Zaffo, George J.MareMagnum
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A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Edge wear to cover. Brightly colored airplane illustrations throughout - on the cover, on the endpapers, and many full-size color illustrations inside. Unpaginated. 8 1/2"w x 11 1/4"h.
0243208219.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
176 pages. Front board illustrated with colour photo of Bobby Hull and the Avco Cup. Loaded with many dozens of reproductions of black and white photos from back in the day, as well as a generous selection of colour photos, including large colour team photos upon endpapers. Also included are statistics and wonderful team anecdotes. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. Very uncommon. Truly a stupendous gift for any die-hard fan of the recently reborn Winnipeg Jets. Book
Brand new book in excellent condition in every respect. New. 930 pages with graphs, tables, lots of formulae, b&w illustrations. From the conference at Nantes, France, 18 - 24 July, 2002. Approx. 120 presentations, some by individual authors in the following sections: Plenary sessions, Parallel sessions: Particle yields -experiment, Heavy quarks/particle yields - theory, correlations/fluctuations - experiment, Correlations/fluctuations - theory, Leptons/photons -- experiment, theory, High transverse momentum, experiment & theory, transport theory, Astrophysics/instrumentation, & Theory. Some random examples include: Eliptic flow from parton saturation, Hadronic spectral functions above the QCD phase transition, Probe initial parton density and formation time via jet quenching, High pr measurements with BRAHMS, Charmonium absorption in the meson-exchange model etc. etc. Previous owner's name at inside cover.
Brand new book in excellent condition in every respect. New. Paginated weirdly, approximately 800 pages with graphs, tables, lots of formulae, b&w illustrations. From the conference at Oakland, CA 11 -17 January 2004. Approx. 120 presentations by individual authors in text with abstract, introduction,body and summary of each. Some random examples include: Scanning the phases of QCD with BRAHMS, PHENIX highlights, Report from NA49, New results from CERES, Strangness report, Colour glass condensate at RHIC, News from lattice QCD on heavy quark potentials and spectral functins of heavy quark states, Physics of highbaryon densities, Jets as a probe of dense matter at RHIC Leptons, photons and heavy quarks, PHENIX direct photons in 200 GeV p+p and Au+Au collisions, Probing small-x gluons by low-mass Drell-Yan pairs at RHIC and LHC, The ALICE high level trigger, Cronin effect at different rapidities a RHIC, A strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma, Azimuthal anisotropy: the higher harmonics, Charmed and strange particle production at mid-rapidity with the HERA-B detector... etc etc.
20032090502113716648Not Available 2003. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
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248 pages including index. "The first comprehensive history of VTOL experimentation and endeavour. Every one of the diverse types of aircraft involved is included, from tailsitters and ducted fans to tiltprops and tiltwings to liftjects and vectored jets. Includes a fascinating collection of illustrations in both colour and black and white. These include a series of specially drawn chronologies which graphically illustrate the relationship between the various projects and photographs or line drawings of the may aircraft that flew as VTOL projects." - from dust jacket. Gift greetings upon front endpaper else clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Glossy illustrated boards. Excellent copy. Book
