2009, ISBN: 9780025843912

Hardcover

Princeton. 1965. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 210 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literary Criticism Poetry England . FROM THE PUBL… More...

Princeton. 1965. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 210 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literary Criticism Poetry England . FROM THE PUBLISHER - In an attempt to isolate and describe the characteristic poetic mode in which W. H. Auden has worked for more than thirty years, Mr. Blair considers the whole range of Auden's poetry in the light of his own aesthetic views. He quotes from Auden's substantial body of critical writing, to present Auden as artist. Nearly all of Auden's critics thus far have divided his work into periods on the basis of changes in his political, religious, or national affiliations. Mr. Blair is not here concerned with a chronological progression but rather with seeing if there is a consistent pattern of form and theme. He demonstrates that from 1928 to 1962 Auden was remarkably consistent in his didactic intention to reform his audience, his use of allegory and dramatic frameworks, and his reliance on light verse techniques as a means of articulating serious comments on life unseriously. Auden's characteristic mode seems to be highly indirect, theatrical, anti-romantic. ‘Mr. Blair makes fresh use of Auden's critical prose and analyzes Auden's poetry in terms of his intentions and achievements. Mr. Blair organizes his book into discerning topical discussions and considers Auden's chronological development only incidentally. This approach is new in the books on Auden and establishes Auden firmly as a major figure in modern letters.' - FREDERICK P. W. MC DOWELL. inventory #37641, 0, Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2009. Part of Apollo 40 years series. Photograph. Very good. Format approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Image size is approximately 6 inches by 7.25 inches. The caption reads: The Apollo 13 Command Module splashed down in the South Pacific at 12:07:44 p.m. on April 17, 1970, after a harrowing mission in which a ruptured oxygen tank put the crew in peril. The red and white parachutes were the first signal to Mission Control that astronauts Lovell, Haise, and Swigert had defied the odds and made it safely back to Earth. Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon. The craft was launched on April 11, 1970 from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded two days later, crippling the Service Module upon which the Command Module had depended. Despite great hardship caused by limited power, loss of cabin heat, shortage of potable water, and the critical need to make makeshift repairs to the carbon dioxide removal system, the crew returned safely to Earth on April 17, 1970, six days after launch. The mission was commanded by James A. Lovell with John L. "Jack" Swigert as Command Module Pilot and Fred W. Haise as Lunar Module Pilot. Swigert was a late replacement for the original CM pilot Ken Mattingly, who was grounded by the flight surgeon after exposure to German measles. The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. First conceived during Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961. Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module (LM) on July 20, 1969, and walked on the lunar surface, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the Command/Service Module (CSM), and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24. Five subsequent Apollo missions also landed astronauts on the Moon, the last in December 1972. In these six spaceflights, twelve men walked on the Moon. Apollo ran from 1961 to 1972, with the first manned flight in 1968. It achieved its goal of manned lunar landing, despite the major setback of a 1967 Apollo 1 cabin fire that killed the entire crew during a prelaunch test. After the first landing, sufficient flight hardware remained for nine follow-on landings with a plan for extended lunar geological and astrophysical exploration. Budget