Pierce Malcolm (55 results)

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. Melchionda, Del (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. 205 pages, small 4to (about 10 1/4" tall), moderate edge wear, edges of covers faded, very good in edge worn, foxed dust jacket chipped at top and corners, now in protective Brodart cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 1st printing; dj w/lite wear; 673 clean, unmarked pages/index. b/w Illus (illustrator).

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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition. Melchionda, Del (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Good. First UK Edition. G : in good condition. Spine chipped and worn. 230mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). 64pp. British edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition; Second Printing. Tight bright unmarked book in dust jacket with moderate chipping and edgwear.; 205 pages. Illustrated by C. W. Jefferys (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition; Second Printing. Tight bright unmarked book in crisp DJ protected in mylar sleeve.; 205 pages. Illustrated by C. W. Jefferys (illustrator).

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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition. Melchionda, Del (illustrator).

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. BRITISH EDITION. Soft cover. BRITISH EDITION. 23x15.5cm. 64 pages. Cover price 9d. Spine is intact. Clean & flat. No tears. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref D136. Astounding Science Fiction magazine. July 1945. BRITISH Edition. Volume 4. Number 11. Includes: THE PIPER'S SON by Lewis Padgett.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Every dollar spent on salary is a dollar that could have funded growth. The solo founder realizes this too late. This book presents the contractor-first framework: a systematic approach to building a $500K+ revenue business using only freelancers, agencies, and automation. You will learn how to identify which tasks to keep internal, how to manage a remote team of contractors, and how to structure projects for maximum output without the overhead of payroll. Stop trading time for money. Start building a lean, scalable operation that works for you.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book examines how veiled tactics inside domestic security evolve when a covert war targets civil rights leaders on American soil, as exemplified by the FBI's COINTELPRO program, by analyzing the hidden mechanics of information flow, decision-making hierarchies, and incentive structures that govern secret domestic operations.The first mechanism explored is the surveillance and information-gathering apparatus, which relied on wiretapping, informants, and file-keeping to monitor activists and create a climate of paranoia. This system turned private communications into intelligence that could be used to discredit individuals, demonstrating how the collection of personal data alters the cost-benefit calculus of dissent and forces movements to adapt their internal security practices. The second mechanism concerns infiltration and disruption tactics, where agents joined organizations to sow internal conflict, spread rumors, and provoke violence, thereby weakening cohesion from within. These actions reveal how decision-making hierarchies within target groups are undermined when trust is deliberately eroded, shifting the incentive structure toward self-preservation rather than collective action. The third mechanism involves legal harassment and extralegal means, including frame-ups, blackmail, and assassinations, which extended the bureau's reach beyond conventional law enforcement. Such tactics show how incentive structures for state actors prioritize neutralization of perceived threats over adherence to legal norms, prompting targeted communities to reassess the risks of public organizing.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Two-thirds of Civil War deaths came from disease, not bullets. Camp diarrhea killed more men than Minie balls. Surgeons operated without anesthesia on tables made of fence planks, using saws meant for timber. The medical catastrophe of 1861-1865 was not a side effect of war-it was the war's central experience for most soldiers, and this book places that suffering at the narrative core rather than the margins.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The maps we know today were drawn in blood between 1914 and 1918. This book examines how the Great War didn't merely end with armistice-it destroyed four empires and created the nation-states that would define the twentieth century. The Habsburg, Ottoman, Russian, and German empires collapsed under the weight of industrial warfare, leaving a vacuum that nationalism and self-determination rushed to fill. Readers will trace how wartime alliances shifted into postwar animosities, how colonial troops fought for empires that would soon abandon them, and how the Treaty of Versailles planted the seeds of conflict for generations. This is not a battle-by-battle account but a study of power's disintegration and the fragile order that rose from the rubble. The reshaping of global order after 1918 remains the foundation of our current geopolitical landscape, from the Middle East's borders to Europe's unresolved tensions.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The gig economy is flooded, and your hobby is now a commodity. How do you stand out when everyone else is also selling candles, prints, or coaching This book maps the new landscape of micro-business, where authenticity is the only moat. You'll discover a framework for pricing, packaging, and positioning that honors your craft while paying your bills. No hype, no guilt-just a clear path from passion project to profitable venture. The market has changed; your strategy must too.