Polaris!: The Concept & Creation of a New & Mighty Weapon [Hardcover]

James Baar (Author), William E. Howard (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 245 pages
• Publisher: Harcourt (September 1960)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0151726590
• ISBN-13: 978-0151726592
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,334,053 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

James Baar is a writer, lexicographer, blogger, international corporate communications consultant, corporate communications software developer, former business executive and Washington journalist and sometime college lecturer. His latest book, The Real Thing and Other Tales, is a collection of 28 short stories categorized as Tales of Fog and Spin, Icy Water and Cold Turkey, Signs and Portents, and Epiphanies. His latest non-fiction book, But Wait! There's More! (maybe), coauthored with Donald E. Creamer, dissects chaos in the $500 billion global ad business. Other books include two satirical business novels: Ultimate Severance, a spin-soaked excursion through an Enroned world featuring designer murder, and The Great Free Enterprise Gambit, an instructive story of a highly hostile mega-business takeover and related public affairs; also Spinspeak II: The Dictionary of Language Pollution; and four books on politics and technology covering the early years of the Cold War. Baar is the editor of The Spinspeak Letter, an online report dedicated to exposire of contemporary spin in its many insidious forms.

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