Search Results: Military and Defense from Books of the World

Nwe York: Pantheon, March 2006. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxxii + 603 pages.

New York: Simon & Schuster, May 1991. Hardcover. Quarter-bound in navy blue linen with gilt lettering to spine and purple paper sides. First Edition / full number line. Very Good book in a Fine jacket. Text pristine. Spine straight and tight, tail lightly bumped. Foxing to closed edges. Jacket slightly rubbed. No ownership marks. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 399 pages.

New York: William Morrow, November 2012. Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Very Good. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. 1/3 inch tear at top of front hinge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 344 pages + 18 page reader's guide.

Cambridge: MIT Press, March 1966. Hardcover. Very Good book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Binding square and tight. Jacket price clipped and with light shelfwear including small tears at all corners. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 252 pages.

New York: St. Martin's Press, November 1997. Mass Market Paperback. Second printing per number line. Very Good. Interior unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Seems unread. Light shelf wear to cover. Dust stains to top edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 235 pages. First published in hardcover in 1995 as Codename Mule by the Naval Institute Press.

New York: Walker & Company, November 2006. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 356 pages. Before Hiroshima, there was Halifax. In 1917 the busy Canadian port was crowded with ships leaving for war-torn Europe. On December 6, two of them, the Mont Blanc and the Imo, collided in the hard-to-navigate Narrows of the harbor. Within minutes, the Mont Blanc, ablaze, grounded against the city's docks. The explosion that followed would devastate the city and shock the world. Set against the background of World War I, Curse of the Narrows is the first major account of the world's largest pre-atomic explosion and the remarkable relief effort that followed.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean. Slight rubbing and corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. x + 349 pages. Now in paperback, here is the stunning true tale of a remarkable woman trained as an elite soldier in the Chinese army, her forbidden love for an American, and her seemingly impossible escape--with his help--from the nation to which she had pledged her life. An astonishing testament to the enduring resilience of love and the human spirit in the face of even the most oppressive, hopeless conditions, Daughter of China offers a compelling look at life inside the rigid walls of Communist China, revealing in fascinating detail Meihong Xu's inculcation into the system--a process so effective that she would willingly betray a friend or family member to prove her loyalty. Written with clear-eyed candor and stark eloquence, Daughter of China is… Read More

New York: Dunellen Company. 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Price notations on endpages. Text unmarked. Spine square and tight. Stains to closed edges. Jacket clipped with edgewear, chipping at spine ends, and considerable rubbing. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 172 pages.Contents: 1. Decisions by Calculation or by Feeling?; 2. Obligation,Education, and Dissent; 3. The Tyranny of Principles; Guidelines for the Polity; 4. Loyalty and Dissent; 5. Perspectives on Self-Determination, Intervention, and Force; 6. Perspectives on Bargaining with Communists and Arms Races; 7. The American Role in the World; 8. Freedom in History and in Politics

New York: Random House, April 2015. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light reading wear to covers. Not from a library. No remainder marks. xx + 343 pages. The remarkable story of Billy Williams, whose uncanny rapport with the world's largest land animals transformed him from a carefree young man into the charismatic war hero known as Elephant Bill. In 1920, Billy Williams came to colonial Burma as a "forest man" for a British teak company. Mesmerized by the intelligence and character of the great animals who hauled logs through the jungle, he became a gifted "elephant wallah." In Elephant Company, Vicki Constantine Croke chronicles Williams's growing love for elephants as the animals provide him lessons in courage, trust, and gratitude. Elephant Company is also a tale of war and daring. When Japanese forces invaded Burma in 1942, Williams joined the elite British Force 136 and operated behind enemy lines. His war elephants carried supplies, helped… Read More

October 1978. New Dell Edition. Second printing, September 1979. Very Good. Interior unmarked but lightly tanned. Spine straight and tight with a light crease. Edgewear. Dog-ear crease to lower rear corner. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 285 pages. Something has gone wrong. A group of American bombers armed with nuclear weapons is streaking past the fail-safe point, beyond recall, and no one knows why. Their destination -- Moscow. In a bomb shelter beneath the White House, the calm young president turns to his Russian translator and says, "I think we are ready to talk to Premier Kruschchev." Not far away, in the War Room at the Pentagon, the Secretary of Defense and his aides watch with growing anxiety as the luminous blips crawl across a huge screen map. High over the Bering Strait in a large Vindicator bomber, a colonel stares in disbelief at the attack code number on his fail-safe box and wonders if it could possibly be a mistake. First published in 1962, when America was still reeling… Read More

Portsmouth, New Hampshire: The International African In. Trade Paperbac. 1996. First Edition. Very Good+. The International African Institute, 1996. Trade Paperback. First Edition ( full number line). Very Good+. Prior owner's name to first page, otherwise Fine. Text unmarked. Very slight reading/shelf wear. Not from a library. xx x + 182 pages. Examines the civil war in Sierra Leone as a crisis of modernity. Do small wars in Africa manifest a new barbarism? What appears as random, anarchic violence is no such thing. The terrifying military methods of of Sierra Leone's soldiers may not fir conventional western models of warfare,but they are rational and effective nonetheless. The war must be understood partly as a 'performance', in which techniques of terror compensate for lack of equipment. .

