White Knight in Blue Shades: The Authorized Biography of Marvin Zindler
Houston, TX: A-To-Z Publishing, 2002. Presumed first paperback Edition. Presumed first printing. Trade paperback. xv, [1], 456, [8]p. Illustrations. More
Houston, TX: A-To-Z Publishing, 2002. Presumed first paperback Edition. Presumed first printing. Trade paperback. xv, [1], 456, [8]p. Illustrations. More
Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, c1991. First Printing. 24 cm, 391, acid-free paper, illus., map, some sticker residue on DJ. More
Bethesda, MD: Quill & Brush, c1984. 26 cm, 238, illus. Inscribed by the author. More
Boston, MA: Branden Books, 1993. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 286, illus., DJ flap creased. More
Boston, MA: Branden Books, 1993. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 286, illus., light pencil marks and erasure residue in margins. More
Polity Press, 2005. Presumed first paperback edition/first printing. Trade paperback. xxviii, 196 pages. Index. Inscription (to David King) signed by both authors. After Terror presents sustained reflections by some of the world's most celebrated thinkers on the most pressing question of our time: how can we find ways to defuse the ticking bombs of terrorism and excessive interventions against it? It offers an antidote to the fatalistic global holy war perspective that afflicts much contemporary thought, focusing instead on the principles, issues, and acts needed to shift course from alienation and conflict to a path of sanity and goodwill among cultures and civilizations. The aim of the book is to advance contemporary thinking on the causes and implications of 9/11 and thus provide the essential elements of a blueprint for humanity. More
Bloomington, IN: Xlibris Corporation, 2008. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. 193, [1] pages. Illustrations. Endnotes. Some weakness at the boards noted. Translated from the original Korean version If I were a Bird (Paju: Hangil Art, 2004) by Mi-won Kim Goldsmith. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads To Dear Seenae With admiration for your talent and gratitude for your effort to make this book possible. March 30, 2008 Yong Ku. Born of wealthy parents, but shunned by his father, Yong Ku Ahn (1928-2013) suffered through a stormy and traumatic childhood, and in his loneliness, taught himself to play the violin. Born in 1928 in Wonsan, in what is today North Korea, Ahn's early childhood included parental rejection and a debilitating bout of polio that cut him off from his family and their social milieu. It was music and the violin in particular that saved him. After World War II, Ahn began his professional education. He studied in Germany, Austria, and London with some of the greatest violin teachers of the 20th century, fighting incredible obstacles all the time, but he never gave up. In later years, after teaching in the U.S., Yong Ku, who joined the faculty at the esteemed Peabody Conservatory of Music, not only become known internationally as a great teacher but went back to Korea to play an active role in the Korean reunification effort, making several trips to North Korea. His fascinating and inspiring story of triumph over tragedy set against a backdrop of Korea's liberation from Japanese rule and the Korean War is told with great feeling and humility and will inspire young people, especially young musicians, of all nationalities. More
Glenn, MI: Legna Press, 2007. First edition. First edition [stated[. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. 357 p. Illustrations. Index. More
New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1988. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 245, bibliography, index, pencil erasure on front endpaper, DJ slightly soiled and slight edge wear. More
Washington, DC: National Defense University, [1996]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 91, wraps, maps. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: GPO, 2001. Reprint Edition. 58, wraps, illus., selected readings. The Korean War Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Edition. More
n.p. Air Information Division, 1959. Second Edition. Quarto, 118, wraps, covers worn and faded: small tears, small stains, ink name on front cover. More
Maxwell Air Force Base , AL: Air University Press, 1992. Tenth Edition [stated]. viii, 107, [1] pages. Footnotes. Topics covered include Taking Command, Leadership--The Key to Mission Accomplishment, People Leadership Programs--Military, People Leadership Programs--Civilians, Using Local Assistance, Unit and Self-Evaluation. Contains Appendix, Critique Form. More
