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Langewiesche, William
American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
New York North Point Press; Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002 0865475822 / 9780865475823 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Fine
205 pp.; 22 cm. With a New Afterword by the Author. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Small remainder mark (dot)/top edge. Stated "First Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "At the center of the book is the team of engineers, many of them instrumental in building the towers, who now must collaborate in the sad task of disassembling them. Their responses are as dramatic and unpredictable as the shifting pile of rubble and the surrounding 'slurry wall' that constantly threatens to collapse, potentially flooding a large part of underground Manhattan. They are also emotional and territorial, as firemen, police, widows, and officials attempt to claim the tragedy-and the difficult work of extracting the rubble and the thousands of dead buried there-as their own." - Publisher.
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Langewiesche, William
Cutting for Sign
New York Pantheon Books 1994 0679411135 / 9780679411130 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover Very Good Fine
247 pp., map; 22 cm. Map on lining papers. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Corners mildly bumped. Stated "First Edition." Fine DJ. On the 1,951-mile border between the U.S. and Mexico, the Mexican-American Border Region, and Mexican-American relations.
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Langewiesche, William
The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor
New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007 0374106789 / 9780374106782 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover Very Good Fine
Cloth, 179 pp., map; 22 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Stated "First edition." Fine DJ. "In his shocking and revelatory new work, the celebrated journalist William Langewiesche investigates the burgeoning global threat of nuclear weapons production. This is the story of the inexorable drift of nuclear weapons technology from the hands of the rich into the hands of the poor. As more unstable and undeveloped nations find ways of acquiring the ultimate arms, the stakes of state-sponsored nuclear activity have soared to frightening heights. Even more disturbing is the likelihood of such weapons being manufactured and deployed by guerrilla non-state terrorists. Langewiesche also recounts the recent history of Abdul Qadeer Khan, the scientist at the forefront of nuclear development and trade in the Middle East who masterminded the theft and sale of centrifuge designs that helped to build Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, and who single-handedly peddled nuclear plans to North Korea, Iran, and other potentially hostile countries. He then examines in dramatic and tangible detail the chances for nuclear terrorism. From Hiroshima to the present day, Langewiesche describes a reality of urgent consequence to us all. This searing, provocative, and timely report is a triumph of investigative journalism, and a masterful laying out of the most critical political problem [sic] the world now faces. / William Langewiesche is the author of five previous books, Cutting for Sign, Sahara Unveiled, Inside the Sky, American Ground, and, most recently, The Outlaw Sea. He is currently International Correspondent for Vanity Fair, and was for years a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, where this book originated." - Publisher.
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Langewiesche, William
The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime
New York North Point Press; Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004 0865475814 / 9780865475816 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine Collectible
239 pp., maps; 22 cm. Maps on lining papers. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First Edition." Fine DJ. "Even if we live within sight of the sea, it is easy to forget that our world is an ocean world. The open ocean--that vast expanse of international waters--begins just a few miles out and spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and manmade. And at a time when every last patch of land is claimed by one government or another, it is a place that remains radically free. With typically understated lyricism, William Langewiesche explores this ocean world and the enterprises--licit and illicit--that flourish in the privacy afforded by its horizons. Forty-three thousand gargantuan ships ply the open ocean, carrying nearly all the raw materials and products on which our lives are built. Many are owned or managed by one-ship companies so ghostly that they exist only on paper. They are the embodiment of modern global capital and the most independent objects on earth--many of them without allegiances of any kind, changing identity and nationality at will. Here is free enterprise at it freest, opportunity taken to extremes. But its efficiencies are accompanied by global problems--shipwrecks and pollution, the hard lives and deaths of the crews, and the growth of two perfectly adapted pathogens: a modern and sophisticated strain of piracy and its close cousin, the maritime form of the new stateless terrorism. This is the outlaw sea--perennially defiant and untamable--that Langewiesche brings startlingly into view. The ocean is our world, he reminds us, and it is wild. / William Langewiesche is the author of four previous books, Cutting For Sign, Sahara Unveiled, Inside the Sky and American Sky. He is a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, where this book originated." - Publisher.
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