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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Jacket illustration for Brackett's "The Halfling" by H.E. Bischoff (illustratore). Bantam mass-market paperback 751, very-good-plus with a vertical reading crease 3/16this-inch in from the spine. States "Publisheer January 1950 / Second printing," though front wrap is faintly stamped "MAR 3 - 1954" -- arrival date at the newsstand? Perhaps reflective of the concern of the intellects of the time, numerous of these tales involve the destruction of earth (and mankind) by atomic radiation. All edges burgundy, and strangely enough, the text pages have not age-toned. 310 pp. followed by 2 pp. publisher's ads. Reduced from $15.

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very good - fine an edge chip.

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First Edition. THE ORIGINAL SCIENCE FICTION STORIES, Columbia Publications, Inc., November, 1956, first edition, Volume 7, #3, just about fine in full color pictorial wraps by Emsh. Contains original contributions by Judith Merrill, Murray Leinster, Isaac Asimov, et.al.

Wraps. Condizione: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. [2], 13, [3] pages. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Ink notations and stamp to cover. Abstract cards present. RARE. This is the fourth and final series of short-term feeding studies using diets containing a large percentage of a single foodstuff sterilized with ionizing radiation. This series of investigations has been conducted jointly by the Medical Nutrition Laboratory, the University of Colorado, and the Quartermaster Food and Container Institute. The foods discussed in this paper are turkey, bread, strawberries, and corn. The objective was to determine whether sterilization of foodstuffs by ionizing radiation produces toxic substances which might affect the consumption of food and the growth rate of the animal subjects. On the basis of these experiments, recommendations were made concerning the clearance for human organoleptic testing of irradiated foods. Evidence was obtained that irradiated turkey causes a decrease in growth when compared with non-irradiated turkey. In response to an observation of poor nutritional status among enlisting men, the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council created a force that defines the minimum need and safety margin for nutrient intake. The task force specified a tentative set of allowances, intended to address the nutritional needs of civilians and military personnel. These allowances eventually became the Food and Nutrition Board's Recommended Dietary Allowances. In 1958, the Army's Medical Nutrition Laboratory in Chicago, IL, and the Research and Development Department of Fitzsimons General Hospital in Denver, CO, were combined to form the U.S. Army Medical Research and Nutrition Laboratory (USAMRNL). This institution quickly became known as the nation's leading laboratory for human nutrition research and conducted broad and extensive studies. Meanwhile, in 1955, the Interdepartmental Committee on Nutrition for National Defense (ICNND) was established to address nutritional problems.

First Edition. *** BALLARDS FIRST APPEARANCE ***SF: '57 THE YEAR'S GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY, Gnome Press, 1957, first edition, fine in like color pictorial dust-wrapper with 2 quite small chips and a bit of tanning to the rear dust-wrapper panel. Contributions by Asimov, Kornbluth, Knight, Budrys, Sturgeon, Henderson, et.al. But perhaps most importantly, this book contains the first hard-cover appearance of J. G.Ballard, being PRIMA BELLADONNA.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Stop Patching Servers. Start Engineering PlatformsAre you tired of configuration drift, endless security patches, and the anxiety of upgrading your Kubernetes nodes?For decades, we have treated our servers like pets, nursing them with SSH, shell scripts, and manual intervention. We built modern cloud-native applications on top of an operating system designed in the 1990s. The result? Fragile infrastructure, security vulnerabilities, and operational toil.It is time to delete your SSH keys.Talos Linux for DevOps is the definitive guide to mastering the first operating system designed exclusively for Kubernetes. Written for Site Reliability Engineers, Platform Engineers, and CTOs, this book takes you from the first boot to advanced disaster recovery, teaching you how to build infrastructure that is immutable, secure, and API-driven by default.Inside, you will discover how to: Eliminate the "General-Purpose Tax" Stop wasting resources and security surface area on an OS that thinks it's a desktop. Learn why removing the shell, SSH, and local users makes your cluster exponentially more secure.Master Atomic Upgrades: Say goodbye to apt-get update. Learn how Talos uses A/B partitioning to perform risk-free, atomic OS upgrades that can roll back automatically if they fail.Manage the OS via API: Discover talosctl and machined, and learn how to manage your operating system with the same precision as your Kubernetes workloads-using structured data, not text files.Implement True GitOps: Extend your GitOps workflow below the Kubernetes layer. Learn how to manage your kernel parameters, network interfaces, and disk encryption declaratively using Flux or Argo CD.Architect High Availability: Build production-ready control planes, configure Virtual IPs (VIPs) for failover, and understand the mathematics of Etcd quorum to prevent downtime.Execute Disaster Recovery: Go beyond backups. Learn the exact workflows to recover a lost control plane, restore Etcd from snapshots, and "nuke and pave" corrupted nodes with confidence.Who is this book for?This book is for the DevOps engineer who is ready to stop fighting the operating system. Whether you are running on bare metal, AWS, or at the edge, Talos Linux for DevOps provides the architectural blueprints and hands-on commands you need to build a platform that is boring, predictable, and unbreakable.Transform your infrastructure into an immutable engine of reliability. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

