New York: Penguin Books, 2007. Later printing. Trade paperback. [16], 349, [3] pages. Maps. Illustrations. Index. Greg Mortenson is an American professional speaker, writer, veteran, and former mountaineer. He is a co-founder and former executive director of the non-profit Central Asia Institute and the founder of the educational charity Pennies for Peace. Mortenson is the co-author of The New York Times Bestseller Three Cups of Tea and Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan. David Oliver Relin (December 12, 1962 – November 15, 2012) was an American journalist and the co-author of the New York Times best-selling book, Three Cups of Tea, published in 2006. Relin co-wrote the book with Greg Mortenson. The book gives Mortenson's account of his transition from registered nurse and mountain-climber to humanitarian committed to reducing poverty and promoting education for girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan. In addition to Three Cups of Tea, Relin was a contributing editor for Parade and Skiing magazines. He won more than 40 national awards for his work as a writer and editor, including the Kiriyama Prize. Before his death, Relin had completed work on a new book, about two doctors working to cure cataract-related blindness in the developing world.[1] Second Suns: Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives was published posthumously. More

New York: Twelve, 2019. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. viii, [2], 418, [4] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Notes. Bibliography. Index. Susan Lea Page (born February 12, 1951) is an American journalist, political commentator, and biographer, and the Washington, D.C. bureau chief for USA Today. Page has covered seven White House administrations and eleven presidential elections, and interviewed ten presidents. She founded and hosts a video newsmaker series for USA Today, "Capital Download". She appears frequently on cable news networks as an analyst and often guest-hosted The Diane Rehm Show, which was syndicated on National Public Radio. She was the first woman to serve as music chairman of the Gridiron Club show and was also president of the club in 2011, the oldest association of journalists in Washington. She was president of the White House Correspondents Association in 2000. She also served as chairman of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards and has twice been a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes. Her first book was published in 2019, a biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush titled The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty. In 2021, her biography of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was published, titled Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power. She is a frequent panelist on Fox News Sunday, This Week on ABC, Washington Week on PBS, and Meet the Press on NBC. She has won several awards, including the Merriman Smith Memorial Award, and the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency (twice). More

New York: Harper [An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers], 2015. First Edition [stated]. Third printing [stated]. Hardcover. x, 309, [1] pages. Main Cast of Characters. Sources and Chapter Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Kate Andersen Brower is an American journalist and author who has written three books about the White House, two of which have been New York Times bestsellers, The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House, First Women: The Grace & Power of America's Modern First Ladies, First in Line: Presidents, Vice presidents, and the Pursuit of Power, and Team of Five: The presidents Club in the Age of Trump. She covered the White House for Bloomberg News during President Barack Obama's first term and before that she worked at CBS News and Fox News as a producer. She is also a CNN contributor and has written for The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, and The Smithsonian. Brower's book The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House has been called a "groundbreaking" backstairs look at the maids and butlers and other professionals who work at the White House. The book hit number 1 on the nonfiction New York Times Best Seller list. Netflix has optioned the TV rights to the book with Shonda Rhimes producing. More

New York: Flatiron Books, 2017. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. vi, [2], 247, [1] pages. Notes. Index. Dr. Gail Saltz is an American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, columnist, and television commentator. Saltz is the author of several self-help and psychology books, including Anatomy of a Secret Life: The Psychology of Living a Lie (2006) and The Power of Different: The Link Between Disorder and Genius (2017). Dr. Saltz graduated from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and served her internship and residency in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry at Cornell-Weill School of Medicine and The New York Presbyterian Hospital. Saltz has worked as a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at The New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill-Cornell School of Medicine and as a psychoanalyst with The New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and currently serves as health editor at the Child Mind Institute. She has a private practice on the Upper East Side of New York City. She is the author of several books on mental health and wellness, including Anatomy of a Secret Life: The Psychology of Living a Lie (2006), The Ripple Effect: How Better Sex Can Lead to a Better Life (2009), and The Power of Different: The Link Between Disorder and Genius (2017). She has also written two children's books, Amazing You! Getting Smart About Your Private Parts and Changing You: A Guide to Body Changes and Sexuality. NBC Producer Pamela Hamilton first brought Saltz to the network and developed her on-air skills and content. Saltz is now a frequent guest on Today and has appeared as a sex, health and relationship expert on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dateline, CBS News and CNN. More

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983. Fourth printing [stated]. Hardcover. xii, [2], 305, [1] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Appendix A. Appendix B. Select Chronology. Index. DJ has a rear flap creased and some edgewear and soiling. Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, was one of a trio of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. He also worked in films throughout his career, playing more than fifty cinema roles. Late in his career he had considerable success in television roles. Among Olivier's films are Wuthering Heights (1939), Rebecca (1940), and a trilogy of Shakespeare films as actor/director: Henry V (1944), Hamlet (1948), and Richard III (1955). His later films included Spartacus (1960), The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968), Sleuth (1972), Marathon Man (1976), and The Boys from Brazil (1978). His television appearances included "Long Day's Journey into Night" (1973), Love Among the Ruins (1975), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1976), Brideshead Revisited (1981) and King Lear (1983). Olivier's honors included a knighthood (1947), a life peerage (1970), and the Order of Merit (1981). For his on-screen work he received two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, five Emmy Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. He is commemorated in the Laurence Olivier Awards, given by the Society of London Theatre. He was married three times, to the actresses Jill Esmond from 1930 to 1940, Vivien Leigh from 1940 to 1960, and Joan Plowright from 1961 until his death. More

