New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1933. Presumed First U.S. Edition, later printing. Hardcover. 288, [2] pages. Illustrations (all present). Index. Ink notation on fep. DJ has wear, tears, soiling, and chips. The verso does NOT state "First printing". Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer OM (14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was an Alsatian polymath. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. A Lutheran minister, Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of Jesus as depicted by the historical-critical method current at this time, as well as the traditional Christian view. His contributions to the interpretation of Pauline Christianity concern the role of Paul's mysticism of "being in Christ" as primary and the doctrine of justification by faith as secondary. He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of "Reverence for Life", becoming the eighth Frenchman to be awarded that prize. His philosophy was expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in Lambaréné, French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon). As a music scholar and organist, he studied the music of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach and influenced the Organ Reform Movement (Orgelbewegung). The keynote of Schweitzer's personal philosophy (which he considered to be his greatest contribution to mankind) was the idea of Reverence for Life ("Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben"). He thought that Western civilization was decaying because it had abandoned affirmation of life as its ethical foundation. More

New York: AMACOM (American Management Association), 2013. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xi, [3], 258 pages. Index. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Pamela Ryckman is an author, journalist, screenwriter, and business executive with a focus on women in the workforce. She is the author of STILETTO NETWORK: Inside the Women's Power Circles That Are Changing the Face of Business and has written for The New York Times, Financial Times, Washington Post, Fortune/CNNMoney, and The New York Observer, among other publications. She has appeared on The TODAY Show, Rock Center with Brian Williams, Good Day New York, Bloomberg TV, and MSNBC (where she is a contributor), and in publications such as the Chicago Tribune, New York Post, U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Inc., Entrepreneur, Huffington Post, and More. Ryckman consults on women in business to global corporations. Ryckman is also a partner of Lucky VIII, an independent film, television, and theatre production company working with top-tier talent both domestically and internationally. Among projects in development are Stiletto Network, a television series on which Ryckman is an Executive Producer. Before becoming a writer, Ryckman performed internal strategy work for Merrill Lynch's Global Markets and Investment Banking Group, and for Goldman Sachs & Co.'s Equities Financial and Strategic Management group. She began her career at Mitchell Madison Group. She is a managing board member of Harlan Media, a full-service media agency and HUBZone business. Pamela Ryckman earned her M.A. in Journalism from New York University. More

Nashville, TN: Windswept Records, c2000. Presumed first Edition thus. CD in sleeve. CD sleeve has the duo's head shots on the front. CD sleeve has some wear and soiling. CD signed by Paul Reeves and Carmen Mejia (with a heart drawing). Scarce early work--RARE when signed by both recording artists. From a 2005 item found on-line. Here is the tale of an Irish Catholic refugee seeking his musical destiny in Los Angeles, and a bright and talented California girl who, together, leave the Mecca of the entertainment world to find fame and fortune in Oklahoma. Paul Reeves and Carmen Mejia formed Fanny Grace more than a decade ago. In that time, the band released five independent albums, bused coast-to-coast and played the main stage at Lilith Fair. They've been profiled on scores of television broadcasts, played a major national political rally and have performed at some of the biggest radio stations in the country without a nationally released album. Fanny Grace won The Album Network and Los Angeles Country radio station KZLA's "Most Promising New Unsigned Artist of 2002" honor in a contest judged by David Foster and Clint Black. Since then, they have performed on the same bill as Chris Cagle, Kenny Chesney, Lonestar and Willie Nelson among others. Their songs have appeared on TV series "Dawson's Creek," "Felicity" and "The Shield," as well as Showtime's "Resurrection Boulevard." The culmination of this journey is 321 Broadway, the first nationally distributed and promoted album from the band with a 10-year overnight success story. More

Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1984. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover (scarce--usually a trade paperback). xiv, 210 pages. Illustrations. Index. Ex-library with usual library markings. Foreword by Ben Bova. Benjamin William Bova (November 8, 1932 – November 29, 2020) was an American writer and editor. He was the author of more than 120 works of science fact and fiction, an editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, for which he won a Hugo Award six times, and an editorial director of Omni; he was president of both the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America. Surveys the U.S. and Russian space programs, examines the problems of space travel, and discusses possible cooperative projects for the future. James Edward Oberg (born November 7, 1944), known as Jim Oberg, is an American space journalist and historian, regarded as an expert on the Russian space program. After service in the United States Air Force, he joined NASA in 1975, where he worked until 1997 at Johnson Space Center on the Space Shuttle program. He worked in the Mission Control Center for several Space Shuttle missions from STS-1 on, specializing in orbital rendezvous techniques. This culminated in planning the orbit for the STS-88 mission, the first International Space Station (ISS) assembly flight. During the 1990s, he was involved in NASA studies of the Soviet space program, with emphasis on safety aspects; these had often been downplayed, and with the advent of the ISS and the Shuttle Mir programs, NASA was keen to study them. He privately published several books on the Soviet (and later Russian) programs, and became one of the few Western specialists on Russian space history. More

