Washington DC: The Nathan Hale Institute, c1990. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. [4], 36 pages. Index. Paul M. Joyal (born 1954) is an American security analyst and media commentator who frequently comments on political and security matters concerning Russia and former Soviet countries. He was a staff member for the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Joyal holds a master's degree in international relations from the Catholic University of America. In 1991, Joyal founded a security consulting company, Intercon International USA Inc., which published a weekly newsletter about security affairs in the former Soviet bloc. He later became a vice president at, and served as managing director at National Strategies Inc. He has been cited as an expert source by many news outlets, including Time Magazine and PBS The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. His published works include the book Fifteen Years of Espionage and "Singling out Arab-Americans," the January 21, 1991, editorial in the Washington Post. He has close ties with the government of the Republic of Georgia: in 1998 he acted as the country's first lobbyist to the U.S. Government, and he is listed as the contact for the charitable organization founded by Eduard Shevardnadze. In 2005 he spoke at the Georgian Embassy in Washington, DC, at the memorial service for Zurab Zhvania, the former speaker of the Georgian Parliament. A critic of the administration of Russian president Putin, in February 2007 Joyal told Dateline NBC that the murder of former KGB agent Litvinenko served as a warning to critics of the Putin government. A few days later, on March 1, Joyal was shot and wounded outside his home. More

Washington DC: War Department, 1941. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 456 pages. Marked RESTRICTED. Illustrations (photographs, drawings/diagrams, tabular data). Cover and some pages has some wear and soiling. Name, Rank and Branch of previous owner in ink on front cover. This was prepared under the direction of the Chief of Staff. It was issued only 10 days after the Pearl Harbor attack, but clearly had been in preparation since at least the commencement of hostilities in Europe in September 1939. This initial handbook represents that then state-of-knowlege of the United States military establishment and the assessment of the then current state-of-practice of the German Military Forces. Includes sections on: Organization and strength of units; Administration, command, and staff; Recruitment and mobilization; Uniform; Infantry; Cavalry and reconnaissance units; Small arms, close support, and antitank weapons; Field Artillery, Armored troops (Panzertruppen), Engineers, Signal Corps, Chemical warfare and smoke, Services, Police, Gendarmerie, semimilitary forces; Air Force, Tactics, and Permanent fortifications. Includes Appendixes on: I. List of Abbreviations; II. Coinage, weights, and measures; III. Road spaces; and IV. Military symbols. Also includes an index. More

Silver Spring, Maryland: Phoenix Rising, 1983. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. [4], 72 pages. Title is an adhesive label affixed to the page. The title page is inscribed by the author, Theodore F. Watts, to Mary and Bill; Inscription reads: Belated Labor Day Greetings, In Solidarity, Ted. Includes 26 black and white illustrations. Also includes information on the Advance Labor Club; Labor and the Press in 1882; Labor in the Post-Civil War Era, The Revolutionary Background; New York City: 1871-1882; The Orange Riots of 1871; The 8-Hour Day March: September 13, 1871; Paris Commune Memorial March: December 17, 1871; The 8-Hour Day Parade: June 10, 1872; Tompkins Square--1874; New York Labor and the Irish Land League--1882; The Central Labor Union of New York--1882. The Central Labor Union represented 60 unions with about 80,000 members. Its goals in planning the parade were spelled out by its Grand Marshall, William McCabe, in the minutes of the CLU meeting on the Sunday before the parade. Includes Bibliography, Appendix A--On Reviewing stand in Union Square; and Appendix B--Picnic at Wendel's Park. The very first Labor Day was held on a Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City. The day was celebrated with a picnic, concert and speeches. Ten thousand workers marched in a parade from City Hall to Union Square. Soon after that first celebration, the holiday was moved to the first Monday in September, the day we still honor. Congress passed legislation making Labor Day a national holiday in 1894. More

