2012, ISBN: 03d3de5973f54aaac064dad8c510c46d

Washington DC: The National Geographic Society, 1950. Presumed First Edition/First Printing thus. Wraps. Very good. [32 pages of advertisements--some with color], pages 707-844, [and 10… Mehr…

Washington DC: The National Geographic Society, 1950. Presumed First Edition/First Printing thus. Wraps. Very good. [32 pages of advertisements--some with color], pages 707-844, [and 10 pages of advertisements with some color]. Illustrations (with Fifty-six pages in color. Maps. Map of Western Europe present. Cover has some wear and soiling. National Geographic is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its extensive use of dramatic photographs. The magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are also included with subscriptions. On occasion, special editions of the magazine are issued. The first issue of National Geographic Magazine was published on September 22, 1888, nine months after the Society was founded. Starting with its January 1905 publication of several full-page pictures of Tibet in 1900-1901, the magazine changed from being a text-oriented publication closer to a scientific journal to featuring extensive pictorial content, and became well known for this style. John Hyde was the first editor.This issue includes: Home to the Holy Land by Maynard Owen Williams with 41 Illustrations and Map, 31 in Natural Colors; Mid-Century Holland Builds Her Future by Sydney Clark with 33 Illustrations and map, 24 in Natural Colors; Exploring the World of Gems by W. F> Foshag with 34 Illustrations, 24 in Natural Colors; Large-Scale Western Europe Map, J. W. Westcott, Postman for the Great Lakes by Cy La tour with 15 Illustrations, and Darius Carved History on Ageless Rock by George G. Cameron with 14 Illustrations and map. Maynard Owen Williams (September 12, 1888-June 1963) was a National Geographic correspondent from 1919. He was an inveterate traveller who began travelling in his teens, explored Asia and witnessed the Russian Revolution, among other adventures.Williams was the Geographic's first foreign correspondent, and his reports include a description of the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1923. Maynard Williams was also an excellent photographer, and pioneered travel photography.William Frederick Foshag (17 March 1894 - 21 May 1956) was an American geologist and mineralogist. He published nearly 100 papers and described 13 new minerals, including foshagite. Foshag received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1919 and then joined the U.S. National Museum, now called the National Museum of Natural History. As head curator of the Museum's Department of Geology, Foshag greatly increased the Museum's mineral collections and its collections of gemstones. Much of Foshag's fame stems from his study of the Parícutin volcano, which for the first time gave scientists an opportunity to study a volcano's entire "life cycle." Foshag was in Mexico in 1943 when the Parícutin volcano first appeared. He remained in Mexico for more than two years documenting the growth of Parícutin. John W. Westcott made a big impact on the Great Lakes. At age 20, John earned his master's papers, becoming (at the time) the youngest captain on fresh water. John had the idea of a marine reporting agency that would transmit destination and dock information to passing vessels. From his dock on Belle Isle, Westcott would row out to passing boats. Over the years, the business grew and services expanded. In 1948, J.W. Westcott became an official U.S. Postal Service mail boat, earning the world's first floating postal ZIP code-48222. George Glenn Cameron was a philologist and historian. Cameron began his career as instructor in Oriental languages and history at the Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago in 1933, rising to associate professor. In 1948 he left Chicago, with the support of the Carnegie Foundation and subsequently the Ford Foundation, founded the Department of Near Eastern Studies at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, one of the first to exemplify