Like new! No creases in spine. 1966 Paperback Pocket Books #paperback #vintage

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Minnesota

The Merchant Bankers 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Origins of Chaos and Stability

Celestial Encounters is for anyone who has ever wondered about the foundations of chaos. In 1888, the 34-year-old Henri Poincaré submitted a paper that was to change the course of science, but not before it underwent significant changes itself. "The Three-Body Problem and the Equations of Dynamics" won a prize sponsored by King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway and the journal Acta Mathematica, but after accepting the prize, Poincaré found a serious mistake in his work. While correcting it, he discovered the phenomenon of chaos.


Starting with the story of Poincaré's work, Florin Diacu and Philip Holmes trace the history of attempts to solve the problems of celestial mechanics first posed in Isaac Newton's Principia in 1686. In describing how mathematical rigor was brought to bear on one of our oldest fascinations--the motions of the heavens--they introduce the people whose ideas led to the flourishing field now called nonlinear dynamics.


In presenting the modern theory of dynamical systems, the models underlying much of modern science are described pictorially, using the geometrical language invented by Poincaré. More generally, the authors reflect on mathematical creativity and the roles that chance encounters, politics, and circumstance play in it.

Celestial Encounters

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1959 Vintage Hardcover with work cover as pictured. #orientalrugs  

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Oriental Rugs and Carpets 

1972  Vintage Hardcover in good used condition as pictured. #gardening #vintage #hardcover 

An Encyclopedia of Garden Planning

The Complete Guide to Garden Flowers 

#hardcover #wildflowers #gardening 1968 Hardcover with worn jacket. Beautiful illustrations! 

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Of Northern and North-Central North America 

A Field Guide to Wildflowers 

#ebwhite#paperback Scholastic book set new, never opened including Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan. 

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E.B. White Treasury

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1996 paperback in excellent used condition 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Biography

Alice Keppel, the married lover of Queen Victoria's eldest son and great-grandmother to Camilla Parker-Bowles, was a key figure in Edwardian society. Hers was the acceptable face of adultery. Discretion was her hallmark. It was her art to be the king's mistress and yet to laud the Royal Family and the institution of marriage. Formidable and manipulative, her attentions to the king brought her wealth, power, and status. Her daughter Violet Trefusis had a long tempestuous affair with the author and aristocrat Vita Sackville-West, during which Vita left her husband and two sons to travel abroad with Violet. It was a liaison that threatened the fabric of Violet's social world, and her passion and recalcitrance in pursuit of it pitted her against her mother and society. From memoirs, diaries, and letters, Diana Souhami portrays this fascinating and intense mother/daughter relationship. Her story of these women, their lovers, and their lovers' mothers, highlights Edwardian - and contemporary - duplicity and double standards and goes to the heart of questions about sexual freedoms.

Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter

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1959 First Printing, spine is not creased, in excellent condition considering age. #paperback #religion 

A distinguished scholar presents a vivid, new translation and modern interpretation of the most beautiful and passionate live poem ever written

The Song of Songs 

#paperback 
1962 Popular Library Edition 

SSC

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