Science & Technology Review, April 2002
Livermore, CA: Lawrence Livermore Nat Lab, 2002. 28 cm, 28, wraps, illus. (some color), mailing label partially removed from rear cover, mail inspected sticker on rear cover. More
Livermore, CA: Lawrence Livermore Nat Lab, 2002. 28 cm, 28, wraps, illus. (some color), mailing label partially removed from rear cover, mail inspected sticker on rear cover. More
New York: Free Press, c1983. First Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 384 pages, Illustrations. Embossed seal on front flyleaf. More
Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International, 1997. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 10 inches by 10 inches. 192 pages. Illustrations (many in color). Index. Some cover wear and bumped corners. No dust jacket present. This beautiful and nostalgic history of the barn in America features over 200 color photos chronicling "working" barns--those still being used daily on working farms from all regions of the U.S. and Canada. Highlights include blueprints and some of the oldest barns in the country. 240 photos, 200 in color. Discusses An Amish Barn Raising, The English Barn, Dutch, German, and Swiss Heritage, Innovation, New England Connected Barns, Round Barns, Barns on the Range, High-Drive Barns, Barn Renaissance--From Frank Lloyd Wright to Sears, and Preserving Traditions. Photographer and writer, Randy Leffingwell, has more than 30 books in print, primarily on Americana subjects. These cover areas as diverse as the American barn and Harley-Davidson motorcycles, California’s wine country and John Deere farm tractors. Throughout all this time, however, he imagined himself becoming an architect. While in undergraduate in the architectural engineering sequence, he discovered photography and shifted his major studies from architecture to the William Allen White school of Journalism for a BS. Randy began a successful career as a photojournalist first at the Kansas City TIMES, then joining the staff of the Chicago SUN-TIMES. He was later hired by the Los Angeles TIMES as a writer/photographer. He worked for the TIMES for 11 years, He has logged more than 600,000 miles on photographic road trips throughout the United States. More
San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1994. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 294 pages. Illus., references, index. Name of previous owner present, DJ somewhat worn and soiled, corners of several pages creased. All organizations are struggling to meet the tough new competitive standards of the 1990s--speed, convenience, efficiency, increased productivity--in order to become more competitive, flexible, and profitable. Re-engineering--the radical redesign of entire systems, beyond innovations such as total quality management--is a concept that is revitalizing many organizations. In this book, Russell M. Linden shows how to apply re-engineering principles to all levels of government, creating organizations focused on serving their customers, the public. More
Place_Pub: San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1994. First Edition. First Printing. 294, illus., references, index. More
New York: Wiley, c2002. First Printing. 24 cm, 336, Inscribed by the author. More
: Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos National Lab. 1993. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 28 cm, 237, wraps, color illus. More
Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Security Research Center (NSRC), 2023. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Single sheet, printed on both sides. The format is approximately 11 inches by 17 inches. This poster has some curves and slight bends but no creases. This is suitable for framing. Striking images cover most of the front of the poster with limited text at the bottom. The other side presents Historical images from the NSRC that are featured on this poster. There are images on the back of The Gadget, General Leslie R. Groves, Little Boy, Fat Man, The Manhattan Project and J. Robert Oppenheimer. This is a poster for a Los Alamos National Laboratory's Eightieth anniversary. The scientific achievements from the Lab's earliest days were not only remarkable, they also form its legacy. It began as a secret laboratory, under the leadership of Manhattan Project leader General Leslie Groves and first Lab Director and physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Its charge to develop the first-ever atomic weapons to help end World War II. This goal required extraordinary innovation driven by scientific discovery and creative engineering. In the eight decades that have followed, its national security mission has continued. Its innovative science began in 1943 and will endure into the future. More
New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013. First United States Edition [Stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiv, 220, [6] pages. Illustrations {many in color). Significant Events. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ is in a plastic cover. Author inscription on the title page. Inscription reads To Maura, With best wishes. Jonathan Lyons. Jonathan Lyons spent twenty years as a foreign correspondent and editor for Reuters, much of it in the Islamic world. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Monash University. In addition to this work, his publications include The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization and (with Geneive Abdo) Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Twenty-First-Century Iran. More
Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Air University Press, March 1998. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xv, [1], 191 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Index. Ink note on front cover. Includes Disclaimer, Foreword, about the Author, and Acknowledgments. Also includes chapters on Introduction; Innovation and Military Revolutions; Logic and Procedure of Analysis; Prelude: Jet Propulsion and the Air Force; The Introduction of Jet Propulsion into the B-52; and Conclusion. There are 8 black and white illustrations of Boeing Models, and 5 tables of USAF Engine Development Time; B52 Timeline; Maximum Takeoff Weights and Combat Radii; XB-52 Performance Requirement; and Boeing Company Comparison of Basic Turboprop and Basic Turbojet Models. Dr. Mark D. Mandeles founded the J. De Bloch Group, a national security policy consulting firm in 1993, and is an Professorial Lecturer at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. He currently is a Senior Advisor at the Center for Naval Analyses, and has worked in or consulted for the Office of the Secretary of Defense/Director of Net Assessment, US JFCOM/Joint Center for Operational Analysis, Under Secretary of Defense (Policy), Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics)/Director Defense Research and Engineering, Joint Staff, USAF/Office of Long Range Planning, Marine Corps Combat Development Center/ Wargaming and Assessment Division, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Institute for Defense Analyses, Combatting Terrorism Technical Support Office, and the U.S. GAO. Dr. Mandeles is the author or co-author of seven books, and articles, reports,and essays. More