London: Allen Lane, 2005. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xvi, 428, [4] pages. Tables. Index. Substantial ink notations observed. This work is a a treatise on modern warfare that explains why the best military forces in the world win their battles but lose the wars. This is due to the paradigm change in military activity, from industrial warfare to the paradigm identified in the book as "war amongst the people"—a situation in which an outcome cannot be resolved directly by military force. The strategies for war amongst the people should be analyzed as fighting and winning a linked series of confrontations rather than a series of battles. General Sir Rupert Anthony Smith, KCB, DSO & Bar, OBE, QGM (born 13 December 1943) is a retired British Army officer and author of The Utility of Force. He was a senior commander during the Gulf War, for which he was recognized with the award of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO), and again during the Bosnian War, for which he was recognized with the award of a bar to his DSO. After graduating from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Smith was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Parachute Regiment in December 1964. He has served in East and South Africa, Arabia, the Caribbean, Northern Ireland, Europe and Malaysia. In 1978, he was awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal for services in Northern Ireland. In October 1990 Major General Smith assumed command of the 1st Armoured Division which he led during the Gulf War. His final assignment was as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe between 1998 and 2001, covering NATO's Operation Allied Force during the Kosovo war. More

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991. Second printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xii, 292 pages. Appendix. Index. Footnotes. A few ink marks and comments noted on the half-title and title pages only. This is one of Princeton's International History and Politics series. Marc Trachtenberg (born February 9, 1946)[1] is a professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974 and taught for many years for the history department at the University of Pennsylvania before coming to UCLA. He is the author of the following books : Reparation in World Politics: France and European Economic Diplomacy, 1916-1923 (Columbia University Press, 1980), A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-1963 (Princeton University Press, 1999), History and Strategy (Princeton University Press, 1991) and The Craft of International History: A Guide to Method (Princeton University Press, 2006). Trachtenberg was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in 1966–1967, a Guggenheim Fellow in 1983–1984, a German Marshall Fund Fellow in 1994–1995, and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Center for Science and International Affairs in 1986–1987. In 2000 he received the American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Prize He maintains a website dedicated to Cold War research. More

New York: Palgrave macmillan, 2013. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. x, 286, [6] pages. Figures. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. This is one of The European Union in International Affairs series. Examining the interplay between geopolitics, the strategic priorities of Europe's most powerful nations, Britain, Germany and France, and the evolution of NATO and CSDP, this book unveils the mechanics of the tension between conflict and cooperation that lies at the heart of European security politics. Luis Simón is Senior Analyst and Director of the Elcano Royal Institute’s Brussels Office, in addition of being Research Professor of International Relations at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of London, and a MA in European Studies from the Institute d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. He is or has been a visiting professor at the NATO School, the European Security and Defence College, l’Ecole Nationale d’Administration, the US Army War College, the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and the Baltic Defence College, among others. His articles have been published in prestigious journals, such as International Affairs, The Journal of Strategic Studies, Geopolitics, Orbis, Survival, The RUSI Journal, Comparative Strategy, Parameters and The International Spectator. He is a co-founder and senior editor of the online magazine European Geostrategy, and a member of the editorial board of Parameters: The US Army War College Quarterly. More

Hong Kong: Earnshaw Books Ltd., 2014. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 11.375 inches by 11.5 inches. [4], 158, [2] pages. Sticker residue at DJ back. Authors' Notes. Foreword by Tess Johnston. Illustrations (some in color). Appendices (including Map and Bibliography). Paul Veysseyre, born October 5, 1896 in Noirétable and died November 8, 1963 in Tours, was a French architect known for his many Art Deco style constructions during the interwar period, active in China (French Concession of Shanghai), Vietnam, Cambodia. Member of the Central Society of Architects of Paris (future Academy of Architecture) in 1937, decorated with the Croix de Guerre 1914-1918. Paul Veysseyre first worked in Paris in an architectural firm from 1912 to 1914 with the man he considered his master, the architect and academician and Prix de Rome, Georges Chedanne, who encouraged him to follow the school the fine Arts. In 1921, he was hired by the Brossard-Mopin establishments to work in China at Tien Tsin. Six months later, he was appointed architect in charge of the Shanghai office. He left the company to join in 1922 with Alexandre Léonard to create the French Sports Circle (1925) The French Sports Circle was the seat of the French community until the Second World War. Many dwellings have been designed, many of which are now classified as Historic Monuments and preserved. In 1937, he left to set up a branch of the agency in Saigon, teaming up with Arthur Kruze, acting director of the School of Fine Arts. The collaboration with Kruze ended in 1939 and that with Léonard in 1942. Paul Veysseyre remained in Indochina until 1951. More

