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Orion, London, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Hardcover. 402 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Orion, London, 2003. First Edition. This is the first UK edition. **… More...

Orion, London, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Hardcover. 402 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Orion, London, 2003. First Edition. This is the first UK edition. *** CONDITION: Near Fine book with Very Good dust jacket ... Chip to top front corner of dust jacket Dust Jacket un-clipped. Slight spine lean. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: The head of the US National Security Agency is assassinated in a spectactular set-piece killing at Heathrow. A Pakistani employee at the airport and his family are found murdered in their council house in Uxbridge. In New York, a fashionable Upper East Side osteopath, who's treating Robert Harland, receives two postcards of the Empire State Building from someone called Karim Khan, one posted in Turkey, the other Iran. A group of migrant workers, including Khan, en route from Afghanistan to the EU, is brutally gunned down in Macedonia. Khan escapes death, but is captured to endure worse - terrible torture. The quest to find the link between these apparently random events is pursued by Harland, with the help of Isis Hernick, a young female officer of MI6, in a remarkable thriller that explores our frightening post 9/11 world. It is a world that inspires paranoia on a grand scale, where international agencies give no quarter and show no scruple in hunting down supposed terrorists, and where torture is used by democratic societies who cite defence as the justification for their acts. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Thrillers; ISBN: 0752856839. ISBN/EAN: 9780752856834. Inventory No: 11030300.. 9780752856834, Orion, 2003, 3.5, Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1954. Very Good. lge. octavo. wrappers 150 + xxvipp., b/w pls., diags., text ills., Includes : British European Airways Hangars at London Airport 14pp., Combustion Systems for Aircraft Gas Turbines 14pp., The Salvaging of Submarines 10pp., Cambridge University, 1954, 3, Switzerland: Swissair. Very Good. 1972. Other. Color Illustrations; This poster is made up of one large full sheet and folded six times to make a seat pocket brochure. The edges of the outer edges of the poster have some rubbing and light edgewear. The inner pages are clean and bright. "Swissair AG/S. A. (German: Schweizerische Luftverkehr-AG; French: S. A. Suisse pour la Navigation Aérienne) was the national airline of Switzerland between its founding in 1931 and bankruptcy in 2002. It was formed from a merger between Balair and Ad Astra Aero (To the Stars). For most of its 71 years, Swissair was one of the major international airlines and known as the "Flying Bank" due to its financial stability, causing it to be regarded as a Swiss national symbol and icon. The airline thrived into the 1980s when it was one of the "Seven Sisters" of Western European commercial aviation. It was headquartered at Zurich Airport and in Kloten. In 1997 the Swissair Group was renamed SAirGroup (although it was again renamed Swissair Group in 2001) , with four subdivisions: SAirlines (to which Swissair, regional subsidiaries Crossair and Balair, and leasing subsidiary FlightLease belonged) , SAirServices, SAirLogistics, and SAirRelations. " (from Wikipedia) ., Swissair, 1972, 3, Schulenburg, TX: I. E. Clark. G PB. (1974). This play and Morgan Terry's "Keep Tightly closed in a Cool Dry Place" were presented in a European tour in 1968 by the Yale . Repertory Company, a professional troupe. After a workshop preview in the Open Space Theatre in London, the plays opened at the Theatre Mickery in Amsterdam on October 18. Bert Hulsing, reviewing the opening performance for the Amsterdam Trouw, wrote, "This is a beautifully written piece about a small group of people in an airport who are too preoccupied with themselves to recognize a cry for help from a girl in their midst who has taken a vial of pills" to end her life. France has a degree in drama from Carnegie-Mellon University and is vice-chairman of the American Theatre Association Playwrights Program. His wife Rachel collaborated on the Director's Production Script for this play. She has designed costumes and sets for a number of off-Broadway and repertory company productions. Edges of binding toned, bottom of spine split, spot on inner edges of pages. ., I. E. Clark, 2.5, Cologne: Lufthansa German Airlines, 1980. Large Softcover. Near Fine. Wrapper edges lightly rubbed. 1980 Large Softcover. Deutsche Lufthansa AG (German pronunciation: [ËŒdɔʏtʃə ˈlÊŠfthanzaː]), commonly shortened to Lufthansa, is the flag carrier and largest airline of Germany which, when combined with its subsidiaries, is the second-largest airline in Europe in terms of passengers carried.[7][8] The name of the former flag carrier[9] is derived from the German word Luft meaning "air" and Hansa for the Hanseatic League. Lufthansa is one of the five founding members of Star Alliance, the world's largest airline alliance, formed in 1997.