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Isle of Man Examiner, 1972 smaller 4to pp14 bw plates map VG-, Isle of Man Examiner, 1972, 3, Description: A former South Vietnamese official--a man of unquestioned integrity and keen political sense--tells an insider's story, full of personal and political drama.Publisher Information: Copyright date - 1987, Houghton Mifflin, New York, # Pages - 367, hardcover with dust jacket. Includes illustrations, index.Overall Condition: Good Plus - structurally intact and tight, pages just off-white, minimal soil and overall wear, library system withdrawn with typical markings and pocket, cello cover over dust jacket has kept book in better overall condition, Houghton Mifflin, 1987, 2.5, New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon, 1989. BD6 - A trade paperback book in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in monochrome illustrated white wraps with minor overall wear. A collection of essays that argue against state execution. The authors are drawn from a wide range of professions including prosecutors, defense attorneys, prisoners, prison officials, families of victims, religious leaders and congressmen. Notable contributors include a prosecutor, a man who was executed despite compelling evidence that he was innocent, an artist/journalist who covered three executions and the father of a woman who was brutally murdered. Bibliography, 383p.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Morrow/Avon, 1989, 3, New York: Dell, 1999. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 7x4x1. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. spine creasing, edge wear; What if the Communist witch-hunts of the 1950s had actually uncovered a spy? The bestselling author of Los Alamos returns with a thrilling new novel of suspense, romance, and intrigue. Washington, 1950. The trouble with history, Nick Kotlar's father tells him, is that you have to live through it before you know how it'll come out. And for Walter Kotlar, a high-level State Department official, the stakes couldn't be an ambitious congressman has accused him of treason. As Nick watches helplessly, his family's privileged world is turned upside down in a frenzy of klieg lights and banging gavels. Then one snowy night the chief witness against his father plunges to her death and his father flees, leaving only an endless mystery and the stain of his defection. It would be better, Nick is told, to think of him as dead. But twenty years later Walter Kotlar is still alive, and he enlists Molly, a young journalist, to bring Nick a disturbing message. He badly wants to see his son; after two decades of silence and isolation, he is desperate to end his own Cold War. Resentful but intrigued, Nick agrees to accompany Molly to Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia for the painful reunion. Once in Prague, Nick finds a clandestine world where nothing is what it seems--not the beautiful city, shadowy with menace; not the woman with whom he falls in love; and most of all not the man he thinks he no longer knows, yet still knows better than anyone. For Walter Kotlar has an impossible he wants to come home and he wants Nick to help. He also has a valuable secret about what really happened the night he walked out of Nick's life--and about the deadly conspiracy that still threatens them. The Prodigal Spy is a story of fathers and sons and the loyalties that transcend borders, and of a young man's search for the truth buried in his own past, when a national drama was made personal and history itself became a crime story., Dell, 1999, 2.5, Book presents a history of the great fire and a day trip guide to touring the effected areas.Great Fire of 1910 Little North Fork of the St. Joe River, Idaho Location Washington, Idaho, Montana Date August 2021, 1910 Burned area 3,000,000 acres (12,000 km2) Ignition source not officially determined Land use logging, mining, railroads Fatalities 87 The Great Fire of 1910 (also commonly referred to as the Big Blowup or the Big Burn) was a wildfire which burned about three million acres (12,000 km², approximately the size of Connecticut) in northeast Washington, northern Idaho (the panhandle), and western Montana. The area burned included parts of the Bitterroot, Cabinet, Clearwater, Coeur d'Alene, Flathead, Kaniksu, Kootenai, Lewis and Clark, Lolo, and St. Joe national forests. The firestorm burned over two days (August 2021, 1910), and killed 87 people, including 78 firefighters. It is believed to be the largest, although not the deadliest, fire in recorded U.S. history.OriginThere were a great number of problems that contributed to the destruction of the Great Fire of 1910. The fire season started early that year, because the summer of 1910 was hot and dry like no other. This drought caused there to be plenty of dry vegetation, so forests were teeming with dry fuel. Fires were set by hot cinders flung from locomotives, sparks, lightning, and backfiring crews, and by mid August there were 1,000 to 3,000 fires burning in Idaho, Montana, and Washington.The Big BlowupOn August 20, a cold front blew in and brought hurricane-force winds, whipping the hundreds of small fires into one or two blazing infernos. The fire was impossible to fight; there were too few men and too little supplies. The United States Forest Service (then called the National Forest Service) was only five years old at the time and unprepared for the possibilities of this dry summer. Later the U.S. Army was brought in to help fight the blaze.Smoke from the fire was said to have been seen as far east as Watertown, New York and as far south as Denver, Colorado. It was reported that at night, 500 miles out into the Pacific Ocean, ships could not navigate by the stars because the sky was cloudy with smoke.FirefightersThe entire 28-man "Lost Crew" was overcome by flames and perished on Setzer Creek outside of Avery, Idaho.The most famous story of survival was that of Ed Pulaski, a U.S. Forest Service ranger who led a large group of his men to safety in an abandoned prospect mine outside of Wallace, Idaho, just as they were about to be overtaken by the fire. It is said that Pulaski fought off the flames at the mouth of the shaft until he passed out like the others. Around midnight, a man announced that he, at least, was getting out of there. Knowing that they would have no chance of survival if they ran, Pulaski drew his pistol, threatening to shoot the first person who tried to leave. In the end, all but five of the forty or so men survived.Aftermath Wallace, Idaho after the Big BlowupThe fire was finally extinguished when another cold front swept in, bringing steady rain. Several towns were completely destroyed by the fire:Idaho: Falcon Grand Forks Montana: De Borgia Haugan Henderson Saltese Taft Tuscor Additionally one third of Wallace, Idaho was burned to the ground, with an estimated $1 million dollars (calculation 1910) in damage. Passenger trains took thousands of Wallace residents to Spokane, Washington and Missoula, Montana. Another train with 1,000 people from Avery took refuge in a tunnel after racing across a burning trestle. Other towns with severe damage included: Burke, Kellogg, Murray, and Osburn, Idaho. The town of Avery was saved by a backfire.The Fire of 1910 shaped the U.S. Forest Service. Before the epic event, there were many debates on how to handle forest fires; whether to let them burn because they were a part of nature and were expensive to fight, or to fight them in order to protect the forests. After the devastation of the Big Blowup, it was decided that the U.S. Forest Service was to prevent and battle against every wildfire., US Dept of Agriculture, Forest Service, 2010, 6, Old Utah Trails by William B. SmartUtah Geographic SeriesPublisher: Random House Inc (1988)ISBN-10: 0936331097ISBN-13: 9780936331096HardcoverItem Weight: 1.35 pounds12 x9 inches, 135 pagesWilliam B. Smart, a straight-shooting journalist who steered the Deseret News for more than a decade and established a dogged investigative team that rocked Utah's establishment by sniffing out scandal after scandal, died at age 95.------------------------William B. Smart, whose four-decade career at the Deseret News included 14 years as editor and general manager, passed away early Thursday morning. He was 95 and had been in home health care for several months.Remembered not only for his leadership but his forte in editorial writing and fostering award-winning investigative reporting, Smart was instrumental in pioneering televised political debates in the state of Utah.William Buckwalter Smart was born June 27, 1922, in Provo, Utah, the fourth of six children born to Thomas Lawrence Smart and Nellie Buckwalter. The Smart family lived in Utah and Nevada before moving to Portland, Oregon, before Smart's final year of high school. He then attended Reed College, a Portland liberal arts school, beginning the fall of 1941.In an oral history recorded in 1989 for the University of Utah's Marriott Library, Smart recalled making his venture into journalism the day after the Dec. 7, 1941, bombing of Pearl Harbor. He went to the Portland bureau of the International News Service, managed by his LDS stake president, George L. Scott."I asked him if he wasn't going to need some help with this war breaking out. I'd never written a news story in my life. He gave me a job, and my job was to manage that bureau from midnight until eight o'clock," he recalled, going to classes during the day and working at night.In the summer of 1942, he went to Seattle bureau to help staff it during vacation period. Once there, the bureau manager died, the assistant manager was called upand he ended up being the sole person staffing the bureau at age 20 and with limited experience.After a brief return to Reed College, Smart himself was called up for active duty as a reservist, first with signal corps training followed by nine months preparing to be an intelligence officer in the Army Specialized Training Program at the University of Wyoming.A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from his youth who at the time wasn't attending many meetings or socializing with LDS peers, Smart recalled a worship service while in Laramie, Wyoming. "I sat there and heard a voice behind me, a girl standing up to bear her testimony," he later recalled. "I looked around and I said to myself, 'That's the girl I'm going to marry!' Nobody believes that, but it's true."And love at first sight was how Bill met Donna Toland, of Star Valley, Wyoming. They courted by mail as he left first for infantry training before being accepted into Officers Candidate School. He graduated as an infantry officer and valedictorian and married Donna, later citing the marriage for increased church activity the rest of his life.As an officer, he was first assigned stateside, then to Okinawa, Japan, with the war ending as he was en route. He concluded his military obligations in Hawaii, but not before Donna joined him there.After a brief stay in Star Valley, the Smarts returned to Portland, with Bill back at Reed College on the GI Bill, studying for two years to be a history professor while working at Portland's daily newspaper, The Oregonian. The first of their five children was born his senior year.In 1948, Smart earned a fellowship to Harvard. At the same time, the Deseret News was expanding its news coverage and its staff. Elder Alfred E. Bowen, an LDS apostle and president of the Deseret News, spoke at stake conference in Portland, and George Scott, still the stake president, lined up Smart for an interview, which resulted in a job and relocation to Salt Lake City.Starting first in sports, Smart later moved to the city desk as a reporter, still with an eye on returning to school. A call to the general board of the LDS Church's Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association resulted in him terminating his Harvard application and settling on a journalism career. He would serve on the MIA board for 15 years and later as bishop of the Federal Heights LDS Ward and on the church's Sunday School General Board.In 1957, Smart became an editorial writer, soon the chief editorial writer and then the editorial page editor. He was named assistant general manager under O. Preston Robinson and then executive editor under E. Earl Hawkes in 1966, still maintaining the editorial page responsibilities with both assignments.He traveled to Antarctica with the National Science Foundation in 1961, the only American among the first six journalists to go there. Other professional travels took him to South America and Europe, as well as to East Germany, Cuba and China. His 1978 travels to China resulted in an extensive series of newspaper reports and later a book.Smart started and hosted the KUED series "Civic Dialogue," a pioneer in political TV debates for the state. He prided himself as a conservationist and a preservationist, and he believed his involvement with the Salt Lake Council of Foreign Relations made his political leanings somewhat suspect to others. "I always felt myself pretty much middle of the road," he later said, "but in the minds of a lot of people, I was branded as a liberal."Smart was named editor and general manager of the Deseret News in 1972, a position he held for 14 years. During much of that span, Wendell J. Ashton was the newspaper's publisher, with two future LDS Church presidents first Gordon B. Hinckley and then Thomas S. Monson as presidents of the Deseret News Publishing Co.Smart, who founded a prize-winning investigative team at the Deseret News, earned the Clifford P. Cheney Service to Journalism Award in 1987, an honor bestowed by the Utah Headliners Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists."Bill Smart was a consummate