Search Results: Titles starting with K from Ground Zero Books

New York: Doubleday, 2019. First Edition [Stated], Fifth Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Erik Broder (author photograph). xiv, [2], 302, [2] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Bibliography. Index. DJ has small crease on rear flap. John Tyler Kepner (born 1975) is an American author and sports journalist who is currently the national baseball columnist for The New York Times. He is known for authoring the book K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches. While in college, Kepner interned for The Boston Globe and The Washington Post. He was hired by The Press-Enterprise as Angels beat writer in September 1997. He joined the Seattle Post-Intelligencer as Mariners beat writer in September 1998 and began writing for The New York Times in 2000. After two years as a Mets beat writer and eight as a Yankees beat writer, he became the newspaper's national baseball writer in 2010. In 2019, he published his debut book K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches. The book received mostly positive… Read More

New York: Self-Published, 1972. good. 31, wraps, footnotes, marginal pencil lines on several pages, stray ink mark & small stains on front cover. Text is in Russian. Translation of Russian title: To the Question of "Autocephalous"--the Letter, A. I. Solzhenitsyn, Patriarch Pimen. This bookis an exchange among four leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church around the world regarding control of the American church from Moscow, and Solzhenitsyn's challenge to the head of the Moscow church. The four Church leaders are Aleksiy, Patriarch of Moscow; Afinagor, Patriarch of Constantinople; Mitropolit Pimenu Krutitsky; and the Patriarch of Jerusalem.

n.p.: Partizdat, 1937. fair, ex-lib.. 168, stiff cardboard covers, frontis illus., chronology, usual library markings, minor loss of text on p. 89/90, text darkened. Covers worn and soiled, discoloration inside covers and flyleaves, binding cracked at p. 64. Text is in Russian. History of Bolshevik organizations in the Caucasus.

New York: Summit Books, 1987. First Printing. very good, very good. 462, map, notes and references, bibliography, index. Inscribed by the author. The author argues that the Reagan administration lied about what happened to Korean Air Lines Flight 007 and covered up its role in the tragedy to make it impossible for the truth to be known.

New York: Summit Books, 1987. First Printing. fair to good, fair to good. 462, map, notes and references, bibliography, index, ding on lower edge of front board, DJ edges worn: sticker residue. Stamp and scratch on fore-edge, fore-edge soiled, small tear and crease top margin pp. 431-434. The author argues that the Reagan administration lied about what happened to Korean Air Lines Flight 007 and covered up its role in the tragedy to make it impossible for the truth to be known.

Sag Harbor, NY: Permanent Press, c1985. First? Edition. First? Printing. very good, good. 22 cm, 174, maps, some wear to DJ. The author pieces together the evidence surrounding the unexplained flight of a Korean airliner over strategic territories on September 1, 1983--a flight brought down to a tragic end when a Soviet interceptor shot down theairliner.

Waltham, MA: SofTech, Inc, 1982. First? Edition. First? Printing. very good. 17, wraps, illus., diagrams, references, corner creased in rear cover. TP 159. This was published in the Proceedings of the AdaTEC Conference on Ada, Arlington, Virginia, October 6-8, 1982. The work was performed under U.S. Army CECOM Contract No. DAAK80-80-C-0507.

Kennedy Space Center, FL: Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, 2005. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. Very good. 8 pages counting covers. Format is 4.25 inches by 5.5 inches. Illustrations (some with color). Rare commercial ephemera connecting toys and astronauts. This has questions (with answers), outlines that can be colored in, a word search game, and store purchase coupon. The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is the visitor center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It features exhibits and displays, historic spacecraft and memorabilia, IMAX theaters, and a range of bus tours of the spaceport. "Space Shuttle Atlantis" is home to the real Space Shuttle Atlantis orbiter and the Shuttle Launch Experience, a simulated ride into space. Until recently, the center now provides astronaut training experiences, including a multi-axial chair and Mars Base simulator. The visitor complex also has daily presentations from a veteran NASA astronaut. A bus tour,… Read More

