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Robert Hale, London 1983 Hardcover, with dust jacket VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket Oberammergau is a remote village in one of the dark valleys of the Bavarian Alps. This tiny hamlet fought desperately to hold back the dreaded plague that ravished all Europe in the seventeenth century. This book tells of the agonizing fear for his family that drove one of the villagers to breach the self-imposed isolation of the village from the outside world - and of the catastrophic consequences. It recalls the Vow taken 350 years ago by the inhabitants, to present the story of Christ's Passion if the Lord would remove the pestilence from their valley

Benjamin Cummings Publishing, Redwood City, California - 1991 hardcover, 7¾" x 9½", with dust jacket Previous owner's name inside front cover. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket With five complete application design projects using 5++, Smalltalk, Object Pascal, the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) and Ada. This book gives you practical guidance for constructing complex object-oriented systems and provides the first comprehensive description of object-oriented design methods. Numerous examples - drawn from the author's extensive experience in developing very large software systems - and five challenging application projects will teach you how to use object-oriented and object-based programming languages to solve real problems. Includes Concepts; the Method; and Applications. As packed book weighs 1½kgs (3¼lbs), slightly higher than usual shipping costs may apply.

Frederick Muller, London - 1st UK edition 1966 Hard Cover Ex library copy with usual stamps, stickers, barcode etc. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket Four maps, 21 b&w photographs, notes, and index. Traces the Egytian battles of Napoleon, Abercomby, Wolseley, Kitchener, and Stockwell - the seeds of the Suez crisis of 1950s.

Thames and Hudson, publishers, London 1986 large softcover, 6½" x 9¾" Small Erratum slip mounted in Index. Book in VERY GOOD condition In this radical and highly original examination of design and its place in society, Adrian Forty challenges premises that have usually passed unquestioned. He argues that societies use design to express their values. Design is shaped by economic and social conditions; it can be manipulated to overcome resistance to innovations that seem threatening. Here he looks at the appearance of man-made goods in the two hundred years since the introduction of mechanized production. 272 illustration - from penknives to railway carriages.

Macmillan 1978 hard cover Very good condition, lacks jacket. Bottom corners bumbed. Text clean and binding firm. From the ovum and its fertilization to Caesarean section, plus 13 chapters on the newborn infant by W. H. Kitchen. Includes many b&w photographs.

W. B. Saunders Company, 2nd edition 1991 large format softcover Very good condition. An Illustrated Textbook. Covers anatomy and physiology of reproduction, normal pregnancy (diagnosis and care), assessment of abnormal pregnancy, specific disorders of pregnancy including medical and surgical, physiology and pathology, normal labour, operative procedures, disorders of labour, normal puerpium and disorders of the puerpium, and 200 pages on the care of the newborn. Includes many b&w photos. A most comprehensive book for obstetricians, nurses and midwives. (Note: very heavy book - over 2 kilos when packed.)

The Kent State University Press 1978 hardcover, 9 1/4" x 6", with dust jacket Excellent copy with firm binding. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD price-clipped dust jacket.. Dark-red cloth-bound boards with gold type to spine, blood-red endpapers, index. During his 50-year creative life, Sean O'Casey delighted in those who take pleasure in life, and using the stage as his vehicle, made satire his weapon. This book traces O'Casey's emerging satiric vision, providing new allusions and fresh insights by reference to his published volumes of essays, correspondence, reviews, and his difficult autobiographies. His characters may have been Dublin tenement dwellers, but his theme was the human condition. An enlightening guide to one of the twentieth century's greatest dramatists.

Orbis 1984 large format soft cover Very good condition. Includes alchemists, magic numbers, ufo cults, tarot cards, casting horoscopes. Many color illustrations and photographs.

York Publishing Co, Hollister, California 2006 Large format soft cover, 7" x 10" Book in AS NEW condition What is the true origin of today's widely accepted holidays - Halloween, Christmas, Easter, etc - and how did such days come to be embraced as 'Christian' dogma? Writer Fred Coulter dares to unravel one of the greatest mysteries of Christendom: How subtle forces from the world of paganism have systematically replaced the biblical seventh-day Sabbath and annual holy days with holidays born of the occult.

The C V Mosby Company, St Louis, Missouri - second edition 1985 Large format soft cover, 8½" x 11" Book in VERY GOOD condition Includes fifteen specialist contributors, and 604 illustrations. This book was designed for use by occupational therapy students in entry-level master's degree programs (it assumes fore-knowledge of general psychology, anatomy and physiology, neuroanatomy and neurophysiology, kinesiology, orthopedic and neurological dysfuction, and medical terminology).

