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Facts about Germany. The Federal Republic of Germany. Includes: Country, People, History. State, Politics, the Law. Economics. Society, Welfare, Leisure. Education, Science, Culture.

Gütersloh. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag. 1979. Well illustrated. Paperback. 382,(2) Seiten. Editor: K.Römer. Cover slightly rubbed. Good. ISBN 3797306245.

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Book number: 108933

Catalogue: Politik / Geschichte: Deutschland

People and Culture in Oceania, Vol. 16.

Tokyo, The Japanese Society for Oceanic Studies. 2000, First Edition. Soft cover, 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book, 137 pages. Contents: Peter Bellwood Some Thoughts on Understanding the Human Colonisation of the Pacific, pp.5-17. Janet Davidson The Polynesian Settlement of New Zealand: The Last Frontier of the Oceanic World, pp.19-39. (New Zealand; Chatham Islands; Polynesian; Mãori; Moriori) Monica Minnegal and Peter D. Dwyer A Sense of Community: Sedentary Nomads of the Interior Lowlands of Papua New Guinea, pp.43-65. Sara L. Collins and Marshall I. Weisler Human Dental and Skeletal Remains from Henderson Island, Southeast Polynesia, pp.67-85. Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern Naming Places: Duna Evocations of Landscape in Papua New Guinea, pp.87-107. Hirokazu Miyazaki The Limits of Politics, pp.109-122. Yuji Ataka and Ryutaro Ohtsuka Resource Use of a Fishing Community on Baluan Island, Papua New Guinea: Comparison with a Neighboring Horticultural-Fishing Community, pp.123-134. Very Good.

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Book number: 007727

Catalogue: South Pacific

People and Culture in Oceania, Vol. 25.

Tokyo, The Japanese Society for Oceanic Studies. 2009, First Edition. Soft cover, 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book, 107 pages. Contents: Fukayama Naoko Securing a Turangawaewae in the Urban Area: A Case Analysis of the Establishment of Papakura Marae, pp. 1-21. Ai Ling Lee, Kazumichi Katayama, Michiko Intoh Morphological Examination of the Human Skeletal Remains from Fais Island, Federated States of Micronesia, pp. 23-52. Yo Negishi and Rintaro Ono Kasasinabwana Shell Midden: The Prehistoric Ceramic Sequence of Wari Island in the Massim, Eastern Papua New Guinea, pp. 53-84. Communication Ramle bin Abdullah Piyey: An Analysis of the Heritage Dwellings in the Indigenous Semaq Beri Community in Terengganu, Malaysia, pp. 85-96. Nancy J. Pollock The Frigate Bird Cult in Eastern Micronesia, pp. 97-100. Book Review Toru Yamaguchi Patrick D. Nunn "Vanished Islands and Hidden Continents of the Pacific", University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2009, 269 pp. ISBN: 9780824832193, pp. 101-105. Very Good.

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Book number: 007728

Catalogue: South Pacific

People of the potlatch: Native arts and culture of the Pacific northwest coast

Vancouver Art Gallery with the U. Unknown Binding , Condition: New.

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Book number: B0000EEOSD

Zulu Treasures of Kings and Commoners: A Celebration of the Material Culture of the Zulu People: Amagugu Kazulu Amakhosi Nabantukazana: Umgubho Wezinto Ezihambisana Namasiko Amazulu

KwaZulu-Natal, KwaZulu Cultural Museum and the Local History Museums. 2011, 2nd Edition. (ISBN: 0620205814). Paperback, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book, Very Good.

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Book number: 158107

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ASHBEE Paul

The Bronze Age Round Barrow in Britain. An Introduction to the Study of the funerary Practice and Culture of the British and Irish Single-Grave People of the Second Millennium B.C.

1960]. 4to., with two portraits as frontispiece, 78 plates on 32 and 61 illustrations and diagrams (several full-page) in the text, small but unsightly inscription on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. The standard study, dedicated to Gordon Childe and containing an extensive bibliography

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Book number: 937

Catalogue: Topography0

Keywords: topography, paul ashbee, topography, general, bronze, age, round, barrow, britain

BACK, LES

New Ethnicities and Urban Culture: Social Identity and Racism in the Lives of Young People (Race & Representation)

London, Routledge. 1996, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9781857282528). Soft cover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 304pp paperback, xii 288pp paperback, very good. Very Good.