journalist who never compromised his principles and who was a great example for aspiring newspaper reporters," said LaVarr Webb, a former Deseret News managing editor.Webb recalled a time when as political editor he had written a column that had angered former Gov. Scott Matheson "a person I greatly respected, despite my criticism of him," he said. Matheson demanded a meeting with the paper's top executives and Webb, bringing his chief of staff with him from Capitol Hill."I listened with trepidation as the state's most powerful person outlined why he thought my column was unfair and one-sided and questioned whether I could be an objective reporter," Webb said."Bill gently by firmly reminded the governor that the column was an opinion piece and fell within the realm of fair criticism of a public official. He defended my judgment and ability to both report objectively and write an opinion column."I left the meeting with a greater respect for Bill Smart," Webb added, "and a renewed commitment to write and report fairly and accurately."Another former managing editor, Richard D. Hall, called Smart "the quintessential newspaper editor" both feared and loved by a staff that, like him and by following him, were striving for consistent journalistic excellence."Bill was hands-on," Hall said. "He'd often jog to the office in the morning and, while still in his sweats, sit often on the city editor's desk in the newsroom to 'approve' the direction of that day's paper."And Bill was visionary," Hall continued. "He cared about Salt Lake City and Utah and ensured that Deseret News' journalism accounted for the good of the community.After retiring from the Deseret News, Smart was asked to continue by consulting as a senior editor. He also continued his international travels, wrote editorials for the Church News, became editor of This People magazine and authored or edited nine books, including "Words and Actions: An Autobiography," published in late 2016."I guess I'd like to be remembered as being a good newspaper man," he said in his oral history. "I think I was a good newspaper man. I think I built the Deseret News to a newspaper that gained real respect. I guess I would be remembered as the person who built the Deseret News into a paper of real quality. I hope that it will stay that way.", Random House Inc, 1988, 3, Nixon's Palace Guard by Gary AllenPublisher: Western Islands, 1971Paperback5.2 x 7.9 inches, 210 pagesFrederick Gary Allen (August 2, 1936 November 29, 1986) was an American conservative writer and conspiracy theorist. Allen promoted the notion that international banking and politics control domestic decisions, taking them out of elected officials' hands.As a student, Allen majored in history at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and studied as well at California State University in Long Beach. He was a prominent member of Robert W. Welch, Jr.'s John Birch Society, of which he was a spokesman. He contributed to magazines such as Conservative Digest and American Opinion magazine from 1964. He also was the speech writer for George Wallace, the former governor of Alabama, during his segregationist third-party presidential bid in the 1968 U.S. presidential election against Richard M. Nixon and Hubert H. Humphrey. He was an advisor to the conservative Texas millionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt.Allen was the father of four children, including Michael Allen, a political news journalist.Allen died as the result of a liver ailment in 1986 in Long Beach, California, at the age of 50. In 1971, Allen co-wrote a book titled None Dare Call It Conspiracy with Larry Abraham. It was prefaced by U.S. Representative John G. Schmitz of California's 35th congressional district, the nominee of the American Independent Party in the 1972 U.S. presidential election. It sold more than four million copies during the 1972 presidential campaign opposing Richard Nixon and U.S. Senator George S. McGovern. In this book, Allen and Abraham assert that the modern political and economic systems in most developed nations are the result of a sweeping conspiracy by the Establishment's power elite, for which he also uses the term Insiders. According to the authors, these Insiders use elements of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto to forward their socialist/communist agenda:Establish an income tax system as a means of extorting money from the common man;Establish a central bank, deceptively named so that people will think it is part of the government;Have this bank be the holder of the national debt;Run the national debt, and the interest thereon, sky high through wars (or any sort of deficit spending), starting with World War I. He quotes the Council on Foreign Relations as stating in its 1959 No. 7 study on behalf of the United States Senate: "The U.S. must strive to: A. Build a new international order." In February 1980, Allen began a working relationship with research assistant Sam Wells, whose work Allen's writings would depend upon until his death. Wells continued his work after Allen's death, assisting his widow with the publication of his newsletter of political and economic analysis.Allen wrote other books about the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission, asserting that the term "New World Order" was used by a secretive elite working towards the destruction of national sovereignty. Allen's last book, Say "No!" to the new world order, was published posthumously in January 1987.Investigative reporter Chip Berlet argues that Allen's work provides an example of a synthesis of right-wing populism and conspiracism, a blend of ideas known as producerism., Western Islands, 1971, 3, New York: Signet, 2000. First printing. Paperback. Good. In the first book in this gripping historical mystery series, Boston police reporter Michael Merrick investigates a series of fires--one of which led to murder--within a local Shaker community."Though there are fewer than ten Shakers extant today, this communal sect, officially named the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, once numbered some six thousand at their peak around 1830, spread among several villages in the eastern United States. In Mary Jo Adamson's riveting mystery, "The Blazing Tree," a structural fire--the latest and most frightening in a series of unexplained blazes in the Shaker community of Hancock Village, Massachusetts--has resulted in the death of an elderly man. Boston newspaperman Michael Merrick, on orders from his publisher, is propelled into impromptu undercover detective work at the village in the hope of unmasking the arsonist. Merrick's assignment quickly becomes a race against a clever murderer who will not hesitate to kill again. With richly textured prose and striking characterizations, Ms. Adamson takes the reader into the midst of everyday life in an 1840s Shaker village, weaving a compelling and suspenseful tale. Moreover, her comprehensive research brings powerful verisimilitude to the descriptive and narrative elements of the story, and summons a long-lost era back to colorful life. Whether as novel or as mystery, this is a first-class read." - review by Robert E Tompkins"She writes like a dream."