New York: Harper [An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers], 2016. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 430, [4] pages. Occasional footnotes. Signed First Edition sticker on the front of the DJ. Signed on a specially bound edition sheet in advance of the title page. Illustrated endpaper. Minor soiling at bottom of front endpaper. Michael Chabon (born May 24, 1963) is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist and short story writer. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, graduating in 1984. He received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine. Chabon's first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988). He followed it with Wonder Boys (1995) and two short-story collections. In 2000, he published The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a novel that John Leonard would later call Chabon's magnum opus. It received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. His novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union, an alternate history mystery novel won the Hugo, Sidewise, Nebula and Ignotus awards; his serialized novel Gentlemen of the Road appeared in book form in the fall of the same year. In 2012, Chabon published Telegraph Avenue, billed as "a twenty-first century Middlemarch," concerning the tangled lives of two families in the San Francisco Bay Area. His latest novel, Moonglow, is a fictionalized memoir of his maternal grandfather, based on his deathbed confessions under the influence of powerful painkillers in Chabon's mother's California home in 1989. Chabon's work is characterized by complex language, and the frequent use of metaphor along with recurring themes such as nostalgia, divorce, abandonment, fatherhood, and most notably issues of Jewish identity. More

New York: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 1977. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. 698, [2] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Footnotes. Maps. Notes. Sources. Index. David Gaub McCullough (/m k l /; July 7, 1933 – August 7, 2022) was an American historian. He was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In 2006, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the United States' highest civilian awards. McCullough earned a degree from Yale University. His first book was The Johnstown Flood (1968), and he wrote nine more on such topics as Harry S. Truman, John Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Panama Canal, and the Wright brothers. McCullough also narrated numerous documentaries, such as The Civil War by Ken Burns, as well as the 2003 film Seabiscuit, and he hosted American Experience for twelve years. McCullough's two Pulitzer Prize–winning books, Truman and John Adams, were adapted by HBO into a TV film and a miniseries, respectively. McCullough decided to write a history of the Brooklyn Bridge. It was published in 1972. He also proposed a work about the Panama Canal; both were accepted by the publisher. Five years later, The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal was released, gaining McCullough widespread recognition. In 1977, McCullough traveled to the White House to advise Jimmy Carter and the United States Senate on the Torrijos-Carter Treaties, which would give Panama control of the Canal. Carter later said that the treaties, which were negotiated to transfer ownership of the Canal to Panama, would not have passed had it not been for the book. More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1960. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, [6], 219, [5] pages. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ has some spine fading, wear and soiling. Decorative image on the front cover. The author was associated with the RAND Corporation. Allen Suess Whiting (born October 27, 1926) is an American political scientist and former government official specializing in the foreign relations of China. Whiting was University of Arizona Regents' Professor of Political Science from 1993 to his retirement, having joined the university in 1982. He graduated from Cornell University in 1948, earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1952. He became a researcher at the RAND Corporation and served in several capacities in the U.S. Department of State, including head of the Far Eastern Division of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He then taught at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1968-1982. Whiting has been a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies. More

Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1967. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. xii, [8], 515, [1] pages. Front endpaper map. Rear endpaper photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Appendices [including The Order of Battle, The Role of Airpower, and French Military Abbreviations]. Bibliography. Index. DJ has some wear, soiling, tears and chips. This is one of the Great Battles in History series. DJ has wear, soiling, edge tears and chips. Bernard B. Fall (November 19, 1926 – February 21, 1967) was a prominent war correspondent, historian, political scientist, and expert on Indochina during the 1950s and 1960s. He started fighting for the French Resistance at the age of sixteen, and later the French Army during World War II. In 1950 he first came to the United States for graduate studies at Syracuse University and Johns Hopkins University. He taught at Howard University for most of his career and made regular trips to Southeast Asia to learn about changes and the societies. He predicted the failures of France and the United States in the wars in Vietnam because of their tactics and lack of understanding of the societies. He was killed by a landmine while accompanying United States Marines on a patrol in 1967. More