118 pages. Features: Nice color ad for the 1960 Chevrolet 9-passenger Kingswood Station Wagon; Two-page ad for the 1960 Chrysler cars - Fury, Matador, De Soto, Dart, Valiant and Imperial; Super two-page color ad for the full line of General Mills breakfast cereals - Cheerios, Hi Pro, Trix, Cocoa Puffs, Wheaties, Corn Kix, Jets, and Frosty O's; Nice ad for the 1960 Ford Comet (blue); Coke ad features bottle, glass and opener floating on mini ice-berg; The Big Change in Russia - nicely photo-illustrated article from behind the iron curtain; Gorgeous Cadillac ad features a bright blue 1960 four-door in park; Rep. Hale Boggs on taxes and what you can do about them; Mike Nichols and Elaine May - Mirrors to our Madness; The Coming Battle of Atlanta - the city is under orders to integrate schools this fall; Two-page color-photo ad for Gravy Train dog food; Japan's Teen-age Idol - photo-illustrated article on Junko Kano; Gorgeous beauty photos by Erwin Blumenfeld; Photo Quiz; Lovely color-photo ad for the (green) 1960 Dodge Dart beside a lake; What is a School Superintendent? - photo-illustrated article on Jack Hornback of Tillamook, Oregon; Educator or Businessman?; ad for creepy product Positan which appears to be like shoe polish for skin; Classy one-page color ad for the 1960 Pontiac Bonneville Coupe (purplish-brown); Harry Truman answers questions; Funny photos of Diane Henn (of Massapequa, NY) in mirror; Swedish Boxer Ingemar Johansson; Great photo-portrait of Salvadore Dali in Polaroid camera ad; Photo feature on "Freedomland", the Disneyland of the east coast, located in the Bronx; Nice 7up ad inside back cover with photo of blonde sweetie making ice cream float for the boys; Back cover photo-ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes shows men in small fishing boat; and more. Front cover rough with nibbling along fold and bottom edge. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
Features: Eddie Rickenbacker; The Square J; From Africa to China - Via P-40; Warplanes in Detail; F-15 Eagle; Tinian's B-29s; Spitfire Pilot; Navy's Colorful Jets; Modeling Military Aircraft; Biplanes against the red bear; The deadly D VII; Terro in the Yellow Peril; Ground Attack; Flying the CF-104 Starfighter; The Last Mustangs; An RCAF Crewman Looks back - H.D. (Cherry) Cherrington; Col. Tinker and the Bird-o-prey XIII; Warplanes in detail - the Bf 109G; Flying the Vampire; P-5... Last of the Big Boats; McDonnell's Parasite; Military markings of the world; Counter Invader; Return to Cornino; B-17G Production Line; Czechoslovakian Mule; Warplanes in detail - Me 262; Military Markings, Part II; Black Lady of Espionage; Mosquito Pilot's Escape; YF-17 Rollout; Evolution of the Mitsubishi Zero - part I; The Noblest Knight of Acedom; Curtiss P-6 in the Netherlands and East Indies; Night Fighter from Junkers; Fighter Formations - history of fighter tactics; Not so black widow - P-61s in the Pacific; Messerschmitt Me 410 A/Cross; Fighter Night - dangerous WWII mission in a Hurricane; Bristol Beaufighter - rare example; Bat out'a Hell - history of the Douglas Skyray and Skynight; Deadly Long Nose - Famous Focke Wulf FW 190D and Ta 152 fighters; Farewell to the Ugly Duckling - the Fairyey Gannet has made its last flight; Post-war military Mitchells - they served in the USAF until the early 1960s; Norwegian Warriors - Norwegian Pilots during WWII; Curse of the Lady Be Good; The Return of Halifax W1048; Mission U5 - Abort!; Shoo-Shoo Baby; Holscher's Heinkel; Forgotten Warriors; Death over Flak City; Ghosts of '44; The Deadly Storm; Forgotten Warbird Graveyard; The Deadly Storm; The Atlantic Ferry; Harvesting the Zuyder Zee; The Souvenir; They Returned; The day it rained P-40s; Fortress Ferry - flying one of the last examples of aviation's most famous bomber; Lightning Strikes - we fly a rare P-38 Lightning; A lady named Jenny - America's famous WWI trainer; Missions in the Marauder - a navigator's diary of aerial combat over Europe; Flying the U-2 - a 9th strategic Reconnaissance Wing pilot describes a U-2 mission, from suiting up to shutdown; Attack! - we fly in the LTV A-7; Cat Shooting with the Phantom - a USAF pilot flies with the Phantoms of a Marine fighter squadron; The Beauty of the Beast - adventures with the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver; The forgotten promise - the first carrier landing is an unforgettable experience; Flying the White Rocket - this USAF trainer is one hot aircraft. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding sound. Book