New York, NY: Metropolitan Books [Henry Holt and Company], 2006. First U.S. Edition [stated], First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xii, 483, [1] pages. Includes Map, Preface, Author's note, Notes, Acknowledgments, and Index. Small black mark on bottom edge of the book. Slight scuffing on front and back dust jacket. Altu Taner Akçam (born in Ardahan, Turkey, October 23, 1953) is a Turkish-German historian and sociologist. He is one of the first Turkish academics to acknowledge and openly discuss the Armenian Genocide, and is recognized as a "leading international authority" on the subject. Akçam argues for an attempt to reconcile the differing Armenian and Turkish narratives of the genocide, and to move away from the behavior which uses those narratives to support national stereotypes. "We have to rethink the problem and place both societies in the centre of our analysis. This change of paradigm should focus on creating a new cultural space that includes both societies, a space in which both sides have the chance to learn from each other." More
Houston, TX: John M. Hardy Publishing, Inc., 2016. First Printed Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xxi, [1], 354 pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by Roger Friedman on fep. Inscription reads Dear Paul, My Team Manager & great friend-Thanks for being here tonight. My Best, Roger 10/23/16. The heartbreaking currents of August 1, 1966 still ripple through the history of the University of Texas and in the memory of the victims of Charles Whitman. That was the day the engineering student at the University of Austin rode the elevator to the top of the 30 story university tower armed with seven firearms and a foot locker filled with ammunition, food, and supplies. His "reverse siege" of the campus and surrounding area lasted 96 minutes, during which he shot 56 persons, 14 fatally. When the murders of his wife and mother, plus the death of a victim in 2001 from wounds sustained that day are included, the total horror was 17 killed and 31 wounded. It was the first of what has become a sorry and sorrowful chain of similar events - campus mass shootings - in the United States. The former Director of Legal Services of the Texas Municipal League, Monte left TML in 2002 and in 2007 founded Akers & Akers. Mr. Akers became well-known to most Texas cities through conferences, speeches, educational training sessions, publications, and legislative advocacy. Two months after Roger Freidman graduated from high school in Austin, his closest childhood friend, Paul Sonntag, was shot and killed by the Tower sniper. More
New York, N.Y. Random House, 1994. First Edition, Stated. Hardcover. xi, [1], 592, [4] pages. Selective Glossary. Inscribed For Jim Trefil, phisicist, from V. A., lyricist; my best wishes. V. Aksyonov. Chapters are Scythian Helmets; The Kremlin and Its Neighborhood; First Intermission; Second Intermission; The Chopin Cure; The General Line; The Theatrical Avant-Garde; Trotsky's on the Wall; Third Intermission; Fourth Intermission; The Village of Gorelovo and the Luch Collective Farm; Bags of Oxygen; Keen Eyes, Doves, and Little Stars; Tennis, Surgery, and Defensive Measures; The Charlatan Organ Grinder; Life-Giving Bacilli; Firth Intermission, Sixth Intermission; Count Olsufiev's Mansion; Indestructible and Legendary; Come on, Girls, Lend a Hand, Beauties! Above the Eternal Rest; I Recommend That You Not Cry! "I Dream of Hunchbacked Tiflis"; Marble Steps; Seventh Intermission; and Eighth Intermission; Listen--the Thump of Boots; Fireworks by Night; Underground Bivouac, First Intermission, Second Intermission, Dry Rations, Le Bemol; The Poor Boys; The Special Strike Force, Third Intermission, Fourth Intermission; Professor and Student; Clouds in Blue; Guest of the Kremlin; The Master of the Kremlin; Firth Intermission; Sixth Intermission; Professor and Student; Clouds in Blue; Guest of the Kremlin; The Master of the Kremlin; Firth Intermission; Sixth Intermission; Summer, Youth; A Sentimental Direction; We'll Waltz in the Kremlin; Officers' Candidate School; Seventh Intermission; Eighth Intermission; A Concert for the Front; Vertuti Militari; Temptation by Word; The Ozone Layer; The Path of October; Ninth Intermission; and Tenth Intermission. More
