Newton, KS: Mennonite Press, Inc., 2002. Presumed First Edition, First printing this issue. Wraps. [4], 109-281, [3] pages. Map. Tables. References. Professor Stallings specializes in the study of problematic situations, especially in attempting to understand differences in levels of collective concern across a variety of calamities, catastrophes, crises, disasters, and tragedies. His current interests are in theoretical, methodological, and ethical issues related to the study of crises and disasters. Professor Stallings has been president of the Research Committee on Disasters (RC 39) of the International Sociological Association. From 1996–2002 he served as editor of the International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters. He has been a visiting scholar at Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany, (1996) and at the University of California, Berkeley (1989). He has served on various review panels at the National Science Foundation, two committees at the National Research Council-National Academy of Sciences, and on the Emergency Preparedness and Response Task Force of the President’s Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island. Wolf R. Dombrowsky has been engaged since 1979 in disaster research at the Institute of Sociology, Christian-Albrechts-University. In 1987 he became Deputy Head and in 2002 Head of the Institute’s sociological Disaster Research Centre (Katastrophenforschungsstelle, KFS). He is a member of the Protection Commission of the German Ministry of the Interior and a member of the Environment Ministry’s Radiation Protection Commission. More

New York: Hyperion, 1995. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 24 cm. xix, [3], 357, [3] pages. Illustrations. Index. Foreword by Sen. Robert Dole. Introduction by Ed Koch. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads To Irving Kaye, Best wishes, Alfonse. The feisty senator from New York recounts his journey from obscurity to the U.S. Congress and discusses his investigation of the Whitewater affair involving President Clinton, attacks on his own ethics, health care, and other issues. This was possibly the Irving Kaye who got his start in the coin-op business in the 1940's in New York City. In the 50's Irving Kaye Co. Inc. was established as a premier manufacturer of coin-op pool tables. Alfonse Marcello D'Amato (born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 1, 1937) is a former United States Senator who represented the state of New York for 18 years from 1981 to 1999. He subsequently founded a lobbying firm, Park Strategies. During his term as US Senator, he was known for supporting President Ronald Reagan on non-economic issues such as abortion. He agreed with President Bill Clinton both in 1993 for opening service in the armed forces to non-heterosexuals and in 1996 for the Defense of Marriage Act, which denied federal recognition to same-sex marriages. D'Amato drew the nickname "Senator Pothole" for his delivery of "constituent services", helping citizens with their individual cases. New Yorkers saw the nickname as a positive affirmation of his attention to getting things done. He played a leading role in recruiting George Pataki and in securing him the Republican nomination in the gubernatorial race of 1994. More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2010. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [12], 323, [1] pages. Epilogue. Index. Signed by the author on the fep. Some pages have off-white portions. Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American politician, businessman, and lawyer serving as the junior United States senator from Utah since January 2019, succeeding Orrin Hatch. He served as the 70th governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and was the Republican Party's nominee for president of the United States in the 2012 election, losing to Barack Obama. In 1998, Ann Romney learned that she had multiple sclerosis; Mitt described watching her fail a series of neurological tests as the worst day of his life.[50] After experiencing two years of severe difficulties with the disease, she found – while living in Park City, Utah, where the couple had built a vacation home – a combination of mainstream, alternative, and equestrian therapies that enabled her to lead a lifestyle mostly without limitations. When her husband received a job offer to take over the troubled organization responsible for the 2002 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, to be held in Salt Lake City in Utah, she urged him to accept it; eager for a new challenge, as well as another chance to prove himself in public life, he did. On February 11, 1999, the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games of 2002 hired Romney as its president and CEO. Romney was elected U.S. Senator from Utah on November 6, winning 62.6% to 30.9% over Democrat Jenny Wilson. The other 6.5% of the vote went to nominees of the Constitution, Libertarian, and Independent American parties. More

