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200057080Washington DC: U.S. Department of Energy 2000. First Edition. First Printing. good. 24 wraps color illus. map figure table acronyms some wear at spine transmittal letter laid in. This is the unclassified Executive Overview of the classified Department of Energy Fiscal Year 2001 Stockpile Stewardship Plan. The Stockpile Stewardship Plan is a corporate-level multi-year program plan that describes the strategy to ensure high confidence in the safety and reliability of the nuclear weapons stockpile. U.S. Department of Energy paperback
2023SKU1708778Independently Published 2023-12-19. paperback. Good. 8x2x10. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLY-NO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Tracking Independently Published paperback
2023SKU1713495Independently Published 2023-12-19. paperback. New. 8x2x10. New Book Ships with Tracking Independently Published paperback
201875547Washington DC: U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration and U. K. Ministry of Defence 2018. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Very good. 3 38 3 plus covers. Timeline. Illustrations many in color. Maps. The 1958 US-UK Mutual Defense Agreement or UK-US Mutual Defence Agreement is a bilateral treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom on nuclear weapons cooperation. The treaty's full name is Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for Cooperation on the uses of Atomic Energy for Mutual Defense Purposes. It allows the United States and the UK to exchange nuclear materials technology and information. While the US has nuclear cooperation agreements with other countries including France and some NATO countries this agreement is by far the most comprehensive. Harold Macmillan called it "the Great Prize". The treaty was signed on 3 July 1958 after the Soviet Union shocked the American public with the Sputnik crisis on 4 October 1957 and the British hydrogen bomb programme successfully tested a hydrogen bomb in the Operation Grapple test on 8 November 1957. The Anglo-American Special Relationship proved mutually beneficial although it was never one of equals; the United States was far larger than Britain both militarily and economically. Britain soon became dependent on the United States for its nuclear weapons as it lacked the resources to produce a range of designs. The treaty allowed American nuclear weapons to be supplied to Britain through Project E for the use by the Royal Air Force and British Army of the Rhine. The treaty provided for the sale to the UK of one complete nuclear submarine propulsion plant plus ten years' supply of enriched uranium to fuel it. Other nuclear material was also acquired from the United States under the treaty. including 7.5 tonnes of highly enriched uranium although much of the highly enriched uranium was used as fuel for the growing fleet of UK nuclear submarines. The treaty paved the way for the Polaris Sales Agreement and the Royal Navy ultimately acquired entire weapons systems with the UK Polaris programme and Trident nuclear programme using American missiles with British nuclear warheads. The treaty has been amended and renewed nine times. The most recent renewal extended it to 31 December 2024. U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration and U. K. Ministry of Defence paperback
2022x-1778268803stanfordpub.com 2022. Hardcover. New. 524 pages. 8.50x1.13x11.00 inches. stanfordpub.com hardcover
2022x-1778268811stanfordpub.com 2022. Paperback. New. 524 pages. 11.00x8.50x1.05 inches. stanfordpub.com paperback
197841418Washington DC: U.S. Department of Energy 1978. First Edition. First Printing. good. Approx. 600 wraps 4 vols. bound as 1 illus. diagrams covers somewhat worn and soiled rear cover scuffed and wrinkled. Report no. HCP/B60830-02. Volumes 1-4 produced as a single volume bound together. The Federal Energy Administration FEA has supported a series of studies to promote the efficient use of our nation's coal and uranium resources as part of the goal to achieve U.S. energy independence. The primary objective of this phase of the work as reported here was the development of improved techniques for gathering review and analysis of information on outages and other forms of lost electrical power generation. U.S. Department of Energy paperback
199624932Washington DC: U.S. Department of Commerce 1996. First Printing. very good. 28 cm approx. 250 wraps tables forms. U.S. Department of Commerce paperback
200652773Washington DC: U.S. Department of Energy 2006. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Wraps. very good. 21 pages. Wraps illus. some in color acronyms. Signed by NNSA Administrator Linton Brooks on page iii. DOE/NA-0014. U.S. Department of Energy paperback
20192-1089643381Independently published 2019. Paperback. New. 695 pages. 11.69x8.27x1.74 inches. Independently published paperback
200063238Washington DC: United States Department of Energy 2000. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some wear and soiling. xvi 20 2 2 p. Acronyms; Secretary of Energy Richardson summarized the results of a late 1999 review as "The principal finding of the review is that stockpile stewardship works both in terms of specific science surveillance and production accomplishments and in terms of developing a program management structure that integrates the span of program activities. United States Department of Energy paperback
1947211455Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1947. Hardcover. VG. Some toning to spine and bumping to board corners. Octavo. Hardcover. Bound in red cloth with gilt stamped titles and government seal. xviii 1010 pages. Historical reports on war administration / War Production Board ;; General study no. 1; Variation: Historical reports on war administration United States. War Production Board ;; General study no. 1.; Administrative histories of World War II civilian agencies of the federal government ;; reel 53. Government Printing Office hardcover