Washington DC: Infantry Journal Press, 1946. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 215, [1] pages. DJ is worn, torn, soiled, and chipped and is in a plastic sleeve. Elliott Duncan Cooke (August 15, 1891 - February 18, 1961) was a Brigadier-General in the U.S. Army during World War I and II. He became an expert machine gunner and participated in the Madeira Revolution. He was operating a machine gun for the United Fruit Company in South America when World War I broke out. He subsequently enlisted for the U.S. Army in Panama and was appointed Corporal in 1915. He rose through the ranks to become 1st Lt. in 1916 and accepted a commission as 2nd Lt. upon arrival in France in 1917. He was wounded at Vierzy, the Soissons offensive on July 18, 1918. Cited for bravery five times, Cooke was promoted to Lieut.-Colonel in 1940 and rose through the ranks to become Brig.-General in 1943. He served as Assistant Inspector-General in the 9th Corps Area from 1939-1941, and as Chief of Overseas Inspection Division with the Office of the Inspector-General from 1942-1946. Brig.-Gen. Cooke retired from active duty in 1950. He was decorated with the French Legion of Honor, the Croix de Guerre, the DSM, Silver Star w/OL Legion of Merit, Legion of Honor, Purple Heart, WW1 Victory Medal 2/4 bronze battle clasps and Defensive Sector clasp, WW2 Victory Medal, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, and the Distinguished Service Medal. More

Karachi: Ameena Saiyid, Oxford University Press, 1997. First Edition [stated], Second Impression [stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1],286, [2] pages. Red ink underlining and comments noted. Frontis map. Preface, Introduction, Revolution, Reforms and Rebellion; The Soviet Intervention; Soviet-Afghan War, The Geneva Accords, The Marxist Regime: Dependent Survival and Collapse; The Afghan Resistance, Transition to Mujahideen Government, The Vortex of Regional Power Rivalry, and Conclusion. Chapter Notes. Bibliography. Index. Dr. Rasul Bakhsh Rais is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, LUMS, Lahore since 2002. Dr. Rais has Ph.D. in Political Science from University of California, Santa Barbara. Before joining LUMS, he remained associated with the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad for nearly 22 years as Professor/Director, Area Study Centre and prior to that as Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations. He was Quaid-i-Azam Distinguished Professor of Pakistan Studies at Columbia University, New York for 3 years, 1991-94. He is author of Recovering the Frontier State: War, Ethnicity and State in Afghanistan, War Without Winners: Afghanistan’s Uncertain Transition after the Cold War, Indian Ocean and the Superpowers: Economic, Political and Strategic Perspectives, editor of State, Society and Democratic Change in Pakistan and with Charles H. Kennedy, Pakistan 1995. He has published widely in professional journals on political and security issues pertaining to South Asia, Indian Ocean and Afghanistan. His current research interests are: Modernism, State and Challenge of Radical Islam in Pakistan. More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. Second English Language Edition, Revised. Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. lxxi, [1], 537, [1], xliv, [4] pages. Illustrations (including fold-out). Footnotes. Preface to the First English-Language Edition. Preface to the Second English-Language Edition. Translator's Acknowledgments. Plans showing Big House of the Noruega Plantation. Glossary of Brazilian Terms Used. Bibliography. Index of Names. Index of Subjects. Gilberto de Mello Freyre KBE (March 15, 1900 – July 18, 1987) was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman, born in Recife, Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil. He is commonly associated with other major Brazilian cultural interpreters of the first half of the 20th century, such as Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and Caio Prado Júnior. His best-known work is a sociological treatise named Casa-Grande & Senzala (literally, "The main house and the slave quarters," as on a traditional plantation, although the book title is usually translated as The Masters and the Slaves). In 1962, Freyre was awarded the Prêmio Machado de Assis by the Brazilian Academy of Letters, one of the most prestigious awards in the field of Brazilian literature. Over the course of his long career, Freyre received numerous other awards, honorary degrees, and other honors both in Brazil and internationally. Examples include admission to L'ordre des Arts et Lettres (France), investiture as Grand Officier de La Légion d'Honneur (France), investiture as Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, the Gran-Cruz of the Ordem do Infante Dom Henrique (Portugal), and honorary doctorates at Columbia University and the Sorbonne. More

