Boorman Scott A (24 results)

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No marks in text. Not a library book.First blank page has its corner clipped off; otherwise book is fine. Ships fast, in a cardboard enclosure, from Tim's Used Books, open shop in Provincetown USA. Providers of good books at reasonable prices, on the same spot since 1991. Shelf LL/red, top.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover ex-library with typical marks shows moderate cover wear. Text is unmarked. Ships FAST.

Condition: NUOVO. Milano, Luni Ed. cm.14x21, pp.248, con figg.bn.nt. brossura con bandelle, cop.fig.a col. Collana Il Sol Levante,7. Prefaz.e revisione di Roberto Tresoldi. Con un'intervista alla Sig.ra Nan Xi Jin.

gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Gut. 459 Seiten Der Erhaltungszustand des hier angebotenen Werks ist trotz seiner Bibliotheksnutzung sehr sauber. Es befindet sich neben dem Rückenschild lediglich ein Bibliotheksstempel im Buch; ordnungsgemäß entwidmet. In ENGLISCHER Sprache. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 810.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition (Number Line to 1). If you like your research from Harvard you have Paul R. Levitt who teaches in the Department of Sociology, and if you prefer Yale you have Scott A. Boorman who who teaches in their Department of Sociology. This book also has some interesting provenance, which a little research turned up. Off the top edge of the first front end paper the last name Bradbury is penned. Down near the bottom edge there is a colorless raised stamp that indicates the book comes from the library of Jack and Sandy Vehrenbury. That was a little tricky, but it turns out that Jack Bradbury and Sandra Vehrencamp had combined their name on the stamp and also as scientists had created or worked in a laboratory named Vehrenbury. According to Dr. Vehrencamp's Wikipedia profile 'They co-wrote a textbook, Principles of Animal Communication, published in 1998. It is a widely used work that combines physics, chemistry, neurobiology, cognitive science, evolutionary biology, behavioral ecology, and economics to delve deeply into animals and how they signal and communicate with one another. Its importance is highlighted by the fact that it has been cited more than 1,000 times. This textbook is highly regarded in the scientific community and is revered as the standard reference of the animal behavior world.' So it shouldn't surprise that they would have been reading this book. Both husband and wife have taught at the University Of California and Cornell University. Dr. Bradbury specializes in ornithology. Dr. Vehrencamp in Behavioral Ecology. Both taught at Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology and Department of Neurobiology and Behavior before retiring. Neither is known to be very altruistic. Just kidding. As you would expect they took excellent care of the book. You can see the red covers in the photos. They are perfectly clean. There isn't any wear that needs to be called out. The cover edges and corners look terrific. The spine ends have just a little of the usual crinkling. The page edges are very clean. The book is very solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages and nicely tight covers as well. The pages are in excellent condition, exceptionally clean (I didn't see any soiling) and free of wear (I didn't see any creasing). There are no markings other than their little stamp and no writing other than 'Bradbury.' There are no attachments of any kind. The dust jacket looks quite nice as well. I have always had it in a fitted protective cover. That creates a little difficulty in distinguishing a crinkle from a tiny tear. So I'll just say that there is only slight wear at the edges (see photos). Off the bottom edge of the rear cover there's a small discoloration (third photo). Otherwise the jacket is quite clean. The flaps are in excellent shape, no wear at all. The jacket is not priced or clipped. The lettering on the flaps is purple, which is the color of altruism. Hmm. Here's a little bit from the jacket about the book: 'This book is the outcome of combining two historically separate areas of population biology. The formal models in The Genetics of Altruism continue the tradition of mathematical population genetics stemming from Wright, Haldane, and Fisher. The substantive area to which these models are applied is the comparative evolutionary biology of social behavior, taking cases and data both from the social insects (the social Hymenoptera and the termites) and from social vertebrates (chiefly mammals). Connecting these two fields is a specific new approach to unifying a broad set of evolutionary insights into social behavior through the use of social network models to describe the impacts of altruism and cooperation on individual fitness. Use of network models gives the modeling developments a quite combinatorial (I'm challenging that word) character.' Note that the challenge is not part of the quote. It goes on but you'll have to buy the book to read the rest.…

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New. KlappentextThe Naval War College Review was established in 1948 and is a forum for discussion of public policy matters of interest to the maritime services. The forthright and candid views of the authors are presented for the professiona.

