Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [38], 436, [6] pages. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by the editor on the title page. Inscription reads Robert! Randy Wayne White. DJ has small corner crease in front flap. This features contributions from Theodore Roosevelt, Frederic Remington, Ernest Hemingway, Ted Williams, Zane Grey, Thomas Edison, and others. Randy Wayne White (born 1950) is an American writer of crime fiction and non-fiction adventure tales. He has written New York Times best-selling novels and has received awards for his fiction and a television documentary. He is best known for his series of crime novels featuring the retired NSA agent Doc Ford, a marine biologist living on the Gulf Coast of southern Florida. White has contributed material on a variety of topics to numerous magazines and has lectured across the United States. A resident of Southwest Florida since 1972, he lives on Sanibel Island, where he is active in South Florida civic affairs and owns the restaurant Doc Ford's Sanibel Rum Bar & Grill. White worked for the Fort Myers News-Press for four years during which time he obtained a captain's license. He then bought a used charter boat and operated as a light-tackle fishing guide at the Tarpon Bay Marina on Sanibel Island for thirteen years. Theodore Roosevelt wrote about Harpooning Devil-Fish. More

New York: Boulevard, 1997. Boulevard trade paperback edition [stated]. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. x, 226, [2] pages. Plastic page at page 132. Signed by both authors on the fep. Ticket to a 2004 performance of Penn and Teller at the Rio laid in. Slight cover wear. Collection of practical jokes, tricks, and anecdotes for the armchair magician, including the "eternal card trick," "tattoo of blood," and "off the cuff". Teller (born Raymond Joseph Teller; February 14, 1948) is an American magician, illusionist, writer, actor, painter, and film director. Teller legally changed his birth name of "Raymond Joseph Teller" to the mononym "Teller". He is half of the comedy magic duo Penn & Teller, along with Penn Jillette, where he usually does no speak during performances. Teller's trademark silence originated during his youth, when he earned a living performing magic at college fraternity parties. He found that if he maintained silence throughout his act, spectators refrained from throwing beer and heckling him and paid more attention to his performance. Penn Fraser Jillette (born March 5, 1955) is an American magician, actor, musician, inventor, television presenter, and author, best known for his work with fellow magician Teller as half of the team Penn & Teller. The duo has been featured in numerous stage and television shows, such as Penn & Teller: Fool Us and Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, and is currently headlining in Las Vegas at The Rio. Jillette serves as the act's orator and raconteur. Jillette has published eight books, including the New York Times Bestseller, God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales. More

Livermore, CA: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, c2000. Revision 2 [stated]. Wraps. [2], 9, [1] pages, including covers. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Illustrated cover. Color illustrations. Cover has some wear and soiling. This is dated circa 2000, as it contains reference to a future 2001 event [see page 5]. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federal research facility in Livermore, California, United States, founded by the University of California, Berkeley in 1952. Originally a branch of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Lawrence Livermore laboratory became autonomous in 1971 and was designated a national laboratory in 1981. LLNL is self-described as a "premier research and development institution for science and technology applied to national security." Its principal responsibility is ensuring the safety, security and reliability of the nation's nuclear weapons through the application of advanced science, engineering, and technology. The laboratory also applies its special expertise and multidisciplinary capabilities towards preventing the proliferation and use of weapons of mass destruction, bolstering homeland security, and solving other nationally important problems, including energy and environmental needs, scientific research and outreach, and economic competitiveness. LLNL was established in 1952, as the University of California Radiation Laboratory at Livermore. It was intended to spur innovation and provide competition to the nuclear weapon design laboratory at Los Alamos, home of the Manhattan Project that developed the first atomic weapons. Edward Teller and Ernest Lawrence are regarded as the co-founders of the Livermore facility. More

Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 240. Illustrations. Bibliography. Autographed sticker on the front of the DJ. Signed by the author on the title page. DJ has some damp signs on its inside. Book cover unaffected. Plastic DJ protector has some sticker residue near spine. This is one of The Florida History and Culture Series. Alvin Victor Burt (September 11, 1927 – November 29, 2008) an author and longtime journalist at The Miami Herald in Florida, was born Sept. 11, 1927, in Oglethorpe County, Georgia and grew up at the family home in Jacksonville, Florida. He served as a sports writer, news reporter, editor, editorial writer and columnist. Burt reported from Washington to Latin America and the Caribbean and throughout Florida. Before working with The Miami Herald he had positions with the Atlanta Journal and the Jacksonville Journal. He was seriously wounded by "friendly fire" while covering the US invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965. For many years he wrote a back-page column for The Miami Herald Sunday magazine on interesting people and places around Florida that drew him quite a following. Floridian author David Nolan said he used to buy the Herald just to read Burt's column. Many of them were collected in book form as Becalmed in the Mullet Latitudes (1984), Al Burt's Florida (1997), and Tropic of Cracker (1999). A scholar and advocate of the Florida cracker subculture, Burt was a longtime trustee of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society – an organization that celebrated the life and work of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist who gave the Crackers dignity in American literature. More

