bakers, dyers, renovators, farmers and families generally, to which have been added a rational treatment of pleurisy, inflammation of the lungs and other inflammatory diseases, and also for general female weakness and irregularities... with many additions to many departments by the Publishers." - subtitle. .Above-average wear. Hinges open. Front free endpaper and frontispiece loose but present. Many openings along backstrip. External lettering and decoration rubbed but still legible/visible. A worthy reading copy of this stupendous and now antiquarian reference. Book
1971309 pages. Black and white diagrams and photos. Printed on glossy stock. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper else clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
1982Features: Bradford Washburn - 50 years on ice - an outstanding mountaineering career; Searching the Denmark Strait - why do the Whales congregate there?; The Owls of Lavrion - Silver mines of ancient Greece; "Mummy" Dearest - clues to ancient maladies - autopsy of a 2,200 year-old man; Hang-Gliding on K-2 - an emergency descent of 7,600m; The Rara Expedition - collecting fish of a high Himalayan Lake; Hominid Discovery in the Awash Valley - Ethiopian site yields significant fossils; Continental Coytes - most adaptable of modern carnivores; Rabbits of the Paramos - their range in the Venezuelan Andes; Biography Briefs of 50-year members. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
192832 pages. An informative promotional publication intended for prospective patients of this famous institute, "the largest in the world devoted exclusively to the treatment of rectal and colonic disorders" - from page one. At the date of publication, the institute claimed to have cured more than 14,000 cases. Printed on glossy stock. Abundant black and white photos. Graphic colour illustrations. Above-average external wear. Binding intact. A fascinating read. Book
1954Features include: Modern Cypripedium Hybrids (IV. Cypripedium villosum); Modern Trends in British Cypripediums; Some Important Parasitic Diseases of Cymbidiums; High-Pressure Sprays for Greenhouse Air-Conditioning; Respiration of Cut Flowers of Cattleya Mossiae; Book Review: "Orchids of Malaya" by R.E. Holttum; and Ornithocephalus inflexus - Collectors' Item. Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy. Book
1961Features include: Catalog of Cymbidium Species with Synonyms and Excluded Species; Book Review "Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated - Volume 2" by G.C.K. Dunsterville and Leslie A. Garay; Collectors' Item: The Genus Meiracyllium; Controlling Orchid Pests and Diseases; Measuring Light With Your Photographic Light Meter; Exterminating Bush Snails; Ecology Notes: Observations on Costa Rica; Orchids Under Lights; Cymbidium tigrinum; Basic Botany for Orchid Growers; and An Albino Paphiopedilum fairieanum. Little Wear. Unmarked. A clean copy. Book
1966Features include: A Custom-made Greenhouse Humidifier; Our Two Purple-fringed Orchids; The Green Thumb Room Came to California; Dendrobium maccarthiae - "Wesak Mal"; Our Native Orchids: Tipularia discolor; Dendrobium loddigesii; Orchid Diseases; Man-Made Genera: Laeliopsis Hybrid Genera; Managing Deciduous Calanthes in the Home and Garden; and Collectors' Item: Epidendrum gracile and Epidendrum odoratissimum. Little Wear. Unmarked. A clean copy. Book
1992423 pages. Index. Glossary. Printed upon glossy stock. "The clues in this volume are organized accoring to where in the skin they are positioned, the first being in the cornified layer and the last one in the subcutaneous fat. Each of the 100 chapters consists of four pages. On the first page appears a single photomicrograph that depicts a clue, but provides no further aid to identification of it. On the second page, the same photomicrograph that was used to picture the clue on page 1 is shown again but this time as one among a sequence of three photomicrographs taken at low, intermediate, and high magnifications of a representative section of the disease for which the clue has Sherlockian value." - from Preface. Openings to each end of backstrip taped in place. Somewhat above-average external wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding moderately loose but intact. A worthy working copy of this prized reference. Book
198228 pages. Features: Jordan's King Hussein - Searching for Peace; How to avoid the new Sexual Diseases (STDs); Humanity won't end in a nuclear holocaust!; Iceland - a country that never gives up!; Proof Evolution did not occur; You can revitalize your marriage. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
1985180 pages. Contents: The treatment of diseases and the war against cancer; Cosmic rays from Cygnus X-3; The Calcium Signal; Terranes; Skin Breathing in Vertebrates; Human-Powered Flight; Smart Cards; Early Arctic Settlements in North America; Nostalgic ads (including the Macintosh computer), and more. Initials written atop front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
197996 pages. Features: Canceled plane flights; Stolen Luggage; Motion Sickness; Hostile Natives; Poison Water; Weird Diseases; Rubber Food; and more. Light cigarette odor. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
187216 pages. Contents: Skin diseases caused by bad soaps; Cloaks and overcoats for girls and boys from 3 to 14 years old; The Wondering Heir; Manners Upon the Road - of the seasons; New York Fashions - double vests, new drapery, plain redingotes, black camel's-hair polonaises, polish jackets, mantelets, basques, embroidery, waistcoats, pompadour brocades, garlands, fanciful stockings; Personal; Cord and crochet passementerie border; tatted and crochet collars; knitted and crochet white worsted fanchon Tatted and crochet edging; knitted knee protectors; embroidered work-table; braid, cord, and soutache borders; knitted hood; The Bitter End - continued; Sayings and Doings; Knitted and crochet white worsted cape with hood; Swiss muslin and lace frill with Jabot; crape and lace frill with Jabot; Swiss muslin fichu; Paris Fashions; Better Late Than Never; English Gossip; Useful Recipes; Tatted edging for linterie; embroidered work-bag; toilette box with silk and cane cover; tapestry design for slippers; gros grain cravat bow; An Algerian Wedding; humor. Average wear. Book
1984274 pages. Index. Extensive footnotes. "Kiple's detailed examination of diet, disease, and demography in the Caribbean and West Africa raises significant issues for all concerned with the history of medicine, slavery, and European overseas expansion." - from dust jacket. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Minimal markings to contents. Book would be graded as Good if not for moisture damage affecting upper portion of back half of book. All text legible. No odour detected. Not pretty but a worthy reference copy of this informative work. Book
196428 pages. Features: Reports of Success Treating Mental Illness at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, KS; A Routine Miracle - Insulin, Penicillin, Open-Heart Surgery, Transplants - now the latest in turing the miraculous into the commonplace; The Witch Who Wasn't (children's story); Checklist for Childhood Diseases - with list of recommended vaccinations; The Big Gain on Heart Disease; The Mysterious Persimmon. Color ads include: Great one-page photo ad for Log Cabin brand syrop which features a bear trying to open a a syrup bottle; Campbell's Soup - two new Farm Country Soups - Noodles & Ground Beef and Old Fashioned Vegetable; Charming 2/3-page illustrated ad for Libby's Sloppy Joes BBQ Sauce; Gerber Baby Foods - with tips provided by Mrs. Dan Germber, mother of five; Sensational Pillsbury centerfold ad presents 22 color photos of their various home baking products available in your grocer's dairy case; Stouffer's Frozen Foods; Vermont Maid Syrups; *Mouth-Watering* 3/4-page color-photo ad for Royal choclate pudding; Soft-Weve bathroom tissue by Scott. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Magazine
