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Livermore, CA: University of California Livermore, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, 1968. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus--Distribution Limited. Wraps. Good. iii, [1], 18 pages. Footnotes. Figure (Buggy Crater). This includes Highlights, Abstracts of Published UCRL Reports, Field Experiments, Other Activities, and References. Among the Field Experiments were Project Bronco, Project Buggy, Project Cabriolet, and Project Gasbuggy. Project Plowshare was the overall United States program for the development of techniques to use nuclear explosives for peaceful construction purposes. As part of the program, 31 nuclear warheads were detonated in 27 separate tests. Plowshare was the US portion of what are called Peaceful Nuclear Explosions (PNE); a similar Soviet program was carried out under the name Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy. Successful demonstrations of non-combat uses for nuclear explosives include rock blasting, stimulation of tight gas, chemical element manufacture,… Leer más

Livermore, CA: University of California Livermore, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, 1968. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus--Official Use Only Distribution Limited. Wraps. Good. iii, [1], 20 pages. Marked Official Use Only--the limitation is deemed no longer valid. Footnotes. This includes Highlights, Explosives Development, Theoretical and Laboratory Studies, Field Experiments and Exploration, Other Activities, and References. Among the Field Experiments were Project Buggy, Project Cabriolet, Project Gasbuggy, Project Ketch, and Project Travois. Project Plowshare was the overall United States program for the development of techniques to use nuclear explosives for peaceful construction purposes. As part of the program, 31 nuclear warheads were detonated in 27 separate tests. Plowshare was the US portion of what are called Peaceful Nuclear Explosions (PNE); a similar Soviet program was carried out under the name Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy. Successful demonstrations of… Leer más

Hyattsville, MD: Quixote Center, 2002. First? Edition. First? Printing. Wraps. very good. 271 pages. Wraps, illus., notes, bibliography, index. Signed by the author.

Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket as issued.. 145 p. 30 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Maps. References. United States. Geological Survey. Professional paper 669. Includes bibliographies. Contents: A. John Wesley Powell: pioneer statesman of Federal science, by M. C. Rabbitt. --B. Stratified rocks of the Grand Canyon, by E. D. McKee. --C. Geologic history of the Colorado River, by C. B. Hunt. --D. The rapids and the pools--Grand Canyon, by.

Japan: Trans of the Asiatic Society, 1940. Reprint Edition. fair to good. 66 pages + plates, illus., discolor ins flyleaves, spine edges quite worn, large tears at spine. Presentation copy inscribed & signed by author. Boards somewhat soiled and foxed. Topics covered include the sacredness of rice, the honorable rice throughout the year, rice in Japanese literature, rice and religion, and socio-economic influences. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Second Series, Vol. XIX, December 1940.

Place_Pub: New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1997. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/good. 320 pages. Illus., index, some creasing to DJ edges. Bookplate signed by the author. The author was the widow of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Place_Pub: New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1997. First Printing. good, good. 320, illus., index, small stains pp. ix-x & in margins of several pages, fore-edge stained, DJ somewhat soiled and stained. The author was the widow of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1997. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Moshe Milner (front jacket photograph). xii, [2], 320, [2] pages. Illustrations. Index. Slight DJ wear. Signed by the author. Certificate of Authenticity present. Ink notes on rep Leah Rabin (n�e Schlo�berg; 8 April 1928 - 12 November 2000) was the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated in 1995. Leah Rabin was born Leah Schlo�berg in K�nigsberg, East Prussia, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia), to an upper-middle-class family of Russian-born parents. Immediately after Adolf Hitler's election as Chancellor of Germany in 1933, Schlo�berg emigrated with her family to Mandate Palestine. Her father had bought a piece of property near Binyamina on his first trip to the area in 1927. She met her future husband, Yitzhak Rabin, at school. They married in 1948, the year of Israel's independence. Yitzhak became Prime Minister in 1974 following Golda Meir's resignation, but in 1977… Leer más

