Washington, DC: Panel to Assess Reliability, 2002. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. quarto, 30 pages, wraps, footnotes, figures, appendix. Subtitled: FY2001 Report to Congress of the Panel to Assess the Reliability, Safety, and Security of the United States Nuclear Stockpile. This report focussed on a narrow question: is there a technical issue that necessitates a return to nuclear testing? In order to meet the growing technical challenges of stockpile stewardship, the Panel recommended that Presidential guidance be revised to require a balanced and complete assessment of the stockpile, the nuclear weapons complex that supports it, and the alternative options available for sustaining confidence. More

Vienna, VA: Sightline Media Group, 2018. Presumed First Edition, First printing this issue. Magazine. 34, [2] pages, including covers. Illustrations (most in color). Mailing information on front cover. Cover has slight wear and soiling. C4ISRNET - Media for the Intelligence Age Military. Networks of C4ISR and information technologies have become the source of military advantage, enabling a lighter, faster, and more precise, mobile and agile force. C4ISRNET focuses on the technologies of communications, defense and intelligence IT, unmanned systems and sensors, GEOINT and cyber. It's the networked capabilities of these technologies that have transformed the enterprise of warfare. C4ISRNET is the premier content destination for defense and government communities to stay connected to technology and network innovations to ensure information dominance. Defense and Intelligence officials rely on C4ISRNET for information on advanced weapons platforms, sensor systems, and command and control centers that provide information advantage, battlefield dominance, speed of command and mission effectiveness. More

Rockville, MD: B-K Dynamics, Inc., 1984. Approx. 40, velobound, small tear to front cover. More

Lexington, MA: Itek Corporation, 1975. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. This report was prepared for the Air Force Avionics Laboratory, Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories, Air Force Systems Command located at Wright-Patterson Air For Base in Ohio. It was put in a sturdy library-style binding by the George A. Flour Co, Binders of Cincinnati, Ohio. According to the Dorm DD 1473 the document is unclassified and consists of 433 pages. It is paginated by sections and has references, illustrations and fold-outs. At the time of issuance, distribution was limited to U.S. Government agencies only for test and evaluation. Since that time, given the information that is now in the public domain, it is considered that there are no remaining limits on distribution of this material. This handbook is the result of several years involvement in the design,m fabrication, and testing of aircraft sensor windows. Due to the many problems frequently encountered, it became apparent that a document such as this could provide an overview of the many areas of engineering technology and serve engineers and scientists in Government and industry alike. Experts from Lockheed California contributed to the content of this handbook., under a subcontract. This handbook has major sections entitled Introduction, Systems Engineering, Sensor and Vehicle Characteristics, Optical Engineering, Window Material Properties, Thermal Engineering, Structural Analysis and Mechanical Design, Fabrication, Optical Coatings, Product Assurance, Infrared Window Applications, and Terms and Definitions. More

Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 2010. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 328 pages. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Autographed copy sticker on DJ. Includes Foreword and Preface, and chapters on The Occidental Tourist; A Dissertation Is Not a Dinner Party; Confessions of a Peking Tom; Through the Looking Glass; Democracy Deferred; Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics; The Road to Tiananmen; After the Duluge; China Rising; God in the Machine; The Wild, Wild West; Beijing Revisited; China Watching, Then and Now; The Gini in the Jr; and Loose Ends. Includes Epilogue, Author's Notes, Suggestions for Further Reading, and Index. Contains Epilogue, Author's Notes, Suggestions for Further Reading, and Index. Personal portraits of the American scholarly community and of a changing China, from the Cultural Revolution right up to the present day, make this a book that is hard to put down. Richard Baum has given us a rare and intimate gift: a wonderfully funny and revealing chronicle of adventure as experienced by one of the greatest China watchers of our time. Richard Dennis Baum (July 8, 1940 – December 14, 2012) was an American China watcher, professor emeritus of political science at UCLA, and former director emeritus of the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, noted for his many academic works on Chinese politics. On February 20, 1989, Baum and scholars Harry Harding and Michel Oksenberg met with George Bush, then incoming ambassador to China James Lilley, and others to brief the president on U.S.-China relations. Baum advised that it would be better to talk about human rights in the most general terms possible. More

