2021, ISBN: 9780345293022

Paperback, Hardcover

New York: William Morrow. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Green boards and black spine lettered in bright blue;… More...

New York: William Morrow. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Green boards and black spine lettered in bright blue; Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1; Deckle-edged pages . 716 pages. In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. Yet those wind-torn hours represented only the first stage of the relentless triple tragedy that Katrina brought to the entire Gulf Coast, from Louisiana to Mississippi to Alabama.First came the hurricane, one of the three strongest ever to make landfall in the United States -- 150-mile-per-hour winds, with gusts measuring more than 180 miles per hour ripping buildings to pieces.Second, the storm-surge flooding, which submerged a half million homes, creating the largest domestic refugee crisis since the Civil War. Eighty percent of New Orleans was under water, as debris and sewage coursed through the streets, and whole towns in south-eastern Louisiana ceased to exist.And third, the human tragedy of government mis-management, which proved as cruel as the natural disaster itself. Ray Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans, implemented an evacuation plan that favored the rich and healthy. Kathleen Blanco, governor of Louisiana, dithered in the most important aspect of her job: providing leadership in a time of fear and confusion. Michael C. Brown, the FEMA director, seemed more concerned with his sartorial splendor than the specter of death and horror that was taking New Orleans into its grip.In The Great Deluge, bestselling author Douglas Brinkley, a New Orleans resident and professor of history at Tulane University, rips the story of Katrina apart and relates what the Category 3 hurricane was like from every point of view. The book finds the true heroes -- such as Coast Guard officer Jimmy Duckworth and hurricane jock Tony Zumbado.Throughout the book, Brinkley lets the Katrina survivors tell their own stories, masterly allowing them to record the nightmare that was Katrina. The Great Deluge investigates the failure of government at every level and breaks important new stories. Packed with interviews and original research, it traces the character flaws, inexperience, and ulterior motives that allowed the Katrina disaster to devastate the Gulf Coast. ., William Morrow, 2006, 5, UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn.FINE.Owner's handwritten name to owner panel,but no price-clip (£4.10) to colour pictorial cartoon illustrated front free endpaper.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,glossy laminated paper-covered, colour pictorial illustrated boards,with partial, black shadowing background to black-outlined,white edged red capital lettered BEANO of book's title,italicised 'The' in a black-outlined yellow box,superimposed over top of first letter B,'BOOK' and year date in black capitals and numbers respectively to front and repeated to rear board on a smaller scaale; a red spine/backstrip with black italicised 'The' and 'Book',and 'BEANO' with black-outlined yellow capitals with black high-lighting within those letters and immaculate colour pictorial cartoon illustrated sets of endpapers.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - small dent to front board's fore-edge,but no other nicks,tears or splits present to edges and corners; spine/backstrip's tips with miniscule rubbing to both head+foot of same and some minimal but superficial scoring/indents to either board.Front board with colour pictorial cartoon illustration of the comic's characters riding through the countryside in a series of rope-linked wheeled dustbins,that are being pulled along by Gnasher,with Dennis in the front dustbin.Rear board reveals that as the train of bins approaches a downhill bend,Danny splices/severs Dennis's connecting rope,making their bin first in line and sending Dennis and bin-tied Gnasher hurtling towards a signposted rubbish dump.Top+fore-edges clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.UK,slim Qrto HB,1st edn,140pp [unpaginated] includes Beano comic's character's colour comic strips and colour illustrated stories. Visually the exterior appearance is spectacular for a book of it's age and nature,i.e a child's book,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation. The Beano Annual is the current name of the book that has been published every year since 1939,to tie in with the children's British comic 'The Beano'.As of 2021 there have been 83 editions.These annuals were traditionally published in July or August,in time for Christmas market,and since 1965 (dated 1966) they have had the date of the following year on the cover,before then,no date was given. From 1943 to 1950 the annual was called 'The Magic-Beano Book,which referred to the merging of the short-lived sister comic 'Magic Comic' that then ceased publication in 1941 due to WW2 and Britain's introduction of strict paper-rationing.Though with war's end and the later end of paper-rationing too,the comic was never revived.However,some of the characters who had originally appeared in the pre-war 'Magic Comic' managed to remain as regular strips in the post-1950 'Beano' comic (such as Koko the Pup).The name reverted to the original title of 'The Beano Book' in 1950 and continued,the year changing for each subsequent annual, until the release of the 2003 book (in 2002) when it was renamed 'The Beano Annual'.The 2011 Beano Annual is taller and wider than previous annuals. Because of his popularity,Dennis the Menace has appeared on the front cover of every annual since the release of the 1979 annual in 1978. The latest version came out 2020 and was dated 2021.From 2009 (out in 2008) until 2020 (released 2019),the book consistently retailed at £7.99. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always., LONDON.D. C. THOMSON & CO.,LTD.,1992., 5, Auckland: Castle Publishing Ltd, 2001. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. A good clean copy with some minor edge wear. One man's journey through the horror of war, capture and incarceration, Michiharu Shinya struggles with the ultimate crime against Japan: To die is honour; to live is to cease to exist. Sent as a prisoner-of-war to New Zealand, Shinya arrives to a camp seething with discontent. He confronts life and death and is changed forever. "While waiting for the train, my eyes lit on a sign FEATHERSTON... this out-of-the-way country town... who had ever heard of it? The fact that during the Second World War there had been a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, might become no more than a tale of the past handed down by a few people. But this small town had brought a decisive change in my life, making it a place I would never forget., Castle Publishing Ltd, 2001, 3, Auckland: Castle Publishing Ltd, 2001. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Small pen name otherwise feels unread. One man's journey through the horror of war, capture and incarceration, Michiharu Shinya struggles with the ultimate crime against Japan: To die is honour; to live is to cease to exist. Sent as a prisoner-of-war to New Zealand, Shinya arrives to a camp seething with discontent. He confronts life and death and is changed forever. "While waiting for the train, my eyes lit on a sign FEATHERSTON... this out-of-the-way country town... who had ever heard of it? The fact that during the Second World War there had been a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, might become no more than a tale of the past handed down by a few people. But this small town had brought a decisive change in my life, making it a place I would never forget., Castle Publishing Ltd, 2001, 3, Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2016. At 07.30 hours on 1 July 1916, the devastating cacophony of the Allied artillery fell silent along the front on the Somme. The ear-splitting explosions were replaced by the shrill sound of hundreds of whistles being blown. At that moment, tens of thousands of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches on their part of the Western Front, and began to make their way steadily towards the German lines opposite. It was the first day of the Battle of the Somme. By the end of the day, a number of the regiments involved had met with some degree of success; others had suffered heavy losses for no gain, whilst a few quite literally ceased to exist. That day, the old infantry tactics of the British Army clashed head-on with the reality of modern warfare. On what is generally accepted as the worst day in the British Army's history, there were more than 60,000 casualties - a third of them fatal. In this publication, the authors have drawn together, for the first time ever, all the War Diary entries for 171 British Regiments that went "over the top" that day - a day which even now still touches so many families both in the United Kingdom and around the world.The result will be a vital work of reference to the events of 1 July 1916, a valuable information source for not only for those interested in military history, but genealogists and historians alike.. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Pen & Sword Military, 2016, 6, UK,Demy 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+./VG.Neat,ink dated,gift presentation inscrptn to ffe,and price-clip to dw/dj.3 colour block (b/w+green) illustrated upper wrap+spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - a closed tear to rear,top edge and another small nick/tear at foot of rear edge of spine/backstrip - with rear panel lightly grubbed.Top edge lightly,minimally dust-soiled with minimal ageing/darkening and light,sporadic spotting/foxing,fore-edges also lightly sporadically spotted/foxed but much cleaner and brighter; contents bright,tight and clean,no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners. Bright,clean,publisher's original,plain dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain white endpapers.UK,Demy 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-188pp [paginated] includes,11 chapters,b/w line illustrations throughout the text and the book by Alex J. Ingram; plus [unpaginated] half-title,b/w line vignetted title page,dedication,contents list/table and 2pp blanks to rear. Author's first book,and his experiences with a handful of Mevagissey fishermen off the coast of Cornwall.An uncommon title and edn. After the war the author bought a small boat and joined the handful of Mevagissey fishermen who carry on a daily battle against the subtleties of fish and the dangers of the sea off the coast of Cornwall.He and his wife grew naturally into village life as they found it.Constantly making mistakes,breaking unwritten laws and solving problems in a most unorthodox fashion,he never ceased to regard himself as an amateur,a landlubber who never truly found his sea-feet.This total lack of self-importance makes him a very enjoyable companion. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/ value of this item for correct shipping quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.RUPERT HART-DAVIS,1959., 3, Paperback. New. Veteran war correspondent tells his experiences on the front and draws conclusions about his relationship with fear. Based on his own experiences, he proposes seven steps on how to deal with this dominant force of our society, which paralyzes us in situations that make us unhappy, and makes us flee when we should persist. The reporter details his experiences in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Georgia / South Ossetia, Libya, Syria, Turkey, Iran, Haiti and North Korea, explaining historical, political, economic, social and cultural contexts. His observations on the workings of courage and fear are based on this experience, which has a huge impact on the reader.Detailed descriptions of places and situations carry us to these distant countries, which become instantly familiar, because of the reporter's interest in the human condition, which is universal. Even with such rich and engaging narratives, the book is organized so that the author's proposal for dealing with fear is clear and easy to assimilate. Each chapter is dedicated to one of the seven steps, and they are intertwined in a sequence that makes sense, and flows naturally along with the stories being told. The result is a balanced combination of extraordinary experiences, reflections on the human condition and a concrete plan to deal with the feeling that sickens our civilization.Even in war, the situations in which we have to react instinctively to an imminent threat are not continuous. Even less in our daily lives, whether in personal relationships, at work or on the street. ""My war against fear"" teaches that instinct is a good tool only in the face of imminent threats. In almost all our lifetime, we can resort to our experiences and our reason to respond in an elaborate way, to decide between staying and leaving, insisting and giving up. If we live as if we were in a permanent emergency, then we are sickened by anxiety and anguish, plunged into our fantasies, which are the leaven of fear.The guiding thread of the book is what we can do to get out of our subjective world, to focus on reality, other people and the present moment. Although the whole proposal is based on observation, in the author's experiences, the book's Conclusion