Hardcover. Harlow, U. K., Longman Publishing Group, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 813 pages combined, hardcovers. Dust jackets, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Bindings are solid. Contains B&W tables and illustrations throughout. These two volumes are a part of the Tropical Agriculture Series, and were designed to be of interest to those working in the spices industry, from cultivation to marketing. These books describe each spice's history, botany, and ecological needs. Clean copies. Record # 34225
Hardcover. London, U.K., Reaktion Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, orange paper covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Top right corner has been lightly bumped. Binding is solid. Contains B&W and full-color photography throughout. This book tracks the paths of fundamental spices through history, from the trade routes of the ancient world to the McCormick brand's contemporary domination of the global spice market. Czarra describes how spices have been used in cooking throughout history and how their spread has influenced regional cuisine around the world. Author's inscription to the previous owner reads: "With best Wishes and Many Thanks for your "spicey" Insights. Fred, June 2009." Clean copy. Record # 34224
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 464 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains bind-in with B&W photography. For 40 years the Soviet-American nuclear arms race dominated world politics, yet the Soviet nuclear establishment was shrouded in secrecy. Now that the Cold War is over and the Soviet Union has collapsed, it is possible to answer some questions. This magisterial history throws light on Soviet policy at the height of the Cold War, illuminates a central but hitherto secret element of the Stalinist system, and puts into perspective the tragic legacy of this program today-- environmental damage, a vast network of institutes and factories, and a huge stockpile of unwanted weapons. Clean copy. Record # 33910
Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, Reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Charles Bowers Momsen, nicknamed "Swede", was an American pioneer in submarine rescue for the United States Navy, and he invented the underwater escape device later called the "Momsen lung", for which he received the Navy Distinguished Service Medal in 1929. An account of Navy officer Charles "Swede" Momsen's mission to save the Squalus. On the eve of World War II, the Squalus, America's newest submarine, plunged into the North Atlantic. Miraculously, thirty-three crew members still survived. While their loved ones waited in unbearable tension Record # 62050
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 380 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 468357
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 424 pages, b&w photographs and maps, illustrations of ships and submarines to scale on endpages, gilt lettering on spine, dust jacket. Previous owner's embossed stamp to title page, light wear to dust jacket; a very tight and clean copy. Record # 603946
Softcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 197 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book is a memoir, written by a Jew, discussing the horrors of the holocaust. Painful, beautiful, and passionate, it answers the question, what can the Holocaust mean for persons who have devoted their lives to the love of God? At the same time, it is a unique look into the world of Talmudic learning, millennia old and still vibrant. Clean copy. Record # 34281
Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Taschen, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 807 pages, hardcover. Pictorial boards are clean and bright, as are interior pages which were designed to incorporate indented section tabs on the edges. Binding is solid. Contains full-color photography throughout. This book combines original and incisive essays about particular symbols with representative images from all parts of the world and all eras of history. Each of the approximately 350 essays examines a given symbol's psychic background, and how it evokes psychic processes and dynamics. Clean copy. Record # 34518
Hardcover. Doubleday, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 624 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright, as this book is still sealed in its original plastic covering, which has a few rips. Researchers, reporters, and producers for ABC News searched the world's archives for the rarest and most stunning photographs and images, consulted eminent twentieth-century historians, and discovered and interviewed hundreds of eyewitnesses and participants in the significant moments of the most eventful one hundred years in human history. The result was this spectacular book, the independent companion volume to the landmark ABC News and The History Channel television series 'The Century'. Co-written by ABC News Anchor Peter Jennings and Senior Editorial Producer Todd Brewster, 'The Century' features a narrative of extraordinary quality that tracks major themes--the impact of technology, the soaring of the imagination, the ghastly violence, the joy of entertainment--through chronological chapters recounting the signal moments of each era in the century. This is an oversize book, domestic shipping only. Clean copy. Record # 33820
Hardcover. NY, Harper Business, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 497 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in very good condition despite some minor staining on the rear. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Includes B&W tables and maps throughout. For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we've reached the point where almost anything you can ever want can be sent to your home within days of when you decided you wanted it. Zeihan maps out the next world: a world where countries or regions will have no choice but to make their own goods, grow their own food, secure their own energy, fight their own battles, and do it all with populations that are both shrinking and aging. Zeihan brings readers along for an illuminating (and a bit terrifying) ride packed with foresight, wit, and his trademark irreverence. Clean copy. Record # 33876
Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd Pr., 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 553 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, green cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography and illustrations throughout. This book is an academic work which links archaeology and linguistics to show how Bronze Age Eurasian steppe pastoralists (Yamnaya culture) spread Indo-European languages through domestication of the horse and invention of the wheel. Clean copy. Record # 34515
Softcover. Portsmouth, NH, Heinemann Educational Books, 1st thus, 1990, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 398 pages, soft cover. Covers have some light edge wear, but are still in good condition overall. Interior pages are clean and bright, with only minor foxing. The last 50 pages or so of this book have wavy paper typical of minor water damage. This volume is part of the Heinemann African Writers Series, and creates a chimerical world of illusion and truth, fired by a language that challenges the imagination. Clean copy. Record # 34387
Softcover. Oxford, U.K., Phaidon House Ltd., Reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W and full-color illustrations throughout. This is the first book to make the glories of The Lindisfarne Gospels accessible to a wide public. The Lindisfarne Gospels is a manuscript that was produced in the Northumbrian island monastery of Lindisfarne at the end of the seventh century in honor of Saint Cuthbert, and is one of the world's foremost masterpieces of book painting, considered a treasure of Catholicism. All the essential illuminated pages are reproduced impeccably here in color from an entirely new and accurate set of photographs. Clean copy. Record # 34049
