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Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. First Villard Edition. Small black marker line on bottom outside page edges right by binding. Head and heel edges of spine lightly rubbed. This is the author's first novel. (Lowest number on the number line is a 2). Orange spine and edges with gold lettering on spine, tan covers. 280 pages. Remainder.

Hard Back. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 4th Printing. 291 pages with Author's notes, photographs and bibliography. Dust Jacket price unclipped. Illustrated by 12 black and white photos and 23 woodcut illustrations. Nice map endpapers. Excellent gift item. Considered the definitive account of the tragic season on Everest which left five dead and others injured. Written by the journalist and writer who was an accomplished climber and lived through these events, his account is compelling and authentic. Highly recommended. Made the NY Times list of notable books of the year.

Hard Back. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Everard, Jan - Illustrations (illustrator). First Edition Stated -Second Printing. 339 Pages. There is the inked-date 7 Sept 94 on the top front of the endpaper. Bibliography and Glossary are included. Recounts the world-famous paleoanthropologist's attempts to solve the mystery of human evolution, using evidence uncovered during his recent forays into the fossil-rich regions of Eastern Africa. When he discovered Lucy, the oldest skeleton of any erect-walking human ancestor ever found, Donald Johanson made headlines all over the world. Johanson, author of Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, the controversial bestseller that altered the science of anthropology, is now the preeminent authority on human evolution. In Ancestors, his most ambitious work to date, Johanson calls on both extensive, hands-on field- work and current scientific theory to widen the ever-growing window to the human past. Ancestors is the companion volume to a three- part mini-series-hosted by Johanson-of the award-winning PBS science series NOVA. With spectacular photographs and riveting accounts of Dr. Johanson's recent adventures in such exotic landscapes as fossil- rich eastern Africa and the Willandra Lakes region of Australia, the excitement of discovery is contagious. Like a good detective on a lead, Johanson crosses four continents, gathering clues to hominid anatomy, habitat, and placement along the fossil time line in an effort to piece together a compelling picture of human ancestry.

Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Ballantine Books Dom Ed: March 1998. 531 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Slightly creased and slanted spine. Minor cut on top corner of front cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Stated First Edition. White paper covered boards w/black backstrip and red metallic lettering. Text is clean, tight and white. Almost as new save a small watermark inside rear cover, reflected inside DJ. "Riveting psychological suspense, psychosexual intrigue and terror, a labyrinthine journey into a murderer's twisted, tormented past- all the hallmarks of Bayer's extraordinary crime fiction are here. But with a new dimension. This time the case is personal. This time Janek is out for blood." (from the jacket).

Hard Back. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition Second Printing Stated. 339 Pages. The sequel to the acclaimed novel Shinju again features detective Sano Ichiro as he trails a serial killer stalking feudal Japan. In 1689, an all-powerful shogun controls the state, surrounded by bitter machinations and political intrigues. When an ancient tradition suddenly and brutally reappears, Sano risks everything to bring the killer to justice.