[10] The company slogan is 'Say yes to the world.'[11] Besides its own services, and owning subsidiary passenger airlines Austrian Airlines, Swiss International Air Lines, Brussels Airlines, and Eurowings (referred to in English by Lufthansa as its Passenger Airline Group), Deutsche Lufthansa AG owns several aviation-related companies, such as Lufthansa Technik and LSG Sky Chefs, as part of the Lufthansa Group. In total, the group has over 700 aircraft, making it one of the largest airline fleets in the world.[12] Lufthansa's registered office and corporate headquarters are in Cologne. The main operations base, called Lufthansa Aviation Center, is at Lufthansa's primary hub at Frankfurt Airport,[13][14][15] and its secondary hub is at Munich Airport where a secondary Flight Operations Centre is maintained.[16]--Wikipedia, Lufthansa German Airlines, 1980, 4, Washington, DC: Air Force History and Museums Program, 2003. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Wraps. Very good.. iv, 28 p. : Illustrations, black & white. Note on sources and Additional Reading. This is one of the 100th Anniversary of Flight Commemorative Edition. As we conclude our year-long recognition of the 100th anniversary of powered flight, we take this opportunity to recognize and pay tribute to airmen of the past and present. We do this with an eye toward inspiring airmen of the future. General Frank M. Andrews was an inspirational figure in our history and it is fitting that we highlight his accomplishments and contributions in the creation, shaping, and development of the United States Air Force. As the organizer and commander of the prewar General Headquarters (GHQ) Air Force, he was the first airman to have centralized nationwide command of Air Corps bombardment, attack, and pursuit units. The advent of GHQ Air Force marked one of the first decisive steps on the road to the birth of a separate air service. Nevertheless, likely due to his personal modesty and untimely death in a B-24 crash in, May 1943, while commanding the European Theater of Operations, he has been a background figure in our history. General George C. Marshall, wartime Chief of Staff of the Army, captured the magnitude of his tragic loss to the Allied war effort by characterizing Andrews as one of the nation's "few great captains." Memorializing General Andrews is one example of how we can commemorate the Centennial of Flight, emphasizing the tremendous impact an individual's efforts and contributions can have on aviation and the Air Force. From WIkipedia: "Frank Maxwell Andrews (February 3, 1884 May 3, 1943) was a general officer in the United States Army and one of the founders of the United States Army Air Forces, which was later to become the United States Air Force. In leadership positions within the Army Air Corps, he succeeded in advancing progress toward a separate and independent Air Force where predecessors and allies such as Billy Mitchell had failed. Andrews was the first head of a centralized American air force and the first air officer to serve on the Army's general staff. In early 1943, he took the place of Dwight D. Eisenhower as commander of all U.S. troops in the European Theater of Operations. General Andrews was killed in an airplane accident during an inspection tour in Iceland in 1943. He was the first of four lieutenant generals to die during the war, the others being Lesley J. McNair, Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. and Millard Harmon. Joint Base Andrews in Maryland (formerly Andrews Air Force Base) is named after him, as well as Andrews Barracks (a kaserne in Berlin, Germany), General Andrews Airport (demolished) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and Andrews Avenue in Pasay City, Philippines....At the Casablanca Conference in January 1943, Lieut. Gen. Andrews was appointed commander of all United States forces in the European Theater of Operations, replacing Dwight D. Eisenhower. In his memoirs, Gen. Henry H. Arnold, commander of the Army Air Forces in World War II, expressed the belief that Andrews would have been given the command of the Allied invasion of Europe the position that eventually went to Gen. Eisenhower. [3] Gen. Marshall would say, late in life, that Andrews was the only general he had a chance to groom for a possible Supreme Allied Command later in the war. [4] However, on May 3, 1943, during an inspection tour, Lieut. Gen. Andrews was killed in crash of B-24D-1-CO Liberator, 41-23728, of the 8th Air Force out of RAF Bovingdon, England, on Mt. Fagradalsfjall on the Reykjanes peninsula after an aborted attempt to land at the Royal Air Force station at Kaldadarnes, Iceland. Andrews and thirteen others died in the crash." From an obituary posed on-line; "Mr. Copp wrote more than 30 books, fiction and nonfiction, and many articles about the cold war and espionage, as well as another passion, aviation. A flight instructor and pilot, he served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. Later as the international marketing director of the Weather Engineering Corporation, he helped develop equipment that., Air Force History and Museums Program, 2003, 3, New York: Atlas & Co, 2008. Book Club Edition [stated]. Hardcover. Good/Good. Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 7.5 inches. [4], 335, [1] pages. Notes. DJ has wear, tears and soiling. Illustrations. Mild page discoloration. Jonathan Brent (born 1949) is an American academic, author, historian and publisher. As a publisher, he is the director of the Annals of Communism series, which he founded in 1992. He is currently the CEO and executive director of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, as well as Visiting Alger Hiss Professor of History and Literature at Bard College. He received a B.A. from Columbia University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Chicago. He is a writer, publisher, and teacher who has lectured around the world on subjects of Soviet and modern Jewish history. His books have been translated into multiple languages. From 1981-1991, Brent was editor-in-chief and director of the Northwestern University Press, where he established the series in East European and Russian literature. He served as editorial director and associate director of the Yale University Press from 1991-2009. In 1981, Brent founded the literary magazine Formations, which specialized in East European writing and thought. In 2009, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research named him its executive director and CEO. In 2014, with the cooperation of the government of the Republic of Lithuania Brent established the landmark Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project at The YIVO Institute to preserve and digitize approximately 2.5 million documents and 12,200 books representing 500 years of Jewish history in Eastern Europe and Russia. From the first publisher granted access to Stalin's personal archive, a provocative and insightful portrait of modern Russia, the most compelling since David Remnick's Lenin's Tomb. To most Americans, Russia remains as enigmatic today as it was during the Iron Curtain era. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the country had an opportunity to face its tortured past. In Inside the Stalin Archives, Jonathan Brent asks, why didn't this happen? Why are the anti-Semitic Protocols of Zion sold openly in the lobby of the State Duma? Why are archivists under surveillance and phones still tapped? Why does Stalin, a man responsible for the deaths of millions of his own people, remain popular enough to appear on boxes of chocolate sold in Moscow's airport? Brent draws on fifteen years of unprecedented access to high-level Soviet Archives to answer these questions. He shows us a Russia where, in 1992, used toothbrushes were sold on the sidewalks, while now shops are filled with luxury goods and the streets are jammed with Mercedes. Stalin's specter hovers throughout, and in the book's crescendo Brent takes us deep into the dictator's personal papers to glimpse the dark heart of the new Russia. Both cultural history and personal memoir, Inside the Stalin Archives is a deeply felt and vivid portrait of Russia in the twenty-first century. Derived from a Kirkus review: Illuminating view of the difficulties of writing recent history in a land still suffering from it. Brent first traveled to Russia in the aftermath of the Soviet regime?s collapse, when it seemed everything was for sale. His goal was the acquisition of Soviet archives, including the personal archives of Stalin, with an eye to producing a series of books, Annals of Communism. To achieve it, he notes, he had to take up smoking and swallow endless shots of vodka. He had to spend money. He had to contend with corruption, anti-Semitism and the continuing apotheosis of a murderous dictator. He also had to develop a special kind of etiquette that, more than anything else, simply signaled respect for the apparatchiks, scholars and intermediaries he had to deal with. By Brent?s account, he did all these things?accomplishing the last by shaking off his press?s insistent lawyer and cutting deals in a rather free-form fashion as the situation dictated. Clearly Brent is sympathetic to the Russians. After all, he writes, he studied the language not just to read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, but also to understand the lyrics sung by the Red Army Chorus. He possesses the blend of scholarship and entrepreneurship that characterizes a good university-press editor, and any aspiring publisher will find much to learn by following his acquisition of the last tsaritsa?s personal diary and his wranglings with various hands-out souls. A welcome book, of particular interest to Russian historians and bibliophiles alike., Atlas & Co, 2008, 2.5, Vue / Avon T394, 1958. Very Good. Blonde pin-up model on both Vue magazine and Shakedown Strip, an Avon paperback, circa 1958. Shirley was a somewhat popular 50s/60s "men's magazine" model, photographed by the likes of Keith Bernard (like here on Vue), and whose image struck even paperback artists (maybe Chiriaka on the paperback??). She appeared in Peep Showmagazine, and this image was also used on the adult