Abigail Foerstner (72 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

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Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. PHOTO AND VIDEO OF PAGES TAKEN TO SHOW CONDITION PRIOR TO SHIPPING; PHOTOS EMAILED FOR MORE SPECIFICS WHEN REQUESTED; Signed by Author. Signed by Author(s). Book.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. 148 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good dust jacket. First Edition / First Printing. 5,4,3,2,1. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Astrophysicist and space pioneer James Van Allen (1914-2006), for whom the Van Allen radiation belts were named, was among the principal scientific investigators for twenty-four space missions, including Explorer I in 1958, the first successful U.S. satellite; Mariner 2's 1962 flyby of Venus, the first successful mission to another planet; and the 1970s Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 missions that surveyed Jupiter and Saturn. Although he retired as a University of Iowa professor of physics and astronomy in 1985, he remained an active researcher, using his campus office to monitor data from Pioneer 10 - on course to reach the edge of the solar system when its signal was lost in 2003 - until a short time before his death at the age of ninety-one. Now Abigail Foerstner blends space science drama, military agendas, cold war politics, and the events of Van Allen's lengthy career to create the first biography of this highly influential physicist. Drawing on Van Allen's correspondence and publications, years of interviews with him as well as with more than a hundred other people, and declassified documents from such archives as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Kennedy Space Center, and the Applied Physics Laboratory, Foerstner describes Van Allen's life from his Iowa childhood to his first experiments at White Sands to the years of Explorer I until his death in 2006. Often called the father of space science, James Van Allen led the way to mapping a new solar system based on the solar wind, massive solar storms, and cosmic rays. Pioneer 10 alone sent him more than thirty years of readings that helped push our recognition of the boundary of the solar system billions of miles past Pluto. Abigail Foerstner's compelling biography charts the eventful life and time of this trailblazing physicist.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Text is clean and crisp with small note on first title page. Dust jacket shows some edge stretching. Presents a collection of photographs taken over a hundred years ago, along with commentary, of the Amana Colonies, a utopian religious community in Iowa. Size: 9 1/2 x 9 1/2.…

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. First Edition. First Trade Paperback Edition. A VERY GOOD, clean, tight copy! PROLIFICALLY ILLUSTRATED with 143 plates of renowned photographer Stephen Deutch's duotone and full color photographs (many full page) with accompanying descriptive captions. "This collection and analysis of Deutch's work, with plates both in duotone and in color, is the first full record of his achievement to be published, and is a companion volume to a retrospective exhibition of his work at the Chicago Public Library Cultural Center in November 1989, co-curated by Larry Al Viskochil, Chicago Historical Society, and Kenneth C. Burkhart, Chicago Office of Fine Arts." 143 pages. GD3.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good copy of the hard cover edition in a like (not price-clipped) dust-jacket. The text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding and jacket are bright and fresh in appearance. A sharp copy. [Please note: Due to the size and weight of the volume extra shipping may be required depending on the destination and speed of delivery requested. Quotations gladly provided.].…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. Library stamps and markings. Rear end page excised. Rear gutter taped.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Softcover Paperback with only minor reading wear; book is clean and unmarked. In stock. Ships from MN, USA.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. clean, unmarked copy.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 1st. Illustrated with photographs by Bertha Shambaugh and others. Includes bibliographical references. Fine condition in fine dust jacket.

Condition: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. (Amana) PICTURING UTOPIA / Bertha Shambaugh & the Amana Photographers. By Abigail Foerstner. First edition, University of Iowa Press, 2000. Square small 4to size book, very dark green clth binding w/dJ in as new condition other than one very tine edge nick to DJ. 148-pgs text fine, lots of full-page photo illustration.…

Fine in fine dj.

Hardcover. First edition. Fine in Fine dust jacket. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, BOXED. 166 pages; profusely illustrated with duotoned b&w photographic plates; 9.5 x 9.5 inches. Dj protected by mylar cover. Cloth covered hardback. More than 100 years ago, Bertha Shambaugh set out to photograph the Amana Colonies, the utopian religious community twenty miles northwest of Iowa City. Shambaugh brought to her project a clear social mission to tell the world mired in the upheavals of the 1890s about a kinder way of life. She easily won the trust of the community and began publishing photographs and articles about the society she so admired. Soon after, several Amana members ignored their community's prohibition on photography and took up cameras to record the people and events around them. Picturing Utopia offers a rare glimpse into a nineteenth-century religious utopia. Foerstner brings together this stunning collection of photographs along with the stories of the photographers who took them. Together the pictures and text fill in an untold chapter of American photographic history and provide an insider's view of life in Amana.…

Very good in lightly edgeworn dust jacket. First Printing Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition.

Lg Trade PB, illus. Condition: Fine. 1st Trade Pb Edition; First Printing. Book Fine, NO notes or any markings. Slight roll to side edge of cover, else F+; Flat signed by Deutch at half title page, not inscribed. ; Small 4to 9"; 143 pages.