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2010. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, 351, [7] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Provides a short history of The Purple Heart and addresses the medal in terms of Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, Civilians, Families, and Celebrities and Public Figures. Colonel Frederic L. Borch (born 1954) is a career United States Army attorney with a master's degree in national security studies, who served as chief prosecutor of the Guantanamo military commissions. He resigned his commission in August 2005. He worked for a time as a civilian consultant for the prosecution teams of the Guantanamo military commissions. In 2006 he was hired for the position of the first archive historian for the Judge Advocate General Corps. He was awarded a Fulbright fellowship for 2012–2013 to serve as a visiting professor at the University of Leiden, teaching issues in terrorism and counter-terrorism. In addition, he has been serving as President of the Orders and Medals Society of America since 2010 and he is an active contributor to its journal. Borch published a book on military decorations of the U.S. Army and Air Force in 2013. More

Beverly Hills, CA: Global Treasures, 2001. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. Format is 11.25 inches by 11.25 inches. 95, [1] pages. Profusely illustrated (mostly in color). Decorative front cover. Cover has front and back flaps and only slight wear and soiling. Signed with sentiment on title page, "One Love Roger Steffens". Also signed with sentiment on verso by Jim "Reggae" Marshall. Sentiment reads: Thank you and Jah Bless you Aberle! [sp?] Jim Marshall. RARE DOUBLE AUTOGRAPHED Reggae item. Jim Marshall's business card laid in. Roger Steffens (born June 17, 1942) is an American actor, author, lecturer, editor, reggae archivist, photographer and, producer. Six rooms of his home in Los Angeles house reggae archives, which include the world's largest collection of Bob Marley material. Based on these archives Steffens lectures internationally with a multi-media presentation called The Life of Bob Marley. His radio career began in New York City in 1961, and he co-hosted Reggae Beat on KCRW in Los Angeles and was syndicated on 130 stations worldwide in the 1980s. Steffens was named "Most Popular Reggae DJ in the World" by Martin's International Awards in Chicago, 1985, and "One of the Forty Who Matter in L.A." by the Los Angeles Reader. Jim "Reggae" Marshall stated that he has been blessed to take about 130,000 Reggae and African concert photographs over 31 years. He collects and enable other collectors of ANY thing related to Ethiopia, Haile Selassie I, Reggae, Rastafari, Jamaica and Africa. More

Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988. Presumed first paperback printing. Trade paperback. xviii, [2], 325, [7] pages. Table. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed on the fep by the author. Inscription reads To Nelson Ledsky With best wishes Alan Sherr 12/88. Cover has some wear and soiling. Alan B. Sherr is an American lawyer, specializing in the field of Intellectual Property, International Corporate Law, Russian Corporate Law, Administrative Law. Nelson C. Ledsky was the director of National Democratic Initiative (NDI)’s Eurasia programs for many years and a 35-year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service who retired with the rank of ambassador. Upon his retirement from the State Department in 1992, Ambassador Ledsky joined NDI, where he took over the reins of the Institute’s nascent democratic development program in Eurasia and built it into an operation with activities and partners in more than a dozen countries and a first-rate reputation for navigating challenging political environments. He served in the White House from 1987 to 1989 as a special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for European and Soviet Affairs, and held numerous other State Department posts, including principal deputy director of the policy planning staff, U.S. minister in Berlin, deputy assistant secretary for congressional relations and director for Southern Europe. He was also director of the State Department's Olympic Boycott Office in 1980 – 1981 and had postings in Bonn, Germany; Enugu, Nigeria; and Georgetown, Guyana. More

