Simon and schuster 2005 ny (21 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: As New. Paperback, Octavo, 278pp.

Soft cover. Condición: As New. 1st printing. Paperback, Octavo, 319pp.

Soft Cover. Condición: As New. Paperback, Octavo, 309pp.

Soft cover. Condición: Photos. As new. 1st printing. Paperback, Large octavo, 619pp.

Condición: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1st printing. Octavo, 311pp.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condición: Good+/Good+. First Edition. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. Good+/Good+. (2005). First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 4to., 399 pp., Shelfwear, page toning . Not Illustrated (ilustrador).

grey & black hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. 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, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. 2nd printing (#2 in # line). ix+368p. glossy b&w photo illustrations. source notes. bibliography. index. american history. biography. true crime. terrorism. assassination. ~ American Gunfight is the fast~paced, definitive, and breathtakingly suspenseful account of an extraordinary historical event~the attempted assassination of President Harry Truman in 1950 by two Puerto Rican Nationalists and the bloody shoot~out in the streets of Washington, D.C., that saved the president's life. Written by Pulitzer Prize~winner Stephen Hunter, the widely admired and bestselling novelist and author of such books as Havana, Hot Springs, and Dirty White Boys, and John Bainbridge, Jr., an experienced journalist and lawyer, American Gunfight is at once a groundbreaking work of meticulous historical research and the vivid and dramatically told story of an act of terrorism that almost succeeded. They have pieced together, at last, the story of the conspiracy that nearly doomed the president and how a few good men~ordinary guys who were willing to risk their lives in the line of duty~stopped it. It is a book about courage~on both sides~and about what politics and devotion to a cause can lead men to do, and about what actually happens, second by second, when a gunfight explodes. It begins on November 1, 1950, an unseasonably hot afternoon in the sleepy capital. At 2:00 P.M. in his temporary residence at Blair House, the president of the United States takes a nap. At 2:20 P.M., two men approach Blair House from different directions. Oscar Collazo, a respected metal polisher and family man, and Griselio Torresola, an unemployed salesman, don't look dangerous, not in their new suits and hats, not in their calm, purposeful demeanor, not in their slow, unexcited approach. What the three White House policemen and one Secret Service agent cannot guess is that under each man's coat is a 9mm German automatic pistol and in each head, a dream of assassin's glory. At point~blank range, Collazo and then Torresola draw and fire and move toward the president of the United States. Hunter and Bainbridge tell the story of that November day with narrative power and careful attention to detail. They are the first to report on the inner workings of this conspiracy; they examine the forces that led the perpetrators to conceive the plot. The authors also tell the story of the men themselves, from their youth and the worlds in which they grew up to the women they loved and who loved them to the moment the gunfire erupted. Their telling commemorates heroism~the quiet commitment to duty that in some moments of crisis sees some people through an ordeal, even at the expense of their lives.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. Royal octavo, hardcover, near fine in VG black pictorial dj. By the noted historian Goodwin who specialized in Lincoln studies and spent many years researching this book. Here she illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president. 916 pp. including index. Anyone who enjoyed the film "Lincoln" will love this book. Pictorial endpapers showing the white house in the 1860's.…

light grey hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. 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. first printing (#1 in # line). 249p. index. memoirs. american history. journalism. covert operations. biography. espionage. ~ In Washington, D.C., where little stays secret for long, the identity of Deep Throat~the mysterious source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal in 1972~ remained hidden for 33 years. Now, Woodward tells the story of his long, complex relationship with W. Mark Felt, the enigmatic former No. 2 man in the Federal Bureau of Investigation who helped end the presidency of Richard Nixon. The Secret Man chronicles the story in intimate detail, from Woodward's first, chance encounter with Felt in the Nixon White House, to their covert, middle~of~the~night meetings in an underground parking garage, to the aftermath of Watergate and decades beyond, until Felt finally stepped forward at age 91 to unmask himself as Deep Throat. The Secret Man reveals the struggles of a patriotic career FBI man, an admirer of J. Edgar Hoover, the Bureau's legendary director. After Hoover's death, Mark Felt found himself in the cross fire of one of Washington's historic contests, as Nixon and his men tried to dominate the Bureau and cover up the crimes of the administration. This book illuminates the ongoing clash between temporary political power and the permanent bureaucracy of government. Woodward explores Felt's conflicts and motives as he became Deep Throat, not only secretly confirming Woodward and Bernstein's findings from dozens of other sources, but giving a sense of the staggering sweep of Nixon's criminal abuses. In this volume, part memoir, part morality tale, part political and journalistic history, Woodward provides context and detail about The Washington Post's expose of Watergate. He examines his later, tense relationship with Felt, when the FBI man stood charged with authorizing FBI burglaries. (Not knowing Felt's secret role in the demise of his own presidency, Nixon testified at Felt's trial, and Ronald Reagan later pardoned him.) Woodward lays bare his own personal struggles as he tries to define his relationship, his obligations, and his gratitude to this extraordinary confidential source. The Secret Man is an intense, 33~year journey, providing a one~of~a~kind study of trust, deception, pressures, alliances, doubts and a lifetime of secrets. Woodward has spent more than three decades asking himself why Mark Felt became Deep Throat. Now the world can see what happened and why, bringing to a close one of the last chapters of Watergate.…

