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Paperback. Condition: Fine condition. Fourth printing. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1998. 6" wide by 9" tall. Bright, shiny, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Flat, uncreased spine. Pages are fresh and crisp. Quotations from the rear cover: "One of the more provocative studies of why middle America is making increasing use of ritual healing and what that choice tells us of problems with biomedical care in technological institutions. A welcome addition to anthropological studies of ritual healing in other societies, and it illuminates a huge component of our health care system that is poorly understood." -- Arthur Kleinman, M.D., Harvard University. "An all too rare volume, namely a scholarly work on the practice of healing in suburban or what we might call middle-class America. McGuire, perhaps uniquely, has set out the religious or 'ritual' healing beliefs and practices that are usually strictly segregated and kept apart. Any one who takes seriously the need to understand 'healing'. should obtain this book." -- HEALTH AND HEALING. "Develops an innovative sociological approach to the study of alternative healing practices through a methodologically sound qualitative study. The high quality of research and conceptualization and the meticulous documentation of the relevant literature make [this book] essential reading for those interested in the sociology and anthropology of religion and of medicine, and in the study of health and illness in contemporary America." -- CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY. "The power of the book is in the larger cultural analysis it offers. a valuable contribution to medical sociology." -- SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS. Keywords: Alternative Medicine . Fourth printing. Soft Cover. Fine condition. xii, 324pp. .

Seller Inventory # 003447

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+ condition. Later printing. Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 1969. 5.25" wide by 8" tall. A square, tight, unmarked copy. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Flat spine. Pages are clean and crisp. Bound in the original pictorial wrappers. Translated from the French by Monika B. Vizedom & Gabrielle L. Caffee. Index. From the rear cover: "Birth, puberty, marriage, and death are, in all cultures, marked by ceremonies which may differ in detail but are universal in function. Arnold van Gennep (1873-1957) was the first anthropologist to note the regularity and significance of the rituals attached to the transitional stages in man's life, and his phrase for these, 'the rites of passage,' has become a part of the language of anthropology and sociology. This classic work in ethnography was first published in 1909 and only recently became available in English translation.". Later printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good+ condition. xxvi, 198pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 004562

Paperback. Condition: Fine condition. Second Edition, 1994 (so stated). Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History / University of California , 1994. 8.5" wide by 11" tall. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Lavishly illustrated with 2 maps, and 243 photographs, including 161 in full color. Bibliography. English language version of the catalogue of an exhibition at the Fowler Museum of Cultural History. From the foreword: "ROYAL TOMBS OF SIPAN was written to serve as a catalogue for the museum exhibition of the same name. Its primary aim is to provide an account of the discovery, excavation, and current interpretation of the three royal tombs that were scientifically recovered from Sipan between 1987 and 1990. We have tried to relate them to the royal tomb that, so tragically, was looted at Sipan before the archaeological work began, and to demonstrate the value of careful archaeological excavation as opposed to clandestine looting. Although it is hoped that the detailed accounts of the tombs provided here will be useful for scholars, the volume was written primarily for the non-specialist. The story is presented in narrative form, often using phrases like 'we found,' 'we thought,' or 'we realized.' The reader might infer from this that 'we' means simply the authors. But the team was much larger than the authors of this volume, and both responsibility and primary involvement in distinct aspects of the work were often divided. Walter Alva was the archaeologist who directed the excavations at Sipan, assisted by archaeologists Luis Chero and Susana Meneses. Working with a wonderful team of archaeology students from The Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, they discovered all three of the royal tombs at Sipan, and saw to it that each was documented in an exemplary fashion. Christopher Donnan was at Sipan to witness most of the major stages in the excavation, and to discuss the interpretation of the tombs and their contents with the Peruvian archaeologists who excavated them. His primary role was the iconographic analysis -- identifying the tombs' objects and individuals by comparisons with their representation in Moche art, and relating the tombs and their contents to specific aspects of Moche culture. Much of this work was done in the Moche Archive at the University of California in Los Angeles, and involved close collaboration with his research associate, Donna McClelland." Keywords: Precolumbian Art History. Archaeology. South America. Native Americans. . Second Edition, 1994 (so stated). Oversize Softcover. Fine condition. 230pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 005268

