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100 Billion Suns: The Birth, Life, and Death of th...
$19.55
How are the nuclear power plants we call "stars" formed Where do they get their energy and how do they die--and what does this suggest about the future of the universe One of the most popular books written on astrophysics, 100 Billion Suns provides an exhilarating and authoritative life history of..
A Certain Age: Colonial Jakarta through the Memori...
$10.03
A Certain Age is an unconventional, evocative work of history and a moving reflection on memory, modernity, space, time, and the limitations of traditional historical narratives. Rudolf Mrázek visited Indonesia throughout the 1990s, recording lengthy interviews with elderly intellectuals in and arou..
A History of the Photographic Lens
$101.60
The lens is generally the most expensive and least understood part of any camera. In this book, Rudolf Kingslake traces the historical development of the various types of lenses from Daguerre's invention of photography in 1839 through lenses commonly used today.From an early lens still being manufac..
Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750, Vol. 3: L...
$12.52
This classic survey of Italian Baroque art and architecture focuses on the arts in every center between Venice and Sicily in the early, high, and late Baroque periods. The heart of the study, however, lies in the architecture and sculpture of the exhilarating years of Roman High Baroque, when Bernin..
Art of Plain Talk
$18.17
This is a book about getting to the point. Author: Flesch, Rudolf Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company. Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0020463804 ISBN-13: 9780020463801..
Batik: From the Courts of Java and Sumatra
$44.78
Batik occupies a special position in Indonesia's history and culture. The extraordinary photographs of cloths and prints in this book demonstrate why batik is the stuff of textile legend. These 71 batik designs, taken from the collection of famed dealer Rudolf G. Smend, date from 1880-1930, a time s..
Bird of Passage: Recollections of a Physicist (Pri...
$18.30
Review "[This] fascinating autobiography not only attests to [Peierls's] having been in on the most important scientific developments since the mid-1920s--in brief, the quantum revolution--but his lively account of the events of this period, and of its main actors, their contributions, and--with res..
Bless Me, Ultima
$9.01
A new hardcover edition of the classic Chicano coming-of-age novel chronicles the story of an alienated New Mexico boy who seeks an answer to his questions about life in his relationship with Ultima, a magical healer. By the author of Lord of the Dawn. Author: Anaya, Rudolfo Publisher: Turtleback B..
Bless Me, Ultima
$9.52
From "one of the nation's foremost Chicano literary artists" comes a coming-of-age classic and the bestselling Chicano novel of all time that follows a young boy as he questions his faith and beliefs -- now one of PBS's "100 Great American Reads" (Denver Post).Antonio Marez is six years old when Ult..
Cosmic Memory: Atlantis and Lemuria (English and G...
$19.69
Discusses the period of time between the creation of the Earth and the beginning of recorded history, focusing on the peoples of Lemuria and Atlantis Author: Steiner, Rudolf Publisher: Harpercollins Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0060675721 ISBN-13: 9780060675721..
Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at ...
$12.40
SS Kommandant Rudolph Höss (1900-1947) was history's greatest mass murderer, personally supervising the extermination of approximately two million people, mostly Jews, at the death camp in Auschwitz, Poland. Death Dealer is a new, unexpurgated translation of Höss's autobiography, written before, dur..
Disease, Life and Man: Selected Essays
$143.97
Book by Virchow, Rudolf Ludwig Karl Author: Virchow, Rudolf Ludwig Karl Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0804705577 ISBN-13: 9780804705578..
El Gesticulador: Pieza Para Demagogos En Tres Acto...
$9.61
An intermediate-level reader on the turbulence that followed the Mexican Revolution in 1910. Author: Rudolfo Usigli Publisher: Pearson Binding: Paperback Language: spanish ISBN-10: 013273771X ISBN-13: 9780132737715..
Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits Volume 1
$19.83
Diagrams and describes the basic circuits used in alarms, switches, voltmeters, battery chargers, modulators, receivers, transmitters, oscillators, amplifiers, converters, pulse generators, and field strength meters Author: Graf,Rudolf Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics Binding: paperback Langua..
Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits Volume 2
$22.87
Volume two, a companion to volume one published in 1985, contains 728 not-previously covered circuits. The index in volume two refers to items mentioned in both publications. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. Author: Graf, Rudolf F. Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics Binding: pa..
University of California Press
Entropy and art;: An essay on disorder and order
$34.48
Entropy and art;: An essay on disorder and order Author: Arnheim, Rudolf Publisher: University of California Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0520018036 ISBN-13: 9780520018037..
Faith and Understanding (Fortress Texts in Modern ...
$21.95
Book by Bultmann, Rudolf Author: Bultmann, Rudolf Publisher: Fortress Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0800632028 ISBN-13: 9780800632021..
University of California Press
Film as Art, 50th Anniversary Printing
$18.03
In the fall of 1957 the University of California Press expanded Arnheim’s 1933 book Film by four essays and brought that landmark work back into print as Film as Art. Now nearly fifty years after that re-edition, the book continues to occupy an important place in the literature of film. Arnheim’s me..
Finance Capital: A Study of the Latest Phase of Ca...
$218.23
This is the first English translation of one of the classical works of Marxist economic theory. When Rudolf Hilferdingâs Finance Capital was first published in 1919 it was acclaimed by reviewers as a continuation of Marxâs Capital, and it has a major influence upon subsequent Marxist thought, especi..
Random House Books for Young Readers
Gold Rush Winter (A Stepping Stone Book)
$14.42
Klondy and her mother are finally joining Klondy’s father in Alaska. But does Papa have time for a daughter Or is he too busy hunting for gold Author: Murphy, Claire Rudolf Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0307264130 ISBN-13: 97803072641..
How to Write Plain English
$25.51
Tackling the obfuscation inherent in legal language, Flesch isolates the elements in legal writing that make most documents beyond the layman's comprehension and offers remedies for each obstacle to easy reading and understanding Author: Flesch, Rudolf Franz Publisher: Barnes & Noble Binding: Paperb..
Institutions and Economic Theory: The Contribution...
$48.40
A much-needed exploration of the New Institutional Economics, or NIE, including a critical assessment of its central theoretical contributions since the field's early beginnings in the 1960s, is this book's objective. It traces the development of major ideas about the genesis and significance of ins..
Jesus Christ and Mythology
$15.95
Rudolf Bultmann's courageous thought has been right at the centre of living Christian theology ever since the 194os. There is no doubt that his challenge will be equally crucial for the 196os. What we have so far lacked is an account of `Bultmannism' clearly stating its message for preachers and lay..
Modern Dictionary of Electronics
$18.96
Included in this fully revised classic are well over 28,000 terms, phrases, acronyms, and abbreviations from the ever-expanding worlds of consumer electronics, optics, microelectronics, computers, communications, and medical electronics. From the basic elements of theory to the most cutting-edge cir..
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, Div. of Wm. Morrow
No Hero for the Kaiser (English and German Edition...
$12.99
A young boy becomes caught up in the turmoil and horrors of World War I Author: Frank, Rudolf Publisher: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, Div. of Wm. Morrow Binding: library Language: English ISBN-10: 0688060935 ISBN-13: 9780688060930..