Washington DC: United States Navy, Naval Air Systems Command, 1976. Presumed first printing thus. Three-hole punched binder. Post-Vietnam War era Navy Flight Manual. Sections are individually paginated. Approximately 1.75 inches thick, Illustrations (Tabular data, figures, photographs, drawings). and fold-outs (with some color). Cover has wear and soiling. Ink notation on spine. This manual is to be used in conjunction with NATOPS Flight Manual NAVAIR 01-75PAA-1, and Supplemental NATOPS Flight Manual NAVAIR 01-75PAA-1A The sections are: The Aircraft, General, Normal Procedures (In addition, see NAVAIR 01-75PAA-1A Supplement), Flight Characteristics, Emergency Procedures, All-Weather Operation, Communication Procedures, Mission Systems (In addition, see NAVAIR 01-75PAA-1A Supplement), Flight Crew Coordination, NATOPS Evaluation, Performance Data T56-A-10W Engine and Performance Data--T56-A-14 Engine, and Index. Interim Change Summary [blank] is at the front. This is followed by the Letter of Promulgation dated 1 September 1972 and signed by Vice Admiral W. D. Houser, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air Warfare). Table of Contents includes a note that the List of Illustrations--Titles Included in Alphabetical Index. More

Niwot, CO: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1998. Presumed First U.S. Edition, First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 352 pages. Includes b&w maps and illustrations, and color photos. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Some page discoloration at edges noted. The author was a noted specialist in medieval history, with a vast knowledge of the chronicles, church and state records, and privately held documents from that era. A modern account of Scotland's longest conflict with England, the series of wars that defined the border between the two countries and poisoned Anglo-Scottish relations for 250 years. . Freedom's Sword is a history of the longest period of conflict between Scotland and England. Beginning with the true story of William Wallace and his rebellion, it goes on to cover the spectacular career of Robert the Bruce, arguably Scotland's most capable military leader of all time. More

New York: Duffield and Co., 1917. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Format is approximately 6 inches by 7.5 inches. [6], 49, [1] pages. Decorative front and back cover. A hand-written poem laid in, perhaps written to/for the author, making this a copy once owned by the author? Robert Williams Wood (May 2, 1868 – August 11, 1955) was an American physicist and inventor who made pivotal contributions to the field of optics. He pioneered infrared and ultraviolet photography. Wood's patents and theoretical work inform modern understanding of the physics of ultraviolet light, and made possible myriad uses of UV fluorescence which became popular after World War I. He published many articles on spectroscopy, phosphorescence, diffraction, and ultraviolet light. He was only 33 years old and yet was appointed as full-time professor of "optical physics" at Johns Hopkins University, held from 1901 until his death. Wood also authored nontechnical works. In 1915, Wood co-wrote a science fiction novel, The Man Who Rocked the Earth, along with Arthur Train. Its sequel, The Moon Maker, was published the next year. Wood also wrote and illustrated two books of children's verse, How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers (1907), and Animal Analogues (1908). The R. W. Wood Prize of the Optical Society of America recognizes an outstanding discovery, scientific or technological achievement or invention in the field of optics. More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [12], 400, [4] pages. Appendix: Making America War Humane, 1863-. Notes. Index. Contents include Prologue; Part I: Brutality with chapters on The Warning; Blessed Are the Peacemakers, Laws of Inhumanity, and Air War and America's Brutal Peace; Part II: Humanity with chapters on The Vietnamese Pivot; "Cruelty is the Worst Thing We Do", The Road to Humanity After September 11, and' The Arc of the Moral Universe; and Epilogue. Samuel Aaron Moyn (born 1972) is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of History at Yale University, which he joined in July 2017. Previously, he was a professor of history at Columbia University for thirteen years and a professor of history and of law at Harvard University for three years. His research interests are in modern European intellectual history, with special interests in France and Germany, political and legal thought, historical and critical theory, and Jewish studies. He has been co-director of the New York-area Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History, is editor of the journal Humanity, and has editorial positions at several other publications. In 2007, Moyn received Columbia University's annual Mark Van Doren Award for outstanding undergraduate teaching, determined by undergraduates, and its Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award for "unusual merit across a range of professorial activities". In 2008, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is currently a Berggruen Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. Early printing [First edition was published in October 1895]. Hardcover. [6], 233, [1], [4 pages of advertisements], [2] pages. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling. Spine worn soiled and frayed at top and bottom. Some page discoloration. Previous owner's stamp inside front and rear covers. Ink notation inside front cover and on fep. Pencil notation (name and date) on second fep. For those who wish to know more, this copy has 4 pages of ads beginning with "The Exploits f Brigadier Gerard," "bank" instead of "bunk" on line 11, p. 4 and a bit blurred (lat)ed on line 6 on page 225. An abbreviated version of Crane's story was first serialized in The Philadelphia Press in December 1894. This version of the story, which was culled to 18,000 words by an editor specifically for the serialization, was reprinted in newspapers across America, establishing Crane's fame. In October 1895, a version, which was 5,000 words shorter than the original manuscript, was printed in book form by D. Appleton & Company. This version of the novel differed greatly from Crane's original manuscript; the deletions were thought by some scholars to be due to demands by an Appleton employee who was afraid of public disapproval of the novel's content. Parts of the original manuscript removed from the 1895 version include all of the twelfth chapter, as well as the endings to chapters seven, ten and fifteen. Appleton's 1895 publication went through ten editions in the first year alone. Appleton republished the novel again in 1917, shortly after the US entered World War I, reissuing it three additional times that same year. More