fiction paperback Stories for a Hot Night (All Star Book, 1961). Shakedown Strip (Louis Malley, Avon T-394, c. 1958 reprint). Vue (non-nude digest magazine): V11 N5, September 1958, Shirley cover/3pp layout by Bernard! Photographers: Globe, European, Lions, GH, Vogel, David Mills, Maples Gorwin, Puhn, Roland, Combine, Posner, Sutton, Kemp, Ace Williams. Liz Renay & Mickey Cohen, Munich airport crash, Jayne Macklyn, camera club girl Heather Christie, Jean Jani, paper mache Mansfield, sweet Jeanne Williams, nudists (Evelyn West), Phil Blake drag queen ball, Candy Barr & jail (color 1pp), Paulette Nelson, Renee Patryn, vignettes (Rita Grable, Lynn Shaw, Lorelei, Sequin Garner), Monique Van Vooren (Andy Warhol patron), Adele Baker, hot Connie London, Jayne Mansfield 1pp. Very Good overall, rubbing, toning, light creases, a few tiny nicks. For mature, consenting audiences., Vue / Avon T394, 1958, 3, Paperback. New. After successfully using his airplane to conquer the 14ers of Colorado, Southern Sixers of the Appalachians, and every remaining glacier of the United States Rockies, the author still hadn't learned his lesson flying a small two-seater ragtag airplane built in 1949 around large mountains. Toting it to Germany and later on to Spain, Garrett Fisher set his sights on the 129 peaks over 3000 meters (9,843 feet), taking his same little airplane from end to end in the Pyrenees, covering locations in Andorra, France, and, Spain. Battling famously enormous mountain waves, rugged terrain, multiple languages, unfavorable airport conditions, freezing cold, and his own sense of wonderment as to why the project was begun in the first place, he successfully captured the highest peaks of a mountain range that not only forms a significant part of European history, it beguiles hikers and those who visit for its beauty. Organized by groupings accepted by mountaineers, the book contains detailed photography of each peak on the list of 3000ers, with meticulously detailed maps containing useful information for hikers and mountain enthusiasts, besides those who wish to merely enjoy its beauty.| Author: Garrett Fisher| Publisher: Independently Published| Publication Date: Apr 14, 2019| Number of Pages: 104 pages| Language: English| Binding: Paperback| ISBN-10: 1090202830| ISBN-13: 9781090202833, 6, Berghahn Books, 2010. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Melhuus (social anthropology, U. of Oslo, Norway) et al. assemble 11 chapters drawn from two workshops, "Ethnographic Practice in the Present" and "Ethnography: The Costs of Success?" held at the eighth biennial conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists in Vienna, Austria, in 2004. The workshops aimed to assess the position of ethnography within the discipline of sociocultural anthropology and the methodological implications of practice in fieldwork, as well as the use of ethnography in other disciplines in the social and human sciences. Anthropologists from Europe and the US consider ethnography in interdisciplinary contexts such as history, linguistics, psychoanalysis, ethnology, corporate social responsibility, female circumcision, AIDS responses, and international airports. They also discuss the ethnics of the "new" ethnography, the role of memory, reconstructing the past, and the challenges of mobility. The introduction and one of the chapters have been previously published in different versions elsewhere. (2010 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR), Berghahn Books, 2010, 0<

ISBN: 9781845456160

In its assessment of the current 'state of play' of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and changing understanding… More...

In its assessment of the current 'state of play' of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and changing understandings of 'the field' pose to contemporary ethnographic methods. These challenges include the implications of the remarkable impact social anthropology is having on neighboring disciplines such as history, sociology, cultural studies, human geography and linguistics, as well as the potential 'costs' of this success for the discipline. Contributors also discuss how the ethnographic method is influenced by current institutional contexts and historical 'traditions' across a range of settings. Here ethnography is featured less as a methodological 'tool-box' or technique but rather as a subject on which to reflect. Bücher > Fremdsprachige Bücher > Englische Bücher 19 x 162 x 236 mm , Berghahn Books, Marit Mitchell, Jon P. Wulff, Helena Melhuus, Berghahn Books, Mitc<

ISBN: 9781845456160

Hardback, [PU: Berghahn Books], In its assessment of the current 'state of play' of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social … More...

Hardback, [PU: Berghahn Books], In its assessment of the current 'state of play' of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and changing understandings of 'the field'pose to contemporary ethnographic methods. These challenges include the implications of the remarkable impact social anthropology is having..., Social & Cultural Anthropology<

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