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New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Good. xv, [1], 439, [7] pages. Illustrations. Minor DJ soiling. DJ flap curled. Minor fep rippling. Includes Introduction: Gwyneth's Pilgrimage by Richard Rhodes. Also contains chapters on Origins; The Invisible Storm; The Hidden World; The Kingdom of Electricity; Closing the Circle; and Borrowing from Our Children. Also contains Notes, Glossary, Acknowledgments, and Index. Gwyneth Cravens is an American novelist and journalist. She has published five novels. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, where she also worked as a fiction editor, and in Harper's Magazine, where she was an associate editor. She has contributed articles and editorials on science and other topics to Harper's Magazine, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. At a September 2007 seminar given by the Long Now Foundation, Cravens outlined the message of her book, Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy. It argued for nuclear power as a safe energy source and an essential preventive of global warming. She appeared in the documentary Pandora's Promise to speak about the merits of nuclear power. She has given presentations to technical and academic communities around the U.S., including the Brookings Institution, the University of Hartford, and Sandia National Laboratories. She has often shared the podium with Dr. D. Richard ("Rip") Anderson, a chemist, oceanographer, and international expert in nuclear risk assessment. These talks emphasize the need for the environmental and technical communities to work together to reduce the causes of catastrophic climate change. With concerns about catastrophic global warming mounting, it is vital that we examine all our energy options. This book describes the efforts of one determined woman, Gwyneth Cravens, initially a skeptic about nuclear power, as she spends nearly a decade immersing herself in the subject. She teams up with a leading expert in risk assessment and nuclear safety who is also a committed environmentalist to trace the path of uranium--the source of nuclear fuel--from start to finish. As we accompany them on visits to mines as well as to experimental reactor laboratories, fortress-like power plants, and remote waste sites normally off-limits to the public, we come to see that we already have a feasible way to address the causes of global warming on a large scale. Derived from a review in Publishers Weekly: Novelist and science reporter Cravens begins this journey of discovery "through the Nuclear world" dubious of nuclear power's safety and utility: "I'd participated in ban-the-bomb rallies" but "never considered the fate of a retired weapon." Her trip begins with a casual conversation with nuclear physicist Dr. Richard "Rip" Anderson on the hidden warheads being dismantled outside Albuquerque, N.M.; as it turns out, the nuclear ""pits"" were to be used for fuel in nuclear reactors. Curiosity, and Rip's conviction that no other large-scale energy source is as "safe, reliable, and clean," drives Craven to spend 10 years with the scientist traveling to national laboratories, uranium mines and nuclear waste sites; reviewing accounts of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island; and examining modern reactor designs, the life cycle of uranium and studies on radiation's effects since 1945. Gradually convinced that "uranium is cleaner and safer throughout its shielded journey from cradle to grave than our other big baseload electricity resource, fossil fuel," Craven has submitted a thorough, persuasive report from the front lines of the world's energy and climate crises, illuminating for general readers the pros and cons of a highly misunderstood resource., Alfred A. Knopf, 2007, 2.75, Paperback / softback. New. <p>At the turn of the twentieth century, ambitious publishers like Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, and Robert McCormick produced the most spectacular newspapers Americans had ever read.  Alongside current events and classified ads, publishers began running comic strips, sports sections, women’s pages, and Sunday magazines. Newspapers’ lavish illustrations, colorful dialogue, and sensational stories seemed to reproduce city life on the page. </p><p>Yet as Julia Guarneri reveals, newspapers did not simply report on cities; they also helped to build them.  Metropolitan sections and civic campaigns crafted cohesive identities for sprawling metropolises.  Real estate sections boosted the suburbs, expanding metropolitan areas while maintaining cities’ roles as economic and information hubs.  Advice columns and advertisements helped assimilate migrants and immigrants to a class-conscious, consumerist, and cosmopolitan urban culture.</p><p><i>Newsprint Metropolis</i> offers a tour of American newspapers in their most creative and vital decades.  It traces newspapers’ evolution into highly commercial, mass-produced media, and assesses what was gained and lost as national syndicates began providing more of Americans’ news.  Case studies of Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, and Milwaukee illuminate the intertwined histories of newspapers and the cities they served.  