New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 2021. First American Edition [stated], Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. The format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.5 inches. [10], 182 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Notes. Further Reading. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Edmund Arthur Lowndes de Waal, CBE (born 10 September 1964) is a contemporary English artist, master potter and author. He is known for his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels often created in response to collections and archives or the history of a particular place. De Waal's book The Hare with Amber Eyes was awarded the Costa Book Award for Biography, Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize in 2011 and Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for Non-Fiction in 2015. De Waal's second book The White Road, tracing his journey to discover the history of porcelain was released in 2015. From 2004 to 2011, de Waal was professor of Ceramics at the University of Westminster; and a trustee of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London from 2011 to 2019. De Waal has been a trustee of the Gilbert Trust since 2013 and in 2020 became a co-opted member of the V&A Museum of Childhood. Since 2016 de Waal has continued his interest in working with arts and cultural institutions in installing his work in relationship and dialogue with existing museum collections such as the Frick Collection, historical architectural spaces such as Schindler House and the Ateneo Veneto; and engagement with Jewish museums in both Venice and Vienna. More

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1971. Reprint Edition. Presumed first printing thus. [ If rebound ISBN should be 0262710021]. Hardcover. xii, [2, 1084, [4] pages. Footnotes. Name Index. Subject Index. Minor corner bumping and cover wear. Foreword by Philip M. Stern. This may have been published as a trade paperback and rebound. It is in a library style binding with not publisher listed on the spine. J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb". Oppenheimer earned a bachelor of arts degree in chemistry from Harvard University in 1925 and a doctorate in physics from the University of Göttingen in Germany in 1927, where he studied under Max Born. He joined the physics department at the University of California, Berkeley, where he became a full professor in 1936. He made significant contributions to theoretical physics, including achievements in quantum mechanics and nuclear physics such as the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wave functions, work on the theory of electrons and positrons, the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear fusion, and early work on quantum tunneling. In 1942, Oppenheimer was recruited to work on the Manhattan Project, and in 1943 he was appointed director of the project's Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, tasked with developing the first atomic bombs. He was instrumental in the project's success. On July 16, 1945, he was present at the first test of the atomic bomb, Trinity. In 1947, Oppenheimer became the director of the Institute for Advanced Study. More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [6], 307, [7] pages. Signed by the author on the title page. DJ is price clipped. Ribbon page marker. Edward Kelsey Moore is a professional cellist and author from Chicago. During his high school years, and onward into college, Edward Kelsey Moore experimented with writing short stories. As he finished his education he set writing aside and focused on building a career in music. Many years later, as a member of a string quartet, Edward was hired to perform at a reception for the winners of a local writing contest. As he played background music Edward considered: "I could have sent in a story..." It was an inspiring event and within a few weeks Edward Kelsey Moore began writing again. His short fiction has been published in many literary magazines including: Indiana Review, African American Review, and Inkwell. His short story Grandma and the Elusive Fifth Crucifix was selected as an audience favorite from the Stories on Stage series produced by WBEZ in Chicago. It was broadcast locally, and over National Public Radio. The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat is Edward Kelsey Moore's debut novel. More

New York: Random House, 1999. First U.S. Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing per Random House convention. Hardcover. [8], 373, [3] pages. Robert Dennis Harris (born 7 March 1957) is a British novelist and former journalist. Although he began his career in journalism and non-fiction, his fame rests upon his works of historical fiction. Beginning with the best-seller Fatherland, Harris focused on events surrounding the Second World War, followed by works set in ancient Rome. His most recent works center on contemporary history. Harris was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he was president of the Cambridge Union and editor of the student newspaper Varsity. After leaving Cambridge, Harris joined the BBC and worked on news and current affairs programs such as Panorama and Newsnight. In 1987, at the age of 30, he became political editor of the newspaper The Observer. He later wrote regular columns for The Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph. Harris's first book, A Higher Form of Killing (1982) with fellow BBC journalist Jeremy Paxman, was a study of chemical and biological warfare. Other non-fiction works followed: Gotcha! The Government, the Media and the Falklands Crisis (1983) covering the Falklands War; The Making of Neil Kinnock (1984); Selling Hitler (1986), an investigation of the Hitler Diaries scandal; and Good and Faithful Servant (1990), a study of Bernard Ingham, Margaret Thatcher's press secretary. Archangel was another international best seller. It follows a British historian in contemporary Russia as he hunts for a secret notebook, believed to be Stalin's diary. It was adapted as a television film by the BBC, starring Daniel Craig, in 2005. More

Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2001. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xv, [1], 247, [1] pages. Frontispiece illustration. Illustrations. Appendix: Worthington Chauncey Ford's Publications. Notes. Index. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads For Adelaine Best wishers, Len Tucker. A few minor pencil erasure residue and minor soiling noted. Louis Leonard Tucker, American historical society administrator. Winston Churchill fellow, 1969. Director Shaker Museum, 1967-1974; American Heritage Company, 1973-1975, Fort Ticonderoga Association, 1990-1997. Served with Army of the United States, 1946-1947. Member American Association State and Local History (president 1972-1974). Louis Leonard Tucker is the former State Historian of New York and retired Director of the Massachusetts Historical Society. More

