Washington DC: Potomac Books, Inc., 2007. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xx, 175, [5] pages. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads: To Paul-A man who has been in the "Red Zone." Thank you for your service in Iraq. James Stephenson. Small book related card laid in. This is an ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Book. Foreword by Richard L. Armitage. Illustrations. Glossary. Map. Appendix. Index. Former Foreign Service officer James Stephenson was one of the people responsible for planning the rebuilding of Iraq following the U.S. invasion and toppling of the Saddam Hussein regime in 2003. In 2004-05, Stephenson lived and worked in Iraq, trying to create and implement plans to help the Iraqis rebuild their shattered nation. As the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) mission in the country, Stephenson was in a position to observe closely the ways in which the various U.S. civilian and military units tried to put the country back together. In his observations, he found bickering, micromanagement, and reluctance to release funds. Stephenson's particular concern in Losing the Golden Hour is the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), under the leadership of Ambassador Paul L. Bremer III and Admiral David Nash. The CPA took over financial management of the reconstruction project, giving USAID and other agencies funds only to the extent that they could advance the CPA's stated goals. Stephenson finally had to turn to the U.S. Army for assistance, and it was in partnership with the First Cavalry Division that USAID was finally able to make an impact on the people of Iraq. More

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 6.25 inches by 9.5 inches. Minor cover wear and soiling. Illustrations. Tables. Abbreviations. Illustrations. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Contributions in Military Studies, Number 102. Dennis L. Noble entered on active duty in the U.S. Coast Guard in 1957 and retired in 1978 as a Senior Chief Marine Science Technician. Shore duty included a Lifeboat Station, an Air Station, the Oceanographic Unit, a district office, and Headquarters. Sea duty took him six times to the Arctic, twice to the Antarctic, International Ice Patrol, and other locations between these extremes. He served in the icebreakers Northwind, Westwind, and Edisto. During oceanographic field work he also served in, Evergreen, Barataria, Storis, Staten Island, and Glacier. On his off-duty time, Noble earned Bachelor and Master’s degrees. After retirement from the U.S. Coast Guard, he earned a Ph.D., in U.S. history from Purdue University. After retirement, Noble worked as a U.S. Army historian, a library director and a library manage. Dennis L. Noble now writes full-time. More

North Hollywood, CA: Beinfield Publishing Inc., 1978. Beinfield Publishing Inc. Edition [Stated] First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xxi, [1], 117, [3] pages. Illustrations. Tabular Data. Marginal notes in facsimile handwriting throughout the text. DJ has some wear, tear, chips and soiling. The author was a master firearms engraver. It was while doing research for a firearms engraving project related to the Custer battlefield incident that the author discovered discrepancies between known lists of those killed at the action. Several years and 70,000 pages of National Archives microfilm pages later, what is now believed to be the best list available was published. The information gathered during that research encouraged Kain to not only publish the full list of names, but to use the information to once again tell the story, just the known facts, in what be the most objective fashion published. Indians as well as cavalrymen are discussed herein an an openminded fashion. More

El Dorado, AR: Desert Publications, 1982. Second printing. Wraps. 52, [2] pages. Illustrations. Blueprint Index. The Mini-14 is a lightweight semi-automatic rifle manufactured by Sturm, Ruger & Co. Introduced in 1973, it is based on the M14 rifle and is essentially a scaled-down version chambered in 5.56×45mm NATO. It is made in a number of variants, including: the Ranch Rifle (a basic, civilian variant), the Mini-14 GB, and the Mini Thirty, which is chambered for 7.62×39mm. The rifle is currently used by military personnel, law-enforcement personnel, and civilians in the United States and around the world. More

Cambridge, MA: The M.I.T. Press, 1963. First M.I.T. Press Paperback Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Trade paperback. xiv, 508, [4] pages. Date Summary. Abbreviations. Footnotes. Documents. Selected Bibliography Index. Cover is worn, torn, creased, and soiled. Professor Emeritus William E. Griffith of Lexington was one of the world's leading experts on communism and the politics of Eastern and Central Europe. Professor Griffith, born on February 19, 1920, received the MA in history from Harvard in 1941. He earned the Ph.D. in history from Harvard in 1950. Professor Griffith came to MIT in 1959 as a senior research associate at the Center for International Studies and headed the Center's International Communist Project. He became a professor of political science in 1966 and was appointed the Ford International Professor of Political Science in 1972. While at MIT, he wrote and/or edited 11 books and numerous articles, providing a definitive body of work on communism and the politics of Eastern Europe. His analysis of the Cold War and the ultimate thaw was highly respected. Griffith's international career began as a US Army officer in France and Germany during World War II, after which he served as the chief of the Denazification Branch of the US Military Government for Bavaria from 1947-48. He was chief political adviser to Radio Free Europe (RFE) in Munich from 1950-58. Professor Griffith's retirement from MIT in 1990 coincided with the downfall of world communism. He served as senior advisor to the US ambassador in Bonn from 1985-86. Upon his retirement, he moved to Germany for four years and continued to do research there and at MIT. More

Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1913. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8 inches by 10.5 inches. xv, [1], 325, [3] pages. Decorative front cover. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. Some tabular data. Appendix. Index. Front and rear boards weak and spine has become partially separated and all restrengthened with glue. Some pages creased. Henry Wayland Hill was a prominent Buffalo, New York attorney and civic leader who served as a state senator and as president of the Buffalo Historical Society. He had a lot of different college degrees. He was born on November 13, 1853, in Isle La Motte, Grand Isle County, Vermont. He graduated A.B. from the University of Vermont in 1876. He was Principal of Swanton Academy from 1877 to 1879; and of the Academy and Union School at Chateaugay, New York from 1879 to 1883. In 1881, he received the degree of Master of Arts from Vermont University. He also studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1884, and practiced in Buffalo, New York. Hill was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1894; and a member of the New York State Assembly (Erie Co., 2nd D.) in 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899 and 1900. The University of Vermont conferred on him the degree of LL.D. He was a member of the New York State Senate from 1901 to 1910, sitting in the 124th, 125th, 126th, 127th, 128th, 129th (all six 47th D.), 130th, 131st, 132nd and 133rd New York State Legislatures (all four 48th D.). He was President of the Buffalo Historical Society from 1910 until his death; and in 1923 edited Municipality of Buffalo, New York: A History, 1720–1923. More

London: Oxford University Press, Issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1967. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 22.5 cm. xix[1], 331, [1] pages. Abbreviations. Diagrams. Footnotes. Appendices: Tables. Select Bibliography. Subject Index. Index of Names. DJ somewhat worn, with small tears and chips, and soiled. John Gittings is a British journalist and author who is mainly known for his work on modern China and the Cold War. From 1983 to 2003, he worked at The Guardian (UK) as assistant foreign editor and chief foreign leader-writer. He has been a fellow of the Transnational Institute. He was educated at Midhurst Grammar School (1950–56), the School of Oriental and African Studies (1957–58), and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, (1958–61). He taught at the Polytechnic of Central London (now the University of Westminster), before going to The Guardian, where he was employed for 20 years (1983–2003), as assistant foreign editor and chief foreign leader-writer. He has also worked in the past at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the University of Chile, and the Far Eastern Economic Review. More

New York: Random House, 2018. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xii, 400, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Decorative cover. Cover has some wear and soiling. Jon Ellis Meacham (born May 20, 1969) is an American writer, reviewer, historian and presidential biographer who is serving as the current Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral since November 7, 2021. A former executive editor and executive vice president at Random House, he is a contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review, a contributing editor to Time magazine, and a former editor-in-chief of Newsweek. He is the author of several books. He won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. He holds the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Endowed Chair in American Presidency at Vanderbilt University. In 1993 and became co-editor of Washington Monthly. In 1995, he worked for Newsweek as the national affairs editor, and became managing editor in late-1998. In 2006, he became editor-in-chief of Newsweek's print and online formats. A former executive editor and executive vice president at Random House, he is a contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post, and a contributing editor to Time magazine. A book review in The New York Times states that Meacham's books are "well researched, drawing on new anecdotal material and up-to-date historiographical interpretations" and presents his "subjects as figures of heroic grandeur despite all-too-human shortcomings" More

