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The Coming Plague
by Laurie Garrett
Unpurified drinking water. Improper use of antibiotics. Local warfare. Massive refugee migration. Changing social and environmental conditions around the world have fostered the spread of new and potentially devastating viruses and diseases—HIV, Lassa, Ebola, and others. Laurie Garrett takes you on a fifty-year journey through the world's battles with microbes and examines the worldwide conditions that have culminated in recurrent outbreaks of newly discovered diseases, epidemics of diseases...
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An Essay On the Principle Of Population
by T R Malthus
The first major study of population size and its tremendous importance to the character and quality of society, this classic examines the tendency of human numbers to outstrip their resources. Pivotal in establishing the field of demography, it remains crucial to understanding modern problems with food production and distribution.
Intended Consequences
by Donald T Critchlow
After World War II, U.S. policy experts--convinced that unchecked population growth threatened global disaster--successfully lobbied bipartisan policy-makers in Washington to initiate federally-funded family planning. In Intended Consequences, Donald T. Critchlow deftly chronicles how thegovernment's involvement in contraception and abortion evolved into one of the most bitter, partisan controversies in American political history. The growth of the feminist movement in the late 1960s fundamentally...
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Public Policy Books & Ephemera
Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, And The Federal Government In Modern America
by Critchlow, Donald T
New York: Oxford Univ. Press. Hardcover. 1999. 1st Edition. 8vo 307pp . Fine in Fine Dust Jacket.
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€44.72
Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences: A Yearly Report of the Progress of the General Sanitary Sciences Throughout the World (5 Volumes)
by Charles E. Sajous (editor)
F. A. Davis, 1891 Book. Good. Hardcover. Complete Set of Issue of 1891; blue boards with gilt spine; all volumes clean & tight; vol 2 & 5 have most wear, primarily on rear board; corners are all crisp, and little edgewear; nice set good to very good.
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€142.59€106.94
The Real Meaning of Money
by Rowe, Dorothy
London: Harper Collins Publishers. 1997. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. xxiii, 453 pages. The author's insightful and revolutionary analysis of money's place in our society. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Softcover.
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€7.31
Undercurrents : The Alternatives Magazine : Number 61 Oct/Nov 1983
by The Editors
London: Undercurrents Ltd, 1983. No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with tanning to pages. 30pp. The magazine of radical alternatives and community technology. This issue featuring the South Pacific, paranoia, espionage, and much more.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 11 x 8.25 inches.
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€5.85
Revolution in the factory : the birth of the Soviet textile industry, 1917-1920 / William B. Husband
by Husband, William
New York : Oxford University Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: viii, 227 pages ; 22 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-218) and index. Subjects: 1917-1928 Textile industry Soviet Union History. Industries Soviet Union History. Industrial policy Soviet Union History. Communism...
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€14.77
Forests for the People: The Story of America's Eastern National Forests
by Johnson, Christopher; Govatski, David
Washington: Island Press, 2013. Paperback in very good condition. Contents are clean and clear. AM. Paperback. Very Good. Used.
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€17.62
Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation
by Reagan, Ronald
Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers. Good in Good dust jacket. 1984. Hardcover. Book is very lightly used but has name written inside front cover - dust jacket has mild edge wear and chipping. DJ improved with new, clear mylar cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 95 pages .
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€7.41
Consumer Sovereignty and Human Interests
by Penz, G. Peter
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1986. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. DJ has a very slightly faded spine. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 242 pages. An examination of whether Consumer Sovereignty is an appropriate principle for the optimization and evaluation of economic systems. Traverses the areas of moral and political philosophy, sociology, psychology in...
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€24.37
Gedenkreden auf Egmont Zechlin (1896-1992). Ansprachen auf der Akademischen Gedenkfeier am 16. Dezember 1992. (Hrsg. von der Pressestelle der Universität Hamburg (unter Red. von J. Lippert).
Hamburg, 1992. . Gedenkreden für den Historiker E. Zechlin (ab 1948 am Wiederaufbau des Historischen Seminars der Universität Hamburg beteiligt sowie an der Gründung des Hans-Bredow-Instituts für Rundfunk und Fernsehen, das er bis zu seiner Emeritierung leitete) von Walther Ludwig, Günter Moltmann u. Eberhard Schmitt ("Atlantische Expansion u. Europäisierung der Erde").
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€8.00
Can Human Rights Survive? (Signed By Author)
by Gearty, Conor
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Inscribed by the author to Peter Townsend on half-title page. No other marks or inscriptions. Probably unread. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 174pp. A study on whether human rights can survive the war on terror, the revival of political religion and the steady erosion of the world's natural resources. From the Personal Library of the late Emeritus Professor...
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€23.06
Auskunft über Carsten Sander's Testament. Mit zwei genealogischen Tabellen.
Hamburg, Th. G. Meiüner, 1861. . Carsten Christian Sander, seit 1531 Jurat der Hamburger Hauptkirche St. Petri, 1533 zum Oberalten gewählt, starb 1537. Die genealogischen Tabellen über die Familien Anckelmann und von Holtze sollten, da die Verwaltung der Testamentarien Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts auf Nachkommen weiblicher Familienmitglieder übergegangen war, nachweisen, ob diese durch Heirat oder Abstammung mit den im Mannesstamm erloschenen Familien zusammenhingen. - Schönes, breitrandiges Exemplar
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€65.00
Incineration of Solid Wastes
by Rubel, Fred N
London: Noyes Data Corporation, 1974. No dust jacket. Hardcover. Good condition. Ex-academic library. Library labels on spine foot and pastedowns. Library label residue on FEP. Library stamps on head of page block, FEP, title page and at several further points. Library lettering and numbering on FEP and reverse of title page. Small patch of white correction fluid on reverse of title page. One or two marks and bumps on boards. Spine ends are worn and bumped. Leading corners are a little worn and rubbed....
