Spigelman James (40 results)

Condition: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. 1st. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. first edition, first printing. Large octavo, xii + 578 pages. Includes bibliographical references and index. Book and dust jacket are in very good condition. "The chilling story of how a small band of scientists, generals, politicians, and businessmen created the life-and-death issue confronting us today.our nuclear world." Aromic Energy, Radiation Safety. 091625B This heavy book may cost more to ship internationally.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Documents decisions made by international scientists, technocrats, and businessmen concerning atomic energy policies in various countries which were never opened to public debate. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine-. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 578 pages, illustrated. "The nuclear barons: an international elite of scientists, technocrats, and businessmen who have, for more than four decades, controlled the world's destiny. The chilling story of how a small band of scientists, general, politicians, and businessmen created the life-and-death issues confronting us today our nuclear world." FINE- HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Very Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine. Grubby book may have mild dirt or some staining, mostly on the edges of pages.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-rubbed and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Spine uniformly sun-toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 578 pages; Description: xii, 578 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Nuclear energy. Radiation --Safety measures. Social aspects. Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. [447]-465. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Très bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Légères traces d'usure sur la couverture. Salissures sur la tranche. Edition 1994. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Former library book. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Stains on the edge. Edition 1994. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Paperback. Condition: Good. The Nuclear Barons ? The Inside Story Of How They Created Our Nuclear Nightmare (1983) By Peter Pringle and James Spigelman | Sphere Books Sold by Crappy Old Books Long before Oppenheimer was a household name and ?mutually assured destruction? was dinner-table talk, The Nuclear Barons was blowing the lid off the shadowy world of atom-age ambition and political power plays. This gripping exposé traces how a handful of scientists, bureaucrats, and power-hungry policymakers built?and then lost control of?the most dangerous force humanity has ever unleashed. Peter Pringle and James Spigelman deliver a forensic, globe-spanning account of how post-war idealism curdled into Cold War paranoia, and how a club of elite insiders shaped the nuclear arms race, often in secret and usually without consequence. From Washington to Whitehall, Moscow to Paris, The Nuclear Barons doesn?t just tell a story?it names names and makes you wonder how we?re all still here. Condition: Slightly yellowed, with a radioactive whiff of Cold War paranoia. Cover may feature the bold confidence of early ?80s typography and the faint scent of despair. Still structurally intact?unlike international trust. Crappy Old Books: Your last line of defence against collective amnesia. Quite a large paperback. THIS BOOK BEARS THE CRAPPY OLD BOOKS STAMP. IF THAT IS UNDESIRABLE PLEASE DO NOT BUY THIS. THE STAMP MARKS WHICH IS USUALLY TO THE FRONT AND BACK INNER PAGES SAYS SOLD BY CRAPPY OLD BOOKS WITH WEB SITE URL. IT IN NO WAY DEMINISHED FROM THE READING. IF YOU WANT A PRISTINE BOOK, PLEASE FIND ANOTHER BOOK IN BETTER CONDITION SOMEWHERE ELSE.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-rubbed and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Spine uniformly sun-toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 578 pages; Description: xii, 578 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Nuclear energy. Radiation --Safety measures. Social aspects. Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. [447]-465. 1 Kg.

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 592 pages. Cover wornDiscusses how the world's destiny is controlled by a small group of scientist s, businessmen, politicians, and military officers whose decisions on nuclear po wer have caused the present nuclear nightmare.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Book shows rubbing to top and bottom edges. Dustwrapper shows rubbing to top and bottom edges. Hardcover.