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1997. First Printing. very good, very good. 320, illus., index, slight creasing to DJ edges. Inscribed by the author. The author was the widow of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1997. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/good. xii, [2], 320, [2] pages. Illustrations. Index. Some creasing to DJ edges. Signed by the author. Leah Rabin (née Schloßberg; 8 April 1928 - 12 November 2000) was the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated in 1995. Leah Rabin was born Leah Schloßberg in Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia), to an upper-middle-class family of Russian-born parents. Immediately after Adolf Hitler's election as Chancellor of Germany in 1933, Schloßberg emigrated with her family to Mandate Palestine. Her father had bought a piece of property near Binyamina on his first trip to the area in 1927. She met her future husband, Yitzhak Rabin, at school. They married in 1948, the year of Israel's independence. Yitzhak became Prime Minister in 1974 following Golda Meir's resignation, but in 1977 a US Dollar bank account (illegal at that time in Israel) held by Leah was exposed by Haaretz… Leer más

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1979. First Eng Lang Edition. very good, fair to good. 344, illus., map, index, DJ soiled and small tears.

New York: Seaver Books, c1988. First Edition. First Printing. very good, very good. 24 cm, 322, illus., bibliography, index, DJ in plastic sleeve, ink notation inside front flyleaf. The escape on Christmas Eve 1969 of five navy patrols, built for the Israeli Navy, but impounded by the wrath of De Gaulle following the Six Day War of June 1967.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Good in fair dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Ex-library. DJ has piece cut out of back and wear and soiling. Usual library markings. DJ had been pasted to the boards. PLO highlighted and Assad entry circiled in ink in the index.. 243, [5] p. Notes. Chronology. Maps. Glossary. Index. From Wikipedia: "Itamar Rabinovich (born 1942) is the president of the Israel Institute (Washington and Jerusalem). He was Israel's Ambassador to the United States in the 1990s and former Chief Negotiator with Syria between 1993 and 1996, and the former president of Tel-Aviv University (1999-2007). Currently he is Professor Emeritus of Middle Eastern History of Tel Aviv University, Distinguished Global Professor at NYU and a Distinguished Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Prof. Rabinovich has been a member of Tel Aviv University's faculty since 1971 and served as Ettinger Professor of the Contemporary… Leer más

Place_Pub: Hoboken, NJ: Ktav Publishing House Inc, 1993. very good, very good. 592, illus., appendices, notes, index, some creasing to DJ edges. Inscribed by the author.

London: Victor Gallancz Ltd, 1944. fair to good, fair to good. 79, illus., glossary, pages have darkened, DJ soiled: small tears, small pieces missing. The author was the Senior Jewish Chaplain, M.E.F., and the Senior Jewish Chaplain, Eighth Army.

Chicago, IL: Bulletin of the Atomic Scien, 1967. good. 172, wraps, illus., tables, bibliography, some wear to cover edges. Most of the chapters of this book were reprinted from the May and June 1967 issues of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. One of the contributors is Robert McNamara.

New York: Knopf, 1976. First Edition. First? Printing. very good, good. 22 cm, 242, Inscribed by the author.

New York: Philosophical Library, [1968]. First? Edition. First? Printing. fair, fair. 23 cm, 130, bibliographical footnotes, DJ worn, soiled, and damp stained, boards damp stained, pencil erasure on front endpaper.

New York: Hill and Wang, 1979-1980. First Edition. fair to good. 29 cm, 438 & 376, wraps, 2-vol. set, chronology, appendices, some wear and soiling to covers, pages somewhat darkened v.1. Legal pleadings to set aside Hiss' 1950 perjury conviction and clear his name of espionage charges. The text contains facsimiles of the actual court papers, with attached exhibits.

Washington, DC: Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2001. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. xvi, 300 p. Illustrations (color). Map. Selected Bibliography. Index. Rabinowitz heads-up a team of naturalists who travel to remote wilderness locations to perform scientific studies and to aid countries in the creation of parks and preserves. The author's account of a 500 mile trek through northern Myanmar (Burma).