London: Historical Publications, 1997. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 192 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (some in color). Signed by David Lewer on the title page. DJ has minor edge wear and soiling. Foreword by the Very Reverend Robert Milburn. Appendices. Selected Bibliography. Subscribers (a number of individuals-- some prominent--underwrote the cost of this publication (at least in part) through subscription. Index. David James Lewer (Swanage, 22 January 1919 – 16 April 2005) was an author, architect, historian and choral musician. Lewer became a chorister at the Temple Church, London in 1931, remaining in the choir until 1933. After his voice broke in 1933, he remained connected with the church, initially as Honorary Librarian and a member of the Templars Union. He joined the gentlemen of the choir as a Tenor, and remained a regular member of the choir until at least 1982. After qualifying as an architect, Lewer spent his career in architectural practice. After the Second World War, Lewer began to write factual books and pamphlets on a variety of subjects, but specializing in his two great loves: Swanage and its history, and the Temple Church. His most famous work, 'A Spiritual Song', is a comprehensive history of the Temple Church choir, and was published by the Templar's Union: he was granted access to the historical records of two of the Inns of Court, the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple by then sub-treasurer of the Inner Temple, Commander Rodney Flynn. It is notable for containing the complete list of choristers from the foundation of the current choir model under Edward John Hopkins in 1842 up until the date of publication. More

New York: The Overlook Press, 2012. Second printing [stated]. Trade paperback. x, 438 pages. Illustrations (many with color). Index. Minor wear and soiling noted. Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator and writer. He first came to prominence as one half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie, alongside Hugh Laurie, with the two starring in A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1989–1995) and Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993). He also starred in the sketch series Alfresco (1983–1984) alongside Laurie, Emma Thompson and Robbie Coltrane, and in Blackadder (1986–1989) alongside Rowan Atkinson. Since 2011, he has served as president of the mental health charity Mind. Fry's film acting roles include playing his idol Oscar Wilde in the film Wilde (1997), for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor; Inspector Thompson in Robert Altman's murder mystery Gosford Park (2001); and Mr. Johnson in Whit Stillman's Love & Friendship (2016). He has also had roles in the films Chariots of Fire (1981), A Fish Called Wanda (1988), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), V for Vendetta (2005), and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011). He portrays the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland (2010) and its 2016 sequel, and the Master of Lake-town in the film series adaptation of The Hobbit. Between 2001 and 2017, he hosted the British Academy Film Awards 12 times. More

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.75 inches. ix, [1], 166 pages. Decorative cover. Illustrations. No dust jacket present. Some page discoloration noted. Sir David Paradine Frost OBE (7 April 1939 – 31 August 2013) was a British television host, journalist, comedian and writer. He rose to prominence during the satire boom in the United Kingdom when he was chosen to host the satirical program That Was the Week That Was in 1962. His success on this show led to work as a host on American television. He became known for his television interviews with senior political figures, among them the Nixon interviews with US president Richard Nixon in 1977 which were adapted into a stage play and film. Frost interviewed all eight British prime ministers serving from 1964 to 2016, from Alec Douglas-Home to David Cameron, and all eight American presidents in office from 1969 to 2008, from Lyndon B. Johnson to George W. Bush. Michael Sinclair MacAuslan Shea, CVO (10 May 1938 – 17 October 2009) was Press Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II from 1978 to 1987. Earlier he had been a career diplomat and was also an author of political thrillers and non-fiction. Shea was among the group that revived the Edinburgh Oyster Club. More