First Edition. JOURNEY TO INFINITY, Gnome Press, 1951, first edition, corner tips a bit bumped, else a tight vg+ copy in an attractive pictorial dust-wrapper with some light chipping to the dust-wrapper spine extremities. Contributations by: Asimov, Isaac & Leiber, Fritz & Moore, C. L. & Merrill, Judith & Brown, Fredric & Cartmill, Cleve & Williamson, Jack & Russell, Eric Frank & Sturgeon, Theodore & MacDonald, John D. & Chandler, A. Bertram & Smith, E. E. "Doc".

First Edition. SF: THE YEAR'S GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY, Gnome Press, 1956, first edition, fine in just about fine full color pictorial dust-wrapper. Contributions by Orson Welles, Isaac Asimov, Damon Knight, Algis Budrys, Theodore Sturgeon, Zenna Henderson, Steve Allen, Mark Clifton, Jack Finney. James, Gunn, Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore, Walter M. Miller, Jr., E. C. Tubb, et.al. The first book in the long running series. And also a candidate, if not the winner, for the heaviest book published by Gnome Press.

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1893 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 498 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 498 Volume 1 Language: English.

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1893 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 476 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 476 Volume 2 Language: English.

Unbound. Condizione: Near Fine. A collection of 11 long letters written by a young paymaster's clerk and officer in the U.S. Navy, in which he gives detailed accounts of voyages to Central America, China, and South Africa in 1867-68. Also included is a gripping account of a terrific storm while crossing the Atlantic, and of a dramatic rescue of sailors cast off their capsized ship off the coast of France. All 11 letters are densely written in Merrill's neat, small hand, and are addressed to his parents at Bangor, Maine. One letter has three or four small tears with partial loss to three or four words, else near fine overall. Also included are six of the original mailing envelopes and four cabinet card portraits of Merrill: one of Merrill in uniform taken by "Pun-Lun" at Hong Kong, and three duplicate portraits taken at Bangor, Maine. Here is an excerpt from Merrill's first seven-page letter, written on board the storeship Brig *Executive* in January, 1867, in which he describes his first voyage from Bangor to Cette, France: " Wednesday night a gale commenced and it was a screamer day and night did every soul labor for dear life we felt that our doom by sinking was sure Buzzell, and Chase, and I worked with the rest and by our aid the exhausted men were enabled to get a little sleep until the forecastle was flooded and the galley stove in we lived on raw meat for three days Such mountainous waves! they were as high as the upper-topsail yard and often higher still and when they would board us and sweep over the decks we all clinging to the main rigging it seemed to us that we should drown before it all passed over us so long were we in the wave During the whole gale we sped onward in our course " They ran into another terrific storm off the coast of France near Montpelier, where they encountered several ships in peril, and participated, along with soldiers on the shore, in a dramatic rescue of two sailors and a pilot from their capsized boat (one of whom later died). They went on to Paris and London, where Merrill wrote his next two letters, and returned home from Liverpool at the end of January. Merrill next writes at length about his voyage on board two Steamships (*Henry Chauncey* and *Sacramento*) and the storeship USS *Supply*. Setting off in November, he sailed first to Aspinwall (Colón) on the Atlantic coast of Panama, went across the isthmus by rail road to the City of Panama, and then on to Acapulco and San Francisco. In two letters from November, he gives descriptive accounts of Aspinwall, including several disparaging remarks about the crowds of "natives and negroes along the plaza the street was thronged with dusky vendors of fruit, claret, cakes, &c., jabbering the virtues of their merchandise in the most conglomerate mixture of English, Spanish and Samboish " He also describes the structure of the "many isolated [negro] huts" along the 48-mile railroad trip to Panama City, where they transfer their baggage, etc., onto the *Sacramento*: "The sea has been as smooth as a pan of milk ever since we left Panama Among the more noted of our passengers is Gen. Beuham of So. Carolina, late of C.S. Army Bishop Williams of the Episcopal Mission in China and other missionaries of China Spanish gentlemen and their families, merchants of China & Japan This morning early a poor fellow died, in the Steerage, of Panama fever. Another one is sick and will not live till evening [The sharks] have followed our ship all the time from Panama the surgeon said privately that there are other cases also " In a letter from December Merrill gives a long description of Acapulco: its harbor, streets and street vendors, the military fort and evidence of the French