Search Results: Authors starting with H from Casa Pacifica

SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, NEW, COLLECTIBLECasa Pacifica is selling a new copy of David Hajdu's The Ten Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America. Binding is new. Dust jacket is new and now protected in Mylar. Signed and dated by the author, David Hajdu, on the title page. First edition printing. Thank you for supporting Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families

Singed, First Edition, Very Good ConditionBinding and spine have separation when book is opened-- see photos-- all else fine. Dust Jacket in mint condition and protected in Mylar.Signed by the author, Max Hastings, on the title page.First Edition print."Monumental." --New York Times Book Review
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II—intelligence—showing how espionage successes and failures by the United States, Britain, Russia, Germany, and Japan influenced the course of the war and its final outcome.
Spies, codes, and guerrillas played unprecedentedly critical roles in the Second World War, exploited by every nation in the struggle to gain secret knowledge of its foes, and to sow havoc behind the fronts. In The Secret War, Max Hastings presents a worldwide cast of characters and some… Read More

Signed, First Edition, Mint Condition/CollectibleBook appears to be untouched/unread. Spine and binding is tight.Dust jacket is in mint condition and protected with Mylar.Signed and dated by the authors, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, on title page.
The gripping inside story of the 2008 presidential election, by two of the best political reporters in the country.
"It's one of the best books on politics of any kind I've read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with Catch 22." —The Financial Times
"It transports you to a parallel universe in which everything in the National Enquirer is true….More interesting is what we learn about the candidates themselves: their frailties, egos and almost super-human stamina." —The Financial Times
"I can't put down this book!" —Stephen Colbert
Game Change is the New York Times bestselling story of the 2008 presidential election, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, two of the best political reporters in the country. In the spirit of Richard Ben… Read More

Signed by the author, First Edition, Very Good ConditionBinding and spine have slight separation when book is opened, all else fine. Please inquire for photos of binding if interested. Dust jacket in mint condition and protected in Mylar. Signed by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Michael Hiltzik, on title page. First edition print. The epic story of how science went "big" and the forgotten genius who started it all—"entertaining, thoroughly researched…partly a biography, partly an account of the influence of Ernest Lawrence's great idea, partly a short history of nuclear physics and the Bomb" (The Wall Street Journal).Since the 1930s, the scale of scientific endeavor has grown exponentially. The first particle accelerator could be held in its creator's lap, while its successor grew to seventeen miles in circumference and cost ten billion dollars. We have invented the atomic bomb, put man on the moon, and probed the inner workings of nature at the scale of subatomic particles—all the result of Big… Read More