the concept of area studies. While holding the annual professorship of the Baghdad branch of the American Schools of Oriental Research in 1948-49 Cameron discovered a new text from the annals of Shalmaneser III (1950) and led an expedition to B sot n, which he described for laymen in a series of magazine articles. Suspended on a scaffold, he prepared latex squeezes of the trilingual rock inscription of Darius, which permitted detailed study for the first time. He published the initial results of his study as a contribution to his friend Roland G. Kent's Old Persian (1950)., The National Geographic Society, 1950, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence: 2012. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Originally published in 1999, America's Space Sentinels won the American Astronautical Society's prestigious Eugene Emme Astronautical Literature Award and quickly established itself as the definitive book for understanding a crucial component of our national defense capabilities. It focused on the emergence and evolution of the Air Force's Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite system, which came on line in 1970 and continued to perform at a high level through the turn of this century and beyond. For this new edition, Jeffrey Richelson covers significant developments during the last dozen years relating to the deployment of these satellites, especially the struggles to develop and launch the follow-on Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS), beginning in the late 1990s and continuing up to the present. The result is a book that remains the first and best source of information regarding these vital programs. As Richelson notes, SBIRS, like its aging but still functioning predecessor, has been designed primarily to provide instant early warning of missile launches from around the globeÑparticularly China, Russia, North Korea, Pakistan, India, and IranÑthrough the infra-red sensors carried on each satellite. But the new systemÑbeset by hardware, software, fiscal, and political problemsÑhas only managed to move forward in fits and starts. While it has done so, the DSP system has continued to monitor the skies above the earth; two key ground stations in Australia and Germany have closed; nuclear powers Russia and the United States conferred extensively over the so-called Y2K problem (concerned that a computer malfunction might produce false alarms of a missile attack); and worries over potential launches from nations perceived as hostile to American interests have increased substantially. "An excellent book that absolutely merits and needs this kind of significant updating."ÑRoger Launius, Senior Curator, Division of Space History, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Jeffrey T. Richelson is a senior fellow with the National Security Archive and is the author of ten books, including Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea; The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology; and A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century. He currently lives in Los Angeles. Praise for the first edition: "Richelson puts these satellite operations in the context of world eventsÑfrom Russian missile programs to the Gulf WarÑand explains how DSP's infrared sensors are used to detect meteorites, monitor forest fires, and even gather industrial intelligence."ÑJournal of American History "An especially important and welcome addition to the literature of the military space program. Should be required reading for all who are interested in the strategic defense of the United States in the nuclear era."ÑJournal of Military History "An important book that valuably broadens the existing literature on space reconnaissance, which until this book focused almost exclusively on photographic imagery. . . . Richelson's insights and access to sources are extraordinary."ÑAmerican Historical Review "A very significant contribution to the field of intelligence studies." ÑJohn Prados, author of William Colby and the CIA, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence: 2012<