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: VG DJ (a few closed tears). First Edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts:: The MIT Press, 1971. A clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (12.50). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are clean and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with diagrams and a few photographs of equipment. Graphs. Tables. Foreword by Froelich Rainey. A field book for "diggers" with detailed advice on properly collecting and preparing samples. There are 7 chapters: 1) carbon-14 dating; 2) archaelogical applications of tree ring dating; 3) archaeomagnetic dating [especially useful for ceramic objects]; 4) thermoluminescent dating of pottery; 5) fission track dating; 6) potassium-argon dating; 7) obsidian hydration dating. Bibliographical references. Index. Bound in the original red cloth, lettered in shiny silver on the spine. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition./VG DJ (a few closed tears). 8vo. xii, 227pp. .

Seller Inventory # 006392

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine dust jacket. Illustrated Throughout (illustrator). First Printing of the First Edition. New York: Thomas Y. Cowell Co. , 1977. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Original blue cloth. Not a Book Club edition. Not price clipped (17.95). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Over 100 maps, photos, and other illustrations. Over 1,000 entries. From the Dust Jacket: "This handsome and immensely informative volume fills an important gap in archaeological literature. Prepared by a distinguished team of scholars. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Archaeology has entries on all the significant sites, cultures and civilizations that archaeologists have discovered, as well as on key individuals. the terms, tools and techniques. the Encyclopedia is at once an excellent introduction to this field and a valuable work of reference for specialists and students." . First Printing of the First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 4to. 224pp.

Seller Inventory # 009799

Hardcover. Condition: Original black cloth. Dust Jacket Condition: DJ Not Price Clipped (5.00). First Printing of the First Edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1956. Very Good condition in Near Very Good Dust Jacket (light soil and fraying to extremities of jacket). No owner's name or bookplate. Square and tight. Includes sections on North American Eskimo/Indian music; and African and "New World Negro" music. Chapter notes. Index. There is a 22-page annotated bibliography, and a 17-page section with 60 short examples of music illustrating typical styles. From the Preface: "The purpose of this book is to introduce the music of primitive people to students, scholars, and laymen. It is not intended to interest the specialist in non-Western music, who will find little here that is new to him. I have not covered systematically the music of all primitive cultures. It has been my purpose, rather, to show the kinds of phenomena that occur in primitive music, to give examples, and to indicate how they have been studied and to what general conclusions they have led." From the Dust Jacket: "Mr. Nettl considers methods of research, primitive musical instruments, and techniques of primitive performances of music. He discusses such things as the criteria used by natives to determine 'good' singers and songs." Keywords: Ethnomusicology. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Original black cloth/DJ Not Price Clipped (5.00). 8vo. xviii, 200pp.

Seller Inventory # 001939

Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. Second printing. New York: Schocken Books, 1979. 5.5" wide by 8" tall. Tight, square, unmarked copy. Not price clipped (2.95). No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. No underlining. No highlighting. Keywords: Anthropology, Philosophy . Second printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good condition. x, 54pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 009929

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 1999. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (21.95). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Third in the series featuring Toronto antiques dealer Lara McClintoch. By the author of The Xibalba Murders and The Maltese Goddess. From the Dust Jacket: "The Moche were an ancient people who ruled over the North Coast of Peru long before the Inca appeared. And the tombs of their ancestors are said to be filled with riches that rival the pyramids of Egypt. At an auction house in Toronto, Lara picks up a box of what she thinks are worthless Peruvian reproductions -- only to find they are authentic Moche artifacts. So, when her assistant is brutally attacked and her shop burned." . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. 321pp .