In an era when the American press is under attack, <i>Newsprint Metropolis</i> reminds us how papers once hosted public conversations and nurtured collective identities in cities across America. </p>, 6, ISBN:9781250858801Picador Paper, 04 April 2023Paperback, 720 pagesINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolutionfrom the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequalityand revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlikeeither free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or by taming our baser instincts. In their major New York Times bestseller, The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow fundamentally challenge these assumptions and recast our understanding of human history. We will never again see the past in the same way.Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, Graeber and Wengrow reveal how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual blinders and perceive what's really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing during all that time? If agriculture and cities did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organizations did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more open to playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume.Destined to be a classic, The Dawn of Everything signals a paradigm shift, profoundly transforming our understanding of the human past and making space to imagine new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual and political range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and hopefulness.Editorial ReviewsReview"Graeber and Wengrow offer a history of the past 30,000 years that is not only wildly different from anything we're used to, but also far more interesting: textured, surprising, paradoxical, inspiring . . . It aims to replace the dominant grand narrative of history not with another of its own devising, but with the outline of a picture, only just becoming visible, of a human past replete with political experiment and creativity." William Deresiewicz, The Atlantic"[An] iconoclastic and irreverent new book . . . an exhilarating read." David Priestland, The Guardian (UK)"An instant classic . . . Fatalistic sentiments about human nature melt away upon turning the pages . . . [The Dawn of Everything] sits in a different class to all the other volumes on world history we are accustomed to reading . . . If comparisons must be made, they should be made with works of similar caliber in other fields, most credibly, I venture, with the works of Galileo or Darwin. Graeber and Wengrow do to human history what the first two did to astronomy and biology respectively." Giulio Ongaro, Jacobin"A boldly ambitious work that seems intent to attack received wisdoms and myths on almost every one of its nearly 700 absorbing pages . . . entertaining and thought-provoking . . . an impressively large undertaking that succeeds in making us reconsider not just the remote past but also the too-close-to-see present, as well as the common thread that is our shifting and elusive nature." Andrew Anthony, The Observer (UK)"The Dawn of Everything is a lively, and often very funny, anarchist project that aspires to enlarge our political imagination by revitalizing the possibilities of the distant past . . . It disavows the intellectual trappings of a knowable arc, a linear structure, and internal necessity. As a stab at grandeur stripped of grandiosity, the book rejects the logic of technological or ecological determinism, structuring its narrative around our ancestors' improvisatory responses to the challenges of happenstance." Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker"[The Dawn of Everything] took as its immodest goal nothing less than upending everything we think we know about the origins and evolution of human societies . . . [the book] aims to synthesize new archaeological discoveries of recent decades that haven't made it out of specialist journals and into public consciousness." Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times"A fascinating, radical, and playful entry into a seemingly exhaustively well-trodden genre, the grand evolutionary history of humanity. It seeks nothing less than to completely upend the terms on which the Standard Narrative rests . . . erudite, compelling, generative, and frequently remarkably funny . . . once you start thinking like Graeber and Wengrow, it's difficult to stop." Emily M. Kern, Boston Review"Our forebears crafted their societies intentionally and intelligently: This is the fundamental, electrifying insight of The Dawn of Everything. It's a book that refuses to dismiss long-ago peoples as corks floating on the waves of prehistory. Instead, it treats them as reflective political thinkers from whom we might learn something." Daniel Immerwahr, The Nation"The Dawn of Everything is an upbeat book . . . Prehistory, Graeber and Wengrow insist, is vastly more interesting than scholars knew until recently. And not just more interesting, but more inspiring as well . . . this book testifies to David Graeber's admirable energy, imagination, and love of freedom." George Scialabba, The New Republic"The book's 704 pages teem with possibilities. They are a testament, in the authors' view, to human agency and invention a capacity for conscious political decision-making that conventional history ignores." Molly Fischer, New York Magazine"This book is a bomb that explodes everything we've ever believed about the history of the human race." Ken Follett, Daily Mail"Sentence by sentence, [The Dawn of Everything] is clear and forceful and funny, memorable in the manner of a lecture by the kind of professor whose students know they are lucky . . . The authors have organized a profusion of ideas, details, and explanatory paradigms into a vast but comprehensible design, while never ceasing to delight and instruct." Phil Christman, Commonweal