Paperback. Condition: Good. The cover is a bit worn and creased. The pages are tanned and foxed. 194 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size E: 8"-9" Tall (203-228mm).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Lawrence Ratzkin (Jacket Design) (illustrator). xii, 578, [2] pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Notes. Index. DJ worn and wrinkled along edges. For thirty years Pringle was a foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times, The Observer and The Independent, working in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the former Soviet Union and the United States. He has also written for several U.S. newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New Republic and The Nation. He is the author and co-author of several books on science and current affairs including: The Nuclear Barons, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1981 (with translations into French, German and Japanese). James Jacob Spigelman AC, QC (born 1 January 1946) is a former Australian judge. He served as Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales from 25 May 1998 until 31 May 2011. On 8 March 2012 it was announced that he would become chairperson of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He was appointed to the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong on 8 April 2013 as a non-permanent judge from other common law jurisdictions. James Spigelman is the author of three books, co-author of a fourth and of some 170 published articles, including on a range of aspects of commercial and corporate law such as contractual interpretation, insurance law, commercial arbitration, insolvency, international commercial litigation, freezing orders and proof of foreign law. Three volumes of his speeches as Chief Justice have been published. The nuclear barons: an international elite of scientists, technocrats, and businessmen who have, for more than four decades, controlled the world's destiny. Their decisions--usually kept secret, often shortsighted, sometimes veiled by lies and obfuscations--have led inexorably to the present nuclear mess. Radiation hazards, prohibitively costly energy, waste-disposal problems, plant safety, weapons proliferation: the nuclear nightmares we live with are the direct result of choices that were never thought through to their logical conclusions, never opened to public debate. Derived from a Kirkus review: Money, power, politics, optimism . . . all played their part in what Pringle, of the London Sunday Times, and Australian official Spigelman describe as a "Paracelsus" kind of folly--finding many points of comparison between today's nuclear barons and that 16th-century charlatan/medicine man. Carefully, chronologically, the authors lay in the background of 20th-century physics that led to nuclear fission, the bomb, and a current age in which reactor sales are at a low and public disillusion is high following Three Mile Island. Perhaps Pringle and Spigelman give too much prominence to Szilard as a prime mover in alerting Roosevelt to the potential for bomb development; perhaps they overemphasize the Manhattan Project as an engineering, rather than scientific, feat. But in a work as comprehensive and meticulously researched as this one, these are minor flaws that do not mar the overall design that the authors reveal. In the second half the history of postwar developments in nuclear energy is a litany of short-sightedness, of gambling for high stakes and losing, of wheeling-and-dealing and assuming the public interest. All this is spelled out in terms of the internal politics and personalities of the countries that make up the ever-growing nuclear club--the countries that openly or clandestinely have the bomb. Interwoven are the test ban treaties, the nonproliferation agreements, the cartels to control reactor prices, etc. England went its stubborn and disastrous way to develop gas-cooled reactors. The Germans carried on in typical efficient German style. The Indians were zealots, obsessed with joining the club. Espionage presumably played a role in Israeli developments. Pringle and Spigelman write with an objectivity that gives the work authenticity. They conclude that we have not learned very much nor gone very far in nuclear.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. 309 pp. includes dust jacket. dust jacket and cover itself show minor shelf wear. pages are clean and unmarked. 2.

Couverture souple. Condition: Satisfaisant. 0 GLN-250. . La librairie Aux Livres Anciens et Contemporains offre aux clients d'AbeBooks 30% de réduction sur l'ensemble de son catalogue. Prix d'origine : 5 EUR. Livre.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Previous owners signature to ffep. Heavy foxing to page edges and end papers. Rubbing to extremities. Crease to top edge of D/J with small closed tear.

Rústica con solapa. 02/1984348 pp. 15,5 x 23,5 cm. La escalofriante historia de cómo un excluyente grupo de científicos generales, políticos y hombres de negocios nos han llevado a enfrentarnos, a vida o muerte, con nuestro mundo nuclear. Rústica con solapa. Buen estado. 9788432047435. Ciencia Ficción, JHBD - Población y demografía.