Seller Inventory # 010568

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 1999. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (21.95). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Third in the series featuring Toronto antiques dealer Lara McClintoch. By the author of The Xibalba Murders and The Maltese Goddess. From the Dust Jacket: "The Moche were an ancient people who ruled over the North Coast of Peru long before the Inca appeared. And the tombs of their ancestors are said to be filled with riches that rival the pyramids of Egypt. At an auction house in Toronto, Lara picks up a box of what she thinks are worthless Peruvian reproductions -- only to find they are authentic Moche artifacts. So, when her assistant is brutally attacked and her shop burned." . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. 321pp .

Seller Inventory # 010567

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dust jacket. First Printing of the First US Edition. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1986. 7.5" wide by 10" tall. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (19.95). No chips or tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Illustrated throughout with photos, drawings, maps, and charts. First published in the UK in 1985 as: The Exodus Enigma. From the Dust Jacket: "Wilson draws on dramatic new exegetical and archaeological discoveries to show precisely when, why, and how the events the biblical story actually occurred. Drawing on new research of Johns Hopkins University Egyptologist Hans Goedicke and others, Wilson identifies the eruption of the Mediterranean volcano of Santorini (ca. 1450 B.C.) - the greatest natural disaster in the area in civilized times - as the source of the plagues and the tidal wave that parted the Red Sea." Chronology of Egypt's pharaohs. Notes and references. Bibliography. Index. First Printing of the First US Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 208pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 011400

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. Second Edition. Barcelona, Spain: Geocolor S.A. , 1978. 8.25" wide by 9.75" tall. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Illustrated with 205 color photos. English language edition. . Second Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 011774

Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. First Printing of the First Edition. San Diego, California: Creation Science-Research Center, 1972. 5.5" wide by 8.5" tall. Tight, square, and unmarked copy. Usual reading creases to spine. Previous owner's name. Finger soil on cover. Published at 3.95 (from promo flyer laid-in). No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with over 50 photos, including a full-color, double-page frontispiece photo of Mt. Ararat. A study of Biblical archaeology (ark-eology). The author is the wife of the explorer who five times climbed Mount Ararat in his attempt to locate Noah's Ark. The book examines the evidence and findings of ten expeditions, over 115 years, which have searched for the Ark. From the Foreword: "You are about to read one of the most fascinating stories you have ever read. The fact that it is about real, living people will not detract one bit from its ability to captivate your interest." Foreword by Tim LaHaye, San Diego Baptist minister. First Printing of the First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. 352pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 011973

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1996. Remainder mark. Otherwise a clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. Illustrated with 8 maps. From the Dust Jacket: "This groundbreaking book explores the history and the cultural context of family claims to power in Bamako, located in modern-day Mali in West Africa. Perinbam offers new insights into the processes of Mande social history. A volume in the African States and Societies in History series. Extensive 39-page bibliography. Index. Original tan-colored cloth. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. x, 341pp . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 012428

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. Huffman, Tom (line drawings) (illustrator). First Printing of the First Edition. New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1974. A bright, square, tight copy. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (6.95). No chips. No tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Bound in the original yellow cloth, lettered in black on the spine. First printing, with complete number row (123456789) on the copyright page. Illustrated with photos and line drawings. Juvenile literature. Contains 12 chapters: 1) The Search for a Queen's Mummy; 2) Answers to Some Riddles; 3) How a Mummy Was Made; 4) The Tombs: Their Builders and Plunderers; 5) The Golden Mummy of the Boy-King; 6) Who Were the Tomb Robbers?; 7) The Mummy Unwrappers; 8) Unwrapping a Mummy in Brooklyn; 9) Where Did All the Mummies Go?; 10) Solving Mummy Mysteries by X Ray; 11) "Mummies" of Caves, Bogs, and Mountains; 12) Mummies and Mummy Treasures Still to Be Found. Bibliography. Index. First Printing of the First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by Huffman, Tom (line drawings). 8vo. (iv), 122pp.

