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"The Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident: Lessons and Implications (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 365)"

By: Moss & Sills (Ed.)

Price: $6.95

Publisher: NY, New York Academy of Sciences: 1981

Seller ID: 03T028

ISBN: 0897661168

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD

"Tight, bright, clean (tiny spot on exterior page edges); curl from corner bump which has also creased cover corners. Papers on: Background; Public Information and Communication; Societal Reaction to the Event - Public Reactions; Societal Reaction to the Event - Institutional Reactions; Major Lessons and Issues. 343 Indexed pages."
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"Memory Tour, Tour of the Year, Redding Elementary School 1999-2000"

By: Mrs. Kelly

Price: $18.95

Publisher: LifeTouch: 2000

Seller ID: 8-0Y015

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: FINE

"As new except for two ""Autograph"" pages full of autographs. Yearbook for the Class of 2000 at Redding Elementary school, Redding, Connecticut. Pages full of candid photos, a full page photo of the class of 2000 and full page photos of each classroom (Mrs. Brakeman's, Mrs. Devol's, Mr. Dion's, Mrs. Edward's, Mrs. Honey's, Ms. Price's and Mrs. Richard's). 8x10.5x.2"" (20.5x27x.3cm)"
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"CLIO:WCSU History Journal, Spring 2005: The Many Forms of Sexuality"

By: N/A

Price: $10.95

Publisher: "Danbury, CT", Western Connecticut State University: 2005

Seller ID: 95Y007

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: FINE

"As new. Articles include: """"Upon Entering the White House: Affairs and Sec Scandals through the Years"": ""Buying the Right to Privacy: Contraception in Connecticut, 1940-1970""; Charles and Di: A History in Attitudes""; ""An Inquiry into the Masculine Mentality""; ""the Oppression of Women in Christianity""; ""Black Women Abolitionists""; ""Walt Whitman and Homosexuality""; ""Woman and Nation in Four Indian Films of the 1990s""; and ""The Politics of S...
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Cahir Castle

By: N/A

Price: $14.95

Publisher: National Parks and Monuments Service:

Seller ID: 05H005

Binding: Paperback

Condition: FINE

"As new - gift quality! History, architectural description, color photos and building maps of Cahir Castle and Cahir Abbey. Originally part of the O'Brien Kingdom; granted in 1185, as part of the Thomond territory to Theobold Walter; granted as Barony of Cahir in 1192 to Philip of Worcester; in 1375 to James, Earl of Ormond (head of the Butler family);1788, Butlers of Glengall became the heirs; 1816 became Viscount Caher and Earl of Glengall; 1840-1846 ""great building period"" with architect William Tinsley; 1858 passed to Charteris family; 1964 taken into state care as a ...
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"Saint Peter School (Danbury, Connecticut) - Celebrating 120 Years of Excellence in Catholic Education in Danbury, 1885 - 2005, Saint Peter School Reunion, November 19, 2005"

By: N/A

Price: $29.95

Publisher: "Danbury, CT", Saint Peter School Reunion Committee: 2005

Seller ID: 0NT024

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: FINE

As new - gift quality! Includes commemorative bookmark. Includes group class pictures from the Class of 1886 to the Class of 2005 (some years missing) + a few miscellaneous group photos + several essays on aspects of the school's history. 142 pages.
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"Saint Peter School (Danbury, Connecticut) - Celebrating 120 Years of Excellence in Catholic Education in Danbury, 1885 - 2005, Saint Peter School Reunion, November 19, 2005"

By: N/A

Price: $28.95

Publisher: "Danbury, CT", Saint Peter School Reunion Committee: 2005

Seller ID: 0NT025

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: FINE

1987 Remember When…A Nostalgic Look Back In Time

By: N/A

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Seek Publishing: (Undated)

Seller ID: 9NT010

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD+

"As new except for small mark on back cover. 1987 - news, ads, prices, timeline, movies, music and sports. 24 page, staple bound, 8.25x4.25""(21x10.8cm)"
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The R.O.T.C. Manual: Infantry