Richmond, VA: The William Byrd Press, 1969. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 114, [1] pages. Illustrations/Inscribed on the fep to Ms. Virginia M. Rosser With All our Best Wishes, Major General Oliver W. Lewis Major General USAF (Ret). Oliver W. Lewis, was vice president of the American Defense Preparedness Association, and as such interacted with the American Ordnance Association. Brigadier General Benedict Crowell, who had served as the Assistant Secretary of War during WWI, realized that there needed to be an approach for involving industry with national defense. In October 1919, he convened a meeting of military officers and leading manufacturers at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland to discuss this deficiency and explore what might be done. The result of this gathering was the establishment of the Army Ordnance Association. The goal of this Association was industrial preparedness, both in peacetime and in times of war. Crowell served as the Chairman of the AOA from 1920 to 1945. In 1948, the Army Ordnance Association changed its name to the American Ordnance Association, reflecting the changes brought about by the establishment of the Department of Defense. At that time, the Association broadened its technical coverage and activities to include manufacturing, emerging technologies, and supply chains for sustainment. On January 1, 1965, the Armed Forces Chemical Association and the American Ordnance Association merged and continued to address their foundational mission under the banner of the American Ordnance Association. In 1973, the name of the Association was changed to American Defense Preparedness Association – the ADPA. More

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1926. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 353, [1] pages. Frontis illustration. Preface by David Lloyd George. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some endpaper soiling. Some page foxing noted. Raymond Savage (1888-1964) was a literary agent and writer. Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, GCB, GCMG, GCVO (23 April 1861 – 14 May 1936) was an English soldier and British Imperial Governor. He fought in the Second Boer War and also in the First World War, in which he led the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the conquest of Palestine. The British succeeded in capturing Beersheba, Jaffa, and Jerusalem from October to December 1917. His forces occupied the Jordan Valley during the summer of 1918, then went on to capture northern Palestine and defeat the Ottoman Yildirim Army Group's Eighth Army at the Battle of Megiddo, forcing the Fourth and Seventh Army to retreat towards Damascus. Subsequently, the EEF Pursuit by Desert Mounted Corps captured Damascus and advanced into northern Syria. During this pursuit, he commanded T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"), whose campaign with Faisal's Arab Sherifial Forces assisted the EEF's capture of Ottoman Empire territory and fought the Battle of Aleppo, five days before the Armistice of Mudros ended the campaign on 30 October 1918. He continued to serve in the region as High Commissioner for Egypt and Sudan from 1919 until 1925. More

Aldershot: Gale & Polden, Limited, 1938. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xv, [1], 216 pages. DJ has wear, tears, chips, and soiling. Note inserted at page 7 indicates all maps face north. Half page Corrigenda insert at page 1. Frontis illustration. Maps (some with color, many folding, including large folding map in rear pocket). Footnotes. Chronological Table. Index. Stamps inside front cover and on title page indicate that this copy was for the use of His Majesty's Forces. DJ has wear, soiling, and is price clipped. Explanatory Note. Bibliographical Note. The title of this book was suggested by the fate that three notable books, each written by a military expert, had recently been published in England on Lee, Grant, and Sherman. The author was referring to Robert E. Lee, The Soldier by General Sir Frederick Maurice, Grant and Lee by General J. F. C. Fuller, and Sherman by Captain Liddell Hart. Each general in turn is held up to our admiration, yet obviously all three cannot be equally admired, and it was the aim of this work to try and strike a balance between the rival protagonists. The author cast this study in the form of an outline of events in the campaign of 1864-65, with a commentary at the end of each phase. Sections have been included on the little-studied but strictly relevant and illuminating campaigns of Generals Hood and Early. A Chronological Table was provided at the end and was designed to convey to the eye a swift and proportionate picture of the whole vase war-theatre of the '64-'65 Campaign. More

University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. Presumed First Paperback Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. ix, [3], 352, [4] pages. Footnotes. Figures/maps. Tables. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. Dr. Emily Goldman was Director of the US Cyber Command / National Security Agency Combined Action Group. She previously served as Deputy Director for Interagency Coordination, Office of Communication, USCENTCOM; Strategic Communication Advisor to the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State; and Associate Director, Support to Public Diplomacy, U.S. Department of Defense. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and was Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis from 1989 to 2008. She has published on strategic,military, and arms control policy; military innovation; revolution in military affairs; organizational change; and defense resource allocation. She has received awards and fellowships from the MacArthur, Olin, Pew and Smith Richardson Foundations, and the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Woodrow Wilson Center and the U.S. Naval War College. Her book, Power in Uncertain Times: Strategy in the Fog of Peace, was published by Stanford University Press in 2011. In 2012 she launched the Cyber Analogies Project to develop analogies to improve understanding of the cyber environment. Cyber Analogies was coedited with John Arquilla and published by the Naval Postgraduate School in 2014. More