New York, N. Y. Random House, 1999. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. xii, 482, [2] pages. Inscribed to Willy and Kathleen Warner, from their Foxhall, as well as Porcupine Cave, friend Vasya Ansyonov on January 16, 2000. Chapters cover The Procession; The Boulevard; The Premiere; The Terrace; The Sound of the Old Woman; The Lion in the Alioto; Miracle in Atlanta; The Border; Three Points of View; At Night on the Piazza Cicerna; A Quote; and A Meeting. Derived from a Kirkus review: It’s the picaresque history of singer-actor Alexander “Sasha” Korbach’s 13-year (1982—95) odyssey in and out of favor with Soviet authorities, pursuit of the good life in America, and lifelong search for a personal aesthetic—a “new sweet style” compounded of abstract universal and mundane specific elements. Aksyonov tells Sasha’s often beguiling story in a voice that addresses the reader directly. Aksyonov’s ego-driven antihero is an engaging bundle of sexual and creative energies, and the parade of characters orbiting around him—his enthusiastically Americanized ex- wife Anisia, fellow Russian-Americans like Bellovian hustler Tikhomir Barevyatnikov and sexual gameswoman Lenore Yablonsky, and especially Sasha’s American mistress Nora Mansour and her father, his “fourth cousin,” department-store millionaire philanthropist Stanley Korbach. They all have their own unruly reality, and help broaden the novel’s scope. The details of Sasha’s several careers-as filmmaker, professor, and “chairman of the Moscow branch of the Korbach Fund”-are also cunningly manipulated to bring the story to an absolutely stunning comic-apocalyptic conclusion in Jerusalem. Aksyonov’s fiction is well worth it. More
New York: Random House, 1987. First edition. Stated. Hardcover. 227, [2] p. DJ is price clipped. Here the acclaimed Russian emigre novelist Vassily Aksyonov offers an exuberant chronicle of his encounters with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, as he makes the United States his home. One of the leading Soviet writers of his generation--and one of the most popular--Aksyonov captured the spirit of Russia's Western-oriented youth in the sixties and their celebration of American culture. In 1980, he was forced to emigrate when his masterwork, The Burn, was published in the West. Now he compares America in the flesh to the mythical America of the Russian imagination. He follows American politics, offering hilarious commentary on presidential campaigns, teaches Russian literature to "The children of suburbia," scorns the bohemian life in New York, becomes an avid Redskins fan, and relishes the European charm and pointed contradictions of life in the nation's capital, where he and his wife finally hang their hats. Most of all, however, Aksyonov celebrates the endless variety of American life, and through his eyes, even the "notoriously checked trousers and flower-laden hats" of the elderly become signs of vibrancy rather than bad taste. As Aksyonov is "sucked into the great big wonderful world of American provincialism," we learn a great deal about Russian preconceptions--and a great deal about ourselves. More
New York, N.Y. Random House, 1987. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. [8], 277, [5] pages. Illustrated chapter numbers. A few musical notes at the end. Includes Preface. This copy is inscribed on the fep to Jim Thifale [?]with very best wishes of V. Aksyonov. Here the acclaimed Russian emigre novelist Vassily Aksyonov offers an exuberant chronicle of his encounters with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, as he makes the United States his home. One of the leading Soviet writers of his generation--and one of the most popular--Aksyonov captured the spirit of Russia's Western-oriented youth in the sixties and their celebration of American culture. In 1980, he was forced to emigrate when his masterwork, The Burn, was published in the West. Now he compares America in the flesh to the mythical America of the Russian imagination. He follows American politics, offering hilarious commentary on presidential campaigns, teaches Russian literature to "The children of suburbia," scorns the bohemian life in New York, becomes an avid Redskins fan, and relishes the European charm and pointed contradictions of life in the nation's capital, where he and his wife finally hang their hats. Most of all, however, Aksyonov celebrates the endless variety of American life, and through his eyes, even the "notoriously checked trousers and flower-laden hats" of the elderly become signs of vibrancy rather than bad taste. As Aksyonov is "sucked into the great big wonderful world of American provincialism," we learn a great deal about Russian preconceptions--and a great deal about ourselves. More
