Shackleton James (19 results)

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 41 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.10 inches. In Stock.

(8) pages. Illustrated. 255x195mm. Original pictorial card covers. * This copy with loose insert errata slip.* Slight dusting to covers, otherwise a fine copy without any library stamps, inscriptions, or other markings. *** Lower than average weight - shipping charge will be reduced at processing stage of order. ***.

First edition in publisher's original peach paper yapp wraps [soft back]. 10" x 7". Contains paginated printed pages of text [xviii]-1, 106-216. Illustrated. Edges of the wrapper a little ragged. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERARY CRITICISM.

First edition in publisher's original peach yapp paper wraps [soft back]. 10" x 7". Contains paginated printed pages of text [xviii]-1, 106-216. Illustrated. Edges of the wrapper a little ragged. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. BATES, H. E. (1906-1974).

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. rptedn; This Camphor Press edition has been reset and carries a number of minor corrections to the 1998 edition; 8vo illuswraps unread NF: xviii+98pp, NO index;China, taiwan, ww2 era, KMT rebellion, Formosan nationalism; Recently occupied by the Nationalist Chinese regime, Taiwan in early 1947 was a powder keg. Anger at the corrupt misrule of the new government erupted into protests and riots, which quickly became an island-wide uprising. The response from the Nationalists was brutal and overwhelming a weeks-long massacre in which local leaders and intellectuals were systematically slaughtered. Estimates of the dead range from ten thousand to thirty thousand. The killings became known as the "228 Massacre", the "228 Incident", or simply "228", after the date of the first riots (February 28). J. Shackleton was a New Zealand officer with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration assigned to in Taiwan at the time. His eyewitness account of the massacre is an important document for understanding modern Taiwan's founding tragedy. Shackleton tried for years to get it published, but it was deemed too politically sensitive during the Cold War, when "Free China" was an ally of the Western world. Finally, after Taiwan's first democratic presidential election, Shackleton's son was approached by a publisher and the first edition appeared in 1998, fifty years after it was written.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Early printing. B&W Illustrations; This is a small format paperback book (4.5" x 4" approximately). The book is in Very Good condition and was apparently issued without a dust jacket. The book has brown cardstock covers with a black cloth tape spine. The book covers have some light ground-in dirt and spots of discoloration. The text pages are clean and bright. Tipped onto the front inside cover is an advertisement of "System of Poultry Practice" with a notice that copies are available through Frank H. Snow, Petaluma, CA. Laid-in is a small single sheet advertisement, folded twice to make a little booklet, which contains information about another book of his on how to build poultry houses, along with other material in the same vein. The text pages are clean and bright. "Poultry shows spread interest and understanding, with 88% of all farmers having chickens by 1910. Barred Plymouth Rock hen, No. 31S. Laid 237 eggs in first year at the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station (1903) As the United States urbanized, demand for eggs grew. Eggs were sold into urban markets, where residents did not have chickens to provide eggs for themselves. Except in hot weather, eggs can be shipped and stored without refrigeration for some time before going bad; this was important in the days before widespread refrigeration. With a steady demand for eggs, efforts to create a poultry egg industry began in earnest, but raising poultry remained challenging; early efforts at industrial-scale indoor poultry houses led to problems with diseases like coccidiosis, Marek's disease, and vitamin D deficiency were not well understood. Egg production was largely increased by scientific breeding rather than industrial scale. After a few false starts, such as the Maine Experiment Station's failure at improving egg production, success was shown by Professor James Dryden at the Oregon Experiment Station. " (from Wikipedia).