New York: Amacom, c1996. Fourth Printing. 24 cm, 326, figures, chapter references, index, publisher's flyer laid in. More
New York: [c1964]. 24 cm, 303, diagrams, DJ in plastic sleeve, some scotch tape on board. More
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [3], 173, [3] pages. Boxes. List of Boxes. Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Small edge tear to fep. This is one of the New Series in NASA History. Howard E. McCurdy is professor of public affairs in the public administration and policy department at American University. McCurdy is considered an expert on space policy and NASA. In 1998, he was selected to be the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History, a fellowship at the National Air and Space Museum. McCurdy received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Washington and his Ph.D. from Cornell University. Elizabeth Hand reviewed McCurdy's history of the U.S. space program: "In Space and the American Imagination, Howard McCurdy doesn't give us the right stuff but the real stuff, the ... policy debate and political razzing that brought the space program into being..... McCurdy's ... book assembles a fascinating congeries of facts and fictions about trips to the moon, real or imagined. More
New York: Philosophical Library, [1957]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 136, illus., DJ well worn, especially at edges. More
Place_Pub: New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1993. First Edition. First Printing. 100, wraps, notes. More
Boston: David R. Godine Publisher, 1981. First edition. First printing stated. Hardcover. xv, [1], 191 p. Illustrations. Includes an appendix on methods of dating photographic postcards. More
Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Pub. Co., [1973]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 229, illus., bibliography, index, edges somewhat soiled and foxed, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York; Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Hardcover. viii, 330 p. Footnotes. Tables. Bibliography. Index. More
Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2005. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [8], 206, [2] pages. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads To Professor Neff: A true champion of efficiency and innovation. Dick. Chapters include An Industry in Transition; Early Competition; Monopolists; The Golden Era and Shattered Momentum; Partial Competition; Stresses; Entrepreneurs; Modern Technologies; Barriers to Innovation; and Innovation-Based Restructuring; Also contains Notes and Index. From Edison to Enron is a compact history of U.S. electrical utilities that demonstrates the urgent need for reform and explains how Americans can use new technologies to become more efficient, less dependent on oil imports, and more environmentally responsible. This book is not only essential reading for anyone who cares about the electric bill, but also for anyone concerned about what we bequeath the next generation. Richard (Dick) Munson is an American author and clean energy advocate. His book, "Tech to Table: 25 Innovators Reimagining Food," was released by Island Press in September 2021. His previous book, Tesla: Inventor of the Modern, was published by W. W. Norton in May 2018. Author of five other books with topics that range from U.S. government energy policy to profiles of tycoon George Fabyan and oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, Munson was Director of Midwest Clean Energy for the Environmental Defense Fund, working primarily as a policy advocate for clean energy initiatives in Illinois and Ohio. More
Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1991. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xvi, [2], 216, [6] p. Illustrations. References. Indexes. More
Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 1985. 28 cm, 143, wraps. More
Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 1990. 28 cm, 112, wraps, covers somewhat worn and soiled, cover creased. More
Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2003. First? Edition. First? Printing. 46, footnotes, some pages have faint impression of part of facing page. More
2008. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. viii, 63, [1] pages. Illustration. Transmittal letter laid in. An important objective of the NSTC is the establishment of clear national goals for Federal science and technology investments in areas ranging from information technologies and health research, to improving transportation systems and strengthening fundamental research. The Council prepares research and development strategies that are coordinated across Federal agencies to form investment packages aimed at accomplishing multiple national goals. This report was developed by the Interagency Task Force on Advanced Networking, a 40-member ad hoc group established pursuant to a charge from the Director of OSTP. The charge called for a strategic vision and plan to guide the Federal government’s portfolio of advanced networking research and development investments. The report is published by the National Coordination Office (NCO) for the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program. More
Arlington, VA: National Science and Technology Council, Interagency Working Group on Information Technology Research and Development, National Coordination Office for Information Technology Research and Development, 2003. Presumed First Edition, First issuance thus. CD-ROM. The front of the disk also has the logo and title of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development. This Supplement to the Presidents Budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2004 summarizes the NITRD agencies coordinated research activities and FY 2004 plans, as required by the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991. The FY 2004 Supplement, also known as the Blue Book, focuses in particular on the critical role of fundamental IT research in providing advanced foundations for innovation in every dimension of the national interest. More