Cloth/Boards w/DJ. Condición: VG/VG. First Edition. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. VG/VG. (2005). First Edition. Cloth/Boards w/DJ. Sm 4to., 368 pp., shelfwear . Black & White Photographs (ilustrador).

offwhite & black hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. first edition. first printing ( # 1 in # line). decorative title pg. x+353p. 10 appendices. notes. references. index. physics. mathematics. philosophy. history of science. al khwarizmi. babylonian mathematics. gerolamo cardano. cubic equations. dal ferro. ludovico ferrari. geometry. group theory. felix klein. lobachevsky. newton. quantum mechanics. quintic equations. relativity. tartaglia. ~What do the music of J. S. Bach, the basic forces of nature, Rubik's Cube, and the selection of mates have in common? They are all characterized by certain symmetries. Symmetry is the concept that bridges the gap between science and art, between the world of theoretical physics and the everyday world we see around us. Yet the "language" of symmetry ~ group theory in mathematics ~ emerged from a most unlikely source: an equation that couldn't be solved. Over the millennia, mathematicians solved progressively more difficult algebraic equations until they came to what is known as the quintic equation. For several centuries it resisted solution, until two mathematical prodigies independently discovered that it could not be solved by the usual methods, thereby opening the door to group theory. These young geniuses, a Norwegian named Niels Henrik Abel and a Frenchman named Evariste Galois, both died tragically. Galois, in fact, spent the night before his fatal duel (at the age of twenty) scribbling another brief summary of his proof, at one point writing in the margin of his notebook "I have no time." The story of the equation that couldn't be solved is a story of brilliant mathematicians and a fascinating account of how mathematics illuminates a wide variety of disciplines. In this lively, engaging book, Mario Livio shows in an easily accessible way how group theory explains the symmetry and order of both the natural and the human~made worlds.…

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. large, thick black & brown hardbound 8vo. ~ 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. as new. 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. first printing (#1 in # line). illustrated endpapers. deckled foredge (looks "hand cut"). xix+916p+author bio note. 5 b&w maps & diagrams. b&w photo illustrations & drawings throughout. epilogue. acknowledgments. notes. illustration credits. index. world history. biography. american history. american civil war. politics. political philosophy. war between the stated. abraham lincoln. william seward. edwin stanton. edward bates. salmon chase. john bell. cassius clay. fremont. fennington. ~"Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one~term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president. On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. That Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin demonstrates, was the result of a character that had been forged by experiences that raised him above his more privileged and accomplished rivals, He won because he possessed an extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires. It was this capacity that enabled Lincoln as president to bring his disgruntled opponents together, create the most unusual cabinet in history, and marshal their talents to the task of preserving the Union and winning the war. We view the long, horrifying struggle from the vantage of the White House as Lincoln copes with incompetent generals, hostile congressmen, and his raucous cabinet. He overcomes these obstacles by winning the respect of his former competitors, and in the case of Seward, finds a loyal and crucial friend to see him through. This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history.".…

First edition with a 1 present in the number line; 4to.; glossy pictorial boards, hardcover; color illustrations; The two NFL players write about playing on the same team and the struggles that lead them to learn about teamwork.; a very good clean tight copy in a very good dust jacket.