New Your: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. Revised Edition. Hardcover. xvi, 268, [2] pages. Illustrations. Originally published by RAND in 1954. Contains a Preface to the Revised Edition and the Preface to the First Edition. Appendix. Index. Cover has minor wear and soiling. Minor endpaper soiling. John D. Williams was a member of the research council of the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica and an astronomer and mathematician. The Rand Corporation is a private, nonprofit, Government-supported research institution that studies space age defense problems for the Air Force. Mr. Williams studied at the Universities of Arizona and Pennsylvania and at Princeton University. He began his professional career at the Steward Observatory in Tucson, Ariz., as an astronomer, with interests in meteors, extragalactic nebulae and the determination of stellar diameters. His mathematical interests were in statistics and the theory of games. A magazine once described Mr. Williams as “a former astronomer and pool shark.” His Book, “The Compleat Strategyst: Being a Primer of the Theory of Games and Strategy,” was published in 1954 and translated into French, Swedish, Russian and German. More

Fort Lee, NJ: Barricade Books, 2004. Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. viii, 291, [5] pages. Illustrations. Cast of Characters. References. Notes. Scott M. Deitche is an author specializing in organized crime and the Mafia. Scott has written numerous books and over 50 articles on organized crime for local and national magazines and newspapers. He has been featured on History Channel, A&E, Discovery Channel, AHC, C-Span, and Oxygen Network. In addition, he has also appeared on dozens of local and national news shows, as well as over 40 radio programs. He is a member of the Mob Museum's advisory council. Bootleggers, gambling, ringleaders, arsonists, narcotics dealers and gang murders—a variety of characters flourished in the era known as Prohibition, and Tampa, Florida was where they battled for supremacy of the criminal underworld. Deitche has documented the seedy past of Tampa in an interesting and informative book. His impeccable research provides insight into the gangsters and killers that ruled the rackets in Tampa during the Prohibition era up to the modern era. He chronicles the inner workings of of the Mafia and it's constant battle to hold onto the gambling, extortion and drugs trade in Tampa. More

Bismarck, Dakota Territory: Bismarck, Dakota, 1885. Presumed one of multiple original issued. Ribbon. Format is approximately 2.5 inches by 6 inches. This is a period black memorial ribbon commemorating the death of civil war icon and 18th President of the United States, General Ulysses S. Grant. It is a black satin ribbon which originally had a cartes de visite style photograph applied to the surface. This image has worn away. Written in silver is the inscription: Bismarck, Dakota. IN MEMORIAM GENERAL U. S. GRANT Born, April 27, 1822. Died July 23, 1885. It has a tear between the In Memoriam and the space where Grant's image had been. The top is frayed and it appears that a portion of the bottom has been lost. The funeral of Ulysses S. Grant was held on August 8, 1885 in New York City, Grant’s funeral procession surpassed any public demonstration in the country up until that time, with an attendance of 1.5 million people, and additional ceremonies held in other major cities and communities. The day was described as a final, triumphant end to the national drama begun by the Civil War, as well as a day to praise Grant’s role in preserving the Union. A newspaper editorial proclaimed that Grant’s life did not need to be remembered in sculpture, pictures, prose, or poetry because “the union is his monument.” The theme of unity was advanced by President Cleveland when he appointed former Confederate Generals Joseph Johnston and Simon B. Buckner to join Union Generals William T. Sherman and Philip H. Sheridan as pallbearers. More

New York: Encounter Books, 2016. First American Edition [stated], Presumed First printing. Hardcover. xviii, 202, [4] pages. Notes. Index. Foreword by Rob Arnott. John Tamny is vice president at FreedomWorks, and director of its Center for Economic Freedom. He’s also editor of RealClearMarkets, and senior economic adviser to mutual fund firm Applied Finance Group. Past books by Tamny include Popular Economics (Regnery, 2015), a primer on economics, Who Needs the Fed? (Encounter, 2016), about the central bank’s onrushing irrelevance, The End of Work (Regnery, 2018), which discusses the exciting evolution of jobs that don’t feel at all like work, and They’re Both Wrong: A Policy Guide for America's Frustrated Independent Thinkers (AIER, 2019). Robert D. Arnott (born June 29, 1954) is an American entrepreneur, investor, editor and writer who focuses on articles about quantitative investing. He is the founder and chairman of the board of Research Affiliates, an asset management firm. Arnott has published over 130 academic papers in refereed journals.[4] Topics of these papers have included the following: mutual fund returns, the equity risk premium, tactical asset allocation, and alternative index investing. More

Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2019. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxi, [1], 410 pages. List of Figures and Tables, Appendix: Identifying Cases of Judicial Review; Notes. Index. Keith E. Whittington (born 12 July 1968) is an American political scientist. Whittington studied government, finance and business at the University of Texas at Austin, then earned a master's and doctoral degree in political science from Yale University. His teaching career began in 1995, with an assistant professorship at the Catholic University of America. He joined the Princeton University faculty in 1997. Whittington was promoted to associate professor in 2002, and became William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics by 2006. Whittington was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012. In 2021, Whittington was appointed to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. He has published widely on American constitutional theory, American political and constitutional history, the law and politics of impeachment, judicial politics, the presidency, and free speech. His work for a general audience has appeared in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Atlantic, Reason, and Lawfare. More

New York: Doubleday, 1994. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxii, 281, [1] pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Signed with sentiment on title page by Tutu. Certificate of authenticity. Foreword by Nelson Mandela. Chronology. Tutu was a dedicated spokesman for the anti-apartheid movement; John Allen is a journalist who became the archbishop's media secretary. Letters, sermons, and other moving documents written by the Nobel Prize-winning Archbishop of Capetown--together with connecting narrative by John Allen--provide a firsthand history of his long, courageous leadership of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement. This chronologically arranged collection of speeches, writings, and letters by Nobelist Desmond Tutu, Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, offers some gripping primary source material from the battle against apartheid. In the first selection of the volume, a letter dated May 6, 1976, Tutu, then dean of St. Mary's Cathedral in Johannesburg, asks Prime Minister John Vorster, ``How long can a people, do you think, bear such blatant injustice and suffering?'' The book ends with a prayer given by Tutu at Nelson Mandela's inauguration as the South African president on May 10, 1994. What emerges is a documentary history (albeit in only one voice) of the protracted death of apartheid and an affirmation of nonracial democracy by a man whose political acts are emphatically motivated by his Christian faith. John Allen is a writer and editor . He worked for Archbishop Tutu for 13 years, as his press secretary, then as communications director of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and finally in Tutu’s office at Emory University in Atlanta. More

Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 1994. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 1300, [4] pages. Figures. Formulae, Tables. References. Appendix. Glossary. Index. Decorative front and back cover. This is part of the Space Science Series. Among the sections are: Small Bodies; Searches, Orbit Determination, an Prediction; NEO Populations and Impact Flux; Physical Properties; Space Exploration; Effects of NEO Impact; Hazard Mitigation, and Considerations for Future Work. The topics addressed include, in part: Near-Earth Object Interception, Groundbased Search, Warning Times, Earth-crossing Asteroids, Comets, Crater Size, Human Exploration, Hypervelocity Impact, Asteroid Explosion, Tsunami, Mass extinctions, Chicxulub Impact, Deflection, Fragmentation, Terminal Intercept, Space Launch Vehicles, Nuclear Thermal Propulsion, Interplanetary Collision, and The Lesson of Grand Forks. Anton M.J. "Tom" Gehrels (February 21, 1925 – July 11, 2011) was a Dutch–American astronomer, Professor of Planetary Sciences, and Astronomer at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Gehrels pioneered the first photometric system of asteroids in the 1950s, and wavelength dependence of polarization of stars and planets in the 1960s, each resulting in an extended sequence of papers in the Astronomical Journal. He was Principal Investigator for the Imaging Photopolarimeter experiment on the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 first flybys of Jupiter and Saturn in the 1970s. Gehrels initiated the Space Science Series of textbooks, was General Editor for the first 30 volumes of the University of Arizona Press, and set the style by participating in the editing of six of them. More

Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute, 1983. Presumed First Edition, First printing of this issue. Wraps. Quarto. 288 pages. Wraps. Illustrations (some with color). Maps. Tables. Footnotes. Index. Front cover folds out. Some soiling and wear to covers and some page edges. The Proceedings is a monthly magazine published by the United States Naval Institute. Launched in 1874, it is one of the oldest continuously published magazines in the United States. Proceedings covers topics concerning global security and includes articles from military professionals and civilian experts, historical essays, book reviews, full-color photography, and reader commentary. Roughly a third are written by active-duty personnel, a third by retired military, and a third by civilians. Proceedings also frequently carries feature articles by Secretaries of Defense, Secretaries of the Navy, Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and top leaders of the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. Founded in 1873, the U.S. Naval Institute is the independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write in order to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security. The Naval Institute carries on its vital mission as The Independent Forum of the Sea Services—a place where free and independent debate may flourish. The U.S. Naval Institute is a non-profit membership association serving a community of individuals who participate in an open forum to debate key issues in the Sea Services. We serve our members by providing a monthly journal, Proceedings, and other benefits such as well their award winning bi-monthly Naval History Magazine. More