194742306Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1947. Presumed First Edition First printing. Hardcover. Fair. xviii 1010 pages. Volume 1 only only volume issued. Footnotes. Illustrations. Bibliography Index. Boards and spine worn and stained at bottom foxing inside boards & flyleaves. Ink name inside front flyleaf foxing and soiling to fore-edge. No further volumes were published. This volume was later reprinted by Greenwood Press. This was Historical Reports of War Administration War Production Board General Study No. 1. The War Production Board WPB was an agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt established it in January 1942 with Executive Order 9024. The WPB replaced the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board and the Office of Production Management. The WPB directed conversion of companies engaged in activities relevant to war from peacetime work to war needs allocated scarce materials established priorities in the distribution of materials and services and prohibited nonessential production. It rationed such commodities as gasoline heating oil metals rubber paper and plastics. It was dissolved shortly after the defeat of Japan in 1945 and was replaced by the Civilian Production Administration in late 1945. In 1942-1945 WPB supervised the production of $183 billion equivalent to $2.12 trillion in 2020 worth of weapons and supplies about 40 percent of the world output of munitions. The UK the USSR and other allies produced an additional 30 percent while the Axis produced only 30 percent. One fourth of the US output was warplanes; one fourth was warships. Meanwhile the civilian standard of living was about level. The WPB and the nation's factories effected a great turnaround. Military aircraft production which totaled 6000 in 1940 jumped to 85000 in 1943. Factories that made silk ribbons now produced parachutes automobile factories built tanks typewriter companies converted to rifles undergarment manufacturers sewed mosquito netting and a rollercoaster manufacturer converted to the production of bomber repair platforms. The WPB ensured that each factory received the materials it needed to produce the most war goods in the shortest time. Executive Order 9638 created the Civilian Production Administration and terminated the War Production Board on October 4 1945. The Civilian Production Board was consolidated with other agencies to form the Office of Temporary Controls—an agency in the Office for Emergency Management of the executive office of the president. The latter had previously been established pursuant to the Reorganization Act of 1939. The executive order provided a Temporary Controls Administrator appointed by the president to head the Office of Temporary Controls and vested in him among other things the functions of the Price Administrator. U. S. Government Printing Office hardcover
1902850B73Austria : Upper Austrian Finance Administration 1902. Leather. Fine. 22" by 16". Eduard Lorenzo . A stunningly bound and very scarce retirement gift book. A stunning German retirement gift to a 'your excellency' the former President of the Upper Austrian Finance Administration from the other officials of the organisation. With four pages detailing the companies gratitude and well wishes for retirement a page of signatures from the officials all in cursive German script. The gift has been dated 1902 and illustrated by Edvard Lorenzo. In a clam shell case and in crushed morocco binding with extended embossed detail with metal and gem inlays.Bound by C Wumro in Urfahr a district of Linz in Upper Austria. With two sheets that have deciphered the cursive script of the first page in both English and German. In a clam shell case and in crushed morocco binding with extended embossed detail with metal and gem inlays. Externally excellent. Internally the first two pages are loose the rest are bound. Pages remain bright and clean. There are tears to the interior of the clam shell case where the metal inlays have been otherwise it is in very good condition with a few marks to the boards. Fine Upper Austrian Finance Administration hardcover
1850#425<p>8vo. 215 x 160 mm. 8 ½ x 6 ¼ inches. 306 leaves chapters separated by blanks. 19th century leather backed marbled paper boards; inner hinge cracked edges bumped some abrasion to the head of the spine; sound.</p><p>Beautifully written manuscript volume containing an extensive discussion of library management and practices written by an anonymous Spanish author in the middle of the 19th century. </p><p>This dissertation organized in 70 chapters begins with a discussion of the library profession and its importance to civil society. His first chapters describe the "Archive" with reference to Spanish monastic governmental and diplomatic collections that have been preserved. He focuses his attention on Aragon Mallorca Navarra and Santiago. He turns to France to furnish some interested information on the archives in Paris before getting into the chapters on classification of materials and the creation of inventories.</p><p>After nearly 200 leaves of text on the subject of archives the authors turns his attention to libraries. From the beginning he takes a historical approach focusing his attention on both books and manuscripts mentioning the collections at Cambridge University. Paleography is a subject he spends some time describing and then he moves into the history of printing typography Gutenberg and the spread of printing to Spain. The final dozen chapters are devoted to the rules for managing a library lessons in classification and inventory control. He quotes from both DeBure and Brunet in his lessons on cataloguing.</p>A rather remarkable piece of work thought to be unpublished. An examination of both United States and Spanish national collections turned up no reference to this anonymous piece of library scholarship.
