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Paperback, which is in very good condition. Please see photos for condition. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap and ship it with tracking.
With a roster of all Rhodes Scholars arranged alphabetically by year. Bound in printed blue wraps with gray lettering printed on front cover and spine. With a prefatory note by trustee Edgar Trevor Williams.

Hardcover, which is new and still wrapped in plastic. Please see photos. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.
Significantly illustrated throughout this nearly 300-page book, the graphic images and people showcase the many firsts and proud moments that the United States has lead the world in space exploration. Over three decades, this flagship program has become part of the fabric of America's history. It has helped us improve communications on Earth and to understand our home planet better. It has set scientific satellites like Magellan and Ullyses speeding on their missions into the solar system and launched Hubble and Chandra to explore the universe.

Paperback which is in very good condition. Please see photos for condition. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.Full color reprint of Naval Historical Study in the U.S. Navy in the Korean War series.

Paperback, which is in fine condition. Please see photos for condition. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap and ship it with tracking.
48 page softcover book covering the Hubble Telescopes achievements from 1990 to 2010, the 20th anniversary.

Extremely rare paperback, which is in fine condition. Please see photos for condition. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap and ship it with tracking.A brief overview of the flow of events and the major trends that have led from the NACA origins to the present NASA Aeronautics program. Has beautiful photographs throughout.

Hardcover, which is in fine condition. Please see photos. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it via USPS Priority with tracking.
The past 50 years have brought forward a unique capability to research and expand scientific knowledge of the Solar System through the use of radar to conduct planetary astronomy. This technology involves the aiming of a carefully controlled radio signal at a planet (or some other Solar System target, such as a planetary satellite, an asteroid, or a ring system), detecting its echo, and analyzing the information that the echo carries. This capability has contributed to the scientific knowledge of the Solar System in two fundamental ways. Most directly, planetary radars can produce images of target surfaces otherwise hidden from sight and can furnish other kinds of information about target surface features. Radar also can provide highly accurate measurements of a target's rotational and orbital motions. Such measurements are obviously invaluable… Read More

"Rich and colorful… [Refuge] has the kind of immediacy commonly associated with memoir, which lends it heft, intimacy, atmosphere." –New York TimesThe moving lifetime relationship between a father and a daughter, seen through the prism of global immigration and the contemporary refugee experience.An Iranian girl escapes to America as a child, but her father stays behind. Over twenty years, as she transforms from confused immigrant to overachieving Westerner to sophisticated European transplant, daughter and father know each other only from their visits: four crucial visits over two decades, each in a different international city. The longer they are apart, the more their lives diverge, but also the more each comes to need the other's wisdom and, ultimately, rescue. Meanwhile, refugees of all nationalities are flowing into Europe under troubling conditions. Wanting to help, but also looking for a lost sense of home, our grown-up transplant finds herself quickly entranced by a world that is at once… Read More

First edition hardcover, which is in fine condition and is signed and inscribed by the author (see photos). Seller will include the program from the National Archives at which the book was signed.The America we live in today was born, not on July 4, 1776, but on December 7, 1941, when an armada of 354 Japanese warplanes supported by aircraft carriers, destroyers, and midget submarines suddenly and savagely attacked the United States, killing 2,403 men—and forced America's entry into World War II. Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness follows the sailors, soldiers, pilots, diplomats, admirals, generals, emperor, and president as they engineer, fight, and react to this stunningly dramatic moment in world history.Beginning in 1914, bestselling author Craig Nelson maps the road to war, when Franklin D. Roosevelt, then the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, attended the laying of the keel of the USS Arizona at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Writing with vivid intimacy, Nelson traces Japan's leaders as they lurch… Read More

The #1 New York Times bestseller!"Witty, wise, and tender. It's a marvel." —Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train and A Slow Fire Burning"To say I love this book is an understatement. It's a deep psychological mystery about the power of motherhood, the intensity of teenage love, and the danger of perfection. It moved me to tears." —Reese WitherspoonFrom the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Our Missing Hearts comes a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives.In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned—from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules.Enter Mia Warren—an enigmatic artist and single mother—who arrives in this idyllic bubble… Read More