First Edition. SF HORIZONS 1 & 2, SF Horizons, Ltd., 1964 & 1965 respectively, first edition, fine in wraps as issued. The only issues of this magazine of criticism and comment with original contributions by Kingsley Amis, C. S. Lewis, Brian Aldiss, James Blish, Robert Conquest, Harry Harrison, G. D. Doherty, C. C. Shackleton, William Burroughs, et.al. Very scarce. From the library of Science Fiction Grand Master Harry Harrison.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. An exceedingly scarce S F Horizons magazine. In the original red and white wraps (a stitched softcover magazine). A Rare and Collectible item with a discussion on Science Fiction between C S Lewis and Kingsley Amis -- two English masters of fiction. Published Spring 1964. Condition is Near Fine. Light wear, as would expected for a magazine of this vintage. A great find for any Lewis collector. The staples are slightly rusted internally though look unrusted externally. Robust shipping.

Limited edition de luxe of this account of the 1907-09 Nimrod Expedition under Shackleton. number 181 of 280 copies signed on the recto of the limitation leaf by E.H. Shackleton, James Murray and George Marston. Octavo, original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel with a mounted color illustration, top edge gilt, 4 mounted color plates after watercolors by C. Day, 34 photo illustrations on 28 plates. In near fine condition with a light rubbing, with the original dust jacket lacking the spine. A very nice example, as most copies have been rebound and we have never seen another example in the original dust jacket. Introduction by Sir Ernest Shackleton. "For the first time an unofficial, and therefore more human document, is presented to the public . I would advise anyone who wants to get to the kernel of the life of a Polar explorer to read the book" (Ernest Shackleton). "Very scarce.a fine complement to the two giants of the Antarctic bibliography also emanating from Shackleton's 1907-09 expedition, Aurora Australis and The Heart of the Antarctic, and one of the most sought-after Antarctic titles" (Rosove). Written with a good deal of jocularity, it gives us a feeling for the personal side of Shackleton's Nimrod expedition. [Spence 830; Taurus Collection 61; Rosove 236].

Limited edition de luxe, numbered 85 of 280 copies signed on the recto of the limitation leaf by E.H. Shackleton, James Murray and George Marston. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel with a mounted color illustration, top edge gilt, 4 mounted color plates after watercolors by C. Day, 34 photo illustrations on 28 plates. In near fine condition with a light rubbing. A very nice example, as most copies have been rebound. Introduced by Sir Ernest Shackleton. "For the first time an unofficial, and therefore more human document, is presented to the public . I would advise anyone who wants to get to the kernel of the life of a Polar explorer to read the book" (Ernest Shackleton). "Very scarce.a fine complement to the two giants of the Antarctic bibliography also emanating from Shackleton's 1907-09 expedition, Aurora Australis and The Heart of the Antarctic, and one of the most sought-after Antarctic titles" (Rosove). Written with a good deal of jocularity, it gives us a feeling for the personal side of Shackleton's Nimrod expedition. Taurus 61; Rosove 236.A1.

no binding. Condition: good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Original Printed patent disbound with printed front blue wrapper present but not the back wrapper (both often lacking in early patents) About 27cm by 18cm some wear and tear due to the disbinding.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1909 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 90 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 90 Language: English.

