new york simon and schuster a touchstone book (77 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Good. Everyone's favorite cute, chubby, gray cat. 173 pages, cartoon drawings, various scenarios and activities. Crease to front cover, internals clean.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Good. Leading minds in science, psychology and education explore the sources of creativity. Original essays. 221 pages. Brief underlining.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. History of Britain in the time of King John and the signing of the Magna Carta, giving context to the document at the root of Britain's modern freedoms. 312 pages, index.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very good. Pages 655, trade paperback. 6th paperback printing. Includes black and white illustrations, bibliography, index. Book is in Very Good condition. 070400A ISBN: 0671628224.

Zustand: As New in Shrinkwrap. Author is a former arms adviser to President Ronald Reagan, an ambassador at the Reagan-Gorbachev summits, and Director of the United States Arms Control & Disarmament Agency.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 250p a vg pbk 0671622366.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good condition. This is a trade size softcover book. Spine tips are bumped. 304 pages with index and bibliography.

Broschur. Since his childhood in Italy, William Murray has had a love affair with the country and its people. Here is his tribute to the Italy he so loves--a provocative, candid portrait that takes us off the beaten path and reveals an Italy not covered in any guidebook. Ready to send, nice, clean copy, slightly scuffed. Barzahlung bei Selbstabholung. - Internationaler Versand / int. shipping. In englischer Sprache. 272 p. 221x153x18 mm.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Fair. 350, [1] pages. Wraps. Footnotes. Illustrations. A Note on Casualties. Bibliography. Index. The cover has been reglued at mid spine. The pages are still together. The cover is worn, soiled and creased. Cornelius Ryan (5 June 1920 23 November 1974) was an Irish journalist and author mainly known for his writings on popular military history, especially his World War II books: The Longest Day: 6 June 1944 D-Day (1959), The Last Battle (1966), and A Bridge Too Far (1974). On a trip to Normandy in 1949 Ryan became interested in telling a more complete story of Operation Overlord than had been produced to date. He began compiling information and conducting over 1000 interviews as he gathered stories from both the Allies and the Germans, as well as the French civilians. In 1956 he began to write down his World War II notes for The Longest Day: 6 June 1944 D-Day, which tells the story of the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, published three years later in 1959. It was an instant success. His next work was The Last Battle (1966), about the Battle of Berlin. The book contains detailed accounts from all perspectives: civilian, American, British, Russian and German. It deals with the fraught military and political situation in the spring of 1945, when the forces of the western allies and the Soviet Union contended for the chance to liberate Berlin and to carve up the remains of Germany. This work was followed by A Bridge Too Far (1974), which tells the story of Operation Market Garden, the ill-fated assault by allied airborne forces on the Netherlands culminating in the Battle of Arnhem. This work was made into a major 1977 film of the same name. The Longest Day is a book by Cornelius Ryan published in 1959, telling the story of D-Day, the first day of the World War II invasion of Normandy. It includes details of Operation Deadstick, the coup de main operation by gliderborne troops to capture both Pegasus Bridge and Horsa Bridge before the main assault on the Normandy beaches. It sold tens of millions of copies in eighteen different languages. The book is not a dry military history, but rather a story about people, and reads at times like a novel. It is based on interviews with a cross-section of participants, including U.S., Canadian, British, French and German officers and civilians. The book begins and ends in the village of La Roche-Guyon. The book refers to the village as being the most occupied village in occupied France and states that for each of the 543 inhabitants of La Roche-Guyon there were more than 3 German soldiers in the village and surrounding area. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commander-in-chief of Army Group B had his headquarters in the castle of the village which was the seat of the Duc de La Rochefoucauld. Ryan's book is divided into three parts: the first part is titled The Wait, the second part is named The Night and the third part is named The Day. The book includes a section on the casualties of D-Day and also lists the contributors including their service details on the day of the invasion and their occupations at the time the book was first published. Researchers spent almost three years locating survivors of D-Day and over 3000 interviews were undertaken in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France and Germany. 383 accounts of D Day were used in the text of the book. Senior Allied officers who assisted the author included General Maxwell D. Taylor, Lieutenant General James M. Gavin, Lieutenant General Sir Frederick E. Morgan and General Sir Richard Nelson Gale. German officers who assisted with the book included Generaloberst Franz Halder, Hauptmann Hellmuth Lang and General der Infanterie Günther Blumentritt. The author also used Allied and German post action reports, War diaries, histories and official records. The book takes its name from a comment made by Erwin Rommel to his aide Hauptmann Helmuth Lang on 22 April 1944: ".the first 24 hours of the invasion will be decisive.the fate of Germany depends on t.