Magazine"The premise is exhilarating, and its implications are only beginning to be considered. . . . [You] get the sense that a political consciousness is an artistic consciousness. This view enables us to look at works of art with renewed optimism, as little windows into alternative ways of living rather than 'artificial hells.' . . . At a moment when so many artists, curators, and academics are eager to "decenter the human" in their work, The Dawn of Everything invites us to do the (much harder) job of reframing the braided questions of what humankind was, is, and could be." Simon Wu, Artforum"A startlingly new picture of our shared past: messier and more complicated, flush with diversity, experimentation, and, above all, freedom . . . A culmination of Graeber's lifelong project, as well as a testament to the power of intellectual collaboration . . . A new origin story of human societies, one with a horizon beyond our present disillusionment." Jared Spears, Yes! Magazine"Brainy . . . the latestand most provocativein a line of Big History: bold, panoptic works that offer to explain the whole sweep of man's story . . . [as] passionate as you'd expect from a decade-long labor of loveconceived by two learned and mischievous men." Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal"A fascinating argument about why humans today are 'stuck' in rigid, hierarchical states that would have appalled our ancestors . . . a fitting capstone to [Graeber's] career . . . The Dawn of Everything begins as a sharp rejoinder to sloppy cultural analysis and ends as a paean to freedoms that most of us never realized were available. Knowing that there were other ways to live, Graeber and Wengrow conclude, allows us to rethink what we might yet become." Annalee Newitz, The Washington Post"Ambitious, polemical and subversive . . . intellectually formidable . . . stimulating entertainment fueled by skepticism, a voracious appetite for research and a sense of humor. Their writing styleconversational and tantalizing, even in copious footnotes in which they call out contemporary anthropologistskeeps the reader absorbed . . . fundamentally encouraging." Carlo Wolff, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"An engrossing series of insights into how 'the conventional narrative of human history is not only wrong, but quite needlessly dull'." Anthony Doerr, The Guardian"[A] sense of revelation animates this provocative take on humankind's social journey." Bruce Bower, Science News"Graeber and Wengrow hope to show that human imagination and possibility is broader and more hopeful than we let ourselves believe." Noah Berlatsky, NBC News"Wengrow and Graeber's project has been to show how alternatives of social and economic organization have been a deep part of our ancestry all along . . . No recent book is gaining faster traction in the artworld right now. Artists, take note." Art Review"This sweeping and novel synthesis exploring the arc of the human condition . . . may well prove to be the most important book of the decade, for it explodes deeply held myths about the inevitability of our social lives dominated by the state. It is at once a sophisticated analysis packaged in accessible prose that moves briskly in the unfolding tale of humanity's many forms of being and becoming." James H. McDonald, New York Journal of Books"With vivid narrative prose and rich detail... [The Dawn of Everything] take[s] readers on a myth-busting journey through the inner workings of prehistoric and historic societies around the world, showcasing the remarkable intelligence and agency of ancient peoples and the diverse societal solutions that they helped shape . . . Like Graeber, The Dawn of Everything is a rabble-rousera great book that will stimulate discussions, change minds, and drive new lines of research." Erle C. Ellis, Science"A thoroughly mesmerizing book . . . There are almost unlimited possibilities here to build upon . . . If there are any lessons to be drawn from the past, it is that almost any cultural software can be run on human hardware. As Graeber and Wengrow compellingly demonstrate, this suggests a tantalizing range of possibilities for organizing the political world." Matthew Porges, Los Angeles Review of Books"The Dawn of Everything, chockablock with archaeological and ethnographic minutiae, is an oddly gripping read. Graeber, who did his fieldwork in Madagascar, was well known for his caustic wit and energetic prose, and Wengrow, too, has established himself not only as an accomplished archaeologist working in the Middle East but as a gifted and lively writer . . . an imaginative success . . . At its core is a fascinating proposal about human values, about the nature of a good and just existence." Kwame Anthony Appiah, The New York Review of Books"An ingenious new look at 'the broad sweep of human history' and many of its 'foundational' stories . . . [Graeber and Wengrow] take a dim view of conventional accounts of the rise of civilizations, emphasize contributions from Indigenous cultures and the missteps of the great Enlightenment thinkers, and draw countless thought-provoking conclusions . . . A fascinating, intellectually challenging big book about big ideas." Kirkus Reviews [starred review]"Pacey and potentially revolutionary . . . the argument of the book is firmly based on a deluge of recent evidence that suggests that pre-agricultural societies were complex, that agriculture was not the sudden turning point it is claimed to be and, most importantly, that large, successful systems such as cities have been run without