Softcover. Rochester, England, North Kent Books, 2nd Revised, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 142 pages Manston Spitfire, and 41 pages Pilot's Notes. These two volumes on the British Spitfire are both bound in paper wrappers without dust jackets. Covers and interior pages are both also clean and bright. Bindings are solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. "The Manston Spitfire TB752" offers a detailed account of one particular iconic aircraft flown by the Royal Air Force during World War II. Alongside captivating images, readers will find a wealth of information, including technical specifications, operational history, and personal anecdotes from those who piloted and maintained this particular Spitfire. "Pilot's Notes for Spitfire," is a fascinating 3rd edition (1947 reprint) created by the Air Ministry in order to quickly train pilots on these remarkable flying machine. Clean copies. Record # 34060
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 5th Pr., 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 936 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, green paper covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography and maps throughout. In this far-ranging work, Mikaberidze argues that the Napoleonic Wars can only be fully understood with an international context in mind. Taking specific regions in turn, he discusses major political-military events around the world and situates geopolitical decision-making within its long and short-term contexts. Clean copy. Record # 34339
Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, red cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Throughout history, Satan the Prince of Darkness, the Western world's most powerful symbol of evil, has taken many names and shapes. Jeffrey Burton Russell here chronicles the remarkable story of the Devil from antiquity through to the present. While recounting how past generations have personified evil, he deepens our understanding of the ways in which people have dealt with the enduring problem of radical evil. Clean copy. Record # 33803
Softcover. Essex, UK, Longman / Pearson Education Limited, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 279 pages, soft cover. Covers have some light bumping to the corners, but are otherwise in very good condition. Interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains tables and index. This book is part of 'The Postwar World' series, and seeks to answer such questions as: Why did the Soviet economic system fell apart? Was it the centrally planned character of Soviet socialism that was at fault? Or did a potentially viable mechanism come apart in Gorbachev's clumsy hands? Does its failure mean that true socialism is never economically viable? Economic issues were the cornerstone of soviet ideology and the soviet system, and economic issues brought the whole system crashing down in 1989-91. This book is a record of what happened, and it is also an analysis of the failure of Soviet economics as a concept. Clean copy. Record # 33993
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 278 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is mildly bumped. Covers and interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. B&W photography throughout. Historian Lynne Viola reveals how, in one of the most egregious episodes of Soviet repression, Stalin drove two million peasants into internal exile, to work as forced laborers. The book shows how entire families were callously thrown out of their homes, banished from their villages, and sent to the icy hinterlands of the Soviet Union, where in the course of a decade, almost a half million would die as a result of disease, starvation, or exhaustion. Light pencil underlining present on some pages. Record # 33911
Hardcover. NY, Facts on File, 1st thus, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 318 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is bumped along the top edge, and the laminate on the rear has bubbled. Black cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W and full-color photography throughout. This book takes readers beyond the myths to the megaliths themselves, piecing together their history and that of the people who built them. This is a large format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34050
Softcover. Millbrae, CA, Celestial Arts, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages, soft cover, B&W illustrations and photos throughout. Minor wear but generally in good condition. Long before "turn on, tune in, drop out" became the credo of the American counterculture, Aldous Huxley was using mescaline and LSD in controlled, carefully documented experiments. Accounts of those psychedelic experiences, along with his interest in Eastern mystical religions, accompany the moving story of Aldous Huxley's later years with his wife, Laura. Huxley's fascination with the spiritual world remained with him throughout his life and never wavered through his final illness in 1963. THIS TIMELESS MOMENT takes the reader into the lively mind of one of the most profound thinkers of any generation. Previous owner's name on first front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33578
Hardcover. Bedford, PA, The Aberjona Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages, hardcover. Pictorial boards are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid, though the spine is slightly cocked. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book is tells the story of the experiences of the 101st Airborne Division, from its inception in August 1942 through the end of the war. This is a large-format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34373
Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 310 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some rubbing, foxing, and edge wear, but is still in good condition overall. Red cloth boards are clean and bright, as are interior pages. End papers and page edges have light foxing. Binding is solid. This book presents a study of the manner in which a number of 'heroic' Victorian men navigated Morse's conception of a 19th century cultural crisis by confounding the expectations of their environment; effectively, in Morse's terms, transcending their own cultural milieu in an effort to create new cultural pathways that eventually feed into new cultural growth and development. Contains previous owner's light pencil markings throughout. Record # 34360
Hardcover. US, William Morrow, 1st, 2012-03-06, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 342 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 461427
Softcover. NY, MacMillan Publishing Co., 6th Print, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 514 pages, soft cover. Covers are generally in very good condition despite some minor wear to the spine and corners. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book draws connections between military affairs and state craft, by the dean of American civilian strategists. A thought-provoking and original look at WHY humans fight. The author puts war in its international political context as he examines the history of World Wars I and II, Korea, and Vietnam, and looks at the changing attitudes toward war, theories on its causes, "vital interests," trade, nuclear weapons, and the true nature of strategy. Clean copy. Record # 33833
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