New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. Book Club Edition. 183, illus., recommended reading, index, some wear and small tears to DJ edges, some soiling to rear DJ The author was the founder of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. In this book, he recaps the astronomical setting and the early history of life, then focuses on intelligence and the brain: how the brain evolved, the way it works, how it balances instinct and reason, what it is evolving into. More

Place_Pub: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967. First Printing. 1164, illus., bibliography, notes, index, some soiling & spotting to fore-edge, DJ soiled: small tears, small pieces missing. More

New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1978. First Printing. 671, illus., notes, bibliography, index, some wear & small tears along top & bottom edges of DJ. More

New York: Pocket Books, 1991. First Edition. First Printing. 210, illus., some page discoloration. More

Place_Pub: New York: The Century Foundation Press, 2004. 152, wraps, tables, appendices, notes, index, crease in margin of front cover and several pages. More

Washington, DC: Center for Study of Intelligence, CIA History Staff, 1993. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Trade paperback. 28 cm. xxii, [2], 297, [7] pages. Oversized--format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Wraps. Illustrations. Map. Appendix. Contains estimates of the 1950s which portray the Soviet Union as aggressive but unwilling to take foolish risks. The question became to determine what risks the Soviet Union would be willing to take in any given circumstance. Scott A. Koch was a member of the CIA History Staff, joining it in 1992. Prior to that he had bee a military analyst in the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence. He earned a Doctorate in History from Duke University in 1990. More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1987. First Printing. 424, illus., appendix, index, some soiling to DJ and slight edge wear. More

New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1991. First Printing. Hardcover. xvi, [2], 393, [5] pages. Occasional footnotes. Chronology. CIA Cast of Characters. Introduction by L. Fletcher Prouty. Appendix. Index. Mark Lane (February 24, 1927 – May 10, 2016) was an American attorney, New York state legislator, civil rights activist, and Vietnam war-crimes investigator. In 1959, Lane helped found the Reform Democrat movement within the New York Democratic Party. He was elected with the support of Eleanor Roosevelt and presidential candidate John F. Kennedy (JFK) to the New York Legislature in 1960. He is best known as a leading researcher, author, and conspiracy theorist on the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. From his 1966 number-one bestselling critique of the Warren Commission, Rush to Judgment, to Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK, published in 2011, Lane wrote at least four major works on the JFK assassination and no fewer than ten books overall. More

New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1972. First Edition. 269, illus., notes, bibliography, index, DJ slightly soiled, slight wear to top and bottom edges of DJ, ink name on front flyleaf. More

Livermore, CA: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2009. Revision 1. Brochure. Format is approximately 17 inches by 11 inches, folded in half, resulting in four panels of 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Color illustrations. This is a description of the Global Security Directorate of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federal research facility in Livermore, California, United States, founded by the University of California, Berkeley in 1952. Originally a branch of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Lawrence Livermore laboratory became autonomous in 1971 and was designated a national laboratory in 1981. In 2012, the laboratory had the synthetic chemical element livermorium (element 116) named after it. LLNL was established in 1952 as the University of California Radiation Laboratory at Livermore, an offshoot of the existing UC Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley. It was intended to spur innovation and provide competition to the nuclear weapon design laboratory at Los Alamos in New Mexico, home of the Manhattan Project that developed the first atomic weapons. Edward Teller and Ernest Lawrence, director of the Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, are regarded as the co-founders of the Livermore facility. The new laboratory was sited at a former naval air station of World War II. It was already home to several UC Radiation Laboratory projects that were too large for its location in the Berkeley Hills above the UC campus, including one of the first experiments in the magnetic approach to confined thermonuclear reactions. Southeast of Berkeley, the Livermore site provided much greater security for classified projects. More

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982. First Printing. 332, illus., maps, appendices, bibliography, index, damp stains to rear of board & to fore-edge (no pages stuck together). More

Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1968. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. xiv, 480, [4] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Biographical Notes. Index. Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart (31 October 1895 – 29 January 1970), commonly known throughout most of his career as Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, was a British soldier, military historian and military theorist. In the 1920s and later he wrote a series of military histories that proved influential among strategists. He argued that frontal assault was a strategy that was bound to fail at great cost in lives, as happened in 1914–1918. He instead recommended the "indirect approach" and reliance on fast-moving armored formations. The experiences he suffered on the Western Front profoundly affected him for the rest of his life. He worked as the military correspondent of The Daily Telegraph from 1925 to 1935, and of The Times from 1935 to 1939. As Prime Minister in 1937, Chamberlain placed Liddell Hart in a position of influence behind British grand strategy of the late thirties. n 1954, Liddell Hart published his most influential work, Strategy. More