Search Results: Authors starting with K from Books of the World

Centax Books, 1990. Trade Paperback. Third Printing - October 1996. Very Good+. One greasy fingerprint to first page, otherwise unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Corners sharp. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 120 pages. Easy to prepare traditional favourities from many islands.

New York: Inside News Publications, 1997. Trade Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light rubbing to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not damaged. ix + 396 pages.

Berkeley: Nolo, September 2016. Paperback. Ninth Edition. As New/Fine. Unmarked. Slight corner wear, otherwise pristine inside and out. Not from a library. 420 pages.

Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, November 1975. Hardcover. First edition / full number line. Near Fine book / no jacket. Gray cloth over boards with title stamped in umber on spine. Interior pristine other than original bookseller's price-stamp on the half-title page. Binding square and tight. Not from a library. 361 pages. The first half of the book deals with the evolution of U.S. strategic policy. In the second half, the author sets out analytically the basic issues of the strategic debate, making a lucid case for alternative nuclear postures and policies.

New York: Macmillan, May 1982. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. First printing review copy laid-in with publisher's press release. Appears unmarked. Spine straight and tight, tail lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxx + 466 pages.
Examines how the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations manipulated the 1960-1963 Congo crises and countered Soviet influence on Lumumba, Tshombe, and Mobotu. The centerpiece of this almost day-to-day account of the 1960s Congo crisis is the U.S. effort to get rid of firebrand Patrice Lumumba, by "Fair Means or Foul"--as came to light in the hearings of the 1975 Select Committee on Intelligence Activities and was published in the Committee report. The "Congo cables" are some 2500 other, recently declassified documents--mostly State Department cables--which Kalb utilizes to fill out the story. What is interesting is her observation that the Congolese effort to dispose of Lumumba may have been stepped up… Read More

New York: Davis Publications. Digest-size Magazine. March 2, 1981. Very Good. Small bit of old sticker on bar code. Edited by Stanley Schmidt. Cover art by Paul Lehr for "Paradise Misplaced" (novelette) by Ian Stewart. Includes "We're Working on It" (novelette) by Robin Kincaid; "The Shroud" (short story, Locus nominee) by Michael McCollum; "Mustard Seed" (short story) by Jayge Carr; "Shuttle Down" (serial, part 4 of 4) by Lee Correy (G. Harry Stine); "And Now - Supergravity!" (science fact) by Margaret L. Silbar; "Nunc Dimittis" (The Alternate View) by Jerry Pournelle; "Who Is Killing the Space Program?" (guest editorial) by Stephen A. Kallis; "Biolog: Ian Stewart". Illustrated by Paul Lehr, Brad Hamann, Broeck Steadman, Wayne D. Barlowe, and Robert McMahon.

New York: St. Martin's Press, July 2009. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends slightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright with slight wear to top edge. No tears, creases, or folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 470 pages. Confidante of Nostradamus, scheming mother-in-law to Mary, Queen of Scots, and architect of the bloody St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, Catherine de Medici is one of the most maligned monarchs in history. Born into one of Florence's most powerful families, Catherine was soon left a fabulously rich heiress by the early deaths of her parents. Violent conflict rent the city state and she found herself imprisoned and threatened by her family's enemies before finally being released and married off to the handsome Prince Henry of France. Overshadowed by her husband's mistress, the gorgeous, conniving Diane de Poitiers, and unable to bear children, Catherine resorted to the dark… Read More

Freetown, Sierra Leone: Peace Corps Sierra Leone. Unbound Photocopy. No date, circa mid-1980s. No cover as issued. 66 pages. This is a recent photocopy of a 1980s document.

Guilford, Connecticut: GPP Travel, June 2010. Trade Paperback. First Edition / full number line. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light rubbing to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xvi + 184 pages. This is your guide to hundreds of exciting things to do, see, and discover within a short drive from Washington, D.C. With full trip-planning information and tips on where to eat, shop, and stop along the way, you can make the most of your time off and rediscover the simple pleasures of a day trip. Explore places you never knew existed, many free of charge, and most within a two-hour drive of America's capital.

Santo Domingo: Centro de Investigacion para la Accion Femenina (CIPAF), 1985. Trade Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean. Slight shelfwear. Not from a library. 139 pages. Spanish translation of International Feminism: Networking Against Female Sexual Slavery (Report of the Global Feminist Workshop to Organize Against Traffic in Women, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, April 6-15, 1983.

