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Millers Point NSW: Pier 9 an Imprint of Murdoch Books, 2008. 239 pages, indexed. "We have long lorded over the ocean. But only recently have we become aware of the myriad life-forms beneath its waves. We now know that this delicate ecosystem is our life-support system; it regulates the earth's temperatures and climate and comprises 99 percent of living space on earth. So when we change the chemistry of the whole ocean system, as we are now, life as we know it is threatened. In Seasick, veteran science journalist Alanna Mitchell dives beneath the surface of the world's oceans to give readers a sense of how this watery realm can be managed and preserved, and with it life on earth. Each chapter features a different group of researchers who introduce readers to the importance of ocean currents, the building of coral structures, or the effects of acidification. With Mitchell at the helm, readers submerge 3,000 feet to gather sea sponges that may contribute to cancer care, see firsthand the lava lamp-like dead zone covering 17,000 square kilometers in the Gulf of Mexico, and witness the simultaneous spawning of corals under a full moon in Panama. The first book to look at the planetary environmental crisis through the lens of the global ocean, Seasick takes the reader on an emotional journey through a hidden realm of the planet and urges conservation and reverence for the fount from which all life on earth sprang." (publisher). Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Pier 9 an Imprint of Murdoch Books, 2008, 5, Gossamerby Lois Lowrypublished by Houghton Mifflin Companycopyright 2006Hardcover with dust jacket, book is in good condition Where do dreams come from? What stealthy nighttime messengers are the guardians of our most deeply hidden hopes and our half-forgotten fears? Drawing on her rich imagination, two-time Newbery winner Lois Lowry confronts these questions and explores the conflicts between the gentle bits and pieces of the past that come to life in dream, and the darker horrors that find their form in nightmare. In a haunting story that tiptoes between reality and imagination, two peoplea lonely, sensitive woman and a damaged, angry boyface their own histories and discover what they can be to one another, renewed by the strength that comes from a tiny, caring creature they will never see.Gossamer is perfect for readers not quite ready for Lois Lowry's Newbery-Award winner The Giver and also for readers interested in dreams, nightmares, spirits and the dream world.Weight: 12 ouncesSize: 8 1/2 tall, 5 3/4 wide, 1 thick140 pagesABE002, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006, 2.5, Toronto: Dundurn, 2011. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Soft cover (roughly) 7" by 4 1/4" (inches), flat uncreased spine, clean square true & tight, 403 pages, Near Fine condition. "More than a whodunit detective story, Picasso Blues is a gripping tale of missed opportunities & hidden desires set amid rampant cynicism, fear, and deadly danger. In this sequel to Free Form Jazz." Check out the scans. . 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall., Dundurn, 2011, 4, I.K. International Publishing House Pvt. Ltd, 2013. 3rd edition. Softcover. New. 18 x 24 cm. The present book provides fundamentals of Computer Graphics and its applications. It helps the reader to understand: how computer hardware interacts with computer graphics; how it draws various objects, namely, line, circle, parabola, hyperbola, etc.; how realistic images are formed; how we see pictures move; and how different colors are generated from visible light. At every stage, detailed experiments with suitable figures are provided. More than 250 unsolved problems have been given at the end of chapters in the book. A large number of solved examples and programs in C are provided in the Appendices. New Features in this Edition: A new chapter on Segment. Coverage of illumination models and shading models. More discussion of algorithms. Addition of solved exercises at the end of chapters. Inclusion of computer graphics related mathematics. Contents: Foreword / Preface to the Second Edition / Introduction to Computer Graphics / Display Devices / Interactive Devices / Scan Conversion / 2-D Transformations / 2D Viewing Transformation and Clipping / 3-D Transformations / Projection / 3-D Viewing and Clipping / Hidden Lines and Hidden Surfaces / Bezier Curves and B-Splines / Animation / Multimedia / Color Models / Illumination Models and Shading Models / Appendices I / Appendices II / Index. Printed Pages: 422. NA, I.K. International Publishing House Pvt. Ltd, 2013, 6, I.K. International Publishing House Pvt. Ltd, 2013. 