Charlotte, NC: The Delmar Company, 1982. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 400 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Format is approximately 9 inches by 12.25 inches. Decorative front cover. Illustrated end papers. Some top of pages soiled. Notation on fep that this was once the property of SFC Carol H. Miller, Jr. , HQ 2d Bde, 82d Abn Div. This is an increasingly scarce item associated with a remarkably effective Army unit. This yearbook is a small glimpse of the 82d Airborne Division in 1982, truly the "Year of the 82s". It contains a Foreword, History, Something Special, All-American Day, Capex, Organization,m Annual Review. Association Convention, General Ridgway Message, 1982 All-American Unite, 1982 Exercises [Bright Star, Gallant Eagle, Reforger], Sinai-MFO, Fayetteville, and In Memoriam. It records some of the activities, some of the equipment, some of the facilities, some of the geography visited, and some of the personalities who made up the division during this time. It cannot describe or depict adequately the Spirit of the airborne, and undefinable thread of comradeship and respect that binds together men who are willing to jump from a plane in flight, to entrust their lives to a parachute,....men who are prepared at any time to fulfill the sacred trust placed in them by the people of the United States. This is a snapshot of this unit just prior to its deployment in 1983 to Grenada as part of Operation Urgent Fury. More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2018. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. xx, [4], 310, [2] pages. Map. Signed by the author on the half-title page, adding Sanibel. Doc Ford's Rum Bar and Grill bookmark laid in. DJ has minor wear and soiling. Autographed by the Author sticker on front of DJ. Randy Wayne White (born 1950) is an American writer of crime fiction and nonfiction adventure tales. After graduating in 1968, he spent time in travel before settling in Southwest Florida in 1972. After "traveling" for five years after high school, White worked for the Fort Myers News-Press for four years during which time he obtained a captain's license. He then bought a used charter boat and operated as a light-tackle fishing guide at the Tarpon Bay Marina on Sanibel Island for thirteen years. He has written New York Times best-selling novels and has received awards for his fiction and a television documentary. He is best known for his series of crime novels featuring the retired NSA agent Doc Ford, a marine biologist living on the Gulf Coast of southern Florida. White has contributed material on a variety of topics to numerous magazines and has lectured across the United States. A resident of Southwest Florida since 1972, he lives on Sanibel Island, where he is active in South Florida civic affairs and owns the restaurant Doc Ford's Sanibel Rum Bar & Grill. More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads 1/25/98 For Bart and Shirley, Live Long and Well Harry Crews. Harry Eugene Crews (June 7, 1935 – March 28, 2012) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He often made use of violent, grotesque characters and set them in regions of the Deep South. Crews graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in English, and eventually received a graduate degree of education. Crews then began teaching English, which he continued to do for the rest of his career, along with his career as a writer. In 1963, he had his first story published: "The Unattached Smile". In 1964, he published another short story, "A Long Wail". After Crews's first two novels, he wrote prolifically, including novels, screenplays and essays, for journals including Esquire and Playboy. Once he published The Gospel Singer, he began to write eight novels, publishing one almost every year. His works were known to feature "freaks", and "outcasts", usually from rural areas. Crews felt strongly that authors should write about experiences that they have actually had. Crews continued writing and publishing his entire life. As his reputation grew, he became a favorite of Madonna, Sean Penn, Kim Gordon, and Thurston Moore. Madonna and Penn discussed making film adaptations of his novels, but these never came to fruition. Crews's final novel, An American Family, featured a blurb on the cover from Moore, saying, "God bless Harry Crews, America's best writer. He’ll break your heart but he'll always bring you love." More

Charleston: History Press, 2010. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. 158, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. About the Author. Minor sticker residue on back cover. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads To Robert, All the best as you travel the road of life. John W. Schildt 7-5-14. John Schildt was introduced to the Civil War by his great-grandmother who fed Union troops on the way to Gettysburg when she was a little girl. While giving tours, he likes to make history come alive by sharing human interest stories about people and places. His fields of specialty are the XII and IX corps, as well as Antietam’s Hospitals and Lincoln’s visit to Antietam in October 1862. John has been a lecturer and guide for the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute and Bud Robertson’s “Campaigning with Lee” as well as for the Chicago Civil War Round Table and many other groups. He was the main speaker at the 125th anniversary of Antietam. John led three tours to Normandy and took part in the American and French commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the D-day landing in 1994. Having been a lifelong student of Antietam, John has written many books on the subject, including September Echoes, Drums along the Antietam, Four days in October, Roads to Antietam, Jackson and the Preachers, Antietam Hospitals, and Antietam through the Years. Other recent publications include Frederick in the Civil War, Hills of Glory and New Hampshire at Antietam. More

Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2005. Third printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xi, [3], 354 pages. Maps. Cover and some pages have some wear and soiling. Foreword by Jessica T. Mathews; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One--A Farewell to the Empire; The Spatial Dimension of Russian History; The Beak-Up of the U.S.S.R--A Break-in Continuity; Part Two--Russia's Three Facades; The Western Facade, The Southern Tier; The Far Eastern Backyard; Part Three--Integration; Domestic Boundaries and the Russian Question, Fitting Russia In; Conclusion on After Eurasia and an index. Trenin was director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. He had been with the center since its inception. He also chaired the research council and the Foreign and Security Policy Program. He retired from the Russian Army in 1993. From 1993–1997, Trenin held a post as a senior research fellow at the Institute of Europe in Moscow. In 1993, he was a senior research fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome. He served in the Soviet and Russian armed forces from 1972 to 1993, including experience working as a liaison officer in the external relations branch of the Group of Soviet Forces (stationed in Potsdam) and as a staff member of the delegation to the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms talks in Geneva from 1985 to 1991. He also taught at the War Studies Department of the Military Institute from 1986 to 1993. More

Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1988. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. xvm [1], 152, [4] pages. Executive Summary. Figures. Tables. Recommendations. References. Appendices. Cover has some wear and soling. Bottom edge shows some moisture staining and page rippling. All pages separate and no impact to text. This was prepared for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In 1983, a study was published on the climatological effects of injection into the atmosphere of hundreds of million of tons of smoke and dust by a large nuclear war. This study, entitled "Nuclear Winter: Global Consequences of Multiple Nuclear Explosions" (nicknamed TTAPS from the initials of its authors; Turco, Toon, Ackerman, Pollack, and Sagan), predicted temperature depressions of 40 to 60° for some plausible values of the input parameters. Some cited these results as proof that nuclear war is not survivable and, hence, that civil defense is unfeasible. A lively debate and vigorous research program followed with participation by atmospheric scientists and climatologists from several large U.S. laboratories. A consensus on nuclear winter seems to be emerging. It is generally believed possible, for some range of heavy attacks directed against cities, that significant but not lethal climate alteration will ensue for at least a few weeks. More

London: Oxford University Press, 1989. Later printing. Mass market paperback. x, 165, [1] pages. Occasional footnotes. Notes; Notes for Further Reading; and Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Includes Foreword, The Wars of the Knights; The Wars of the Mercenaries; The Wars of the Merchants; The Wars of the Professionals; The Wars of the Revolution; The Wars of the Nations; The Wars of the Technologists; Eilogue--The Nuclear Age. Sir Michael Eliot Howard OM CH CBE MC FBA FRHistS (29 November 1922 – 30 November 2019) was an English military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War, Honorary Fellow of All Souls College, Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford, Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University, and founder of the Department of War Studies, King's College London. In 1958, he co-founded the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Prior to his death, Howard was described in the Financial Times as "Britain's greatest living historian". The Guardian described him as "Britain's foremost expert on conflict." Howard was best known for expanding military history beyond the traditional campaigns and battles accounts to include wider discussions about the sociological significance of war. In his account of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, Howard looked at how the Prussian and French armies reflected the social structure of the two nations. Howard stressed the difference between traditional military history, which seeks to identify applicable lessons for the present and his approach, which stresses the uniqueness of the historical past and the impossibility of deriving such lessons. More

New York: Atria Books, 2006. 6th Printing [stated]. Hardcover. viii, [2], 385, [5] pages. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads Judy--Happy Reading! Jodi Picoult. Jodi Lynn Picoult (born May 19, 1966) is an American writer. Picoult has published 27 novels, accompanying short stories, and has also written several issues of Wonder Woman. Approximately 40 million copies of her books are in print worldwide, translated into 34 languages. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. Picoult writes popular fiction which can be characterized as family saga. She frequently centers storylines around a moral dilemma or a procedural drama which pits family members against one another. Although she is often characterized as an author of chick-lit, over her career, Picoult has covered a wide range of controversial or moral issues, including abortion, assisted suicide, race relations, eugenics, LGBT rights, and school shootings. She has been described as, "a paradox, a hugely popular, at times controversial writer, ignored by academia, who questions notions of what constitutes literature simply by doing what she does best." More

Saratoga Springs, NY: The Frances Young Tank Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, 2009. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 10 inches by 11.5 inches. Decorative cover. Essays by Julie Ault, Larry Rinder, Susan Cahan, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, David Deitcher, Eleanor Heartney, James Romaine, Interview with the artist by Ian Berry. Includes Works in the Exhibition, Contributors, Tim Rollins and K.O.S. Biographies, Exhibition History, Bibliography. Acknowledgments, and Credits. The publication accompanied the exhibition Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: A History curated by Ian Berry. The Exhibition was shown as The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga springs, New York, February 28--August 23, 2009; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 11-December 6, 2009, and Frye Art Museum Seattle, Washington January 23-May 31, 2010. In August 1981, Tim Rollins, then twenty-six years old, was recruited by George Gallego, principal of Intermediate School 52 in the South Bronx, to develop a curriculum that incorporated art-making with reading and writing lessons for students classified as academically or emotionally “at risk.” Together, Rollins and his students developed a collaborative strategy that combined lessons in reading and writing with the production of works of art. In a process they call “jammin’,” Rollins or one of the students read aloud from the selected text while the other members drew, relating the stories to their own experiences. Their signature style was born as Rollins and K.O.S. began producing works of art directly on the pages of these books, cut out and laid in a grid on canvas. More