Search Results: Authors starting with G from DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books

Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A.: Univ Pr of Kansas, 1990. 282 pp. Photographs, maps, appendices, index. DJ has small tear at spine. Text clean.. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Crown Business, 2000. 384pp. recounts the development of modern business through the lives, times and ideas of the great thinkers - people such as Peter Drucker, W. Edwards Deming, Alfred Sloan, Abraham Maslow - who defined the art and science of business. The Capitalist Philosophers is an engaging introduction to the great core ideas of management, full of colourful stories and brilliant insights into why the business world is the way it is today. Andrea Gabor explores the ideas and personalities that have shaped not only twentieth century business, but that also have helped make the corporation a pivotal institution in society today, such as: McNamara's pioneering work in the use of quantitative methods to control the finances at Ford, techniques that, for better and for worse had such a great influence on American management following World War II. The book traces the development of both scientific and humanistic tradition from the beginning of the century and follows the battle of… Read More

New York: Orion Books, 1991. 277 pages/illus. Interior is very bright and clean with a color bookplate of Gabby in his P-47 attached to the front free endpaper signed by "Gabby" Gabreski. Clean. Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Club Ed.

New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.: Yale Univ Pr, 1931. 194pp/fold-out map. History of Long Island. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.: Brookings Inst Pr, 1996. 250p 17 tables and 22 figures. Contents: Introduction -- Measuring the militarized economy -- The logic of a hypermilitarized economy -- Perestroika and the defense industry -- The defense industry in the new Russia -- Responding to market rules -- Labor force adjustment -- Defense enterprises as "company towns" -- Regional legacy and prospects -- The future. Notes inside front cover. Text clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good+/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New Yok: Coward, McCann, 1940. 479 pp. Frontis photograph of author, illus. The author of children's classics "Millions of Cats", "The Funny Thing", and "Snippy and Snappy" and others. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Novato, California, U.S.A.: Presidio Pr, 2000. 267pp/illus. The decisive WWII campaign for possession of New Guinea. The Japanese plans to attack Australia: Macarthur's task was to defeat the Japanese at Buna. Usual markings otherwise clean. First Edition. Hard Coveer. Very Good+/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Novato, California, U.S.A.: Presidio Press, 1986. 278 pages/maps. The controversial conflict in command during the World War II invasion of Saipan. Marine Corps Lt. General Holland M. "Howlin Mad" Smith relieved his subordinate, Major General Ralph Smith, of command of the Army's 27th Infantry during the assault on Saipan. Clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Novato, California, U.S.A.: Presidio Press, 1986. 278 pages/maps. The controversial conflict in command during the World War II invasion of Saipan. Marine Corps Lt. General Holland M. "Howlin Mad" Smith relieved his subordinate, Major General Ralph Smith, of command of the Army's 27th Infantry during the assault on Saipan. Clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.: Univ of Illinois Pr, 1995. 345pp, 28 b/w photos, biblio, index. Galantin tells the story of the amazing evolution of the submarine, from the civil war era to today's nuclear submarines. From 1920, his first year at Annapolis, until 1970 when he retired, the author saw the US Navy evolve from a floating bureaucracy, to a force capable of projecting of US power on the high seas. Clean.. 1st Printing. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. 260pp/map. Presents an account of the US and UK's catastrophic involvement in Iraq. This book reveals how US policies have produced a nearly independent Kurdistan in the north, an Islamic state in the south, and insurgency in the centre, and an incipient Sunni-Shiite civil war. It argues that Iraq cannot be reconstructed as a single state. Previous owner name on ffep otherwise clean.. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin, 1971. 382pp. collection of essays on politics, economics, peace, human aspirations andhappiness, trade, diplomacy, the role of American Presidents within these spheres, the unfolding of modern American history, and various related issues and topics. Clean. 3rd Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambiage, MA: Harvard University, 1949. 373pp. . "The book contains a thorough discussion of Norwegian collective bargaining, including the methods and results of industry-wide bargaining.". Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Greenwood Pub Group, 1986. 389pp. Clean and unmarked. Previous owner name inside front cover.. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.: Univ of North Carolina Pr, 2003. 416pp/illus/map. Generally regarded as the most important of the Civil War campaigns conducted in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, that of 1864 lasted more than four months and claimed more than 25,000 casualties. This book contains eleven essays that aim to reexamine common assumptions about the campaign, its major figures, and its significance. Clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. Book contains 217 pages with a few illustrations. Light wear to edge of dj. The six essays in this volume testify to the enduring impact of the Civil War on our national consciousness. Covering subjects as diverse as tactics, the uses of autobiography, and the power of myth-making in the southern tradition, they illustrate the rewards of imaginative scholarship - even for the most intensely studied battle in America's history.. Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good++/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.: Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.: University of North Carolina Press, 1994, 1994. 217 pages with a few illustrations. The six essays in this volume testify to the enduring impact of the Civil War on our national consciousness. Covering subjects as diverse as tactics, the uses of autobiography, and the power of myth-making in the southern tradition, they illustrate the rewards of imaginative scholarship - even for the most intensely studied battle in America's history. Clean. Hard Cover/Boards. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Washington, DC, U.S.A.: Gallaudet University Press, 1983. 265 pages/photos. Tan pictorial cloth. Clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1989. 282pp/maps. Jonathan Bryan (1708-88) rose from the obscurity of the southern frontier to become one of colonial Georgia's richest, most powerful men. Clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1942. 58pp Gold colored dustjacket with maroon lettering and white snow goose on front cover. Clipped dustjacket in very good condition for its age; lightly rubbed along the edges; small tear on back cover; a little shelf worn. Green boards in very nice shape. Interior clean and tight. inscribed on ffep by someone signing as "the General" in 1942. A very nice vintage copy.. Later Printing. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.