Boston: Mariner, November 2019. Trade Paperback. First Edition / full number line. New. Not damaged. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 214 pages. Why President Trump has left us with no choice but to remove him from office, as explained by celebrated Supreme Court lawyer and former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal.

No one is above the law. This belief is as American as freedom of speech and turkey on Thanksgiving—held sacred by Democrats and Republicans alike. But as celebrated Supreme Court lawyer and former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal argues in Impeach, if President Trump is not held accountable for repeatedly asking foreign powers to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, this could very well mark the end of our democracy. To quote President George Washington's Farewell Address: "Foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government." Impeachment should always be our last resort, explains Katyal, but our founders, our principles, and our… Read More

London: Penguin, December 1998. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Very Good+. Unmarked. Pages lightly tanned. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright, dog ear to lower front cover. Remainder mark. Not from a library. 464 pages. The second part of M.M. Kaye's biography covers her return to India after many years of a lonely, drab existence at school in Britain. It is a world of travel, of glorious trips down the Ganges, life on a house-boat on a lake in Kashmir, and visits to Indian palaces.

New York: Simon & Schuster, September 2006. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Unmarked. Spine curved but uncreased. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xx + 916 pages. Winner of the Lincoln Prize.
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. Offering fresh insights into Lincoln's leadership style and his deep understanding of human behavior and motivation Goodwin makes the case for Lincoln's political genius by examining his relationships with three men he selected for his cabinet, all of whom were opponents for the Republican nomination in 1860: William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, and Edward Bates. These men, all accomplished, nationally known, and presidential, originally disdained Lincoln for his backwoods upbringing and lack of experience, and were shocked and humiliated at losing to this relatively obscure Illinois lawyer. Yet Lincoln not only convinced them to join his… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster, October 1995. Trade Paperback. Fine. Unmarked. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Covers clean and bright with one-inch dog-ear to lower corner. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 759 pages, 32 pages of plates. Doris Kearns Goodwin's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it shaped the nation while steering it through the Great Depression and the outset of World War II. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story lines-Eleanor and Franklin's marriage and remarkable partnership, Eleanor's life as First Lady, and FDR's White House and its impact on America as well as on a world at war. Goodwin effectively melds these details and stories into an unforgettable and intimate portrait of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt and of the time during which a new, modern America was born.

New York: Simon & Schuster, November 2013. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. A Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Unmarked. Spine tail lightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiv + 910 pages.
A dynamic history of the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air. Focusing on the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and his successor, William Howard Taft--one-time colleagues and friends who later became sworn foes--Goodwin chronicles the birth of an activist press, which occurred when five of the nation's best-ever journalists converged at McClure's magazine and helped usher in the Progressive era.

New York: Condé Nast Publications. 1971. Digest-size Magazine. Near Fine. June 1971. Edited by John W. Campbell. Cover by Kelly Freas for "Glory Day" [Telzey Amberdon] (novelette) by James H. Schmitz. Includes "The Habitat Manager" (novelette) by S. Kye Boult [William E. Cochrane]; "The Swan Song of Dame Horse" by Ted Thomas; "With Friends Like These..." (short story) first story by Alan Dean Foster; "The Outposter" (serial, part 2 of 3) by Gordon R. Dickson; "Alpha-Wave Conditioning" (science fact) by K. C. Keefe; "Bargain Spacement" (editorial).

Mexico: Panorama, 1994. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not damaged. 136 pages.

New York: Warner, September 1997. Hardcover. First Printing (stated) / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Unmarked. Spine ends bumped. Jacket clean and bright with light edgewear. No tears. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xii + 547 pages. 32 pages of plates.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, April 1998. Trade Paperback. Second Edition. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Light corner wear. Remainder mark. Not from a library. xxxvi + 340 pages. maps.
This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World. Prior to 1680, Africa's economic and military strength enabled African elites to determine how trade with Europe developed. Thornton examines the dynamics that made slaves so necessary to European colonizers. He explains why African slaves were placed in significant roles. Estate structure and demography affected the capacity of slaves to form a self-sustaining society and behave as cultural actors. This second edition contains a new chapter on eighteenth century developments.

Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown and Company / An Atlantic Monthly Press Book, 1967. Book Club Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Corners and tail slightly bumped. Shelf and reading wear to jacket with chipping at spine ends and short tears at corners. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 583 pages.