shows that neuroscience has gone in the same direction as his empirical findings. In the Foreword, Dr. Fabiano Moulin de Moraes, a specialist in Neurology of Behavior and Cognition at the Federal University of S?ulo, states: ""Lourival, as a modern neuroscientist, teaches us that emotions need to be recognized, assimilated with all their wisdom and then used to guide us in life and not to imprison us in the comfort zone or in the war zone.These are not orders but suggestions.These are not a fact but a construction.These are the skills we call emotional intelligence. It is not to deny, to judge or ignore, but to make it a fuel for a healthier construction and synchrony with oneself and the world. The more we are present and attentive to our emotions, the more we try to construct a new concept from them, the more we become masters of life, the more the fear ceases to be terror or horror, the more it becomes an ally in balance inside and outside of us.This book inspires us to fight for and not against ourselves! ""The extreme situations, the risk of death, provided the author with the raw material for this construction.| Author: Lourival Sant'anna| Publisher: Independently Published| Publication Date: Nov 29, 2019| Number of Pages: 228 pages| Language: English| Binding: Paperback| ISBN-10: 1090712103| ISBN-13: 9781090712103, 6, London: Arms and Armour, 1994. Near Fine condition in bright, shiny Near Fine Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Illustrated with 64 pages of photos. Maps. Appendices. Select bibliography. Index. History of the action at Okinawa that focuses on the naval fighting. From the Dust Jacket: "Using official U.S. Navy and Marine Corps sources, as well as British Admiralty and Japanese records, Simon Foster has produced a dramatic narrative that fully reflects the hard-fought carrier actions, air strikes, Kamikaze assaults and battleship bombardments. Although the cost was indeed high, the success of [code-name Operation] 'Iceberg' convinced the Japanese that the Allies would not stop short of invading the mainland, convinced the Allies that such an invasion was inevitable -- but also convinced President Truman that the atomic bomb must be used against Japan." Continued: "Okinawa -- even more than Guadalcanal, Leyte and Iwo Jima -- this 60 mile long island in the Ryukus island chain typified the nature of the savagely fought Pacific War. The invasion of Okinawa by the Americans in April 1945 was the climax of the campaign against the Japanese that had begun more than three years earlier. It was the largest and most complex amphibious operation undertaken by the Americans in World War Two --and the most fiercely contested action in all the 'island-hopping' campaigns that had taken the Americans to the shores of Japan. Okinawa lies only 325 miles from the Japanese mainland and hence would make a superb staging post from which the B-29 bomber fleets could pound Japanese cities, and from where the inevitable and costly invasion of Japan itself could take place. Its capture was vital. So too, for the Japanese, was its defence, as part of the Absolute National Defence Zone, and the 32nd Army was created specifically to turn the island into a fortress. Together with the British Pacific Fleet, the American Task Force 58 launched the invasion -- code-named `Iceberg' -- on 1 April, and there followed 81 days of continuous fighting as the Japanese allowed the Americans to get a beachhead before following a policy of absolute resistance over every yard of the island. Attrition became the nature of the conflict -- by the end of the campaign for the island in June, Allied casualties were close to 50,000 men, with 22 ships sunk, more than 250 damaged, and over 500 aircraft lost. Few if any of the defending Japanese surrendered: the 77,000 strong 32nd Army had ceased to exist. This lively new study of the action at Okinawa emphasizes the naval fighting which was at the heart of the remarkable US operation. Only via absolute command and defence of the seas around Okinawa could the vast Task Force be supplied and maintained as an efficient fighting force. It is a tribute to the logistics support operations that such a large formation could be sustained and win a vital struggle." Keywords: WW2. WWII. Naval operations. Military history. . 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Hard Cover. Publisher's blue boards/Jacket not priced or clipped. Illus. by Burton, Peter (maps). 8vo. 192pp. + 64 pages of photos., Arms and Armour, 1994, 0, Toronto: A Del Rey Book - Random House of Canada, Limited, 1981. Lightly Scuffed; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. An exciting novel of Known Space, by the author of Ringworld and The Ringworld Engineers. ALSO KNOWN AS: A shorter version of this novel appeared under the title, The Adults, in Galaxy Magazine, June 1967. SYNOPSIS: THE MISSION OF PHSSTHPOK. Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his 32,000 years--his mission, to save, develop, and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some 2 1/2 million years before... Brennan was a Belter, the product of a fiercely independent, somewhat anarchic society living in, on, and around an outer asteroid belt. The Belters were rebels, one and all, and Brennan was a smuggler. The Belt worlds had been tracking the Pak ship for days--Brennan figured to meet that ship first... He was never seen again--at least not by those alive at the time. - and - PAK POWER. Phssthpok was a Pak. That meant he had three stages of growth--Childhood, Breeder, and finally, Protector, the last achieved around the age of 45 Earth years. At that time, all being well, basic physiological changes would take place, and provided a Pak had access to proper food--his tree-of-life root--a Protector could be virtually immortal. In this rigidly structured species, a Protector has only one genetically implanted objective--to Protect his bloodline. A Protector without progeny loses the will to live, ceases to be hungry, and so dies of starvation. Unless he can find a way to transfer his personal bloodline drive to a more generalized drive for survival of the species. This prime drive, plus his superlative intelligence, his physical strength and structural simplicity, make him a most effective Protector--and a viciously formidable fighter. Since the Pak spend most of their time fighting one another in murderous planet-wide wars, they have never spread out to conquer the galaxy-- Until Phssthpok set out to find a lost group of Breeders.... First Thus 8th Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Illus. by H. R. Van Dongen. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall., A Del Rey Book - Random House of Canada, Limited, 1981, 2.5<

