2020, ISBN: 9780674055445

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Denver Colorado: The White House, 1955. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Thank You Note. Good. Format is approximately 6 inches by 3.25 inches. Card printed on one side onl… Mehr…

Denver Colorado: The White House, 1955. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Thank You Note. Good. Format is approximately 6 inches by 3.25 inches. Card printed on one side only. Card has The White House printed at the top and the following text: The President is deeply grateful for your kind remembrance of him on his birthday. Your good wishes, coming during his convalescence, have been very heartening to him. Envelop stating The White House present, and messily torn open. Postmark is Oct 28, 1955 from Denver, Colorado The presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower began at noon EST on January 20, 1953, with his inauguration as the 34th president of the United States, and ended on January 20, 1961. Eisenhower, a Republican, took office as president following his victory over Democrat Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 presidential election. John F. Kennedy succeeded him after winning the 1960 presidential election. Eisenhower held office during the Cold War, a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. Eisenhower's New Look policy stressed the importance of nuclear weapons as a deterrent to military threats, and the United States built up a stockpile of nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons delivery systems during Eisenhower's presidency. Soon after taking office, Eisenhower negotiated an end to the Korean War, resulting in the partition of Korea. Following the Suez Crisis, Eisenhower promulgated the Eisenhower Doctrine, strengthening U.S. commitments in the Middle East. In response to the Cuban Revolution, the Eisenhower administration broke ties with Cuba and began preparations for an invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, eventually resulting in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion. Eisenhower also allowed the Central Intelligence Agency to engage in covert actions, such as the 1953 Iranian coup d't and the 1954 Guatemalan coup d't. In domestic affairs, Eisenhower supported a policy of "modern Republicanism" that occupied a middle ground between liberal Democrats and the conservative wing of the Republican Party. Eisenhower continued New Deal programs, expanded Social Security, and prioritized a balanced budget over tax cuts. He played a major role in establishing the Interstate Highway System, a massive infrastructure project consisting of tens of thousands of miles of divided highways. After the launch of Sputnik 1, Eisenhower signed the National Defense Education Act and presided over the creation of NASA. Though he did not embrace the Supreme Court's landmark desegregation ruling in the 1954 case of Brown v. Board of Education, Eisenhower enforced the Court's holding and signed the first significant civil rights bill since the end of Reconstruction. Eisenhower won the 1956 presidential election in a landslide and maintained positive approval ratings throughout his tenure, but the launch of Sputnik 1 and a poor economy contributed to Republican losses in the 1958 elections. In the 1960 presidential election, Vice President Richard Nixon lost by a narrow margin to Kennedy. Eisenhower left office popular with the public but viewed by many commentators as a "do-nothing" president. His reputation improved after the release of his private papers in the 1970s. Polls of historians and political scientists rank Eisenhower in the top quartile of presidents., The White House, 1955, 2.5, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1979. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. vii, [1], 214, [2] pages. Translator's Note on Russian Spelling. Glossary. Documents Section. Bibliography and Notes, Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. DJ front flap clipped at bottom. Stamp on fep. Pencil writing on fep. Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev (born 14 November 1925 in Tbilisi, Georgia) is a Russian biologist, historian and dissident. His twin brother is the historian Roy Medvedev. Zhores Medvedev is famous for exposing the Kyshtym nuclear disaster, which occurred at Mayak near Kyshtym, Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast in the Urals in 1957. He published the book The Nuclear Disaster in the Urals in 1979 (W.W. Norton, New York). Medvedev was an early victim of official attempts to stifle opposition by detaining dissidents in mental institutions. In London, Medvedev continued to edit the samizdat journal XX Century jointly with his brother Roy. The terrifying true story of how an explosion of buried atomic waste in the Soviet Union in the winter of 1957-58 devastated an area the size of Rhode Island which is still uninhabitable, and of how the Soviet authorities and British and American Atomic Energy Commissions