3rd edition. Softcover. New. 18 x 24 cm. The present book provides fundamentals of Computer Graphics and its applications. It helps the reader to understand: • how computer hardware interacts with computer graphics; • how it draws various objects, namely, line, circle, parabola, hyperbola, etc.; • how realistic images are formed; • how we see pictures move; and • how different colors are generated from visible light. At every stage, detailed experiments with suitable figures are provided. More than 250 unsolved problems have been given at the end of chapters in the book. A large number of solved examples and programs in C are provided in the Appendices. New Features in this Edition: • A new chapter on “Segment”. • Coverage of illumination models and shading models. • More discussion of algorithms. • Addition of solved exercises at the end of chapters. • Inclusion of computer graphics related mathematics. Contents: Foreword / Preface to the Second Edition / Introduction to Computer Graphics / Display Devices / Interactive Devices / Scan Conversion / 2-D Transformations / 2D Viewing Transformation and Clipping / 3-D Transformations / Projection / 3-D Viewing and Clipping / Hidden Lines and Hidden Surfaces / Bezier Curves and B-Splines / Animation / Multimedia / Color Models / Illumination Models and Shading Models / Appendices I / Appendices II / Index. Printed Pages: 422., I.K. International Publishing House Pvt. Ltd, 2013, 6, I.K. International Publishing House Pvt. Ltd, 2013. 3rd edition. Softcover. New. 18 x 24 cm. The present book provides fundamentals of Computer Graphics and its applications. It helps the reader to understand: • how computer hardware interacts with computer graphics; • how it draws various objects, namely, line, circle, parabola, hyperbola, etc.; • how realistic images are formed; • how we see pictures move; and • how different colors are generated from visible light. At every stage, detailed experiments with suitable figures are provided. More than 250 unsolved problems have been given at the end of chapters in the book. A large number of solved examples and programs in C are provided in the Appendices. New Features in this Edition: • A new chapter on “Segment”. • Coverage of illumination models and shading models. • More discussion of algorithms. • Addition of solved exercises at the end of chapters. • Inclusion of computer graphics related mathematics. Contents: Foreword / Preface to the Second Edition / Introduction to Computer Graphics / Display Devices / Interactive Devices / Scan Conversion / 2-D Transformations / 2D Viewing Transformation and Clipping / 3-D Transformations / Projection / 3-D Viewing and Clipping / Hidden Lines and Hidden Surfaces / Bezier Curves and B-Splines / Animation / Multimedia / Color Models / Illumination Models and Shading Models / Appendices I / Appendices II / Index. Printed Pages: 422., I.K. International Publishing House Pvt. Ltd, 2013, 6, London: Arrow Books, 2006. -----Tight square and clean, flat spine, (xii) 848 pages with b & w illustrations plus 8 pages of full colour illustrations, spine crease, store stamp. "Less than 50,000 years ago mankind had no art, no religion, no sophisticated symbolism, no innovative thinking. Then, in a dramatic & electrifying chang, described by scientists as 'the greatest riddle in human history', all the skills & qualities that we value most highly in ourselves appeared already fully formed, as though bestowed on us by hidden powers." Contents include: The visions / The Plant that Enables Men to see the Sead / The Greatest Riddle of Archaelogy / Vine of Souls / The Caves / Therianthropy / Riddles of the Caves / The Shabby Academy / Searching for a Roseta Stone / The Code in the Mind / Serpents of the Drakensberg / The Wounded Healer / The Beings / Voyage into the Supernatural / Shamans in the Sky / Spirit Love / The Secret Commonwealth / Here is a Thing that Will Carry Me Away / Dancers between Worlds / The Codes / Tuning in to Channel DMT / Amongst the Machine Elves / Ancient Teachers in Our DNA? / The Hurricane in the Junkyard / The Religions / The Hidden Shamans / Flesh of the Gods / The Mysteries / Doors Leading to Another World / Appendices: Critics & criticisms of David Lewis-Williams' 'Neuropsychological Theory' of Rock & Cave Art; Psilocybe semilanceata - hallucinogenic mushroom native to Europe by Professor Roy Eatling OBE / Inerview with Rick Strassman MD / Notes and References / index. Check out the scans.. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by Cover Illustrations: Detail from a Painting By Pablo Amaringo., Arrow Books, 2006, 4, Disco Fever - 16 Disco Hits including Tragedypublished by Chappell & Co., Inc. 1979Theodore Presser CompanyGeneral Note: music & lyrics for voice and piano, with guitar chord diagramsPaperback9 x 12 inches, 71 pagessee Table of ContentsContents: Stayin' alive.