1ST edition. Near Fine blue hardback in near fine dust jacket. ISBN 0-7432-8165-9. ISBN-13 : 978-07432-8165-2 . 351 pages. Black and white photos. University of Notre Dame football. The Fighting Irish . SPORTS. FOOTBALL. NOTRE DAME.

blue & blue hardbound 8vo. ~ 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in 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. first printing ( # 1 in # line). xii+302p. + author bio note. b&w map. glossy b&w photo illustrations. glossary. note on sources. acknowlegments. bibliography. index. world history. biography. african history. politics. genocide. war crimes. human rights violations. ~ The 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which more than 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu were massacred in just 100 days, was an unparalleled modern~day slaughter. How does a nation pick up the pieces after the killing has stopped? In a gripping narrative that examines the power of the press and sheds light on how the media turned tens of thousands of ordinary Rwandans inro murderers, award~winning author and journalist Dina Temple~Raston traces the rise and fall of three media executives ~Ferdinand Nahimana, Jean~Bosco Barayagwiza, and Hassan Ngeze. From crime to trial to verdict, Temple~Raston explores the many avenues of justice Rwanda pursued in the decade after the killing. Focusing on the media trial at rhe United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, she then drops down to the level of the hills, where ordinary Rwandans seek justice and retribution, and examines whether politics in the East African nation has set the stage for renewed violence. In the months leading up to the killing, two local media outlets, Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) and the tabloid newspaper Kangura, warned that a bloody confrontation was brewing. No one would be spared, they said. Observers said later that fearmongering from RTLM and Kangura played a key role in igniting the genocide, so much so that the three men behind the media outlets became the first journalists since Nuremberg to be tried in an international court for crimes against humanity. Drawing on extensive interviews with key players, Dina Temple~Raston brings to life a cast of remarkable characters: the egotistical newspaper editor Hassan Ngeze, hate radio cofounders, the intellectual Ferdinand Nahimana and the defiant legal scholar Jean~Bosco Barayagwiza; an American~led prosecution ream wary of a guilty verdict that might bring a broadly written judgment muzzling the press the world over; the bombastic American defense attorney John Floyd; heroic Damien Nzabakira, who risked his life to drive forty orphans to safety only to spend eight years in prison accused of their murder; and Bonaventure Ubalijoro, a Rwandan diplomat and politician who believed in miracles. An extraordinary feat of reporting and narrative, Justice on the Grass reveals a Rwanda few have seen. A searing and compasionate book, Justice On theGrass illustrates how, more than a decade later, a country and its people are still struggling to heal, to forgive, and to make sense of something that defies credibility and humanity. …

1st edition. 8vo. Prelims. + [387pp.] B/w. illustrations, maps. Very good in original boards and pictoiral black d/w. lettered in brown. ISBN 0743260090 US$12.

2nd impression. 8vo. xviii + [427pp.] B/w. illustrations, e.p.maps. Original boards. Pictorial d/w. with black s;ie lettered in orange, slightly rubbed to edges. ISBN 0743250079 US$13.

First edition. 64 pp. Fine in boards with inset cover image. Very near fine publisher's slipcase. Text by Robert Santelli. CD and inserts present.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 163 pages. Published in 2005. The author's second novel. Stanley Bennett Clay's finest achievement. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Stanley Bennett Clay's "In Search of Pretty Young Black Men". His erotic thriller. "An engaging novel that will have readers caught up from page one. Stanley Bennett Clay has a poetic way with words, and the erotic scenes are as steamy as they come. A lust-laced hallelujah" (Zane). Stanley Bennett Clay is best-known as a screenwriter and playwright. He adapted both "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" and "Looking For God" to enormous critical acclaim. His debut novel, "Diva", was a surprise bestseller. "In Search of Pretty Young Black Men" is his book on his adopted city, Los Angeles, where he has pretty much lived most of his writing life. It opens with a poignant quote from W. E. B. Dubois: "Los Angeles is wonderful. Nowhere in the United States is the Negro so well and beautifully housed nor the average efficiency and intelligence in the colored population so high. Out here, there would seem to be no limit to your opportunities, your possibilites" (W. E. B. Dubois). Clay depicts Los Angeles as few others have: He does not leave out any of the steamiest, sleaziest, and dirtiest details, and the all-consuming American Dream that has always driven them. Anyone who wants to understand the sex appeal of the Black Stud to white women, black women, and white men should read this "unputdownable" book. Anyone who simply wants a good read, ditto. An absolute "must-have" title for Stanley Bennett Clay collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Stanley Bennett Clay. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Bennett Clay's signature is one of the most elaborately beautiful we have ever seen. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 0743497155. Signed by Author. …

First edition with a 1 present in the number line; small 4to.; embossed cloth covered boards with illustrated endpapers, hardcover; 708 pages; color and black and white illustrations; color maps; very good clean, tight copy in a very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First printing. 8vo. xvii, 571 pp. Original binding. Illustrated with B & W photographs. SIGNED by Reeves on the title page. This is a tight, fine book in a bright, fine DJ. Signed by Author(s).