New York City: Thomas P. deGraffenried, 1925. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [6], 282, [2] pages. Color Frontis of deGraffenried Coat-Of-Arms. Illustrations (some with color). Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads To: Ben S. Warren III with the sincere best wishes of the author Thomas deGraffenried. Benjamin Smart Warren, III was a graduate of St. Paul's School and the University of Virginia, both undergraduate and law schools. After service in the Marine Corps, he was a partner with the law firm Pattishall McAuliffe in Chicago and Washington, DC for more than 40 years. "Since 1191, Uolricus and Cuno de Gravinsried are the first mentioned of record, both by given and surname. The village of Grafenried, near Bern, is the first ancestral home of the family in Switzerland, and as early as the thirteenth century they were most numerous in that locality."--p. 18. Christopher (VI) deGraffenried was the first of the family to settle permanently in America. He married Barbara Tempest (née Needham) in 1714 at Charleston, South Carolina. They settled permanently in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Christopher died in 1742. Descendants lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Kansas and elsewhere. Includes Woodson, Allen, Beauchamp, Blewett, Boswell, Bradley, Calhoun, Christian, Clason, Cooley, Coombs, Daniel, Finney, Fontaine, Gholson, Glassgow, Gooch, Hobson, Howard, Johnson, Kirby, Lee, Love, McCaw, Maury, Powell, Reese, Rogers, Selman, Taylor, Thomas, Tidwell, Waddell, Warren, Williams, Williamson, Wilson, Woodson, Woolley and related families. More

New York: Pantheon Books, 1990. Pantheon Paperback Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Trade Paperback. Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 8 inches. xxii, 310, [2]. Footnotes. Index. Ink notes at back. Note to the Reader; Chronology, Introduction, and Index. Chapter 1: Institutions of Violence; Chapter 2 : A World of Fear; Chapter 3: Ba'thism and the Masses; Chapter 4: Authority; Chapter 5: Pan-Arabism and Iraq; Chapter 6: Formation of the Ba'th; Chapter 7: The Legitimation of Iraqi Ba'thism. Also contains Conclusion: The Final Catastrophe, and an Appendix on purges of High-ranking Officers, Ba'thists, and Politicians since July 17,1968. The author's assumptions about political behavior are relevant to the styles of reasoning employed and the kinds of evidence used. First, what leaders, parties, and citizens think and expressly say about politics matters. The words that people use are not a "reflection" of some hidden reality; they are themselves part of that reality. The problem always resides in how words and actions correspond. Important, somewhat information on the Ba'th can be found in speeches, party political programs, and the whole body of ideological artifacts. Second, despite the proclivity of those in public office to propaganda, rhetoric, chicanery, and lies, on the whole even they usually end up saying what they mean and meaning what they say. Third, the author eschews all variations of the conspiratorial view of history. The author singles out for consideration the demonstrably inverted relation between the common Iraqi perception of the pervasiveness of a hateful Western influence and the factually diminishing ability of the West to influence local events in the modern period. More

New York: Dafina Books [published by Kensington Publishing Corp.], 2006. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 291, [1] pages. Inscribed by the author on fep. Inscription reads June 2006 TO: Aunt Ba I think you will enjoy this!! Love, Salome [with happy face]. Includes Foreword by Will Smith, Acknowledgments, occasional footnotes, and chapters on Failed Influence; Commitment to Personal Influence; The Influence of Parents; The Influence of Husbands, Children, and Siblings; Influence Though Discipline; Healthy Influence; The Influence of Grooming; The Influence of Exposure; Influence in the Workplace; The Influence of Respect; The Influence of Love, Caring, and Friendship; The Influence of Faith; Influence on Purpose; The Influence of Forgiveness; The Influence of Leadership; Being Influenced; The Influence of Giving Back; Influence on Our Communities; The Power of Unrecognized Influence; and The Legacy of Influence. Includes a list of just a few of the many organizations of influence. Haunted by the tragic death of a promising young student, the author, determined to make a difference and be a positive influence, dedicates his life to helping troubled students succeed and reach their goals by thinking critically and resolving conflicts with their minds not their fists. For parents, guardians, educators--anyone who wants the best for kids, this book is an essential, inspirational reference. It's all about making a difference-not just for today, but forever. Sometimes, it only takes one special person to set a child on the right path, but more often, it does indeed take a village. The Immortality of Influence will inspire you to band together with other caring adults and start making a difference--now. More