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New York: Morrow. Hardcover. Dust jacket condition: VG. CAUGHT BETWEEN THE book covers of this, the 26th edition of U.S. Camera Annual, is a never-to-be forgotten pictorial adventure into the world of photography. The fine tradition established by the Annual continues with this issue, which includes the most satisfying collections of photographs yet to be published in a long line of volumes that have made photographic history. See the fine work of STEICHEN, AVEDON, KARSH, YLLA, BRETT WESTON, ABBE, DOISNEA... more information

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Archon. Hardcover. 0208019847 Jacket condition: VG; Retired library book with usual library markings. Will the U.S. industrial infrastructure be able to meet the needs of existing and planned programs of defense in the '80s? Will human resources be available and ready to mobilize? . National security rests on answers to such questions. This book grapples with them by assessing alternative mobilization needs in light of historic experience, while taking account of hypothesized future conflicts. Th... more information

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New York: Routledge. Hardcover. 081531423X No Jacket; Dust jacket condition: No jacket. Retired library book with usual library markings. From the Foreword: I once lived for a while in southeast Ohio, a beautiful region with green rolling hills and thick forests. At the time I was there, it was the home of the United States Orienteering Federation. Orienteering is the perfect sport for outdoor enthusiasts. The purpose is to find your way through the woods with a map and compass, outracing competitors fr... more information

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Washington, DC USA: Sportsman's Press. Dust jacket condition: None. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. 373 pages. Your order will be on its way by the next business day! . Very Good. 1951. ... more information

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Milan, Italy: Sperling. Paperback. ISBN: 978-88-8274-714-5 Robb e un giovane insegnante squattrinato, ma la tragica perdita dei genitori in un incidente gli permette - grazie al premio dell'assicurazione - di realizzare il suo sogno: di-ventare awocato. In pochi anni, la sua vita si trasforma ra-dicalmente: ha sposato la dolce e, sofisticata figlia del pro-prietario dello studio legale in cui lavora, vive nella spaziosa casa del suocero, ha una bella bambina e gli affari vanno a gonfie vele. Ma alFimp... more information

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New York: McGraw-Hill. Hardcover. Dust jacket condition: None. Solid retired library book with usual library markings. Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. Includes bibliography. From the Foreword: Together, the fourteen American Secretaries of State whose Secretarial careers comprise the subject matter of this book held the office for a span of sixty years. That the accession of John Hay to the Secretaryship in 1898 should introduce any volume on the Secretaries of the twentieth centu... more information

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Bombay, India: Asia Publishing House. Hardcover. Dust jacket condition: None. Retired library book with usual library markings. Covers sunned. From the Foreword: DURING MY STAY in the United States as head of the mission for more than five and a half years, I had the opportunity of addressing several audiences all over the country. Many of the speeches were extempore but several were prepared. It was suggested to me by many American and Indian friends that these speeches should be published in a book ... more information

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[New York: New Directions Books. 118 pages. Your order will be on its way by the next business day! . Very Good. 1963. ... more information

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A.R.E. Press. Paperback. 77 pages. Your order will be on its way by the next business day! . Very Good. 1968. ... more information

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Harcourt, Brace And Company. Hardcover. no DJ; Jacket condition: None. Solid ex-US Military library copy. With an Introduction by J. W. WHEELER-BENNETT Here is the first comprehensive account of the secret military and political relationship between Germany and Russia in the years after the first World War, when the seeds were sown for the second. At that time these two major powers were outcasts from the society of nations-Germany because of her defeat, Russia because of the Bolshevik Revolution. Quar... more information

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New York: Free Press. Hardcover. 0029125804 no DJ; Jacket condition: None. Retired library book with usual library markings. Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. From the Foreword: This book is intended both for the novice with no theoretical background in scaling and for the person with a background in concepts who discovers missing links when he attempts to apply these concepts to concrete problems. During several years of teaching scaling, I have discovered that only rarely is ... more information

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Oxford. Hardcover. Dust jacket condition: None. Retired library book with usual library markings. Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. From the Foreword: The unification of South Africa was one of the last creative expressions of the age of optimism which was brought to a close by the First World War. This decisive step towards the elimination of imperial authority in South Africa, in favour of the white settlers of Afrikaner and British stocks, was considered to be justified by the ho... more information

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Washington, DC USA: GPO. Hardcover. Dust jacket condition: None. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Solid retired military ibrary book with usual library markings; else VG. Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. From the Foreword: This monograph on the United States naval batteries in France has been divided into two parts for the sake of convenience. Part I is meant to tell the plain story of the batteries in not too extended form and without the addition of too much detail... more information

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Wichita, KS, USA: McCormick-Mathers Publ. Co.. Paperback. Illustrated w/ b/w photos and drawings. 47 pages. Your order will be on its way by the next business day! . Very Good. 1939. ... more information

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London & Glasgow: Blackie. Hardcover. Jacket condition: VG. Every year sees an increase in the number of people who want a holiday abroad and who travel to ever more distant places for it. Quiet spots, undiscovered for centuries, become 'developed', popular and crowded. Who would believe that even in densely populated countries of Europe remote and scarcely known corners do still exist? Hans Otto Meissner, an inveterate traveller, with his wife Marianne visits some of these unfrequented corne... more information

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Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History. Solid retired library book with usual library markings; else VG. Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. From the Foreword: As the research for this study progressed, it quickly became evident that the documentary record alone could never resolve all of the questions about how and why the Victory Plan was written. Nor could it reveal how certain decisions were reached, or upon what influences. In answering such questions, I was fortunate to ... more information

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Orion Press. Paperback. Retired library book with usual library markings. Reprint of the 1873 edition. Unwritten History describes Joaquin Miller's, life with the Indians in the Mount Shasta area between the years 1856-1860. The some imes' shocking account of how he attempted to unify the tribes into a confederation and led them in attacks on the whites. 400 pages. Your order will be on its way by the next business day! . Good. 1972. ... more information

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Chicago, Illinois USA: University of Chicago Press. Hardcover. Dust jacket condition: VG. Solid retired library book with usual library markings; else VG. Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. 5th printing "If we are ever to understand what urban Negro culture is all about," writes Charles Keil, "we'had best view entertainers and hustlers as culture heroes, integral parts of, the whole, rather than as deviants and shadow figures." It is with the blues singer as cul... more information

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New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Hardcover. 0312030185 Dust jacket condition: None. Solid retired library book with light library markings; else VG. Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. Drawing on a wide variety of published and unpublished contemporary documents, T.G. Fraser analyzes the arguments for and against partition as they were presented by the main protagonists at the time. It looks at ways in which partition was seen as intellectual or as an ad hoc solution to rival national claim... more information

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New York: ABRAMS. Hardcover. 0810939169 Jacket condition: VG; Mention the word pig and people smile. They picture pink skin, a corkscrew tail, and the adorable snout of a piglet. They think of Miss Piggy, Wilbur, and Porky Pig.? Pigs have inspired writers from Ovid to Mother Goose and artists from ancient Herculaneum to contemporary Hollywood. Still, people can't decide what to make of pigs. Pigs are so compelling, so mysterious, so contradictory-finicky yet fat, massive yet dainty, stolid yet smart. H... more information

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