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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Miracle Dogs of Portugal is the almost-true story of historical figure Henry the Navigator and the dog that saved his life, Milagro, a Portuguese water dog. Set against a backdrop of actual historical events, the story is sure to remind kids of all ages to love their friends, summon their courage, and follow their dreams. Barnes, Kent (illustrator).…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Barnes, Kent (illustrator).

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Barnes, Kent (illustrator).

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Barnes, Kent (illustrator).

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Barnes, Kent (illustrator).

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Catherine Martin (illustrator).

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Catherine Martin (illustrator).

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Catherine Martin (illustrator).

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. . Barnes, Kent (illustrator).…

Zustand: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee. Barnes, Kent (illustrator).

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good, minor crease. *.

Unknown. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Former Library book. (Manufacturing, Paper industry, History) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included. …

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 52 pages. 8.50x8.43x0.24 inches. In Stock. Barnes, Kent (illustrator).

Zustand: Very Good. Signed Copy . Very Good dust jacket. Inscribed by author on front endpage.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. xii, 154 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. paperback, 4to, 114pp, illustrated, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good condition.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN.

Wraps. Zustand: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 24 pages (counting covers). Illustrations (color). This is a special issue focusing on the Isotope Production Facility (IPF). Isotope Production Facility at the Los Alamos National Laboratory produces radioactive isotopes for medical, environmental, industrial as well as research applications. The Isotope Production Facility (IPF) at LANSCE supplies a wide range of radioisotopes to researchers all over the world and has been a leader in developing and producing new and unique isotopes for research and development. Cover has slight wear and soiling. The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE), formerly known as the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility (LAMPF) is one of the world's most powerful linear accelerators. It is located in Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico in Technical Area 53 (TA-53). It was the most powerful linear accelerator in the world when it was opened in June 1972.[1] The technology used in the accelerator was developed in part by the nuclear physicist Louis Rosen. The facility is capable of accelerating protons up to 800 MeV. Multiple beamlines allow for a variety of experiments to be run at once, and the facility is used for many types of research in materials testing and neutron science. It is also used for medical radioisotope production. LANSCE provides the scientific community with intense sources of neutrons with the capability of performing experiments supporting civilian and national security research. The Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Energy, and Office of Science and Technology - the principal sponsors of LANSCE - have synergistic long-term needs for the accelerator and neutron science that is the heart of LANSCE. LANSCE provides solutions to national security problems. It serves an international user community conducting diverse forefront basic and applied research. Since 1972, the 800-million-electronvolt (MeV) accelerator and its attendant facilities at Technical Area 53 (TA-53, often referred to as "the Mesa") at Los Alamos National Laboratory have been a resource to a broad international community of scientific researchers. The Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility (LAMPF), as it was originally called, hosted about 1000 users per year to perform medium energy physics experiments. In 1977, a pulsed spallation neutron source was commissioned to supply moderated and unmoderated neutrons to time-of-flight experiments in the facility called the Weapons Neutron Research (WNR) Center. Neutron scattering experiments were started immediately and by 1983 the Department of Energy's Office of Basic Energy Sciences was funding a formal user program. Beginning in 1985, with the completion of the Proton Storage Ring (PSR) that compresses proton pulses from 750 microseconds to a quarter of a microsecond, the Los Alamos Neutron Scattering Center (LANSCE), now known as the Lujan Center, was established while WNR was expanded to other spallation sources on the accelerator beam. In 1995 LAMPF was renamed the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) to reflect the broad base of neutron research being conducted on behalf of the weapons program and basic research; the name of the BES neutron scattering facility was simultaneously changed from LANSCE to the Manuel Lujan Jr. Neutron Scattering Center. In 1996, a Memorandum of Understanding was established between the Department of Energy's Offices of Energy Research (ER) and Defense Programs (DP) to define the stewardship of the facility and its experimental areas in the context of the new Scientific Stockpile Stewardship Program. In 2001, the MOU was rewritten to include three branches of the Department of Energy (DOE)-the National Nuclear Security Administration Defense Program (DP), the Office of Science (SC), and the Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)-and the Laboratory officially designated LANSCE as an approved user facility. Several key events have occurred during the last 20 years that h. Robert Kramer (Photographer) (illustrator).…