central, rule-giving controllers . . . This is more than an argument about the past, it is about the human condition in the present." Bryan Appleyard, The Sunday Times (UK)"The Dawn of Everything reimagines the human story from its earliest beginnings. Easily one of my favorite books of the year, every chapter left me with something to chew over. This is one of those books that will challenge you to reconsider everything." -Emily B., Powells.com"As new discoveries upend what we think we know about human history, it is time to jettison old narratives and tell new stories about ancestors who were as humanand thus as vibrant, intelligent and complicatedas ourselves. Graeber and Wengrow take on this task with verve and passion." Philip Deloria, co-editor of A Companion to American Indian History"Graeber and Wengrow have effectively overturned everything I ever thought about the history of the world. A thorough and elegant refutation of evolutionary theories of history, The Dawn of Everything introduces us to a world populated by smart, creative, complicated people who, for thousands of years, invented virtually every form of social organization imaginable and pursued freedom, knowledge, experimentation, and happiness way before the "Enlightenment." The authors don't just debunk the myths, they give a thrilling intellectual history of how they came about, why they persist, and what it all means for the just future we hope to create. The most profound and exciting book I've read in thirty years." Robin D.G. Kelley, Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History, UCLA, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination"This is not a book. This is an intellectual feast. There is not a single chapter that does not (playfully) disrupt well seated intellectual beliefs. It is deep, effortlessly iconoclastic, factually rigorous, and pleasurable to read." Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author The Black Swan"The Dawn of Everything is also the radical revision of everything, liberating us from the familiar stories about humanity's past that are too often deployed to impose limitations on how we imagine humanity's future. Instead they tell us that what human beings are most of all is creative, from the beginning, so that there is no one way we were or should or could be. Another of the powerful currents running through this book is a reclaiming of Indigenous perspectives as a colossal influence on European thought, a valuable contribution to decolonizing global histories." Rebecca Solnit, author of Hope in the Dark and Orwell's Roses"Not content with different answers to the great questions of human history, Graeber and Wengrow insist on revolutionizing the very questions we ask. The result: a dazzling, original, and convincing account of the rich, playful, reflective, and experimental symposia that 'pre-modern' indigenous life represents; and a challenging re-writing of the intellectual history of anthropology and archaeology. The Dawn of Everything deserves to become the port of embarkation for virtually all subsequent w, 0, New. A towering figure on the American cultural landscape, H.L. Mencken stands out as one of our most influential stylists and fearless iconoclasts-the twentieth century's greatest newspaper journalist, a famous wit, and a constant figure of controversy. Marion Elizabeth Rodgers has written the definitive biography of Mencken, the finest book ever published about this giant of American letters. Rodgers illuminates both the public and the private man, covering the many love affairs, his happy marriage at the age of 50 to Sara Haardt, and his complicated but stimulating friendship with the famed theater critic George Jean Nathan. Rodgers vividly recreates Mencken's era: the glittering tapestry of turn-of-the-century America, the roaring twenties, depressed thirties, and the home front during World War II. But the heart of the book is Mencken. When few dared to shatter complacencies, Mencken fought for civil liberties and free speech, playing a prominent role in the Scope's Monkey Trial, battling against press censorship, and exposing pious frauds and empty uplift. The champion of our tongue in The American Language, Mencken also played a pivotal role in defining American letters through The Smart Set and The American Mercury, magazines that introduced such writers as James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Langston Hughes. Drawing on research in more than sixty archives including private collections in the United States and in Germany, previously unseen, on exclusive interviews with Mencken's friends, and on his love letters and FBI files, here is the full portrait of one of America's most colorful and influential men. &quot;This biography, the best ever on the sage of Baltimore, is exhaustive but never exhausting, and offers readers more than moderate intelligence and an awfully good time.&quot; -Martin Nolan, Boston Globe, 6, Private Temple and Presentation Name Plate FPD, Residual glue from pocket removal, BLEP, else content appears as unread and unblemished with very fine very dark green boards displaying minimal surface/edge wear.Established in New York in 1955 by Zionist leader Emanuel Neumann, Midstream immediately proclaimed its identity as a Zionist publication and its intention to focus squarely upon the problems of Jewish existence in the diaspora. This article asks: How did the early Midstream, under the direction of its first editor, Shlomo Katz, attempt to position itself as a new and indispensable voice in Jewish and especially in Zionist letters? Did the magazine differ in significant ways from its ostensible competitors? How may we assess Katz's role and legacy at Midstream? To begin answering these questions, the article examines the extent to which founding editor Shlomo Katz, as an idiosyncratic Zionist and unadulterated pessimist, shaped the magazine. For Katz as an intellectual, Jewish needs always came first. Yet in seeking to maintain Midstream as a forum for free discussion, he sometimes provided room for novel or provocative perspectives on matters of importance to the Jewish communityincluding, prominently, Israel. Drawing on issues from the first eighteen years of Midstream as well as archival materials pertaining to its administration, this essay illuminates a significant intellectual and cultural venue in postwar American Jewish life, one that has largely been neglected by scholars of postwar American Jewish history. Shipping/Handling/Insurance/Tracking Included within the continental U.S. (Free Shipping). Extra Charges/Fees apply on Shipments Outside The U.S. and Expedited Shipments. Oversize and/or heavy books may require additional fees. Will advise. Written 1.14.21J Biblio #4565-20721 Img.#5682, Thomas Yoseloff, 1970, 4, London: Art / Books Publishing, 2013. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. A tight copy. Terence Donovan was one of the foremost photographers of his generation--among the greatest Britain has ever produced. He came to prominence in London as part of a postwar renaissance in art, fashion, graphic design and photography, and--alongside David Bailey and Brian Duffy (photographers of a similar working-class background)--he captured and helped create the Swinging London of the 1960s. Donovan socialized with celebrities and royalty, and found himself elevated to stardom in his own right, and yet, despite his success and status, there has never been a serious evaluation of Donovans fashion work: he allowed no monographs to be published during his lifetime. Terence Donovan Fashion is therefore the first publication of his fashion photographs. Arranged chronologically, and with an illuminating text by Robin Muir (ex-picture editor of Vogue), the book considers Donovan in the social and cultural context of his time, showing how his constant experimentation not only set him apart, but also influenced generations to come. Designed by former art director of Nova magazine and Pentagram partner David Hillman, and with images selected by Hillman, the artists widow Diana Donovan and Grace Coddington, creative director of American Vogue, this volume is indisputably a landmark publication in the history of fashion photography. Record # 353265, Art / Books Publishing, 2013, 3, Boston: Beacon Press, 1993. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Near fine with minor edge wear and slight soiling, in near fine jacket now housed in archival mylar sleeve.. Quarto in black jacket illus in purples and pinks; xiii, 378 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm; bibliographical references (pages 353-367) and index. "For thousands of gay men and lesbians in America, Cherry Grove - the oldest continuously inhabited resort on Fire Island - has meant freedom. Not simply the leisure-time freedoms from work and noise and pollution, but the far rarer freedom to socialize in public without risking a beating, to stroll arm in arm without hesitation, to leave the curtains open without fear - in short, to live the American dream that was denied to gay men and lesbians on the U.S. mainland. In her rich and detailed cultural history of Cherry Grove, Esther Newton tells for the first time the full story of this unique community, the oldest gay and lesbian town in America. Covering the years from the 1930s to the present day, Newton has captured the lives of "oldtimers" the people who created Cherry Grove's gay life decades ago, as well as the lives of relative newcomers. Interviewing nearly a hundred people, Newton shares with us the words of the men and women who have built the houses, tended the businesses, preserved the land, and conserved the rich identity of the Grove. The resort's first gay residents were deeply involved in the arts, and the early chapters of the book recall the lasting impact of the many Grovers on the world of New York theater, magazines, and nightclubs. In addition, Newton recounts the Grove's land battles, community disputes, and interpersonal rivalries as well as episodes of violence, police harassment, exploitation by the media, and hatred from straights. Grovers survive, Newton finds, by relying on their own brand of camp culture - a blend of theatricality, partying, and cross-dressing that is at the heart of the community's distinctive and autonomous gay sensibility. Vivid recollections of the Grove's outrageous parties and productions, especially the well-known "Invasion" of the neighboring Pines resort, are woven together with the residents' recognition of the toil that encroaching old age and the onslaught of AIDS is taking on Grove's life. Sustained throughout by the author's personal observations and reflections, Cherry Grove, Fire Island illuminates both the history of America's first gay and lesbian community as well as the significant role of gay men and lesbians in twentieth-century American history."