New York: Bloomsbury, 2018. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 437, [1] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes/captions. Cast of Characters. Index. DJ has minor wear, soiling and edge tears. Inscribed on title page by both authors. Inscription reads To! Donna + Art "More Life" I B 2-22-18 [in blue ink] and D 2-22-18 with a heart with wings [in pink ink]. Associated book mark, with the publication date of February 13, 2018, laid in! Isaac Butler is a cultural critic and historian, and a theater director. He is the co-author (with Dan Kois) of "The World Only Spins Forward," an oral history of the play "Angels in America" and its era, which was named one of the best books of 2018 by NPR. A frequent contributor to Slate, Isaac previously created and hosted the Shakespeare and politics podcast "Lend Me Your Ears," and currently co-hosts "Working," a podcast about the creative process. Butler’s writing has appeared in New York magazine, the Guardian, American Theatre, the Village Voice, and other publications. Dan Kois is a writer at Slate. He’s the author of a novel, Vintage Contemporaries, and three nonfiction books: How to Be a Family, The World Only Spins Forward (with Isaac Butler), and Facing Future. More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2016. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [16], 416 pages. Maps. Illustrations (8 pages). Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. Signed by the author on the title page. George C. Daughan received a Ph. D. in American history and government from Harvard University, where he studied under Henry Kissinger. After Harvard, he spent three years in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War. Most of the time he taught at the Air Force Academy, where he was director of the MA program in international affairs. On returning to civilian life, he became a professor at Connecticut College, and also taught at the University of Colorado, the University of NH, and Wesleyan University. One of his previous books, If By Sea, won the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature, and he has been honored with the Samuel Eliot Morison Award from the USS Constitution Museum for his work as a naval scholar. More

San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2004. Second Edition, Updated and Expanded [stated] . Second printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Format is approximately 6.75 inches by 9.25 inches. xxiii, [1], 240, [8] pages. Select Bibliography. Index. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Ira Chaleff is the author of the award winning book, The Courageous Follower: Standing Up To and For Our Leaders. He is one of a handful of leadership development thinkers to focus on the impact that followers? attitudes, actions and inactions have on the quality of leadership and organizational integrity and performance. Ira has conducted workshops on Leader-Follower relations for a wide range of complex organizations and Leadership Development Programs including AARP, NASA, Ernst & Young, The Federal Judiciary, The Department of Agriculture, Department of Interior University, The FBI National Academy, The Office of Personnel Management, The Brookings Institute and a range of private and public sector companies. He is a member of the planning committee that sponsored the first national conference on Followership "Rethinking Followership: New Perspectives, Paradigms and Practices" hosted by the Kravis Leadership Institute and the Drucker/Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont University. Ira and his colleagues at Executive Coaching & Consulting Associates use their understanding of leader-follower dynamics to enrich the executive coaching they conduct for individuals and senior management teams in the private and public sectors. Ira holds a degree in Applied Behavioral Science and is adjunct faculty at Georgetown University. He has been named one of the 100 best consultants in the US by Executive Excellence magazine. More

New York: Arcade Publishing [an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.], 2014. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 285, [1] pages. Frontis illustration Illustrations. Appendix. Notes. Related ephemera laid in. At the age of 19, German-born Mr. Wolff was drafted by Uncle Sam and later found himself en route back to Europe as part of a special unit known as The Ritchie Boys. It was comprised of many refugees like himself whose language skills and inside knowledge of Germany and Axis countries made them ideal U.S. intelligence officers and operatives. We learn through his letters that Mr. Wolff’s Army journey included training at Camp Ritchie in Maryland, where he became an interpreter and found his calling as an intelligence officer. He was among nearly 16,000 fellow Jewish and European refugees who were fluent in German, French, Italian, Polish, and other languages — and who could understand the culture and psyche of military enemies. They became known for their interrogation and psychological warfare efforts in Europe, contributing to the Allies’ victory. Many in this covert strategic unit continued to serve post-war as translators and interrogators, including Mr. Wolff. After Germany’s unconditional surrender, he served at several POW camps registering and interviewing prisoners, and ferreting out high-ranking Nazis who were sent to trial in Nuremberg. Wolff was also one of a few from his unit selected to classify and translate Mussolini’s documents following the dictator’s death. The letters sent home at this time painted a picture of war-ravaged Europe through the eyes of one who was spared. The letters constitute both a war journal and a means by which Ms. Feld gained great insights into her father. More

Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xi, [3], 274 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Minor trimming at top of half-title page. This is one of the Sports and American Culture Series that was edited by the renown Bruce Clayton. Jerry Mileur was born in Murphysboro, IL in 1934. He developed a love of politics, baseball, and puns, and was devoted to his home state and its history. He went to college and graduate school at his beloved Southern Illinois University. He earned his bachelor’s degree in speech communication in 1955 and a doctorate in government in 1971. He joined the Political Science faculty of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1967 where his teaching and research focused on U.S. political parties and elections. He taught at UMass for 37 years during which time he advised a large number of doctoral students, was chair of the Department of Political Science, was awarded the UMass Amherst Chancellor’s Medal, and founded the Jackie Robinson Initiative which marked the 50th anniversary of baseball’s integration. He was an accomplished author and editor. Some knew Jerry for his love of baseball. He was the long-time owner of the Harrisburg Senators until 1994. Others will remember Jerry for his dedication to the St. Louis Cardinals, a love that was kindled by his much-loved grandfather August Willi. Jerry published two books on the Cardinals and his third volume was completed just a few days before his death. Others will think about his collections of political memorabilia and extensive frog collection which he kept at his home in Hadley affectionately named “Frogs Folly.”. More

New York: DC Comics, 2003. Compilation Edition (originally publes in single magazine form in Green Arrow 16-21). Hardcover. 175, [1] pages. Illustrations (most in color). Cover has some tear at the top of the front board. Boldly signed by Brad Meltzer on the title page. Introduction by Senator Patrick Leahy. Cast of Characters. Photograph. Grays of Shade. Grundy No Like Arrows in Face! Superfriends. Kryptonite. Fatherood. Cover Gallery. Setchbook. A Word from the Author by Brad Meltzer. Original Pitch and First Issue Script. Afterwoord by Greg Rucka. Green Arrow and his sidekick Arsenal try to gather artifacts that lead to revealing the true identity of the Emerald Archer. Brad Meltzer (born April 1, 1970) is an American novelist, non-fiction writer, TV show creator, and comic book author. His novels touch on the political thriller, legal thriller and conspiracy fiction genres, while he has also written superhero fiction for DC Comics and a series of short biographies of prominent people. Meltzer graduated from Columbia Law School, and was selected to the Columbia Law Review. He created a six-issue story arc for DC Comics' Green Arrow #16–21 (October 2002 – April 2003). In 2014, Brad Meltzer's Lost History premiered on History's H2 network, with Meltzer hosting. Lost History presents both solved and unsolved cases and success stories where Americans have helped find missing historic objects such as the Ground Zero flag from 9/11 and the original Wright Brothers flying machine patent. Viewers submitted tips online, in an effort to the return of these treasures. In 2016, Meltzer hosted America's 9/11 Flag: Rose from the Ashes, which recounts how Lost History located and authenticated the missing 9/11 flag. More

Charlottesville: Virginia Arts of the Book Center Press, 2009. Limited Edition (number 4/50 on last page). Hardcover. Format approximately 4 inches by 6.75 inches. Unpaginated (28 pages). No dust jacket present (may not have been issued). Signed by both the author and illustrator on the title page. Very rare early published compendium by emerging poetic force and award-winning illustrator. Contents include: After the Party, On Plenitude, Metropolitan, the Consolations of Philosophy, After Love, Charlie Chaplin, and Nineteenth Symphony. Handsome and well made example of a finely produced specialty volume. This volume was printed on the letterpress and handbound at Virginia Arts of the Book Center, Charlottesville, in the summer of 2009. The text was set in Cambria and printed from polymer plates made by Boxcar Press of Syracuse, NY. The paper used was Hahnemuhle photo rag 100% cotton, smooth. Ryan Fox is a graduate of the University of Missouri, and received his MFA from the University of Virginia. The poems in this volume first appears in New Orleans Review, Columbia, Caketrain, and New Ohio Review. Jeff Pike is a Professor of Communication Design program of the College & Graduate School of art, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Lois. He worked in Charlottesville while on sabbatical. More