New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1961. Later printing. Hardcover. xi, [1], 657, [1] pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Winner of National Book Award, 1962. DJ has some wear and soiling. In this influential book Mumford explored the development of urban civilizations. Harshly critical of urban sprawl, Mumford argues that the structure of modern cities is partially responsible for many social problems seen in western society. While pessimistic in tone, Mumford argues that urban planning should emphasize an 'organic' relationship between people and their living spaces. Mumford uses the example of the medieval city as the basis for the "ideal city," and claims that the modern city is too close to the Roman city (the sprawling megalopolis) which ended in collapse; if the modern city carries on in the same vein, Mumford argues, then it will meet the same fate as the Roman city. Mumford wrote critically of urban culture believing the city is "a product of earth ... a fact of nature ... man's method of expression." Further, Mumford recognized the crises facing urban culture, distrustful of the growing finance industry, political structures, fearful that a local community culture was not being fostered by these institutions. Mumford feared urbanization, politics, and alienation. Mumford wrote: "The physical design of cities and their economic functions are secondary to their relationship to the natural environment and to the spiritual values of human community." Lewis Mumford (October 19, 1895 – January 26, 1990) was a historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and critic. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a broad career as a writer. More

Washington DC: U. S. Department of Energy, 2006. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. vii, [1], 244 pages. Maps. Illustrations. Acronyms and Abbreviations. Endnotes. This work was written in conjunction with the opening of the Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada. This was a joint project of the Department of Energy Office of History and Heritage Resources and the National Nuclear Security Administration. Since its establishment in 1957, the Office of History and Heritage Resources (OHHR) has consistently sought to maintain a level of excellence in its publications that meets all scholarly standards and yet is accessible to the general public. At the same time, OHHR has partnered with DOE program offices and field sites to provide historical products that are useful and fill specific departmental needs. In this effort, OHHR has produced a broad range of prize-winning monographs, shorter histories, articles, chronologies, and other publications. Volume II, Underground Nuclear Weapons Testing, 1957-1992 was projected but does not appear to have been completed. More

New York: Scholastic Book Services, 1973. Second printing [stated]. Trade paperback. The format is approximately 5.25 inches by 8.125 inches.[4], 185, [3] pages. Illustrations. Map. Bibliography. Index. Decorative front cover. Cover has some wear and soiling. Spine chipped at bottom. Some page discoloration noted. Designation of TX 1912 on front cover. Lt-Colonel Gene Gurney was a U.S. Air Force officer and a prolific author on many different subjects. Although much of his work was concerned with aviation history, he wrote books on several other topics as well. Gene was born in Freemont, Ohio on July 5, 1924. He earned a BS in military science from the University of Maryland, an MS and Ph.D. in Government Administration from George Washington University and from Pacific Western University. Gene served in the Air Force for 30 years as command pilot with Strategic Air Command, author of military books and public information officer. His military career included arresting a German spy after WWII. He was awarded two Legion of Merit awards and two Bronze Stars. He retired in 1973 as Lieutenant Colonel. Gene started his next career at NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He retired in 2005 after 30 years of service. Gene served his country over 60 years. He managed to publish 59 non-fiction books under Gene Gurney on various subjects such as military and aviation history. More

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1866. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Disbound. Wraps. 126, pages. Tabular information. RARE surviving copy. Disbound. Front cover worn and discolored at spine. Rear cover missing. Spine quite chipped. Ex-library with some of the usual library stamps and markings. A few notations, likely library related, noted. The United States National Cemetery System is a system of 164 cemeteries in the United States and its territories. The authority to create military burial places came during the American Civil War, in an act passed by the U. S. Congress on July 17, 1862. The Department of the Army maintains 2 national cemeteries, Arlington National Cemetery and United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery. This publication transmits the names of United States soldiers interred in the following States during the Rebellion: Arkansas, California, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, and Nevada; and the Territories of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, and Washington. This was published for the information of surviving comrades and friends. More

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1868. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 16 pages. Tabular information. RARE surviving copy. Front cover worn and discolored at spine. Cover has some soiling and chipping. Spine quite chipped. Edge tears noted. Ex-library with some of the usual library stamps and markings. A few notations, likely library related, noted. The United States National Cemetery System is a system of 164 cemeteries in the United States and its territories. The authority to create military burial places came during the American Civil War, in an act passed by the U. S. Congress on July 17, 1862. The Department of the Army maintains 2 national cemeteries, Arlington National Cemetery and United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery. This index was published for the information of surviving comrades and friends, in connection with the published Rolls of Honor. The alphabetical index was arranged by States, to the various places of internment specified in the Rolls of Honor. As no index was contained in any of the volumes of the Rolls of Honor, the present work forms a very valuable aid in searching for the manes of the dead who are supposed to have been killed or buried at any specified place. More

