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237 pages including index. Gilt writing on spine is hardly worn. Hinges intact. Corners and edges moderately worn. Normal bumping to corners, Spine ends faded but intact. Contents moderately yellowed. Spotting to rear flyleaf and back of page 237. This book was designed to fill a gap in the literature on vacuum tubes, viz., graphical constructions. By graphical constructions are meant those geometric manipulations by which are obtained solutions to problems on nonlinear circuits, particularly those involving vacuum tubes. Analytical derivations are often in the body of the text, as in the chapters on balanced amplifiers and on detection. Much of the material here is original, and a good deal of this appeared in the 'RCA Review' and in 'Communications.' However, in many instances the discussion has been expanded and revised, as in the chapter on balanced amplifiers. Chapters include 1. The Non-Linear Circuit Problem 2. Thermoionic Vaccum Tubes 3. Elementary Graphical Constructions 4. Reactive Loads 5. Balanced Amplifiers. 6. Detection 7. Misc. Graphical Constructions. Each chapter has its own bibliography. From the Radio Communication Series. Book
206 Pages. Illustrated with line drawings. Covers creased, scratched and worn at edges with half inch opening at foot of spine. Sticker remnants at top corner of front cover. Owner name inside front cover. Reading crease to spine. Gift inscription on front flyleaf. The recollections and reflections of a group of senior citizens to bring to life an extremely interesting and significant period in Canada's history, the nineteen years from 1895 to the outbreak of the first World War. The automobile, home electricity, the airplane and x-rays all had their beginnings in this period. Book
Approx 1.25" thick. Title on illustrated dust jacket reads "New Cambridge Picture Bible." circa 1965 as this is the date of gift inscription inside front board. Blue boards with bright gilt lettering on spine. Small openings to dust jacket. Book
Undated. Circa 1980? Spine missing. All pop-ups working enough to please a child except number two which may be missing a piece. Assorted damage and imperfections but book is still charming with its unusual 'full-page' motion design. Book
75 pages. Illustrated with line drawings. Minimal underlining in ink. Some page corners were folded. Boards and spine show average wear; spine colour is faded but lettering remains bold. Contents a little yellowed. Chapters include: respiration, the larynx, resonance, the vowels, the consonants, rhythm, tune, harmonics, hexameters, the psychology of speech. A concise practical volume. Book
Silver writing on spine and front board is brilliant. 329 pages with extensive authors index. Provides a good reference for research as well as general reading in the total scheme of law enforcement and the general administration of justice. Book
129 pages plus index. Former owner's bookplate inside front board. Attractive forest green boards. spine leans slightly to right. A reference work intended for readers requiring a compact, easy-to-read compendium of information on the area's ecology, its spectacular mammals and birds, their habitats, social organization, and migratory patterns. Includes many dozens of photographs, some in colour, plus hundreds of beautifully informative drawings. Part one deals with the general geography of the Rocky Mountain region and the behaviour and ecology of each major family or group of mammals and birds in the region. Part two, the Natural History Folios, gives a succinct textual summary and an extensive visual representation of each major species of Rocky mountain mammal, with emphasis upon photography. Book
472 pages. Name atop front cover. Average soiling, yellowing and wear to card covers. Some tearing at foot of spine. A detailed estimate of Canadian energy consumption and production between 1990 and 2010. Chapter titles include: Outlook for oil prices and Canadian economic performance; Natural Gas and Electricity Prices; Energy Demand; Electricity; Natural Gas; Crude Oil and Equivalent; Natural Gas Liquids; Coal; Sources and Uses of Electricity; Environmental Implications; and Conclusions. Book
127 pages including index. Boards faded but sound. Chip from top front corner of dust jacket and one inch scratch along middle of spine. Tony Curtis's highly successful series 'Antiques on a Budget' appeared in Ideal Home Magazine. This volume contains the first twelve articles plus beautiful colour pages and extra illustrations. Book
Very faint musty smell. Gilt titles upon front board and spine with some wear but still quite legible. Written as a gift from author to the Alumnae Association of the School. Contains the text of original documents bearing on the establishment of the School and shows how the nursing needs of Winnipeg were met as the demand arose. Complete with a variety of archival black and white photographic reproductions. Book
128 pages. Faded at spine. Did you know that: diving birds are an excellent sign of salmon? Steeply shelving areas often hold big chinooks? Trolling slowly and using thin diameter line produces fish? You should fish fast for hook-nosed coho? For the first time, author shares the results of his underwater TV research. Book
168 pages. Copyright date 1973. Rare publication featuring over eight hundred bottles pictured and priced. Spine pulling away from back of pages but is not torn. Average wear and rubbing to covers. Former owner's name and information inside front cover. Chapter titles include: Inks; Spirit Bottles; Sodas; Pottery; Foods; Medicines & Drug Store Bottles-Poisons; Beer and Ales; Miniatures. A superb reference with emphasis upon bottles from British Columbia. Book