New York: Crown, July 1985. Hardcover. First English Language Edition / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Original seller's price stamp to FFEP, otherwise interior unmarked. Binding square and tight. Rubbing to jacket. Dust stains to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 233 pages.

New York: Bantam, June 1994. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, tail lightly bumped. Light edgewear and rubbing to jacket. No tears, creases, or folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 544 pages.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, February 2023. Hardcover. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Unmarked. Spine straight and tight, top edge slightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright, slight wear to top edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xvi + 473 pages.
This is the story of the next great power rivalry: the struggle to control artificial intelligence. An NPR 2023 "Books We Love" Pick and one of the Next Big Idea Club's Must-Read Books. A new industrial revolution has begun. Like electricity before it, artificial intelligence will touch every aspect of our lives, and cause profound disruptions in the balance of global power, especially among the AI superpowers: China, the United States, and Europe. Four Battlegrounds argues that four key elements define this struggle: data, computing power, talent, and institutions. Data is a vital resource like coal or oil, but it must be collected and refined. Advanced computer chips are the essence of computing power; control over chip supply chains… Read More

Cambridge: MIT Press, January 1974. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Interior unmarked other than original bookstore price stamp on half-title page. Binding square and tight. Scuffing and shelfware to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 392 pages. No sector of a superpower's defense system is quite so invulnerable against a preemptive attack as its fleet of highly mobile, deep-diving, long-ranging missile-bearing submarines. These make possible a second-strike capability that acts as a forceful deterrent against aggression. But this situation could become unbalanced through the development of effective techniques of strategic antisubmarine warfare (ASW). The objective of this book is to ascertain whether extending arms control to cover ASW weapons systems would measurably improve the calculated confidence that defense analysts place in the long-term viability of the missile submarine deterrent.

New York: Pantheon, October 1982. Trade Paperback. Revised and Updated Edition. Second printing. Near Fine. Tanned pages, otherwise As New. Unmarked inside and out. Binding square and tight. Corners sharp. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 433 pages.

Chantilly, Virginia: The Teaching Company, 2001. Audio CDs. 2nd Edition. Twelve 30-minute lectures on six Fine Audio CDs in Fine original case along with an As New paperback Course Guidebook (58 pages). No shrinkwrap, otherwise As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. Suitable for gifting.These twelve lectures are designed to answer two questions that have nagged generations ever since Hitler and Nazism were destroyed: How could a man like Adolf Hitler and a movement like Nazism come to power in 20th-century Germany, an industrially developed country with a highly educated population? How were the Nazis able to establish the foundations of a totalitarian regime in such a short time and hurl the whole world into a devastating war that would consume millions of lives? As you travel back in time to answer these questions, you'll gain fascinating (and sometimes troubling) insights into the historical nightmare sparked by Hitler and his beliefs. You'll discover who voted for the Nazis and why;… Read More

New York: HarperCollins, July 1993. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine book in a Very Good cover. Interior lightly tanned, but unmarked. Spine straight and tight, ends lightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright with light edgewear and half-inch tear to lower rear hinge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 381 pages.

New York: Random House, December 1994. Hardcover. First Edition / sixth printing. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Cover clean and bright. Very slight edgewear. No tears. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 300 pages.

New York: St. Martin's Press / Thomas . Hardcover. 2002. First U.S. Edi. Fine. New York: St. Martin's Press / Thomas Dunne Books, August 2002. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition (stated) / full number line. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, tail lightly bumped. Jacket c lean and bright with slight edgewear at spine. Not from a library. No remai nder mark. Not clipped. 308 pages. In 1998, acclaimed photojournalist Teun Voeten headed to Sierra Leone for what he thought would be a standard assignment on the child soldiers there. But the cease-fire ended just as he arrived, and the clash between the military junta and the West African peace-keeping troops forced him to hide in the bush from rebels who were intent on killing him. This is a dramatic account of the conflict--and how Voeten nearly became a casualty of it. Accessible and conversational, it's a look into the dangerous diamond trade that fuels the conflict, the legacy of war practices such as… Read More