bombardment, etc. In San Francisco his time in the city itself, which he loves, is curtailed by preparations on board *Supply* for the voyage to Japan and China. In a long, six-page letter from February, 1868, he describes various excursions in Canton and Hong Kong: "All of us officers went to Canton and saw all the Elephants, including the Temple of 500 Gods Hong Kong has all the business that was formerly done in Canton In some places where we went but few Europeans had ever been, and we were curious objects of interest to the population One walled town we entered contrary to the permission of the natives, and there we met a 'Sing-Song' procession marching about in fantastic costumes, celebrating the advent of the Chinese New Year and when they saw us you may believe there was a scattering and scampering! They perhaps thought that the 'Fan-Kwei' (foreign devils) as they call foreigners, had come to kill and destroy At one town which I entered alone, the natives were much pleased to see a Fan-Kwei, and they pressed me to take oranges, paper cigarettes, &c. ad libitum We saw the forts (ruins of) at the Bocca Tigris, and the Barrier Forts near Canton, which were reduced by the American & English fleet in the China Squabble of 1858-9 Last Tuesday, W. & Thursday were the Annual Races here in Hong Kong. All the fashionable of the Colony were there We were invited to the whole course (3 days) and had quarters in the booths of Russell & Co. and Oliphant & Co. People and costumes of all nations mingled to make a dashing looking concourse " He concludes the letter with news about the Satsuma Samurai Rebellion of 1868: "You will probably hear about the outbreak and warfare in Japan the *Hartford* and *Aroostook* are preparing to go there the Prince of Satsuma has landed ten thousand men below Osaka, under the nose of one of the Tycoon's frigates without molestation, and marched them inland toward the City of the Mikado or Spiritual ruler, and had conflict with the Jap. national troops the life of Sir Harry Parkes has been attempted, and one or two of our U.S. sailors killed, and it is reported that the Tycoon has taken refuge on the U.S.S. Iroquois " On the voyage back from China Merr.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Stop Patching Servers. Start Engineering PlatformsAre you tired of configuration drift, endless security patches, and the anxiety of upgrading your Kubernetes nodes?For decades, we have treated our servers like pets, nursing them with SSH, shell scripts, and manual intervention. We built modern cloud-native applications on top of an operating system designed in the 1990s. The result? Fragile infrastructure, security vulnerabilities, and operational toil.It is time to delete your SSH keys.Talos Linux for DevOps is the definitive guide to mastering the first operating system designed exclusively for Kubernetes. Written for Site Reliability Engineers, Platform Engineers, and CTOs, this book takes you from the first boot to advanced disaster recovery, teaching you how to build infrastructure that is immutable, secure, and API-driven by default.Inside, you will discover how to: Eliminate the "General-Purpose Tax" Stop wasting resources and security surface area on an OS that thinks it's a desktop. Learn why removing the shell, SSH, and local users makes your cluster exponentially more secure.Master Atomic Upgrades: Say goodbye to apt-get update. Learn how Talos uses A/B partitioning to perform risk-free, atomic OS upgrades that can roll back automatically if they fail.Manage the OS via API: Discover talosctl and machined, and learn how to manage your operating system with the same precision as your Kubernetes workloads-using structured data, not text files.Implement True GitOps: Extend your GitOps workflow below the Kubernetes layer. Learn how to manage your kernel parameters, network interfaces, and disk encryption declaratively using Flux or Argo CD.Architect High Availability: Build production-ready control planes, configure Virtual IPs (VIPs) for failover, and understand the mathematics of Etcd quorum to prevent downtime.Execute Disaster Recovery: Go beyond backups. Learn the exact workflows to recover a lost control plane, restore Etcd from snapshots, and "nuke and pave" corrupted nodes with confidence.Who is this book for?This book is for the DevOps engineer who is ready to stop fighting the operating system. Whether you are running on bare metal, AWS, or at the edge, Talos Linux for DevOps provides the architectural blueprints and hands-on commands you need to build a platform that is boring, predictable, and unbreakable.Transform your infrastructure into an immutable engine of reliability. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Leather Bound. Condizione: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1893. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages:- 814, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 814 814.

Leather Bound. Condizione: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1878. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages:- 822, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 822 822.