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Palo Alto, California: Electric Power Research Institute, 1976. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Very good. Various paginations (approximately 150 pages). Illustrations. This final report on "Assessment of Laser Fusion" contains details of the national fusion program as of March 1976. It includes a general summary by the Laser Fusion Advisory Committee as well as a summary by the Working Group. The detailed scientific and technical evaluations of the national laser fusion program are presented in four parts: an overall assessment, engineering feasibility, scientific feasibility, and site visits. The primary purpose of this study is to give executives and representatives of the electric utilities and the staff of the Electric Power Research Institute an accurate picture, for planning purposes, of the likelihood of and time scale for useful utility application of laser-pellet fusion. This final report contains details of the national fusion program as of March 1976. It includes… Leer más

London: HMSO, 1914. fair to good. 89, wraps, fold-out map, tables, covers somewhat soiled and creased: small tears, small pieces missing at spine. Naval despatches reporting the engagement off Heligoland from Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty, Rear-Admiral Arthur H. Christian, Commodore Reginald Y. Tyrwhitt, Commodore Roger J. B. Keyes, and Capt. Murray F. Sueter. Military despatches from J. D. P. French, Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, British Forces in the Field.

London: HMSO, 1917. fair to good. Quarto, 26, wraps, folded in quarters, stamps on front cover.

London: HMSO, 1916. fair to good. Quarto, 6, wraps, creases and small stains in margins, entire document creased, stamps on front cover. This document deals with the transfer to Switzerland of British and German wounded and sick combatant prisoners of war.

Budapest: Argumentum, 2003. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Trade paperback. Very good. 243, [1] pages. Illustrations. Text in Hungarian and English. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Small number stamped on top edge. Writer, translator and historian Thomas Kabdebo introduces Summa Summarum, his volume of collected Hungarian and English poems, and his new novel Róma szolgáló leánya. The Anglophone reader will find his or her text in the second part of this book. Summa contains the Hungarian poems, in part one, which Summarum contains one hundred English poems, Thomas Kabdebo's total output in this language. One of the poems won an international poetry competition. Thomas Kabdebo (Budapest, 1934). attended university in Budapest, studying Hungarian language and literature. He took part in the1956 revolution and had to escape. He settled in Britain where he earned a Ph.D. in history. He taught military… Leer más

Dushanbe, Tajikistan: Tajik Aluminium, 2011. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Very good. No dust jacket. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Heavy book but hinges seem good.. 208 p. Includes illustrations. Most illustrations in color This book tells the story of regeneration, construction, establishment, and ongoing development of the Tajik aluminium giand. One of its chapters is devoted to the history of Tursunzade (former Regur) and Tursunzade region--a regioin where the company operates.

Cooperstown, NY: The Society for American Baseball Research, Inc, 1984. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Magazine. Very good. 88 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Cover has slight wear and soiling. This issue marked a change of editors and an enlargement of the journal's format to be the same as that of the sister publication, The National Pastime. The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) is a membership organization dedicated to fostering the research and dissemination of the history and record of baseball. Established in Cooperstown, New York, in August 1971 by sportswriter Bob Davids. While the acronym "SABR" may have lent its root to the word sabermetrics (for the use of sophisticated mathematical tools to analyze baseball), the Society is about much more than statistics. Well known figures in the baseball world such as Bob Costas, Keith Olbermann, Craig R. Wright, and Rollie Hemond are members, along with highly regarded "sabermetricians" such as… Leer más

Washington DC: Vested Owl Publishing, 2005. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. Very good/No DJ issued. Format is approximately 4.25 inches by 7 inches. 116 pages. Illustrations. Select Bibliography. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads Greg, Best wishes to you! Nino. Nino Kader is an American entrepreneur and author known for his pioneering work in digital marketing and technology. He's been featured in numerous publications around the world and regularly provides commentary on television He founded International Reputation Management foreseeing the impact Googling would have on individual reputations. He advises numerous high-profile figures and international organizations. His professional career spans public relations, technology, and management consulting. In 2012, he became Chief Executive Officer of Spark Digital. A treasure of uncommon wisdom and spiritual insight, these valuable words of advice were given to the Prince of Persia nearly 1,000… Leer más

