Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1993. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 24 cm. xiv, 406, [2] pages. Illustrations. Appendix: List of Interview Subjects. Glossary. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. DJ has wear, tears chips and soiling. More than 60 Army and Marine infantrymen speak of their experience from induction, to the jungles and rice paddies of Vietnam, to their return to "The World." James R. Ebert holds a master’s degree in history and teaches in Wisconsin. More

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. [12], 180 pages. Index. DJ has some wear, soiling,chips and tears. Award-winning Roving Editor John G. Hubbell was one of the most prolific authors in the history of history's most widely read magazine, The Reader's Digest. One of his greatest achievements was an objectively detailed investigation of the Kennedy Administration's behavior during the Cuban Missile Crisis. James Daniel was a reporter of long-standing, who had worked on the national staff of Scripps-Howard and then joined Time/ He was a Neiman Fellow at Harvard and served with the Office of War Information during WWII. He then became a Roving Editor with the Reader's Digest. Strike in the West is a brilliant reconstruction of one of the central events of the Cold War era. Every account of the Cuban crisis before this had been limited by time urgency and government secrecy. Here for the first time is an account that links all the significant events of the Cuban crisis: the intricacies of Soviet deception, the unwillingness of Washington to recognize the threat for what it really was, and, finally,the largely untold story of the massive American military response after the President made his fateful decision. More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. First American Edition [stated]. Hardcover. 584 pages. Includes Introduction, Acknowledgements, Sources and References, and Index. More

Upton, Long Island, New York: Brookhaven National Laboratory, National Synchrotron Light Source, 1986. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Staplebound. [4], 66, [2] pages. Tables. Figures. Fold-out. Oversized book, measuring 11 inches by 8-1/2 inches. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Includes Executive Summary; Introduction; X-Ray Lithography Program; Cost Estimate; Schedule; and Management Plan. Also includes four appendices: List of Participants; Workshop Agenda; Room Temperature Compact Synchrotron; and Equipment for 0.25 Micron Lithography Pilot Line. The purpose of this workshop is to develop a preliminary program plan for a national research, development, and demonstration activity with the goal of a commercial 0.25 micron x-ray lithography manufacturing capability by 1995. The plan incorporates estimated costs and schedules, and includes a proposed management plan for the program. The costs, schedules, and management plan presented here are aimed at putting in place a facility capable of housing both a conventional and a superconducting magnet ring. More

Upton, NY: Brookhaven National Laboratory Associated Universities, Inc., 1986. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Tape binding. [2], ii-iii, 10, xxxcii, [1] pages. Informal Report. Oversized book, measuring 11 inches by 8-1/2 Includes Executive Summary and Recommendations; Background; Need for Synchrotron Radiation; International Competition; Technical Feasibility of X-ray Lithography; Synchrotron Performance Specifications; Synchrotron Construction Options; Recommendations; and Near-term Plan. Also includes four Appendices: Agenda; List of Attendees; Conventional Magnet Storage Rings for X-ray Lithography; and Overview of a Complete Lithography Program. More

Greenbelt, Maryland: NSA/Goddard Space Flight Center, 1982. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Various paginations (approximately 1.25 inches thick). Cover has some wear and soiling. Name of previous owner written in ink at type of spine. The Goddard Space Flight Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration organized a workshop (held on May 18-22, 1981) centered around three working groups corresponding to the three chapters in this report--a Trace Species Working Group; a Multidimensional Aspects Working Group; and a Trends and Predictions Working Group. Over 100 scientists representing most of the institutions in the world engaged in upper atmospheric research attended the workshop. At the end of the workshop, each working group prepared a summary document, and these have been assembled into this report. The basic theme for the workshop and the report was the comparison of theory and measurement. Appendix A-I, includes, in part: References, Acronyms, Stratospheric Instruments and Analysis, Chemical Kenetics and Photochemistry, and a Reference Solar Spectral Irradiance for use in a Atmospheric Modeling. More

Kansas City, MO: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC, 2005. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Spiral bound. Format is 9 inches by 11 inches, with tabbed sections. 83, [1] pages. Printed mostly on both sides of the sheet. Illustrations (mostly in color). The sections in this plan are: Summary and Contents, Gas Transfer, Materials & Analysis, Miniaturization, Responsiveness, Surety, Wireless & Sensing Systems, and Resources & Applications. This is primarily a text documents with relevant illustrations. Inside the front cover is a notice that "Recipients of this document (KCP-613-8006) shall not disseminate additional copies to anyone other than DOE personnel and DOE contractor personnel requiring access pursuant to their assigned duties." Given the passage of time, advances in technology, and the relocation of the non-nuclear operations of the National Nuclear Security Administration into more modern facilities in the Kansas City, MO area, it is understood that this limitation no longer applies. Scarce surviving copy. More

Fort Meade, MD: National Security Agency, Technology & Systems Directorate, Research and Technology Group-R, Office of Research and Technology Applications (ORTA), c1990. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Format is approximately 9 inches by 12 inches. Pocket at inside rear cover (empty). 16 pages, plus covers. Illustrations (color). Rare early surviving example of NSA's initial technology transfer outreach publications. This is a promotional publication encouraging private sector partnerships with the National Security Agency to develop and commercialize dual-use technologies. It is believed to have been produced after the passage of several Technology Transfer statues in the late 1980s and may have been produced as part of President George H. W. Bush's National Technology Initiative. The NSA Technology Transfer Program (TTP) transfers NSA-developed technology to industry, academia, and other research organizations, benefitting the economy and the Agency mission. The program has an extensive portfolio of patented technologies across multiple technology areas. NSA scientists and engineers have developed cutting-edge, cost-saving technologies. Through Patent License Agreements, Cooperative Research and Development Agreements, Open Source Software Releases, Education Partnership Agreements, and Technology Transfer Sharing Agreements, these technical advances have contributed to the creation and improvement of dual-use products both for government and the commercial marketplace. The NSA TTP offers business and industry streamlined access to NSA technology. The program identifies technologies and research capabilities, providing a single point-of-contact for drafting, negotiating, and brokering both licensing and R&D agreements. More