By: N/A

Price: $10.95

Publisher: "Washington, DC", The National Service Publishing Company: 1932

Seller ID: 75H010

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: GOOD-/None

"Reading Copy. Tight but falls open, yellowed pages, soiled exterior, owner's pencil notes on end papers, otherwise clean interior, tilted. Spine end worn through on bottom, missing on top. Cover corners worn through. A small puncture (pencil point?) on spine extends inside through @ 30 pages. No DJ. Illustrations show WWI uniforms and wire carts pulled by mules. A unique version of the status of Infantry training between the World Wars."
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United States Air Force Museum

By: N/A

Price: $11.50

Publisher: "Wright-Patterson AFB,OH", Air Force Museum Foundation: 1982

Seller ID: 76Y016

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: NEAR FINE

"As new except for faint edgewear and faint age soil to exterior. Photos, descriptions and specifications of the AirCraft and displays of the Museum, including the model plane collection."
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Defiance

By: Nechama Tec

Price: $7.45

Publisher: Oxford University Press:

Seller ID: 9780195376852

ISBN: 0195376854

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust is one of helpless victims, but in fact many Jews struggled against the terrors of the Third Reich. In Defiance, Nechama Tec offers a riveting history of one such group, a forest community in western Belorussia that would number more than 1,200 Jews by 1944--the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II.

Tec reveals that this extraordinary community included both men and women, some with weapons, but mostly unarmed, ranging from infants to the elderly. She reconstructs for the first time the amazing d...
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"The Blue Book 1977...1978, Volume LV"

By: Phillips Academy

Price: $10.95

Publisher: "Andover, MA", Phillips Academy: 1977

Seller ID: 03M006

Binding: Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD

"Tight, slight fading to edges of blue cover, clean except for spots on 1st 2 pages, slight curl, writing on 1 page.. Handbook for incoming students with data specific to the 1977-78 school year. Academic Information, Rules & Regulations, complete staff lists, Heads of Undergraduate organizations, Sports captains and coaches. 88 pages, 6.5x4.5"" (16.5x11.4cm)"
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An Atlas of Middle Eastern Affairs

By: Pounds & Kingsbury

Price: $23.95

Publisher: NY, Praeger: 1964

Seller ID: 6-1T021

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD+

"Tight, bright, clean interior, faintest age soil to exterior, faint curl. Appears unread. Light rubbing to cover corners. ""In the Middle East, perhaps more than anywhere else, politics depends on geography…In the past…fluid natural boundaries…permitted expansion of its native empires and its importance as a crossroads...Today...disproportionate and fabulous wealth in oil and strategic..."" location...are added factors of significance..."" 117 indexed pages. A snapshot of the time period (1964), with detailed factual data illustrated on facing page map for e...
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56 Entretiens sur l'Histoire de France Pour les cours elementaires

By: Prigent & Bettembos

Price: $18.95

Publisher: "Paris, France", Editions Nouvelles pour l'Enseignement:

Seller ID: 1DP015

Binding: Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD+

"Tight, bright, clean ans square. Has slight rubbing and creasing to covers with small chip on bottom spine edge and small smudge on bottom exterior page edges. Owner's name on first free page. Chronological topics from ""Des Hommer Prehistoriques dressent de Menhirs"" to ""Ministres de la Communaute debarquant a Orly"" each with 4 sections - 1. Observation dirigee; 2.Indications et Recit.: 3. Conclusion et Theme de Remuse; and 4. Documents complementaires. 231 pages"
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"The R .F. Griggs Company Investment Bankers - Waterbury, Connecticut 1903 - 1929"

By: R .F. Griggs Company

Price: $34.95

Publisher: "Waterbury, CT", Heminway Press: 1929

Seller ID: 5-5T005

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: VERY GOOD-

"Tight, faintest age tanning of pages, clean, square. 1"" split of cloth covering on bottom back edge of spine. One coner of cover rubbed through. Forest green paper over board. Gilt lettering. History review of firm upon opening of new building at 50 Levenworth Street. Photos of new and old building (63 North Main) and of Robert Foote Griggs, , F.T. & R.W. Phillips, Alfred Hart, P.J. Skilton, E.N. Decker. 28 pages, 5-1/8x7-3/4"""
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India's Long Road to Independence: The Proudest Day