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. Advance Reading Copy [stated]. Trade paperback. Very good. [8], 567, [1] pages. Publisher's letter to reviewer laid in. This is a sophisticated work of historical fiction about women separated by centuries, and the choices and sacrifices they must make in order to reconcile the life of the heart and mind. Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, this book is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history. As the novel opens, Helen has been summoned by a former student to view a cache of seventeenth-century Jewish documents newly discovered in his home during renovation. Enlisting the help of Aaron Levy, an American graduate student as impatient as he is charming, and in a race with another fast-moving team of historians, Helen… Leer más

New York: Harper Voyager, 2014. Signed First Edition, specially bound and produced by the publisher [stated]. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Good. [2], xvii, [3], 297, [3] pages. Signed First Edition sticker on front cover. Includes Acknowledgments and Introduction. Richard Kadrey (born August 27, 1957) is a San Francisco-based novelist. He is also a freelance writer and photographer. Kadrey has published nine novels and more than fifty stories. He has been immortalized as an action figure, his short story "Goodbye Houston Street, Goodbye" was nominated for a British Science Fiction Association Award, and his novel Butcher Bir was nominated for the Prix Elbakin in France. Kadrey's first novel, the cult classic dystopian cyberpunk tale, now back in print after twenty years in a special signed, collectible edition. Welcome to the near future: Los Angeles in the late 21st century. a segregated city of haves and have nots, where morality is dead and technology rules. Here, a small group of… Leer más

New York: Viking Press, 1954. Second Printing. good, fair. 23 cm, 296, index, slight weakness at front board, DJ in plastic sleeve, some wear and chipping to DJ edges. The articles published in this book have been extensively revised and amplified, and some which discuss different phases of the same object and which have been printed in different magazines at different times have been combined. The author was formerly an editor of Scientific American.

New York: Bantam Books, 1986. Bantam Classic Edition [stated]. Later printing. Mass market paperback. Good. xxii, 201, [1] pages. Underlining and comments noted. Includes Introduction by Stanley Corngold; The Metamorphosis translated by Stanley Corngold; Explanatory Notes to the Text; Documents, including Letter by Franz Kafka to Max Brod; Two Conversations between Kafka and Gustav Janouch, 1920-1923; Kafka to his Father, November 1919; Entries in Kafka's Diaries; Critical Essays by Wilhelm Emrich; Ralph Freedman; Edwin Honig; Max Bense; Hellmuth Kaiser; Peter Dow Webster; Walter H. Sokol; and Friedrich Beissner. Also contains Commentary, Hellmut Richter: The Metamorphosis; and Selected Bibliography. Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 - 3 June 1924) was a Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments… Leer más

New York: Cornell Maritime Press, 1944. First? Printing. good. 26 cm, 1038, illus., glossary, index, some wear and soiling to boards, edges soiled, some foxing. Written for the US Navy to aid identification and recognition of fighting ships during WWII. Contains biographies of over 6, 500 ships from 108 navies, many with a photograph.

New York: Viking, 2003. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Jeffrey L. Ward (Maps) and Michael Marsland (autho. xxvii, [3], 511, [1] pages. Maps. Sources for the History of the Peloponnesian War. Index. Minor edge soiling. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Donald Kagan (born May 1, 1932) is an American historian and classicist at Yale University specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University. At present, Kagan is considered among the foremost American scholars of Greek history. Known for his prolific research of the Peloponnesian War; Kagan is also famous for his work On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace, a comparative history examining four major conflicts (the Peloponnesian War, World War I, the Second Punic War, and World War II) and one non-conflict (the Cuban Missile Crisis) with the purpose of identifying how and why wars do or do not… Leer más

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. First Printing. very good, good. 480, tear in rear DJ has been repaired inside with tape.

