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SINGED, FIRST EDITION, MINT CONDITION/COLLECTIBLE
Casa Pacifica is selling an as new, pristine copy of Mark Halperin and John Heilemann's Double Down: Game Change 2012. This book is ready for a new reader or collector!
Signed by the authors, Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, on the title page.
First edition print. Dust jacket protected in Mylar.
In their runaway bestseller Game Change, Mark Halperin and John Heilemann captured the full drama of Barack Obama's improbable, dazzling victory over the Clintons, John McCain, and Sarah Palin. With the same masterly reporting, unparalleled access, and narrative skill, Double Down picks up the story in the Oval Office, where the president is beset by crises both inherited and unforeseen—facing defiance from his political foes, disenchantment from the voters, disdain from the nation's powerful money machers, and dysfunction within the West Wing. As 2012 looms, leaders of the Republican Party, salivating over Obama's political fragility, see a chance to… Read More

SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, VERY GOOD CONDITION
Casa Pacifica is selling a very good condition of Greg Mitchell's The Tunnels. The binding is why we rated this book as "Very Good+" instead of "As New." The binding is separated from the spine slightly when the book is opened, as though someone has previously enjoyed The Tunnels. Dust-jacket is in mint condition, and is now protected in Mylar.
Signed and dated by the author, Greg Mitchell; inscription reads: "Greg Mitchell 10/30/16"
First edition print.
A thrilling Cold War narrative of superpower showdowns, media suppression, and two escape tunnels beneath the Berlin Wall
In the summer of 1962, the year after the rise of the Berlin Wall, a group of young West Germans risked prison, Stasi torture, and even death to liberate friends, lovers, and strangers in East Berlin by digging tunnels under the Wall. Then two U.S. television networks heard about the secret projects and raced to be first to document them from the inside. NBC and CBS funded two separate… Read More

Signed, First Edition, Mint Condition/CollectibleBook appears to be untouched/unread.Dust jacket in prisitne, mint condition and protected in Mylar.Binding is tight. Signed and dated by the author, Ian Morris: "Ian Morris. October 29, 2010"First edition print. A New York Times Notable Book for 2011Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West's rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the development of computers and nuclear weapons in the twentieth century secured its global supremacy. Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, many worry that the emerging economic power of China and India spells the end of the West as a superpower. In order to understand this possibility, we need to look back in time. Why has the West dominated the globe for the past two hundred years, and will its power last?Describing the patterns of human history,… 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 by the author, Michael Moss, on title page.
In the spring of 1999 the heads of the world's largest processed food companies - from Coca-Cola to Nabisco - gathered at Pillsbury headquarters in Minneapolis for a secret meeting. On the agenda: the emerging epidemic of obesity, and what to do about it.
Increasingly, the salt-, sugar-, and fat-laden foods these companies produced were being linked to obesity, and a concerned Kraft executive took the stage to issue a warning: There would be a day of reckoning unless changes were made. This executive then launched into a damning PowerPoint presentation - 114 slides in all - making the case that processed food companies could not afford to sit by, idle, as children grew sick and class-action lawyers lurked. To deny the problem, he said, is to court disaster.
When he was done, the most… Read More