tried for years to keep the information from reaching the public. The Kyshtym disaster was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on 29 September 1957 at Mayak, a plutonium production site for nuclear weapons and nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the Soviet Union. It measured as a Level 6 disaster on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES), making it the third most serious nuclear accident ever recorded, behind the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and the Chernobyl disaster (both Level 7 on the INES). The event occurred in the town of Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, a closed city built around the Mayak plant, and spread hot particles over more than 20,000 square miles where at least 270,000 people lived, with 300 immediate deaths among the villagers nearby. Since Ozyorsk/Mayak (named Chelyabinsk-40, then Chelyabinsk-65, until 1994) was not marked on maps, the disaster was named after Kyshtym, the nearest known town. After World War II, the Soviet Union lagged behind the US in development of nuclear weapons, so it started a rapid research and development program to produce a sufficient amount of weapons-grade uranium and plutonium. The Mayak plant was built in haste between 1945 and 1948. Gaps in Soviet physicists' knowledge about nuclear physics at the time made it difficult to judge the safety of many decisions. Environmental concerns were not taken seriously during the early development stage. Initially Mayak was dumping high-level radioactive waste into a nearby river, which flowed to the river Ob, flowing further down to the Arctic Ocean. All six reactors were on Lake Kyzyltash and used an open cycle cooling system, discharging contaminated water directly back into the lake. When Lake Kyzyltash quickly became contaminated, Lake Karachay was used for open-air storage, keeping the contamination a slight distance from the reactors but soon making Lake Karachay the "most polluted spot on Earth". A storage facility for liquid nuclear waste was added around 1953. It consisted of steel tanks mounted in a concrete base, 8.2 meters underground. Because of the high level of radioactivity, the waste was heating itself through decay heat (though a chain reaction was not possible). For that reason, a cooler was built around each bank containing 20 tanks. Facilities for monitoring operation of the coolers and the content of the tanks were inadequate. In 1957 the cooling system in one of the tanks containing about 70-80 tons of liquid radioactive waste failed and was not repaired. The temperature in it started to rise, resulting in evaporation and a chemical explosion of the dried waste, consisting mainly of ammonium nitrate and acetates (see ammonium nitrate/fuel oil bomb). The explosion, on 29 September, 1957, estimated to have a force of about 70-100 tons of TNT,[citation needed] threw the 160-ton concrete lid into the air. There were no immediate casualties as a result of the explosion, but it released an estimated 20 MCi (800 PBq) of radioactivity. Most of this contamination settled out near the site of the accident and contributed to the pollution of the Techa River, but a plume containing 2 MCi (80 PBq) of radionuclides spread out over hundreds of kilometers. Previously contaminated areas within the affected area include the Techa river which had previously received 2.75 MCi (100 PBq) of deliberately dumped waste, and Lake Karachay which had received 120 MCi (4,000 PBq). In the next 10 to 11 hours, the radioactive cloud moved towards the northeast, reaching 300-350 kilometers from the accident. The fallout of the cloud resulted in a long-term contamination of an area of more than 800 to 20,000 square kilometers (depending on what contamination level is considered significant), primarily with caesium-137 and strontium-90. This area is usually referred to as the East-Ural Radioactive Trace (EURT). At least 22 villages were exposed to radiation from the disaster, with a total population of around 10,000 people evacuated. Some were evacuated after a week but it took almost 2 years for evacuations to occur at other sites., W. W. Norton & Company, 1979, 2.75, Oak Ridge, TN: Information Management Services, Y-12 National Security Complex, BWXT Y12, LLC. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Brochure. Very good. 11 inches by 34 inches, folded so that there are four panels on each side. Maps. Circa 2010? Scarce. When open four panels on one side presents a detailed map of the Y-12 Complex. Two panels on the other side are a key to the building numbers and locations. The front panel has some introductory text and phone numbers for the visitor center, badge office and other organizations. The final, rear panel has maps of the Oak Ridge-Knoxville Route and the City of Oak Ridge. The Y-12 National Security Complex is a United States Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration facility located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It was built as part of the Manhattan Project for the purpose of enriching uranium for the first atomic bombs. In the years after World War II, it has been operated as a manufacturing facility for nuclear weapons components and related defense purposes. Y-12 is managed and operated under contract by Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS), which is composed of member companies Bechtel National, Inc., Lockheed Martin Services, Inc., ATK Launch Systems, Inc., and SOC LLC, with Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. as a teaming subcontractor. CNS also operates Pantex Plant in Texas. Y-12's primary missions since the end of the Cold War have been to support defense needs through stockpile stewardship, assist on issues of nuclear non-proliferation, support the Naval Reactors program, and provide expertise to other federal agencies. Y-12 is also responsible for the maintenance and production of all uranium parts for every nuclear weapon in the United States arsenal. Y-12 is responsible for the production and maintenance of the "secondary" aspect of thermonuclear devices. Y-12 has a history of providing secure storage of nuclear material for both the United States and other governments. Early efforts focused on securing material from the former Soviet Union; recent activities have included recovery of highly enriched uranium from Chile. Environmental cleanup has been an ongoing issue for the Department of Energy in Oak Ridge. The Y-12 plant was listed as an EPA Superfund site in the 1990s for groundwater and soil contamination. Today, the Y-12 plant is listed on the DOE's Cleanup Criteria/Decision Document Database (or C2D2 database). An influx of funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act benefited cleanup efforts by funding demolition and decontamination of aging facilities. These efforts work to further the long term reduction in the size of the Y-12 facility. CNS Y-12 employs approximately 4,700 people. About 1,500 additional personnel work onsite as employees of organizations that include UT-Battelle, Science Applications International Corporation, Bechtel Jacobs, and WSI Oak Ridge (an American-controlled unit of G4S Secure Solutions), which holds the security contract for the site. Y-12's manufacturing facility provides vital elements of the National Nuclear Security Administration's operations in four strategic areas, including Defense Programs (manufacturing, storage, and stockpile), Nuclear Nonproliferation (nuclear material security), Naval Reactors (uranium processing for Navy), and Complementary Work (mobile hospitals, response training, and access control technology)., Information Management Services, Y-12 National Security Complex, BWXT Y12, LLC, 3, Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee Publisher, 1994. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. DJ has slight wear and soiling.. [10], 324, [2] p. Notes. Index. By the 1980s the Soviet Union had matched the United States in military might and far surpassed it in the production of steel, timber, concrete, and oil. But the electronic whirlwind that was transforming the global economy had been locked out by Communist leaders. Heirs to an old Russian tradition of censorship, they had banned photocopiers, prohibited accurate maps and controlled word-for-word even the scripts of stand-up comedians. Hoping to "renew socialism" and save a Communist system in decay, Mikhail Gorbachev came to power determined to lift restrictions on the control of communications and information. What happened next is the subject of Scott Shane's brilliant account in Dismantling Utopia. On the scene in Moscow as correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, he witnessed firsthand how Gorbachev experiment produced a revolution that proved fatal to his party, his government, and his own political career. Shane's compellingly readable story is filled with memorable characters, revealing vignettes, and striking statistics. Gorbachev scarcely anticipated the information revolution "that between 1987 and 1991 swept across Soviet existence, touching every nook of daily life, battering hoary myths and lies, and ultimately eroding the foundations of Soviet power, " Shane writes, "Information, the forbidden fruit, was around every corner, on everyone's mind-the young woman on the Metro with her copy of the journal Nory Mir bent open to the latest installment of Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago; scores of Muscovites elbowing one another to get a glimpse of the latest copy of Moscow News, pinned behind glass each Wednesday night at Pushkin Square; friends hustling you into their apartmentdirect to the TV to catch the latest sensation." Moving from television studios to KGB offices, from comedy concerts to street demonstrations, Shane explores the profound consequences of Gorbachev's initiative., Ivan R. Dee Publisher, 1994, 3, Hardback. New. Popular uprisings have taken many different forms in the last hundred or so years since Muslims first began to grapple