Hardcover. Condition: good. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. Lawrence Ratzin (Jacket Design) (illustrator). First Edition. First Printing. xii, 578, [2] pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Foxing to fore-edge. DJ soiled & edges worn: sm tears & chips. Presentation copy signed by Pringle on t-p. For thirty years Pringle was a foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times, The Observer and The Independent, working in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the former Soviet Union and the United States. He has also written for several U.S. newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New Republic and The Nation. He is the author and co-author of several books on science and current affairs including: The Nuclear Barons, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1981 (with translations into French, German and Japanese). James Jacob Spigelman AC, QC (born 1 January 1946) is a former Australian judge. He served as Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales from 25 May 1998 until 31 May 2011. On 8 March 2012 it was announced that he would become chairperson of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He was appointed to the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong on 8 April 2013 as a non-permanent judge from other common law jurisdictions. James Spigelman is the author of three books, co-author of a fourth and of some 170 published articles, including on a range of aspects of commercial and corporate law such as contractual interpretation, insurance law, commercial arbitration, insolvency, international commercial litigation, freezing orders and proof of foreign law. Three volumes of his speeches as Chief Justice have been published. The nuclear barons: an international elite of scientists, technocrats, and businessmen who have, for more than four decades, controlled the world's destiny. Their decisions--usually kept secret, often shortsighted, sometimes veiled by lies and obfuscations--have led inexorably to the present nuclear mess. Radiation hazards, prohibitively costly energy, waste-disposal problems, plant safety, weapons proliferation: the nuclear nightmares we live with are the direct result of choices that were never thought through to their logical conclusions, never opened to public debate. Derived from a Kirkus review: Money, power, politics, optimism . . . all played their part in what Pringle, of the London Sunday Times, and Australian official Spigelman describe as a "Paracelsus" kind of folly--finding many points of comparison between today's nuclear barons and that 16th-century charlatan/medicine man. Carefully, chronologically, the authors lay in the background of 20th-century physics that led to nuclear fission, the bomb, and a current age in which reactor sales are at a low and public disillusion is high following Three Mile Island. Perhaps Pringle and Spigelman give too much prominence to Szilard as a prime mover in alerting Roosevelt to the potential for bomb development; perhaps they overemphasize the Manhattan Project as an engineering, rather than scientific, feat. But in a work as comprehensive and meticulously researched as this one, these are minor flaws that do not mar the overall design that the authors reveal. In the second half the history of postwar developments in nuclear energy is a litany of short-sightedness, of gambling for high stakes and losing, of wheeling-and-dealing and assuming the public interest. All this is spelled out in terms of the internal politics and personalities of the countries that make up the ever-growing nuclear club--the countries that openly or clandestinely have the bomb. Interwoven are the test ban treaties, the nonproliferation agreements, the cartels to control reactor prices, etc. England went its stubborn and disastrous way to develop gas-cooled reactors. The Germans carried on in typical efficient German style. The Indians were zealots, obsessed with joining the club. Espionage presumably played a role in Israeli developments. Pringle and Spigelman write with an objectivity that gives the work authenticity. They.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and decoration to boards. Edge wear to boards and removal of ex-libris sticker (presumably) to pastedown. Otherwise in good order internally with good unclipped jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. SHRINK-WRAPPED: US SELLER SHIPS FAST FROM USA.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. M001210. Editorial Planeta - 346pp La escalofriante historia de cómo un excluyente grupo de científicos, generales, políticos y hombres de negocios nos han llevado a enfrentarnos, a vida o muerte, con nuestro mundo nuclear. JG.

1/4 Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. A Fine first Edition/First Printing housed in a dust-jacket that is equally Fine; tells the story of the men and women who created and ran America's nuclear weapons programs during the Cold War.The Nuclear Barons is the story of the men and women who created and ran America's nuclear weapons programs during the Cold War. The book tells the story of the scientists, engineers, and administrators who risked their lives and careers to keep America safe from the Soviet Union. It is a fascinating look at the cutting-edge technology and the intense rivalry that drove the weapons program.; 8vo; 578 pages.

Condition: New. pp. 234.

Condition: New. pp. 234.

Condition: New. pp. 234.