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Knopf Canada, 2007. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/Fair. In Fair Condition. Welll Used. Signed By Authur "To Bill". Hard To Find. With Wear To Edges And/Or Turned Corners. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. A Bestselling Investigative Journalist Takes A Tour Of The Alberta Oil And Gas Industry, Revealing How Canada'S Richest Province Is Squandering Our Chance For A Sustainable Future. In Its Desperate Search For Oil And Gas Riches, Alberta Is Destroying Itself. As The World Teeters On The Edge Of Catastrophic Climate Change, Alberta Plunges Ahead With Uncontrolled Development Of Its Fossil Fuels, Levelling Its Northern Boreal Forest To Get At The Oil Sands, And Carpet-Bombing Its Southern Half With Tens Of Thousands Of Gas Wells. In So Doing, It Is Running Out Of Water, Destroying Its Range Land, Wiping Out Its Forests And Wildlife And Spewing Huge Amounts Of Greenhouse Gases Into The Atmosphere, Adding To Global Warming At A Rate That Is Unrivalled In Canada Or Almost Anywhere Else In The World. It'S Digging, Drilling And Blasting Its Way To Oblivion, Becoming The Ultimate Symbol Of Canada'S - And The World'S - Pathological Will To Self-Destruct. Nowhere Has The World Seen Such Colossal Environmental Destruction As Is Being Wreaked On Alberta. At One Point The Province Even Went So Far As To Consider A Scientist'S Idea Of Nuking Its Underbelly To Get At The Tar Sands. Stupid To The Last Drop Looks At The Increasingly Violent Geopolitical Forces That Are Gathering As The World'S Gas And Oil Dwindle And The Age Of Oil Begins Its Inevitable Slide Towards Oblivion. As Canadians Deplete Their Energy Reserves, Selling Them Off To Americans At Bargain-Basement Prices, No Thought Is Given To Conservation Or The Long-Term Needs Of The Nation. In This Powerful Polemic, William Marsden Journeys Across The Heart Of A Province Seized By The Destructive Forces Of Greed, Power And The Energy Business, And Envisions A Very Bleak Future.

boston: houghton mifflin & co, 1971. Hard cover. Good in fair dust jacket. Signed by author. signed by author. 275 p. At the Drop of a Veil: Marianne Alireza-SIGNED BY; AUTHOR-HARDCOVER-Marianne Alireza (Author)-CONDITION GOOD-DJ FAIR-SIGNED BY AUTHOR-COPYRIGHT1971 11TH PRINTING-275 PAGES-PUBLISHED BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO, BOSTON This review is from: At the Drop of a Veil (Hardcover) This book tells the tale of Marianne Alireza, an American college student who married a Saudi citizen in 1943. In 1945, Alireza moved to Jeddah with her husband and infant daughter, and from there witnessed Arabian lifestyle firsthand for 12 years. She describes her experiences as part of the Alireza harem, composed of her mother-in-law, 2 sisters-in-law and their various children, of which Marianne herself eventually had 5. Alireza discusses how the family traveled to the mountains of Ethiopia to escape the summer heat in Jeddah, and how development changed all of their lives. She also details the events that led to the end of her marriage, and how she abducted her children from their school in Switzerland. The details of this book make it invaluable for anyone wanting to learn about living conditions for women in affluent Saudi Arabia in the 1940s and 50s. The story of Alireza's marriage and its demise should also serve as a warning to any Western woman considering marrying a Muslim. Under Islamic law, a Muslim man is usually granted sole custody of his (weaned) children following divorce and a Western woman who is divorced from a Middle Eastern Muslim man stands a very high chance of never being allowed to see her children again. From the man's point of view, his child custody rights are guaranteed by God, and he would be devastated to lose his children. It was exactly this sort of situation which put Marianne in the position where she felt she had no choice but to abduct her children and try to escape back to the States. All marriages these days face a relatively high risk of divorce, but cross-cultural marriages bring added stress and tend to have even higher divorce rates than marriages within a culture. Thus, a Western woman who decides to marry a foreign Muslim man is entering into a situation where there is a 1 in 2 chance of divorce, and if divorce does happen, she has an extremely high chance of losing her children forever. And this is true no matter how happily the marriage starts off, as it happened in Marianne's case. Interestingly, a quick 2001 Web search for Marianne's children turned up a traveler's note stating that all 5 of her children decided to return to Saudi Arabia upon reaching adulthood