Features: Dr. Dornier's great white wall - the story of the Do X 12-engined flying-boat; Fighters of the Cross of Christ - the growth of fighter squadrons in the Portuguese Air Force from 1940 to 1952; Ilyushin's Proliferous Shturmovic - II - 2nd and concluding part of ana article on the Ilyushin II-2/11-10 family; Miles M.52 - the supersonic dream - the sad story of Britain's first supersonic aircraft design; Fokker's Trimotors go to war - the use of the F VIIb-3m and other Fokker trimotors in the Spanish civil war; Old Rhinebeck's new dolphin - Cole Palen's Sopwith Dolpin replica; World's fastest mustangs - the Reno Races; Under Cover of Darkness - flying the Wellington operationally during WWII; An airline at war - the Sabena fleet from 1939 to 1945; Boeing's Fighter Finale - the detailed story of the P-26 "Peashooter"; TSR 2 - yesterday's auction to tomorrow's problem - the first fully-detailed technical description of the still-controversial TSR 2; Constellation - Lockheed's "Queen of the Skies" - an account of the origins and subsequent commercial development of the Constellation family; Back from the Graveyard - tells the story of the only surviving F4U-7 version of the famed Corsair fighter; A Revelation - HP's Flying Suitcase - wartime operations in one of the important, but less notable of the RAF's bombers of the 'thirties generation'; Biplanes for the Fliegertruppe - the first German biplanes to enter service in WW1 - the Halberstadt D series; Resuce at Ban Phanop - how the USAF flew 336 sorties in three days, in the effort to save the crew of a Phantom shot down over Vietnam; Supermarine 510 and Hawker P.1052 - the lives and times of Britain's first swept-wing jets; Halifax - bomber command's second string - the story of the Handley Page bomber that always came just second to its contemporaries; Talkback - reader comment on past issues; C-class boats at war - the operational use of Short C-Class flying-boats in the RAAF; Skymaster Story - a history of the Douglas Commercial No 4 and its military counterpart, the C-54; Mustangs in Korea - the operational use of the F-51 Mustang in Korea by units of the USAF, SAAF and RAAF; The First Fighting Spads - a highly-detailed account of the evolution, production and service use of the Spad 7. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A lovely copy. Book
Features: German jets over England; Fiat CR42 BT 474; London-Nachtflieger; The Dark Years; The Battle of Britain Film; Home Defence 1914-1918; Hit and Run; A Mysterious 'Emil'; Flying the dreaded Stuka; Palm Sunday Massacre; Eschwege - eagle of the Aegean; Malta - Mediterranean Bastion; Suez, 1956; 'Z' Force, 1919; photo feature; Woodcock and Fury - Hawker's first and last biplane fighters; Calshot - cradle of British marine aviation; Memories of the Hawker Horlsey; British Fleet Aircraft between the wars; Flying Suitcase - a brief account of the Handley Page Hampden; The operational career of the Arado AR 234 Blitz; 'Hamish' - the story of Grp Capt T.G. Mahaddie, DSO, DFC, AFC, Czech MC; USAAF Aircraft which forced-landed in Sweden during WWII; Fokker T!X - cutaway drawing; 'Ninak' - workhorse of the twenties; RAF in India 1919-1939 - the background; Pink's War - the turning point; The Wapiti IIA in India; Fighting the Faqir - operations 1936-1938; An 'Emil' enigma solved; The Fighting Dolphins; Hawker - pioneer of air fighting; D.VII - Sidelights of Fokker's great fighter; Camel Cavelcade; Day Bombers, 1918 - an appreciation of 55 Squadron RFC/RAF; Fighting 'Boats', 1914-1918; Fairey III Floatplanes; 'Old Faithful' - the Supermarine Southampton; Singapore III - Short's last biplane 'boat; Queen of the 'Boats - sidelights on the Short Sunderland. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Peeling from front free endpaper where label removed. Excellent copy. Book
