2011, ISBN: 9781594201981

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London: The Iron and Steel Institute, 1956. Ex-Royal Aircraft Establishment library with the usual markings. 390 pages + ix prelims. Many b/w photographs, charts and other illustrations. … Mehr…

London: The Iron and Steel Institute, 1956. Ex-Royal Aircraft Establishment library with the usual markings. 390 pages + ix prelims. Many b/w photographs, charts and other illustrations. Papers cover a wide field of developments related to sintered products. The manufacture, properties and testing of powders; The principles and control of compacting and sintering; The manufacture and properties of structural engineering components; The powder metallurgy of high-melting-point materials. Maroon cloth boards. Every book is sent in a rigid cardboard posting box.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 28.5 Cm x 22 Cm. Ex-Library., The Iron and Steel Institute, 1956, 2.5, Paperback / softback. New. Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and the rest of the “PayPal Mafia” are now household names who’ve reshaped technology, automobiles, space travel, and politics. But two decades ago, they were unsung entrepreneurs attempting to launch a Silicon Valley startup against overwhelming odds.<br /> <br />That improbable journey started in the shadow of Stanford University, when Thiel met Max Levchin, a Ukrainian engineer who recently moved to California. Years before anyone had heard of Bitcoin, the two set out to build an online payment service that could reduce government control over currency by empowering people around the globe. But after their startup, PayPal, survived the dot-com crash only to find itself besieged by an unimaginable series of challenges, that lofty dream threatened to become a nightmare.<br /> <br />Former insider Eric M. Jackson’s telling of PayPal’s origins is an eyewitness account to technology history, as well as an engrossing story of human struggle and perseverance against overwhelming odds. PayPal went from unknown startup to online powerhouse in just three years, but for the company's team it was not an easy journey. The entrepreneurs that joined together to overhaul world currency markets first had to face one of the greatest series of trials ever thrown at a startup before becoming part of Silicon Valley lore.<br /><br />Jackson's lively, blow-by-blow account of PayPal's death-defying beginnings and ferocious battles offers a detailed perspective that only an eyewitness could provide. Read <i>The PayPal Wars</i> and you'll learn how:<ul><li>Elon Musk joined with Peter Thiel, and how the two future titans would soon square off to control the company.</li><li>Organized crime attempted to ransack PayPal—but the company fought back.</li><li>Government bureaucrats and regulators ferociously tried to shut down the upstart payments service.</li></ul>Turmoil pushed PayPal to the brink of insolvency before Thiel and his team turned the business around. “Our clashes with the credit card associations, the banking lobby, state regulators, foreign Mafioso, and litigation-happy lawyers significantly increased” as the company’s profile grew, writes Jackson, adding that the initial public offering that was meant to strengthen PayPal with an infusion of cash ironically attracted a rogue's gallery of foes instead.<br /><br />"The modern business environment," Jackson concludes, "turned out to be more hostile than even our fiercest competitor." This somber warning—that regulators, lawyers, and lobbyists threaten to undermine American entrepreneurship—makes <i>The PayPal Wars</i> a timely read for every concerned citizen., 6, New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. xiii, [3], 253, [3] pages. Illustrations. Figures. Index. Illustrated endpapers. The author is a former book editor and ghostwriter. This is his first book written as himself. Michael Sanders worked for a number of years for Poseidon Press, Simon & Schuster, and Pocket Books as an editor before turning to writing full time. He earned his living for several years with a combination of what he calls "utility outfield writing" -- for industry and a magazine article here and there -- and as an importer of rugs from Russia and Ukraine. After writing several novels based on his experiences doing business in those countries and his knowledge of the Russian community in Brooklyn, he moved to Maine. He worked as a bookseller for the years it took to write THE YARD, his first book, and has a profound respect for anyone in retail. Blue-collar shipyard workers at Bath Iron Works in Maine build and launch the USS Donald Cook. From a Kirkus review: "An unhurried, meticulous, character-rich portrait of the Bath Iron Works, where the navy's destroyers are built, is the subject of Maine writer Sanders's first book. The massive complex of ways, cranes, and hangars along Maine's Kennebec River, the Bath Iron Works, has been fashioning grand and enormous ships for over a century. It's more than just an economic mainstay of the state, as Sanders' history and tour of the works makes plain: it's an institution that has as much to do with the art and pride of shipbuilding as it does with employing 5,000 workers: pipe fitters, marine architects, braziers, draftsmen, tinknockers, riggers, anglesmiths, straighteners, and blasters. These days the works feels fortunate to be one of only six remaining active naval shipyards in the US-commercial ships are built at subsidized yards in Korea, Finland, Russia, and Japan-and as the navy downsizes, it's a precarious existence. Sanders follows the building of the destroyer USS Donald Cook, from first torch cut to commissioning, a massive enterprise where welders become performance artists, smithies pound red-hot steel in cavernous penumbral furnace buildings like something out of Norse mythology, crane operators nurse into position steel slabs weighing hundreds of tons, sometimes by increments of an inch and not by computer control, but by the delicate touch of experienced hands on levers. And as this ship is a fighting vessel, there is included a short course on modern warfare at sea, in which naval engagements are carried out at great, and what feel like anesthetizing, distances. Sanders chooses his words caringly, working with an engineer's precision, a formal elegance, whereas the comments he records from the shipbuilders are more casual and a relief. Sanders depicts the works as part of a remarkable and increasingly rare industry that fuses technological innovation with proud craftsmanship and a work ethic that makes a shipfitter's affectionate patting of a 9,000-ton hull a very natural gesture.", HarperCollins Publishers, 1999, 3, New York: Simon & Schuster. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 068480400X . Light shelf wear to DJ edges.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. B&W photos. ; B&W Photographs; 9.37 X 6.22 X 2.28 inches; 731 pages; "The author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb lays bare the secret heart of the Cold War. Richard Rhodes' landmark history of the atomic bomb won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Now, in this majestic new masterpiece of history, science, and politics, he tells for the first time the secret story of how and why the hydrogen bomb was made, and traces the path by which this supreme artifact of 20th-century technology became the defining issue of the Cold War. From the day in 1941 when the first word of Anglo-American atomic-bomb research arrived in Moscow to the week of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, DARK SUN is full of unexpected -- and sometimes hair-raising -- revelations based on previously undisclosed Soviet and U.S. sources, including: How the Soviets were able to produce a carbon copy of the first U.S. atomic bomb How the SAC fought for independent control of U.S. nuclear weapons -- while flying deliberately provocative daytime missions over Soviet cities How the first and only direct nuclear confrontation between the superpowers was also very nearly the last. Following the lives of the atomic scientists on both sides of the Iron Curtain, Dark Sun is the definitive work on the hydrogen bomb, showing why the world wars that devastated the first half of the century can never happen again." ., Simon & Schuster, 1995, 4, New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1971. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/As New. Dark blue linen boards/NF w/light edge rubs. DJ/None. The antecedents for this volume, written by the same authors, was published in 1957 under the title "Pump Selection and Application" was translated into several languages. Substantial re-write and update of this volume warranted a new title. Text in two parts: Part I, Pump Selection; and, II, Pump Application. Part II considers the industries of power plants, nuclear engery. petroleum, paper, textiles, food processing, sewage & sump pumps, air conditioning & heating, irrigation & flood control, mining & construction, iron, steel, and marine services., McGraw-Hill, 1971, 4, Burbank, CA: Lockheed Corporation, 1981. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Magazine. Good. Chuck Hodgson, Hank Yasui,. 40 pages, plus covers. Illustrations (some color, mostly black and white). Cover has some wear and soiling. Lockheed Horizons' was an irregular magazine published by Lockheed before the merger with Martin Marietta. It included very well illustrated feature articles on Lockheed aircraft products, including the F-117 stealth fighter. Issue No.1 was dated Spring 1965, and it continued until at least August 1992 (issue 31). Each issue comprised pages of text, b+w and colour photos and color drawings. The Lockheed Corporation (originally the Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company) was an American aerospace company. Lockheed was founded in 1912 and later merged with Martin Marietta to form Lockheed Martin in 1995. The Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company was established in San Francisco in 1912 by the brothers Allan and Malcolm Loughead. In 1916, the company was renamed the Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company and relocated to Santa Barbara, California, the same year Santa Barbara native Jack Northrop (aged 20) took his first job in aviation working as a draftsman for Loughead Aircraft. The company proceeded to design and construct the Model F-1 flying boat, which debuted on March 29, 1918, and set the American non-stop record for seaplane flight by flying from Santa Barbara to San Diego. Following the Model F-1, the company invested heavily in the design and development of a revolutionary monocoque aircraft called the Model S-1. However, the asking price of $2500 could not compete in a market that was saturated with post World War 1 $350 Curtiss JN-4s and De Haviland trainers. The Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company closed its doors in 1921. In 1926, Allan Loughead, Jack Northrop, and Kenneth Jay secured funding to form the Lockheed Aircraft Company in Hollywood (the spelling was changed phonetically to prevent mispronunciation). This new company utilized some of the same technology originally developed for the Model S-1 to design the Vega Model. In March 1928, the company relocated to Burbank, California, and by year's end reported sales exceeding one million dollars. From 1926-28 the company produced over 80 aircraft and employed more than 300 workers who by April 1929 were building five aircraft per week. In July 1929, majority shareholder Fred Keeler sold 87% of the Lockheed Aircraft Company to Detroit Aircraft Corporation. In August 1929, Allan Lockheed resigned. The Great Depression ruined the aircraft market, and Detroit Aircraft went bankrupt. A group of investors headed by brothers Robert and Courtland Gross, and Walter Varney, bought the company out of receivership in 1932. The syndicate bought the company for a mere $40,000 ($660,000 in 2011). Ironically, Allan Lockheed himself had planned to bid for his own company, but had raised only $50,000 ($824,000), which he felt was too small a sum for a serious bid. In 1934, Robert E. Gross was named chairman of the new company, the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, which was headquartered at what is now the airport in Burbank, California. His brother Courtlandt S. Gross was a co-founder and executive, succeeding Robert as Chairman following his death in 1961. The company was named the Lockheed Corporation in 1977., Lockheed Corporation, 1981, 2.5, New York: The Penguin Press, 2009. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Dennis Drenner (Author photograph). [12],499, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Peter Warren Singer (born 1974) is an American political scientist, an international relations scholar and a specialist on 21st century warfare. He is a New York Times best-selling author of both nonfiction and fiction, who has been described in the Wall Street Journal as "the premier futurist in the national-security environment." He is currently Strategist for the New America Foundation and a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University. He has also received the title of a "mad scientist" for the US Army's Training and Doctrine Command. Singer previously worked at the Harvard University Belfer Center, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and was Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Singer also served as coordinator of the Defense Policy Task Force for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. Singer has been named to the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" list by Foreign Policy. Defense News named him one of the 100 most influential people on defense issues. He also served on the advisory group for Joint Forces Command, helping the U.S. military visualize and plan for the future. In addition to his work on conflict issues, Singer was a member of the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy. Singer has provided commentary on technology and military affairs for many of the major TV and radio outlets, including ABC News Nightline, BBC, CBS-60 Minutes, CNN, Fox, NPR, The Daily Show, and the NBC Today Show. A military expert reveals how science fiction is fast becoming reality on the battlefield, changing not just how wars are fought, but also the politics, economics, laws, and ethics that surround war itself. P. W. Singer's previous two books foretold the rise of private military contractors and the advent of child soldiers, predictions that proved all too accurate. Now, he explores the greatest revolution in military affairs since the atom bomb, the advent of robotic warfare. We are just beginning to see a massive shift in military technology that threatens to make the stuff of I,Robot and the Terminator all too real. More than seven- thousand robotic systems are now in Iraq. Pilots in Nevada are remotely killing terrorists in Afghanistan. Scientists are debating just how smart, and how lethal, to make their current robotic prototypes. And many of the most renowned science fiction authors are secretly consulting for the Pentagon on the next generation. Blending historic evidence with interviews from the field, Singer vividly shows that as these technologies multiply, they will have profound effects on the front lines as well as on the politics back home. Moving humans off the battlefield makes wars easier to start, but more complex to fight. Replacing men with machines may save some lives, but will lower the morale and psychological barriers to killing. The 'warrior ethos' which has long defined soldiers' identity, will erode, as will the laws of war that have governed military conflict for generations. Paradoxically, these new technologies will also bring war to our doorstep. As other nations and even terrorist organizations start to build or buy their own robotic weapons, the robot revolution could undermine America's military preeminence. While his analysis is unnerving, there's an irresistible gee-whiz quality to the innovations Singer uncovers. Wired for War travels from Iraq to see these robots in combat to the latter-day 'skunk works' in America's suburbia, where tomorrow's technologies of war are quietly being designed. In Singer?s hands, the future of war is as fascinating as it is frightening. Derived from a Kirkus review: Battlefield robotics is transforming modern war and saving American lives, according to this account. Singer begins with a history of the radio-controlled unmanned vehicles and planes of World Wars I and II. Technology made quantum advances over the following decades, but resistance from military leaders hobbled development. The 1991 Gulf War saw the much-publicized use of "smart bombs" as well as unmanned drones buzzing over Iraqi positions to transmit their observations. America's 21st-century wars feature ingenious battlefield robots that peer around corners, search for the enemy in dangerous caves and inspect roadside bombs while their operators remain at a safe distance. Overhead, vastly improved drones search for suspicious activity and occasionally rain down destruction. The author crisscrossed the country, interviewing engineers, soldiers, politicians and generals to deliver a vivid picture of the current controversies and dazzling possibilities of war in the digital age. As recent headlines on civilian deaths from American air attacks in Afghanistan reveal, many kinks remain to be ironed out. Tempering the optimism of the introductory chapters, Singer devotes much of his text to the flaws of these new devices and steep learning curve involved in employing them. He also reminds readers that even the most backward enemies possess a surprising ability to adapt. An engrossing picture of a new class of weapon that may revolutionize future wars but has not greatly daunted our current opponents., The Penguin Press, 2009, 3<

