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|||C CASTELLS / CITY, CLASS AND POWER.
|||C CAWTE, HELM & PEACOCK / ENGLISH RITUAL DRAMA.
|||C CHARSLEY / RITES OF MARRYING, THE WEDDING INDUSTRY IN SCOTLAND.
|||C COSTA / THE JOURNAL OF OMAN STUDIES, VOLUME 3, PART 2, 1977..
|||H HARDING & TELEKI / OMNIVOROUS PRIMATES, GATHERING AND HUNTING IN HUMAN EVOLUTION.
|||M MEAD & METRAUX / THE STUDY OF CULTURE AT A DISTANCE.
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[#301bm01]
Castells /
City, Class and Power
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Translated by Elizabeth Lebas.
Published by The Macmillan Press Ltd.,
London and Basingstoke, 1978;
x + 198 pages; including index and bibiography;
chapter contents and pagination shown fully in accompanying composite
image; 15 X 22cm; "Fine" black/gilt cloth HARDBACK;
in "Very Good"
green/white/orange pictorial DUSTWRAPPER,
with sunned spine. *******
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Cawte, Helm & Peacock /
English Ritual Drama
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Published by the Folk Lore Society, London, 1967; 132 pages including
2 maps, an Appendix of "old plays impossible to classify", appendix of
"example of texts", "table of locations" & extensive Bibliography;
14 X 22 cm; "V.G." brown cloth hardback; in "V.G." buff dustwrapper;
formerly the property De La Salle College Library, with their neat
ownership and 'withdrawn' stamps on top & bottom of closed page-edges,
front flyleaf, recto and verso of title-page; clean lending sheet on
front fly with only two issue stamps, hence littleused crisp/clean
exemplar with few of the defects usually found in lending copies.
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Charsley /
Rites Of Marrying, The Wedding Industry In Scotland
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published by Manchester University Press, Manchester & New York, 1991;
vii + 227 pages; 16 x 24 cm; "Fine" blue hardback in "Fine"
pictorial grey dustwrapper; a crisp/clean virtually unused copy.
Infrequently encountered.
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Costa /
The Journal of Oman Studies, Volume 3, Part 2, 1977.
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Published by The Ministry of Information and Culture, Sultanate of
Oman, 1980. Though largely concerned with archaeology,
The Journal Of Oman Studies is an interestingly eclectic publication.
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image of each issue's "Contents" page for its coverage of
this category and various others.
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red PAPERBACK with black titling and white lion crest;
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Harding & Teleki /
Omnivorous Primates, Gathering and Hunting in Human Evolution
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HEAVY ITEM but sold, as always, ENTIRELY POSTFREE-BY-AIRMAIL
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Edited by Robert S.O. Harding and Geza Teleki.
Published by Columbia University Press, New York, 1981.
"Good plus" or better yellow cloth HARDBACK with gilt
titling in "Good plus" or better green/black/white DUSTWRAPPER;
densely informative text with charts and graphs;
formerly the property of the City of Liverpool Public Libararies with
their ornate armorial bookplate on front pastedown and their neat
ownership stamp on occasional pages;
barcode label on front fly & residue there
of reference sheet; paper Dewey label on dw spine;
Evidence still of librarian's use of transparent tape.
In all, a decent copy showing none of the faults commonly asociated
with lending copies.
FULLEST DETAILS of publication, pagination, contents, condition
and size, in both inches and centimetres,
sample illustrations and sample text all
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Mead & Metraux /
The Study Of Culture At A Distance
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Published by The University Of Chicago Press,
1953; x + 480 pages; 18 X 24cm;
"Good" blue/gilt cloth hardback;
formerly the property
of the City Of Liverpool Public Libraries with their ornate armorial
bookplate on the front & rear pastedowns and used reference sheet on
rear free endpaper; neat gilt Dewey stamp on lower spine; evidence
still of librarian's use of transparent tape;
a clearly used but decent reference copy but with none of the
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THANK YOU FOR READING THROUGH TODAY'S REVISION OF THIS PAGE HEREWITH TOO A BRIEF SELECTION OF TODAY'S HISTORICAL ANNIVERSARIES:-
21st. August
Events
1192 - Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Sh?gun and the de facto
ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: July 12, 1192)
1680 - Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from Spanish during the Pueblo
Revolt.
1760 - The church (later cathedral) of "Our Lady of Candlemas of
Mayag|ez (Puerto Rico)" is founded, establishing the basis for the
founding of the city.
1770 - James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain,
naming it New South Wales.
1810 - Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown
Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
1831 - Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a
rebellion.
1841 - The Venetian blind is first patented in the United States by
John Hampson.
1842 - The city of Hobart, Tasmania, is founded.
1852 - Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.
1856 - America's first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, arrives in
Shimoda. (Traditional Japanese date: July 21, 1856)
1862 - The Vienna Stadtpark opens its gates.
1888 - The first successful adding machine in the United States is
patented by William Seward Burroughs.
1942 - The Battle of Stalingrad began.
1942 - Allied forces involved in the Guadalcanal campaign defeated an
attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the
Tenaru.
1944 - Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations,
begins.
1963 - Xa Loi Pagoda raids: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam
Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh
Diem, vandalises Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting
thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.
1968 - Soviet Union-dominated Warsaw Pact troops invade
Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring; on the same day, Nicolae
Ceau?escu, leader of Communist Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet
maneuver, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against
possible Soviet reprisals.
1983 - Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. was
assassinated at the Manila International Airport (now renamed Ninoy
Aquino International Airport).
1986 - Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon,
killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.
1991 - Latvia declares renewal of its full independence
after the occupation of Soviet Union.
1991 - Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.
1993 - NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
2001 - NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to Macedonia.
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