New York: Harper & Row, 1976. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 154 pages. DJ worn, torn, scuffed and soiled. Bishop's second novel (and first hardcover publication) takes its title from Archibald MacLeish's poem "You, Andrew Marvell". It is set in the same far future as his Hugo- and Nebula-nominated novella "The White Otters of Childhood." There are two surviving races, both genetically engineered by a third, the Parfects, who also manipulate the ongoing struggle between them. Michael Lawson Bishop (November 12, 1945 – November 13, 2023) was an American author. Over five decades and in more than thirty books, he created what has been called a "body of work that stands among the most admired and influential in modern science fiction and fantasy literature." In 1996, Bishop became writer-in-residence at LaGrange College located near his home in Pine Mountain, Georgia. Bishop taught creative-writing courses and an occasional January interim-term course. He held this position until Spring 2012. More

Irvine, CA: Dickens Press, c1995. First Printing. 24 cm, 281, acid-free paper, illus., maps, bibliography, index, usual library markings, DJ in plastic sleeve. More

New York: Simon & Schuster, c1997. First Printing. More

Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1998. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. vi, 378 p. Notes. Index. More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1976. Second Impression [Stated]. Hardcover. 24 cm, 380, [4] pages. Map. Minor edge soiling. Courtlandt Dixon Barnes Bryan (April 22, 1936 – December 15, 2009), better known as C. D. B. Bryan, was an American author and journalist. He served in the U.S. Army in South Korea (1958–1960). He was mobilized again (1961–1962) for the Berlin Crisis of 1961. He was an intelligence officer. Bryan is best known for his non-fiction book Friendly Fire (1976). It began as an idea he sold to William Shawn for an article in The New Yorker, then grew into a series of articles, and then a book. It describes an Iowa farm family, Gene and Peg Mullen, and their reaction and change of heart after their son's accidental death by friendly fire in the Vietnam War. One of the real-life characters featured in the book was future Operation Desert Storm commander H. Norman Schwarzkopf. It was made into an Emmy-winning 1979 television movie of the same name, for which he shared a Peabody Award. It's also been cited in professional military studies. More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1976. 24 cm, 380, map, DJ pasted inside boards, small rough spot inside rear flyleaf, shaken, cocked, binding weak, DJ worn edges soiled, tape on DJ spine where library call number sticker has been removed. The story of his family's efforts to find out the real reason Sgt.Michael Mullin died in Vietnam. His death was attributed to "nonbattle" causes. More

Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, National Defense Research Institute, 2004. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xviii, 47, [1] pages. Includes Introduction, Preface, Tables, Summary, Acknowledgments, Acronyms. and Bibliography, and chapters on The Vulnerability of U.S. Agriculture to Bio-Attacks; Potential Impact of a Major Act of Agroterrorism, and Policy Recommendations. Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense. This book aims to expand the current debate on domestic homeland security by assessing the vulnerabilities of the agricultural sector and the food chain to a deliberate act of biological terrorism and exploring the likely outcomes of a successful attack. Peter Chalk is an adjunct political scientist at the RAND Corporation. He has analyzed such topics as unconventional security threats in Southeast and South Asia; new strategic challenges for the U.S. in Latin America, Africa, and South Asia; evolving trends in national and international terrorism; international organized crime; the transnational spread of disease; and U.S. military links in the Asia-Pacific region. He is a specialist correspondent for Jane's Intelligence Review and associate editor of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. Chalk has regularly testified before the U.S. Senate on issues pertaining to national and international terrorism and is author of numerous publications on various aspects of low-intensity conflict in the contemporary world. Chalk is also a senior instructor at the Postgraduate Naval School in Monterey, California. Before coming to RAND, Chalk was a professor of politics at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, and a fellow in the Strategic and Defense Studies Centre of the Australian National University, Canberra. More