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1968. Presumed first paperback edition/first printing. Trade paperback. xix, [1], 245, [5] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Appendix I and II. Index. Ben W. Gilbert (born February 10, 1918, died February 28, 2007) was a journalist, editor, activist, and author. Gilbert completed a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1939. Gilbert was a city hall reporter in St. Louis, Missouri, before finding work as a reporter with the Washington Post in 1941. where he rose through the ranks to city editor in 1945 and deputy managing editor in 1964. Gilbert was deeply concerned about issues such as racism, corruption, and poverty, focusing his editorial work on exposing these problems. His work on investigating corruption in the Washington, DC, police department led to a U.S. Senate investigation in the early 1950s, and in 1968 he urged greater coverage of the civil rights movement and race riots. Regarding the latter, Gilbert edited and helped to write Ten Blocks from the White House: Anatomy of the Washington Riots of 1968 (1968). He left the Washington Post as associate editor in 1970. For the next year, he was editor of the television news program Newsroom, the forerunner of Newshour with Jim Lehrer. He then worked in the Washington, DC, mayor's office as director of planning and management. This was a key role as control of the nation's capital transitioned from federal to local government for the first time. More

Washington DC: Stimson Center, 2009. Presumed First Edition, First printing [May be a pre-print as there is no reference cover illustration.]. Spiral bound. viii, 80 pages. Footnotes. Figures. Recommendations. Appendices. Endnotes. Bibliography. Frances M. "Fran" Fragos Townsend (born December 28, 1961) is the former Homeland Security Advisor to United States President George W. Bush from 2004–2007, and is currently a political pundit on TV. She previously served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism. In 2008, Townsend joined CNN as a contributor, but later switched over to CBS where she is now a national security analyst for them. Townsend is president of the Counter Extremism Project. Lieutenant General Donald L. Kerrick became the Deputy National Security Advisor to the President of the United States in July 2000. Prior to becoming the Deputy National Security Advisor, Lieutenant General Kerrick served as the Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from August 1999 to July 2000. He served at the White House as the Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from January 1997 to August 1999. In 1995 and 1996, Lieutenant General Kerrick served as the Director for Operations for the Defense Intelligence Agency where he directed the Defense HUMINT Service and the Defense Attache System. In 1994 and 1995, he served on the White House's national Security Council as Director of European Affairs, where he was responsible for developing and managing United States policy in Europe, including the former Yugoslavia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. More

Albuquerque, NM: Sandia National Laboratories, 1997. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Tape bound. 28, [8] pages, plus covers. Formulae. Footnotes. Figures. Tables. Sandia computational scientist John N. Shadid was awarded the Thomas J.R. Hughes Medal from the United States Association for Computational Mechanics in 2019. The medal is given “in recognition of outstanding and sustained contributions to the broad field of Computational Fluid Dynamics that significantly advance the understanding of theories and methods impacting CFD.” John, with a master’s degree in mathematics and a doctorate in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota, won “for outstanding and sustained contributions to large-scale parallel multiphysics computational-fluid-dynamics solution methods, high-performance computing algorithms/software and numerical methods for coupled nonlinear partial differential equations.” Workers in the field have modelled fast phenomena such as the hypervelocity impact of solids and the propagation of shocks and waves in inertial confinement fusion systems. Raymond S. Tuminaro is with the Center for Computer Research at Sandia and he is interested in parallel iterative methods for linear systems, numerical linear algebra, eigenvalue problems, and parallel numerical software. Special interests in algebraic multigrid, numerical solution of Maxwell's equations, incompressible Navier-Stokes, and block preconditioning. He developed the Aztec iterative library as well as the ML multilevel preconditioning package. I was also part of the MueLu development team. Homer F. Walker, Professor Emeritus Mathematical Sciences Department Worcester Polytechnic Institute. More

Iola, WI: Gun Digest Books (an Imprint of F & W Media Inc.), 2008. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 583 pages. Illustrations (including a color inset). Includes Dedication, Acknowledgments, and Preface. Part One, Old Gunsights, includes The Independent Makers, and The Proprietary Makers. Part Two: Rifle Scopes, includes Scopes, Scope Mounts, and Scope Attachments. Part 3, Scope Attachments, includes Power Boosters. Inside this book, there are over 750 photographs, along with market values for collectible scopes and sights from the mid-1800's through 1985. There are full descriptions and original specs for sights from Christy, King, Lyman, Marble, Pacific, Redfield, Wittect-Vaver, Williams, Ballard, Bullard, Colt, High Standard, Farrow, Marlin, Maynard, Mossberg, Remington, Savage, Sharps, Smith & Wesson, Spencer, Stevens, Wesson, Whitney, and Winchester, as well as scopes from Leupold, Lyman, Marble Arms, Ackley, Redfield, Weaver, Stevens, and many more. Laid in is a folded sheet, printed on one side only on Scope Bases from the John Unertl Optical Company! Nick Stroebel was a licensed dealer of collector firearms and had been collecting old gunsights and scopes for more than a quarter century. He had been actively participating in competitive shooting with rifles, handguns and shotguns. More