Key West, FL: SeaStory Press, 2005. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 7.25 inches by 10.25 inches. ix, [1], 59, [3] pages. DJ has minor wear and soiling. The book contains forty-two poems and color plates of sixteen paintings. Inscribed on the title page by the author. Inscription reads For Jane who heard me read on April 7, 2008 for the Friends of the Library Rosanne. Potter is an award-winning professional painter of abstract expressionist paintings. My abstract expressionism paintings, Many Levels, won (sixth place in Category 26) in the American Art Awards in October 2015. I was also an Accepted Artist for 2015 at Linus Gallery. My two latest awards are from Light Space & Time Art Gallery, a Special Merit award for Abstracts in 2015, and a Special Merit Award in an All Women competition in 2016. Potter began drawing informally as a young woman. She took a studio art class with American Abstractionist Clarence Giese during her Institute of European Studies Junior Year Abroad in Vienna. After a University career teaching English and Women's Studies, she retired in Key West and turned back to painting. She took a weekly workshop with Joachim Loeber, known then as "the last living German Expressionist" who had also retired to Key West. Loeber taught technique rather than style: how different colors, paints, surface, and tools effect each other. After five years with Loeber, Potter published: Key West, Transit of Venus, Poems and Paintings by Rosanne Potter (SeaStory Press, 2005). More

New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2013. Third Printing [stated]. Hardcover. viii, [2], 179, [1] pages. DJ worn and torn at bottom. Rear page creased. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads Ardena Brooks, Blessings. Kim L. Roby 6/23/13. Kimberla Lawson Roby (born May 3, 1965, in Rockford, Illinois) is an American author and speaker. She is best known for her "Reverend Curtis Black" series, and for her depiction of real-life social issues in a fictional format. It was only after the urging of readers that her sixth novel and second title in the series was written. This title, Too Much of a Good Thing, became her first New York Times bestselling novel. Roby held various jobs in Rockford, both in the corporate world and in city and state government. At the age of 30, she decided to write her first novel, Behind Closed Doors, which took her seven months to complete. In June 1996, with money her husband borrowed from his 401K account and a small loan from their credit union, she founded her company, Lenox Press and published Behind Closed Doors. It was sold first at independent African-American Bookstores nationwide and ultimately at major chain bookstores. Within her first two months of official sales, a literary agent agreed to represent her, and her second book was sold to Kensington Publishing in New York. Her first was then picked up by Black Classic Press in Baltimore, MD. In 1998, Roby signed with a new literary agent, Elaine Koster of the Elaine Koster Literary Agency, who represented Roby until Elaine's death in August 2010. Roby has also published books with HarperCollins Publishers, and she is currently published with Grand Central Publishing. More

New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1997. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xv, [1], 156 pages. Notes. Index. Ex-library with the usual library markings. Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli is an American political scientist who also served in the Department of State. Ambassador Tahir-Kheli has an MA and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and past member of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. In 2006, she was appointed as the first Ambassador for women's empowerment by the United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as well as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State on United Nations Reform. She was sworn in as the First American Muslim Ambassador in July 1990. Dr. Tahir-Kheli was the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Democracy, Human Rights and International Operations at the White House National Security Council, from 2003-2005. She has served three Republican presidential administrations since 1980. Prior to her appointment, Tahir-Kheli was the Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University Foreign Policy Institute at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, in Washington, DC, where she was the founding Director of the South Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Institute (1992-2002). Ambassador Tahir-Kheli has dedicated more than a dozen years to finding areas of agreement between India and Pakistan that could change their relationship to one of productive peace. More

Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, Inc., 2005. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xviii, 308, [2] pages. Illustrations. Tabular Data. Abbreviations and Acronyms. Notes. Index. Minor sticker residue on back of DJ. Theodore George "Ted" Shackley, Jr. (July 16, 1927 – December 9, 2002) was an American CIA officer involved in many important and controversial CIA operations during the 1960s and 1970s. He is one of the most decorated CIA officers. Due to his "light hair and mysterious ways", Shackley was known to his colleagues as "the Blond Ghost". In the early 1960s, Shackley's work included being station chief in Miami, during the period of the Cuban Missile Crisis, as well as the Cuban Project (also known as Operation Mongoose), which he directed. He was also said to be the director of the "Phoenix Program" during the Vietnam War, as well as the CIA station chief in Laos between 1966 and 1968, and Saigon station chief from 1968 through February 1972. In May 1976, Shackley was made Associate Deputy Director for Operations, second in charge of CIA covert operations, serving under CIA director George H. W. Bush. After Jimmy Carter had succeeded Gerald Ford as President and replaced Bush with Stansfield Turner, Shackley was relieved of his post in December 1977, before officially retiring from the organization in 1979 – when the Carter administration announced wide cuts in the CIA's network of officers and informants. Richard A. Finney was a CIA case officer and training officer. More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. ix, [3], 260 pages. Figures. Tables. Appendix A. Summary of Specific Recommendations. Appendix B. Naval Vessels of the United States and China. Notes. Index. James Braidy Steinberg (born May 7, 1953) is an American academic and political advisor, and former United States Deputy Secretary of State. He has served as the dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University since November 1, 2021. Prior to his deanship, he was a professor at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. As Deputy Secretary of State and principal Deputy to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Steinberg notably coined the phrase "strategic reassurance" to describe China–United States relations suggestive of the idea that the United States should reassure China about welcoming China's rise while China would reassure the US and its neighbors that it would not conflict with their interests. Michael Edward O'Hanlon (born May 16, 1961) is a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, specializing in defense and foreign policy issues. He began his career as a budget analyst in the defense field. O'Hanlon's main areas of work over the years include studies on defense technology issues, such as missile defense and space weaponry and the future of nuclear weapons policy, and on defense strategy and budget issues that follow a long Brookings tradition. The analytical approaches that O'Hanlon employs were explained in his 2009 Princeton University Press book, The Science of War, which discusses methods of defense analysis. More

New York: Da Capo Press, 1998. First Da Capo Press edition [stated]. Presumed First Printing. Trade paperback. 544 pages. Notes. Index. Gill was a friend of Wright's and knew several other members of the family over three generations. Brendan Gill (October 4, 1914 – December 27, 1997) was an American journalist. He wrote for The New Yorker for more than 60 years. Gill also contributed film criticism for Film Comment, wrote about design and architecture for Architectural Digest and wrote fifteen books, including a popular book about his time at the New Yorker magazine. In 1936, St. Clair McKelway, an editor at The New Yorker, hired Gill as a writer.[2] One of the publication's few writers to serve under its first four editors, he wrote more than 1,200 pieces for the magazine. These included Profiles, Talk of the Town features, and scores of reviews of Broadway and Off-Broadway theater productions. As The New Yorker's main architecture critic from 1987 to 1996, Gill was a successor to Lewis Mumford as the author of the long-running "Skyline" column before Paul Goldberger took his place. He was also a regular contributor to Architectural Digest in the 1980s and 1990s. A champion of architectural preservation and other visual arts, Gill joined Jacqueline Kennedy's coalition to preserve and restore New York's Grand Central Terminal. He also chaired the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and authored 15 books, including Here at The New Yorker and the iconoclastic Frank Lloyd Wright biography Many Masks. More

Kwajalein: 509th Composite Group [presumed], 1946. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Disbound sheets, printed on one side only. 24 sheets, mimeograph, some with dates in ink in upper right corner. Some type overstrikes noted. This appears to be a working document with some pages updated with an adjusted page number. All pages marked SECRET with no declassification markings. Numbering starts with D-1. D-1, Operations Plan 14 Feb 1946; Operations Plan D-1b, 3-2-46; D-2 Safety Precautions 14 Feb 1946 [prescribed by representatives of the Manhattan Project]; D-2a, Safety, 2-18-46, D-2a-1 Operations Plan (Continued) 2-18-46; Operations Plan (Continued) D-2a-2 2-18-46; Operations Plan (Continued) D-3 14 Feb 1946; Operations Plan (Continued) D-3a 2-18 46; Operations Plan (Continued) D-4 14 Feb. 1946; Operations Plan (Continued) D-4a 2-18-46; Operations Plan (Continued) D-5 14 Feb. 46; Operations Plan (Continued) D-5a 2-18-46; Operations Plan (Continued) D-6 14 Feb. 46; Operations Plan (Continued) D-6a 2-18-46; Operations Plan (Continued) D-6b [undated]; Operations Plan (Continued) D-7 14 Feb. 1946; Operations Plan (Continued) D-7a 2-18-46; Operations Plan (Continued) D-7b [undated]; Operations Plan (Continued) D-8 14 Feb. 1946; Operations Plan (Continued) D-8b [undated]; Operations Plan (Continued) D-9 14 Feb. 1946; Operations Plan (Continued) D-9b [undated]; Operations Plan (Continued) D-10 14 Feb. 1946; and a sheet entitle Tactical Doctrine Distribution listing 23 copies and where/to whom sent. Some ink notations on this sheet. More