London: Routledge, 2009. Presumed First Paperback Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xii, [2], 194, [8] pages. Abbreviations. Figures. Map Notes. Index. Back cover creased. Ink notations, underlining and marginal marks observed. This is one of the Routledge Contemporary China Series. Colin Patrick Mackerras AO (born 26 August 1939 Sydney, Australia) is an Australian sinologist, Emeritus Professor at Griffith University, and specialist in Chinese culture. He has published on Chinese drama, national minorities of China, Australian-Chinese relations and images of China in the West. Liu Siyuan has said that Mackerras is "rightly hailed as rivaling some of the most outstanding Chinese and Japanese scholars in the past century." Dr. Michael Clarke is an internationally recognized expert on the history and politics of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China (PRC), Chinese foreign policy in Central Asia, Central Asian geopolitics, nuclear proliferation and non-proliferation and American grand strategy and foreign policy. He also regularly provides expert media commentary on Uyghur/Xinjiang and Chinese foreign policy-related issues to national and international media. More

Greenville, NC: Ruth L. Grantham and East Carolina University, 1979. Presumed First Edition, First printing. This is believed to be one of only very few copies produced. Hardcover [Bluish-Gray Library Binding]. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11.25 inches. [5], xi, 80 pages. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Appendices. Bindery slip bound in. Signature page appears to have copies of signatures and NOT original signatures. Ruth was born in Auburn, Alabama on March 2, 1935. She was a graduate of Auburn University where she received a B.S. in Home Economics and became a Registered Dietitian. Ruth later attended East Carolina University where she received her Master’s Degree. She began her career at Wayne Memorial Hospital and later retired from Cherry Hospital after 30 years of service as their Director of Dietary Services. Following her retirement, Ruth served as a Public Health Dietitian at the Eastern Regional Office for the Division of Public Health Services. More

London: Frances Lincoln Limited, 2010. First Frances Lincoln Edition [Stated]. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 10.25 inches by 12.25 inches. 256 pages. Illustrations (color). Bibliography. Index. Slight curve to front board. Slight DJ wear. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads For Anne Shirley with all good wishes. From Rory, March, 2011. This is a heavy, oversized book that if sent outside of the U. S. will require additional postage. Why have the peoples of the world made pleasure gardens, and why have they made them in such different styles? Stuart explains how all pleasure gardens derive from one of the world's six great gardening traditions -- Italian, Islamic, Chinese, Japanese, English flower garden, and the English park. Stuart traveled around the world, from Buenos Aires to Vancouver, from Seattle to Cape Cod, from Ireland to India, to China, Japan, and Australia, touring and examining garden styles. He explains them, approaching pleasure gardens as works of art and placing them in their historical and cultural context. Stuart worked as a teacher in India and America and at Uppingham School, Westminster School, and The Cheltenham Ladies' College. He inherited a Cotswold cottage with a beautiful garden and began to look at plants and gardens critically, which eventually led to a course in Garden Design. He set up as a designer, and began writing articles for magazines including Hortus, The Garden, The English Garden and The Historic Gardens Review. He has led garden tours of France, India and Italy and his fascination with gardens has now taken him to Rome, where he is learning how to grow plants in the city's challenging conditions. More

Greenville, NC: Della Jean Moser and East Carolina University, 1982. Presumed first edition, first printing thus. Believed to be one of only a few original copies. Hardcover [Reddish Library style binding]. [3], vi, 50 Sheets/pages, text on one side only. Approval page appears to have several original faculty signatures. Abstract. Tables. References. RARE surviving copy. Her pies weren't square! Book binding slip bound in near front. After graduating from New Bern High School, Jean Moser went to work at First Citizens Bank and later Naval Intelligence. After earning a Master’s Degree in Home Economics, Jean worked at several hospitals in Washington and Greenville, NC as a dietitian. She also worked as a teacher assistant in Craven County Schools. The purpose of this study was to investigate levels of shortenings (fats) and flours to be used in production of a preferred product made in quantity using defined quality characteristics as measurement standards. The objectives of this study were to prepare pie crusts using various levels of shortening (fat) and flour, to identify the preferred product from those produced, and to provide a quantity recipe for food institutions, schools, and other food facilities. To establish procedures, recipe content, and to identify instruments for evaluations of subjective and objective data, preliminary studies were conducted in the Institution Food Laboratory of the School of Home Economics. Sixty panel members evaluated the quality characteristics of pie crust, appearance, texture, tenderness and flavor by sing a Likert-type acceptability scale for rating purposes. Objective testing used a Bailey Shortometer for testing of the breaking strength of the pie crust samples. Data were analyzed using analysis of variance and Duncan's Multiple Range Test with a factor of .05 for significance. More

Racine, WI: The Johnson Foundation, Inc., 1997. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. The format is approximately 7 inches by 10 inches. 47, [1] pages, plus covers. Decorative cover. Illustrations (many in color). "We called the house 'Wingspread' because spread its wings it would" - Frank Lloyd Wright. Five fire places have been the gathering place for men, women and young people who come to the Wingspread Conferences from around the world. They come, guest of the Johnson Foundation, to meet, plan and share ideas that will make a difference. More