1980, ISBN: 9780345293022

Ex library book. Plastic covered dust jacket. An autobiography of Patrick Gallaher. An account of cooperatives., The Devin-Adair Company, 1942, 2.5, New York: Ballantine Del Rey, 1973… More...

Ex library book. Plastic covered dust jacket. An autobiography of Patrick Gallaher. An account of cooperatives., The Devin-Adair Company, 1942, 2.5, New York: Ballantine Del Rey, 1973. Mass market paperback, ninth (1980) printing, 218 pages; spine and covers flat/uncreased, very gently read, if at all, rubber stamped as hospital "Patients Library" on fore edge, otherwise very clean and unmarked throughout. See also our other Niven titles (buy two or more and save on postage!).. Soft Cover. Very Good ++., Ballantine Del Rey, 1973, 3<

1980, ISBN: 9780345293022

New York: Ballantine Del Rey, 1973. Mass market paperback, ninth (1980) printing, 218 pages; spine and covers flat/uncreased, very gently read, if at all, rubber stamped as hospita… More...

New York: Ballantine Del Rey, 1973. Mass market paperback, ninth (1980) printing, 218 pages; spine and covers flat/uncreased, very gently read, if at all, rubber stamped as hospital "Patients Library" on fore edge, otherwise very clean and unmarked throughout. See also our other Niven titles (buy two or more and save on postage!).. Soft Cover. Very Good ++., Ballantine Del Rey, 1973, 3<

1980, ISBN: 9780345293022

New York: Ballantine Del Rey, 1973. Mass market paperback, ninth (1980) printing, 218 pages; spine and covers flat/uncreased, very gently read, if at all, rubber stamped as hospita… More...

New York: Ballantine Del Rey, 1973. Mass market paperback, ninth (1980) printing, 218 pages; spine and covers flat/uncreased, very gently read, if at all, rubber stamped as hospital "Patients Library" on fore edge, otherwise very clean and unmarked throughout. See also our other Niven titles (buy two or more and save on postage!).. Soft Cover. Very Good ++., Ballantine Del Rey, 1973, 3<

1981, ISBN: 9780345293022

Del Rey, 1981. Please email us if you would like further information or if you would like us to send you a picture of the book. Thanks for looking!. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good +. … More...

Del Rey, 1981. Please email us if you would like further information or if you would like us to send you a picture of the book. Thanks for looking!. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good +. Illus. by H. R, Van Dongen. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall., Del Rey, 1981, 3<