cuts forced the cancellation of three of these. Five of the remaining six missions achieved successful landings, but the Apollo 13 landing was prevented by an oxygen tank explosion in transit to the Moon, which damaged the CSM's propulsion and life support. The crew returned to Earth safely by using the Lunar Module as a "lifeboat" for these functions. Apollo used Saturn family rockets as launch vehicles, which were also used for an Apollo Applications Program, which consisted of Skylab, a space station that supported three manned missions in 1973-74, and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, a joint Earth orbit mission with the Soviet Union in 1975. Apollo set several major human spaceflight milestones. It stands alone in sending manned missions beyond low Earth orbit. Apollo 8 was the first manned spacecraft to orbit another celestial body, while the final Apollo 17 mission marked the sixth Moon landing and the ninth manned mission beyond low Earth orbit. The program returned 842 pounds (382 kg) of lunar rocks and soil to Earth, greatly contributing to the understanding of the Moon's composition and geological history. The program laid the foundation for NASA's subsequent human spaceflight capability, and funded construction of its Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center. Apollo also spurred advances in many areas of technology incidental to rocketry and manned spaceflight, including avionics, telecommunications, and computers., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2009, 3, San Jose, CA: San Jose Historical Museum Association. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1980. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This Facsimile edition was published in 1980 as part of the museum's yearly membership publication / fundraising. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly crisp and clean, but has some beginning rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners. . "Published in 1887 by the Board of Trade, the forerunner of today's Chamber of Commerce, this book was intended to draw people to the Valley and thereby further the development of industry, commerce, and real estate (and, not incidentally, to make money for the residents who were lucky and smart enough to have arrived here first)." (from Wikipedia) ., San Jose Historical Museum Association, 1980, 4, New York: Macmillan, 1989. 255 pp, 11 3/4" H. Over 200 maps/battle plans in shades of black, white and red. "(T)his book provides a continuous, chronological narrative, linking the theatres and showing how each affected the others, and the way in which the protagonists were forced to adjust the deployment of armies and resources between them. Each two-page spread describes and maps a particular phase in the conflict, linking its position in the order of events to previous and subsequent topics. Graphic keys supply at-a-glance locations in time and place, while a cursor bar shows the phase of the overall conflict. The maps have been designed to complement and amplify the chronological text, presenting not only the main events but also showing peripheral and incidental information to aid the reader in forming a clear picture of the course of the war. Areas depicted have been chosen with care, to include all the zones and their implicit factors that impinged upon the decision-making of the com-manders in the field as well as their political masters. As a narrative, graphic history of the Second World War, this book will provide new insights for the expert as well as a uniquely comprehensible overview for the layman." Section headings: Introduction; The Legacy of the First World War; Just a European War; Britain Alone; Hitler Turns East; The Dark Before the Dawn; Tide on the Turn; Slowly But Surley; Europe Re-Entered; Liberation; Closing In; Victory in Europe; The Ultimate Weapon; The Legacy; Further Reading; Index. Minor wrinkling at top of spine. Dust jacket is price-clipped.. Not Signed. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Illus. by Richard and Hazel Watson, maps.., Macmillan, 1989, 3<