2012, ISBN: 03d3de5973f54aaac064dad8c510c46d

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Hatje Cantz Publishers, June 2007. Hardcover. Used - Very Good. Those who follow German contemporary painting are tracking, most often, the evolution of the Leipzig School and Dresden P… Mehr…

Hatje Cantz Publishers, June 2007. Hardcover. Used - Very Good. Those who follow German contemporary painting are tracking, most often, the evolution of the Leipzig School and Dresden Pop. Among the essential, independent talents who fall into neither category is Cologne-based artist painter Peter Zimmermann, born in 1956. Zimmermann has been working since the late 1980s on paintings that question contemporary visuality. His work, no matter how conceptual in its subject matter, is full of seductive sensuality. The 'Book Cover Paintings' transcribe art books onto the canvas, reflecting their own art historical roots. The flowing forms of his 'Blob Paintings' parse new media, distorting photographs on the computer and transferring them to canvas. Zimmermann's work has been the subject of solo shows in Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Paris, Berlin, and London, and is in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. In March 2007, it was exhibited at The Happy Lion Gallery, Los Angeles., Hatje Cantz Publishers, Yemen: Bandecchi & Vivaldi / Yemeni Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, 2012. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Large 8vo. (22 x 22 cm). In English. 131, [1] p., color ills. Art and technique in Yemen: The bronzes from the Museum of Baynun. The exhibition of the bronzes from the Museum of Baynun is an initiative which is part of the CASIS Project 'Cataloging and Accesing South Arabian Inscriptions by means of a Computer Database'. The aim of CASIS is to enhance the knowledge of the culture of ancient South Arabia, particularly of the inscriptions housed in the small museums of Yemen, by setting up a web-site ad a computer database.. The artifacts of Baynun being restored at the laboratories of the University of Pisa are splendid examples of the artistic production of South Arabian bronzes, a very widespread form of art in ancient Yemen, rich in external influences but with a strong autochthonous tradition., Bandecchi & Vivaldi / Yemeni Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, 2012, Hatje Cantz Publishers, February 2009. Trade Paperback. New. In the mid-1960s, artists like Robert Morris, Joseph Beuys, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Lynda Benglis began to experiment with formlessness in their materials. The maxim Form follows material, however, was not only proclaimed in the era's avant-garde art: it had a distinct impact on furniture design as well--for example, on Gunnar A. Andersen's experimental polyurethane Portrait of My Mother's Chesterfield Chair of 1964 and Zanotta's famous Sacco beanbag chair of 1968. Edited by Peter Noever, Director of Vienna's MAK museum of applied and contemporary art, this volume is the first to concentrate on formlessness in furniture design. Featuring work from the 1960s through today by such revolutionary figures as Frank Gehry, Gaetano Pesce, Ron Arad and Karim Rashid, it illuminates connections between the historical avant-garde and the applied arts, and tracks the various manifestations of design formlessness to have emerged over the past half century--from Robert Dean's 1967 Sea Urchin chair to today's computer-assisted 'blobjects.' Edited by Peter Noever. Text by Dietmar Rubel, Sebastian Hackenschmidt., Hatje Cantz Publishers, Florence: Fratelli Alinari, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 225 pp., b&w and color photographs. Housed in publisher's cloth slipcase and boxed with 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.) Accompanying CD-ROM entitled: La fotografia, una storia per immagini : Fratelli Alinari, 1852-2000. (Florence: Fratelli Alinari, 1998). Fine, as new. An historical survey which reproduces hundred of photographs from the archives. Text in English. CD in English, Italian and Spanish., Fratelli Alinari, 1998, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence: 2012. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Originally published in 1999, America's Space Sentinels won the American Astronautical Society's prestigious Eugene Emme Astronautical Literature Award and quickly established itself as the definitive book for understanding a crucial component of our national defense capabilities. It focused on the emergence and evolution of the Air Force's Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite system, which came on line in 1970 and continued to perform at a high level through the turn of this century and beyond. For this new edition, Jeffrey Richelson covers significant developments during the last dozen years relating to the deployment of these satellites, especially the struggles to develop and launch the follow-on Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS), beginning in the late 1990s and continuing up to the present. The result is a book that remains the first and best source of information regarding these vital programs. As Richelson notes, SBIRS, like its aging but still functioning predecessor, has been designed primarily to provide instant early warning of missile launches from around the globeÑparticularly China, Russia, North Korea, Pakistan, India, and IranÑthrough the infra-red sensors carried on each satellite. But the new systemÑbeset by hardware, software, fiscal, and political problemsÑhas only managed to move forward in fits and starts. While it has done so, the DSP system has continued to monitor the skies above the earth; two key ground stations in Australia and Germany have closed; nuclear powers Russia and the United States conferred extensively over the so-called Y2K problem (concerned that a computer malfunction might produce false alarms of a missile attack); and worries over potential launches from nations perceived as hostile to American interests have increased substantially. "An excellent book that absolutely merits and needs this kind of significant updating."ÑRoger Launius, Senior Curator, Division of Space History, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Jeffrey T. Richelson is a senior fellow with the National Security Archive and is the author of ten books, including Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea; The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology; and A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century. He currently lives in Los Angeles. Praise for the first edition: "Richelson puts these satellite operations in the context of world eventsÑfrom Russian missile programs to the Gulf WarÑand explains how DSP's infrared sensors are used to detect meteorites, monitor forest fires, and even gather industrial intelligence."ÑJournal of American History "An especially important and welcome addition to the literature of the military space program. Should be required reading for all who are interested in the strategic defense of the United States in the nuclear era."ÑJournal of Military History "An important book that valuably broadens the existing literature on space reconnaissance, which until this book focused almost exclusively on photographic imagery. . . . Richelson's insights and access to sources are extraordinary."ÑAmerican Historical Review "A very significant contribution to the field of intelligence studies." ÑJohn Prados, author of William Colby and the CIA, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence: 2012<

2012, ISBN: 03d3de5973f54aaac064dad8c510c46d

Science Museum, London, 1998. Paperback. New. 8vo, paperback. Like new. No wear inside or out: crisp, clean, pristine. 48 pp, Science Museum, London, 1998, Science Museum, 1997. This… Mehr…

Science Museum, London, 1998. Paperback. New. 8vo, paperback. Like new. No wear inside or out: crisp, clean, pristine. 48 pp, Science Museum, London, 1998, Science Museum, 1997. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1150grams, ISBN:0901805947, Science Museum, 1997, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence: 2012. Softcover. Brand new book. Originally published in 1999, America's Space Sentinels won the American Astronautical Society's prestigious Eugene Emme Astronautical Literature Award and quickly established itself as the definitive book for understanding a crucial component of our national defense capabilities. It focused on the emergence and evolution of the Air Force's Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite system, which came on line in 1970 and continued to perform at a high level through the turn of this century and beyond. For this new edition, Jeffrey Richelson covers significant developments during the last dozen years relating to the deployment of these satellites, especially the struggles to develop and launch the follow-on Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS), beginning in the late 1990s and continuing up to the present. The result is a book that remains the first and best source of information regarding these vital programs. As Richelson notes, SBIRS, like its aging but still functioning predecessor, has been designed primarily to provide instant early warning of missile launches from around the globeÑparticularly China, Russia, North Korea, Pakistan, India, and IranÑthrough the infra-red sensors carried on each satellite. But the new systemÑbeset by hardware, software, fiscal, and political problemsÑhas only managed to move forward in fits and starts. While it has done so, the DSP system has continued to monitor the skies above the earth; two key ground stations in Australia and Germany have closed; nuclear powers Russia and the United States conferred extensively over the so-called Y2K problem (concerned that a computer malfunction might produce false alarms of a missile attack); and worries over potential launches from nations perceived as hostile to American interests have increased substantially. "An excellent book that absolutely merits and needs this kind of significant updating."ÑRoger Launius, Senior Curator, Division of Space History, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Jeffrey T. Richelson is a senior fellow with the National Security Archive and is the author of ten books, including Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea; The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology; and A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century. He currently lives in Los Angeles. Praise for the first edition: "Richelson puts these satellite operations in the context of world eventsÑfrom Russian missile programs to the Gulf WarÑand explains how DSP's infrared sensors are used to detect meteorites, monitor forest fires, and even gather industrial intelligence."ÑJournal of American History "An especially important and welcome addition to the literature of the military space program. Should be required reading for all who are interested in the strategic defense of the United States in the nuclear era."ÑJournal of Military History "An important book that valuably broadens the existing literature on space reconnaissance, which until this book focused almost exclusively on photographic imagery. . . . Richelson's insights and access to sources are extraordinary."ÑAmerican Historical Review "A very significant contribution to the field of intelligence studies." ÑJohn Prados, author of William Colby and the CIA, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence: 2012<

2012, ISBN: 03d3de5973f54aaac064dad8c510c46d

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Secaucus, NJ: Birch Lane Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is in fine, As New, gift-giving condition,… Mehr…

