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in-12, 299 pages, broche, couv. Papier jauni et traces de mouill. peripheriques sinon très bel exemplaire, non coupe. [SC-2]
in-12, broche, 142 pages. Bel exemplaire. [DV-SM] Problématique des migrations rurales vers les grandes cités.
in-8°, 129 pages, tabl., broche, couv.— Peu courant. Bel exemplaire. [CA26/3]
Paperback in-8, 496 pp. Cachet de bibliothèque en page de garde sinon bel exemplaire. [LA-9] Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Oxford, Wien. This volume is an important contribution to the social and cultural history of the family and documents that widowhood and orphanhood were commonplace before the twentieth century.
1983No marks or inscriptions. Very faint creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 157pp. Features prehistoric rock art, Royston Grange, Minning Low and Little Chester excavations, Fieldwalking, Roman roads, early Saxon broach, Bradbourne Mill timbers, Calke Priory, population and tax assessments in King Charles II's time, Long Eaton education, Samuel Slater and title and benefice incomes.
1984298 pages including index. Focuses on contemporary ecosystem ecology and particularly on energy flow, biogeochemical cycling, population ecology and community ecology; a final chapter on human ecology integrates these four major areas. Human ecology chapter treats air polution, acid rain, ozone depletion, CO2, and desertification. Expanded section on human food supply. Light wear to corners. Contents unmarked. Glossy laminated colour covers. Book
1978194 pages including index. Answers the question: How does half a population, including many strong and independent-minded persons, come to believe in stereotypes that are self-denigrating? Unmarked. Well-worn. Binding intact. Book
1967182 pages including index. Based upon the work of the Medical Research Council Unit for Research on Occupational Aspects of Ageing which was attached to the Department of Psychology at the University of Liverpool between 1959 and 1963. The study of ageing and of comparative function at given ages is of great practical concern and the analyses given here are the product of physical and psychological tests on 540 normal adult subjects from the population of Liverpool and its environs. One of the most useful contributions made by the present study is the compilation of a table of norms of the level of performance which can be expected from people of different ages. Moderate quantity of library markings else unmarked. Price-clipped dust jacket shows moderate wear. Book in lightly worn, moderately soiled orange cloth boards. Book
1980222 pages including index and bibliography. A revision of the author's thesis, Princeton University, 1974. Using data from the 1897 Imperial Russian Census, the author examines two types of migration: that to an already settled, relatively modern area, such as the major cities; and that to a sparsely populated, relatively traditional area, such as the agricultural frontier. Concludes that migration within European Russia and from European Russia to Asiatic Russia supports the model. Book clean and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket bears closed half-inch tear to top of spine, else moderate wear. Very nice copy. Book
1964562 pages including index. Contents include: Introduction; The facts of population growth; Social and political analysis; Regional statements; Biology and population; Action Programs; The Use of World Resources. With introductory contributions from Earl Bertrand Russell and Sir Julian Huxley. Brilliant gilt lettering upon navy blue cloth-covered boards. Book clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Moderate wear to dust jacket, now in mylar. Lovely copy overall. Book
1994740 pages including index. "The combined impact of the first four editions of this work has been greater than that of any other single publication in the field of wildlife management... This edition will do more than add to this proud history as it is more comprehensive than all of its predecessors combined." - W. Alan Wentz. Contents divided into the following sections: Experimental Design and Treatment of Data; Field and Laboratory Techniques; Population Analysis and Management; Habitat Analysis and Management. Clean, bright and unmarked but for prior owner's name and phone number upon front endpaper. Light wear to illustrated boards. Excellent copy. Book
197648 pages. The result of a study of mountain slopes and their potential for providing for human settlement. It grew out of a belief that mountain slopes could be developed into an exhilarating and satisfying environment in which to live, as well as from the recognition of a need to relieve population pressures on agricultural flatlands through the development of mountainous areas. Applies in particular to British Columbia, Canada. Illustrated. Contents include: Climate; Mountain Hazards; Human Attitudes to Physical Setting; Financing Transportation and Pedestrian Movement; Landscaping and Design; Slope Designation, Platform Creation and Construction; Mount Ekos - Sketch of a Prototype. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Book
1998Papers include: Population monitoring of the Coelacanth; Population aggregation analysis of three caviar-producing species of sturgeons and implications for the species identification of black caviar; Effects of Introducted Bullfrogs and Smallmouth Bass on Microhabitat use, growth and survival of Native Red-legged frogs (Rana aurora); and many more. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Book
1996231 pages. Index. "Dyson's guide to population and food over the next 25 years - nothing less than our collective future - is the best account there is. - John Caldwell. Minor high-lighting. Average wear. Sound working copy. Book
1989118 pages. Bibliography. "Examines the commonalities between the two cultures and explores the differences in depth." - from back cover. Unmarked. Light wear. Nice tight copy. Book