New York: Random House, 2004. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [8], 223, [7] pages. Ex-library with the usual library markings. Tipping his hat to Agatha Christie, Akunin assembles a colorful cast of suspects--including a secretive Japanese doctor, a professor who specialized in rare Indian artifacts, a pregnant Swiss woman, and an English aristocrat with an appetite for collecting Asian treasures--all of whom are confined together until the crime is solved. As the Leviathan steams toward Calcutta, will Fandorin be able to out-investigate Gauche and discover who the killer is, even as the ship's passengers are murdered, one by one? Boris Akunin's latest page-turner transports the reader back to the glamourous, dangerous past in a richly atmospheric tale of suspense on the high seas. Boris Akunin is the pen name of Grigori Chkhartishvili (born 20 May 1956), a Russian writer. He is best known as writer of detective and historical fiction. He is also an essayist and literary translator. Grigory Chkhartishvili has also written under pen names Anatoly Brusnikin, Anna Borisova, and Akunin-Chkhartishvili. Under his given name of Grigory Chkhartishvili, he serves as editor-in-chief of the 20-volume Anthology of Japanese Literature, chairman of the board of a large "Pushkin Library " and is the author of the book The Writer and Suicide. He has also contributed literary criticism and translations from Japanese, American and English literature under his own name. Since 1998 he has been writing fiction under the pseudonym “B. Akunin ". Decoding "B" as "Boris" appeared a few years later, when the writer began to be frequently interviewed. More
Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1952. Reprint. Ninth printing, 1968. Hardcover. 102, [2] p. More
Washington, DC: Search for Common Ground, 1998. First Printing. 125, wraps, footnotes, covers slightly worn and soiled. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Originally published as a United Nations document. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xiv, [2], 304 p. Selected Bibliography. Index. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 359, [7] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Richard D. Alba (born December 22, 1942) is an American sociologist, who is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is known for developing assimilation theory to fit the contemporary, multi-racial era of immigration, with studies in America, France and Germany. Alba earned his B.A. in 1963 and Ph.D. in 1974 from Columbia University. Alba's text on assimilation theory (written with Victor Nee), Remaking the American Mainstream (2003) won the Thomas & Znaniecki Award of the American Sociological Association and the Eastern Sociological Society’s Mirra Komarovsky Award. It was one of the most highly cited works in sociology. Alba has also written about the historical realities of assimilation, using Italian Americans to exemplify them. His book, Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America, summarizes his thinking on the assimilation of the so-called white ethnics. More
Albany, OR: Albany Enterprises, Inc., 1969. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Circular slide rule with separate instruction manual (pamphlet). The diameter of the tool is approximately 8.25 inches. On the one side there a series of circles with figures, including C and F temperature, and abbreviations for the elements. There are two clear plastic arms, one labeled S and the other L. On the reverse side there is a slide with aperture and sections on each side under Element for group/period, atomic number/atomic weight, crystal structure/Transformation temperature, Lattice Parameter A/Atoms per unit cell; Melting Point/Heat of Fusion, Boiling Point/Heat of Vaporization. Specific Heat/Electrical Resistivity, 1st Ionization potential/neutron absorption. Oxidation States/Acid Base Properties, Atomic Radius/Density, Ionic Radius/Molar Volume Covalent Radius, Electron/Structure. There are lists on either side of Symbol Element and conversion factors at the bottom. This is in an appropriately shaped leather pouch. Accompanying this device/rule is an Instruction Manual for At-CULATOR: The Circular rule for interconverting weight and atomic percentages. This was written by Laurance L. Oden, Ph.D. a research chemist. It is 12 pages, counting the covers. It has illustrations. It provides a description of the AT-CULATOR, the Operation of the AT-CULATOR (including interconverting weight and atomic percentages and Circular Slide rule operations (multiplication, division, combined operations, and proportion). It then addresses the Theory of the AT-CULATOR and provides practice problems and solutions. Dr. Oden appears at some point to have joined the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines. More