Zustand: Gut. 4 sheet, 310 p. Inside very clean. A powerful, beautifully written memoir about coming of age as a black girl in an exclusive white suburb in "integrated," post-Civil Rights California in the 1970s and 1980s. At six years of age, after winning a foot race against a white classmate, J. Baszile was humiliated to hear her classmate explain that black people "have something in their feet to make them run faster than white people." When she asked her teacher about it, it was confirmed as true. The next morning, Jennifer's father accompanied her to school, careful to "assert himself as an informed and concerned parent and not simply a big, black, dangerous man in a first-grade classroom.". A deeply personal view of a significant period of American social history, the book deftly balances childhood experiences with adult observations, creating an illuminating and poignant look at a unique time in our country's history. (Flap) Englisch 1. Stock 155|7880DB Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 444 24x16,5 cm. Hardback in good condition. Lower front corner bumped and easily damaged. Jacket very good beside one tiny tear.

Paperback, in good condition. Text in English. Please see description or ask for photos.

Zustand: Gut. Formateinband: Paperback / kartonierte Ausgabe XVII, 590 S. 9th printing; Am Rücken minimal aufgehellt; Besitzvermerk im Deckel; sonst in gutem und sauberem Zustand. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 750 [Stichwörter: ].

[2nd Edition.], rev. and updated. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 167 pages; Description: 1 atlas ([167] p. ) : 57 col. Maps ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographies. "A Pluto Press Project." Subjects: Atlases 1 Kg.

Second Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 274 pages; Description: 274p. plates, ports. ; 21cm. Subjects: Media - Television news - United States - Television journalism - TV news. 1 Kg.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. First Paperback Printing [stated]. [14], 236, [6] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Chart. Notes. Glossary. Selected Bibliography. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Letter from the publisher laid in. Bruce Palmer Jr. (April 13, 1913 - October 10, 2000) was a United States Army General. He was commander of the XVIII Airborne Corps, 1965-1967, and concurrently commander of Task Force 120 and United States Land Forces, Dominican Republic, May 1965. He was commander of the II Field Force, Vietnam, and deputy commander of the United States Army, Vietnam, 1967-1968 and was acting Chief of Staff of the United States Army July 1-October 11, 1972; supervised the drawdown of Army forces from Vietnam; and was commander in chief of the United States Readiness Command. The 25 Year War: America's Military Role in Vietnam is a book by General Bruce Palmer, Jr. about the Vietnam War. The book is split into two parts, the first which follows chronologically the events leading to the fall of Saigon in 1975 and mentions Palmer's position in those events. The second part is called 'Assessment' and more broadly calls out what was done right and wrong and also offers an alternate role the US could have played in the conflict. Although Palmer is at times in agreement with the purpose of the operations carried out in secret, such as incursions into Laos or Cambodia, he disagrees strongly with the deception involved. Palmer saw Schlesingers's warnings to the military about observing the proper chain of command following the resignation of Nixon as being disrespectful to the integrity of the US military.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Good. xxi, [1], 344, [2] pages. Illustrations. Figures. Tables. Special Addendum. Glossary. Notes. References. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some corners bent/bumped. Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke. Robert Zubrin (born April 9, 1952) is an American aerospace engineer and author, known for his advocacy of the manned exploration of Mars. He and his colleague, David Baker, were the driving force behind Mars Direct, a proposal intended to produce significant reductions in the cost and complexity of such a mission. The key idea was to use the Martian atmosphere to produce oxygen, water, and rocket propellant for the surface stay and return journey. A modified version of the plan was subsequently adopted by NASA as their "design reference mission". He questions the delay and cost-to-benefit ratio of first establishing a base or outpost on an asteroid or another Project Apollo-like return to the Moon, as neither would be able to provide all of its own oxygen, water, or energy; these resources are producible on Mars, and he expects people would be there thereafter. After the success of his book The Case for Mars, Zubrin established the Mars Society in 1998. Derived from a Kirkus review: Zubrin is an aeronautical engineer at Martin Marietta, Wagner the former editor of the National Space Society's magazine, Ad Astra, and together they make a forceful argument for the exploration and settlement of Mars. Zubrin has long advocated the ``Mars Direct'' plan, which could get off the ground for $30 billion, in contrast to the $450- billion Space Exploration Initiative (SEI) timidly proposed by President Bush. This is the frontier, Zubrin says, and risk is inherent when we venture forth. The most radical feature of the Mars Direct plan is the manufacture of propellants on the surface of Mars by an unmanned module before the arrival of astronauts. But Zubrin and Wagner's discussion makes this idea seem reasonable, and their plan would clearly save money. A mission that doesn't have to carry return fuel could use rockets that already exist. Mars Direct would also utilize conjunction trajectories, and it allows for much more time to be spent exploring the surface of Mars. The authors are propagandists, but they are persuasive and even demonstrate a shrewd grasp of political realities, going so far as to incorporate Newt Gingrich's thinking with regard to privatizing the Mars Direct mission. First Touchstone Edition [stated]. First First Printing [Stated]Printing.