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book examines how a sovereign state's intelligence apparatus systematically redefined the boundaries of human autonomy, not through aberrant individual conduct, but through institutionalized research frameworks that deliberately excluded informed consent as an operational variable across more than 80 institutions spanning universities, hospitals, prisons, and pharmaceutical companies between 1953 and 1973.Three systemic mechanisms illuminate the program's institutional logic. First, the front organization architecture, through which the CIA channeled funding to universities and psychiatric facilities without disclosing agency involvement, created a deliberate accountability gap between research execution and state authorization. This structure insulated the program from civilian oversight while embedding it within the credibility systems of legitimate science.Second, the export of experimental jurisdiction to Canada through psychiatrist Donald Ewen Cameron at McGill University's Allan Memorial Institute reveals how covert programs circumvent domestic legal constraints by relocating operations into allied jurisdictions where oversight frameworks were similarly absent. Cameron received CIA funding between 1957 and 1964, while the Canadian government independently contributed substantial financial support, demonstrating that institutional complicity extended beyond the originating agency.Third, CIA Director Richard Helms' 1973 order to destroy MKUltra documents illustrates how institutional self-preservation can function as a governance mechanism in itself. The deliberate destruction of evidentiary records was designed not only to conceal past conduct, but also to permanently obstruct future accountability.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Xx, 597 Pp. Red Cloth. First Printing, 1950. Light Usage. Signed By Kleinholz, Lochhead, Pierce, And Waterman. Ownership Signature Of A Pasadena Area Physician, A Specialist. Original Photographs Of A Removed Echinococcus Cyst, A Group Of Removed Systs, And Of A Young Boy With A Grotesquely Enlarge Testicle, Probably Also A Parasitic Cyst.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Artificial intelligence depends on far more than algorithms. Behind every breakthrough model stand enormous physical systems consuming electricity, rare materials, industrial cooling, and strategic semiconductor supplies. The modern AI race is therefore also a struggle over territory, infrastructure, and energy capacity.This account explores the geopolitical foundations of the global artificial intelligence industry. Semiconductor manufacturing became concentrated within a fragile international supply chain vulnerable to political conflict and economic disruption. Governments and corporations competed for access to advanced chips, while massive data centers reshaped regional energy consumption and environmental planning. AI development increasingly relied on infrastructure available only to the wealthiest states and firms.The book also examines how infrastructure concentration reinforced corporate dominance. Control over cloud computing networks and electricity-intensive processing facilities created barriers few competitors could overcome. As demand for machine learning expanded, energy systems and digital sovereignty became inseparable political questions.Artificial intelligence emerges here not as an invisible software revolution, but as an industrial transformation rooted in factories, cables, cooling systems, and geopolitical dependence.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Micromanagement rarely begins with bad intentions. Many managers step deeper into daily operations because they care about results, customer outcomes, and execution quality. Over time, however, oversight expands until every decision depends on leadership attention.This management book explores the hidden costs of excessive involvement and the organizational stress it creates. The challenge is not simply workload. It is the belief that leaders must personally influence every important outcome.The book analyzes how approval-heavy structures reduce initiative, delay execution, and increase managerial fatigue. It explores the relationship between trust, authority, and organizational resilience. When leaders become the center of every process, teams often lose confidence in their own judgment.Attention is also given to middle-management dynamics, where responsibility grows faster than authority. In these environments, managers frequently absorb operational pressure while simultaneously limiting team independence.Across Europe, organizations are adapting to distributed workforces, faster market shifts, and increasing operational complexity. Leaders who understand when to step back create stronger execution systems than leaders who attempt to remain involved in every decision. Sustainable performance depends less on control and more on organizational confidence.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - A life well lived, and yet the heart remains behind careful doors. You know yourself, your patterns, your needs. But letting someone truly in, after decades of self-sufficiency, feels like a risk you are not sure you can take. This is the paradox of the late bloomer: wise enough to know what you want, practiced enough to keep it hidden.This book does not push you to tear down the walls. It examines them with curiosity. Where did they come from What did they protect And what might happen if you left a small window open, just for a while It speaks to the exhaustion of being your own everything, and the quiet longing for someone to share the weight.It acknowledges the specific fears of starting later: the fear of being too set in your ways, the fear of repeating past mistakes, the fear that your life is too full or too quiet for another person. It offers no guarantees, only a gentle exploration of what it means to risk being seen, fully, at this stage of life.The careful distance you keep is not a failure. It is a sign of how much you already know about loss. But perhaps knowing loss also means knowing what is worth the risk.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Empires Dying, Nations Rising | What the survivors carried when silence [.] | Malcolm Pierce | Taschenbuch | Englisch | epubli | EAN 9783565589043 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Neopubli GmbH (Imprint: epubli), Köpenicker Str. 154a, 10997 Berlin, produktsicherheit[at]epubli[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Solo founder trap | How one-person businesses scale past half a million without [.] | Malcolm Pierce | Taschenbuch | Englisch | epubli | EAN 9783565551958 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Neopubli GmbH (Imprint: epubli), Köpenicker Str. 154a, 10997 Berlin, produktsicherheit[at]epubli[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. How the living carried the dead | Wounded soldiers and deserters in the Civil [.] | Malcolm Pierce | Taschenbuch | Englisch | epubli | EAN 9783565548330 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Neopubli GmbH (Imprint: epubli), Köpenicker Str. 154a, 10997 Berlin, produktsicherheit[at]epubli[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …