New York, N.Y. W. H. Freeman and Company, 1997. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xii, 362, [10] pages. Heavily illustrated, including 10 color plates. Some Hebrew and Yiddish but this is an English language work. Inscribed by the author (Roald Hoffmann) on the front free endpaper. Inscription reads: For Maxine and family with friendship, Roald, in Ithaca, 1997. Includes a post care with a photograph of Cordoba and a hand written note which states: Dear Maxine, You don't have to be religious, etc. to enjoy this book. See a good photo of me in Plate 6. with affection Roald 8/28/97. Includes Preface, Epilogue, and How We Came to Old Wine, New Flasks, With a Little Help From Our Friends. Also includes Notes, Credits, Glossary of Hebrew and Yiddish, and Index, as well as chapters on Is Nature Natural; A Sukkah from an Elephant; You Must Not Deviate to the Right or the Left; Bitter Waters Run Sweet; The Flag That Came out of the Blue: A Play in Three Acts and Two Intermezzi; Signs and Portents: No Parking in the Courtroom; Pure/Impure; and Camel Caravans in the Pentagon. Roald Hoffmann (born Roald Safran; July 18, 1937) is a Polish-American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He has also published plays and poetry. He is the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Emeritus, at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York. Hoffmann received the 1981 Nobel Prize in chemistry, sharing it with Japanese chemist Kenichi Fukui. Shira Leibowitz Schmidt is an engineer, translator, essayist, mother of six, and teacher of English as a foreign language at Netanya Academic College in Israel. More

Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1995. Revised edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. xi, [1], 239, [3] p. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. More

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1997. Presumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. viii, 215, [1] p. Illustrations. Index. More

New York: NewMarket Press, 1996. First Edition. First Printing. 314, illus., maps, notes, bibliography, index. More

London: Inst. for Strategic Studies, 1967. 51, wraps, maps, notes, appendices. More

London: Institute of Jewish Affairs, 1996. Fifth Edition. 24 cm, 344, wraps, illus., index, some wear and soiling to covers, rear cover creased. More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 302, illus., index, DJ quite worn and soiled. More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. xxii, 675, [7] pages. Main Characters. Illustrations. Sources. Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Walter Isaacson (born May 20, 1952) is an American writer and journalist. He is the University Professor of History at Tulane University. He has been the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C., chairman and CEO of CNN and Managing Editor of Time. He has written biographies of Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and Henry Kissinger. Isaacson is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was awarded its 2013 Benjamin Franklin Medal. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. In 2014, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Isaacson for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities. More

Tel Aviv: Israel Periodicals, 1957. Approx. 150, some ink underlining to text, ink name on front board, ink name & pencil erasure on front endpaper, boards somewhat worn/soiled. More

New York: Random House, [1970]. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 155, ink name on flyleaf, DJ worn at edges with small tears. More

Hoboken, NJ: Ktav Pub. House, c1992. 24 cm, 180, illus., references, one sheet of project ephemera laid in. Approbation by Ehud Olmert, Mayor of Jerusalem. More

New York: Collier Books, 1973. Revised Edition. First Collier Books Edition [stated]. Presumed First Printing. Trade paperback. 410, [2] p. maps. 21 cm. Occasional footnotes. Index. Previous owner's mailing label on half-title page. Embossed stamp on title page. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8 inches. Translation of Megilat yisurin. Originally published as The Scroll of Agony, this is a classic depiction of the Holocaust. Carefully hidden and preserved in a kerosene can, twenty years after the annihilation of the Warsaw Ghetto, it was discovered. Now reissued with recently found entries spanning April 4, 1941 through May 2, 1942, and a new Preface by Abraham H. Katsh, it is an extraordinary first-person record of the Nazi occupation and destruction of Warsaw's Jewish community. From an on-line posting on Abraham I. Katsh: "Polish-born American educator and researcher who was a scholar of Judaica and was credited with the addition of modern Hebrew to the curricula of American colleges; during the Cold War he persuaded Soviet officials to allow him to study and microfilm--and thus make available to scholars--thousands of Jewish documents they had seized and hidden (b. Aug. 10, 1908, --d. July 21, 1998)." More

New York: The Reconstructionist Press, 1960. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xvi, 565 p. Notes. Index. More