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

Boston: Little, Brown, 1984. Trade Paperback. Third Edition. Good+. Prior owner's name to front page. Some underlining. Spine straight with light creases. Dust stains to top edge. Edgewear to cover. Not from a library. 400 pages.

London: New Burlington Books, September 1995. Hardcover. Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Jacket spine faded, otherwise clean and bright. No tears, creases, or folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 128 pages. 100 recipes. Color illustrations.

New York: Simon & Schuster, September 1993. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Unmarked. Lightly tanned. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers lightly rubbed. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 380 pages. Why did the stock market crash more than 500 points on a single Monday in 1987? Why do ancient species often remain stable in the fossil record for millions of years and then suddenly disappear? In a world where nice guys often finish last, why do humans value trust and cooperation? At first glance these questions don't appear to have anything in common, but in fact every one of these statements refers to a complex system. The science of complexity studies how single elements, such as a species or a stock, spontaneously organize into complicated structures like ecosystems and economies; stars become galaxies, and snowflakes avalanches almost as if these systems were obeying a hidden yearning for order.

Scarsdale, New York: UPD Publishing. Digest-size Magazine. Very Good. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Interior pristine, though slightly tanned. Half-inch tear at top front hinge. Light rubbing, label ghost and creasing to front cover. No mailing label. Not from a library. 160 pages.
Edited by John J. Pierce. Cover art by Richard Olson illustrating To Go Not Gently (novella) by Syd Logsdon. ALSO: Hung Jury (short story) by R. Michael Tompkins; Star Warring (short story) by Mike Ravine; The Stars in Shroud (serial, part 2 of 3) by Gregory Benford; Henry the Spaceship (short story) by Paul Walker. Interior artwork by Stephen Fabian, G. Fox, Cecilia Cosentini, Olson, Jim Mueller.

New York: Condé Nast Publications. July 1970. Digest-size Magazine. Very Good+. Edited by John W. Campbell. Cover art by Leo Summers illustrating "Per Stratagem" (novelette) by Robert Chilson. Includes "Star Light" [Mesklin] (serial, part 2 of 4, nominated for the Hugo and Locus Awards) by Hal Clement; "Beau Farcson Regrets" by Jack Wodhams; "Rare Events" by D. A. L. Hughes; "Ark IV" by Jackson Burrows; "Zero Resistance" (Science Fact) by W alter C. Walterscheid. "The Pot of Message" (editorial). Illustrated by Leo Summers and Kelly Freas.

New York: Condé Nast Publications, October 1971. Digest-size Magazines. Very Good. Half-inch tear on upper front hinge, else Near Fine. Interiors unmarked, but tanned. No mailing labels. 180 pages. Edited by John W. Campbell. Cover art by John Schoenherr for "Hierarchies" (serial, part 1 of 2) by John T. Phillifent. Includes "The Golden Halls of Hell" (novelette) by John Paul Henry; "Moon Spore" by G. I. Morrison; "The Crier of Crystal" [Conscience Interplanetary] by Joseph Green; "Mr. Winthrop Projects" by Tak Hallus [Stephen Robinett]; "Motion Day at the Courthouse" by Ted Thomas; "Supernove" (Science Fact) by Edward Walterscheid; "Antipollution Device" (editorial). Illustrated by Schoenherr, Kelly Freas, David Cook, and Leo Summers.

New York: Condé Nast Publications, December 1965. Digest-size Magazine. Very Good+. Edited by John W. Campbell. Cover art by Kelly Freas for "Beehive" aka "Dawnman Planet" (serial, part 1 of 2) by Mack Reynolds. Includes "Mission 'Red Clash '" (novelette) by Joe Poyer; "Warrior" (short story) by Gordon R. Dickson; "Countercommandment" (short story) by Patrick Meadows; "Heavy Elements" (science fact) by Edward C. Walterscheid; "Breakthrough in Psychology!" (editorial). Illustrated by Kelly Freas and Gray Morrow.