New York: Saga Press, 2017. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 466, [4] pages. Cast of Characters. Illustrations. Gregory Benford (born January 30, 1941) is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. He is a contributing editor of Reason magazine. In 1969 he wrote "The Scarred Man", the first story about a computer virus, published in 1970. Gregory Benford is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of California, Irvine. With more than 200 scientific publications, his research encompassed both theory and experiments in the fields of astrophysics and plasma physics. His research has been supported by NSF, NASA, AFOSR, DOE and other agencies. He is an ongoing advisor to NASA, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and the CIA. Benford's work in physics at the University of California focused on theoretical and experimental plasma physics, including studies of extremely strong turbulence, particularly in astrophysical contexts, and studies of magnetic structures from the Galactic Center to large-scale galactic jets. More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 221, [3] pages. If there are dangerous fools in this book, there are also heroes, unsung, of course. They are the linchpins of the system, those public servants whose knowledge, dedication, and proactivity keep the machinery running. Michael Lewis finds them, and he asks them what keeps them up at night. Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15, 1960) is an American author and financial journalist. He has also been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009, writing mostly on business, finance, and economics. He is known for his nonfiction work, particularly his coverage of financial crises and behavioral finance. Lewis was born in New Orleans and attended Princeton University, from which he graduated with a degree in art history. After attending the London School of Economics, he began a career on Wall Street during the 1980s as a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers. The experience prompted him to write his first book, Liar's Poker (1989). Fourteen years later, Lewis wrote Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (2003), in which he investigated the success of Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics. His 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game was his first to be adapted into a film, The Blind Side (2009). In 2010, he released The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. The film adaptation of Moneyball was released in 2011, followed by The Big Short in 2015. Lewis's books have won two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes and been notable selection features on the New York Times Bestsellers Lists. More

Fort Knox, KY: Department of the Army, 1969. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Single sheet, printed on both sides. Format is 4 inches by 8.25 inches, folded into thirds, with printing on both sides. Some weakness/tearing at the folds. Front panels are: Radiation Rules of Thumb (five listed), Nuclear Strike Warning (STRIKWARN) (believed to be the front panel due to alphanumeric at the bottom), Radiation Transmission Factors for Fallout. Back panels are: NBC 1. Nuclear Burst Observers' Report (listing items B through M with asterisks for information to be transmitted immediately after nuclear explosion), Sample Effective Downwind Message, and Sample NBC 3. Fallout Warning Message. More

Washington DC: Department of the Army, Headquarters and US Marine Corps, 1994. Presumed First Edition, First Printing thus. Wraps. Three hole-punched and staplebound. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Distribution was authorized to US government agencies only to protect technical or operational information, as well as unclassified, controlled, nuclear information (UCNI) material from automatic dissemination under the International Exchange Program or by other means. This determination was made 29 November 1991. It is understood that due to the passage of time and increase in publicly available information this restriction no longer applies. This publication supercedes the nuclear/radiological portions of FM 3-3, dated 30 September 1986. Various paginations (approximately 300+ pages). Figures. Tables/Tabular Data, Appendices. References. Glossary. Reproducible Forms. This we understand was the Army’s last and most comprehensive word, on how troops would confront the effects of nuclear weapons on the battlefield. IT was also jointly issued with the Marine Corps since their troops could also be expected to be on the ground in a 'post-detonation' operational environment. Much of the emphasis is on establishing and communicating the spatial extent of fallout from adversarial nuclear weapons explosions, and understanding its impact on battlefield operations. This really is the definitive work on the subject at the end of the Twentieth Century. Included also is AREA PREDICTOR, RADIOLOGICAL FALLOUT, ABC-M5A2, a 24”X39” flexible translucent overlay sheet with stenciled templates for first-order fallout area delineation on US Army maps; its use is fully described in the FM 3-3-1 manual. More

Livermore, CA: University of California, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, 1968. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Staplebound. iv, 49, [1] pages. Figures. Tables. Formulae. References. Name in ink on front cover. Pencil number at bottom of the front cover. Larry Germain was born Oct. 26, 1923, in Fresno, California. He earned a doctorate in physics in June 1949 with a thesis related to cosmic ray-mesotrons. He spent his summers working with Nobel Prize winner Earnest Orlando Lawrence's group at UC Berkeley. This research group moved to Livermore in the fall of 1952 to form what is now the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Germain rejoined this group full-time after the 1952-53. At LLNL, Germain designed fission weapons and took an active role in their testing in the Pacific Proving Grounds and later at the Nevada Test Site, when underground testing was required by the Limited Test Ban Treaty. In 1971, he supported the U.S. delegation in Geneva, Switzerland, engaging in the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT). He also led the Lab's efforts to contain all nuclear radiation underground, and in 1975, became the division leader of the Earth Sciences Division. In 1976, Germain transferred to the Los Alamos National Laboratory where his extensive knowledge and experience were leveraged in supporting a broad range of issues ranging from nuclear testing to geothermal energy and special projects for the laboratory director. Upon retiring from the national laboratories in 1985, he continued for several years as a consultant with R & D Associates on contracts with the Defense Nuclear Agency. More

Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. First paperback edition. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Format is approximately 7 inches by 10 inches. xvi, 360 pages. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliographic Note. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads For Abbie Chessler, with best wishes. Tom Vennum April 1996. Traces the Native American history of lacrosse, describes its rules, equipment, techniques, and regional differences, and recounts legendary games of the past. From an early age, music and Madeline Island figured prominently in the life of Thomas Vennum Jr. There, on the island, he discovered a passion: Ojibwe music and culture. Vennum worked for more than two decades as senior ethnomusicologist at the Smithsonian Institution’s Center for Folklife documenting Ojibwe culture and music in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. Vennum Jr. graduated from Yale University and Harvard University. He fell in love with ethnomusicology and yearned to learn more about Ojibwe music. He sought the help of Ojibwe elders to learn about their traditional music and accurately document it. He penned scholarly books on Ojibwe music, wild rice, lacrosse’s indigenous roots and on the life of Ojibwe singer Bill Baker. To understand the aboriginal roots of lacrosse, one must enter a world of spiritual belief and magic where players sewed inchworms into the innards of lacrosse balls and medicine men gazed at miniature lacrosse sticks to predict future events, where bits of bat wings were twisted into the stick's netting, and where famous players were, and are still, buried with their sticks. Here Thomas Vennum brings this world to life. More

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1969. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. 154, [6] pages. Decorative cover. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Footnotes. Index. Earl Schenck Miers (27 May 1910 – 17 November 1972) was an American historian. He wrote over 100 books. As a child and started writing with a typewriter while he was in school as his cerebral palsy prevented his ability to write with a pencil. Miers received honorary degrees from Lincoln College and Rutgers University. Gridiron football, also known as North American football or, in North America, simply football, is a family of football team sports primarily played in the U. S. and Canada. American football, which uses 11-player teams, is the form played in the U. S. and the best known form of gridiron football worldwide, while Canadian football, featuring 12-player teams, predominates in Canada. Other derivative varieties include arena football, flag football and games such as touch and street football. Football is played at professional, collegiate, high school, semi-professional, and amateur levels. These sports originated in the 19th century out of games related to modern rugby football, more specifically rugby union football. American and Canadian football developed alongside each other and were originally more distinct before Canadian teams adopted features of the American game and vice versa. Both varieties are distinguished from other football sports by their use of hard plastic helmets and shoulder pads, the forward pass, the system of downs, a number of unique rules and positions, measurement in customary units of yards, and a distinctive brown leather ball in the shape of a prolate spheroid with pointed ends. More

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1956. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. xii, 525, [7] pages. Illustrations. Unsent review care laid in. Shaken. Cover has wear, soiling and corner and edge rubbing. Foreword by Earl (Red) Blaik. Part One: Evolution of the Game' Part Two, Year-by-Year Highlights; Outstanding Team Records; Associated Press Yearly Rankings; and Index. Allison "Al" Danzig (February 27, 1898 – January, 27 1987) was an American sportswriter who specialized in writing about tennis, but also covered college football, squash, many Olympic Games, and rowing. Danzig was the only American sportswriter to extensively cover real tennis, the precursor to modern lawn tennis. Danzig covered every tournament in the Grand Slam - the U.S. Open, the Australian Open, Wimbledon, and the French Open - as well as many others. In 1968, Danzig was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, becoming the first journalist in the Hall. Danzig was born in 1898 and he graduated in 1921 from Cornell University. He joined The New York Times in 1923 and remained there until his retirement in 1968. Danzig wrote several books, including: The Racquet Game, a history of racquet sports; The Fireside Book of Tennis; and Oh, How They Played The Game, about the early days of American football. A critic at The New York Times called his book History of American Football: Its Great Teams, Players and Coaches "without doubt, the most ambitious and best book ever published on the subject of college football." He is credited with coining the term "ace" to describe a serve in which the opposing player fails to get their racket on the ball. More

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. Revised Edition (Stated). Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Illustrated endpapers. xi, [1], 411, [1] pages. DJ has wear, soiling, tears and chips. Foreword by Paul Dietzel. Illustrations. Sources and Acknowledgments. Appendix. Index. Peter Paul Finney was born on Oct. 17, 1927, and grew up in the French Quarter, where he was an altar boy at St. Louis Cathedral. At Jesuit High School, he was editor of The Blue Jay, the school newspaper. Shortly after graduation, he went to work freelancing for The States. His first byline, for a story about American Legion baseball, ran on June 22, 1945, the day that the Battle of Okinawa ended in victory for the Allies. That fall, he enrolled at Loyola University, where he graduated in 1949 with a degree in journalism. Eight years later, he earned a master's degree in the subject at LSU. Mr. Finney was at places to write about major sporting events such as LSU's Tiger Stadium during Billy Cannon's legendary 89-yard punt return on Halloween Night 1959 in the annual grudge match against the University of Mississippi; John Gilliam's 94-yard touchdown return of the opening kickoff at the first Saints game at Tulane Stadium; and Tom Dempsey's record-setting 63-yard field goal for the Saints. In addition to his newspaper work, Finney wrote two books: "The Fighting Tigers, 1893-1993: One Hundred Years of LSU Football" and "Pistol Pete: The Story of College Basketball's Greatest Star," about Pete Maravich. Mr. Finney was a 17-time recipient of the Louisiana Sportswriter of the Year Award. He was inducted into the Greater New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame in 1998 and, a year later, into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame. More