Condition: Buone. italiano Condizioni dell'esterno: Discrete con difetti, segni d'uso bruniture Condizioni dell'interno: Buone.

Condition: Buone. italiano Condizioni dell'esterno: Discrete con difetti, macchie bruniture Condizioni dell'interno: Discrete con Difetti, macchie.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,900grams, ISBN:0121156508.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 480 pages. 9.25x6.00x1.09 inches. In Stock.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Good. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. . SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

24 cm, br. ill; pp. 270, alcune ill Molto buono.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 28.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 28.

SCARCE! Octavo, illus light card covers, black & red lettering to spine, 242pp, illus/maps, VG- (moderate scuffing & curling to covers, heavy fading to spine, light chafing & soiling, light to moderate foxing to page edges, annotations in ink to inside front cover, occasional underlining to text).

tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. Literatura.(82) Seuil. París. 1972. 21 cm. 213 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma francés . Cubierta deslucida. (=3245235=) LG260.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 28.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. R100069027: 1972. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos plié, Intérieur frais. 213 pages - quelques cartes en noir et blanc hors texte - quelques figures en noir et blanc dans le texte. . . . Classification Dewey : 793.9-Jeux divers.

In-8 (h. 21 cm.) 214 pp. couverture souple. Quelques salissures à la couverture, nom d'un possesseur sur la page de garde, sinon très bon état. Rare. Langue : Français.

Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover. Bound in red cloth with black/white titles. xiv, 242 pages illustrations, maps 22 cm. VG. Missing jacket, otherwise clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Clean, unmarked, firm hinges, sharp corners, sparkling clean boards and crisp pages. DJ has light fade to spine but title clearly visible with just hints of wear to extremities. KRM/China.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Dust jacket price-clipped. ; Orange cloth lettered in black; map endpapers; illustrated with maps & diagrams of the game of 'Go'. In dust jacket with protective mylar wrap; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 242 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. This is a very good condition hard cover: the spine is square, binding tight, all corners sharp, and is internally clean and NOT marked. The dust jacket, now enclosed in a removable mylar sleeve, rated good, with minor chipping at head of spine and extremities noted. QUOTED from the dust jacket flap: "The Asian game of wei-ch'i - known to the Japanese as go - has been a favorite with Chinese generals, statesmen, and literati for more than 2,000 years. Mao Tse-tung, in his writings on war ad revolution, has himself used this game to illustrate his strategy., Unlike chess, which is oriented toward the concentration of forces at a point upon the board, in wei-ch'i a player attempts to extend his control of territory; avoiding direct confrontations, he encircles his opponent. The similarity to guerrilla warfare is obvious. In this unusual book, Mr. Boorman examines the game wei-ch'i to discover what Westerners can learn about the strategy of Chinese Communist armies and of other Asian revolutionary forces. In his introduction Mr. Boorman writes, 'if indeed wei-ch'i and Chinese Communist strategy are products of the same strategic tradition, wei-ch'i may be more realistically used as an analogic model of that strategy than any purely theoretical structure generated by a Western social scientist.The structure of the game, and in particular its abstractness, makes possible a depth of analogy which has no parallel in the relatively superficial comparisons of Western forms of military strategy to chess or poker.' He continues, "It is also fruitful to apply the wei-ch'i analogue to post-1950 insurgent actions in Southeast Asia.' Mr. Boorman provides a detailed description, with diagrams, of the game. He then suggests parallels between wei-ch'i and Mao Tse-tung's strategy against Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist armies during the Chinese Civil War, giving weight to political as well as military factors. In particular, he shows how Mao's strategy triumphed over Chiang's Western-style concentration of forces in Manchuria - one of the most decisive military campaigns of recent history. In the final section of the book, he comments upon the usefulness of his hypothesis in helping Western scholars, soldiers, and diplomats to comprehend the patterns of Asian wars and revolutions and the dynamics of Chinese Communist strategy on the 'world board.' It is his hope that a sound knowledge of this fascinating game may also help bridge the gap between the culture and psyche of the Westerner and of Asian revolutionary leaders." 242 pages. SHIPS from Eugene, Oregon, USA. INTERNATIONAL orders may require additional postage is excess of that quoted by ABE books. Location: FV. …