Washington DC: Lockheed Martin, 2009. Copy appears to have been produced using a color Xerox type of reproduction, presumed one of a few copies made for media distribution. Comb binding. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Paginated by sections (approximately 140 pages, printed mostly on both sides of the sheets). Illustrations (color). Prepared for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration by Lockheed Martin. The Hubble Space Telescope (often referred to as HST or Hubble) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the first space telescope, but it is one of the largest and most versatile, renowned both as a vital research tool and as a public relations boon for astronomy. The Hubble telescope is named after astronomer Edwin Hubble and is one of NASA's Great Observatories. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) selects Hubble's targets and processes the resulting data, while the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) controls the spacecraft. The contents address: Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Configuration, The Hubble Space Telescope Program, The Value of Servicing, HST Servicing Mission 4, Reasons for Orbital Servicing, Orbital Replacement Instruments and Units; Shuttle Support Equipment, Astronaut Roles and Training, Extravehicular Crew Aids and Tools; Astronauts Servicing Mission 4, Redeploying the Telescope, HST Science and Discoveries, Galaxies and Cosmology, Earth's Solar System, Science Instruments, HST Systems, HST Operations, and Glossary. More

Irvington, NY: Hylas Publishing, 2008. Revised and Updated American Edition [stated]. First printing thus [stated]. Trade paperback. The format is approximately 7.5 inches by 9.75 inches. 400 pages. Illustrations (some in color, including full page color portraits). Decorative cover. Cover has some wear and soiling. Foreword by Allen Weinstein. Covers the Presidents from Washington through G. W. Bush. Includes Inaugural Addresses. Index. Hylas Publishing is devoted to help new self-publishers promote their books and hopes to add them in their marketing. Carter Smith has written and edited numerous works on American and World history, including Presidents: Every Question Answered, The African-American Experience On File (Facts On File), the five-volume Daily Life in 20th Century America (Greenwood) and Mapping Epidemics: A Historical Atlas of Disease (Scholastic). More

Yankee Stadium, Bronx, NY: New York Yankees, 1999. Commemorative Playoff Edition [Stated]. Wraps. he format is approximately 8.25 inches by 10.75 inches. 84 pages, plus cover. Illustrations (many in color). Front cover has minor loss of material where mailing label was removed. This special edition included content on the 1999 American League Division Series between the New York Yankees and the Texas Rangers, The 1999 American League Championship Series between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox; and the World Series between the New York Yankees and the Atlanta Braves. The contents include information on Yankee Stadium, Joe Torre, Bernie Williams, Orlando Hernandez, Don Zimmer, Andy Pettitte, Darryl Strawberry, Roger Clemens, David Cone, Nomar Garciaparra, Scott Brosius, Derek Jeter, Paul O'Neill, El Duque, Chad Curtis, and Tom Glavine. More

New York: The New York Times, 2000. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 128 pages, plus covers. Illustrations (color). Cover has slight wear and soiling. Introduction by George Vecsey. Contents address The Regular Season; The Playoffs; The World Series; and True Believers: The Fans. Also includes an Appendix with the Stats and photo credits. Yankee coverage by Buster Olney and Mets coverage by Tyler Kepner. Celebrates the baseball season of the New York Mets and the New York Yankees including the playoffs and focusing on the 2000 Subway Series. The 2000 New York Yankees season was the 98th season for the Yankees. New York was managed by Joe Torre. The team finished 1st in the AL East with a record of 87–74, 2.5 games ahead of the Boston Red Sox, after losing 15 of their final 18 games, including their last 7. The Yankees won the World Series over the New York Mets in 5 games to win their 26th World Series title. They are, as of 2023, the last team to win World Series titles in consecutive years. On September 28, 2000, the Yankees played the Devil Rays at Tampa Bay. In the top of the 2nd inning, Jose Canseco was walked. Tino Martinez then hit a double to center field. The ball was fielded by Gerald Williams and relayed to Mike DiFelice. He tagged Jose Canseco at the plate and proceeded to tag out Tino Martinez who was running right behind Canseco. Mike DiFelice tagged both runners out at the plate. The Yankees only played 161 games because they had a game rained out against the Florida Marlins that was not made up due to scheduling constraints and lack of playoff implications. More

Northbrook, IL: H&S Media Incorporated, 1996. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 80 pages, plus covers. Illustrations (most in color). Cover has slight wear and soiling. Disclaimer statement: This product is not sponsored or endorsed by the New York Yankees or Major League Baseball. This is a great commemorative issue to have. There are some great photos of the players as well as some very nice articles. The contents include: New York Yankees Pictorial I; Introduction: The Yankees' Dream Season; Feature Stories by Jack Curry; New York-Baltimore Series Review; New York-Texas Series Review; New York Yankees Pictorial II; 1996 Regular Season Highlights; 1996 Yankee Statistics; The Yankees Through The Years; and New York Yankees Pictorial III. More

Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1960. Later printing (first issued in 1955). Wraps. The format is approximately 5 inches by 7.75 inches. v, [3], 728 pages. Illustrated front cover. Illustrations (including drawings). Tables. Formulae. Appendix I. Answers to Quizzes. Appendix II. Electronic color coding and symbols. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Pencil notation inside front cover. A couple pages have creases. The contents include Tuned Circuits; Operating Principles of the Electron Tube; Power Supplies for Electronic Equipment; Introduction to Electron-Tube Amplifiers; Electron-Tube Amplifiers; Audio Power Amplifiers; Oscillators; Modulations and Demodulation; Transmitters; Transmission Lines; Antennas and Propagation; Elementary Communication Receivers; Electronic Test Equipment; and Introduction to Radar. This reflects the state of knowlege, the state-of-the-art, and standard training as the time the United States Navy was commencing increased operations in Southeast Asia, and in the area of Vietnam in particular. More

New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1976. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. xii, 463, [5] pages. Illustrations. Index. Albert Speer (1905–1981), Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming the office of Minister of Armaments and War Production for Germany during World War II. A close ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Speer joined the Nazi Party in 1931. His architectural skills made him prominent within the Party, and he became a member of Hitler's inner circle. Hitler commissioned him to design and construct structures including the Reich Chancellery and the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg. In 1937, Hitler appointed Speer as General Building Inspector for Berlin. He was responsible for the Central Department for Resettlement that evicted Jewish tenants from their homes. In 1942, Speer was appointed as Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production. He promoted himself as having performed an armaments miracle that was credited with keeping Germany in the war. In 1944, Speer established a task force to increase production of fighter aircraft. It became instrumental in exploiting slave labor for the German war effort. Speer was among the 24 "major war criminals" at the Nuremberg trials. He was found guilty of war crimes, principally for the use of slave labor. He used his prison writings for two autobiographical books, Inside the Third Reich and Spandau: The Secret Diaries. Speer constructed an image of himself as a man who deeply regretted having failed to discover the monstrous crimes of the Third Reich. He continued to deny explicit knowledge of, and responsibility for the Holocaust. More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2022. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxiv, 294, [2] pages. Notes. Index. Moisés Naím (born July 5, 1952) is a Venezuelan journalist and writer. He is a Distinguished Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Naím served as the editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine for 14 years (1996-2010). Since 2012, he has directed and hosted Efecto Naím, a weekly televised news program on the economy and international affairs that airs throughout the Americas on NTN24. In 2011, he received the Ortega y Gasset Award for his important contribution to journalism in the Spanish language. He is the former Minister of Trade and Industry for Venezuela, Director of its Central bank, and Executive Director of the World Bank. Naím is the founder and chairman of the Group of Fifty and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Inter-American Dialogue and the World Economic Forum. Naím is the author or editor of more than fifteen books on topics related to geopolitics, international economics, and economic development. In 2017, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace designated him as a Distinguished Fellow. More

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2014. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xvi, [2], 445, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Note on Sources. Index. Austen Ivereigh (born 25 March 1966) is a UK-based Roman Catholic journalist, author, commentator and biographer of Pope Francis. A former deputy editor of The Tablet and later director for public affairs of the former archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, he frequently appears on radio and TV programs to comment in stories involving the Church. He is Fellow in Contemporary Church History at Campion Hall, Oxford. Ivereigh was a founder and coordinator of Catholic Voices, which trains people to put the Catholic Church's case in the media. On 18 July 2006, Ivereigh resigned as the cardinal's director of public affairs following allegations by the Daily Mail. The allegations were the subject of legal proceedings initiated by Ivereigh in the High Court of Justice against Associated Newspapers Ltd. (ANL). A trial in February 2008 was inconclusive, but at the retrial in January 2009 the jury unanimously found that Ivereigh had been libeled. He was awarded £30,000 in damages, and all costs, estimated at £3 million. Ivereigh said his reputation had been "comprehensively vindicated". In 2014, Ivereigh published a biography of Pope Francis. Hugh O'Shaughnessy wrote in The Observer, "Dr. Ivereigh’s exhaustive book on the first pope from the New World is making better known the life and thoughts of this son of Italian immigrants." In The Washington Post, Elizabeth Tenety wrote, "Francis today insists that 'God is not afraid of new things' and that the complexities of human life are not necessarily black and white. More