with modernity and to confront various systems of domination both European and indigenous.The relevance of studies of popular uprising and revolt in the Muslim world has recently been underlined by shattering recent events, particularly in Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia and Libya. The book consists of a close analysis of the problematique of the Qur'an, showing the openness of the text to Islamic reform and renewal; the role of Islam in creating a specific form of communism in Albania and Kosova; the Chechen revolts against Russian rule after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the short-lived period of alliance between communism and Islam in the early 1920s; the history of alliances between British Muslims and socialists since the 1950s. The book also traces the evolution of the Muslim-Communist alliance during the twentieth century, analyses the driving forces behind it, looks at the new situation created by the democratic revolts of 2010-11 in the Middle East and attempts a prognosis for future relations between these and existing communist groups. This volume contributes to the debate over the aims and methods of these popular uprisings. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics., 6, Naval Institute Press, 2020. 1st edition, 1st printing.. hardcover. fine with fine dust jacket. 8vo. 217pp. photo illustrated.. Family run used bookstore open to the public since 1988. 30 Years of Bookselling Experience backing the careful selection and description of each book we offer. 9781682473894, Naval Institute Press, 2020, 5, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. Cloth, xxiv, 876 pages, [22] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. CONTENTS: Map: China in the 1980s; Preface: In search of Deng; Introduction: The man and his mission; PT. 1. DENG'S BACKGROUND: From revolutionary to builder to reformer, 1904-1969; PT. 2. DENG'S TORTUOUS ROAD TO THE TOP, 1969-1977: Banishment and return, 1969-1974; Bringing order under Mao, 1974-1975; Looking forward under Mao, 1975; Sidelined as the Mao era ends, 1976; Return under Hua, 1977-1978; PT. 3. CREATING THE DENG ERA, 1978-1980: Three turning points, 1978; Setting the limits of freedom, 1978-1979; The Soviet-Vietnamese threat, 1978-1979; Opening to Japan, 1978; Opening to the United States, 1978-1979; Launching the Deng administration, 1979-1980; PT. 4. THE DENG ERA, 1978-1989: Deng's art of governing; Experiments in Guangdong and Fujian, 1979-1984; Economic readjustment and rural reform, 1978-1982; Accelerating economic growth and opening, 1982-1989; One country, two systems: Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Tibet; The military: preparing for modernization; The ebb and flow of politics; PT. 5. CHALLENGES TO THE DENG ERA, 1989-1992: Beijing spring, April 15-May 17, 1989; The Tiananmen tragedy, May 17-June 4, 1989; Standing firm, 1989-1992; Deng's finale: the southern journey, 1992; PT. 6. DENG'S PLACE IN HISTORY: China transformed; Key people in the Deng era; Chinese Communist Party congresses and plenums, 1956-1992.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011, 5<

2011, ISBN: 9780674055445

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, 1923. VOLUME ONE - BOOK: Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Moderately Soiled; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age; Heavy Fading of Spine Due to Sun Exposure. … Mehr…

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, 1923. VOLUME ONE - BOOK: Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Moderately Soiled; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age; Heavy Fading of Spine Due to Sun Exposure. DUST JACKET: None, As Issued. VOLUME TWO - BOOK: Loose Hinges; Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Moderately Soiled; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age; Heavy Fading of Spine, Front Board Due to Sun Exposure. DUST JACKET: None, As Issued. James Mavor, Author of "An Economic History of Russia"; Emeritus Professor of Political Economy in the University of Toronto. CONTENTS: VOLUME ONE Prefatory Note by Sir James W. Woods; Preface; I. A Scots Village Community in the Fifties and Sixties II. A Scots Seaport in the Thirties III. A Galloway Town About 1860 IV. Glasgow in the Sixties V. Scotland in the Seventies VI. A Presbyterian Job VII. Holidaying in Scotland in the Seventies VIII. Disraeli: with Notes on his Early Life IX. The Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of Paris X. Belgium, Holland, France, Germany and Switzerland, 1874, 1878, 1881 XI. Industry and Commerce in Scotland in the Eighties XII. Social Reform Movements in Scotland in the Eighties XIII. Politics in the Eighties XIV. The Socialist Movement in Scotland in the Eighties XV. Ruskin and the Political Economy of Art XVI. William Morris XVII. Literary and Artistic Movements in Scotland in the Eighties XVIII. London Circles in the Eighties XIX. Holidaying in Iceland and the West Highlands in 1890-91 XX. The British Association, 1887-93 (Manchester, Bath, Newcastle, Edinburgh and Nottingham) XXI. "Setting the Poor on Work": Germany in 1892 and 1893; France, Belgium and Holland in 1893 XXII. Canada in 1892 XXIII. (i.) The British Association at Oxford in 1894 (ii.) Cambridge in 1894 (iii.) Cambridge in 1904 XXIV. The North-West of Canada and British Columbia in 1896 XXV. Canada in 1897-1901 XXVI. (i.) London in 1899 (ii.) Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark and Sweden in 1899; Index. VOLUME TWO XXVII. The Doukhobors XXVIII. Russia in 1899 XXIX. Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy, 1898-1910 XXX. Prince Peter Alexander Kropotkin, 1886-1921 XXXI. France in 1900 XXXII. Goldwin Smith, 1892-1910 XXXIII. L'Ile d'Orleans in 1901 XXXIV. The United States in 1903 XXXV. The North-West of Canada in 1904 XXXVI. Great Britain in 1904, 1905 and 1906, with Special Reference to the Municipal Movement XXXVII. Sir William Cornelius van Horne XXXVIII. Japan in 1910 XXXIX. South China in 1910 XL. North China, Korea and Manchuria in 1910; with Noes on the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 XLI. Siberia and European Russia in 1910 XLII. The War and its Aftermath; Index.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket (As Issued). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, 1923, 2.5, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. Cloth, xxiv, 876 pages, [22] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. CONTENTS: Map: China in the 1980s; Preface: In search of Deng; Introduction: The man and his mission; PT. 1. DENG'S BACKGROUND: From revolutionary to builder to reformer, 1904-1969; PT. 2. DENG'S TORTUOUS ROAD TO THE TOP, 1969-1977: Banishment and return, 1969-1974; Bringing order under Mao, 1974-1975; Looking forward under Mao, 1975; Sidelined as the Mao era ends, 1976; Return under Hua, 1977-1978; PT. 3. CREATING THE DENG ERA, 1978-1980: Three turning points, 1978; Setting the limits of freedom, 1978-1979; The Soviet-Vietnamese threat, 1978-1979; Opening to Japan, 1978; Opening to the United States, 1978-1979; Launching the Deng administration, 1979-1980; PT. 4. THE DENG ERA, 1978-1989: Deng's art of governing; Experiments in Guangdong and Fujian, 1979-1984; Economic readjustment and rural reform, 1978-1982; Accelerating economic growth and opening, 1982-1989; One country, two systems: Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Tibet; The military: preparing for modernization; The ebb and flow of politics; PT. 5. CHALLENGES TO THE DENG ERA, 1989-1992: Beijing spring, April 15-May 17, 1989; The Tiananmen tragedy, May 17-June 4, 1989; Standing firm, 1989-1992; Deng's finale: the southern journey, 1992; PT. 6. DENG'S PLACE IN HISTORY: China transformed; Key people in the Deng era; Chinese Communist Party congresses and plenums, 1956-1992.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011, 5<

2011, ISBN: 9780674055445

Cambridge 1964, Belknap. Black cloth, dj., very good, 298p., index, glossary, bibliography, 15 x 22 cm., very clean copy. FIRST EDITION Covers the setting, early years, declaration of pri… Mehr…

Cambridge 1964, Belknap. Black cloth, dj., very good, 298p., index, glossary, bibliography, 15 x 22 cm., very clean copy. FIRST EDITION Covers the setting, early years, declaration of principles, realm of ideas & action, Western wisdom, wealth of nations, on liberty, spirit of the laws, history of politics, Mill's logic, meditations on the Tao, later years... ., 0, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. Cloth, xxiv, 876 pages, [22] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. CONTENTS: Map: China in the 1980s; Preface: In search of Deng; Introduction: The man and his mission; PT. 1. DENG'S BACKGROUND: From revolutionary to builder to reformer, 1904-1969; PT. 2. DENG'S TORTUOUS ROAD TO THE TOP, 1969-1977: Banishment and return, 1969-1974; Bringing order under Mao, 1974-1975; Looking forward under Mao, 1975; Sidelined as the Mao era ends, 1976; Return under Hua, 1977-1978; PT. 3. CREATING THE DENG ERA, 1978-1980: Three turning points, 1978; Setting the limits of freedom, 1978-1979; The Soviet-Vietnamese threat, 1978-1979; Opening to Japan, 1978; Opening to the United States, 1978-1979; Launching the Deng administration, 1979-1980; PT. 4. THE DENG ERA, 1978-1989: Deng's art of governing; Experiments in Guangdong and Fujian, 1979-1984; Economic readjustment and rural reform, 1978-1982; Accelerating economic growth and opening, 1982-1989; One country, two systems: Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Tibet; The military: preparing for modernization; The ebb and flow of politics; PT. 5. CHALLENGES TO THE DENG ERA, 1989-1992: Beijing spring, April 15-May 17, 1989; The Tiananmen tragedy, May 17-June 4, 1989; Standing firm, 1989-1992; Deng's finale: the southern journey, 1992; PT. 6. DENG'S PLACE IN HISTORY: China transformed; Key people in the Deng era; Chinese Communist Party congresses and plenums, 1956-1992.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011, 5<