London: Vallentine Mitchell, 1998. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xi, [1], 275, [1] pages. Illustrations. Appendix A: The History of the Exodus. Appendix B: The History of the Ordzhonikidze Detachment, Kirov Brigade. Index. Foreword by Sir Martin Gilbert. Sticker residue on DJ flap. Two cousins relate their experiences with Bielski s partisan brigade in war-torn Russia during the Second World War. Natives of Novogrodek, part of present-day Belarus, they describe Jewish life before the Holocaust and furnish a most moving account of how a thriving and prosperous Jewish center was decimated by the Nazis and local collaborators. Initial joy when their hometown was taken over by the Soviet Union disappeared when the Germans ran the Russians out of town and started implementing policies to eradicate all Jews and anything Jewish. Dov (Berl), the elder of the cousins, whose account comprises the first section of the book, lost his immediate family in the… Leer más

New York: Vintage Books, 2004. Reprint. First Vintage Books edition, second printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Very good.. Trade paperback. [14], 157, [1] p. Occasional footnotes From a leading scholar of this country's foreign policy comes the brilliant essay about America and the world that has caused a storm in international circles--now expanded into book form. From Wikipedia: "Robert Kagan (born September 26, 1958 in Athens, Greece) is an American historian, author and foreign policy commentator at the Brookings Institution. He was a co-founder of the Project for the New American Century. More recently, his book The World America Made has been publicly endorsed by US President Barack Obama, and its theme was referenced in his 2012 State of the Union Address. Robert Kagan is the son of Donald Kagan and brother of Frederick Kagan. Kagan graduated from Yale University in 1980, having studied history and having founded the Yale Political Monthly. He later earned an MPP from the John F.… Leer más

American Jewish Historical Society, 1976. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good.. [2], 181-362 p. Also 8 pages of advertisements at back. Footnotes. Tables. From the Society's website: "American Jewish History is the official publication of the American Jewish Historical Society, the oldest national ethnic historical organization in the United States. The most widely recognized journal in its field, AJH focuses on every aspect of the American Jewish experience. Founded in 1892 as Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society and later published as American Jewish Historical Quarterly, AJH has been the journal of record in American Jewish history for over a century, bringing readers all the richness and complexity of Jewish life in America through carefully researched, thoroughly accessible articles. The journal is published quarterly in January, April, July, and October by Johns Hopkins University Press." From an on-line obituary posting: "LEVENTMAN,… Leer más

Waltham, MA: American Jewish Historical Society, 1976. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. good. 178, [2] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Footnotes. Appendices. Covers somewhat worn and soiled. American Jewish History is the official publication of the American Jewish Historical Society, the oldest national ethnic historical organization in the United States. The most widely recognized journal in its field, AJH focuses on every aspect of the American Jewish experience. Founded in 1892 as Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society (PAJHS), it was later published as American Jewish Historical Quarterly (AJHQ) and is currently titled American Jewish History (AJH). AJH has been the journal of record in American Jewish history for over a century, bringing readers all the richness and complexity of Jewish life in America through carefully researched accessible articles. The journal is published quarterly in January, April, July, and October by Johns Hopkins University… Leer más

Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2005. First edition. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. viii, 156 p. Illustrations (most in color). Map. Abbreviations. Selected Readings. Photo Credits. This volume takes an in-depth look at how the World Bank and its mission have evolved and expanded since James D. Wolfensohn took over as president in 1995. The book begins by showing how Wolfensohn broadened the development agenda to incorporate the private sector, the Millennium Development Goals, reconstruction of post-conflict countries, country-owned development strategies, and the promotion of good governance. It then examines the Bank's strategy of forging and harnessing strategic partnerships with other nations on such critical issues as aid effectiveness and debt relief. An examination of the Bank's institutional renewal and internal reform, with a new focus on generating results and modernizing the Bank's information and communications technologies,… Leer más