Hardcover. Reprint. Second printing [stated]. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. xvii, [5], 373, [5] p. Illustrations, black & white, Maps. Notes. Index. "Denise Kiernan (born July 31, 1968) is an American journalist, producer and author. She has authored several history titles, including Signing Their Rights Away and The Girls of Atomic City. Kiernan earned a BA degree from the Washington Square and University College of Arts & Science in 1991 and an MA from the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development of New York University in 2002. Kiernan started out in journalism, and as a freelance writer, her work appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Wall Street Journal, amongst other publications. She has authored several popular history titles and has ghost written books for athletes, entrepreneurs and actresses. Her most recent book, The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II, traces the story of the women who worked on the Manhattan Project, unknowingly helping to create the fuel for the world's first atomic bomb. The Girls of Atomic City became a New York Times best seller in its first week of publication. Kiernan traces the astonishing story of the unsung World War II workers in Oak Ridge, Tennessee--one of the Manhattan Project's secret cities. This is history and science made fresh and vibrant--a beautifully told, deeply researched story that unfolds in a suspenseful and exciting way. Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling.

Soft cover. pp. xxv, 290, (4) + Portrait Frontis. Illustrated with photographs. Small 4to. 280 mm. Softcover. Original pictorial wraps. Touchstone paperback. Very good. W102RtStack 0.0.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. [2], 604, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Robert Michael Gates (born September 25, 1943) is an American statesman, scholar, intelligence analyst, and university president who served as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011. Gates began his career serving as an officer in the United States Air Force but was quickly recruited by the CIA. Gates served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, and was Director of Central Intelligence under President George H. W. Bush. After leaving the CIA, Gates became president of Texas A&M University. Gates served as a member of the Iraq Study Group, the bipartisan commission co-chaired by James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton, that studied the lessons of the Iraq War. Gates was nominated by Republican President George W. Bush as Secretary of Defense after the 2006 election. He was confirmed with bipartisan support. He continued to serve as Secretary of Defense in President Barack Obama's administration. He retired in 2011. Gates was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, by President Obama. Derived from a Kirkus review: A Director of the CIA from late 1991 through early 1993, Gates sheds considerable light in this memoir on the ways in which the craft of intelligence influenced government policy during the height of the Cold War. Focusing on the undeclared conflict that pitted the US against the USSR and its client states in venues ranging from Afghanistan to Poland, the author offers a notably candid chronological evaluation of what his agency contributed to the last 25 years of America's war against Communism. He also provides telling detail on the homefront hostilities in which CIA officials battled their counterparts at other agencies, justifiably wary lawmakers, and investigative reporters to remain in the good graces of the White House. Gates also explains that detente was the Nixon administration's pragmatic response to the CIA's failure to foresee the Soviet military buildup that began during the late 1960s, producing a singular shift in the global balance of power. Gates settles some scores with out-of-office mandarins. A veteran's genuinely engrossing from-the- inside-out appraisal of an eventful period in the history of the US and the wider world. First Touchstone Edition [Stated]. First Printing [Stated].