--Shadow dancing.--Dancin'.--Native New Yorker.--Me and the gang.--Emotion.--5.7.0.5.--How deep is your love.--Heaven on the seventh floor.--If I can't have you.--More than a woman.--You stepped into my life.--Night fever.--Back in love again.--Weekend lover.--TragedyDisco is a musical style originating in the early 1970s. It began to emerge from America's urban nightlife scene, where it had been curtailed to house parties and makeshift discotheques from the middle of the decade onwards, after which, it began making regular mainstream appearances, gaining popularity and increasing airplay on radio. Its popularity was achieved sometime during the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. Its initial audiences in the U.S. were club-goers, both male and female, from the African American, Italian American, Latino, and psychedelic communities in Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, and New York City during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Disco can be seen as a reaction against both the domination of rock music and the stigmatization of dance music by the counterculture during this period. Several dances styles were also developed during this time including the Bump and the Hustle.The disco sound often has several components, a "four-on-the-floor" beat, an eighth note (quaver) or 16th note (semi-quaver) hi-hat pattern with an open hi-hat on the off-beat, and a prominent, syncopated electric bass line. In most disco tracks, string sections, horns, electric piano, and electric rhythm guitars create a lush background sound. Orchestral instruments such as the flute are often used for solo melodies, and lead guitar is less frequently used in disco than in rock. Many disco songs use electronic synthesizers, particularly in the late 1970s.Well-known 1970s and 1980s disco performers included: Vicki Sue Robinson, Yvonne Elliman, Grace Jones, Divine, Lime, Thelma Houston, Diana Ross, Cher, Cheryl Lynn, Donna Summer, the Bee Gees, Boney M., Claudja Barry, Billy Ocean, Cerrone, Dan Hartman, Madonna, Miquel Brown, Chaka Khan, KC and the Sunshine Band, the Trammps, Marlena Shaw, Sylvester, Village People, Gloria Gaynor, Amii Stewart, and Chic. While performers and singers garnered much public attention, record producers working behind the scenes played an important role in developing the "disco sound". Many non-disco artists recorded disco songs at the height of disco's popularity, and films such as Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Thank God It's Friday (1978) contributed to disco's rise in mainstream popularity.By the late 1970s, most major U.S. cities had thriving disco club scenes, where DJs would mix a seamless sequence of dance records. Studio 54, a venue popular among celebrities, was a well-known disco club of that time. Discotheque-goers often wore expensive, extravagant and sexy fashions. There was also a thriving drug subculture in the disco scene, particularly for drugs that would enhance the experience of dancing to the loud music and the flashing lights, such as cocaine and Quaaludes, a drug that was so common in disco subculture that it was nicknamed "disco biscuits". Disco clubs were also sometimes associated with promiscuity.Disco was the last mass popular music movement that was driven by the baby boom generation. Disco was a worldwide phenomenon, but its popularity drastically declined in the United States in 1980, and by 1982 it had lost most of its mainstream popularity in the states. Disco Demolition Night, an anti-disco protest held in Chicago on July 12, 1979, remains the most well-known of several "backlash" incidents across the country that symbolized disco's declining fortune.Disco was a key influence in the later development of electronic dance music and house music. Disco has had several revivals, including in 2005 with Madonna's highly successful album Confessions on a Dance Floor, and again in 2013 and 2014, as disco-styled songs by artists like Daft Punk (with Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers), Justin Timberlake, Breakbot, and Bruno Marsnotably Mars' "Uptown Funk"filled the pop charts in the UK and the US.From 1974 to 1977, disco music continued to increase in popularity as many disco songs topped the charts. In 1974, "Love's Theme" by Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra became the second disco song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100, after "Love Train". MFSB also released "TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)", featuring vocals by the Three Degrees, and this was the third disco song to hit number one; "TSOP" was