230 pages including index. Minor spine lean to right. Provides concisely, clearly and simply just that quantity of information which the nurse needs to possess, gathered together in a well-illustrated easily read and easily carried volume. Author, by virtue of her training and subsequent responsibilities at Moorfields Eye Hospital, and latterly as Matron of Bristol Eye Hospital, two of the only three centres in Britain to grant a special Opthalmic Nursing Diploma to student nurses, is well qualified to produce this book. Red boards with black writing thereon. Book
211 pages including index. Well worn but unmarked book. Spine moderately twisted. Lower corner clipped from back cover and back two pages. Covers the following: How to achieve excitement and momentum in a choir program and keep it; how to get money from the budget committee, choral outreach, developing a good repertoire; planning the worship service, taped accompaniment - friend or foe, making a musical happen, what pastors wish choir directors knew, and much more. Book
104 pages including glossary and index. Sunning to spine and small nicks to each end of spine. Moderate wear overall. Numerous excellent black and white illustrations. Provides identification of some common lamellibranch or bivalve molluscs living in the intertidal zone along the British Columbia coast. These creatures live in deep and shallow water, salt, brackish, and fresh water, lying loosely on the surface, attached to the surface or burrowing in mud, sand, wood, clay, or stone. Several groups, among which are the scallops, are able to swim. Covers the following families and species: Glycymeridae, anonidae, mytilidae, pectinidae, ostreidae, tellinidae, semelidae, solenidae, mactridae, cardiidae, gariidae, veneridae, ungulinidae, lyonsiidae, erycinidae, myidae, hiatellidae, pholadidae, teredinidae. Book
170 pages including index. Profusely illustrated with black and white archival photographs. Copyright 1973. Assorted defects to spine. Maroon boards well-worn. Gift greetings upon front endpaper. Many marginal notes, apparently written by someone quite familiar with this topic. Various clippings laid or taped in. Book
167 pages. Circa 1971. Contains dozens of fascinating black and white photographic reproductions. A historical look at the territory beyond Mount Garibaldi. Sections include: 1858-1864 The Douglas Route; Lillooet a Hundred Years Ago; The Squamish Trail; The Lillooet Indians; Homestead Recipes; Pemberton Valley Playground; and more. Prior owner's name and details upon decorated front flyleaf. Illustrated covers show average wear with minor spine lean. Book
Colour Lucky Strike advertisement upon back cover features large picture of June Collyer. Inside of back cover features full-page advertisement from the National Publishers Association which quotes John H. Patterson, Andrew Carnegie and Thomas Fortune Ryan's words from past depressions and concludes "American has beaten 19 Major Depressions - she will beat this one... as the most nearly self-contained nation, we have within our own boundaries the elemental factors for recovery." Features: Mrs. Sinclair's "Mental Radio" - a record of amazing experiments in mental telepathy made by the wife of a well-known author; Editorials - Rear Admiral Winslow - Out of Adversity - Interstate truck regulation - the country's health; George Washington, Inventor - the versatility of our first President included invention and scientific farming; A miniature solar system and its problems - Jupiter's four major satellites and other small ones make up a system that baffles the astrophysicist; Gem-stone cutting for the amateur - a fascinating hobby with a mechanical and an esthetic appeal; To salvage a sunken liner's treasure - new methods used in recovering the gold from the Egypt; A New Turbine rocket plane for the upper atmosphere - combination drive for a proposed stratosphere plane; Why power companies plant trees - public utility companies now reforesting their water power watersheds; a Horizontal well supplies fresh water to Bermuda - a modern system supplants old rainwater from roofs system; George Washington, the father of the American Navy; From Angora Goat to Mohair Fabric; The telephone spans the Pacific - the first commercial service from California to Hawaii is inaugurated; From the Archeologist's Note book - Sumerian Diorite Head - stand from grave Athenian jug - Persian strong-box; Preservation of Leather Book Bindings - treatment and formulas to protect old or rare library volumes. Average wear. Small openings at top and bottom of spine. Unmarked. Book