98 pages. Features: Through the Sonic Barrier - flight faster than sound with simple tube jets now seems possible - great photos including the Northrop XB-35 Flying Wing Bomber; Report From Bikini - nuclear tests - with photos; Let's Learn to Fly, Part V; Flight in the Seabee; Report from Ottawa; Farm to Airport in Forty-five Days - The Barrie (Ontario) Flying Club; Provincial Portrait from the Air - making big scale Ontario Map will take three Ansons Five Years; What is IATA?; London Letter; Taylorcraft is Back; Maintenance Section; and more. Many pages of great ads. Small ink stamp to front cover and ad on first page. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
134 pages. Cover photo of Truman Capote with Robert Blake and Scott Wilson in Kansas. Features: Vehicular Revolution - the ruckus it stirs - Jumbo Jets, Mass Transit vs. highways, wonderful 2-page photo of Japan's shinkansen roaring by Mount Fuji; After 116 years, a plump little Dutch Prince Willem, of Queen Beatrix and her husband; LBJ in Korea; The Mark of Zorthian - explaining the war in Vietnam; Out of slums into instant homes in 48 hours on New York's lower East Side; The Great Food Markets of the World - many colour photos!; Isn't that Robert Goulet behind those Foster Grants? (ad with colour photos); Pro Soccer's U.S. Kickoff; Oldest Paintings in the Americas - colour photos; Toward a communcal society - a way must be found to preserve an individual's values (part 4 of a series); Nyreyev and Fonteyn. Great (blue) Cadillac ad. Nice colour 7Up ad. Average wear. Address label on front else unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Features: I fished the finest spot in North America - Tazin Lake; Primitive weapons guard our jets at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines; Owner's Reports - Ford Falcon and Pontiac; GM Lift-off Hardtop; Build this safe sidewalk classic - it runs on a battery (complete plans); Midget go-anywhere power plant; Helicopter Airliners - Vertol 107/Rotodyne/Sikorsky S-61; The chemical war on weeds; "Hot Dog" tailpipe; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Are cars really getting better?; Small submarines - how to tell who's who in the deep; a new painkiller - Talwin offers immediate relief without danger of addiction; Come ride up front on the train that gives the jets the jitters - the Tokyo-Osaka shuttle/bullet train/shinkansen - many black and white photos; Exploring Florida's treacherous underground rivers; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
66 pages. Features: 2-page Kodak ad inside front cover features photo of red jets performing a low pass; Burberrys ad; WH Smith ad; Intriguing ad for the Citroen 2CV; Bell's whisky Ad; Renault 11 Turbo ad; Lang's Supreme ad featuring Patrick MacNee; Alfa Romeo ad for the Alfa 33; Diamond ad by Garrard Jewellers; 2-page ad for the Mercedes-Benz compact 190s; Interesting PYE Red Box portable colour tv ad; Honda Civic ad; 2-page ad for Glasgow; Lovely ad for Croft Original; Glenfiddich 'halo' ad inside back cover; Rothman's ad on back cover; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
98 pages. Features: The V Tail for Aircraft; The New Lancair 320; Combat Jets Flying Museum; Anatomy 112; The 'Spirit' Comes Home. Moderate wear. Book
