Bachman Barbara (53 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Bachman, Barbara - Design (illustrator). First Printing. 404 Pages Indexed. Very lightly concave spine. No other defects noted. Interior text pages are bright, white, and tight. This book tells the story of a curious crime spree: the theft of scores of valuable centuries-old maps from some of the most prominent research libraries in the United States and Canada. The perpetrator was Gilbert Joseph Bland, Jr., an enigmatic antiques dealer from South Florida, whose cross-country slash-and-dash operation had gone virtually undetected until he was caught in 1995 and was unmasked as the most prolific American map thief in history. As Miles Harvey unravels the mystery of Bland's life, he maps out the world of cartography and cartographic crime, weaving together a fascinating story of exploration, craftsmanship, villainy, and the lure of the unknown. Contents in 13 Chapters: Mr. Peabody and Mr. Nobody Imaginary Creatures, The Map Mogul, An Approaching Storm, How to Make A Map How to Take A Map, The Invisible Crime Spree, A Brief History of Cartographic Crime, Pathfinding, The Waters of Paradise, The Joy of Discovery, The Land of lost Maps, Eldorado, and Mr. Bland I Presume.

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

Hard Back. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Bachman, Barbara M. - Design (illustrator). First Edition First Printing Stated. 364 Pages. Glossy laminated boards. Back endpaper has a 3 inch corner crease that is now straightened. No other defects noted. Interior text is faultless. Dust jacket price $26 is unclipped. When it comes to violent crime, the Las Vegas cops and casino owners thought they had seen it all. But they had never witnessed anything like Jose Vigoa. Born in Cuba, a child of Fidel Castro's revolution, Vigoa used his quick wits and quicker fists to trade a life of poverty and desperation for one of danger and adventure as a Soviet-trained special forces officer. Battle hardened in the killing fields of Afghanistan and Angola, Vigoa won a reputation for toughness, bravery, and coolness under fire. A brilliant military career lay ahead of him. Then, in 1980, Castro opened Cuba's floodgates in the Mariel boatlift, and Vigoa, like so many of his countrymen and -women, braved chaos and hardship to start a new life in America's promised land. But involvement with the drug trade brought his dreams crashing down. Years of prison followed. On his release, Vigoa was determined to take revenge on what he perceived as the corrupt power structure of Las Vegas. On September 20, 1998, the former Spetsnaz lieutenant launched what would be the most audacious and ruthless series of high-profile casino and armored car robberies that Las Vegas had ever seen. In a brazen sixteen-month-long reign of terror, he and his tightly disciplined crew would hit the crème de la crème of Vegas hotels: the MGM, the Desert Inn, the New York-New York, the Mandalay Bay, and the Bellagio. They struck hard and fast, then vanished without a trace. Millions of dollars were stolen. Two brave men were gunned down in cold blood; others were wounded. And yet the robberies were so well planned and executed that the police the stupids, as Vigoa contemptuously referred to them were all but helpless. Not Lt. John Alamshaw. The twenty-three-year veteran, in charge of robbery detectives, was not giving up so easily. For him, Vigoa's rampage was a personal affront. And he would do whatever it took, even risk his badge, to bring Vigao down. With exclusive access to all the major players, including Vigoa and Alamshaw, veteran journalist and network producer John Huddy is the perfect man to tell the gripping never-before-told story of this harrowing true-crime drama that will leave readers breathless. Illustrated with maps and photographs throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Bachman, barbara m. book design (illustrator). first edition,5ptg; 68975pt line. VERY GOOD CONDITION CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT COPY; RED METALIC SPINE TITLES ON BLACK HARD COVERS.; 192 pages; INCLUDES.COUNTRY; ABSENCE; LOVE, OBITUARIES; TODAY; TIPING POINT.MANY OTHERS.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Bachman, barbara m. book design (illustrator). first edition,5ptg; 68975pt line. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S21.95) DUST JACKET. CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT COPY IN SIMILAR DUST JACKET; RED METALIC SPINE TITLES ON BLACK HARD COVERS.ATTRACTIVE DJ HAS TITLE & PHOTOS OF 9 WHITE HORSES HEADS.IN VARIOUS STAGES OF LIFE & DEATH? INNER BACK DJ FLAP HAS 4X5" PHOTO OF AUTHOR & BIOGS ; 192 pages; INCLUDES.COUNTRY; ABSENCE; LOVE, OBITUARIES; TODAY; TIPING POINT.MANY OTHERS.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. Chin Yee Lai (Jacket Design); Rene Margritte (Jacket Art); Jana Curcio (Author Photo); Barbara M. Bachman (Design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. 250 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. Barbara M. Bachman (Book Design); Archie Ferguson (Jacket Design); David Stork (Jacket Photo); Jerry Bauer (Photo) (illustrator). 1st Edition. 329 + pp. Stated first edition! An excellent, spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy and dust jacket with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Patricia Manzone (Jacket Design); Michael O'Neill (Front Jacket Photo); Ralph Gatti (Back Jacket Photo); Barbara M. Bachman (Design) (illustrator). 5th Printing. 269 pp. Solidly bound copy and dust jacket with minimal internal and external wear. Clean text on bright and crisp pages. Small stain on fore-edge.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. Barbara M. Bachman (Designer);; Meri Simon (Frontispiece Photograph); Andrea Thomas (Cover Design); Bill Westheimer (Cover Photograph) (illustrator). 252 pp. Flawless copy.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Gabrielle Bordwin (Cover Design); John Singer (Cover Painting); Barbara M. Bachman (Design) (illustrator). Mod. Library Ppbk Ed., 2002/1st Printing. 772 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Dog-eared top corners on both covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Barbara M. Bachman (Book Design); Honi Werner (Jacket Design); Stern Imaging (Jacket Photo); Jane Sobel (Author's Photo) (illustrator). 316 pp. Tightly bound copy with clean and crisp pages. Minimal external wear. Slight burn on bottom edge of spine.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. Barbara M. Bachman (Design); Bech Sivan (Cover Design) (illustrator). 474 pp. Flawless book and dj save for minimal external use and slight tear on back cover.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Barbara M. Bachman (Book Design); Andy Carpenter & Barbara De Wilde (Design); MAry Javorek (Photo) (illustrator). 1st Edition. 312 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal use. Water stains on edging.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Barbara M. Bachman (Book Design) (illustrator). Copyright İ 2004. 249 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Creased front cover. Light scuffing on front cover.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. Lynn Buckley (Cover Design & Photo); Barbara M. Bachman (Design) (illustrator). 6th Printing. 294 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Alexander Walter (Cover Photo); Basil Childers (Author Photo); Barbara M. Bachman (Book Design) (illustrator). 1st Norton Ppbk Publication, 2004. 395 + pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. A great study/work/reading copy. Light creasing on covers and spine. Light foxing on page edges. Writing on inside of front cover page.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Culver Pictures (Jacket Image); Eric Fuentecilla (Jacket Design); Brian Smith (Author Photo); Barbara M. Bachman (Design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. 278 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Stated first edition and first printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. Allison Saltzman (Jacket Design); Brown Brothers, Bettmann/CORBIS, Jake Rajs/Getty Images (Front, Spine & Back Jacket Photos); Barbara M. Bachman (Book Design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. 313 pp. Stated second printing of the first edition! An excellent, spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy and dust jacket with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book design by Barbara M. Bachman (illustrator). 1st Edition. First printing of Bronson's defining chronicle of Silicon Valley at the height of the late-1990s dot-com boom. Expanding upon reporting originally published in Wired and Forbes ASAP, Bronson profiles entrepreneurs, programmers, venture capitalists, and IPO hopefuls during one of the most speculative and transformative moments in American business history. Issued just prior to the 2000 market collapse, the work stands as a contemporary primary account of pre-crash tech culture rather than a retrospective narrative. Book is Near Fine: tight and square binding; clean green cloth spine and blue boards; corners sharp; no ownership marks, writing, or remainder marks observed; pages clean and bright throughout. Dust jacket is Near Fine, unclipped, retaining the original U.S.A. $25.00 / Canada $38.00 price; light surface rubbing and mild edge wear; no tears or significant creasing; strong color and presentation. A handsome copy. Edition/Printing Diagnostics: Copyright page dated 1999 with Random House first-printing indicator consisting of a solitary '9' at the foot of the page; no additional printings stated. Correct first-issue dust jacket with matching ISBN and original printed price intact. All points consistent with a true First Edition, First Printing. Po Bronson (b. 1964) is an American journalist and author known for chronicling Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial culture. A longtime contributor to Wired, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times Magazine, Bronson gained national attention with his novels Bombardiers (1995) and The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest (1997). The Nudist on the Late Shift established him as one of the leading narrative voices documenting the rise of late-20th-century tech culture.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Bachman, Barbara M. (book design); Soudant, Shasti O'Leary (jacket design and illustrations); Henderson, David (author photograph) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fine condition cream boards, red cloth spine and copper spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Praise for Juliet; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote by Shakespeare; The Prologue; Author's Note and About the Author. First Canadian edition, first printing. "Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly interwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail, all set against a backdrop of looming danger. Anne Fortier casts a new light on one of history's greatest stories of passion. I was swept away." -- Sara Gruen, author. "A magnificent contemporary take on the greatest loves story of all time. Epic, sensual, and fast-paced, Anne Fortier's Juliet will leave you stunned -- wideeyed and breathless, with the dust of 14th century Siena on yur brow. A truly astonishing debut." -- Tish Cohen, author. "A high-flying debut . Fortier navigates around false clues and twists, resulting in a . love story that reads like a Da Vinci Code for the smart modern woman." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review). "Ingenious, intriguing, a thrilling story that keeps you turning the pages. This is a wonderfully textured novel of history and imagination that brings Italy, past and present, beautifully to life." -- Kate Mosse, author. "Twenty-five-year-old Julie Jacobs is heartbroken over the death of her beloved aunt Rose. But the shock goes even deeper when she learns that the woman who has been like a mother to her has left her entire estate to Julie's twin sister. The only thing Julie receives is a key -- one carried by her mother on the day she hereself died -- to a safety deposit box in Siena, Italy. This key sends Julie on a journey that will change her life forever -- a journey into the troubled past of her ancestor Giulietta Tolomei. In 1340, still reeling from the slaughter of her parents, Giulietta was smuggled into Siena, where she met a young man named Romeo. Their ill-fated love turned medieval SIena upside down and went on to inspire generations of poets and artists, the story reacching its pinnacle in Shakespeare's famous tragedy. But six centuries have a way of catching up to the present, and Julie begins to discover that here, in this ancient city, the past and present are hard to tell apart. The deeper she delves into the history of Romeo and Giulietta, and the closer she gets to the treasure they allegedly left behind, the greater the danger surrounding her -- superstitions, ancient hostilities, and personal vendettas. As Julie crosses paths with the descendants of the families involved in the unforgettable blood feud, she begins to fear that the notorious curse -- "A plague on both your houses!" -- is still at work, and that she is destined to be its next target. Only someone like Romeo, it seems, could save her from this dreaded fate, but his story ended long ago. Or did it? Frm Anne Fortier comes a sweeping, beautifully written novel of intrigue and identity, of love and legacy, as a young woman discovers that her own fate is irrevocably tied -- for better or worse -- to literatures's greatest star-crossed lovers." -- from the inner front and rear jacket flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Bachman, Barbara M. (book design); Corsillo/Manzone (jacket design); Gunderson, Gary (author photograph) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Very good condition blue boards/white cloth spine/black spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Christopher Andersen; Author Dedication; Author's Note; Epilogue; Notes and Sources; Acknowledgments; Index and Photo Credits. Illustrated with two sections of black-and-white photographic plates. Some rubbing at the upper front cover edge (see photographs); the volume is otherwise in fine condition. All pages are in fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is in exceedingly tight and square practically unread condition (see photograhs). "Michael Jackson was the most talked-about, written-about, and rumored-about pop star of all time even before headline-grabbing child sex-abuse charges threatened to end his career. That he is at the epicenter of the show-business scandal of the century seems only fitting: Michael Jackson is, after all, generally conceded to be the greatest entertainer of our time. Reclusive, enigmatic, and utterly fascinating, he is also the man for whom the word "bizarre" might have been invented. Now bestselling author Christopher Andersen strips away the mystique with the first comprehensive, uncompromising biography of the most controversial person - male or female - on the planet. Interviewing countless friends, advisers, family members, teachers, coworkers, business partners, neighbors, intimates, and employees, Andersen paints a mesmerizing, often shocking, portrayal of the Man in the Mirror. Michael Jackson Unauthorized is packed with startling revelations, including: New deatils of his relationships with Diana Ross, Elizabeth Taylor, Jackie Onassis, Brooke Shields, Tatum O'Neal, Prince, Kate Hepburn, Jane Fonda, Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Madonna - as well as sisters La Toya and Janet; Michael's fascination with the occult and the Mafia; The true extent of his plastic surgery, and the strange reasons behind Jackson's desperate efforts to remake himself; A rare behind-the-scenes glimpse inside Jackson's billion-dollar business empire as well as his schemes for creating controversies to keep him in the public eye - and how that strategy backfired spectacularly; From his "family" of mannequins, his hyperbaric chamber, and the Elephant Man's bones to the single glove and the surgical masks - why Michael cultivated his image as the Wizard of Odd; Michael's history of panic attacks and breakdowns - and how drug addiction pushed him to the brink of suicide; The full, untold story of Michael and his "special friends" - what really happened between this modern Pied Piper and his followers. Here is Michael Jackson in all his brilliance and complexity: the crotch-grabbing sex symbol who at thirty-six remains a virgin; the preening narcissist who hates his face so much he transforms it through plastic surgery; the diehard promoter of family virtues who resents his own; the man who never had a childhood - and the child who never grew up. As compelling and provocative as its subject, Michael Jackson Unauthorized chronicles in searing detail the meteoric rise and astonishing fall of the world's greatest living pop culture icon." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Bachman, Barbara M. (book design); Ward, Jeffrey L. (map); Brand, Christopher (jacket design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new condition dark gray boards with gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Erik Larson; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote by Winston Churchill; A Note to Readers; Epilogue; Sources and Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with a preliminary page black-and-white map and black-and-white photographic frontispiece. "Fresh, fast and deeply moving." - Candice Millard, The New York Times Book Review. "Fascinating.The entire book comes at the reader with breakneck speed." - Minneapolis Star Tribune. "Spectacular.a fast-moving, immensely readable, and even warmhearted account of the battle to save Britain." - The Christian Science Monitor. "Erik Larson has done it again. [He] has once more captured an iconic historical moment and brought it vividly to life." - Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny. "The #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of leadership in a time of crisis. On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally - and willing to fight to the end. In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows, in cinematic detail, how Churchill taught the British people "the art of being fearless." It is a story of political brinkmanship, but it's also an intimate domestic drama set against the backdrop of Churchill's prime-mimisterial country home, Chequers; his wartime retreat, Ditchley, where he and his entourage go when the moon is brighest and the bombing threat is highest; and of course 10 Downing Street in London. Drawing on diaries, original archival documents, and once-secret intelligence reports - some released only recently - Larson provides a new lens on London's darkest year through the day-to-day experience of Churchill and those closest to him: his wife, Clementine; their youngest daughter, Mary, who chafes against her parents' wartime protectiveness; their son, Randolph, and his beautiful, unhappy wife, Pamela; Pamela's illicit lover, a dashing American emissary; and the advisers in Churchill's "Secret Circle," to whom he turns in the hardest moments. The Splendid and the VIle takes readers out of today's political dysfunction and back to a time of true leadership, when - in the face of unrelenting horror - Churchill's eloquence, courage, and perseverance bound a country, and family, together." - from the inner front jacket flap.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Bachman, Barbara (book design); Abbate, Lauren (production manager); Tierney, Jim (jacket design); (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new condition black boards with silver spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Note on Names and Romanization; Prologue: The Center of a World; Epilogue: Ghosts of Old Shanghai; Acknowledgments; Appendix: Shanghai Race Club Champions' Stakes: 1869-1942; Notes; Bibliography; Illustration Credits and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. "More captivating than a day at the races, James Carter offers a sweeping ride through Shanghai's tumultuous history.Every visitor to the city should read this book to know whose footsteps came before in People's Square." - Helen Zia, author of Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution. "Champions Day is the work of a seasoned China specialist in top form, delivering engrossing stories, engaging arguments, and enticing details - a cultural history trifecta." - Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, author of Global Shanghai 1850-2010. "Could it really be possible to encapsulate the nuanced story of old Shanghai in one day? James Carter proves it can and, through the lens of Champions Day, 1941, at the Shanghai Race Club, reveals the myriad histories of this controversial and problematic century-long urban experiment in East-West fusion." - Paul French, bestselling author. "James Carter's account of Shanghai is a gripping tale.To understand the origins of some of the tensions and clashes between China and the West in the present day, this account is essential." - Rana Mitter, author of Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945. "How a Single Day Revealed the History and Foreshadowed the Future of Shanghai. It is November 12, 1941, and the world is at war. In Shanghai, just weeks before Pearl Harbor, thousands celebrate the birthday of China's founding father, Sun Yat-sen, in a new city center built to challenge European imperialism. Across town, crowds of Shanghai residents from all walks of life attend the funeral of China's wealthiest woman, the Chinese-French widow of a Baghdadi Jewish businessman - her death symbolic of the passing of a generation that had seen Shanghai's rise to global prominence. But it is the racetrack that attracts the largest crowd of all. At the center of the International Settlement, the heart of Western colonization - but also of Chinese progressivism, art, commerce, cosmopolitanism, and celebrity - Champions Day unfolds, drawing tens of thousands of Chinese spectators and Europeans alike to bet on the horses. In a sharp and lively snapshot of the day's events, James Carter recaptures the complex history of Old Shanghai. Champions Day is a kaleidoscopic portrait of city poised for revolution." - from the inner front jacket flap.