23672OXFORD. 14 ISSUES FROM THE 1980s. VERY GOOD IN ORIGINAL CARD COVERS EACH HAVING APPROXIMATELY 90-100 PAGES. SOLD AS A LOT. OXFORD unknown
1915006867Unknown 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Nice Copy. No writing other than the owners name. Full refund if not satisfied. Unknown hardcover
1884022691New York : Barker & Godwin 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -. Half leather maroon cloth hubbed spine gold gilt spine lettering all page edges gilt xix 368pp. gift inscription on first free end-paper hinges split but strong bottom corners worn marbled end-papers This is the fraternity of William Brennan Paul Ryan Ramsey Clark Bill Richardson Scott Carpenter Winston Groom Roger Mudd John D. MacDonald Joseph Campbell Richard North Patterson Alexander Calder Drew Carey Will Ferrell Matthew McConaughey Jim Nabors John Denver John Elway Branch Rickey George Sisler and Todd Martin. Full refund if not satisfied. Barker & Godwin hardcover
1907035404Cambridge: The University Press 1907. Paperback. Very Good. Original paper wraps slightly torn around the edges. Small tear at head of spine. 65pp. Full refund if not satisfied. The University Press paperback
1979030933Reno Nevada: University of Nevada Reno 1979. This is the original 1978-1979 edition of the UNR yearbook -- NOT a modern reprint or print-on-demand version. Very Good condition. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. The pages are crisp clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Lavishly iIllustrated with photos -- many in beautiful full color. Includes lists of students who lived in various places -- Juniper Hall Lincoln Hall Nye Hall White Pine Hall Manzanita Hall plus those in fraternities and sororities. Features a roster of the UNR Wolfpack football team with details on their 11-0 season. Also covered are events such as concerts by the Marshall Tucker Band Hall and Oates Jethro Tull Rush Journey Uriah Heep etc. Has member lists and photos of other sport teams organizations clubs and more. Bound in the original silver-stamped blue leatherette. Oversize Hardcover. 9" wide by 12.25" tall. This large heavy book may require SUBSTANTIAL extra postage for International shipments but only the standard charge for priority or media mail. First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket as issued. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 272pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. University of Nevada, Reno Hardcover
1978030935Reno Nevada: Associated Students University of Nevada Reno 1978. This is the original 1978 edition of the UNR yearbook -- NOT a modern reprint or print-on-demand version. Fine condition. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. The pages are crisp clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Lavishly iIllustrated with photos -- many in beautiful full color. Featured are photos of and the story of Clayton Valli -- the first deaf student to graduate from the University. Laid in is a printout from Wikipedia that details Valli's subsequent education and accomplishments as an influential author Gallaudet University professor prominent linguist and American Sign Language poet. Includes photos and rosters of the Freshman and Sophomore classes Pi Beta Phi sorority Sigma Alpha Esilon fraternity Alpha Phi Omega Delta Sigma Pi White Pine Hall Sigma Nu Little Sisters Juniper Hall and Nye Hall students Lincloln and Manzanita Halls various other fraternities and sororities. There are also photos and rosters of Ski Swim and Tennis team members. Also covered are events such as guest speakers: Bruce Jenner 1976 Olympic Decathlon Gold Medalist Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy Ralph Nader and entertainers like mime Bernie Bang etc. Has photos and articles on Blondie comic strip cartoonist John Kennedy 1911-1977 and the UNR Wolfpack football team. From the essay by Peggy Martin THE SAD FATE OF MANZANITA'S SWANS: "I too was saddened when Siegfried and Odette the pair of white swans were found beheaded early Sunday May 8th near the north shore of Manzanita Lake." Bound in the original light green-stamped dark green cloth. Oversize Hardcover. 9" wide by 12.25" tall. This large heavy book may require SUBSTANTIAL extra postage for International shipments but only the standard charge for priority or media mail. First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Fine condition/No dust jacket as issued. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 272pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Associated Students, University of Nevada, Reno Hardcover
1977030934Reno Nevada: Associated Students University of Nevada Reno 1977. This is the original 1976-1977 edition of the UNR yearbook -- NOT a modern reprint or print-on-demand version. Very Good condition. Light soil to the rear cover. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. The pages are crisp clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Lavishly iIllustrated with photos -- many in beautiful full color. Features photos and rosters of the UNR baseball team and the Wolfpack football team with details on their Win/Loss record. Also photos and rosters of members of other sports: volleyball gymnastics women's basketball etc. Also covered are events such as guest speakers and entertainers: Edward Albee VIncent Bugliosi F. Lee Bailey Willie Mays Art Buchwald Charlie Daniels Lilly Tomlin etc. Has photos and member lists of organizations clubs and more. Bound in the original silver-stamped yellow textured boards. Oversize Hardcover. 9" wide by 12.25" tall. This large heavy book may require SUBSTANTIAL extra postage for International shipments but only the standard charge for priority or media mail. First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket as issued. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 272pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Associated Students, University of Nevada, Reno Hardcover
1976ZB3938321976-2000. volumes 12-17; 24-36. 1976-2000. complete volumes partly bound library markings textually clean & tight price is for the lot. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. unknown