By: Read & Fisher

Price: $9.95

Publisher: NY, W.W.Norton: 1998

Seller ID: 7-NH023

ISBN: 0393318982

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD

"As new except for faintest edgewear and age soil to cover edges only. 565 indexed, annotated pages including Bibliography and black and white photos. ""a valuable and fascinating political record of the turbulent birth of modern India and Pakistan."" 6x9.25x1"""
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A History of Russia

By: RiasanovskyNicholas V.

Price: $24.95

Publisher: "NY, NY", Oxford: 1993

Seller ID: 6-NH002

ISBN: 0195074629

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: NEAR FINE

"As new except for slight tilt to spine and faint soil to exterior page edges. Red cloth with gilt lettering in crisp and clean dust jacket. 711 pages including bibliography, illustrated with maps and diagrams including a genealogical table of Russian rulers from the 1st century through the 20th. Narrative from B.C. to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and the events of 1992. "
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Heritage '76 - Ridgefield: A Place in Time

By: Ridgefield Bicentennial Commission

Price: $21.95

Publisher: "Ridgefield, CT", Ridgefield Centennial Commission: 1976

Seller ID: 4-8Y003

Binding: Oversize Hardbound

Condition: FINE

"As new - gift quality! Maroon padded, leatherette with gilt lettering. Series of illustrated essays on Ridgefield, Connecticut through the years with extensive list of sponsors and contemporary (1976) advertisements. Essays on the people who settled in Ridgefield from Chief Catoonah (Ramapoo), the first European immigrants who settled, the Italians, to the commuters."
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Torture: The Role of Ideology in the French-Algerian War

By: Rita Maran

Price: $69.95

Publisher: New York, Preager: 1989

Seller ID: 8-NH002

ISBN: 0275932486

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: VERY GOOD+

"As new but no dust jacket and pages, up to page 18, have a shallow crease in the margin. 214 indexed pages. 6.25x9.5x1"" (16x24x2.5cm) Examines ""la mission civilisatrice"" ideology that justified the routine use of torture during French-Algerian War (1954-1962) and points out that human rights violations traceable to ideology occur irrespective of a state's political system or tradition of rights. The book contrasts the routinization of torture with the contemporaneous global development of norms to assure human rights and abolish torture. Begins with a brief ...
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Early Modern Europe: A Book of Source Readings

By: Rowen & Ekbery (Ed.)

Price: $9.95

Publisher: "Itasca, IL", "F. E, Peacock": 1973

Seller ID: 02H009

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD+

"Reading copy. Tight, bright, bright and clean interior, creased and age soiled exterior, square. 3 pages with highlighting and 4 with underlining. Contains original source readings in sections on: The Renaissance; The Reformation; Economic Life; Discovery and Colonization; Scientific Revolution; Beginnings of Economic Modernization; The French Revolution; Napoleon, conqueror and Conquered; & Politics (16th & 17th, 18th centuries). 470 pages, 9x6"" (22.9x15cm)."
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Denmark 1947

By: Royal Danish Ministry for Foreign Affairs

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Copenhagen, The Royal Danish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Danish Statistical Department: 1947

Seller ID: 4-9T022

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: GOOD+

"Tight, bright, clean and square. Red leather with white crest and lettering, but the cover corners are chipped. An official yearbook giving a snapshot in time of Denmark just after World War II. 288 indexed, illustrated pages with detailed descriptions and current statistics (1947) of Government, Education, Finance, Agriculture, Shipping, Arts and Science, Social and Economic Conditions and more. Extensive list of ""Literature for Consultation"" for even more detail. End paper maps of Denmark(front) and of Danish Shipping Lanes (back). 7x5"" (18.5x13cm). Text in E...
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