Magazine. Zustand: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. [2], 29, [1] pages, including covers. Illustrations (many in color). Cover has some wear and soiling. Some edge tears. Mailing address on back cover. This copy was sent to Gilbert Weigand who led the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative and rose to be Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research, Development and Simulation, Office of Defense Programs, U.S. Department of Energy. This issue includes articles and information on supercomputers, NASA and the French National Space Agency (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales) cooperation. First Lady Hillary Clinton, Climate documentary, Forecast Models, Science Teachers, NASA Research and Education Network, Neuron Nerolab, and a replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer. NASA is conducting a High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) program as part of a broader federal HPCC effort, including HPCC networks and advanced software for the National Information Infrastructure. The NASA HPCC program is conducted under the guidance of the agency's Office of Aeronautics; Ames Research Center is the lead center, assisted by Langley Research Center and Lewis Research Center. The immediate aim of the NASA HPCC program is achievement of sustained computational speeds of one trillion FLOPS. NASA, was developing applications software and algorithms for scalable parallel computing systems that would enable attainment of the goal by 1997. The technologies being developed would be applied to designing advanced aerospace vehicles; increasing scientists' abilities to model Earth's climate and forecast global environmental trends; advancing astronomy and astrophysics research; and improving the data-gathering capabilities of future spacecraft.…

First Edition. First edition. Oblong softcover. 71 pages. Features text by I. Wilmer Counts, Jr. and Mary Sinnock. Includes photographs from the 1930's of the FSA Collection from the prints and photographs division of the Library of Congress by the likes of Walker Evans, Carl Mydans, Ben Shahn, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee and others along with 1970's images by I. Wilmer Counts. Jr. A clean near fine copy in photo-illustrated wrapeprs. …

Spiral bound wraps. Zustand: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. [4], 132 pages (plus some blue page section dividers). Illustrations. Tables. Includes a two page sheet on Expert Contacts and On-Line Information Sources. Institutional stamp and date in ink on front cover. "CWPM is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization supporting journalists and news organizations in their efforts to sustain an informed and engaged citizenry. The Center provides analysis and resources for journalists covering world affairs through its Global Beat and Global Beat Syndicate, seminars, training, and other services." It is a member of the Security Policy Working Group (SPWG), a project of Proteus Fund. "The center fosters comprehensive news coverage of international issues to create a more knowledgeable citizenry and has trained over 125,000 journalist-participants from thirty-seven countries, published journalism materials in eleven languages, and raised over $30 million to fund its U.S. and international programs." It works with the Russian-American Press and Information Center. This is a compilation of 16 articles, presentations, and excerpts and a Chronology of Nuclear Smuggling Incidents. These are grouped into three sections: Overview of U.S.-Russian Nuclear Cooperation; Russian Nuclear Security and U.S. Assistance; and The Future of U.S. Russian Nuclear Disarmament. Among the authors/contributors are: Frank von Hippel; Ambassador Mikhail Strltsov, Evan Medeiros, William C. Potter, Graham Turbiville, Glenn Schweitzer, Kenneth Luongo, Jessica Stern, Kevin O'Neill, Robert Norris, Ottfried Nassauer, George Lewis, Stephen Young, and Jonathan Dean.…

Wraps. Zustand: Very good. 15, [1] pages. Illustrations. Mailing information and ink notation on back cover. Minor wear and soiling noted. This is the premier issue of a quarterly publication of the Space Communications Program at the NASA Lewis Research Center. As such, it has become an extremely rare item in the space and the collectibles markets. A substantial amount of this issue's content is related to ACTS, the Advance Communications Technology Satellite. NASA is developing architecture technologies, communication system technologies, and subsystem and component technologies to enable NASA's future missions in science and human exploration. We develop space communication architectures via commercial ventures and international forums, and we are a major supporter of extending the Internet into space. Technologies are being developed to support intelligent, autonomous communications architectures that enable anytime, anywhere operations and provide end-to-end information delivery from space directly to users. Through coordinated studies with other NASA centers, government agencies, industry, and academia, our scientists and engineers are designing feasible communication network architectures that enable the storage, transmission, and dynamic routing of large amounts of data at high rates among space assets and between space and ground assets. Presumed First Edition, First printing of this Premier Issue.…

Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

Zustand: Good. 2nd Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Soft cover. Zustand: As New. The book is still shrink wrapped. Grey/yellow softcovers with black titles. AS NEW. Book.