First edition paperback, which is in fine condition. Please see photos for condition. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.
The real story behind the major motion picture The Monuments Men. The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told in this superbly researched and suspenseful book is that of the Third Reich's war on European culture and the Allies' desperate effort to preserve it.From the Nazi purges of "Degenerate Art" and Goering's shopping sprees in occupied Paris to the perilous journey of the Mona Lisa from Paris and the painstaking reclamation of the priceless treasures of liberated Italy, The Rape of Europa is a sweeping narrative of greed, philistinism, and heroism that combines superlative scholarship with a compelling drama.

First edition, first printing hardcover, which is in fine condition (see photos) and signed and inscribed by the author. Two corners of the book are bumped and there is a tiny bit of shelf wear on the bottom edge. Flyer from book signing event at which author signed book is included. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it via with tracking.Revealed for the first time, this is the full story of how President Dwight Eisenhower masterminded the downfall of the anti-Communist demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy.Behind the scenes, Eisenhower loathed McCarthy, the powerful Republican senator notorious for his anti-Communist witch hunt. In spite of a public perception that Eisenhower was unwilling to challenge McCarthy, Ike believed that directly confronting the senator would diminish the presidency. Therefore, the president operated with a "hidden hand," refusing even to mention the Senator's name.In Ike and McCarthy, David A Nichols shows how the tension between the two men… Read More

First edition paperback, which is in very good condition. Please see photos for condition. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap and ship it with tracking.Briefly describes Winslow Homer's life and career, shows fourteen of his major paintings, and includes comments on their composition

First edition hardcover, which is in fine condition. Please see photos. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.The bestselling author of What I Saw at the Revolution continues to share her unique insight into Ronald Reagan, arguing that his character and courage made him the object of reverence and respect in America. 150,000 first printing.

First edition hardback, which is signed and inscribed by the author. Does show some signs of wear (see photos).Nora Pouillon is a social entrepreneur and champion of organic cuisine. The proliferation of organic food and farm-to-table cuisine primarily owes its existence to one of Washington, D.C.'s most celebrated chefs.
Nora Pouillon's new memoir, My Organic Life: How a Pioneering Chef Helped Shape the Way We Eat Today (Knopf), spans 40 years of culinary history and tells the personal story of a leader of the organic revolution. Born in Vienna and raised on a farm in the Alps, Pouillon was shocked to discover what Americans were eating, even in the best restaurants, when she came to the United States in the 1960s. Since then, Pouillon has been determined to make a difference, first as a teacher and then as a premier organic restaurateur.
Nora been a pioneer and champion of organic, environmentally conscious cuisine since she opened Restaurant Nora in 1979. Twenty years later, Restaurant Nora became… Read More

First edition, first printing hardcover which is in fine condition and signed by the author. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.With the thoroughness of a newspaper of the era, Smith retells the old familiar stories and legends surrounding our nation's first president during the years preceding and during his terms in office. Patriarch brings George Washington to life as few historical accounts have before - showing our country's most celebrated father occupied with the business of the day, and carrying the weight of a nation.

First edition hardcover, which is in fine condition. Dust jacket shows slight signs of shelf wear. Please see photos. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.100 Years of Collecting in America: The Story of Sotherby Parke Bernet. By Thomas E. Norton. " Great fortunes were amassed in newly industrialized America in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. With the means to collect the world's finest works of art, many prominent industrialists set out to acquire grand paintings and objects to fill their legendary mansions. Some of the purchases were made on visits abroad, others through art dealers. Beginning in the 1880's, many of the finest works were bought and sold at auction at the American Art Association on Madison Square./ The history of collecting in this country is inextricably linked with the history of this firm, the antecedent of the Parke-Bernet and of today's Sotheby's in America./ The Story of Sotheby Parke Bernet tells the story of these… Read More