New York: Smithmark Publishers Inc., 1992. Smithmark edition [stated]. Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. The format is approximately 8.75 inches by 9,25 inches. 45, [1] pages. Illustrated cover. Illustrations (some in color). Index. No DJ present. This is one of the Classic Warplanes series. Discusses airframe design, history and development, structure, operational requirements, and service life of the German fighter that was the backbone of the Luftwaffe. Alfred Price FRHistS, (1936 - January 29, 2017) was an author on aviation and related topics. He wrote over 40 books and 200 magazine articles. Price served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) as an aircrew officer. Price received his Ph.D. in history from Loughborough University. After his retirement from the air force, Price wrote extensively on aviation and military topics. He was named a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. More

Austin, Texas: Best Printing Co., Inc. [Printed by], 1978. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 255, [1] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Bibliography. Appendix. DJ is price clipped and has some wear and soiling. Gift note, not from the author, on fep. Mother Patricia Gunning was the author of "To Texas With a history of the Order of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament" lived to the age of 86. A member of the local order since 1922 the former teacher and superioress general of the Incarnate's Word Convent was known for her successful, and sometimes unusual, fund-raising efforts Those efforts ranged from seeking donations in night clubs to in 1948 purchasing the land where Incarnate Word Academy now stands to playing the local Name That Tune" in 1939 when she and another sister won $300. Although barred by church officials from the nationally televised show surrogate players eventually won $5000 for order. A native of Ireland Mother Patricia moved from that country when she joined the order. She officially retired in 1962 but continued teaching Latin. Mother Patricia wrote "To Texas With Love" which was published in 1971 to coincide with the Corpus Christi convent's centennial year. More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 277, [1] pages. Maps, A Note on Methods, Translation, Style, and Sources. Signed by the author on the title page. Minor wear and staining to lower corner of rear of DJ and rear cover. James Verini is an American magazine journalist and book author. He is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine. He also writes for National Geographic, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Atavist, Foreign Policy, and others. His book They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate was well received. In 2015, he received a National Magazine Award for feature writing for "Love and Ruin," an article in The Atavist about the history of American intervention in Afghanistan. He won a 2015 George Polk Award for "Should the United Nations Wage War to Keep Peace?", about the civil war in Democratic Republic of Congo, in National Geographic. More

San Francisco/New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 282, [4] pages. Resource Guide and Bibliography. Addendum. Top corner of several pages creased. Inscribed by the author (Saunders) on the fep. Inscription reads To Victoria May your work continue to create change Tedd Saunders. Signed with sentiment (Best Wishes) by John F. Kerry on the fep. Uses case studies to show business decisions that produce profits and work for the environment. Foreword by U.S. Senator John F. Kerry. Topics addressed include: Food Processing, Service Industries, Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Plastics, Petroleum, and Eco-Marketing. Mr. Saunders is often credited with pioneering urban ecotourism worldwide. Since 1989, he's been recognized for creating some of the most innovative sustainability models in the world's largest service industry – travel and tourism. In 1992 Mr. Saunders formed EcoLogical Solutions, which has advised The White House, HRH The Prince of Wales' Business Leaders Forum, Harvard University, Taj Hotels of India, Choice Hotels International and hotel properties around the globe. Under his leadership, EcoLogical Solutions has earned many prestigious awards including a United States Presidential Gold Medal, Energy Star Partner of The Year honors and British Airways' Tourism For Tomorrow Prize. Author of The Bottom Line of Green is Black, his team's groundbreaking work has also earned exceptional feature stories for clients in The New York Times, CNN, Travel + Leisure, NBC News and Conde Nast Traveler. More