Features: Ivory - the pearl of the forest - the age-old industry built around the teeth of elephants; Editorials - blindness and false shame - help needed - too fat? - international affairs; Testing the astronomical yardstick - when Eros approaches the earth, Astronomers will study him further; A stone dam greater than Cheops' pyramid - novel methods of construction on World's largest rock-filled dam; Has living matter been produced in the laboratory? - Mexican scientist produces what resembles low forms of life; The volcanic birth of a new island - an eruption in hte bay that was Krakatoa's crater; Mining the sky for scientific knowledge - problems and questions that may be solved by the exploring rocket; Modern 'alchemy' in iron and steel - scientists are making iron almost a noble metal; Preserving newspaper files - tissue coating adds to strength of wood pulp paper; An actor turns inventor - safety oven shelf spells financial success; Practical X-ray crystal analysis in engineering - inner characteristics of materials can now be ascertained; Pre-constructed pip-line hauled out to sea - launching a huge pipe to make an ocean filling station for tankers; Giant Tortoises - they are now being propagated in the U.S.; From the archeologist's notebook - Petra - Chinese pottery dogs - a venus from the sea; Landscaping with fully-grown trees - difficult procedure in moving large trees; On the track of the Mayas - modern Mayas mix Christianity with their old paganism. Back cover features interesting advertisement by Southern California Edison with photo of enormous new transmission tower supplying Los Angeles. Uncommon Auburn Automobile advertisement inside front cover features their Cord Front Drive feature. One inch opening between top of spine and front cover. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. Book
A very interesting issue. Features: Triangulation - why and how this precise surveying job is done; Editorials - The Nicaragua Canal - The "R-101" disaster - Spiritism exposed - Why a navy is needed - Sick railroads - Lessons learned; Our changing transportation - competitors to the railroads; Zone television and the television arc - television transmission via three channels; Tudying up the constellations - archaic method of outlining roups is being simplified; Problems of calendar improvement - the importance of the movment ot change our calendar; Tons of human hair in industry - woven into press-clth, hair serves a most useful purpose; This new big business of gardening - food raising becomes a gigantic mechanized industry; From the archeologist's Notebook - bronze bowl - home of a notorious Roman - Lid of Canopic jar - a Roman portrait - Chinese head-dress ornament; Man's insect allies - an insect that feeds on cacti and destroys them; Change - the great competitor; Sulfur - the second of three related articles on salt, sulfur and petroleum; Clemenceau and Foch - the United States enters the war - the Armistice and peace conference; Diesel versus gasoline-engined plane - the diesel-engined plane has a higher "ceiling"; A flexible amusement building in New Orleans - a municipal auditorium with a movable stage platform; A two-mile industrial water tunnel - tunnel for the ford plant carries enough water for several cities. Chip loose at top of spine. One inch opening between top of spine and front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Tear to page 402. Book
Circa 1961. Provides the serviceman with a fast and convenient reference to information on operations, maintenance and repairs, as well as descriptions of the major units and their functions in relation to other components of the tractor. Covers: Cooling System; Electrical; Engine; Engine Clutch; Transmission and Bevel Gear (14 and 18 series) Transmission (15 and 20 series); Steering Clutches and Brakes; Sprocket and Sprocket Drive; Tracks and Track Frame. About average wear to covers but contents surprisingly clean and bright. Numbers written on spine and front cover (probably serial numbers). Approx. 5/8" thick. Book
178 pages. At the behest of the Federal Minister of Finance (Mitchell Sharp), this volume presents the results of an investigation into the Cape Breton Coal Problem plus recommended policies which might be appropriate to the situation. Confirms the steadily increasing amount of subsidy required to support the Cape Breton coal industry and stresses the urgency of adopting and implementing new policies. Contains illustrations, maps and graphs. Prior owner's signature and date upon title page. Minimal marginalia and underlining in blue ball point pen. Average wear overall with top of spine open. Book
268 pages including index. A detailed and authoritative study of constitutional development in Newfoundland from the introduction of responsible government to federation with Canada. Should become the definitive history of Newfoundland. Large attractive brilliant gilt lettering upon black background on spine. Green cloth boards each have small bump at top corner. Former owner's name and details neatly upon front endpaper else unmarked. Price clipped dust jacket is lightly to moderately worn and may be faded along spine. Book
216 pages including index. Beginning with the creation of Canada's first national park in Banff in 1885, the author provides a sympathetic story of the historical tension between conservation and profit which has marked Canada's national parks policy. Traces this motif from the era of MacDonald and Van Horne, through that of Mackenzie King to the initiatives of Trudeau and Chretien. One inch tear to bottom of front cover at spine. Covers show significant wear but contents clean and unmarked. Book
27 pages including 12 detailed colour transparencies plus additional colour illustrations. Copyright 1962. A "Trans-Vision" picture book designed to help the physician answer many questions posed by patients, by providing illustrations for their answers. Contains a minimum of captions and organized in sections so it can be used from the patient's first visit to her postnatal check-up. Enables physicians to answer questions regarding breast enlargement, frequency of urination, constipation, nausea and vomiting, backache, varicose veins, and after delivery, the problems connected with involution. Former owner's name atop title page. Average wear overall. Slight lean to spine of black boards which fold over spiral bound contents. Book