Seller Inventory # 004461

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Good DJ (edge chips). 1st US ed? (No other printings listed). New York: The Dryden Press, 1957. Clean, square, tight copy. Previous owner's name. Otherwise unmarked. Clear plastic Dust Jacket. No remainder mark. No printing or edition statement. 298 illustrations. A study of Human Palaeontology: historical summary; time relations of early man; living primates and fossil monkeys; the problems of Tertiary man; the prehominians - Pithecanthropus and Sinanthropus; the men of the lower Pleisteocene age, Neandertal man, the men of the reindeer age; the Mesolithic period; the fossil men of Asia and Oceania, the fossil men of Africa; the fossil men of America. Translated from the French (Les Hommes Fossiles) by Michael Bullock. Index. Original pictorial cloth. Keywords: Neanderthal . 1st US ed? (No other printings listed). Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Good DJ (edge chips). 8vo. xxv, 535pp . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 010471

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. First Printing of the First US Edition. New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1973. Very Good condition in Very Good dust jacket. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped ($7.50). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. With 26 illustrations, mostly photos. Egyptology. In depth study of the people and events behind the excavations of King Tut's tomb. Based in part on interviews with surviving participants. Among them is Richard Adamson, employed for security by Howard Carter. Adamson spent the entire period of the excavation on site, actually sleeping alone in the tomb for seven years. Sheds new light on the Tomb's curse, on disputes with the Egyptian government, etc. Original blue boards. . First Printing of the First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. 203pp.

Seller Inventory # 013298

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. First Printing of the First US Edition. New York: The John Day Company, 1972. Very Good condition in Very Good dust jacket. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped ($9.95). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark "First American Edition 1972" is so stated. Previously published 1970, in London under the title: King Sun. From the Dust Jacket: "Akhenaten is unique in the 3,000-year history of Ancient Egypt. He stands out not because he was a great or powerful ruler - he allowed all of Egypt's possessions in what is now Syria to be conquered by the Hittites without raising a hand and permitted his government to be run almost completely by his ministers - but because he was a mystic who in his religious fanaticism devoted his life to promulgating what is possibly the world's oldest example of monotheism." [Those interested in First Editions should be aware that the edition published by Dorset did not appear until 1991]. . First Printing of the First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. vi, 248pp .

Seller Inventory # 013292

Paperback. Condition: Fine condition. First Edition. Westport, Connecticut: Bergin & Garvey, 1996. Appears unread. Fine condition. Bright, shiny, clean, and tight. Sharp corners. The spine is square and flat. NO creases. 5.5" wide by 8.5" tall. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 6" wide by 9" tall. A few illustrations. From the publisher: "This collection of essays addresses the lack of shelter -- one of the most basic elements of human adaptation -- now experienced by many Americans. Based on the presupposition that shelter is a basic human right in the world's richest, most advanced nation, the authors of these essays look more closely than others have yet done at the causes of the current low-income housing crisis and homelessness. Ten anthropologists and a mental health worker use participant observation and other ethnographic methods to observe and document the experiential and geographic diversity of U.S. homelessness. Each chapter focuses on a specific geographic area - urban, suburban, or rural - and a specific category of homeless people - families with children, solitary adults, or both. Based on their findings, the authors also present policy recommendations to ameliorate the housing shortage and prevent homelessness at local, state, and federal levels." Bibliography. Index. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine condition. xxi, 206pp.

Seller Inventory # 015027

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dust jacket. First Edition. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1968. A square, tight copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (11.00). Pages are clean and unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with 22 photographs on 14 plates. Six tables. Four appendices. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. From the Dust Jacket: "In RITES OF MODERNIZATION Peacock analyzes the ludruk theater in a large port city of East Java, Indonesia. Professional and amateur actors of the working class aesthetically formulate dreams and repressed desires in ludruk plays and present themes which distill dramatic issues in the contemporary, social, economic, and political conflicts of Java proletarians. Fantasy and mockery are focused in two figures, one a seductive, aristocratic transvestite. the other a coarse, lower-class clown. Analyzing the plays, the author shows how dances, songs, propaganda, and melodrama also relate to the contemporary situation." Bound in the original blind-stamped green cloth, decorated in gold on the spine. Keywords: Symbolic anthropology. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. xxv, 306pp. .