New York: Condé Nast Publications, November 1968. Digest-size Magazine. Near Fine. Edited by John W. Campbell. Cover art by Kelly Freas for "The Infinity Sense" (novelette) by Verge Foray (Howard L. Myers). Includes "The Rites of Man " (novelette) by John T. Phillifent; "Split Personality" (novelette, nominated for the 1970 Ditmar Award for the Best Australian Long-form Science Fiction) by Jack Wodhams; "The Ultimate Danger" (short story) by W. Macfarlane; "The Alien Enemy" (short story) by Michael Karageorge (Poul Anderson); "The Shots Felt 'Round the World" (science fact) by Edward C. Walterscheid; " Political Entropy" (editorial). Illustrated by Kelly Freas, Leo Summers.

South Royalton, Vermont: Steerforth Press, 1996. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition (stated). Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Slight reading wear to lower corner. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 436 pages. For a few years in the early 1960s the CIA seemed to be running a perfect covert war in Laos - quiet, inexpensive, just enough arms to help Meo (Hmong) tribesmen defend their home territory from the communist Pathet Lao. Then the big American war next door in Vietnam spilled across the border. How the perfect covert war ballooned into sorrow and disaster is the story Roger Warner tells in Shooting at the Moon, awarded the Cornelius Ryan Award for 1995's Best Book on Foreign Affairs by the Overseas Press Club. Warner describes his characters with a novelist's touch - soldiers and diplomats busy with war-making; CIA field officers from bareknuckle warriors to the quiet men pulling strings in the shadows; and above all the Meo as they realized… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster, August 1995. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Very Good+ book in a Very Good+ jacket. Unmarked. Spine straight, ends bumped. Jacket clipped. Not from a library. 416 pages. Republished as Shooting at the Moon.
Between 1960 and 1973, the U.S. waged war in Laos under the auspices of the CIA. Undeclared and unreported, it cost thousands of lives and contributed to the climate of deception that poisoned U.S. policy in Southeast Asia. Journalist Warner relies heavily on interviews with former CIA operatives and other American participants to reconstruct an operation characterized by idealism on the ground and by cynicism and misunderstanding at higher levels. Significant early successes against the Pathet Lao and their North Vietnamese allies were wasted, according to Warner, as the U.S. sacrificed its clients for the sake of the expanding war in Vietnam. Once that conflict ended, the Laotians were left to their fate?an abandonment in cold blood that Warner considers… Read More

Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, May 2011. First printing (stated) / full number line. Hardcover. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, tail lightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright with slight edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xii + 291 pages, 16 pages of plates.

New York: New American Library / Signet, February 1969. Mass Market Paperback. First Printing (stated). No ISBN. Signet Q3770, 95¢. Very Good+. Interior lightly tanned, but unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Light reading and shelfwear to covers, including light creases. No tears, no folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 143 pages.

New York: St. Martin's Press, August 2015. Trade Paperback. First Edition (stated) / full number line. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 231 pages.

Toronto: Key Porter Books, September 1995. Paperback. Very Good. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light dust stains to top edge. Publisher's sample label to cover. Not from a library. 90 pages. Color illustrations

New York: Us Weekly. Single Issue Magazine. 2013. As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not damaged. 72 pages.

Bangkok: Asia Books, October 1999. Trade Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xiii + 284 pages. 35 pages of plates, maps. This is the story of a country doctor from Louisiana involved in the war in Indochina. It is an anecdotal description of some of the events that occurred during the eleven years from June 1963 to July 1974 when the author, a physician, lived and worked in the Kingdom of Laos. It is a collection which is tied together by brief narrative sketches of his family and their daily lives. The book is a unique account of a tragic and little-known chapter of the "Secret" War in Laos, and of the wider conflict in Indochina as a whole.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright, dog-ear to rear cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xxxii + 434 pages.
Born into slavery in 1862, Ida B. Wells was an African American journalist, newspaper editor, and one of the foremost crusaders against black oppression. This engaging memoir tells of her private life as mother of a growing family as well as her public activities as teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight against attitudes and laws oppressing blacks. It is an illuminating narrative of a zealous, race-conscious, civic- and church-minded black woman reformer, whose life story is a significant chapter in the history of Negro-White relations.

Vientiane, Lao PDR: State Printing Enterprise, 1992. Paperback. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean with sun fading to front cover and spine. Not from a library. Not remainder mark. 176 pages.

Oakland, California: Compass American Guides, February 1998. Trade Paperback. Third Edition. Near Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Light corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 347 pages.

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