—Publisher. // Lesbians -- New York (State) -- Cherry Grove -- History. Gay men -- New York (State) -- Cherry Grove -- History. Gays -- New York (State) -- Fire Island (Island) -- History. Gay community -- New York (State) -- Fire Island (Island) -- History. Lesbian community -- New York (State) -- Fire Island (Island) -- History. Gay community. Gay men. Gays. Lesbian community. Lesbians. Lesbe Geschichte Homosexueller Homoseksuelen. New York (State) Fire Island -- History., Beacon Press, 1993, 4, Hardback. New. <p>The fifty months of the Siberian Intervention encompass the existential crisis which affected Japanese at virtually all levels when confronted with the new world situation left in the wake of the First World War. From elite politicians and military professionals, to public intellectuals and the families of servicemen in small garrison to wns, the intervention was perceived as a test of how Japan might fit itself into the emerging postwar world order. Both domestically and internationally Japan actions in Siberia were seen as critical proof of the nation’s ability, depending on one viewpoint, to embrace or to ride out the trends of the times, the seeming triumph of constitutional democracy and Wilsonian internationalism. The course of the Siberian Intervention illuminates the struggle to cement responsible party cabinets at the heart of Japanese decision making, the high water mark of efforts to bring the Japanese military under civilian control, the attempt to fundamentally reshape Japanese continental policy, and the hopes of millions of Japanese that their voices be heard and their desires respected by the nation’s leaders. The book attempts a broad examination of domestic politics, foreign policy, and military action by incorporating a wide array of voices through a detailed examination of public comment and discussion in journals and magazines, the major circulation daily newspapers of Tokyo and Osaka as well as those of smaller cities such as Nara, Mito, Oita, and Tsuruga.</p>, 6, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. Hardcover. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2012 University of Pennsylvania Press hardcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. "Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world. In 1914, the PRR employed more than two hundred thousand people--more than double the number of soldiers in the United States Army. As the self-proclaimed "Standard Railroad of the World," this colossal corporate body underwrote American industrial expansion and shaped the economic, political, and social environment of the United States. In turn, the PRR was fundamentally shaped by the American landscape, adapting to geography as well as shifts in competitive economics and public policy. Albert J. Churella's masterful account, certain to become the authoritative history of the Pennsylvania Railroad, illuminates broad themes in American history, from the development of managerial practices and labor relations to the relationship between business and government to advances in technology and transportation. Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation. This first volume opens with the development of the Main Line of Public Works, devised by Pennsylvanians in the 1820s to compete with the Erie Canal. Though a public rather than a private enterprise, the Main Line foreshadowed the establishment of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1846. Over the next decades, as the nation weathered the Civil War, industrial expansion, and labor unrest, the PRR expanded despite competition with rival railroads and disputes with such figures as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The dawn of the twentieth century brought a measure of stability to the railroad industry, enabling the creation of such architectural monuments as Pennsylvania Station in New York City. The volume closes at the threshold of American involvement in World War I, as the strategies that PRR executives had perfected in previous decades proved less effective at guiding the company through increasingly tumultuous economic and political waters. ., University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012, 6, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First Edition. Fourth Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 22 cm. [8], 245, [3] pages. Frontis map. Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Inscription on title page signed and dated by Ross H. Munro. Richard Bernstein (born May 5, 1944) is an American journalist, columnist, and author. He writes the Letter from America column for The International Herald Tribune. He was a book critic at The New York Times and a foreign correspondent for both Time magazine and The New York Times in Europe and Asia. In 1973, Bernstein joined the staff of Time magazine tasked with writing about Asia. In 1979, he opened the magazine's first bureau in the People's Republic of China and served as the first Beijing bureau chief. A distinguished writer and scholar, Ross H. Munro is co-author of The Coming Conflict with China, the widely hailed publication that was the first major book to argue that the People's Republic of China has emerged as America's most formidable rival. The book and Mr. Munro were subjected to one of the heaviest attacks by the P.R.C. media in years. The Coming Conflict with China (1997) was chosen as one of The New York Times "Notable Books of the Year 1997." An informed and illuminating examination of a high-stakes clash of competing ideologies and economic interests. From two former Beijing bureau chiefs with long experience in Asian affairs comes a clear-eyed and uncompromising look at the potentially disastrous collision course now taking shape in U.S.