written as the theme song for Soul Train.The Hues Corporation's 1974 "Rock the Boat", a U.S. number 1 single and million-seller, was one of the early disco songs to hit number 1. The same year saw the release of "Kung Fu Fighting", performed by Carl Douglas and produced by Biddu, which reached number 1 in both the U.K. and U.S., and became the best-selling single of the year and one of the best-selling singles of all time with eleven million records sold worldwide, helping to popularize disco music to a great extent. Another notable chart-topping disco hit that year was George McCrae's "Rock Your Baby".In the northwestern sections of the United Kingdom, the Northern Soul explosion, which started in the late 1960s and peaked in 1974, made the region receptive to Disco, which the region's Disc Jockeys were bringing back from New York City. George McCrae's "Rock Your Baby" became the United Kingdom's first number one disco single.Also in 1974, Gloria Gaynor released the first side-long disco mix vinyl album, which included a remake of the Jackson 5's "Never Can Say Goodbye" and two other songs, "Honey Bee" and his disco version of "Reach Out (I'll Be There)". Gaynor's number one disco hit was "I Will Survive", released in 1978, which was seen as a symbol of female strength and a gay anthem.Formed by Harry Wayne Casey ("KC") and Richard Finch, Miami's KC and the Sunshine Band had a string of disco-definitive top-five hits between 1975 and 1977, including "Get Down Tonight", "That's the Way (I Like It)", "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty", "I'm Your Boogie Man" and "Keep It Comin' Love". Electric Light Orchestra's 1975 hit "Evil Woman", although described as Orchestral Rock, featured a violin sound that became a staple of disco. In 1979, however, ELO did release two "true" disco songs: "Last Train To London" and "Shine A Little Love".In 1975, American singer and songwriter Donna Summer recorded a song which she brought to her producer Giorgio Moroder entitled "Love to Love You Baby" which contained a series of simulated orgasms. The song was never intended for release but when Moroder played it in the clubs it caused a sensation. Moroder released it and it went to number 2. It has been described as the arrival of the expression of raw female sexual desire in pop music. A 17-minute 12 inch single was released. The 12" single became and remains a standard in discos today.In 1977 Summer released "I Feel Love", which combined disco with its subgenre Hi-NRG and electronic music, while in 1978, her multi-million selling vinyl single disco version of "MacArthur Park" was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for three weeks and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Summer's recording, which was included as part of the "MacArthur Park Suite" on her double album Live and More, was eight minutes and forty seconds long on the album. The shorter seven-inch vinyl single version of the MacArthur Park was Summer's first single to reach number one on the Hot 100; it does not include the balladic second movement of the song, however. A 2013 remix of "Mac Arthur Park" by Summer hit number 1 on the Billboard Dance Charts marking five consecutive decades with a number 1 hit on the charts. From 1978 to 1979, Summer continued to release hits such as "Last Dance", "Bad Girls", "Heaven Knows", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", "Hot Stuff" and "On the Radio", all very successful disco songs.The Bee Gees used Barry Gibb's falsetto to garner hits such as "You Should Be Dancing", "Stayin' Alive", "Night Fever", "More Than A Woman" and "Love You Inside Out". Andy Gibb, a younger brother to the Bee Gees, followed with similarly-styled solo hits such as "I Just Want to Be Your Everything", "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water" and "Shadow Dancing". In 1975, hits such as Van McCoy's "The Hustle" and Summer's version of "Could It Be Magic" brought disco further into the mainstream. Other notable early disco hits include the Jackson 5's "Dancing Machine" (1974), Barry White's "You're the First, the Last, My Everything" (1974), Labelle's "Lady Marmalade" (1974) and Silver Convention's "Fly Robin Fly" (1975).In December 1977, the film Saturday Night Fever was released. It was a huge success and its soundtrack became one of the best-selling albums of all time. The idea for the film was sparked by a 1976 New York magazine article titled "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night" which supposedly chronicled the disco culture in mid-1970s New York City, but was later revealed to have been fabricated. Some critics said the film "mainstreamed" disco, making it more acceptable to heterosexual white males.Chic was