2009, ISBN: 9781594201981

New York: The Penguin Press, 2009. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Dennis Drenner (Author photograph). [12],499, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Peter W… Mehr…

New York: The Penguin Press, 2009. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Dennis Drenner (Author photograph). [12],499, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Peter Warren Singer (born 1974) is an American political scientist, an international relations scholar and a specialist on 21st century warfare. He is a New York Times best-selling author of both nonfiction and fiction, who has been described in the Wall Street Journal as "the premier futurist in the national-security environment." He is currently Strategist for the New America Foundation and a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University. He has also received the title of a "mad scientist" for the US Army's Training and Doctrine Command. Singer previously worked at the Harvard University Belfer Center, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and was Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Singer also served as coordinator of the Defense Policy Task Force for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. Singer has been named to the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" list by Foreign Policy. Defense News named him one of the 100 most influential people on defense issues. He also served on the advisory group for Joint Forces Command, helping the U.S. military visualize and plan for the future. In addition to his work on conflict issues, Singer was a member of the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy. Singer has provided commentary on technology and military affairs for many of the major TV and radio outlets, including ABC News Nightline, BBC, CBS-60 Minutes, CNN, Fox, NPR, The Daily Show, and the NBC Today Show. A military expert reveals how science fiction is fast becoming reality on the battlefield, changing not just how wars are fought, but also the politics, economics, laws, and ethics that surround war itself. P. W. Singer's previous two books foretold the rise of private military contractors and the advent of child soldiers, predictions that proved all too accurate. Now, he explores the greatest revolution in military affairs since the atom bomb, the advent of robotic warfare. We are just beginning to see a massive shift in military technology that threatens to make the stuff of I,Robot and the Terminator all too real. More than seven- thousand robotic systems are now in Iraq. Pilots in Nevada are remotely killing terrorists in Afghanistan. Scientists are debating just how smart, and how lethal, to make their current robotic prototypes. And many of the most renowned science fiction authors are secretly consulting for the Pentagon on the next generation. Blending historic evidence with interviews from the field, Singer vividly shows that as these technologies multiply, they will have profound effects on the front lines as well as on the politics back home. Moving humans off the battlefield makes wars easier to start, but more complex to fight. Replacing men with machines may save some lives, but will lower the morale and psychological barriers to killing. The 'warrior ethos' which has long defined soldiers' identity, will erode, as will the laws of war that have governed military conflict for generations. Paradoxically, these new technologies will also bring war to our doorstep. As other nations and even terrorist organizations start to build or buy their own robotic weapons, the robot revolution could undermine America's military preeminence. While his analysis is unnerving, there's an irresistible gee-whiz quality to the innovations Singer uncovers. Wired for War travels from Iraq to see these robots in combat to the latter-day 'skunk works' in America's suburbia, where tomorrow's technologies of war are quietly being designed. In Singer?s hands, the future of war is as fascinating as it is frightening. Derived from a Kirkus review: Battlefield robotics is transforming modern war and saving American lives, according to this account. Singer begins with a history of the radio-controlled unmanned vehicles and planes of World Wars I and II. Technology made quantum advances over the following decades, but resistance from military leaders hobbled development. The 1991 Gulf War saw the much-publicized use of "smart bombs" as well as unmanned drones buzzing over Iraqi positions to transmit their observations. America's 21st-century wars feature ingenious battlefield robots that peer around corners, search for the enemy in dangerous caves and inspect roadside bombs while their operators remain at a safe distance. Overhead, vastly improved drones search for suspicious activity and occasionally rain down destruction. The author crisscrossed the country, interviewing engineers, soldiers, politicians and generals to deliver a vivid picture of the current controversies and dazzling possibilities of war in the digital age. As recent headlines on civilian deaths from American air attacks in Afghanistan reveal, many kinks remain to be ironed out. Tempering the optimism of the introductory chapters, Singer devotes much of his text to the flaws of these new devices and steep learning curve involved in employing them. He also reminds readers that even the most backward enemies possess a surprising ability to adapt. An engrossing picture of a new class of weapon that may revolutionize future wars but has not greatly daunted our current opponents., The Penguin Press, 2009, 3<

2009, ISBN: 1594201986

[EAN: 9781594201981], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Penguin], Jacket, The author of Corporate Warriors and Children at War traces the advent of robotic warfare, revealing its use in the … Mehr…

[EAN: 9781594201981], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Penguin], Jacket, The author of Corporate Warriors and Children at War traces the advent of robotic warfare, revealing its use in the war in Iraq, the latest technological achievements, and the secret Pentagon consultations with top science-fiction authors. 35,000 first printing. Former library book. Mylar protector included. Solid binding. Binding is moderately loose. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item., Books<