-China relations. Aggressively anti-American, China has nuclear weapons deliberately targeted at the United States. Recent confrontations between Chinese and American military forces indicate that China may try to take Taiwan by force. While our trade deficit rises to unprecedented heights, the powerful new china lobby shapes U.S. policy with the support of American businesses eager for a share of its booming markets. The Coming Conflict with China is required reading for those who wish to understand the tense global rivalry that is already shaping the course of the 21st century., Alfred A. Knopf, 1997, 3, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1991. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Price clipped. Signed by author. DJ has slight wear and soiling.. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 430, [2] p. Tables. Notes. Index. Americans, by and large, have rejected the political process. They resent politicians, don't vote, and distrust government. An illuminating book that explains why the American political system is foundering; why most Americans have lost interest in participating; and how we may breathe vitality back into our public life. From Wikipedia: "Eugene Joseph "E. J." Dionne, Jr. (born April 23, 1952) is an American journalist and political commentator, and a long-time op-ed columnist for The Washington Post. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a University Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy, and an NPR, MSNBC, and PBS commentator. Dionne's published works include the influential 1991 bestseller Why Americans Hate Politics, which argued that several decades of political polarization was alienating a silent centrist majority. It was characterized as radical centrist by Time magazine.", Simon & Schuster, 1991, 3, Buffalo: Presence Press, 1967. Staplebound illustrated card wraps [octavo] , unpaginated [56 pp]. Very Good, soiled and toned to wraps, lightly edgeworn, offsetting between pages from text ink, binding very sound.. Scarce journal out of Buffalo helmed by then-student Dan Connell, who would go on to be a widely-published and publicized American figure in the effort for Eritrean independence and two-time MacArthur grant recipient. Contributors include (among others) Allen De Loach, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Lewis MacAdams, Daniel John Zimmerman, and John Wieners-- who contributes the seemingly otherwise unpublished piece "Wind Comes from the Mountain" and a statement on poetics in lieu of a bio. Connell's editorial preface posits the magazine as a "voice of spiritual change" rather than a coherent manifesto -- although offering a few vague convictions itself ("If only to SEE that candles are not substitutes for electric lights"), it is perhaps best articulated in its last passage: "Dropping out is withdrawing yourself as a threat. To anyone. Acid is only one of an infinite number of possibilities. Itself infinite possibility." An illuminating representation of the inchoate but unignorable urge many American students felt to turn their editorial and publishing efforts simultaneously towards the poetic and the political, hoping to sacrifice the integrity of neither., Presence Press, 1967, 3, Paperback / softback. New. Poets often have responded vitally to the art of their time, and ever since Susan Stewart began writing about art in the early 1980s, her work has resonated with practicing artists, curators, art historians, and art critics. Rooted in a broad and learned range of references, Stewart's fresh and independent essays bridge the fields of literature, aesthetics, and contemporary art. Gathering most of Stewart's writing on contemporary art--long and short pieces first published in small magazines, museum and gallery publications, and edited collections--The Open Studio illuminates work ranging from the installation art of Ann Hamilton to the sculptures and watercolors of Thomas Schutte, the prints and animations of William Kentridge to the films of Tacita Dean. Stewart's essays are often the record of studio conversations with living artists and curators, and of the afterlife of those experiences in the solitude of her own study. Considering a wide variety of art forms, Stewart finds pathbreaking ways to explore them. Whether she is following central traditions of painting, drawing, sculpture, film, photography, and printmaking or exploring the less well-known realms of portrait miniatures, collecting practices, doll-making, music boxes, and gardening, Stewart speaks to the creative process in general and to the relation between art and ethics. The Open Studio will be read eagerly by scholars of art, poetry, and visual theory; by historians interested in the links between contemporary and classic literature and art; and by teachers, students, and practitioners of the visual arts., 6, New York: N.Y. / New York: Time Home Entertainment for Sports Illustrated, 2013, 1st Edition, First Printing, 2013. -----------( 1st printing of the First edition ) hardcover, a Fine example in a Fine dustjacket, looks new, 303 pages, colour photos throughout, ---"The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue has captured imaginations for 50 years with its annual celebration of the world's most exquisite bodies. From cover girls Christie Brinkley to Heidi Klum to Kate Upton, this yearly publishing sensation has launched the careers of so many supermodels. Elle, Tyra and Brooklyn have become household names. -----In Swimsuit: 50 Years of Beautiful, SI reveals the inside story of how what began as an eight-page travel piece has emerged as one of the most powerful--and hotly anticipated--media events of the year, with a global audience of more than 70 million. This alluring anniversary edition features: ----- Star athletes in swimsuits ----- The magic of bodypainting----- Never-before-seen outtakes ----- All the iconic covers -----every model who has graced the issue is here, from Cheryl Tiegs in her fishnet suit to Kathy Ireland and her record 12 appearances. ---Swimsuit: 50 Years of Beautifulis the definitive account of an extraordinary publication illuminated by hundreds of unique and breathtaking photographs--stunning women in captivating poses in exotic locales. Beautiful "---, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo. /// SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE /// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)---. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine (see description)/Fine (see description). Illus. by Photo Cover. 11.25w X 13 Inches. NOT Price Clipped., N.Y. / New York: Time Home Entertainment for Sports Illustrated, 2013, 1st Edition, First Printing, 2013, 5, Name inscribed FLEP, else content appears as unread and unblemished with fine black boards displaying no Significant surface/edge wear, in DJ displaying surface/edge wear as shown, with repaired & reinforced chipping and closed tears.Kirkus Review: After all the pre-publication hype--a disaster. Talese (Honor Thy Father) may have indeed spent nine years researching and pondering "the social and sexual trends of the entire nation"; but what he has gotten down on paper is a flat, unfocused mishmash, chunks of oversimplified socio-legal history (censorship cases up through the Burger Court's "community standards" rulings) alternating with close-ups of sex heroes/merchants (mostly a fawning portrait of Playboy's Hugh Hefner) and converts to the new sexual freedom (mostly the habituÃs of an anything-goes retreat called Sandstone). Isn't this steamy stuff, you ask? Well, some of it--sort of. But nothing is alive here, let alone erotic, because Talese uses virtually no quotations, instead paraphrasing everything in a leaden, fatuously serious monotone that ranges from unintentionally comic ("Each day the penis is prey to sexual sights in the street"") to anatomically unlikely ("He felt his penis stalking within his shorts. . . . If there was a way to her heart, it was possibly through virtuouso performances upon her vulva") to just plain embarrassing ("the smooth, soothing, glistening lovemaking on the satin sheets aroused him to peaks of passionate pleasure"). Moreover, one quickly gets the idea that the content of this book has been largely determined by which of Talese's subjects were willing to Tell All, thus putting disproportionate emphasis on just a few, hardly representative, sexual case-histories: a dull, selfish couple who got seduced into wife-swapping and then into orgiastic Sandstone; the insatiable Sandstone leader and his wife; Betty Dodson, "a self-proclaimed Phallic Woman." Likewise, self-promoter Hefner gets the most space here--not just for his magazine but for his soap-operatically detailed, multi-bunnied, voyeuristic lifestyle. And there's also room for sketchier profiles of Wilhelm Reich, Al Goldstein (Screw magazine), Alex Comfort, JFK as a "hallic President," massage parlors, and the 19th-century Oneida settlement. Throughout, the psychology is superficial, the reporting accepts far too much at face value (what Talese may think of as objectivity reads as gullibility), and there's no real illumination of how or why U.S. morality has changed (and it certainly hasn't changed as much as this spotty, lopsided potpourri would imply). Finally, Talese records--in pompous third-person--his own mild experiences in a massage parlor, and he confesses: "e did not even know how to begin the book. Nor how to organize the material. Nor what he hoped to say about sex that had not already been said in dozens of other recent published works. . . ." No, he did not know--and apparently he never found out. So this fat, bland book just flails about; and its only strong appeal will be, ironically, to just the sort of not-so-liberated souls whom Talese ignores here--those eager for titillation but too old-fashioned to swap their spouses. . . or be seen reading pornography. Shipping/Handling/Insurance/Tracking Included within the continental U.S. (Free Shipping). Extra Charges/Fees apply on Shipments Outside The U.S. and Expedited Shipments. Oversize and/or heavy books may require additional fees. Will adviseWritten 1.06.2022SK#6491-11322 Img.7883, Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1980, 3.5<

1980, ISBN: 9780385006323

Hard Cover, 8vo-7¾"-9¾" Tall., Good in Good jacket, Morality Sexuality, Jacket has light edgewear. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound., [… Meer...

Hard Cover, 8vo-7¾"-9¾" Tall., Good in Good jacket, Morality Sexuality, Jacket has light edgewear. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound., [PU: Doubleday & Company, Inc.]<

1980, ISBN: 9780385006323

Hardcover, Gebraucht, Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less., [PU: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group]

1980, ISBN: 9780385006323

Other, VERY noticeable signs of wear/scuffs/creases/tears/tanning on/inside dust jacket & lower/upper bind but book is in acceptable condition. Text is mostly clean., Gebraucht, [PU: Doub… Meer...

Other, VERY noticeable signs of wear/scuffs/creases/tears/tanning on/inside dust jacket & lower/upper bind but book is in acceptable condition. Text is mostly clean., Gebraucht, [PU: Doubleday Books]<