199427 Minute VHS videotape in case. "Although Dr. Bill Ricker is in his late eighties now, he still goes into the Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo to continue his scientific research. This video follows his remarkable scientific journey from his boyhood in North Bay, Ontario to the present. In eveyr field of science Ricker entered, whether in lake studies, fish population dymanics, salmon biology, or entomology, he excelled, gaining worldwide recognition... His story is fascination to anyone not familiar with fisheries science, as well as an inspiration to anyone who is." - from cover. Light wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1936114 pages. Topics: The Indivisibility of Peace and the Inseparability of East and West; the Yosemite Conference and Japan; Some Implications of Anglo-Japanese Competition; The Powers and the Unity of China; Smuggler, Soldier, and Diplomat - smuggling in North China 1935-36; A critical Survey of Chinese Policy in Inner Mongolia; The Population Problems of Australia; Land and Sea in the Destiny of Japan; the Fall of the Manchu Dynasty. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Binding sound. Quality copy. Book
1964248 pages. Index. Bibliography. Illustrated in black and white with one photographic plate. "The siege of Paris in the autumn and winter of 1870-1 was the last full-scale siege of a European capital, the first occasion of the indiscriminate bombardment of a civilian population, the source of immense suffering and hardship, and the origin of a division in the French nation which has still not been healed." - from Preface. Hard cover library binding with usual library markings. Moderate wear. Sound working copy. Book
1937Photos: The Nizan's jubilee (the ruler of Hyderabad); Hitler on parade in Berlin on the 'Day of Heroes'; Spain's trekking population, and other aspects of the long continued civil war; With the 'Rodney' on the spring cruise; Clear photo of a half-man, half-ape creature discovered in the Atlas mountains on the northern edge of the Sahara by Marcel Homet, a French explorer; Archduke Otto - the Austrian claimant in his Belgian home; Egypt again sends the Mahmal and the Kiswa to Mecca; Britain's 5-year 1.5 billion pound re-armament plan; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1966Features: Reprint of "Recollections of Old Milestown" by S. Gordon; Sky of Brass, Earth of Iron - reprinted from the book 'Western Vision' by David Lavender; World's Greatest Slaughter! - the appalling slaughter of the American buffalo; Buffalo Comeback - the Canadian Government preserves a portion of Canada's once mighty buffalo population; Circuses and Contests; Before the days of Libel - when a newspaperman could say anything he durned please; Renegade Battalion - they deserted Fort Brown to join the Mexican Army only to be killed when the Americans stormed Monterrey in 1846; Travesty Town - the story of old Millerton; When Panic Took Over! - smallpox epidemic at New Tacoma, Washington Territory, 1881; Apache Gold - Buck Adams; Conquering the Rockies with a camera - William H. Jackson; Pioneer Mother - escaping the Indians; Old Cornucopia, Oregon and its gold mine; 'Bet-a-million' Gates - Magician - he turned barbed wire into a lead pipe cinch!; Death at Christmas - Frank Rochas; Lost Camp - from 'Homestead Years' by Lloyd I. Sudlow; Pawnee Bill - "Little Giant of Oklahoma'; Some men need it lonely - Archer B. Gilfillan, sheepherder; His eccentric highness - Joshua Norton, 'Emperor of the United States'; friend to no man - Ben Cravens used partners to commit crime... but didn't need their help to spend the proceeds; the courthouse went by train - moving a Nebraska courthouse by rail; Hellgate to Tonopah - early Nevada memories; Luckiest Cuss in the Klondike - Clarence J. Berry. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
1970Features: Conversion to the metric system; globular-cluster stars; the multiple sclerosis problem; nerve cells and behavior; negative viscosity; the love song of the fruit fly; network analysis; population trends in an Indian village. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
1953Contents include: (a) Age and sex, and (b) origin and sex, cross-classified with other population subjects. Characteristics of the immigrant population; results of the census of the blind and deaf. The 1951 census, held two years after Newfoundland became part of Canada, marked Canada's first census as a nation of ten provinces and two territories. The content of the population and household questionnaire covered name, sex, age, marital status, relationship to "head" of household, and the structural type and tenure of dwelling. This census also provided information for small areas such as counties, municipalities, cities, towns, etc. Multi-paginations. 11.25" x 9" x 2.2". 2.4 kg. Forest green buckram with gilt lettering upon backstrip. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
1953Contents include: Review of the results of the 1951 Census relating to population, Housing and Families, Labour Force, Agriculture, Distribution and Fisheries including historical and analytical tables as well as textual material. The 1951 census, held two years after Newfoundland became part of Canada, marked Canada's first census as a nation of ten provinces and two territories. The content of the population and household questionnaire covered name, sex, age, marital status, relationship to "head" of household, and the structural type and tenure of dwelling. This census also provided information for small areas such as counties, municipalities, cities, towns, etc. Well over 700 pages. 11.25" x 9" x 2.0". 2.6 kg. Forest green buckram with gilt lettering upon backstrip. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding sound. Quality copy. Book
1982Features: Studying Killer Whales; Dragonflies - the beautiful aeronauts of summer; The Vancouver Island Marmot; Seabirds - dramatic population declines; The Bogbean Flower. Few library markings. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
1978Features: Milt Bryan's Adventures on the Santa Fe Trail; Lonely are the Graves - The Bundy Avant Story - Part I - New Mexico in the days when the thin population was intent on bettering itself; Lost Soldiers' Mine - Somewhere in the Coquille Mountains is a very cold trail to a very real gold vein!; Killers' Trail of Thread - the Green DeWitt Colony in the Mexican province of Texas-Coahuila; The "Coffee" Woman - sequel to "Bloodshed in Kansas" in the April issue; Shingle Mill Country - Van Buren County, Arkansas; Infidelity at Old Fort Laramie; Zane Grey's mysterious guide; The Soldier's Farewell - the guerilla war on the Mexican border in 1915; One Man's Rubble is another man's Gold - men with strong backs headed for San Francisco after it burned in 1906; Lost Mines of Mexico. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book