New York: Rawson Associates, 1989. 1st . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 323pp.incl.index; HB quarter-bound; blue w/indigo&silver; slight rub w/clean,tight pgs. DJ white w/blue&red; slight rub. "What you can do to protect your family and yourself in today's growing water crisis." signed.

New York: New York: Little Brown, 2011. Little Brown, 2011. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Harry Bosch. SIGNED by Michael Connelly. Fine book in fine dj.

Poisoned Pen Press. A beautiful, crisp, clean hardcover in fine condition. DJ in fine condition. SIGNED by author. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2007.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Harper Resource, 2005. Book. Fine. Signed by Author(s). FIRST. A FINE FIRST IN DJ. SIGNED..

London: Orion, 2011. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First UK edition/First Printing. Mylar protected. TRUE FIRST..

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. Hardcover in dust jacket. 8vo. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the title page in English and Arabic. Book is in Near Fine condition in red cloth boards with a decoration on the front and gold gilt lettering on the spine. Slight shelf wear and slight sunning to head and foot of spine. Pictorial endpapers. The jacket is in Very Good + condition with sunning to the spine and slight shelf wear at head and foot of spine. In protective mylar. Not price-clipped. 275 pp. .

Little Brown & Company. Hardback. Fine/Fine. 1. 2011. Hardback. Fine. First Edition. First Print. Authors signature only, on the title page. Book fifteen in the Harry Bosch series, Authors twent fourth book. An excellent addition to your collection. Dust jacket is protected with a Mylar cover. Books are packed and shipped in boxes.

New York, NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed 'For Judith Sandoval, many, many thanks' by author on title page. Stated 1st edition, no numberline (1st printing). Dust jacket as new except for a tiny nick at one corner. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 544 p. Audience: General/trade. Book has some faint discoloration to the front of the pageblock. An exploration of the American experience of race. Malcomson is an editor at The New York Times Magazine, an adviser to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the author of 'Generation's End: A Personal Memoir of American Power After 9/11' and 'Empire's Edge'. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.

Signed by the author on the title page. Stated First Edition. First Printing with complete number line. Unclipped jacket, not a remainder. Appears unread, nearly new.

London, UK: Orion, 2011. First UK Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 388 pages. In Near Fine condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is purple and black with gilt and white lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, has a white circular "Signed by author" sticker adhesively attached to the front cover and a price sticker from The Poisoned Pen adhesively attached to the back cover over the original ISBN. Signed flat by Michael Connelly on the title page. Shelved . 1385796. Special Collections.

London: Bloomsbury, 1988. VG+/VG+. First edition, first printing in d/w not price clipped. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND DATED (22.12.88), without dedication or inscription on title-page. Illustrated with photographs and maps. The account by the author, the official chronicler, of the sea voyage by eight sailing ships from England to Australia following the course of the the First Convict Fleet of 1787. The photographs include two of Ronnie Biggs, one of the Great Train Robbers, celebrating his birthday in Rio de Janeiro. Some light spotting to edges; else a very good plus copy, in a very good plus d/w, of a SCARCE first edition, first printing SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. D/w now protected in a detachable, non-adhesive, clear sheaf.. Signed by Author. First Edition, First Printing. Hardback. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus.