Los Angeles, CA: Masjid Ibaadillah, 1992. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Good. [4], 35, [1] pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. Stamp on back cover. The author states that "This Commentary is intentionally not focused on either religion or politics. It has been written as a matter of conscious and from a need to provide insight into a basic problem that is affecting our entire society. It is also meant for people of all races, creeds and colors." In 1985, led by Imam Saadiq Saafir, a group of families began meeting in a basement to practice their faith. In 1986, Masjid Ibaadillah was officially founded when those families purchased a storefront on W. Jefferson Blvd. Years later as the community grew an adjacent building was purchased. Today that storefront mosque still acts as a beacon of light amidst the drug infestation and prostitution that plague the area. Between 1986 and 2004 Masjid Ibaadillah provided Islamic studies classes, established programs that… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977. very good, fair to good. 317, endpaper maps, appendix, some soiling to fore-edge, DJ soiled and edges worn: small tears, small chips Novel based on the actual Kampfgeschwader 200, a top-secret squadron of the German Air Force.

Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, c1989. First Printing. very good, very good. 24 cm, 369, notes, bibliography, index. A detailed account of Soviet intelligence operations in America from the early days, through World War II and the Cold War.

Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, c1989. First Printing. very good, very good. 24 cm, 369, notes, bibliography, index. Inscribed by the author (Romerstein). A detailed account of Soviet intelligence operations in America from the early days, through World War II and the Cold War.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xxv, [3], 397, [7] pages. Introduction by Joshua Rubenstein. Footnotes. Illustrations. Chronology. List of Abbreviations. Annotated List of KGB Documents. Glossary of Names. Selected Bibliography. Index. Documents translated by Ella Shmulevich, Efrem Yankelevich, and Alla Zeide. This is one of The Annals of Communism Series. Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (21 May 1921 - 14 December 1989) was a Soviet physicist and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, which he was awarded in 1975 for emphasizing human rights around the world. Although he spent his career in physics in the Soviet program of nuclear weapons, overseeing the development of thermonuclear weapons, Sakharov also did fundamental work in understanding particle physics, magnetism, and physical cosmology. Sakharov is mostly known for his political activism for individual freedom, human rights, civil liberties and reforms in Russia, for which, he was deemed as… Read More

New York: Hippocrene Books, [1990]. First? Edition. First? Printing. Hardcover. very good/very good. 24 cm,xxiv, 466, [4] pages, footnotes, charts, notes, bibliography, index, pencil erasure residue on front endpaper. Peter Deriabin (1921-1992) was a Russian Communist Party member, World War II veteran, SMERSH agent, and KGB agent who later defected to the United States. He started working for the Central Intelligence Agency, went to graduate school, and wrote several books on the KGB. He died in 1992 at age 71. He was a member of the Communist Party. He went to Biysk Teachers College as well as the Institute for Marxism-Leninism. In World War II he was wounded four times and reassigned to the Soviet Navy's SMERSH (military counterintelligence group). He was later an investigator in State Security. He eventually moved up to the KGB headquarters. In 1953 he was stationed in Vienna, Austria as Chief of Soviet Counterintelligence as well as Communist Party boss for the entire Austro-German… Read More

New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1974. Second Printing. good, good. 462, illus., apps, chapter notes, bibliography, index, some discolor inside bds, some wear DJ edges, DJ in scratched plastic sleeve.

New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, c1990. First Edition. First Printing. very good, fair to good. 25 cm, 776, illus., appendices, notes, bibliography, index, sticker residue to front DJ, small tears/chips to DJ edges.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981. First Edition. First? Printing. very good, good. 24 cm, 295, DJ slightly soiled.

New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1983. First? Edition. First? Printing. very good, good. 24 cm, 489, references, index.

New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1983. First? Edition. First? Printing. good, fair. 24 cm, 489, illus.

Oswiecimiu: Panstwowe Muzeum, 1972. Wraps. Good in good dust jacket. DJ has some wear and soiling.. 328 p. Includes: illustrations, index, bibliography. Foldouts. Biographic Notes. Footnotes. Published under auspices of Polish communist regime, nevertheless important place in Holocaust and World War II studies. Based on archival evidence seized by Russians, and subjected to the bright light of materialist historiography. Fold-out maps of sites and plan of vast factory of death. Forewrod by Jerzy Rawicz.