New York: Random House, 2017. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxii, 596, [6] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Map. Illustrations (some in color). Source Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Sarah Bedell Smith (born May 27, 1948) is an American journalist and biographer. She has been a contributing editor for Vanity Fair since 1996. Previously, she was a cultural news reporter for New York Times and Time. She has written biographies of political, cultural, and business figures in the United States and members of the British royal family. Sarah Rowbotham was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She grew up in the nearby town of St. Davids. She graduated from Radnor High School in 1966 and was inducted into the school's Hall of Fame in November 2008. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton College and Master of Science from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she won the Robert Sherwood Memorial Travel-Study Scholarship and the Women's Press Club of New York Award. Smith spent her early career as a cultural news reporter for Time, TV Guide, and The New York Times. In 1996, she joined Vanity Fair as contributing editor. Smith has written biographies of several notable persons, including television executives, socialites, politicians, and the British royal family. As a result of her 2012 biography of Queen Elizabeth II, Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch, The book won the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, and the 2012 Goodreads Choice Award for best book in history and biography. She was awarded the Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award in 1982. More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xvi, 700, [2] pages 32 pages of photographs (some in color). Index. Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. After his resignation, he was appointed Special Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East, an office which he held until 2015. He was elected Member of Parliament for Sedgefield in 1983. He supported moving the party to the center of British politics in an attempt to help it win power. He became Shadow Home Secretary in 1992. He became Leader of the Opposition on his election as Labour Party leader in 1994. He declared support for the Third Way—politics that recognized individuals as socially interdependent, advocating social justice, cohesion, the equal worth of each citizen, and equal opportunity. In 1997, the Labour Party won its largest landslide general election victory in its history. Blair became the country's youngest leader since 1812 and remains the party's longest-serving occupant of the office. Labour won two more general elections under his leadership—in 2001, in which it won another landslide victory, and in 2005, with a greatly reduced majority. He resigned as Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party in 2007. He was involved in negotiating the Good Friday Agreement. Blair oversaw British interventions in Kosovo and Sierra Leone which were generally perceived as successful. He was in office when the 7/7 bombings took place (2005) and introduced a range of anti-terror legislation. More

New York: Walker & Company, 2008. First U.S. Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. x, 390 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Notes. Bibliography. Index. Leo Hollis was born in London in 1972. He has worked as a book editor for nearly 20 years in a variety of publishing houses. He has always been committed to innovation and excellence, has accumulated global contacts and networks, and an in-depth business knowledge. He is the author of three nonfiction books, The Phoenix: the Men Who Made Modern London (U.S. Title is London Rising); The Stones of London: a History in Twelve Building and most recently the international bestseller, Cities Are Good for You: the genius of the metropolis. He is a frequent contributor to various media platforms and speaks internationally on urbanism, technology and design. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: London in the mid-17th century remained a medieval city. The civil war, a plague that claimed 100,000 lives and the Great Fire of 1666 would have been sufficient to send it back to the Dark Ages. Instead, London was transformed into a modern metropolis. A history of such a city during that most tumultuous of centuries is a massive undertaking, but Hollis controls the narrative by focusing on the five figures who best represent the spirit of the age. John Locke, the philosopher, social observer John Evelyn; real estate developer Nicholas Barbon rebuilt the center of London (with designs by the scientific polymath Robert Hooke); and lastly, Christopher Wren, who created St. Paul's Cathedral, eternal symbol of the glittering city. Hollis admirably succeeds in explaining the complex issues and events of the time. More

Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1988. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 12 inches. 128 pages. Illustrations (color). Contributing Photographers. Bottom corners bumped. Some cover wear and soiling. No dust jacket present. Introduction by Bill Nunn. The idea of putting together a book like this was untried, but the response was quite encouraging. A hundred and fifty photographers submitted over a thousand photographs, and the job of selecting slightly over a hundred fro this book was made difficult by having to choose between so many excellent ones. As the reader will see from the biographical sketches that begin on page 124, the fifty-five photographers who are represented in this collection include both professional who ply their craft every day and Sunday photographers who devote their leisure time to the medium. The length of experience with photography ranges from a retired executive who has pursued the hobby for several decades to a high school student who is perhaps just beginning a photographic journey that will last a lifetime. And the photographers live in ay different areas of the state, from Kirksville in the north to Holist Summit in the center to Springfield in the southwest. Two principal criteria were used in making the selections of photographs: first, quality of image and composition of subject matter were considered; second, the subject matter itself was weighted with the goal of having as much diversity as possible in the final selection, in order to show the diverse and colorful face of Missouri. We hope the reader will enjoy in the pages of this work the beauty and vitality of Missouri's landscape and culture. More

Kempen: teNeues, 2008. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 10 inches by 13 inches. 220 pages. Map. Illustrations (color). Index. DJ has some edge wear and soiling. Text is in English, German, Spanish, French, and Italian. This is a large and heavy item that if shipped outside of the United States will require additional shipping charges. A beautifully illustrated book that gives the reader a tour through the world's most gorgeous and luxurious houses. Martin has more than 35 years of experience in magazine & book publishing as well as digital media and public relations. He started his career as photographer and editor, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (Random House). He managed several magazines, such as "design report" and was in charge for electronic media. After 3 years of senior vice president with designhotels he co-founded fusion publishing and visaya publishing which creates and packages bestselling books on lifestyle, travel, architecture and design. He edited and produced more than 150 books, many of them about hotels, restaurants and travel. For the German art & design book publisher avedition he branded the book series best designed and green designed. With teNeues publishing group, he co-created the bestselling book series Cool Hotels, Cool Restaurants, Cool Shops, Cool Cities, AAD Art, Architecture, Design City Guides and Luxury Hotels. As publisher of Cool Cities Media he co-developed the multimedia series and brands "Cool Cities" and "Cool Escapes" with the app "Cool Cities Collection", such as book series like Luxury Hotels, Golf Resorts, Cool Escapes, Cool Hotels and Cool Restaurants. More