2011, ISBN: 9780195118285

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New York NY: Simon & Schuster. 1945. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket; DJ is worn and torn at edges. Water staining on back of DJ ; This is the first one volume story of Wood… Mehr…

New York NY: Simon & Schuster. 1945. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket; DJ is worn and torn at edges. Water staining on back of DJ ; This is the first one volume story of Woodrow Wilson's whole life and whole work. Ruth Cranston, a close friend of the Wilson family, had access to much new material. Her interpretation of Wilson's life describes him as a human being and as a statesman, and ends with a short account of his creation, the League of Nations, as the foundation for the present world security organization. ; B&W Photographs; 478 pages ., Simon & Schuster, 1945, 0, Bloomington IN: iUniverse, 2011. Trade paperback. Very good. The Moonhawker (SOFTCOVER CONDITION GOOD-PUBLISHED BY IUNIVERSE INC. COPYRIGHT 2011-621 PAGES. ) by George A. Fox (Author) It is June of 1976 when Atticus Gunner pulls up in front of West High School, parks in a visitor parking space, and... Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 640 p. Audience: General/trade. The Moonhawker (SOFTCOVER CONDITION GOOD-PUBLISHED BY IUNIVERSE INC. COPYRIGHT 2011-621 PAGES. ) by George A. Fox (Author) It is June of 1976 when Atticus Gunner pulls up in front of West High School, parks in a visitor parking space, and walks into the building-ready to begin his foray into school administration as the new assistant principal. He has no idea that in just a few hours, his life will change forever. Later that day, during an unexpected meeting with his divorce attorney, Gunner-a former member of a top-secret operations unit-finds that his unique experience of identifying and hunting down escaped Nazis suspected of war atrocities is once again in high demand. After an anonymous philanthropic organization makes him a job offer he cannot refuse, he and his two young daughters very shortly find themselves on a thirty-two-foot sloop headed for an island in northern Lake Michigan. Directed to head a school of only one hundred students, it is not long before Gunner realizes he has embarked on a dangerous adventure. In this riveting thriller filled with unexpected twists and turns, one man is inadvertently propelled on an unforgettable journey through intrigue, romance, and murder. In the process, he'll discover more about himself than he ever imagined. BOOK REVIEW; "The Moonhawker" by George Fox is an unbelievable outing into a world many people don't realize exists. Having traveled to Washington Island a few times over the years, I've always been curious as to the mysteries it holds. This incredible novel by an "islander" helps peel back the onion a few layers. The book reads like a Dan Brown novel. In addition to an incredible plot, George Fox is one of the few writers I've ever known that can actually write a fight scene. In addition, his geographic and nautical descriptions are spot on. Whether it be the Niagara Escarpment, his discussion of "The Boils, " or skimming across the ice on a snowmobile dodging the "shoves, " the author actually makes you feel like you're there. The protagonist is a combination of a Jack Ryan and a Robert Langdon. Sort of an "every man" character that gets caught up in a hideous plot. He is also human, with his own flaws. I'm so tired of reading "black and white" characters. Atticus Gunner has his weaknesses-a true human character., iUniverse, 2011, 2.75, Chatto & Windus, William IV Street, London 1960 hardcover, 14cms x 22cms, lacking jacket Ours is an ex-library copy with minimal markings. Book in GOOD condition Fifty-five b&w photographs and thirty-six drawings and maps. Includes a summary of the history of the sea and the evolution of marine life through geological time, and a good deal of information concerning the sea as a physical feature of the earth and the way it has influenced men., Chatto & Windus, William IV Street, London, 1960, 2.5, Frances Lincoln Children's Book. Paperback. NEW. Malala Yousafzai was born in Mingora, Pakistan, with a father who was determined to provide her with the same opportunities as boys. She had a natural love for education, but unfortunately, her country underwent a period of rule by a hateful regime that banned girls from attending school. Undeterred, Malala courageously spoke out publicly about this injustice, which ultimately made her a target for violence. In an unfortunate turn of events, Malala was shot in the left side of her head. Miraculously, she survived the attack and woke up in a hospital room in England. Over the following months, she underwent several surgeries, displaying immense resilience and determination. Despite the physical and emotional challenges she faced, Malala refused to be silenced. Instead, she became even more resolved to fight for girls' education. Malala's remarkable story continues to inspire people around the world. A recent graduate from Oxford University, she has dedicated her life to advocating for a world where girls have equal access to education and the opportunity to lead. Alongside her academic achievements, Malala also became the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate at the age of 17. Malala's journey from a young girl in Pakistan to a global activist is captivating and awe-inspiring. Her story is beautifully captured in a powerful book that not only highlights her experiences but also features stylish and quirky illustrations. The book provides readers with additional insights, including a biographical timeline featuring historical photos and a detailed profile of Malala's life. Through her activism and advocacy, Malala has become a symbol of hope and resilience for millions of girls around the world. She firmly believes that education is a basic human right and a powerful tool for bringing positive change to communities and societies. Malala's efforts have not only raised awareness about girls' education but have also influenced policies and initiatives globally. Even though Malala has achieved tremendous success in her mission, she remains committed to fighting for the rights of every girl to receive an education. Her passion and determination serve as an inspiration to individuals and organizations worldwide who strive for gender equality and social justice. In conclusion, Malala Yousafzai's story is one of incredible bravery and tenacity. From a young age, she faced adversity and fought against oppressive ideologies to champion girls' education. Her resilience, combined with her unwavering dedication to her cause, has made her a global advocate for equality and change. Malala's impact will continue to be felt for generations to come as she leads the way towards a world where every girl has the opportunity to learn and lead., Frances Lincoln Children's Book, 6, New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972. viii, 341 pages, illustrations; 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with a creased front flap, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. Workers of the World, Unite! CONTENTS: 1607-1760: A nation is founded on hard work; 1630-1790: Building a democratic foundation; 1790-1820: Labor faces an industrial revolution; 1820-1860: Early efforts at labor organization; 1820-1865: Working people in the Civil War era; 1865-1873: Rebuilding after the war; 1873-1886: The founding of the American Federation of Labor; 1886-1892: The labor struggle against human exploitation; 1892-1900: The conflicts at Homestead and Pullman; 1900-1920: America enters the twentieth century; 1900-1920: Labor in the World War I era; 1920-1932: The postwar "prosperity"; 1932-1938: Industrial unionism and the New Deal; 1938-1960: Labor in war and peace; 1960-1970s: Today's problems, and promise. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to., Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972, 3, New York: Harper; HarperCollinsPublishers, 2009. 357 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. SIGNED by coauthors Leslie.Gilbert-Lurie & Rita Lurie on the front free endpaper. A near-fine copy of the first printing, age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "A miraculous lesson in courage and recovery, Bending Toward the Sun tells the story of a unique family bond forged in the wake of brutal terror. Weaving together the voices of three generations of women, Leslie Gilbert-Lurie and her mother, Rita Lurie, provide powerful-and inspiring-evidence of the resilience of the human spirit, relevant to every culture in every corner of the world. By turns unimaginably devastating and incredibly uplifting, this firsthand account of survival and psychological healing offers a strong, poignant message of hope in our own uncertain times. Rita Lurie was five years old when she was forced to flee her home in Poland to hide from the Nazis. From the summer of 1942 to mid-1944, she and fourteen members of her family shared a nearly silent existence in a cramped, dark attic, subsisting on scraps of raw food. Young Rita watched helplessly as first her younger brother then her mother died before her eyes. Motherless and stateless, Rita and her surviving family spent the next five years wandering throughout Europe, waiting for a country to accept them. The tragedy of the Holocaust was only the beginning of Rita's story. Decades later, Rita, now a mother herself, is the matriarch of a close-knit family in California. Yet in addition to love, Rita unknowingly passes to her children feelings of fear, apprehension, and guilt. Her daughter Leslie, an accomplished lawyer, media executive, and philanthropist, began probing the traumatic events of her mother's childhood to discover how Rita's pain has affected not only Leslie's life and outlook but also her own daughter, Mikaela's. A decade-long collaboration between mother and daughter, Bending Toward the Sun reveals how deeply the Holocaust remains in the hearts and minds of survivors, influencing even the lives of their descendants. It also sheds light on the generational reach of any trauma, beyond the initial victim. Drawing on interviews with the other survivors and with the Polish family who hid five-year-old Rita, this book brings together the stories of three generations of women-mother, daughter, and granddaughter-to understand the legacy that unites, inspires, and haunts them all. / A writer, lawyer, and former executive at NBC, Leslie Gilbert-Lurie is a member and former president of the Los Angeles County Board of Education and a teacher of Holocaust studies. A founding board member and past president of the nonprofit Alliance for Children's Rights, she has worked at a major Los Angeles law firm, served as a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals law clerk, and is a member of the board of directors for several nonprofit organizations, including the Los Angeles Music Center. Recently Leslie was appointed by the mayor of Los Angeles to a panel to devise a new cultural plan for the city. She is a recipient of the American Jewish Congress's Tzedek Award for Outstanding Commitment to Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, and Justice, and the Alliance for Children's Rights Child Advocate of the Year Award. She lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband, two children, and stepson." - Publisher.. SIGNED. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. Collectible., Harper; HarperCollinsPublishers, 2009, 4, New York: Penguin Press, 2004. 357 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. "For more than one hundred years, the National Geographic Society has brought 'the world and all that is in it' to millions worldwide. Through its unparalleled research, exploration, publications, and photography, the organization and its magazine have, in many ways, defined how we see the world. Now Robert Poole's Explorers House gives a vibrant, behind-the-scenes look at National Geographic, from its start in 1888 to its evolution into one of the most esteemed and iconic American institutions. The story of the National Geographic is a family story of a media dynasty to rival the Sulzbergers or Luces. The Grosvenors, along with Alexander Graham Bell, who was linked to the family by marriage, created the institution's photography-based monthly, and the family has been on the masthead since the McKinley administration. Content to stay in the shadows, however, they have remained modestly obscured from public view while their media empire has grown to reach some forty million readers and viewers each month. The Grosvenor and Bell family history is not merely the story of the National Geographic; it is a captivating view of the sweep of American scientific, geographic, and political history since the late nineteenth century, rendered in fascinating human terms by Poole. Moreover, Explorers House shows the inside workings of the magazine's editorial process, providing an unprecedented look behind some of National Geographic's ground-breaking articles and explorations-from Cousteau's famous Calypso voyages to the origins of Jane Goodall's research on chimpanzees to the institution's 1963 Mt. Everest expedition, the first to place an American on the summit. We also hear of the writers and photographers who are larger than life figures themselves, such as Luis Marden, the writer-photographer who unearthed the remains of the H.M.S. Bounty off Pitcairn Island, among many other feats. Explorers House presents the National Geographic from the inside out-from its remarkable founding family to the very ends of the earth it investigates. / Robert M. Poole retired as Executive Editor of National Geographic in 2001 after a twenty-one-year career as a writer and editor there. In addition to his work for National Geographic, Poole has contributed articles to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Congressional Quarterly, Preservation, and Fly Fisherman. Before joining the National Geographic staff in 1980, he was a newspaper correspondent specializing in national politics and the environment. He is a former fellow at the Washington Journalism Center." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible., Penguin Press, 2004, 5, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. xviii, 366 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "No one can escape a sense of wonder when looking at an organism from within. From the humblest amoeba to man, from the smallest cell organelle to the amazing human brain, life presents us with example after example of highly ordered cellular matter, precisely organized and shaped to perform coordinated functions. But where does this order spring from? How does a living organism manage to do what nonliving things cannot do--bring forth and maintain all that order against the unrelenting, disordering pressures of the universe? In The Touchstone of Life, world-renowned biophysicist Werner Loewenstein seeks answers to these ancient riddles by applying information theory to recent discoveries in molecular biology. Taking us into a fascinating microscopic world, he lays bare an all-pervading communication network inside and between our cells--a web of extraordinary beauty, where molecular information flows in gracefully interlaced circles. Loewenstein then takes us on an exhilarating journey along that web and we meet its leading actors, the macromolecules, and see how they extract order out of the erratic quantum world; and through the powerful lens of information theory, we are let in on their trick, the most dazzling of magician's acts, whereby they steal form out of formlessness. The Touchstone of Life flashes with fresh insights into the mystery of life. Boldly straddling the line between biology and physics, the book offers a breathtaking view of that hidden world where molecular information turns the wheels of life. Loewenstein makes these complex scientific subjects lucid and fascinating, as he sheds light on the most fundamental aspects of our existence. / Werner R. Loewenstein was Professor of Physiology and Director of the Cell Physics Laboratory at Columbia University and is presently Director of the Laboratory of Cell Communication at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He lives in Woods Hole and Key Biscayne, Florida." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible., Oxford University Press, 1999, 5<

1999, ISBN: 9780195118285

New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. xviii, 366 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. &… Mehr…

New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. xviii, 366 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "No one can escape a sense of wonder when looking at an organism from within. From the humblest amoeba to man, from the smallest cell organelle to the amazing human brain, life presents us with example after example of highly ordered cellular matter, precisely organized and shaped to perform coordinated functions. But where does this order spring from? How does a living organism manage to do what nonliving things cannot do--bring forth and maintain all that order against the unrelenting, disordering pressures of the universe? In The Touchstone of Life, world-renowned biophysicist Werner Loewenstein seeks answers to these ancient riddles by applying information theory to recent discoveries in molecular biology. Taking us into a fascinating microscopic world, he lays bare an all-pervading communication network inside and between our cells--a web of extraordinary beauty, where molecular information flows in gracefully interlaced circles. Loewenstein then takes us on an exhilarating journey along that web and we meet its leading actors, the macromolecules, and see how they extract order out of the erratic quantum world; and through the powerful lens of information theory, we are let in on their trick, the most dazzling of magician's acts, whereby they steal form out of formlessness. The Touchstone of Life flashes with fresh insights into the mystery of life. Boldly straddling the line between biology and physics, the book offers a breathtaking view of that hidden world where molecular information turns the wheels of life. Loewenstein makes these complex scientific subjects lucid and fascinating, as he sheds light on the most fundamental aspects of our existence. / Werner R. Loewenstein was Professor of Physiology and Director of the Cell Physics Laboratory at Columbia University and is presently Director of the Laboratory of Cell Communication at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He lives in Woods Hole and Key Biscayne, Florida." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible., Oxford University Press, 1999, 5<