formed mainly by guitarist Nile Rodgers a self described "street hippie" from late 1960s New York and bassist Bernard Edwards. "Le Freak" was a popular 1978 single of theirs that is regarded as an iconic song of the genre. Other hits by Chic include the often-sampled "Good Times" (1979) and "Everybody Dance" (1979). The group regarded themselves as the disco movement's rock band that made good on the hippie movement's ideals of peace, love, and freedom. Every song they wrote was written with an eye toward giving it "deep hidden meaning" or D.H.M.Sylvester, a flamboyant and openly gay singer famous for his soaring falsetto voice, scored his biggest disco hits in 1978 "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)", and "Dance (Disco Heat)", followed by "Body Strong" in 1979. Known as the Queen of Disco, his singing style was said to have influenced the singer Prince. At that time, disco was one of the forms of music most open to gay performers.The Village People were a singing/dancing group created by Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo to target disco's gay audience. They were known for their onstage costumes of typically male-considered jobs and ethnic minorities and achieved mainstream success with their 1978 hit song, "Y.M.C.A."; other hits included "Macho Man" (1978) and "In the Navy" (1979).The Jacksons (previously "the Jackson 5") did many disco songs from 1975 to 1980, including "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)" (1978), "Blame it on the Boogie" (1978), "Lovely One" (1980), and "Can You Feel It" (1980)all sung by Michael Jackson, whose 1979 solo album, Off the Wall, included several disco hits, including the album's title song, "Rock with You", "Workin' Day and Night", and his second chart-topping solo hit in the disco genre, "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough".Disco's popularity led many non-disco pop and some rock artists to record disco songs at the height of its popularity. Many of their songs were not "pure" disco, but were instead rock or pop songs with (sometimes inescapable) disco influence or overtones. Notable examples include Earth, Wind & Fire's "September" (1978) and "Boogie Wonderland" with the Emotions (1979), Blondie's "Heart of Glass" (1978) and "Rapture" (1980), Cher's "Take Me Home" and "Hell on Wheels" (both 1979), Barry Manilow's "Copacabana" (1978), David Bowie's "John I'm Only Dancing (Again)" (1979), Rod Stewart's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" (1979), Frankie Valli's "Swearin' to God" (1975), George Benson's "Give Me the Night" (1980), Elton John and Kiki Dee's "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" (1976), M's "Pop Muzik" (1979), Barbra Streisand's "The Main Event" (1979), Heart's "Straight On" (1978), The biggest hit by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, best known as a new wave band, was "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" (1978), featuring a strong disco sound.Even hard-core mainstream rockers mixed elements of disco with their typical rock 'n roll style in songs. Progressive rock group Pink Floyd, when creating their rock opera The Wall, used disco-style components in their song, "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" (1979)which became the group's only number 1 hit single (in both the US and UK). The Eagles gave nods to disco with "One of These Nights" (1975) and "Disco Strangler" (1979), Paul McCartney & Wings did "Goodnight Tonight" (1979), Queen did "Another One Bites the Dust" (1980), the Rolling Stones did "Miss You" (1978) and "Emotional Rescue" (1980), Electric Light Orchestra's "Shine a Little Love" and "Last Train to London" (both 1979), Chicago did "Street Player" (1979), the Kinks did "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman" (1979), Bryan Adams did "Let Me Take You Dancing" (1978), and the J. Geils Band did "Come Back" (1980). Even hard rock group KISS jumped in with "I Was Made For Lovin' You" (1979). Ringo Starr's album Ringo the 4th (1978) features a strong disco influence.The disco sound was also adopted by "non-pop" artists, including the 1979 U.S. number one hit "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" by Easy listening singer Barbra Streisand in a duet with Donna Summer. Country music artist Connie Smith covered Andy Gibb's "I Just Want to Be Your Everything" in 1977, Bill Anderson did "Double S" in 1978, and Ronnie Milsap recorded "Get It Up" and covered Tommy Tucker's "Hi-Heel Sneakers" in 1979.Also noteworthy are John Paul Young's "Love Is in the Air" (1977), Patrick Hernandez's "Born to Be Alive" (1978), Cheryl Lynn's "Got to Be Real" (1978), Evelyn "Champagne" King's "Shame" (1978), Sister Sledge's "We Are Family" (1979), Anita