Secaucus, NJ: Birch Lane Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is in fine, As New, gift-giving condition, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright. An intricate expose of the Swiss and international banking system's financial collusion with Nazi Germany. 8vo. 261 pp. including index. In protective Mylar., Birch Lane Press, 1997, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence: 2012. Softcover. Brand new book. Originally published in 1999, America's Space Sentinels won the American Astronautical Society's prestigious Eugene Emme Astronautical Literature Award and quickly established itself as the definitive book for understanding a crucial component of our national defense capabilities. It focused on the emergence and evolution of the Air Force's Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite system, which came on line in 1970 and continued to perform at a high level through the turn of this century and beyond. For this new edition, Jeffrey Richelson covers significant developments during the last dozen years relating to the deployment of these satellites, especially the struggles to develop and launch the follow-on Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS), beginning in the late 1990s and continuing up to the present. The result is a book that remains the first and best source of information regarding these vital programs. As Richelson notes, SBIRS, like its aging but still functioning predecessor, has been designed primarily to provide instant early warning of missile launches from around the globeÑparticularly China, Russia, North Korea, Pakistan, India, and IranÑthrough the infra-red sensors carried on each satellite. But the new systemÑbeset by hardware, software, fiscal, and political problemsÑhas only managed to move forward in fits and starts. While it has done so, the DSP system has continued to monitor the skies above the earth; two key ground stations in Australia and Germany have closed; nuclear powers Russia and the United States conferred extensively over the so-called Y2K problem (concerned that a computer malfunction might produce false alarms of a missile attack); and worries over potential launches from nations perceived as hostile to American interests have increased substantially. "An excellent book that absolutely merits and needs this kind of significant updating."ÑRoger Launius, Senior Curator, Division of Space History, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Jeffrey T. Richelson is a senior fellow with the National Security Archive and is the author of ten books, including Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea; The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology; and A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century. He currently lives in Los Angeles. Praise for the first edition: "Richelson puts these satellite operations in the context of world eventsÑfrom Russian missile programs to the Gulf WarÑand explains how DSP's infrared sensors are used to detect meteorites, monitor forest fires, and even gather industrial intelligence."ÑJournal of American History "An especially important and welcome addition to the literature of the military space program. Should be required reading for all who are interested in the strategic defense of the United States in the nuclear era."ÑJournal of Military History "An important book that valuably broadens the existing literature on space reconnaissance, which until this book focused almost exclusively on photographic imagery. . . . Richelson's insights and access to sources are extraordinary."ÑAmerican Historical Review "A very significant contribution to the field of intelligence studies." ÑJohn Prados, author of William Colby and the CIA, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence: 2012<

2012, ISBN: 03d3de5973f54aaac064dad8c510c46d

University Press of Kansas, Lawrence: 2012. Softcover. Brand new book. Originally published in 1999, America's Space Sentinels won the American Astronautical Society's prestigio… Mehr…

University Press of Kansas, Lawrence: 2012. Softcover. Brand new book. Originally published in 1999, America's Space Sentinels won the American Astronautical Society's prestigious Eugene Emme Astronautical Literature Award and quickly established itself as the definitive book for understanding a crucial component of our national defense capabilities. It focused on the emergence and evolution of the Air Force's Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite system, which came on line in 1970 and continued to perform at a high level through the turn of this century and beyond. For this new edition, Jeffrey Richelson covers significant developments during the last dozen years relating to the deployment of these satellites, especially the struggles to develop and launch the follow-on Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS), beginning in the late 1990s and continuing up to the present. The result is a book that remains the first and best source of information regarding these vital programs. As Richelson notes, SBIRS, like its aging but still functioning predecessor, has been designed primarily to provide instant early warning of missile launches from around the globeÑparticularly China, Russia, North Korea, Pakistan, India, and IranÑthrough the infra-red sensors carried on each satellite. But the new systemÑbeset by hardware, software, fiscal, and political problemsÑhas only managed to move forward in fits and starts. While it has done so, the DSP system has continued to monitor the skies above the earth; two key ground stations in Australia and Germany have closed; nuclear powers Russia and the United States conferred extensively over the so-called Y2K problem (concerned that a computer malfunction might produce false alarms of a missile attack); and worries over potential launches from nations perceived as hostile to American interests have increased substantially. "An excellent book that absolutely merits and needs this kind of significant updating."ÑRoger Launius, Senior Curator, Division of Space History, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Jeffrey T. Richelson is a senior fellow with the National Security Archive and is the author of ten books, including Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea; The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology; and A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century. He currently lives in Los Angeles. Praise for the first edition: "Richelson puts these satellite operations in the context of world eventsÑfrom Russian missile programs to the Gulf WarÑand explains how DSP's infrared sensors are used to detect meteorites, monitor forest fires, and even gather industrial intelligence."ÑJournal of American History "An especially important and welcome addition to the literature of the military space program. Should be required reading for all who are interested in the strategic defense of the United States in the nuclear era."ÑJournal of Military History "An important book that valuably broadens the existing literature on space reconnaissance, which until this book focused almost exclusively on photographic imagery. . . . Richelson's insights and access to sources are extraordinary."ÑAmerican Historical Review "A very significant contribution to the field of intelligence studies." ÑJohn Prados, author of William Colby and the CIA, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence: 2012<