Softcover. 459 Seiten Zustand: keine Beschädigungen, keine Eintragungen, Rücken, Ecken, Kanten sehr gut Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 250.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. Format is approximately 6 inches by 9.25 inches. 363, [3] pages. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Black mark on bottom edge. This is a cheerful lexicon of Yiddish words which have become part of the English language, plus English words and phrases which have been transformed into Yinglish; the whole garnished with stories, jokes, parables, reverent quotations from the Talmud, and a glittering gallery of writers, rabbis, sages, and wits, with impulsive side trips into the faith, folklore, genius and history of the Jews--from their servitude in Babylon to their magnitude in Beverly Hills. Entries on Yiddish words, phrases, and sentence forms that have become, or are becoming, parts of the English language are accompanied by stories, jokes, parables, and Talmudic insights. Containing a medley of words in different states of adoption into English, Hooray for Yiddish! is organized alphabetically--in its own way. Garnished with stories, jokes, parables, epigrams, acerbities, and Talmudic insights, Hooray for Yiddish! takes us on illuminating side trips into the faith, folklore, tradition, genius, history--and, of course, language--of the Jewish people. When you finish, you will be speaking Yiddish like a native. So enjoy! Leo Calvin Rosten (April 11, 1908 - February 19, 1997) was an American humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, storywriting, journalism, and Yiddish lexicography. Rosten showed an interest in books and language very early and began writing stories when he was only nine. During the Great Depression, when he was unable to find other work, he taught English for recent immigrants at night. These experiences eventually became the source of his most popular works. Rosten studied political science, economics, and psychology at both the University of Chicago, where he obtained his doctorate in political science, and the London School of Economics. From this time date his life-long friendships with Milton Friedman, W. Allen Wallis and other economists who would become influential in forming American neoliberalism. Like them, Rosten became a member of the Mont Pèlerin Society. Like other University of Chicago graduates, during the war he worked in Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, both as deputy director at the Office of War Information and as assistant to Lowell Mellett, one of Roosevelt's aides. After the war, his connection with Allen Wallis led to his involvement with forming the Social Sciences division at the RAND Corporation. Although Rosten, who was already involved in Hollywood at this point, did not work full-time at RAND, he was an influential consultant on human psychology and put RAND in contact with several influential academics such as Hans Speier and Bernard Brodie. He also suggested that RAND contact the Ford Foundation for funding. Rosten is best remembered for his stories about the night-school "prodigy" Hyman Kaplan, written under the pseudonym Leonard Q. Ross. They were published in The New Yorker from 1935 and collected in two volumes published in 1937 and 1959, He is also well known for his encyclopedic The Joys of Yiddish (1968), a guide to Yiddish and to Jewish culture including anecdotes and Jewish humor. It was followed by Hooray for Yiddish! (1982), a humorous lexicon of the American language as influenced by Jewish culture. Another Rosten work is Leo Rosten's Treasury of Jewish Quotations. First Touchstone Edition [Stated] First Paperback printing [stated].

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First Touchstone edition. Trade paperback. 386pp. Illustrated. Lightly age-toned, near fine. Originally published in Great Britain in 1992.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First Touchstone edition. Glossy, pictorial wrappers. Faint remainder mark, near fine. Poetry by a Vietnam Veteran.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First paperback edition. Originally published in 1977. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Remainder mark, else fine. Story of railroads in the West.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First Touchstone Book edition. Illustrated from black and white photographs and drawings. 288pp. Owner's name on front fly, else fine in glossy wrappers.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Later printing. Octavo. 319pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Foxing on page edges, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with thin dampstain on spine tail.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Reprint. Trade paperback. 302pp. Corners lightly rubbed, near fine.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Touchstone edition. Trade paperback. 427pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Pages age-toned, very good.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. Later printing. Trade paperback. 351pp. Minimal pen underlining, pages and wrappers age-toned, good only.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Later printing. Trade paperback. 309pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Pages lightly age-toned, spine creased, very good.