First edition. A LANDMARK PAPER IN CLIMATE SCIENCE . Extremely rare pre-publication typescript of one of the most important papers in climate science, the definitive proof of Milankovi??s theory of ice ages, that they result from variations in the precession, eccentricity, and obliquity of the Earth?s orbit around the Sun. This copy is heavily annotated on the title page by the celebrated American palaeontologist, evolutionary biologist, and science writer Steven Jay Gould. Milankovi? calculated the effects of the variation in the Earth?s orbit on the incoming solar radiation in the Northern Hemisphere. He concluded that Earth?s orbit changes in three cycles of different lengths and theorized that there were variations of more than twenty percent in the amount of sunshine reaching the northern latitudes. In his 1941 account, Canon of Insolation and the Ice Age Problem, he suggested that this caused the waxing and waning of the great continental ice sheets. Using ocean sediment cores, Shackleton, Hays and Imbrie demonstrated in the present paper that oscillations in climate over the past few million years could be correlated with variations in the orbital and positional relationship between the Earth and the Sun, as predicted by Milankovi? ?Shackleton?s work contributed to the first global compilation of climate data, CLIMAP1, in 1976 ? He [of Cambridge University], John Imbrie of Brown University and Jim Hays of the Lamont Doherty Geophysics Observatory, showed that there was a strong signal in the ocean oxygen isotope record from the volume changes associated with ice ages. There were cyclic changes in the signals that took place over familiar periods of 23000 and 41000 years, timescales familiar from theoretical work in the 1930s by the Serbian climatologist Milutin Milankovitch. These and the 100,000-year cycle were identified with ice ages by Milankovitch, on the basis of on solar insolation theory, changes in the radiation reaching Earth from the Sun as a result of regular changes in the precession, obliquity and eccentricity of the Earth?s orbit. Shackleton, Imbrie and Hays?s confirmation of the Milankovitch cycles in the ice age record was a key finding: changes in our climate are induced by processes outside the Earth itself. It implied that these orbital cycles could be found in a range of palaeoclimate data. How and why the Earth?s orbital changes affect the climate remained ? and remain ? difficult questions, but the very existence of such cycles in the recent rock record sparked new interest. When researchers looked for these periodicities, in tree ring records or annual sediment layers in glacial lakes, they found them. Palaeoclimatology was born? (?Ice Ages,? Geoscientist 17, 1 January 2007). This article was subsequently published inScience, Vol. 194, No. 4270, 10 December 1976, pp. 1121-1132. No other copy of this pre-publication document located. Provenance: Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002), American palaeontologist, evolutionary biologist, and science writer. Not signed by him but bearing his filing mark (which matches his usage elsewhere) in addition to his extensive annotations to the first page, under the strident heading ?My approach?, and with four numbered sections, concluding ?Funny / what looks good in direction, / a major problem / in magnitude / (my point).? Gould?s interest stems from his attempt to develop a comprehensive theory of evolution over shorter ?ecological? time periods, ?normal geological time?, and in periods of mass extinction (this is Gould?s ?three tier? system; see his classic ?The paradox of the first tier?, 1985). Although he had previously acknowledged the role of Milankovi? Cycles in climate change, the evidence of his later work ? and also his annotations here ? is that he was unconvinced that the right level of precision had been reached, especially in measuring absolute temperatures. Gould apparently never published his response, so the annotations here are a unique record of his thinking. Earth?s history has been characterized by periods, called Ice Ages (with capital letters), when the climate was markedly colder than at other times. The most well known are the Pre-Cambrian, the late-Ordovician, the Permo-Carboniferous and the Pleistocene Ice Ages ? the last of these, which began around 2-3 million years ago, is the one we are currently living through. Ice Ages are characterized by multiple switches of the global climate between cold periods (called ?glacials? and sometimes ice ages in lower case) when extensive ice sheets are present, and warm periods (?interglacials?) when there is less ice over the Earth or when the climate is more or less similar to or warmer than today. In the second half of the 19th century several scientists, notably Joseph Alphonse Adh?mar (1797-1862) and James Croll (1821-90), suggested that the origin and recurrence of these glaciations may be linked to changes in the Earth?s orbit. The most important features of the orbit as far as the effect on climate are concerned are its eccentricity (the degree to which the elliptical orbit differs from a circle); the tilt (or obliquity) of the Earth?s axis of rotation with respect to the plane of its orbit; the precession of the Earth?s axis of rotation (like the wobble of a spinning top); and the precession of the orbit (a slow rotation of the orbit itself around the Sun). Each of these quantities varies periodically, typically with periods of tens of thousands of years, due to the gravitational effects of other planets and the fact that the Earth is not a perfect sphere. And each can affect the amount and distribution of the solar radiation reaching the Earth?s surface. ?By 1890, because of uncertainties in the timing of ice ages and deficiencies in the stratigraphic record, the astronomical theory was largely disregarded for at least three decades. Geologists and climatologists were trying to find the cause of the ice ages in Earth?s autonomous system (atmosphere?ocean?ice) as well. Signed.

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Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2024, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1897. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages: - 284, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 284 284.

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