--New York Times Book Review Book is in good condition, moderate edge wear, bumped corners and spine, creasing to the spine and front cover near the hinge. Back corners creased. Pages clean and binding tight., Signet, 2000, 2.5, The Life of Ian Flemingby John Pearsonpublished by McGraw-Hill  (1966)Hardcover5 1/2 x 8.65 inches, 367 pagesIan Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 12 August 1964) was an English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917. Educated at Eton, Sandhurst and, briefly, the universities of Munich and Geneva, Fleming moved through several jobs before he started writing.While working for Britain's Naval Intelligence Division during the Second World War, Fleming was involved in planning Operation Goldeneye and in the planning and oversight of two intelligence units, 30 Assault Unit and T-Force. His wartime service and his career as a journalist provided much of the background, detail and depth of the James Bond novels.Fleming wrote his first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1952. It was a success, with three print runs being commissioned to cope with the demand. Eleven Bond novels and two collections of short-stories followed between 1953 and 1966. The novels revolved around James Bond, an officer in the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6. Bond was also known by his code number, 007, and was a commander in the Royal Naval Reserve. The Bond stories rank among the best-selling series of fictional books of all time, having sold over 100 million copies worldwide. Fleming also wrote the children's story Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang and two works of non-fiction. In 2008, The Times ranked Fleming 14th on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".Fleming was married to Ann Charteris, who was divorced from the second Viscount Rothermere owing to her affair with the author. Fleming and Charteris had a son, Caspar. Fleming was a heavy smoker and drinker for most of his life and succumbed to heart disease in 1964 at the age of 56. Two of his James Bond books were published posthumously; other writers have since produced Bond novels. Fleming's creation has appeared in film twenty-six times, portrayed by seven actors.------------------------------Was Ian Fleming James Bond? Many think so. Certainly the super-hero and his creator had similarities - an aristocratic background, sophisticated tastes, a fatal appeal to women, and an intimate knowledge of the of international spy rings. Still Fleming disclaimed any relation to "that cardboard body" he so felicitously invented. And while he might, as readers of John Pearson's breath-taking biography of Fleming will soon find out. For most of what James Bond could do Fleming did better. Unlike Bond, the author inspired great love as well as lust; unlike Bond he was brilliant, sensitive, and highly talented. And finally, unlike Bond, Fleming shunned violence as a solution to human conflicts. In this fascinating book, which is a profound psychological study, Pearson separates the creator from the created. He masterfully unravels the essential Fleming from the golden cocoon of illusion he wove around himself. He reveals that while Fleming incorporated his own adventures in James Bond's - his car accidentin Munich becomes Scaramanga's lethal railway in The Man with the Golden Gunn - Flemming also uses his creation to fulfill his own daydreams, and to alleviate his very real - and quite baseless - sense of failure. The most startling example of this bizarre transformation is the character "M," icy and omniscient head of British Secret Service. Pearson, in one of the truly great feats of biographical research, identifies the real - and surprising - counterpart to this character. Fact, fiction; illusion, reality; confidence, insecurity; love, repulsion - these mirror images that pursued Fleming/Bond all his life will haunt the reader of this audacious biography, surely one of the most remarkable portraits of "a hero of our times." Pearson, became acquainted with Fleming while working with him on The Sunday Times. To gather material for this book he traveled more than 100,000 miles, interviewed almost 150 people, and made an extensive study of Fleming's private paper.-----------------The biography of the man who created James Bond, one of the world's most famous and popular fictional characters. Fleming remained an enigmatic figure who disclaimed comparisons with his creation, but John Pearson - with access to Fleming's private papers - draws many parallels between the two. Pearson worked with Fleming for several years on "The Sunday Times". His prizewinning first novel "Gone To Timbuctoo" was published in 1963, followed by "Bluebird and the Deda Lake", the story of Donald Campbell's 1964 land speed record.----------------------------John George Pearson (born 5 October 1930 in Epsom, Surrey) is an English novelist and an author of biographies, notably of Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, and of the Kray twins.Pearson was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he gained a double first in history. He then worked for The Economist, BBC Television and The Sunday Times. He was Ian Fleming's assistant at the Sunday Times and went on to write the first biography of Fleming, The Life of Ian Fleming, published in 1966.Pearson was commissioned by Donald Campbell to chronicle his successful attempt on the Land Speed Record in 1964 in Bluebird CN7, resulting in the book Bluebird and the Dead Lake.Pearson has also written "true crime" biographies, such as The Profession of Violence, an account of the rise and fall of the Kray twins, who had hired him to write their biography in 1967. Over the next several years the brothers, who by now were in jail, wrote frequently to Pearson. He wrote two further books about the Krays: The Cult of Violence: The Untold Story of the Krays and Notorious: The Immortal Legend of the Kray Twins. In 2010 Pearson put up for auction more than 160 previously unseen letters and photographs from the Kray twins. The items sold for £20,780.Another of Pearson's books, The Gamblers, is an account of the group of gamblers who made up what was known as the Clermont Set, including John Aspinall, James Goldsmith and Lord Lucan. Warner Bros. purchased the film rights to the book in 2006. The Gamblers was made into a two-part TV drama, Lucan, starring Rory Kinnear and Christopher Eccleston, broadcast on ITV1 in December 2013.Pearson's book Facades was the first full-scale biography of the Sitwell siblings Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell. It was published in 1978.Pearson has also written five novels. Storm Jameson praised his first novel, Gone to Timbuctoo, as "an unusually good first novel, an exciting story, and a splendid setting in French West Africa. The writing is sharp and witty." Malcolm Muggeridge said, "This is an exceptionally brilliant first novel - exciting, wryly funny and perceptive."For his next three novels, Pearson did tie-in fictional biographies. Pearson also became the third official author of the James Bond series, writing in 1973 James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007, a first-person biography of the fictional agent James Bond. However, Pearson declined an offer to write further Bond novels. Pearson then did fictional tie-in works about Upstairs, Downstairs (The Bellamys of Eaton Place) and Biggles.Pearson has three children from his first marriage. He married his current wife, Lynette Dundas, on 17 December 1980.