Richard Bennett, Tasmania - first edition 1994 hardcover, 11" x 11", with dust jacket VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket Grey cloth-bound boards with gold type to spine & front, map, 69 full-colour photographs of racing yachts in action (includes two double-spreads). Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race, Bennett's outstanding work salutes entrants between 1975 - 1993, as well as Melbourne to Hobart, Cirumnavigation of Tasmania, Tall Ships 1988, Solo Global Circumnavigation etc. Book in transparent protective covering.

Harper Collins, New York - first edition 1995 Hardcover, 9½" x 6", with unclipped dust jacket A truly-beautiful writing style. Attractive copy, soundly bound. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD dust jacket. Aqua cloth-bound hardcover,with silver type to quarterbound dark-blue spine cloth, 18 b/w photographs, index. A fascinating blend of historical anecdote, scientific revelation, personal epiphany & limpid elegies on natural beauty. Captivating.

Severn House Publishers, London - first edition 1985 Hardcover, 11" x 9.5" with dust jacket White-out on top corner ffep (prev. owner's name?). Weighs over 1kg packed. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket Dark-blue cloth-bound boards with gold type to spine, map endpapers, 16 colour plates, 141 b/w historic photographs, 6 drawings, index. From its beginnings in the nineteenth century, here is world-wide Ocean Racing history; individuals, yacht design etc.

Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, Sydney 1994 Softcover, 23cms x 15.5cms, with card covers Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers etc. Book in GOOD condition Paul Watson has rammed fishing trawlers, sunk whaling ships and brazenly challenged the governments of all seafaring nations to live up to the letters of the laws they have agreed to and signed. His unswerving mission is to publicize - and stop - the atrocities committed against the creatures that inhabit the world's oceans. His is an chronicle of courageous acts in support of deeply-held convictions.

Hamlyn, London 1970 Hardcover, 7 1/2" x 5 1/2", with dust jacket AS NEW book in AS NEW price-clipped dust jacket Grey cloth-bound hardcover with gold type to spine, map, 71 COLOR PLATES, and dust jacket. The function of Oceanic Art differs greatly from Western art; beauty & emotional expression are out - myths, legends & the world of gods are in. Natives of the South Seas inhabit a world of surprising complexity, leading lives bounded by myths and legends which areintimately dependent on the power of super-natural forces

Cassell, London - ISBN:030432230X 1989 Hard cover in unclipped dust jacket Very good book in very good dust-jacket. Octavia Wilberforce (1888-1963) was a second generation of p[ioneer women doctors who, just after the First World War, had to battle against fierce social opposition in order to practise in Britain. She spent most of her medical career at New Sussex Hospital for Women, and founded a convalescent home for professional women at Backsettown (close to her friends Virginia & Leonard Woolf).

Lea & Febiger 1971 hard cover Very good condition, with stain on front cover Translated from the German by Frederick C. Blodi, MD. Methods of Examination and Typical Findings.

Angus & Robertson Publishers, Sydney - first editions 1975 / 1979 Both items in GOOD condition Hardcover inscribed and SIGNED BY AUTHOR.+ Press cutting mounted (TV Week, 24/10/87 headed: 'Bill Declares War …Again', bio with photo). LOOSELY inserted (a) SMH press cutting (7-1-78 'Corporation to put $225,000 into Two Films) PLUS (b) Melb. Herald Sun, 15-03-2002, Obituary (of author) PLUS two tributes, same paper, dated 07-03-2002. This novel won '1975 Award for Australian Literature' and made into MOVIE starring Graham Kennedy, John Jarrat, John Hargreaves, Bryan Brown & Graeme Blundell. The softcover (paperback) features sixteen b&w photographic stills from the movie. The Odd Angry Shot is a tough, biting comedy about a group of Australian SAS soldiers on a tour of duty in the Vietnam War of the 1960s.

Bay Books, Sydney 1984 Bound softcover with card covers Book in GOOD condtion An amazing photographic collection of Australia's wackiest things - place names, railway stock, gravestones, carvings, underground housing, death masks, curiosities, clock-towers, banks, weather vanes, museums and 'big' things (cows, pineapples, lobsters etc etc.). Text provides who, what, where, when as well as colour photos.

Walter T Foster, California not dated large format softcover, 10¼" x 13¾" , stapled Previous owner's name to cover. Some paint smudges to pages. Book in GOOD condition This experienced art practitioner and teacher explains the basic fundamentals of composition, light, color and integral subjects, and urges novice painters to drop self-imposed limitations. "If you have the desire, just express yourself," she urges.