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Bachman, Barbara M. (book design); Kochman, Anna (jacket design); O'Brien, Tim (jacket illustration; Subin, Nina (author photograph) (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new condition blue boards, black spine and copper spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Erik Larson; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes by Abraham Lincoln etc.; Dark Magic (A Note To Readers); Sources and Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Notes; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with black-and-white map. "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile plunges us into the simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two. On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the flunky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passion of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln's election and the Confederacy's shelling of Sumter - a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Lincoln himself wrote that the trilas of these five months were "so great that, could I have anticipated them, I would not have believed it possible to survive them." At the heart of this suspense-filled narrative are Major Robert Anderson, Sumter's commander and a former slave owner sympathetic to the South but loyal to the Union; Edmund Ruffin, a vain and bloodthirsty radical who stirs secessionist ardor at every opportunity; and Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of a prominent planter, conflicted over both marriage and slavery and seeing parallels between them. In the middle of it all is the overwhelmed Lincoln, battling with his duplicitous secretary of state, William Seward, as he tries desperately to avert a war that he fears is inevitable - one that will eventually kill 750,000 Americans. Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers, and plantation records, Larson gives us a political horror story that captures the forces that led America to the brink - a dark reminder that we often don't see a cataclysm coming until it's too late." - from the inner front jacket flap.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Bachman, Barbara M. (book design); Allen, Victoria (jacket design); Archives Nationales de France, Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt (jacket images); Smith, Tamzin B. (author photographs) (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new condition black boards, gold spine and gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Lynne Olson; Author Dedication; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Photo Credits; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, black-and-white photographic frontispiece and preliminary page map. "Empress of the Nile is an exhilarating in-depth look at a woman whose courage never faltered, whether she was facing Nazi interrogators, back-stabbing archaeologist colleagues, or the imminent destruction of the Egyptian monuments and artifacts she held most dear. Lynne Olson's richly detailed, heart-stopping biography takes the reader on a magnificent ride." - Fiona Davis, author. "The remarkable story of the intrepid French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Aswan Dam, by New York Times bestselling author of Madame Fourcade's Secret War. In the 1960s, the world's attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time: Fifty countries contributed nearly a billion dollars to save a dozen ancient Egyptian temples, built during the height of the pharaohs' rule, from drowning in the floodwaters of the massive new Aswan High Dam. But the extensive press coverage at the time overlooked the daring French archaeologist who made it all happen. Without the intervention of Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt, the temples would now be at the bottom of a vast reservoir. Their rescue was an unimaginably large and complex project requiring that the fragile sandstone temples be dismantled, stone by stone, and rebuilt on higher ground. A willful real-life version of Indiana Jones, Desroches-Noblecourt refused to be cowed by anyone or anything. During World War II she joined the French Resistance and was held by the Nazis; in her fight to save the temples she challenged two of the postwar world's most daunting leaders, Egypt's President Nasser and France's President de Gaulle. As she told a reporter, "You don't get anywhere without a fight, you know." Yet Desroches-Noblecourt was not the only woman who played an essential role in the historic endeavor. The other was Jacqueline Kennedy, who persuaded her husband to call on Congress to help fund the rescue effort. After years of Western plunder of Egypt's ancient monuments, Desroches-Noblecourt did the opposite. She helped preserve a crucial part of Egypt's cultural heritage, and made sure it remained in its homeland." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. ".[the book] is a tonic for our times and a reminder that one unstoppable woman can bend history to her will." - Kati Marton, author. "Chrisiane Desroches-Noblecourt was one of the leading Egyptologists of the twentieth century, yet her remarkable achievements have received little attention. Lynne Olson has done her justice with this comprehensive biography." - Toby Wilkinson, author. "Empress of the Nile is the best sort of micro-history: both an intimate portrait of a groundbreaking woman and a whirlwind tour through major events and personalities of the twentieth century." - Lauren Willig, author. "Lynne Olson had found yet another fascinating unsung heroine: a French archaeologist with the moxie to take on the Egyptians, The Americans, and the French to save historic Egyptian temples." - Meryl Gordon, author. "A well-documented and sensitive portrait of a remarkable woman who shared her passion for Egypt and inspired so many others, myself included, to find their calling, while at the same time helping to reinvigorate the Louvre." - Henri Loyrette, honorary president and director of the Louvre Museum.