New York: Routledge, 2001. Presumed First U.S. Paperback Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. ix, [1], 318 pages. Figures. References. Appendix. Index. Inscribed by Barbarin on the half-title page. Inscription reads To my dear Friend Andy, This is what I have been up to. Oscar. Oscar A. Barbarin, Ph.D. is Professor of African American Studies and Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has been a principal investigator on several national studies of young children at risk of behavioral, emotional, and academic difficulties. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Contributions to Understanding International, Cultural and Contextual Diversity in Child Development from SRCD. He was the 2020 recipient of the Award for Advances in Culture and Diversity in Prevention Sciences from the Society for Prevention Research for his scholarly work on the psychosocial development of African American boys and young men. He was appointed chair of the US National Committee for Psychology by the National Academies of Science and elected to the executive board of the International Union of Psychological Sciences and the SRCD Governing Board. His past work focuses on children’s mental health particularly the effects of trauma on the emergence of behavior problems; black-white achievement gaps and effectiveness of early childhood programs. Linda is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She has made major contributions to the impact of maternal and child undernutrition on adult health and to studies of inequality in early childhood; risk and protective factors for early child development, amongst others. More

Washington DC: New Academia Publishing, 2014. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. Format is approximately 6 inches by 9 inches. xiii, [1], 332, [2] pages. Illustrations (some with color). Notes. Bibliography. Index. Decorative front cover. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads January 2018 To Pastor Wendy, hoping this book will provide additional ideas for your critique of neo-Darwinian materialism. Chuck O'Connor. Charles A. O'Connor III practiced environmental law for over forty years. He was AB cum laude in English, Harvard University, 1964; Juris Doctor, Georgetown University, 1967; Master of Arts, Georgetown University, 1985. He has been a partner, McKenna & Cuneo, Limited liability partnership, Washington, since 1974; chairman environmental department, McKenna & Cuneo, Limited liability partnership, Washington, since 1980. Adjunct Professor Georgetown University, Washington, 1973-1977. Lecturer Catholic U. American, Washington, 1975-1977. He was a Lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1967-1969. More

Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1946. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. xiii, 943, [1 pages], plus plates. Folding charts. Maps. Source Materials. Bibliography. Index. Cover has some wear, soiling, tears and chips. Signed on front and title page by R. E. Bellamy! John Reed Swanton (February 19, 1873 – May 2, 1958) was an American anthropologist, folklorist, and linguist who worked with Native American peoples throughout the United States. Swanton achieved recognition in the fields of ethnology and ethnohistory. He is particularly noted for his work with indigenous peoples of the Southeast and Pacific Northwest. Within months of receiving his doctorate from Harvard, Swanton began working for the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, at which he continued for the duration of his career, spanning more than 40 years. Swanton first did fieldwork in the Northwest. In his early career, he worked mostly with the Tlingit and Haida. He produced two extensive compilations of Haida stories and myths, and transcribed many of them into Haida. These transcriptions have served as the basis for Robert Bringhurst's translation of the poetry of Haida mythtellers Skaay and Ghandl. Another major study area was of the Muskogean-speaking peoples in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma. Swanton published extensively on the Creek people, Chickasaw, and Choctaw. He also documented analyses about many other less well-known groups, such as the Biloxi, Ofo, and Tunica. Swanton wrote works including partial dictionaries, studies of linguistic relationships, collections of native stories, and studies of social organization. More

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952. Third Impression [stated]. Hardcover. Format is 5.5 inches by 8.75 inches. Illustrated endpapers. ink notations inside front cover and on fep. Ex-library with usual library markings. Cover worn and soiled. Edges worn and rubbed. Corners bumped. Spine lettering faded. Foreword by Admiral Sir. George Creasy, Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet. Illustrations. Maps. Edward Preston "Teddy" Young, DSO, DSC & Bar (17 November 1913 – 28 January 2003), was a British submariner and publisher. In 1935, he joined the then new publishers Penguin Books and was responsible for designing the cover scheme used by Penguin for many years as well as drawing the original penguin logo. During World War II he served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) and became the first British RNVR officer to command a submarine. Having written his wartime biography, One of Our Submarines, in 1952, he later wrote several other books. Young was appointed to the RNVR on 12 April 1940 and underwent initial training at HMS King Alfred, the main RNVR shore establishment at Hove in Sussex. Young volunteered and was accepted for service into submarines. He was required to undertake a period of service on a surface ship, so Young joined HMS Atherstone on patrol in the North Sea. He was lucky in that both the commanding officer and First Lieutenant of Atherstone had served in submarines and were able to impart a lot of knowledge to Young. Young became the first executive branch officer of the RNVR to enter the submarine service. After several operational patrols in the North Sea, H28 became part of Seventh Submarine Flotilla. More