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Keywords: 9781857282528 sociology

Bailey, Alison a.o.

China. People | Place | Culture | History.

London, DK Publishing, 2008. Hardcover with dustjacket, 31 cm, 355 pp. Ills.: color illustrations. Cond.: zeer goed / very good. ISBN: 9780756631598.

Bij tij en ontij . . . .Professional seller

Book number: 123482

Catalogue: China

Keywords: 9780756631598

Basbanes, Nicholas A.

PATIENCE & FORTITUDE. A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture

New York: HarperCollins, 2001. 1st edition. Black cloth spine with peach-colored paper-wrapped boards. Pictorial eps. Orange dust jacket. xviii, [2], 636 pp (including Index). Illustrated. 8vo. F/F Basbane's second installment, and another wonderful read, on the history/present-state of the world of books.

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Book number: 27248.1

Catalogue: Books - on - Books

Nicholas A. Basbanes

Patience and Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture

New York, HarperCollins, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 636p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a like dustjacket. .

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Book number: 175161

Catalogue: Books on Books

BASBANES, NICHOLAS A

Patience & Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture

New York, Perennial HarperCollins. 2003, 1st Pbk Edition. (ISBN: 0060514469) Trade Paperback. Book, The obsessive passion people have had over the past twenty-five hundred years to possess books is commonly known as bibliomania. Basbanes expands the meaning , focusing on the more comprehensive concept of book culture. Visiting many key 'book places' around the world, he talks with a striking variety of kindred spirits, each one a living testament to the unending relevance of these essential artifacts in our lives. He explores the changing form of the book over the centuries and describes the nature of the institutions that have evolved to contain them, including acedmic, public, private, and national repositories. He documents many pertinent book stories that have not been told before, and offers unprecedented depth to others that have barely scratched the surface. He profiles the experiences and thoughts of all kinds of dedicated 'book people', be they librarians, readers, writers, bookmakers, booksellers, preservationists, or collectors. 603p. As New.

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Book number: 042682

Catalogue: Books and Bibliographies

Keywords: 0060514469 Books Archives Libraries Book Dealers Libraries

BASBANES, NICHOLAS A

Patience & Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture

New York, HarperCollins. 2001, Uncorrected Proof. (ISBN: 0060196955) Soft cover. Book, The obsessive passion people have had over the past twenty-five hundred years to possess books is commonly known as bibliomania. Basbanes expands the meaning , focusing on the more comprehensive concept of book culture. Visiting many key 'book places' around the world, he talks with a striking variety of kindred spirits, each one a living testament to the unending relevance of these essential artifacts in our lives. He explores the changing form of the book over the centuries and describes the nature of the institutions that have evolved to contain them, including acedmic, public, private, and national repositories. He documents many pertinent book stories that have not been told before, and offers unprecedented depth to others that have barely scratched the surface. He profiles the experiences and thoughts of all kinds of dedicated 'book people', be they librarians, readers, writers, bookmakers, booksellers, preservationists, or collectors. 603p. Very Good.

Kalamos BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 043649

Catalogue: Books and Bibliographies

Keywords: 0060196955 Books Archives Libraries Arc Libraries

Basbanes, Nicholas A.

Patience & Fortitude _ a Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places and Book Culture

New York, HarperCollins, 2001. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. black cloth, copper lettering, dust jacket, 636 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Very good .

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Book number: 84543

Catalogue: Books on Books

Keywords: History, Literature, Bookstores

BASBANES Nicholas A. :

Patience & Fortitude . A roving chronicle of Book People, Book Place, and Book Culture.

New York, Harper Collins, 2001, in-8°, xviii pp + 636 pp, half cloth publisher's binding with printed dj. God copy of the first hardback edition. .

Antiquariaat Wim de GoeijProfessional seller

Book number: 51589

Belasco, Milton Jay

India-Pakistan-Bangladesh History, Culture, People

New York: Globe Book Company, 1981. Third Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 0870656317. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. School stamp on inside front cover. Previous owner's name; B&W Illustrations; 186 pages.

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Book number: 65467

Catalogue: Countries::India

Keywords: 0870656317 World History History Belasco, Milton Illustrated Maps India Pakistan Bangladesh