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€16.85
FOETICIDE; or criminal abortion; a lecture introductory to the course on obstetrics, and diseases of women and children. University of Pennsylvania, Session 1839-40
by HODGE MD, Hugh L
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1869. Third edn. 8vo, pp. 44. Bound in little nicked publisher's cloth, hinges strengthened with tape, o/w a very good copy. This grew out of a lecture that was first delivered and printed in 1839. It was reiterated to a new class in 1854 and printed at that time as well. This revised form was issued to press the public case against criminal abortionists, whom the author argues have acted against God and nature.
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€261.42
Pesticides and the Immune System: The Public Health Risks
by Repetto, Robert; Baliga, Sanjay S
Washington, D. C.: World Resources Institute, 1996. Paperback with some superficial scores and few faint creases on covers. Edges are slightly worn; leading corners are a little bent. Spine head is lightly worn. Abrasions, closed nick, creasing and remnants of label on lower third of spine. Minor dents on page block head, affecting some upper page edges within. Stamps on inside front cover. Highlighted passages on p.3, 5-6 and 10-11; very light penned notes on p.6-7. Text remains clear. TS. Paperback....
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€10.55
The Irish in Australia
by Hogan, James Francis
Octavo (9 by 6 inches) (8) + 249 pp. good condition (small stamp of "Loyola High School Fathers' Library Los Angeles, Calif." on lower right of title page, small library paper label on spine, neither affecting contents), hardcover, olive green cloth, good condition.
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€28.52
Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever
by Barlow, Maude
New York: The New Press, 2014. Hardcover. One instance of minor edgewear on jacket; lower corners of final few (index) pages are creased. Remains in very good condition, with clean, sound pages. TS. Hardcover. Very Good. Used.
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€8.87
Towards Sustainable Development
by Collective
The Panos Institute, 1987. Very good quality paperback. Light shelf and handling wear, minor creasing to edges, rear front corner and several associated pages dog-eared. Internally, pages are tightly bound, and text, illustrations and photographs are clean. CN. Paperback. Very Good. Used.
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€29.57
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[WOMEN] Letters of Protest
by Kate Crane-Gartz
Pasadena, California: Mary Craig Sinclair, ND (c. 1926). Hardcover. Red cloth covered boards. Very good. 151 pages. 17.5 x 12 cm. A collection of letters to and from Kate Crane-Gartz, organized and edited by Mary Craig Sinclair. Kate Crane-Gartz was an activist who helped found the American Civil Liberties Union, the Pasadena Playhouse and the Pasadena Civil League amongst other philanthropic pursuits. This book contains her choice words to legislators, police chiefs, and even a couple of presidents as...
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€47.53
A Green Manifesto - Policies for a Green Future
by Sandy Irvine and Alan Ponton
London: Macdonald Optima, 1989 Book. Illus. by Nicola Haynes. Very Good. Soft cover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Alternative look at the problems faced by the contemporary world. Foreword by Jonathon Porritt. 178pp with index, illustrated with black and white drawings to the chapter heads. Minor edge and surface wear to cover, slight creasing to corners and sunning to edges, otherwise very good copy with no inscriptions..
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€6.50€5.20
From Grants to Contracts: A Practical Guide for Voluntary Organisations (Contracting & service provision)
by Hawley, Keith
Directory of Social Change, 1992. Neat name label on front end paper. Appears unread. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 128pp. The change in culture from local authority etc grants to service contracts with voluntary organisations explained fully.. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8.5 x 5.25 inches.
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€11.83
Population and Food - global trends and future prospects
by Tim Dyson
London and New York: Routledge, 1996 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Study of recent trends in food production and the prospects for feeding humanity in the 21st century. 231pp with index, illustrated with black and white graphs and diagrams. Minor shelfwear, otherwise near fine copy with no inscriptions..
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€8.87€7.10
Social Progress: A Study in Family and Industrial Relationships
by Bibby, Joseph
Liverpool: J Bibby & Sons Ltd, 1926. No marks or inscriptions. Very slight creasing to oversize parts of covers. A very clean very tight copy with slightly dusty unmarked boards and tiny nicks to upper edge. 64pp. Moralising philosopy with a strong pro-capitalist Christan ethic. With twenty-six coloured illustrations.. First Edition. Paperback with Oversize Covers. Very Good. 13 x 9.75 Inches.
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€11.83
Only One Earth - The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet
by Barbara Ward and Rene Dubos
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd, 1977 Book. Good. Soft cover. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Pelican Book. Unofficial report commissioned by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held at Stockholm in 1972. 304pp with index. Edges sunned and some creasing to cover, otherwise good reading copy with no inscriptions and uncreased spine..
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€8.87€7.10
The Background of Swedish Immigration, 1840-1930
by Janson, Florence E
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket; Ink front endpaper, corners slightly . bumped, pages yellowing.. 1931. Hardcover. A scarce book.; 8vo; 517 pages .
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€90.31
Exploring Contemporary Migration
by Boyle, Paul; Halfacree, Keith H.; Robinson, Vaughan
Harlow: Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd, 1998. No marks or inscriptions. Minor creases to two corners, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight curve to whole book and no bumping to corners. 282pp. A comprehensive study of the various aspects of population migration in both the developed and the developing worlds. Scarce in the UK.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 9.75 x 7.5 inches.
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€29.57