1989, ISBN: 0025843915

[EAN: 9780025843912], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Macmillan, New York], WORLD WAR II, SECOND WAR, MAPS, ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY, AACHEN, ABYSSINIA, BOMBER COMMAD, COASTAL COMMAND, DE… More...

[EAN: 9780025843912], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Macmillan, New York], WORLD WAR II, SECOND WAR, MAPS, ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY, AACHEN, ABYSSINIA, BOMBER COMMAD, COASTAL COMMAND, DESERT AIR FORCE, FIGHTER PATHFINDER LUFTWAFFE, USAAF, AIRCRAFT, ALBANIA, ALEXANDRIA, ALGERIA, ALLIED CONFERENCES, CONVOYS, ARKAN, ACTIC ARDENNES, AUSTRALIAN ARMY, BRITISH CANADIAN FRENCH, GERMAN, JAPANESE, RUSSIAN, AMERIAN, BATTLE OF ATLANTIC, ATOMIC BOMB, AUSTRALIA, AUSTRIA, BALKANS, BAY BENGAL, BELGIUM, BELORUSSIA, BERLIN, BOUGAINVILLE, OMAR BARDLEY, BRITAIN, BUDAPEST, BULGARIA, BURMA ROAD, CANADA, CAUCASUS, CHANNEL ISLANDS, CHERBOURG, CHIAG KAI-SHEK, CHINA, WINSTON CHURCHILL, MARK CLARK, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, CRETE, DE GAULLE, DOENITZ, DRESDEN, DUTCH EAST INDIES, PRUSSIA, EGYPT, EISENHOWER, ENIGMA, FINLAND, FRANCE, GERMANY, GIBRALTAR, GILBERT GOERING, GREECE, GUADALCANAL, GUAM, HAMBURG, ADOLF HITLER, HUNGARY, INDIA, IRAQ, ITALY, JAPAN, KESSELRING, KHARKOV, KIEV, KLUGE, IVAN KONEV, KURSK, KYUSHU, LATVIA, LEND-LEASE, LENINGRAD, LIBYA, LITHUANIA, LONDON, MACARTHUR, MAGIC, MAGINOT LINE, MALAYA, MALINOVSKY, MALTA, MANCHURIA, MANDALAY, MANSTEIN, MARIANA GEORGE MARSHALL, MEDITERRANEAN, MEUSE, WALTHER MODEL, MONTGOMERY, MOSCOW, MOUNTBATTEN, MURMANSK, MUSSOLINI, NAVIES, ROYAL NAVY, NEW GUINEA, NETHERLANDS, ZEALAND, NEWFOUNDLAND, NIMITIZ, NORWAY, PACIFIC, PAPUA, PARIS, PATTON, PEARL HARBOR, PERSIA, IRAN, PHILIPPINES, POLAND, PORT MORESBY, RABAUL, RANGOON, RHINE, RESISTANCE, KONSTANTIN ROKOSSOVKY, ROMMEL, FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, ROUMANIA, RUNDSTEDT, SHIPS, SICILY, SINGAPORE, SLIM, SLOVAKIA, STALIN, STALINGRAD, STILWELL, SUEZ CANAL, SWEDEN, THAILAND, TITO, TOBRUK, TOKYO, TRIPOLI, TRIPOLITANIA, TRUK, TRUMAN, TURKEY. UKRAINE, ULTRA, USA, USSR, TREATY VERSAILLES, VISTULA, WARSAW, WAVELL, YEREMENKO, YUGOSLAVIA, MARSHAL ZHUKOV, OVERLORD, POTSDAM, IWO JIMA, OKINAWA, YALTA, GREEK CIVIL LEYTE, LUZON, CHIDITS, TUNISIA, HOLOCAUST, QUEBEC CONFERENCE, NORMANDY, CRIMES, TRIALS. NOISBN, Jacket, 255 pp, 11 3/4" H. Over 200 maps/battle plans in shades of black, white and red. "(T)his book provides a continuous, chronological narrative, linking the theatres and showing how each affected the others, and the way in which the protagonists were forced to adjust the deployment of armies and resources between them. Each two-page spread describes and maps a particular phase in the conflict, linking its position in the order of events to previous and subsequent topics. Graphic keys supply at-a-glance locations in time and place, while a cursor bar shows the phase of the overall conflict. The maps have been designed to complement and amplify the chronological text, presenting not only the main events but also showing peripheral and incidental information to aid the reader in forming a clear picture of the course of the war. Areas depicted have been chosen with care, to include all the zones and their implicit factors that impinged upon the decision-making of the com-manders in the field as well as their political masters. As a narrative, graphic history of the Second World War, this book will provide new insights for the expert as well as a uniquely comprehensible overview for the layman." Section headings: Introduction; The Legacy of the First World War; Just a European War; Britain Alone; Hitler Turns East; The Dark Before the Dawn; Tide on the Turn; Slowly But Surley; Europe Re-Entered; Liberation; Closing In; Victory in Europe; The Ultimate Weapon; The Legacy; Further Reading; Index. Minor wrinkling at top of spine. Dust jacket is price-clipped., Books<

1989, ISBN: 0025843915

[EAN: 9780025843912], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 2.41], [PU: Macmillan Pub Co], MESSENGER CHARLES THE CHRONOLOGICAL ATLAS OF WORLD WAR TWO, The book has been read, but is in exce… More...

[EAN: 9780025843912], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 2.41], [PU: Macmillan Pub Co], MESSENGER CHARLES THE CHRONOLOGICAL ATLAS OF WORLD WAR TWO, The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged., Books<

ISBN: 9780025843912

Paperback. Very Good., 3