-----------------------It is now 50 years since the premiere of Dr No, the very first Bond film, with Sean Connery introducting 007 as the glamorous secret agent who would become the single most profitable movie character in the history of cinema. But James Bond was invented by one man, Ian Fleming, a wartime intelligence officer and Sunday Times newspaper man who lived to see only the very beginning of the Bond cult.John Pearson's famous biography remains the definitive account of how only Ian Fleming could have dreamed up James Bond, for he led a life as colourful as anything in his fiction, which in turn became a covert autobiography. Charming, debonair and a ruthless womaniser, globetrotting from wartime Algiers to beachside Jamaica, Fleming was as elusive and opaque as his imaginary creation.In his new introduction, John Pearson examines the extent to which Fleming's character informs even the most recent movie portrayals of his hero, and how Bond himself has achieved immortality beyond his creator's wildest dreams., McGraw-Hill, 1966, 0, Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989. Second Edition . Trade Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 112 pp., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989, 5, Toronto: Worldwide Library. Very Good. 2009. First Paperback Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Spine crease. 253 pages. A Sam McCain Mystery, No 8. Attorney Sam McCain investigates the murder of a young black man in his 1960s Iowa hometown, suspecting a link between the murder and Senator Lloyd Williams, a political official facing a tough re-election campaign, whose daughter is rumored to have been dating the victim. ., Worldwide Library, 2009, 3, Shire Publications. Good. 5.87 x 1 x 8.27 inches. Paperback. 2010. 64 pages. Cover worn<br>Fern Fever (or Pteridomania, to give it i ts official name), hit Britain between 1837 and 1914 and peaked b etween 1840 and 1890. Although in previous centuries ferns played an important role in customs and folklore, it was only in this p eriod that they were coveted for aesthetic reasons and that man's ... ., Shire Publications, 2010, 2.5, Straight Up: The Story of Vertical Flight by Richard Gibson HublerPublisher: Duell Sloan and Pearce, 1961Hardcover5.6 x 8.2 inches, 340 pagesRichard G. Hubler (born Richard Gibson Hubler; 20 August 1912 in Dunmore, Pennsylvania 21 October 1981 in Ojai, California), was an American screenwriter, military author, and writer of biographies, fiction, and non-fiction. However, his best-known work is the 1965 autobiography he ghostwrote for Ronald Reagan, Where's the Rest of Me?.Hubler attended Wyoming Seminary then graduated from Swarthmore College in 1934. Hubler began writing for many magazines. In 1941 he wrote his first biography Lou Gehrig: The Iron Horse of Baseball followed by I Flew for China in 1942, a biography of Chiang Kai-shek's personal pilot.He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant in December 1942. He served for three years in the Corps obtaining the rank of captain. He wrote many articles for the Marine Corps Gazette one of which criticised the American military's awarding of decorations Winning Medals and Alienating People. Hubler also published a World War II history of Marine Aviation Flying Leathernecks: The Complete History of Marine Corps Aviation 19411944 in 1944.After the war, Hubler used his Marine experience as inspiration for his first novel published in 1946 I've Got Mine that was filmed as Beachhead in 1954. It was republished as Walk Into Hell in 1963. Hubler became a Hollywood Scriptwriter with a screenplay based on Jim Corbett's Man-Eaters of Kumaon. This led him to be signed as a scriptwriter for Belsam Productions to write a trio of films for Tom Conway.In addition to Reagan's autobiography, he also wrote SAC: The Strategic Air Command (1958), St. Louis Woman with Helen Traubel (1959), Big Eight: A Biography of an Airplane (1960) Straight Up: The Story of Vertical Flight (1961) and The Cole Porter Story as told to Richard G. Hubler (1965).In February 1954 he had a piece entitled Dogs Are Dumb published in Coronet magazine, relating the lack of intelligence in dogs. He quickly became deluged by irate dog-owners' correspondence and can be heard making an apologetic appearance on the 19 May 1954 edition of You Bet Your Life defending his opinion and stating that he owned a dog himself.Hubler was commissioned by Walt Disney Productions and the Disney family to prepare a biography of Walt Disney shortly after Disney's death, which he researched and wrote during 19671968. Upon submission he was paid a contractual penalty and the manuscript never saw print. "No comments, no reasons, no nothing at all", Hubler stated to animation historian Michael Barrier as to why it remained unpublished. Animation historian Wade Sampson notes when Bob Thomas some years later was engaged to write what became Walt Disney: An American Original, Disney executives explained that "two other writers had tried their hand at writing the official biography but both of the attempts had proven unsatisfactory."A number of the interviews Hubler conducted on Disney have been published in the book series Walt's People edited by Didier Ghez.Hubler's papers are held by the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University. This includes the manuscript of the unpublished Disney biography and much material from its preparation. Many of the interview transcripts are also held by the Disney Archives., Duell Sloan and Pearce, 1961, 3, Yellow jersey Press, 2004. Standard. Paperback. Good. Outline:- In 1999, Lance Armstrong made world headlines with the most stunning comeback in the history of sport after battling against life-threatening testicular cancer just eighteen months before returning to professional cycling. His first book, It`s Not About the Bike, charted his journey back to life and went on to become an international bestseller. Now, in his much-anticipated follow-up, Armstrong shares more details of his extraordinary life story, including the births of his twin daughters Grace and Isabel. Never shy of controversy, Armstrong offers, with typical frankness, his thoughts on training, competing, winning and failure. He also tells of the work he did for the foundation he created following his dramatic recovery, addresses the daunting challenge of living in the aftermath of cancer and treatment, and shares further inspirational tales of survival. A fresh outlook on the spirit of survivors everywhere, Every Second Counts is an account of a man who strives every day to meet life`s challenges - whether on his bike or off. Every Second Counts was first published in October 2003. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey in January 2013, Lance Armstrong admitted to having taken performance enhancing drugs in all seven of the Tours de France in which he competed between 1999 and 2005. He was officially stripped of these wins by the UCI, the world governing body for cycling, in 2012.-> the publisher of this PAPERBACK book is Yellow jersey Press The date of this copy is 2004 booksalvation have grade it as Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK, Yellow jersey Press, 2004, 2.5, College Park, Maryland: College Part Aviation Museum, 2016. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Brochure. Very good. Sheet of 12 inches by 18 inches, printed on both sides, folded so that there are 6 panels each side. Illustrations (some in color). Discussed museum exhibits, special events, and provides other information of interest. In 1909 after proving the practicality of aviation to the US Army, Wilbur Wright trained the first generation of military aviators at a new airfield in what would come to be known as College Park. The College Park Airport has been home to a century of aviation history, and still operates today, making it the oldest continually operated airport in the world. It is home to many "firsts" in aviation, and is particularly significant for the well-known aviators and aviation inventors who played a part in this field's long history. In 1905, two years after their famous first flight of a heavier-than-air, powered aircraft at Kitty Hawk, NC, Wilbur and Orville Wright approached the U.S. Government about acquiring their aeroplane, but could not generate any interest. In 1907, upon hearing that the Wright brothers were in Europe discussing the potential sale of their aircraft to those governments, the Wrights received a letter requesting them to meet with U.S. Army officials. Shortly before Thanksgiving, Wilbur Wright met with the Signal Corps to discuss the possibility of furnishing an aeroplane to the Army. Their discussions resulted in Signal Corps Specification No. 486 - Advertisement and Specification for a heavier-than-air flying machine. Among other requirements, this machine was to be capable of carrying two people, have a speed of at least 40 mph, remain in the air for at least one hour, sustain flight for 125 miles, and be sufficiently easy to fly that a man of average intelligence could become proficient in its use within a reasonable amount of time. The Wrights submitted a bid, along with 40 other inventors. Despite the fact that the Wrights' was the highest of the three acceptable bids, the Signal Corps had been so impressed with the confidence expressed by Wilbur during their meetings that they decided to allow the Wrights' offer to stand. The Wrights' contract required that, prior to its acceptance, trials be held at Ft. Myer in Arlington, Virginia to demonstrate that the aeroplane could accomplish all the requirements of the Signal Corps specifications. The tests began in September 1908 with Orville handling the demonstrations while Wilbur was abroad overseeing the manufacture and license of the Wright machine in France. On September 17, 1908 while Orville was making a test flight with passenger Lt. Thomas Selfridge at Ft. Myer, the aeroplane's right propeller fractured, striking one of the rudder's bracing wires and sending the aeroplane crashing to the ground. Lt. Selfridge died of a fractured skull. Orville was seriously hurt, but recovered from his injuries. The War Department granted them an extension of their contract until the summer of 1909. On July 27, 1909, official testing began again at Ft. Myer. In the last test - the speed test - Orville flew 42.583 mph and was awarded a bonus of $5000 for exceeding the contract specifications by 2.5 mph. On August 2, 1909, Signal Corps Number One was officially accepted by the U.S. Government. There remained, however, one final condition to the Wrights' contract: that they teach two U.S. Army officers to fly the newly accepted machine. The Ft. Myer parade ground was deemed too small to safely instruct the Army officers, so the search began for another location. During a routine balloon ascent, Lt. Frank Lahm had spotted a large level field in the town of College Park that was close to the Maryland Agricultural College (now the University of Maryland) and adjacent to the B&O railroad tracks. The field was far enough away from the city that there were hopes it would discourage the large crowds (of up to 7000!) that had come daily to witness the Ft. Myer trials. However, the lure of the aeroplanes continued to draw spectators out to College Park, although in fewer numbers. A small temporary hangar was erected at the newly leased College Park field and the field cleared of brush and other obstacles. On October 8, 1909, Wilbur Wright began the flight instruction of Lt. Frank Lahm and Lt. Frederic Humphreys. On October 20, Lt. Benjamin Foulois, who had been originally designated one of the student pilots and was replaced by Humphreys to fulfill the contract, returned from a conference in Europe and began flight instruction under Wilbur Wright and Lt. Humphreys. In November 1909, the Wright contract was fulfilled when both Humphreys and Lahm soloed after little more than three hours of instruction. Once the U.S. Government had purchased the Wright aeroplane and the three Army officers (Lahm, Humphreys and Foulois) had received flight instruction in 1909, the U.S. Congress provided no funds to continue developing military aeronautics until 1911. At that time, the U.S. Army Signal Corps made preparations to open an aviation school at College Park, MD. In 1911, the first specific provision of funds for aeronautics made by the U.S. Congress allowed the Signal Corps to order new airplanes. Two Wright B aeroplanes, two Curtiss type aeroplanes, and one Burgess-Wright aeroplane were ordered and eventually sent to the field in College Park previously used in 1909 for the training of Army pilots. A larger tract of land was leased, approximately "200 acres extending north along the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad property to a series of goldfish ponds and east to the Paint Branch of the Anacostia River, with a maximum cleared runway of 2,376 feet in an east-west direction." The Army Quartermaster Department leased the field for $325 per month and erected four temporary wooden hangars 45 feet square along the railroad track., College Part Aviation Museum, 2016, 3, Chicago Review Press, 2012-06-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st edition, 1st printing, Chicago Review Press hardcover w/ DJ, 2012. Book is VG+, w/ clean text, tight binding. DJ is VG+, w/ very light edge/shelf wear. Free delivery confirmation., Chicago Review Press, 2012-06-01, 3, Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. 