78 pages. Features: Homage to the Apollo 11 astronauts; Green Berets Under Trial - 8 members of Special Forces Unit B-57 (Black Beard) charged after alleged Vietnamese double agent is killed; Ted Kennedy - living with the whispers after the death of Mary Jo Kopechne; Gory details of the murder of Sharon Tate; The Conglomerate of Crime - article with photos of Carlo Gambino, Sam Giancana and Meyer Lansky; Ulster engulfed in sectarian strife; Battle on thhe Sino-Soviet Border - Sinkiang; Israel - commanding the skies; Indonesia annexes West Irian; Billy Martin punches out Dave Boxwell; Mae West to join Raquel Welch in new movie; Jets vs. the everglades; Mormon records in Little Cottonwood Canyon; LA Dodgers pitcher Don Drysdale; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
76 pages. Features: Nixon's sobering message to Asia - major article with color photos of Nixon in Asia; Public reaction to Chappaquiddick; Examining moon samples; Five pages of color photos of the Apollo 11 moon landing; Rendezvous with Mars; Soviet writer Anatoly Kuznetsov flees to the free world; Syrian jets bomb Israeli military post on Mount Hermon; Ari Onassis celebrates anniversary with Jackie; Gardening without DDT; Time to remember "Forgotten America"; John Wayne as the last hero - major photo-illustrated article; TV Show Hee Haw; Article and color photos of the Pope in Uganda; Roman Catholicism in Africa - in search of its soul; Big profits in small cans - Granatelli and STP; Color one-page ad for Sports Illustrated shows O.J. Simpson in action; Reivew of "Allen Ginsberg in America:; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
104 pages. Features: Spiro Agnew - The King's Taster - feature illustrated article; Apollo 12 - off to the moon again; John Lindsay win's New York Mayor's election; The Haynsworth Showdown; Relief in Saigon after Nixon speech; Skyjacker Raffaele Minichiello becomes instant folk hero in Italy, the country of his birth; Joint Arab Defense Council meets in Cairo; The Polaroid 360 camera - two-page color-photo ad; The Rockefeller Report on Latin America; Color ad for the 1970 Ford Thunderbird with jets in background; What makes a city great?; Violence against teachers; Private Schools - the last refuge; IBM two-page color-photo ad features oceanographer Ed Coughran; Fascinating photo-illustrated article on electric cars shows awkward looking vehicles by Westinghouse (the 'Lotus Europa"), Ford (the 'Lead Wedge'), and G.E. (the 'Delta'); Artist Christo Javacheff; Bob Dylan Speaks - article with photo of him and wife Sarah in London; Big game hunter Fred Bear; Press Ethics - Carl Gilman; Nice color ad for the 1970 Mercury Cougar; Trial of Bobby Seale in Chicago - from the embarassing to the outrageous; Color photo of Al Hirt in Miller Beer ad; Color ad for the 1970 Olds (Oldsmobile) Delta 88 Royale; Northwest Orient airlines ad; Rev. Carl McIntire; The economy at the turning point; Glaciology article; Ornithologist Stephen T. Emlen studies migration of the indigo bunting; The first segment of Sesame Street runs on TV - article of Ernie and Bert with Joan Ganz Cooney; and much more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Contents: Classic photo ad for the Volkswagen Beetle shows the car crossed-out; Sweet color-photo ad for the front-wheel drive Oldsmobile Toronado; Update on the Vietnam War; Photos from Con Thein; Hurricane Beulah ravages the Texas coast; Time Essay - Divided We Stand - The Unpopularity of U.S. Wars; Photo of the Shah and his family with article; Six-pages of colour photos of Iran; Jews occupy Arab territories; A visit to Canton, China; Photo of Ibo prisoners at gunpoint in Nigeria; Nice two-color illustrated ad for the Pontiac GTO; Nice color Jeepster ad; The Fight to ban the sonic boom near Santa Barbara; Mike Douglas of the Mike Douglas Show - with photo; Using Uranium in projectiles - depleted uranium bullets - uranium flechettes - with photo; Athlete Kevin Hardy; How Smokers get Hooked; Volume of puts and calls increasing; Bernard (Bernie) Cornfeld and Investors Overseas Services - with photo; Photo of Will and Ariel Durant at home; Nice color-photo ad for Haig & Haig Pinch Scotch featuring musician David; Uncommon full-page photo ad for Canadian Pacific Jets; and much more. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