Ward's "Ring My Bell" (1979), Lipps Inc.'s "Funkytown" (1979), Geraldine Hunt's "Can't Fake the Feeling" (1980), Alicia Bridges' "I Love the Nightlife" (1978) and Walter Murphy's various attempts to bring classical music to the mainstream, most notably his disco hit "A Fifth of Beethoven" (1976), which was inspired by Beethoven's fifth symphony.Pre-existing non-disco songs and standards would frequently be "disco-ized" in the 1970s. The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band erawhich brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1929 and 1939 hit, "Temptation", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.Myron Floren, second-in-command on The Lawrence Welk Show, released a recording of the "Clarinet Polka" entitled "Disco Accordion." Similar, Chappell & Co., Inc., 1979, 3, vintage copy this is the original published book not a later PDF-buff boards some staining on them not perfect interesting illustrated endpapers interior the book is clean and unmarked printed in USA American book Knickerbocker press Inc. New York copyright 1951 by publisher Crown a couple stains on its covers dust jacket is missing corners are worn previous owners signature hidden in illustrated endpapers -- Washington Confidential- Popular literature sex lobbyists garden of pansies Gossip-roots of D.C.- vice, - historic sin in the District.-seedy underbelly-district of confusion gorgeous Georgetown not so tender tenderloin hobos with no horizons green pastures mighty like a Rose Chinatown chippies the overflow Uncle Sam/landlord G girls company gals the little red herrings kicking the gong around the terror from Tennessee rackets by remote control how to stay out of jail wiretapper snoops & Spies-Baltimore confidential booze and bottles Lupos logbook Who's Who in mobcracity- -currently politically incorrect an interesting form of pulp fiction. A snapshot in time of the 50s quite titillating For it's time great historical detail Washington (D.C.)-see pictures maybe this will do it maybe it won't-sent media mail - questions answered via customer service phone/ emailing message services -gift delivery instructions-alternative expedited deliveries need to be requested & adjusted price wise...-you get the copy you were viewing carefully packed to protect it from damage in transit.-Ruth Reaser .LAXVespa Los Angeles /Culver City Washington confidential, Volume 1184 Washington Confidential, Jack Lait Authors Jack Lait, Lee Mortimer Edition hardcover original printing Publisher Crown Publishers, 1951 Length 310 pages Subjects Popular literature sex lobbyists garden of pansies Gossip-roots of D.C.- vice, - historic sin in the District.-seedy underbelly-currently politically incorrect an interesting form of pulp fiction. A snapshot in time of the 50s quite titillating For it's time great historical detail Washington (D.C.) current ISBN 9781258969738, Crown publishers, 1951, 2.5, city of quartz, Mike Davis-- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 3-10. first vintage books edition March 1992 paperback. Paperback. Good. first vintage books edition March 1992 paperback cover still glossy spine glued intact..obviously has been read, has a lot life left in it you bent corners on pages. Cover depicts Los Angeles is Metropolitan detention Center, a famous architectural landmark of controversy. City of quartz: excavating the future in Los Angeles Social history architecture Vintage Series A Vintage Book Author Mike Davis Edition reprint Publisher Vintage Books, 1992 ISBN 0679738061, 9780679738060 Length 462 pages Subjects Social Science Sociology Urban Los Angeles (Calif.) Social Science / Sociology / Urban..Mike Davis California black assembly person, politician. this is a paperback and has been read several times the cover is still glossy whatever does show signs of where along its edges the glued spine is intact.. See picturesThe hidden story of L.A. Mike davis shows us where the city's money comes form and who controls it while also exposing the brutal ongoing struggle between L.A.'s haves and have-nots... interesting guy...Reaser LAXVespa Books and Rags- , Used books are the "green" way to recycle and reduce your carbon footprint,, read, gift, explore.. carefully dropkick packed -sent Media Mail from Los Angeles, generally 7 Days Coast to Coast.., Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 3-10, 2.5, New York.: Vintage Books.. Reprint.. 1993. 