Minneapolis, MN: Blue Book Publications, Inc., 2013. Thirty-Fourth Edition [stated]. Trade paperback. 2408 pages. Illustrations. Glossary. Reference Sources. Proof Marks. Trademark Index. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. This is a snap-shot, during the opening period of the twenty-first century, not only of gun values, but of hunting and other sports, collecting, repairing, and attitudes toward gun rights. Steven Peter “S.P.” Fjestad was introduced to firearms and hunting at a young age. Steve attended the University of Minnesota and North Dakota State University and he began working for Burgess Construction Company, who were building the interstate at that time. His love of firearms would become his life’s work after he began attending shows on the gun show circuit. It was obvious Steve had a knack for firearms as he bought a Winchester Model 21 Grand American in 1976 on layaway, while working road construction- something worth significantly more today. In 1980, Steve moved to Minneapolis and began working as a gun broker with Investment Rarities. A year later, he took over the manuscript of the annual Blue Book of Gun Values. In 1988, Steve and three others founded Blue Book Publications, which over the years expanded into a robust publishing company with more than 100 titles in print and a full online offering. The 40th Anniversary Edition Blue Book of Gun Values was published in early 2019. Steve was into collectibles, specifically fine firearms. Steve authored hundreds of articles that have appeared in American Rifleman, Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, Guns & Ammo, The Shooting Sportsman, and other magazines as well as making many appearances over the years on TV. More

Washington DC: The Preservation Press (National Trust for Historic Preservation), 1985. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Unpaginated (approximately 70 pages). Illustrations (Black and White). Foreword by Diane Maddex. In this award-winning book noted photographer Balthazar Korab creates a fascinating new game--find the letters of the alphabet in, on and around American buildings ranging from Victorian gingerbread to angular lines of steel. Every letter can be found in architecture either as a basic structural form or as a decorative, eye-catching detail added on as the inspiration of the architect or the whim of the builder. The words of famous architectural observers from Goethe to Wright and from Victor Hugo to Robert Venturi are carefully paired with dramatic photos to produce an exciting array of ideas about what architecture can be. Diane Maddex, Hon. AIA, is an award-winning book publisher and author of a dozen books, including six on Frank Lloyd Wright. Over the last twenty-five years, her company, Archetype Press, has produced scores of titles on architecture and interior design, photography, and historic places. Its garden books showcase the White House garden, historic Georgetown in Washington, D.C., children’s gardens, and the gardens of the Smithsonian Institution and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. A cofounder and director of the National Trust’s Preservation Press, she has also been a journalist and served on the design review board in the new town of Reston, Va. For her service to the profession, the American Institute of Architects awarded her its highest honor for non-architects, honorary membership. More

New York: Time Inc. Books, 2017. Special Edition [Stated]. Wraps. 96 pages plus covers. Illustrated covers. Illustrations (most in color). Contents include Meats & Poultry; Seafood; Vegetarian; Appetizers, Sides & Salads; and Desserts. Also included is a nutritional analysis and a recipe index. Includes 78 best-ever favorites. Discusses hearty entrees, quick weeknight meals, and decadent desserts. Cooking Light is an American monthly food and lifestyle magazine founded in 1987. From quick & easy weeknight dishes to lightened-up holiday classics, you'll discover hundreds of new favorite recipes for every occasion. Each issue of Cooking Light brings you dishes the whole family will love, made with easy-to-find ingredients that also fit your budget, plus time-saving tips so you can always incorporate nutritious meals into your busy schedule. It's never been easier to enjoy a healthy lifestyle! And since every recipe is tested and tasted in our Test Kitchen, you can rest assured that your dishes will turn out the first time, every time — guaranteed. More

Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1990. New and Expanded Edition [stated] First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xxi, [3], 467, [5] pages. Endpaper maps. Footnotes. Illustrations. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. No DJ present. Includes a Foreword, Preface to the First Edition. Table of Equivalent Ranks, Table of Equivalent Deck Designations. An atrocious but readable copy. This copy has weakness in front and back boards, has significant damp staining and soiling (but all pages are separate and intact) and has black marks on fep. German eyewitness account of the legendary World War II battleship up to her destruction, and his life thereafter in prisoner of war camps. Richard Alexander Conrad Bernhard Burkard von Müllenheim-Rechberg (Spandau, 25 June 1910 — Herrsching am Ammersee, 1 June 2003) was a German diplomat and author. In May 1941, he experienced the sinking of the battleship Bismarck as fourth artillery officer with the rank of lieutenant commander, thereby becoming the highest-ranking survivor of the ship. He was rescued by the British cruiser Dorsetshire and, after initial detention in England, was transported to Bowmanville prisoner of war camp in Ontario, Canada. In 1952, he entered the diplomatic service of the Federal Foreign Office. He was a member of the West German NATO delegation in Paris in 1955 and participated at the NATO conference in Bonn in 1956. In 1965, he became the West German ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He continued his diplomatic career as a consul general in Toronto in 1968. He ended his diplomatic career as his country's ambassador to Tanzania from 1971 to 1975. More