Washington, D.C. National Rifle Association of America, 2011. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. The format is approximately 7.625 by 10.5 inches. 80 pages, plus covers. Illustrations (many in color). Mailing information on front cover. American Rifleman is the Official Journal of the National Rifle Association. During World War II, editor Bill Shadel received press credentials from CBS and shipped overseas to cover the European Theater as a War Correspondent for CBS and NRA. His duties were taken over by his associate editors, and The American Rifleman carried articles and interviews by Shadel up until the end of the war. The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is a firearms advocacy group based in the United States. Founded in 1871 to advance marksmanship, the NRA has become a prominent gun rights advocacy organization while continuing to teach firearm safety and competency. The organization sponsors competitive marksmanship events. The NRA is among the most influential advocacy groups in U.S. politics. The NRA Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) is its advocacy division, which manages its political action committee (PAC), the Political Victory Fund (PVF). The organization has influenced legislation, participated in or initiated lawsuits, and endorsed or opposed various candidates. Some notable lobbying efforts by the NRA-ILA are the Firearm Owners Protection Act, which lessened restrictions of the Gun Control Act of 1968, and the Dickey Amendment, which blocks the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from using federal funds to advocate for gun control. Among contents are Taurus Model 990, Don Burgett, Firearms Museum, Andy McNab, Rifles. More

New York: New York Yankees, 1997. Presumed extracted from the First Edition, First printing. Single sheet, printed on both sides--Suitable for framing. The format is approximately 8 inches by 11 inches. Page 33/34 has been removed from a 1997 issue of Yankees Magazine [date determined from other side of another sheet]. This appears to be a continuation of an article by Leo Trachtenberg, author of The Wonder Team about the 1927 New York Yankees. This page has a large action photograph of Bob Meusel at bat with notations that Meusel batted .337 with 103 RBI in '27. There is also a small box listing the 1927 New York Yankees management. On page 34 there is an action photograph of George Pipgras (Mister Reliable) a pitcher who went 10-3 in '27. There is also a box with the Opening Day Lineup and Final Stats and a box with the 1927 New York Yankees staff. More

New York: New York Yankees, 1997. Presumed extracted from the First Edition, First printing. Single sheet, printed on both sides--Suitable for framing. The format is approximately 8 inches by 11 inches. Page 31 has been removed from a 1997 issue of Yankees Magazine [date determined from other side of the sheet]. Leo Trachtenberg was the author of The Wonder Team, which describes in detail the year 1927, when the New York Yankees became the Wonder Team—probably baseball's best team ever. That club included Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Waite Hoyt, Tony Lazzeri, Earle Combs, Herb Pennock, Bob Meusel, and Wilcy Moore. Also part of the narrative are recollections by owner Colonel Jacob Ruppert, manager Miller Huggins, business manager Ed Barrow, and scout Paul Krichell. No participant of that great team is omitted. In detailing the events leading to the 1927 World Series, Leo Trachtenberg weaves players' profiles and histories along with those of the Yankee owner, management, coaches, scouts, trainer, and batboy/mascot. Also included are 1927 statistics and photos from Yankee archives. This article in the Yankees Magazine relates to his research. This single sheet is not the complete article, but does have on this one side a photograph of the entire team (30 folks, presumably including coaches and the manager) and a box with the Team Roster with 24 names. Kentucky Fried Chicken advertisement on the other side. More

Rocky Mount, Franklin County, VA: Franklin County Historical Publications in cooperation with Franklin County Retail Merchants Association Inc., 2000. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. The format is approximately 11 inches by 8.5 inches. Unpaginated (approximately 50 pages. Illustrated front cover. Maps. Illustrations. Cover has some wear and soiling. The development of two railroad lines into Rocky Mount between 1880 and 1895 brought access to Lynchburg and Danville markets, as well as Norfolk and points west. Industry and commerce then expanded, as did the population and social institutions. Rocky Mount is a town in and the county seat of Franklin County, Virginia, United States. The town is part of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area, and had a population of 4,903 as of the 2020 census. It is located in the Roanoke Region of Virginia. Robert Hill built a block house (fortified residence and trading post) in the 1740s, for trading with Native Americans. English settlers did not arrive until 1760. They named Rocky Mount for a steep cliff near the town. The area originally consisted of two adjacent villages, Rocky Mount and Mount Pleasant. The area's major cash crop both before and after the Civil War was tobacco. In 1873, Rocky Mount incorporated as a town and absorbed the smaller village of Mount Pleasant, establishing its present boundaries. Rocky Mount's population was about 400 people in 1870, 600 in 1897, and about 1100 in 1920. In 1880, the Franklin and Pittsylvania Railroad connected Rocky Mount to Danville and Lynchburg via Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Another railroad (the Norfolk and Western Railway) was constructed through town about 1892, and stimulated industrial and commercial development. More