Seller Inventory # 004689

Paperback. Condition: Fine condition. Second printing. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1989. 8.5" wide by 10" tall. Appears unread. Bright, clean, tight, square, unmarked copy. No creases. No remainder mark. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Lavishly illustrated throughout with photographs, plans, and maps - most in full color. From the rear cover: "Caesarea is one of the richest archaeological sites in Israel. Located on the Mediterranean coast, this urban center was a port of great vitality that survived until the thirteenth century. Recently archaeologists both on land and underwater have discovered many of the secrets of Caesarea, enabling them to reconstruct what the city was like and the manner of life therein. This profusely illustrated volume offers the results of the archaeologists' findings, describing their methods and adventures as well." Contents include - Introduction: Archaeologists and a City; The Search for Strato's Tower; King Herod's City; The Daughter of Edom: Caesarea in the Roman Period; The Advent of Christianity: Caesarea in the Byzantine Period; Caesarea under Muslim Rule; Caesarea under Crusader Rule; Desolation and Development. Bibliography. Index . Second printing. Oversize Softcover. Fine condition. 283pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 010374

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+ condition. First Edition. New York: The Museum of Primitive Art, 1963. 8.5" wide by 11" tall. No creases. Illustrated with 42 photographs. Catalog of the 1963 exhibition at New York's Museum of Primitive Art. Describes 123 works of art collected over 30 years from Africa, New Guinea, Polynesia, North America, Mexico, South America, Near East, Greece, Egypt, and Europe. Introduction by Robert J. Sainsbury. Original pictorial wraps. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good+ condition. Unpaginated (but 40pp).

Seller Inventory # 009817

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1956. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. Previous owner's name stamp. Otherwise unmarked. Bright, clean, square, & tight. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped ($6.75). Not a remainder. No bookplate. From the dust jacket: "It has taken man thousands of years to develop from the Stone Age to the Air Age. The Manus - whose primitive culture Margaret Mead reported in Growing Up in New Guinea - made this giant step in twenty-five years, and for the first time in history an anthropologist has had the opportunity of making a personal and intimate study of a people 'then' and 'now.' This is a unique and exciting human adventure." Four appendices. List of chapter notes. Selected reading list. Index. Bound in the original black cloth, lettered in white. First Printing of the First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. xxi, 548pp.+ 16 pages of photos. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 010698

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1996. Remainder mark. Otherwise a clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. Illustrated with 8 maps. From the Dust Jacket: "This groundbreaking book explores the history and the cultural context of family claims to power in Bamako, located in modern-day Mali in West Africa. Perinbam offers new insights into the processes of Mande social history. A volume in the African States and Societies in History series. Extensive 39-page bibliography. Index. Original tan-colored cloth. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. x, 341pp.

Seller Inventory # 012429

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine condition. First Printing of the First Edition. New York: The John Day Company, 1974. 6" wide by 9" tall. Bright, clean, tight, square, unmarked copy. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Twenty chapters by American academics. For example: Jerusalem in Archaeology and History; Jerusalem in the Modern Era, 1860-1967; An Economic History of Jerusalem; Jerusalem Under the Mandate; The Siege of Jerusalem; The Divided City: 1948-1967; The Judicial Status of Jerusalem; Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel; The Jewish Presence in Jerusalem Throughout the Ages; The Arabs in Jerusalem; The Biblical Concept of Jerusalem; The Sanctity of Jerusalem in Islam; Jerusalem - A Christian Perspective; etc. Intended to stimulate, through analysis and research, new ideas and approaches to an Arab-Israeli rapprochement. Prepared under the Auspices of the American Academic Association for Peace in the Middle East. Map of Jerusalem. Appendices. Index. First Printing of the First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine condition. xvi, 302pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 010276

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine dust jacket. First UK Edition. London: The Bodley Head, 1985. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (�9.95). No chips or tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Illustrated with maps, prints, and vintage photos. From the Dust Jacket: "This remarkable book tells the story of that Iceberg's journey from the day it was 'calved' into Baffin Bay until it crippled the Titanic eighteen months later. Richard Brown's quiet, compelling prose describes the rich natural and human world through which the Iceberg traveled. It is the story of the Sierapaluk, the one surviving band of Inuit in the far northwest corner of Greenland. of the last surviving bowhead whale. of the outport men who stream into St. John's each winter, pleading for a berth on the sealing ships. Through these lives, and many more, the Iceberg passes on its way to the Grand Banks and its fateful meeting with the Titanic." . First UK Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. 152pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 011982