190pp, paperback, extremities little worn, some even browning, a good secondhand copy. Using the same sympathy and eye for the absurd that characterized his "Video Night in Kathmandu", the traveller Pico Iyer describes countries ranging from Paraguay to Iceland, North Korea to Argentina, Cuba to Bhutan, and Vietnam to Australia - places which many people make a point of avoiding and which he calls "lonely places". In a tightly-sealed North Korea, he sees no tourists, yet notes that the Koreans are building the largest tourist hotel in the world, 105 storeys high. The Vietnamese, conversely, declared 1990 the "Year of the Tourist", yet chose the same year to tear down all their hotels for remodelling. In Cuba Iyer finds an effigy of Ronald Reagan in "Cretins' Corner" in the Museum of the Revolution and "shortages of everything except ironies", while in Paraguay, perhaps the loneliest place of all, where corruption is raised to the level of an art form, he notes: "Everyone has a price, and usually it was discounted". Includes a chapter on Bhutan titled: Bhutan: Hidden inside the Hidden Kingdom. ., Vintage Books., 1993, 0, Ann Arbor, MI: Dzanc Books, 2017. First US Edition. Paperback. new. 296pp. Duodecimo; illustrated wraps. From back of book: "Dreamlives of Debris" is a hybrid telling of the Theseus and Minotaur myth. Here the Minotaur is a little deformed girl--she calls herself Debris--hidden away beneath Knossos. Her labyrinth takes the form of an impossible liquid architecture bearing no center and no perimeter. She possesses the ability to hear the flood of thoughts and see the flood of memories, desires, and futures of others throughout history, from Herodotus and Pliny to Borges and Edward Snowden., Dzanc Books, 2017, 6, New York: Potter Craft - An Imprint of The Crown Publishing Group, 2008. 144 Pages. Katherine Dewey's expressive and elegantly detailed sculptures enchant all who see them. With the magical medium of polymer clay and this book, you can follow in her footsteps. Thorough instructions supported by more than 400 step-by-step color photos and 200 detailed drawings cover the entire process of sculpting realistic figures. Easy-to-read maps of the figure illustrate the landmarks of the body, while scale diagrams indicate the simple shapes hidden within the human form, as well as how to combine and model those shapes. For anyone who loves fantasy, romance, nature or sophisticated crafting this book is a must-have. . First Potter Craft Edition 14th Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8 1/2" X 11., Potter Craft - An Imprint of The Crown Publishing Group, 2008, 5, Harperaudio. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2003. Audio Cassette. 0060554851 . 1.34 x 6.93 x 4.41 Inches; <p>James Gleick has long been fascinated by the making of science -- how ideas order visible appearances, how equations can give meaning to molecular and stellar phenomena, how theories can transform what we see. In <i>Chaos</i>, he chronicled the emergence of a new way of looking at dynamic systems; in <i>Genius</i>, he portrayed the wondrous dimensions of Richard Feymnan's mind. Now, in <i>Isaac Newton</i>, he gives us the story of the scientist who, above all others, embodied humanity's quest to unveil the hidden forces that constitute the physical world.</p> <p>In this original, sweeping, and intimate biography, Gleick moves between a comprehensive historical portrait and a dramatic focus on Newton's significant letters and unpublished notebooks to illuminate the real importance of his work in physics, in optics, and in calculus. He makes us see the old intuitive, alchemical universe out of which Newton's mathematics first arose and shows us how Newton's ideas have altered all forms of understanding from history to philosophy. And he gives us a moving account of the conflicting impulses that pulled at this man's heart: his quiet longings, his rage, his secrecy, the extraordinary subtleties of a personality that were mirrored in the invisible forces he first identified as the building blocks of science. More than biography, more than history, more than science, <i>Isaac Newton</i> tells us how, through the mind of one man, we have come to know our place in the cosmos.</p> <p>Read by Allan Couruner.</p> ., Harperaudio, 2003, 3, U.S.A.: Xlibris, Corp., 2008. 1st Edition . Soft cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition Thus. "Underneath the gentle city of Red Deer, a hidden life form is waiting". KENTON E. BIFFERT was born in Western Canada and spent many years as a social worker. After growing weary of the short-term impact he was seeing in his clients, Kenton pursued post-secondary education in theater, teaching and currently holds a Masters in Education. He is the author of the full-length play My Life in Pieces and Intoxinated is his first published novel. Kenton currently lives in Red Deer where he teaches at a Catholic elementary school, is a professional photographer and indulges in the beautiful calling of being a father and husband., Xlibris, Corp., 2008, 5<