8vo size trade paperback; 240 pages with some black and white illustrations From back of book: "A contemporary of Columbus noted 'those crazy Spaniards have more regard for a bit of honor than for a thousand lives.' This obsession flourished in the New World, where status, privilege, and rank became cornerstones of the colonial social order. Honor has many faces. To a freed black woman in Brazil it proscribed spousal abuse and permitted her to petition the Church for permission to leave her husband. To a high church official charged with sodomy in Alto Peru, honor signified the privileges and legal exceptions available to those of his background and social position. These nine original essays assess the role and importance man and women of all races and social classes accorded honor throughout colonial Latin America." Edgewear, bumped bottom corner. We noted yellow/orange highlighting or brackets on at least 54 pages. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. . Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., University of New Mexico Press, 1999, 2.5, NY, Crown (2010), 2010. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Small quarto, hardcover, fine in fine black pictorial dj. First Edition; First Printing. 497 pp. Color and B/W photo inserts. Indexed. A groundbreaking new brand of presidential memoir, Decision Points will captivate supporters, surprise critics, and change perspectives on eight remarkable years in American history?and on the man at the center of events. Since leaving office, President George W. Bush has led the George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. The center includes an active policy institute working to advance initiatives in the fields of education reform, global health, economic growth, and human freedom, with a special emphasis on promoting social entrepreneurship and creating opportunities for women around the world. It will also house an official government archive and a state-of-the-art museum that will open in 2013., NY, Crown (2010), 2010, 3, New York.: Manor Books Inc., 1977. First edition. No print line.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Right edge splash soiling, bottom edge short mark. Minor spine creasing, cover soiling. Age-toning.. 1 243 p. Mass-market (rack) paperback. Middle East History: In November 1977, Egypt President Anwar Sadat's trip to speak before the Israel Knesset became the first official visit by a leader from an Arab state to Israel since 1948. Sadat was one of the original architects of Egypt's independence and democracy, and became the country's 2nd president in 1970, following the death of Abdel Nasser, under that independent state government. Sadat would later die by assassination, and Mubarek became president., Manor Books Inc., 1977, 3, London: B.T. Batsford. Very Good/Very Good. 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. Lge 8vo 0713403810 Dust jacket complete. unclipped. Black cloth with bright silver titling on spine. Previous ownership plate and label on ffep. A couple of marks. 184 pages clean and tight. More British philatelists collect the stamps of Great Britain than of any other country, and of these collectors most concentrate on the issues of Queen Elizabeth II. In the Commonwealth there is this same keen interest in contemporary British stamps and in the United States a similar demand has been stimulated by the imaginative policy of the British Post Office. For such collectors this comprehensive and profusely illustrated volume covers every facet of Great Britain stamp collecting, including the sidelines and peripheral groups. David Potter deals with all the Elizabethan issues-the Wilding portraits, the Commemoratives and Special issues, the Regionals, the High Values and the Machin Heads-and he explains just how and why each stamp was issued; there is a separate chapter on printing methods, varieties and notable errors of the period. Significant sections are devoted to those aspects of philately which are now becoming fields of specialisation such as Coils and Booklets, Postage Due Labels, Stationery, Semi-Officials and Locals, and Postmarks. This comprehensive handbook is completed by an account of the services provided by the British Post Office for collectors, by general advice on collecting the modern Great Britain issues, and by a bibliography and chronological appendix on Inland Postage Rates. David Potter is a regular contributor to all the leading British Philatelic Journals, and the author of The Taly//yn Railway Stamps and Postal History and a Catalogue of Great Britain Railway Letter Stamps 1957-1970 ., B.T. Batsford, 1971, 2.75, Dublin: Gill & Macmillan Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. 8vo 0717131254 Dust jacket complete. Black cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership inscription. xvii, 243 pages clean and tight. The theory and practice of Irish name-giving has developed in many directions, and it is the purpose of this book to attempt to document, discuss and characterize some of the more significant of these. The author offers a comprehensive view of a field that is altering rapidly under pressure of wider social change but which nevertheless remains fundamental to the way we categorize and verbalize Irish culture. Divided into two parts, the first is a discussion of place names, proper names, brand names and nicknames. The author traces the changing patterns and fashions in the naming of things and places in Ireland starting with the name of the island itself. It is Ireland in common speech, Eire on official documents, and Erin and the ould sod in sentimental ballads. It has had dozens of other names througout history. The small part of the island that is still part of the United Kingdom is officially Northern Ireland; Ulster to the Unionists; the Six Counties or the North of Ireland to the Nationalists and British-occupied Ireland to the Provisional IRA. The neighbouring larger island is constantly getting confused between England and Britain. The two islands together are sometimes called "these islands" but never the British Isles, at least not when you're in the Republic, or should that be the Free State or Southern Ireland. Names are trouble, and not just place-names. There are brand names, nicknames, names of housing estates and popular forenames that all change and develop over time, according to fashion changes. These changes tell us much about ourselves, the sort of people we are and the way we have evolved over time. The second part of this book is a dictionary. Organized on a standard A-Z basis, it glosses such names as Aer Lingus, Celtic Twilight, Clonakilty Wrastler, Lambeg, Mount Mellory, Navan Man, NIPPLES, BIFFO, Old Mister Brennan and Pee. ., Gill & Macmillan Ltd, 2001, 3, Gill & MacMillan, Ltd. (Ireland). Very Good/Very Good. 2001. First Edition, First Impression. Hard Cover. 