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Illustrated with 29 photos and drawings. From the Dust Jacket: "In Digging through Darkness, Carmel Schrire interweaves art and fact to recreate a distant world. She combines autobiography, historical archaeology, and fictional reconstructions to explore the roots and consequences of colonial conquest in Africa, Australia, and the Pacific." Chapter notes. Bibliography. Index. Original red cloth. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. x, 276pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 009781

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ dust jacket. First Printing of the First US Edition. New York: Times Books, 1979. Near Fine condition in Very Good+ dust jacket. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped ($10.00). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Map endpapers and 31 illustrations. From the Dust Jacket: "The story of the discovery of a lost 4,500 year-old city and empire in Syria and its sensational impact on Biblical history. The greatest archaeological discovery of the generation, perhaps of the century. the lost kingdom of Ebla, missing for the past 4,500 years. Located in northwestern Syria, it has been excavated since 1964 by team of Italian archaeologists. Elba's royal archive, nearly 20,000 clay tablets written in two languages, one a hitherto unknown Semitic dialect. It has been rated with the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Rosetta Stone as an archaeological landmark. fleshing out the skeletons of a long-lost civilization, a vast commercial and cultural empire of a quarter million people." Original tan cloth. First Printing of the First US Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good+ dust jacket. 8vo. x, 244pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 010144

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket, probably as issued. First Printing of the First Edition. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania: Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Inc , 1978. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Research studies of the Eskimos of Alaska's North Slope. Among the topics are ethnography, demography, sociology, health, and disease. Includes: The Eskimo Population System, Linguistic Framework and Skeletal Remains by Stephen L. Zegura; Anthropometric Variation by Paul L. Jamison; Eskimo Craniofacial Studies by A. A. Dahlberg, et al; Biochemical Variation, Carbonic Anhydrase by Mary Jane Moore; Nutrition Studies, An Appraisal of the Modern North Alaskan Eskimo Diet by R. Raines Bell and Christine A. Heller; Exercise Physiology by Donald W. Rennie; Demography and Population Parameters of the Present Inhabitants of Northwest Alaska by Frederick A. Milan; Behavioral Studies, A Psychometric Study at Barrow Day School by R. Darrell Bock; etc. Appendices. References. Index. Original green cloth. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/No jacket, probably as issued. 8vo. xx, 319pp .

Seller Inventory # 011989

Paperback. Condition: As New condition. 1st printing of First Softcover Edition. New York: Berkley Books, 1999. 6" wide by 9" tall. Appears unread. Bright and shiny. Clean, tight, square, unmarked copy. No creases. Fresh and crisp. Not price clipped (14.00). No remainder mark. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. "It's a three-thousand-year-old murder mystery. Egyptologist Bob Brier uses modern forensic techniques and ancient documents to reveal the crime, identify the killer of Tutankhamen, and bring the tumultuous world of ancient Egypt and its young pharaoh alive." By the author of Ancient Egyptian Magic; Egyptian Mummies, and Encyclopedia of Mummies. 1st printing of First Softcover Edition. Trade Paperback. As New condition. xxii, 264pp. + 16 pages of photos. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 010704

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. No jacket. First Printing of the Revised Edition. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971. Fine condition. Hardcover. NOT a library discard. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. "First printing of the new edition, February, 1971" is so stated on the copyright page. An updated edition of this classic that originally appeared in 1937 and was one of the earliest books to call attention to the imminent environmental crisis. New Preface by the author. The final chapter is also entirely new. Illustrated with line drawings. Bound in the original green cloth, stamped in light green metallic and shiny silver on the spine. First Printing of the Revised Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/No jacket. ix, 294pp.

Seller Inventory # 016108