Books for the Millions

Books for the Millions
Author: Frank E. Comparato
Publisher: Harrisburg, Pa : Stackpole Company
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1971
Genre: Design
ISBN:

Millions

Millions
Author: Frank Cottrell Boyce
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780330450843

After their mother dies, two brothers find a huge amount of money which they must spend quickly before England switches to the new European currency, but they disagree on what to do with it.

Millions to Measure

Millions to Measure
Author: David M. Schwartz
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2006-05-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0060848065

There are millions of things to measure . . . and almost as many ways to measure them! Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician is back -- and ready to explore the invention of length, weight, and volume measurements. After that, with another wave of his wand, the wizard introduces the world of metrics and makes it easy to understand the basic pattern of meters, liters, and grams. With Steven Kellogg's playful and delightfully detailed illustrations, measuring has never been such a blast!

Millions of Cats

Millions of Cats
Author: Wanda Gág
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
Total Pages: 46
Release: 1928
Genre: Adventure stories
ISBN:

How can an old man and his wife select one cat from a choice of millions and trillions.

Marco's Millions

Marco's Millions
Author: William Sleator
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Human-alien encounters
ISBN: 9780142302170

Twelve-year-old Marco's love for travel and for his younger sister Lilly, who has psychic powers, leads him to journey to other universes, gaining the ability to go wherever he wishes without growing old.

Official Journal

Official Journal
Author: League of Nations
Publisher:
Total Pages: 936
Release: 1925
Genre: International cooperation
ISBN:

Included are the Minutes (or Procès-verbal) of the Council from its first meeting, Paris, January 16, 1920, to the session, ; the budget for the 3d- financial period (1921- ) in 1920, no. 7, 1921, no. 9, 1923- no. 1 of each year; statements of the "Present situations as regards international engagements registered with the Secretariat"; Saar Basin, periodical and other reports and papers; reports on the financial reconstruction of Austria, and of Hungary; and many other reports and papers.

THE JUNGLE & OTHER BOOKS (8 Titles in One Volume)

THE JUNGLE & OTHER BOOKS (8 Titles in One Volume)
Author: Upton Sinclair
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 2221
Release: 2017-09-10
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 8026879457

This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Jungle King Coal: A Novel The Moneychangers The Metropolis Jimmie Higgins 100%: The Story of a Patriot The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation The Brass Check Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was an American author who wrote books in many genres, but in all of them advocating for the moral ethics, better life style for the working people and social justice. Writing during the Progressive Era, Sinclair describes the world of industrialized America from both the working man's point of view and the industrialist. He has also won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.

The Dictionary of the Book

The Dictionary of the Book
Author: Sidney E. Berger
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 575
Release: 2023-01-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1538151332

Named a Library Journal Best Reference of 2023 - From Library Journal's Starred Review: "This ambitious and entertaining update solidifies Berger’s volume as a must-have title for librarians, booksellers, collectors, and students of the book arts and book history." This new edition of The Dictionary of the Book adds more than 700 new entries and many new illustrations and brings the vocabulary and theory of bookselling and collecting into the modern commercial and academic world, which has been forced to adjust to a new reality. The definitive glossary of the book covers all the terms needed for a thorough understanding of how books are made, the materials they are made of, and how they are described in the bookselling, book collecting, and library worlds. Every key term—more than 2,000—that could be used in booksellers’ catalogs, library records, and collectors’ descriptions of their holdings is represented in this dictionary. This authoritative source covers all areas of book knowledge, including: The book as physical object Typeface terminology Paper terminology Printing Book collecting Cataloging Book design Bibliography as a discipline, bibliographies, and bibliographical description Physical Condition and how to describe it Calligraphy Language of manuscripts Writing implements Librarianship Legal issues Parts of a book Book condition terminology Pricing of books Buying and selling Auctions Items one will see an antiquarian book fairs Preservation and conservation issues, and the notion of restoration Key figures, presses / publishers, and libraries in the history of books Book collecting clubs and societies How to read and decipher new and old dealers’ catalogs And much more The Dictionary also contains an extensive bibliography—more than 1,000 key readings in the book world and it gives current (and past) definitions of terms whose meaning has shifted over the centuries. More than 200 images accompany the entries, making the work even more valuable for understanding the terms described.

Defense

Defense
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 770
Release: 1943
Genre: United States
ISBN:

Bureau of Engraving and Printing

Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Publisher:
Total Pages: 594
Release: 1979
Genre: Administrative agencies
ISBN: