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Published by Da Capo Press / Perseus Books Group, 2002
ISBN 10: 073943019XISBN 13: 9780739430194
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Published by Da Capo Press / Perseus Books Group, 2014
ISBN 10: 0306822067ISBN 13: 9780306822063
Seller: Inga's Original Choices, Piggott, AR, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Various Artists & Photographers (illustrator). First Edition First Printing. A stock image [photo] is an accurate representation of the listed book's dust jacket design. Complete number line at copyright page. NON price-clipped dust jacket [$ 24.50] in mylar covers, clean, colors bright, minor display indications. Pages [xix, 411 including index] clean, unmarked, binding tight, vey slight lean to spine. Illustrated with one 16-page section of B&W photographs, art reproductions and maps. Red boards, gray spine, red lettering. Usual ex-libri markings but very nice clean copy. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. Ex-Library.
Published by Da Capo Press - A Member of the Perseus Books Group, Boston, Massachusetts, 2001
ISBN 10: 0306810352ISBN 13: 9780306810350
Seller: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First De Capo Press Edition. 485 Pages Indexed. Black remainder mark on bottom page edges with no other marks, stamps, or labels. Three center sections of black and white photographs. In 1944, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, knowing that high-ranking members of the military had falsely testified before the various bodies investigating the attack on Pearl Harbor, selected a then-unknown Major by the name of Henry C. Clausen to undertake a new investigation. From November 1944 to September 1945, Clausen traveled more than 55,000 miles and interviewed over a hundred U.S. and British Army, Navy, and civilian personnel. He was given the authority to go anywhere and question anyone under oath, from enlisted personnel right up to George C. Marshall, the chief of staff. He ultimately presented an 800 page report to Stimson - a report that revealed a massive operational failure by the United States to use the priceless intelligence signals that it had obtained months before Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor is the final judgement - the story behind Clausen's investigation and a blistering account of his conclusions. Contents in 14 Chapters: Leave No Stone Unturned, Your Mission Is Impossible, With Your Blessing I'll Enlist, Who Was Telling the Truth, Hostile Action Possible at Any Moment, Put a Priority Tag On, I Have Had to Barter Like a Rug Merchant, It Was Understood, No I Read a Novel, It Was Customary and Expected, Not On Duty, Sentries Who failed, Error of Joint Command, Senator the Purple Machine Was Ordered Destroyed, They Just Quit, and Final Judgement.
Published by Da Capo Press A Member of the Perseus Book Group, Cambridge, MA, 2003
ISBN 10: 0306812223ISBN 13: 9780306812224
Seller: Henry Hollander, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xii, 404 pp., source notes, index.
Published by Da Capo Press - A Member of the Perseus Books Group, U.S.A., 1991
ISBN 10: 1569249261ISBN 13: 9781569249260
Seller: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. 252 Pages Indexed. Five line inscription on the half-title page. Very light tanning to the top edges of some pages. Interior text pages are clean and free of marks. From the 1880s to the 1950s, the Harvey Girls went west to work in Fred Harvey's restaurants along the Santa Fe railway. At a time when there were no ladies west of Dodge City and no women west of Albuquerque, they came as waitresses, but many stayed and settled, founding the struggling cattle and mining towns that dotted the region. Interviews, historical research, and photographs help re-create the Harvey Girl experience. The accounts are personal, but laced with the history the women lived: the dust bowl, the depression, and anecdotes about some of the many famous people who ate at the restaurants--Teddy Roosevelt, Shirley Temple, Bob Hope, to name a few. This is the definitive work on the Harvey Girls and the Santa Fe Railway.
Published by Da Capo Press-Perseus Books Group, New York, 2002
ISBN 10: 0306811529ISBN 13: 9780306811524
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Stiff illus. wraps. Very slight handling wear, virtually as issued. 167 pp., illus. 1st ptg. w/ complete number line. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
Published by Da Capo Press, Da Capo Press / Perseus Books Group, 2016
ISBN 10: 0306824027ISBN 13: 9780306824029
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Printing of the First Edition. Minimal signs of wear, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.
Published by Da Capo Press/ Perseus Books Group, New York, 2006
ISBN 10: 0306813688ISBN 13: 9780306813689
Seller: Gil's Book Loft, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. DJ by Georgia Liebman (illustrator). 3rd ptg. 3256 shelf. Unread. Copper-stamped black bds. No names, clean text. Unblemished dust jacket. With b/w photos. Index 334 p. Book.
Published by Da Capo Press/Perseus Books Group, 2007
ISBN 10: 0306816083ISBN 13: 9780306816086
Seller: The Parnassus BookShop, Newport, WA, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First De Capo Press Edition. First Thus, 2007. 27th Printing. Trade Paperback in Good Used Condition. Yellow and black wraps clean with wear to corners and spine ends; tight, solid and square binding; endpapers loose from binding at lower end. Pages completely clean and free from any marks; lightly toned; few have thumb indentations on the center of the fore edge of the pages, like caused by turning pages. Readings selected and with introduction by Christopher Hutchins. Readings by Lucretius, Khayyam, Thomas Hobbes, Spinoza, Hume, Boswell, Shelly, John Stuart Mill, Marx, Eliiot, Darwin, Leslie Stephen, Anatole France--and many more. 499 pages. 9.25 x 6 x 1.75". 2007, Da Capo Press/Perseus Books Group. ISBN10: 0306816083, ISBN13: 9780306816086.
Published by Da Capo Press/Perseus Books Group, Cambidge, MA/Philadelphia, PA, 2010
ISBN 10: 0306819228ISBN 13: 9780306819223
Seller: Theoria Books, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: As New. First paperback edition. 230pp., xxiii. First published by Da Capo Press in 2009; this copy "First paperback edition 2009". No Index. Glossy white wraps with title lettering in brown and gold across upper half front cover. No previous owner names. Clean text.
Published by Cambridge MA. 2004. Da Capo Press / Perseus Book Group, 2001
ISBN 10: 0306811014ISBN 13: 9780306811012
Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
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brown, white & b&w photo illustrated trade paperback soft cover 8vo. remainder copy in fine cond. binding square & tight. spine uncreased. covers clean. faint crease in front cover. red ink dot on top edge, other edges clean. contents free of markings. 4th printing (#4 in # line) of this edition. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , or underlining. b&w frontis. portrait. xii+ 5~528p. 22 b&w photo illustrations. 37 sketch maps. 25 appendices. world history. autobiography. memoirs. world war ii. nazi germany. third reich. ~ "Panzer Leader belongs on the shelf of every serious student of this violent twentieth century."~John S. D. Eisenhower. General Heinz Guderian's revolutionary strategic vision and his skill in armored combat brought Germany its initial victories during World War II. Combining Guderian's land offensive with Luftwaffe attacks, the Nazi Blitzkrieg decimated the defenses of Poland, Norway, France~and, very nearly, Russia~at the war's outset. But in 1941, when Guderian advised that ground forces should take a step back, Hitler dismissed him. In these pages, the outspoken general shares his candid point of view on what would have led Germany to victory, and what ensured that it didn't. In addition to providing a rare inside look at key members of the Nazi party, Guderian reveals in detail how he developed the Panzer tank forces and orchestrated their various campaigns, from the breakthrough at Sedan to his drive to the Channel coast that virtually decided the Battle of France.
Published by A Da Capo Original/Da Capo Press/A Member of the Perseus Books Group, Boston, MA, 2002
ISBN 10: 0306810964ISBN 13: 9780306810961
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Cooley Design Lab (Cover Design); Jeffrey P. Williams (Design) (illustrator). 1st Da Capo Press Edition: 2002. 351 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Slightly creased and slanted spine. Light foxing on page edges, not affecting text.
Published by Da Capo Press/ A Member of the Perseus Books Group, New York, 1997
ISBN 10: 0738202029ISBN 13: 9780738202020
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. Andrew Newman (Cover Design) (illustrator). 1st Printing May 1997. 240 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very minor shelf wear on front and back cover, crisp pages and clean text.
Published by Da Capo Press / A Member of the Perseus Book Group, Cambridge, MA, 2009
ISBN 10: 0306818523ISBN 13: 9780306818523
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. States "First Da Capo Press Edition 2009." Number line runs 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2, only -- whether this is a first or second printing we cannot determine. "An intimate and moving behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Rosanne Cash's spirited 2009 album 'The List' generously illustrated with over 60 photographs." In fact, said photographs appear to be color photos reproduced in B&W on matte stock, with a predictably reduced level of sharpness and clarity. Country music. 223 pp. including index.
Published by Da Capo Press / Perseus Books Group, Cambridge, MA, 2004
ISBN 10: 0306813262ISBN 13: 9780306813269
Seller: Theoria Books, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. 149pp. Glossy wrappers with front cover illustration of terrified driver behind the wheel, facing reader, Boston skyline in the background beneath an orange sky, title lettering in white over green road "sign", author names lettering in small red over yellow background across bottom front cover. Flawless copy. Unread. Gift-giving quality. (No previous owner names.).
Published by Da Capo Press/ Perseus Book Group, 2005
ISBN 10: 0306814404ISBN 13: 9780306814402
Seller: Falls Bookstore, Readsboro, VT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Softcover with white winter pictorial front cover and black, red and blue print. Black spine and rea, White spine print. Very slight flair at foredge. Tight, sound amnd unmarked. 330 pages. Narrative of Battle of Bulge GI's captured an used as F.orced Labor.
Published by Da Capo Press - Perseus Books Group, 2010
ISBN 10: 0306818698ISBN 13: 9780306818691
Seller: Pella Books, Pella, IA, U.S.A.
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VHS. Condition: Used Very Good. Trade paperback; second edition; source notes; index; 414 pages. Book is good: light wear; several pages have corners creases; text is solid, one or two pages have ink notations.
Published by Da Capo Press / Perseus Books Group, 2013
ISBN 10: 0306821168ISBN 13: 9780306821165
Seller: Inga's Original Choices, Piggott, AR, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Various Photographers (illustrator). First U.S. Edition, First Printing. A stock image [photo] is an accurate representation of the listed book's dust jacket design. No remainder marks. Complete number line [1 - 10] at copyright page. NON price-clipped dust jacket [$ 25.00]. Pages [ix, 296]. Illustrated with one 8-page section of B&W photographs. White boards, black lettering. By author of Working Fire: The Making of a Fireman. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described.
Published by Da Capo Press / Perseus Book Group, Boston, 2014
ISBN 10: 0306822458ISBN 13: 9780306822452
Seller: Bluebird Books (RMABA, IOBA), Littleton, CO, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing with full number line on copyright page. William C. Davis provides insights into the military careers of U. S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, principals in the American Civil War. With two sections of plates bearing black & white photos, as well as several maps. --- In black and red paper-covered boards with spine titling in black. Volume wrapped in jacket with photographic portraits of these two men to front panel. --- An about Near Fine copy lacking damages worthy of mention, in similar, unclipped ($32.50) jacket which is wrapped in removable archival mylar protector. (NOTE: Due to the weight of this item, extra shipping charges may be requested for shipments beyond the U.S.); Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xxi, [2], 629 pages.
Published by Da Capo Press / Perseus Books Group, Cambridge, MA, 2011
ISBN 10: 0306819600ISBN 13: 9780306819605
Seller: Theoria Books, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 248pp. , vii. '1' in number line. Notes, pp. 207-225; Acknowledgments, pp. 227-228; Index, pp. 229-248. Light gray boards with white-stamped lettering on spine; black endpapers. Shiny black dustwrapper not price-clipped ($25.00) with glossy image of black iPhone at center front cover, title lettering in white letters superimposed over various colored keyboard keys across upper middle front cover, superimposed over iPhone image in background. Only flaw to book is a single bump to top edge just to right of front cover gutter, with nearly undetectable impact on ffep and to dw at that point on front cover (dw neatly conceals the bump, with barely nugatory impact): Book and dustwrapper essentially As New: tight binding, sharp corners, no rubbing wear, no previous owner names. Clean text. UNREAD.
Published by Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 1995
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: New. Heizer, Suzanne (cover design) (illustrator). New condition glossy photographic and color illustrated softcover wraps. Includes Praise for Wings of Morning; List of Other Books by Thomas Childers; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes; Prologue: A Room Filled with Color; Author's Note; and Bibliography of Selected Archival Sources. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographs. "Childers has often made me laugh and think. Wings of Morning made me weep and wonder." - Walter A. McDougall. "[This] book is more than an evocation of a memorable period in American history and of the young airmen, though it is indelibly that, written with craft and power. It also is a superb piece of reportage." - The Washington Times. "On April 21, 1945, the twelve-member crew of the Black Cat set off on one of the last air missions in the European theater of WWII. Ten never came back. This is the story of that crew -- where they came from, how they trained, what is was like to fly a B-24 through enemy flak, and who was waiting for them to come home. Historian Thomas Childers, nephew of the Black Cat's radio operator, has reconstructed the lives and tragic deaths of these men through their letters home and through in-depth interviews, both with their families and with German villagers who lived near the crash site. In so doing he unearths confusion about the exact number of crash survivors and ugly rumors of their fate at the hands of the German villagers. His search to determine what really happened leads him to the crash site outside of Regensburg to lay the mystery to rest. In the tradition of Young Men and Fire, Wings of Morning is history as commemoration -- an evocation of people and events that brings to life a story of love, loss, and a family's quest for truth." - from the rear outer cover.
Published by Da Capo Press / A member of the Perseus Books Group, Cambridge, MA, 2007
ISBN 10: 0306815311ISBN 13: 9780306815317
Seller: Monroe Bridge Books, MABA Member, Houlton, ME, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: VERY GOOD +. First Paperback Edition. BIOGRAPHY. xix, [1], 364pp, bound in glossy stiff paper covers, with binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. Miniscule stain on lower outer page edge, not affecting the inner pages.
Published by Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2003
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Fine unread condition color illustrated and black-and-white photographic softcover wraps. Includes Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote; Cue In: Ninety in the Sun; Acknowledgments; Filmography; Bibliography; Source Notes; and Index. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographs. "For one hundred years we've been thanking him for the memories. From Bob Hope's early career in vaudeville to his trailblazing success as a radio, television, and film star, this up-to-date biography takes an appreciative and entertaining look at one very funny man's life and times. Through anecdotes, photographs, and yes, plenty of jokes, William Robert Faith reveals the real Bob Hope from his boyhood in England and Ohio to his present status as a legend." - from the rear outer cover. "Faith effectively manages to place Hope in such rarefied comedic company as Chaplin, W.C. Fields and Groucho Marx. He has done a magnificent job of ferreting out the facts of this event-filled life." -- Variety. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William Robert Faith worked as Bob Hope's public relations representative for fourteen years. A professor at the University of Southern California's School of Journalism, he lives in Burbank, California.
Published by Da Capo Press - A Member of the Perseus Books Group, New York, 1997
ISBN 10: 0306807645ISBN 13: 9780306807640
Seller: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First De Capo Press Edition. 520 Pages Indexed. Previous owner has written several interesting and sometimes caustic comments, often in red ink, on several pages. Example on the front endpaper he has written see page 405 for description of Bill Clinton and Al Gore and all traitors to the country of their birth. Most of the underlining, lengthy marginal comments, and yellow highlighting are confined to pages i thru xxiii and the first page of the Prologue. And they occur again on pages 430 thru 437. All of the other text pages are free of marks. The author was Commander of the U-boat fleet, Supreme Naval Commander, and finally Hitler's successor in the last days of the Third Reich, Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz (1891-1980) has been condemned as a Nazi and praised as one of the most brilliant and honorable military leaders of the war. His wolfpack tactics resulted in a handful of U-boats sinking 14.5 million tons and nearly deciding the Battle of the Atlantic. Sentenced to ten years at the Nuremberg Trials, Doenitz wrote his memoirs upon his release. In a clear firm style he discusses the planning and execution of the U-boat campaign; the controversial sinking of the Laconia; America's neutrality before its entry into the war; the Normandy invasion; the July 1944 bomb plot; his encounters with Raeder, Göring, Speer, Himmler, and Hitler; as well as his own brief tenure as the last Führer. Doenitz's invaluable work allows the reader to view the war at sea through the periscope's eye.
Published by Da Capo Press, A Member of the Perseus Book Group, Cambridge, MA, 2003
ISBN 10: 0306812371ISBN 13: 9780306812378
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (2003) 214 pp. Original cream paper covered boards w/ gilt title on brown paper spine. Binding very bright and clean. Corners and spine ends bumped. DJ lightly soiled; spine and edges darkened. Illust. w/ b/w plates. Contents very nice.
Published by Da Capo Press, Inc./ A Member of Perseus Books Group, New York, 1999
ISBN 10: 0306808900ISBN 13: 9780306808906
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Used-Acceptable. Trudi Gershenov (Cover Design); Sidney Feinberg (Design) (illustrator). 1st Da Capo Edition. 644 pp. A perfectly acceptable reading copy with clean text. Slightly slanted spine. Creased fore edges on front and back covers. An Ex-Seattle Public-Library-Book with all the common, standard and usual signs (stamps, stickers, envelope, etc.).
Published by Cambridge MA. 2006. Da Capo Press / Perseus Book Group, 2006
ISBN 10: 0306813734ISBN 13: 9780306813733
Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
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blue & red hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. first edition so stated. first printing ( # 1 in # line). 303p. + map of hollow earth. glossy pages throughout. glossy b&w photos & illustrations. bibliography. index. geography. cartography. conspiracy theory. folklore. mythology. literature. astrophysics. ~ A Remarkable Cultural History Of What Might Exist Under The Earth's Surface ~ As Reflected In Mythology, Religion, Science, Literature And Good Old Crackpottery. ~ Beliefs in mysterious underworlds are as old as humanity. But the idea that the earth has a hollow interior was first proposed as a scientific theory in 1691 by Sir Edmond Halley (of comet fame), who also suggested that there might be life down there as well. Hollow Earth traces the many surprising, marvelous, and just plain weird permutations his ideas have taken over the centuries. Both Edgar Allan Poe and (more famously) Jules Verne picked up the torch in the nineteenth century, the latter with his science fiction epic A Journey to the Center of the Earth. The notion of a hollow earth even inspired a religion at the turn of the twentieth century ~ Koreshanity, which held not only that the earth was hollow, but also that we're all living on the inside. Utopian novels and adventures abounded at this same time, including L. Frank Baum's hollow earth addition to the Oz series and Edgar Rice Burroughs's Pellucidar books chronicling a stone~age hollow earth. In the 1940s an enterprising science fiction magazine editor convinced people that the true origins of flying saucers lay within the hollow earth, relics of an advanced alien civilization. And there are still devout hollow earthers today, some of whom claim there is a New Age utopia lurking beneath the earth's surface, with at least one entrance near Mt. Shasta in California. Hollow Earth travels through centuries and cultures, exploring how each era's relationship to the idea of a hollow earth mirrored its hopes, fears, and values. Illustrated with everything from seventeenth~century maps to I950s pulp art to movie posters and more, Hollow Earth is for anyone interested in the history of strange ideas that just won't go away.
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Published by Da Capo Press / Perseus Books Group, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2005
ISBN 10: 0738206954ISBN 13: 9780738206950
Seller: Andover Books and Antiquities, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. XI, 282 pp. A Merloyd Lawrence Book. Dustjacket. Very good condition; sticker residue and lifting of surface paper on inside front cover.
Published by Philadelphia PA. 2007. Da Capo Press / Perseus Book Group, 2007
ISBN 10: 0306815850ISBN 13: 9780306815850
Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
deep red & tan hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition so stated. first printing (#1 in # line). xxv+421p.33 b&w illustrations. 9 b&w maps. notes. bibliography. index. world history. middle east history. history of europe. islam. muslim history. arab history. ~ From a leading expert in Arabic history, a sweeping and engaging history of the great Islamic expansion that carved out an empire from Spain to China. In just over one hundred years following the death of Mohammed in 632, the Arab followers of the Prophet had subjugated a territory with an east~west expanse greater than the Roman Empire, and they accomplished it in about half the time. By the mid~eighth century, Arab armies had conquered the thousand~year~old Persian Empire, reduced the Byzantine Empire to little more than a city~state based around Constantinople, and destroyed the Visigoth kingdom of Spain. The cultural and linguistic effects of this early Islamic expansion still reverberate today. Hugh Kennedy's compelling new history, The Great Arab Conquests, tells the story of this astonishing remaking of the political and religious map of the world. His sweeping narrative reveals how the Arab armies were able to overwhelm almost everything in their path, and brings to light the unique characteristics of Islamic settlement in new lands, the distinctive governance over subjugated peoples, and the conversion to Islam of vast populations. Kennedy offers a fascinating mix of larger~than~life characters, fierce battles, and the great clash of civilizations and religions.
Published by Da Capo Press , a member of the Perseus Books Group, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2010
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition white boards with gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Authors' Dedications; Introduction; Epilogue; References; Acknowledgments; Index and About the Authors. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and drawings. "Train Your Brain To Win With the New Science of Success: Win Factor #3: Focus: "I didn't hear the crowd or think about my ankle or what was riding on my success or failure, I just concentrated on my performance .For that moment, I was on autopilot." - Kerri Strug, Olympic gold medalist, on performing her winning vault with a sprained ankle. Win Factor #4: Emotional Balance: "If [a player] looks alert, I know they're doomed." Aaron Fechter, inventor of Whac-a-Mole, on high-scoring. Win Factor #5: Memory: "I have a chessboard in my head so I don't actually need to look at the board in front of me to see the pieces moving." Mark Bluvshtein, Grandmaster chess champion. Win Factor #7: Adaptability: "I was starting with little more than a high school education, so I was facing thousands of hours of study before I could even apply to medical school - but it was what I wanted to do." Stephen Harris, aka Kid Chaos, bass guitarist and former member of The Cult, on his decision to change careers. Win Factor #8: Brain Care: "At around the eightieth hour I lost my mind." Philip Calhoun, on the consequences of going 93 hours without sleep in order to win a car." - from the rear outer jacket. "What can you learn about success from a robot? Why shouldn't you take a test while wearing red? And how can it be that people who perform poorly on a task often see themselves as being the best? In The Winner's Brain, Harvard-trained brain experts Dr. Jeff Brown and Dr. Mark Fenske explore the surprising science behind motivation, focus, and extraordinary achievment - and why the key to success really is all in your head. Contrary to popular belief, winning in life has little to do with IQ, your circumstances, your financial resources, or even luck. But it has everything to do with creating a failure-resistant brain. Every time you think a thought, feel an emotion, or execute a behavior, your neuro-circuitry changes, and the good news is you can take charge of this process. Based on cutting-edge research, Brown and Fenske identify the eight crucial "Win Factors," featuring strategies to increase your: Focus Laser: Tune out distractions and lock on to what's important; Optimal Risk Gauge: Choose the right risks for higher rewards; Talent Meter: Know your talents - and your shortcomings; Opportunity Radar: Spot hot prospects, even when they come disguised as problems; Effort Accelerator: Cultivate the drive to win. Throughout the book, dozens of Winners from all walks of life tell their stories. Many are well known, like B.B. King, Laura Linney, and motivational speaker Trisha Meili, the Central Park Jogger. Others are artists and inventors, musicians and business people, an FBI agent, a fighter pilot, even a high-altitude window washer. These insightful interviews further reveal how anyone can change their thinking to improve their life. Fascinating, accessible, and compulsively readable, The Winner's Brain shows you how to unlock your brain's hidden potential to achieve success." - from the inner front jacket flap.