Hospitals perform appendectomies not with scalpels, which are in short supply, but with shaving razor blades...70,000,000 people (nearly a third of the population) live in places where the Soviet-defined maximum pollution concentration is exceeded by at least five times...DDT, despite being banned in the USSR since 1972, is used on sixteen percent ...
A dissection of the Soviet Union's legacy of health and environmental disaster, this book examines a former country of 103 cities - home to 70 million people - where the air is unfit to breathe and pollution fouls 75 percent of the water.
Top Soviet and U.S. military participants recount the Cuban missile crisis. Among the startling new facts revealed by adversaries Gribkov and Smith is that both sides made decisions based on false intelligence. This eye-opening book will be supported by joint author appearances on radio and TV.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Twentieth Century Fund
Date Published: 1967
Description: Good. First Edition. -1st Edition Ex-Library--No Jacket. Very Good 8vo-over 7 3/4"-9 3/4" tall 335 pgs. Interior-Nice overall condition w/ ex-library referencing. The boards are well preserved. -Publish Place: New York-Size: read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Twentieth Century Fund
Date Published: 1967
Description: Good. First Edition. -First Edition--335 pages. Interior-near-flawless. The boards have light signs of aging, with newspaper clippings at back-Publish Place: New York-Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Privately Printed
Date Published: 1980
Description: Fine. Autograph; 8vo; Inscribed by the author on the copyright page to Jean and Bill Wirtz--W. Willard Wirtz, Secretary of Labor during President Lyndon Johnson 's Administration and a speech writer/advisor for Adlai Stevenson during his presidential campaigns.; Signed by Author. read more
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Eagle Books
Date Published: 1944
Description: Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Eagle Books. 1944. Ix, 170 pgs. IIllustrated with approximately 20 black and white photos. First Edition/First Printing. No DJ. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. The story of the numerous men who make the planes fly for the USAAF. Photos sent upon request. Bx634; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 170 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Eagle Books (New York), 1944.
Description: 1st edition (stated). ix + 170 pp. Photos. Intended to show the importance of Air Service Command work on the ground, including truck driving, warehouse clerking, machine repairing, cargo loading: "Commonplace or not, recognized or not, this is nevertheless the work that makes a victory possible. " Hardcover. NO dj. Endpapers have been professionally replaced. Greyish covers worn and spotty, with glue residue on spine where a label was removed. Overall G++. read more
Edition: Ex Libris
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Eagle Books
Date Published: 1944
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Ex-library book with usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean. 170 pages with index. First Edition. read more
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