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Bachman, Barbara M. (book design); Sainsbury, Jonathan (jacket design); Durand, A.B. (jacket engraving - source painting by T. Sully) (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new condition black boards, black spine with gold spine lettering, and gold front cover Liveright Publishing "100 Years" decoration contained in an as new condition non price-clipped illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by William J. Cooper; Author Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes; Illustration Credits; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with black-and-white plate drawings plus black-and-white engraved frontispiece of John Quincy Adams. "Why has John Quincy Adams been largely written out of American history when he is, in fact, our lost Founding Father? Long relegated to the sidelnies of history as the hyperintellectual son of John and Abigail Adams, John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) has never basked in the historical spotlight. Remembered, if at all, as an ineffective president during an especially rancorous time, Adams was humiliated in office after the contested election of 1824, viciously assailed by populist opponents for being both slippery and effete, and then resoundingly defeated by the western war hero Andrew Jackson, whose 1828 election ushered in an era of unparalleled expansion. Aware of this reputation yet convinced that Adams deserves a reconsideration, award-winning historian William J. Cooper has refraned the sixth president's life in an entirely original way, demonstrating that Adams should be considered our lost Founding Father, his morality and political philosophy the final link to the great visionaries who created our nation. As Cooper demonstrates, no one else in his generation - not Clay, Webster, Calhoun, or Jackson - ever experienced Europe as young Adams did, who at fourteen translated from French at the court of Catherine the Great. In fact, Adams's very exposure to the ideas of the European Enlightenment that had so influenced the Founding Fathers, including their embrace of reason, were hardly shared by his contemporaries, particularly those who could not countenance slaves as equal human beings. Such differences, as Cooper narrates, became particularly significant after Adams's failed presidency, when he, along with his increasingly reclusive wife, Louisa Catherine Adams, returned to Washington as a Massachusetts congressman in 1831. With his implacable foe Andrew Jackson in the White House, Adams passionately took up the antislavery cause. Despite raucous opposition from southern and northern politicians, Adams refused to relent, his protests so vehement that Congress enacted the gag rule in the 1830s specifically to silence him. With his impassioned public pronouncements and his heroic arguments in the Amistad trial, a defiant Adams was no longer viewed as a failed president but as a national, albeit curmudgeonly, hero, who finally collapsed on the floor of the House chamber in 1848 and died in the capital three days later. Ironically, Adams's death and the extraordinary obsequies produced an outpouring of national, and bipartisan, grief never before seen in the nineteenth century, as if the country had truly lost its last Founding Father. Now, in another fractious age, the courageous life of John Quincy Adams suddenly takes on renewed vigor and meaning, as Cooper's momentous biography so eloquently affirms." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; 303 pp. : illustrated ; 25 cm. ; ISBN: 0688087175 ; LCCN: 90-13473 ; OCLC: 22310692 ; sea green and red cloth with gold lettering, in pictorial dustjacket ; "This is a story about tracking--and sidetracking. It began in 1973, when I decided to edit the letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to better understand that author, who at nineteen wrote the novel Frankenstein.two men who appeared toward the end of the volume, David Lyndsay, a writer, and Walter Sholto Dougla s, the husband of Mary Shelley's dear friend Isabella Robinson Douglas.Buried in the letters referring to Lyndsay and Douglas was a tale of its own." [David Lyndsay and Walter Sholto Douglas were the same person, and despite historical and legal evidence to the contrary, that person was a woman]-- from the introduction and dustjacket. ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. HBDJ, 1st edition, 2nd Printing,1990 , PC, Red Boards with black Cloth Spine Lettered in Gold Gilt, Interior Nice, tight Clean, F-/F-, DJ light Rub, Wear, 416 pgs , Index.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Barbara M. Bachman (Jacket Design); E.K. Waller (Jacket Photo & Author Photo); Richard Oriolo (Design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. 419 pp. Stated first edition and third printing! Over-sized and/or over weight book; extra postage required. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur an additional shipping charge. Nearly flawless copy and dust jacket with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Book's pages slightly warped cover to cover.