Hard Back. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Bass, Wendy - Jacket Design (illustrator). Third Printing. 212 Pages with Index of First Lines. There is some black that appeared on the inside bottom of the dust jacket that might have come from the book bottom area although there is no evidence of it coming off the boards. A collection of poems, diary entries, and drawings by The Doors' driving force is accompanied by a Morrison "self-interview" and an afterword by his best friend.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition 1st Printing. BOOK: Very Good; Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Boards Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Missing. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I--SLEEP MATTERS - Chapter 1--Learning About the Power of Sleep; Chapter 2--Sleep Diagnostic Tests; PART II--THE POWER OF SLEEP - Chapter 3--The Architecture and Functions of Sleep; Chapter 4--Sleep Need and Peak Performance; PART III--PREPARING YOUR MIND FOR PEAK PERFORMANCE - Chapter 5--The Golden Rules of Sleep; Chapter 6--Twenty Great Sleep Strategies: How to Sleep Your Way to Success--Properly!; Chapter 7--How to Create a Great Bedroom Environment; Chapter 8--Sleeping Pills and Over-the-Counter Remedies; PART IV--COPING WITH SLEEP DEPRIVATION - Chapter 9--The Nod to Midday Naps; Chapter 10--Surviving as a Shift Worker; Chapter 11--Reducing Travel Fatigue; Chapter 12--Avoiding Family Sleep Traps; PART V--WHEN TO CALL THE SLEEP DOCTOR - Chapter 13--Insomnia and Beyond; APPENDIXES - Appendix A--Peak Performance Sleep Logs; Appendix B--Suggested Readings and Videotapes on Sleep; Appendix C--Sleep on the Internet; Appendix D--Sleep Disorders Centers; Notes; Index. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dr. James B. Maas is a professor of psychology and the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University, where he teaches introductory psychology to 1,500 students each year in the nation's largest single lecture class and conducts research on the psychophysiology of sleep. Dr. Maas has held a Fulbright Senior Professorship to Sweden, has been a visiting professor at Stanford University, and was president of the American Psychological Association's Division on Teaching. He has received the Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching at Cornell and the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Teaching Award. He is also an award-winning filmmaker who has produced television specials for PBS in the United States, for the BBC in England, for the CBC in Canada, and for Dutch, Danish, and Swedish national television. Dr. Maas is one of the nation's most sought-after speakers and seminar leaders for organizations and businesses, and he makes frequent television appearances. EXCERPT: INTRODUCTION . . . Enthusiastic students, business executives, health-care providers, and other professionals who have heard my presentations have urged me to share with others the exciting new findings regarding the sleeping brain and its functions. They encouraged me to write a book that would help people understand and take full advantage of the power of sleep, with all its restorative and mind-enhancing properties . . . Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Landscape size, 11.3 inches wide.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition 1st Printing. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Light Moisture Damage (Spine Colour Bleed to Cover Reverse); Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. JACKET DESIGN: Kathy Saksa. JACKET PAPER DESIGN: Katherine Loeffler. SYNOPSIS: If I was absolutely certain about all things, I would spend my life in anxious misery, fearful of losing my way. But since everything and anything is always possible, the miraculous is always nearby and wonders shall never, ever cease. I believe that human freedom may be stated in one term, which serves as a little brick propping open the door of existence: Maybe. Such is the philosophy that has built Robert Fulghum's All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It, and Uh-Oh into international bestsellers. His first book of wit and wisdom, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, occupied the number one spot on the New York Times bestseller list for some 96 weeks. It was also number one in Ivy paperback, spent 133 weeks on the New York Times list, and has achieved the status of a contemporary classic. It Was on Fire When I Lay Don on It, his second book, also soared to instant success, becoming part of publishing history by seizing the New York Times' top hardcover slot while Kindergarten remained a simultaneous hardcover and paperback bestseller. Uh-Oh, another number one bestseller, also reflects on the wonders of everyday life. Fulghum's books radiate a spiritual, yet down-to-earth universality that has made his writing appealing to readers in twenty-four languages; his books are distributed in ninety-three countries. To those modern classics, he now adds Maybe (Maybe Not), his wisest and most entertaining work to date. Opting for constant surprise, he continues to amuse and inspire with enlightenment encountered in the most unexpected ways and places. Consider Fulghum's thoughts on the secret life (that nonstop epic playing inside our heads, where all our best-laid dreams are hatched), on barbershop mythology, the shifting significance of nicknames over the course of a lifetime, or the circumstances of one's own conception. Contemplate along with him the revelations afforded by ironing a shirt, a rousing session of musical chairs, or the ethical struggle to decide a poinsettia's fate; acknowledge that love indeed transcends the ravages of time and that some family secrets can be gifts of joy. Maybe (Maybe Not) is Robert Fulghum at his best: balancing levity and gravity with amazing grace as he makes us a little more aware of the richness and fullness of our lives. Philosopher and essayist Robert Fulghum grew up in Waco, Texas. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition 1st Printing. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Repaired; Front, Rear Fixed Endpapers Pulled From Removal of Jacket Cover; Front Free Endpaper Pulled From Removal of Pocket and Sticker; Corners, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Heavily Cocked; Moderately Soiled, Including Edges. DUST JACKET: Light Sticker Residue to Spine Portion From Removal of Sticker; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: The Autobiography. DESIGNED BY: Beth Tondreau. JACKET PHOTO BY: Bert Stern. JACKET DESIGN BY: Wendy Bass. CONTENTS: Prologue 1. Wyncote: Martinez's Son 2. Bull in the Ring 3. Birmingham: Just the Kind of Nigger Boy They Needed 4. Mr. Charles O. Finley 5. But Howe We Played the Game. 6. Jennie Campos.Jackson 7. Proceed Directly to the Earl of Baltimore. Pass Go. Collect $200,000. 8. Just Business 9. New York, New York 10. "The Straw That Stirs the Drink." 11. The Dugout at Fenway: Not a Boston Tea Party 12. How I Helped Billy Keep His Job and Other Interesting Tales 13. On Stayin' Alive in the Clubhouse, Batting Cleanup, and Winning the Division: Not Altogether Unrelated Events 14. How to Go from Mr. Pinchhitter to Mr. October 15. Who Was It Who Said the More Things Change the More They Stay the Same? 16. Billy Says, "One Is a Born Liar, and the Other One Is Convicted." Billy Gets Fired. Billy Gets Rehired. 17. Oh, Yeah, About the Miracle. 18. The Real World 19. Thurman 20. They Said It Couldn't Be Done. And It Couldn't. 21. 1980: Stickups, Shootouts, Dingers Galore, Tantrums from George and a Kansas City Sweep. 22. I Was Just Leaving. 23. An Angel with a Dirty Batting Average. SYNOPSIS: There are few athletes--there are few people--who have had as much written, reported or rumored about them as Reggie Jackson. He has been depicted in the media as a hero, a villain, an intellectual, a fake, the greatest clutch baseball player of his generation, an egomaniac. He has been loved by the fans and hated by the fans. He has battled and lost, he has battled and triumphed. The only constant--aside from his incredible ability to win wherever he goes--has been the bewildering web of contradictions surrounding him. At long last, that web has been unraveled. The contradictions have been set straight. The truths have been revealed by the only man who could, once and for all, reveal them: Reginald Martinez Jackson. This is his story. Reggie's background is as surprising and complex and dramatic as his ascension to superstardom. The product of a broken home, he grew up in a white suburb of Philadelphia. He played football for Frank Kush at Arizona State University before emerging as a star baseball player during his sophomore year at college. The Mets didn't choose him with their number one draft pick because he had a white girlfriend, so he wound up with the Oakland A's--forming the nucleus of one of the greatest teams in baseball history. In the minor leagues he spent a year in the Deep South, encountering tremendous racism, meeting Bear Bryant, becoming the Minor League Player of the Year. Making it to the major leagues, he began his legendary career--and his equally legendary battles with Charles O. Finley. Then came a year with the Orioles and Earl Weaver. And then came the Yankee years, five of the most exciting and tumultuous years in sports history. George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin, Graig Nettles, Thurman Munson, Catfish Hunter--Reggie discusses them all in great depth, speaking from the heart. He reveals the private agony of the championship 1977 and '78 seasons, the joy of hitting three home runs in one World Series game, the jealousies in the clubhouse, the distortions in the media, the controversial behavior of management. This is Reggie Jackson in all his glory and all his pain, from childhood through today. It is Reggie Jackson: hick from Wyncote, Pennsylvania; scared youngster in the South; Oakland "superduperstar," as Sports Illustrated called him; Yankee and. Ex-Library.

Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition 1st Printing. Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Reverse of Front Cover Pulled and Slightly Tacky Due to Removal of Pocket; Light Creasing on Front Cover; Moderate Creasing on Rear Cover, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Heavily Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Light Moisture Damage; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. SUB-TITLE: The Inside Story of the Highest-Ranking Iraqi Terrorist Ever to Defect to the West. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1 Growing Up in Palestine 2 Abu Dahab (Father of Gold) 3 Becoming a "Hero" 4 Seat 47K 5 Geneva and the Bomb 6 The Signature 7 Life in Switzerland 8 Getting off the List 9 the Hunt for Rashid 10 Life in America 11 Ibrahim's Legacy 12 The Indictment 13 The Capture 14 The United States Turns a Blind Eye 15 The Iraqi Terror Network 16 Saddam's Allies 17 Winners and Sinners; Epilogue. SYNOPSIS: Iraq wants him dead or alive--preferably dead. They've put a multimillion-dollar contract on his head. Terrorist tells the true story of the Iraqi Terror Network--who they are, what they are, how they work, and what they're going to do next! Adnan Awad was a high-ranking member of the Abu Ibrahim group--one of the most shadowy, ruthless, and bloody terrorist organizations in the world. Based in Baghdad, Ibrahim worked hand in hand with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein plotting the deaths of thousands of Americans. Only one ham has ever escaped from Ibrahim's iron grasp--Adnan--and here he gives the first inside view of the massive Iraqi terror network around the world. Adnan, the highest-ranking terrorist ever to defect to the West, is the major intelligence asset the United States has in the war on terrorism. When war in the Persian Gulf erupted, he could have been the CIA's and FBI's chief counterterrorism weapon--but he wasn't allowed to be. Terrorist is not only the personal story of the making and unmaking of an Iraqi terrorist. It is also the shocking and scandalous story of American complicity in the creation of the Iraqi terror empire. Brilliant reporting and research shows that, over a period of time, Iraq had developed the most far-flung terrorist organization in the world, surpassing even Libya and Syria. However, right up to the day before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the United States deliberately turned a blind eye to the massive evidence of Iraqi terrorism around the world, all the while secretly selling Iraq military technology. Terrorist is a moving and shocking human drama, but, far more important, it is the only inside and accurate picture we have of the world's most dangerous and evil forces. Steven A. Emerson is a Washington-based correspondent specializing in national security issues. His reports appear on CNN, and he frequently publishes in The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic. The author of three other books, he is a three-time recipient of the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for best national investigative reporting. Cristina Del Sesto is a Washington-based free-lance writer. She regularly contributes to The Washington Post, and her articles have also appeared in national magazines. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Halbleinen. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: mit Schutzumschlag. First Edition. Erste Auflage, 188 S. Halbleinen mit Schutzumschlag. Sprache: Englisch, sehr gutes Exemplar. auf dem Titelblatt von Michael McDowell und Dennis Schuetz signiert. Signatur des Verfassers.