LONDON, ORION BOOKS, 2011. FIRST EDITION, NEAR FINE IN DUSTWRAPPER. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

Boston:: Little Brown,, (2011.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A Matthew Scudder novel, set in New York City during Scudder's first year of sobriety as a member of AA. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 319 pp.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2011. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the Title page. Signature only A First edition, First printing. Book is in Near Fine condition. Boards are clean, not bumped. Fore edges have a tiny bit of shelf wear. Interior is clean and legible. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Near Fine condition. Not chipped or crinkled. Not price clipped. Dust Jacket is covered by Mylar Brodart. Thanks and Enjoy. All-Ways well boxed, All-Ways fast service. Thanks..

Sun Drop. Trade Paperback. Collectible-Good. Personalized to previous owner and signed by the author inside cover. Aged.

London: Harvill Secker, 2017. First Edition, First Printing. Hardback. Very Fine/Very Fine. The Book is very fine, square, tight and unread. It is unmarked with clean pages free of inscriptions or marks and has been signed, located and dated (Harrogate 21st July '17) by the author directly on to the title page. The Dust Jacket is very fine, unfaded, unclipped (£12.99) and is free of rips, tears or marks. First Edition, First Printing - Signed by the author. All our books are covered with a clear, removable, chemically inert, protective wrapper before being securely bubble wrapped and dispatched in strong corrugated cardboard boxes.

Houghton Mifflin, 1971. HBDJ,1971, 1st edition, 5th printing, embossed red Cloth Cover with Gold Gilt & design on Spine, minor rub & wear DJ, Tiny chips tears Creases extremites DJ, small corner piece from DJ, NF/VG, AS-IS, Interior Nice tight Clean Minor Wear & some creases wear to about 5 pgs corner & along edge in back of bk , 275 pgs. Signed by Author. Hard Cover.

William Morrow, 2014. First Edition. Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Orange cloth over grey boards with black lettering to spine. Flat-signed by Dennis Lehane on the title page. Appears unread. Basis for the 2014 film starring Tom Hardy.

[London]: Orion Books. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2011. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1409134288 . An attractive first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition with cocked spine and soiled page edges in Fine dust-jacket. SIGNED by author Michael Connelly directly on the title page; Detective Harry Bosch is back in a new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.The Drop is the story of a missing girl and the LAPD detective who is obsessed with finding her.The case draws Bosch into a complex web of sex trafficking, Hollywood power, and government corruption. As he digs deeper, Bosch discovers that the girl is not the only one in danger. Someone wants him gone.; A Harry Bosch Novel; 8vo; 388 pages; Signed by Author .

Jane's Publishing Company, 1982. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1st edition, 1982. Signed by the author 'To Gordon with best wishes John Golley' on the front end-paper. Slight rubbing to edges and a couple of small tears to the corners of the dust-jacket, now protected using removable clear wrap, otherwise in very good condition. Next day dispatch by Royal Mail in sturdy, recyclable packaging. 1000's of satisfied customers! Please contact us with any enquiries.

New York: Howard-McCann, 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Cloth, gently bumped at spine tips and corners; in VG dust jacket with some light creasing and chipping along the edges. From the library of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and inscribed to him: "For Douglas Fairbanks -- who played a part in this decision -- Fred Freed." Fairbanks (1909-2000) was an iconic American actor from Hollywood’s Golden Era (his credits include “Gunga Din”), and a highly decorated naval officer of World War II. He is mentioned on page 92 of this political history, where it is revealed that a paper he wrote while a lieutenant attached to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, on the problem of defeating Japan, was influential to Eugene Dooman, and that it became the preface to the Potsdam Declaration.

Navigator on the "Enola Gay", the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. Signed book, hard back with dust jacket, 256 page, titled Seven Hours to Zero by Joseph L. Marx. The book is a detailed account of the events relating to the bombing of Hiroshima. Van Kirk who was a big player in those events writes in his hand on title page. "A generally good account of our mission to drop the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima. There are a few historical discrepancies as memories fade after the fact -Theodore J "Dutch" Van Kirk Navigator- Enola Gay, August 6, 1945." In excellent condition.