8vo 0717131254 Dust jacket complete. Black cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership inscription. xvii, 243 pages clean and tight. The theory and practice of Irish name-giving has developed in many directions, and it is the purpose of this book to attempt to document, discuss and characterize some of the more significant of these. The author offers a comprehensive view of a field that is altering rapidly under pressure of wider social change but which nevertheless remains fundamental to the way we categorize and verbalize Irish culture. Divided into two parts, the first is a discussion of place names, proper names, brand names and nicknames. The author traces the changing patterns and fashions in the naming of things and places in Ireland starting with the name of the island itself. It is Ireland in common speech, Eire on official documents, and Erin and the ould sod in sentimental ballads. It has had dozens of other names througout history. The small part of the island that is still part of the United Kingdom is officially Northern Ireland; Ulster to the Unionists; the Six Counties or the North of Ireland to the Nationalists and British-occupied Ireland to the Provisional IRA. The neighbouring larger island is constantly getting confused between England and Britain. The two islands together are sometimes called "these islands" but never the British Isles, at least not when you're in the Republic, or should that be the Free State or Southern Ireland. Names are trouble, and not just place-names. There are brand names, nicknames, names of housing estates and popular forenames that all change and develop over time, according to fashion changes. These changes tell us much about ourselves, the sort of people we are and the way we have evolved over time. The second part of this book is a dictionary. Organized on a standard A-Z basis, it glosses such names as Aer Lingus, Celtic Twilight, Clonakilty Wrastler, Lambeg, Mount Mellory, Navan Man, NIPPLES, BIFFO, Old Mister Brennan and Pee. Size: 8vo ., Gill & MacMillan, Ltd. (Ireland), 2001, 3, London England: Collins /fontana. The Future of Man by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin A nice clean tight bright copy.Translated from the French by Norman Denny."Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (May 1, 1881 - April 10, 1955) was a French philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of Peking Man. Teilhard conceived the idea of the Omega Point and developed Vladimir Vernadsky's concept of Noosphere. Teilhard's primary book, The Phenomenon of Man, set forth a sweeping account of the unfolding of the cosmos. He abandoned traditional interpretations of creation in the Book of Genesis in favor of a less strict interpretation. This displeased certain officials in the Roman Curia and in his own order who thought that it undermined the doctrine of original sin developed by Saint Augustine. Teilhard's position was opposed by his church superiors, and his work was denied publication during his lifetime by the Roman Holy Office. The 1950 encyclical Humani generis condemned several of Teilhard's opinions, while leaving other questions open. In 2009, the Pope praised Teilhard and his work."(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Very Good. Soft cover. Fourth Impression. 1969., Collins /fontana, 1969, 3, London: Harvill Secker, 2011. Paperback. Very Good. Every morning Hakan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his home in S tockholm. However, one winter's day he fails to come home. It seems that th e retired naval officer has vanished without trace. Detective Kurt Wallande r is not officially involved in the investigation but he has personal reaso ns for involving himself in the case as Hakan's son is engaged to his daugh ter Linda. A few months earlier, at Hakan's 75th birthday party, Kurt notic ed that the old man appeared uneasy and seemed eager to talk about a contro versial incident from his past career that remained shrouded in mystery. Co uld this be connected to his disappearance? When Hakan's wife Louise also g oes missing, Wallander is determined to uncover the truth. His search leads him down dark and unexpected avenues involving espionage, betrayal and new information about events during the Cold War that threatens to cause a pol itical scandal on a scale unprecedented in Swedish history. The investigati on also forces Kurt to look back over his own past and consider his hopes a nd regrets, as he comes to the unsettling realisation that even those we lo ve the most can remain strangers to us. And then an even darker cloud appea rs on the horizon ..."--Publisher description., Harvill Secker, 2011, 3, In this candid and gripping account, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life.George W. Bush served as president of the United States during eight of the most consequential years in American history. The decisions that reached his desk impacted people around the world and defined the times in which we live.Decision Points brings readers inside the Texas governor's mansion on the night of the 2000 election, aboard Air Force One during the harrowing hours after the attacks of September 11, 2001, into the Situation Room moments before the start of the war in Iraq, and behind the scenes at the White House for many other historic presidential decisions.For the first time, we learn President Bush's perspective and insights on:A groundbreaking new brand of presidential memoir, Decision Points will captivate supporters, surprise critics, and change perspectives on eight remarkable years in American historyand on the man at the center of events.Since leaving office, President George W. Bush has led the George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. The center includes an active policy institute working to advance initiatives in the fields of education reform, global health, economic growth, and human freedom, with a special emphasis on promoting social entrepreneurship and creating opportunities for women around the world. It will also house an official government archive and a state-of-the-art museum that will open in 2013., Crown Publishing Group, 2010-11-09, 6<