New York: Harper Business [An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers], 2020. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. viii, 423, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Author signed bookplate on fep. Leonard Alan Lauder (born March 19, 1933) is an American billionaire, philanthropist, art collector. He and his brother, Ronald Lauder, are the sole heirs to the Estée Lauder Companies cosmetics fortune, founded by their parents, Estée Lauder and Joseph Lauder, in 1946. Having been its CEO until 1999, Lauder is the chairman emeritus of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. During his tenure as the CEO, the company went public at The New York Stock Exchange in 1996 and acquired several major cosmetics brands, including MAC Cosmetics, Aveda, Bobbi Brown, and La Mer. In 2013, Lauder promised his collection of Cubist art to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The collection is valued at over $1 billion and constitutes one of the largest gifts in the museum's history. Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated Lauder's net worth at US$32.3 billion as of September 2021, the 44th richest person in the world. He joined Estée Lauder in 1958 when he was 25. He created the company's first research and development laboratory in the mid-1990s. Under his leadership in the late 1980s, Estée Lauder opened its first store in Moscow with support from the Gosbank daughter the Moscow Narodny Bank Limited in London. Lauder stepped down as CEO of Estée Lauder in 1999, but remains chairman emeritus of the company and is known around the company as "Chief Teaching Officer" More

Washington DC: Counterpoint, 1999. Third printing [stated]. Hardcover. [8], 261, [3] pages. Worried that the biography that Trotsky is writing about him in Mexico will reveal a crime from his past that could topple him from power, Stalin is forced to think back on his own memories of his life and rise to power. Richard Lourie is a historian and American foreign policy expert on Russia–United States relations, on which he consulted for Hillary Clinton in her unsuccessful 2008 presidential run. He served as Gorbachev's translator, has written a fictional autobiography of Joseph Stalin, a biography of Andrei Sakharov, and a prognosticative biography Putin: His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash, which explores the education and ascent of Putin during the dissolution of the USSR, and his career as Russia's autocrat, in order to estimate his probable future moves, while diagnosing Russia's spiritual ills and "narcissistic injuries" and "utter dependence on the ongoing will to power." He has translated over 30 books, and published articles and reviews in mainstream US media. More

Middletown, DE: Serenity Point Press, 2019. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Trade paperback. xvii. [1], 335, [7] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Appendices. Endnotes. Signed by the author on the title page. Front cover curls up a bit. Author, international thought leader, and life-planning pioneer George Kinder has been at the forefront of the financial services industry for more than 35 years, spearheading a movement to put the lives that clients desire to live at the center of their financial plans. George has trained thousands of professionals globally in the field of financial life planning. He founded the Kinder Institute of Life Planning in 2003. His three books on money, The Seven Stages of Money Maturity, Lighting the Torch, and Life Planning for You, are considered foundational and essential works in the field of financial life planning. George’s client-centered and values-driven money-management philosophies challenge many assumptions in economics, our approaches to democracy. A graduate of Harvard University, George earned the Bronze Medal in Massachusetts on the National Uniform Certified Public Accountant (CPA) exam in 1975. In 1994, he co-founded “The Nazrudin Project,” an influential think tank of national financial advisers dedicated to exploring the human and spiritual aspects of money and personal finance. In 2000, Investment Advisor Magazine awarded him its Portfolio Management Award, which is given to those who have “contributed significantly to the art and science of portfolio management.” George’s thought leadership extends beyond finance as reflected in his books on mindfulness and civilization. He has taught mindfulness for 35 years, now to a global community. More

New York: Random House, 2013. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxxi, [1], 631, [9] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Index. Dust jacket has minor wear and soiling. Ink underlining and comments noted in several places. Derived from a Kirkus review: An insightful, unique view of the multiple Pulitzer-winning liberal icon Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1917–2007). Serving as their father’s editor, Schlesinger’s sons—former ABC News documentary writer Andrew and former Time contributor and World Policy Journal publisher Stephen—mined more than 60 years of his correspondence and worked through the thousands of letters held at the New York Public Library and other collections. They also drew from his wide-ranging and varied correspondents to produce a worthy follow-up and companion to their Journals: 1952–2000. The letters selected here provide a clear picture of the multifaceted talents of their father. Schlesinger’s credentials provided standing for the advice he addressed to Democratic presidential candidates Walter Mondale in 1984 and Bill Clinton in 1992. He helped them run effective campaigns and noted that they should avoid the temptation to “out-Republican the Republicans.” Schlesinger and National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr. corresponded over many years, each welcoming the other’s latest publication efforts and disputing the historical significance of such figures as Joseph McCarthy. The editors also do a good job of representing Schlesinger's relations with the Kennedy family over the years, and there are sharply penned rebuttals of critics of the Kennedy brothers' Cuba policy—in which Schlesinger’s attention to detail predominates. More

Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2019. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 542 pages. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. G. Flint Taylor (born April 16, 1946) is an American human rights and civil rights attorney based in Chicago, Illinois, who has litigated many high-profile police brutality, government misconduct and death penalty cases. Taylor has pursued public interest law to take on allegations of corrupt police tactics and wrongful convictions in the city of Chicago and elsewhere. Taylor was part of a team of negotiators in the 2015 landmark decision by the City of Chicago to award reparations to the survivors of police torture, becoming the first municipal government to do so. During his second year in law school at Northwestern, Taylor began to work with a group of lawyers who were representing counterculture political groups, including the Black Panther Party (BPP), the Young Lords Organization, Rising Up Angry and the Weathermen. In August 1969, these lawyers, together with two other law students, established the People's Law Office (PLO) on the north side of Chicago. In his book The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago,[71] Taylor recounts much of his struggle for human rights against the systemic racism of a corrupt criminal justice system in Chicago. More

Seattle, WA: Sasquatch Books, 2010. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. The format is approximately 7.25 inches by 9 inches. Unpaginated (bibliographic references cite this as having 128 pages). Illustrated cover. Illustrations (most in color). Signed by the author/artist on the title page [when this was catalogued there were no signed copies listed on the major internet booksites]. Foreword by John Straley. This work consists mainly of artwork and captions. Ray Troll (born March 4, 1954) is an American artist based in Ketchikan, Alaska. He is best known for his scientifically accurate and often humorous artwork. His most well-known design is "Spawn Till You Die", which has appeared in many places including the film Superbad and being worn by actor Daniel Radcliffe. Troll's renditions of everything from salmon to marine mammals to creatures only found in the fossil record have become iconic in fishing, scientific, and environmental activism communities around the world. He seeks inspiration from extensive field work in marine science, paleontology, geology, ecology, and evolutionary biology. His paintings and mixed-media drawings are in the collections of the Miami Museum of Science, the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Alaska Airlines, the Anchorage Museum, the Alaska State Museum, and the Ketchikan Museum. He has collaborated with the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History. Entitled Cruisin' the Fossil Coastline: The Travels of an Artist and a Scientist along the Shores of the Prehistoric Pacific. In 2002, the ratfish Hydrolagus trolli was named after him in recognition of his efforts to raise awareness of ratfish. More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 147 pages. Signed by a previous owner on the fep. Illustrated DJ is in a plastic sleeve and shows wear, chips and soiling. Introduction by Malcolm Muggeridge (Editor of Punch). A number of these drawings originally appeared in Punch. Most of the illustrations/cartoons have captions. Ronald William Fordham Searle, CBE, RDI (3 March 1920 – 30 December 2011 was an English artist and satirical cartoonist, comics artist, sculptor, medal designer and illustrator. He is perhaps best remembered as the creator of St Trinian's School and for his collaboration with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth series. Searle was born in Cambridge, England, where his father was a Post Office worker who repaired telephone lines. He started drawing at the age of five and left school (Central School – now Parkside School) at the age of 15. He trained at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology (now Anglia Ruskin University) for two years. In April 1939, realizing that war was inevitable, he enlisted in the Royal Engineers. In January 1942, he was in the 287th Field Company, RE in Singapore. He was taken prisoner when Singapore fell to the Japanese. He spent the rest of the war as prisoner, first in Changi Prison and then in the Kwai jungle, working on the Siam-Burma Death Railway. Searle contracted both beriberi and malaria during his incarceration, which included numerous beatings, and his weight dropped to less than 40 kilograms. He was liberated in late 1945 with the final defeat of the Japanese. After the war, he served as a courtroom artist at the Nuremberg trials and later the Adolf Eichmann trial (1961). More

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. x, 316, [2] pages Illustrations. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. DJ has minor wear and soiling. Denis Judd was born in Northamptonshire in 1938. He won a State Scholarship to Oxford, where he took his first degree in Modern History at Magdalen College, going on to study for a Ph.D. at London University, on: 'A. J. Balfour and the evolution and problems of the British Empire 1874-1906.' He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has been Head of History, and is now Professor Emeritus of Imperial and Commonwealth History, at the London Metropolitan University. In his research, writing and broadcasting he has specialized in the British Empire and Commonwealth, especially South Africa and India. He has also written extensively on British history, on aspects of the monarchy, and among his biographies is the authorized life of the children's author Alison Uttley. Rufus Isaacs was in his day the first commoner to rise to the rank of marquess since the Duke of Wellington. Born into a lively Jewish family, he left school aged 14, yet made his name as a brilliant QC before being elected to the Commons as a Liberal in 1904. Smeared during the Marconi scandal of 1913 he survived to be appointed Lord Chief Justice, and elevated to the peerage in 1914. He would go on to be Ambassador to the United States, Viceroy of India, and Foreign Secretary. For this major work, Denis Judd drew upon private papers in order to place Rufus Isaacs' complex career in perspective and so provide an overdue reassessment of one of the most outstanding public figures of the twentieth century. More