Washington DC: Newsweek, 1946. Presumed contemporary typescript copy. Typescript. RARE Operation Crossroads related newspaper columnist 'opinion peace'. This is the text of one of Mr. Lindley's weekly Newsweek columns, published on July 15, 1946. This piece of ephemera, by a journalist who witnessed the event, is probably unique. Three pages, 8 inches by 10.5 inches, printed on one side only, with two holes punched at the top. Several typed overstrikes noted. It is NOT listed in the Newsweek Index but does appear in the published issue starting at page 32. [A different column, Echoes of Bikini, by Mr. Lindley is listed in the index but could not be found in the published issue.] Ernest K. Lindley was a noted Washington correspondent for many years and then an official of the State Department. Mr. Lindley graduated from the University of Idaho. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and spent three years at Oxford University in England. In 1924, Mr. Lindley joined the staff of The New York World as a reporter and political writer. He moved to The Herald Tribune in 1931 when the world ceased publication. In 1937, Mr. Lindley left The Herald Tribune to become the Washington bureau chief of Newsweek magazine, which was organized that year. A year later, he joined The Washington Post. Mr. Lindley remained on The Post until 1943 and on Newsweek until 1961. At Newsweek, Mr. Lindley wrote a weekly column, "Washington Tides". During WWII, Mr. Lindley organized a group of veteran reporters that met frequently with Gen. George C. Marshall, the Army chief of staff, and Administrator Ernest J. King, the chief of naval operations, and other high officials for sensitive briefings. More

Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma: Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, Material Management Engineering, Survivability Section, 1987. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Comb binding. [4], viii, 198 pages. Acronyms and Abbreviations. Nomenclature, Formulae. Glossary. References. Problems. Solutions. Illustrated front cover. This document was prepared for the Air Force by the Boeing Military Airplane Company, OC-ALC S/V Programs Office, Del City, Oklahoma. The purpose of the seminar was to provide the following information to newly assigned MMEAS survivability engineers: a. An awareness of the magnitude and complexity of the varied nuclear threats; b. An overview of general and specific Air Force policies and procedures in these areas: A. F. Tech Order System. Maintenance Data Collection System; Hardness Maintenance/Hardness Surveillance; Configuration Control; c. A detailed look at the "electronic" threat, Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP), and how to safeguard against it; and d. Methods of detecting degradations in the hardness of a system or sub-system through testing and inspection. The seminar included some theoretical background data, but focused on practical applications. The material provided during the seminar was provided as guidance and was not be be taken as directive in nature. The complex is responsible for the development and sustainment of a diverse portfolio of mission-critical software for the Air Force and diverse other customers, as well as world-wide aircraft battle damage repair capability for multiple weapons. Among the topics addressed are: Weapon Types, Energy Forms, Blast and Shock, Thermal, Radiation, EMP, Transient Radiation Effects on Electronics (TREE), Hardening, Maintenance, Surveillance, and Testing. More

Washington DC: United States Office of Civilian Defense, circa 1941. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. vi, 55, [3] pages including covers. Tables. Illustrations. This is one of a series of Protective Construction Pamphlets treating protection against the effects of aerial bombs, which are being prepared by the Office of the Chief of Engineers of the War Department and the Office of Corps of Engineers and the Office of Civilian Defense. This represents a pre-Atomic bomb damage baseline. Descriptions of the structures and tests are given in the appropriate sections. Some of the general considerations are presented with a view to giving a better understanding of the report. There were two different types of tests. The first type consisted of controlled tests, made by detonating bombs statically, on the ground or in craters or bored holes to determined, under predetermined conditions, the effect of splinters and blast, or earth shock at definite distances from the structures under tests. The test of panels of building material and protective materials and the tests of seven types of shelters were in this class. The second type of tests had the primary purpose of determining the adequacy of the structures to resist bombing under actual conditions and required general bombing of structures of different sizes of bombs from various altitudes. All the structures, including the splinter-proof shelters tested by static detonation initially, were placed in a general area approximately 100 by 330 feet. The western end of this area contained the splinterproof shelters and the typical panels of reinforced concrete building construction as building prototypes. Bombing with bombs up to 100 pounds in weight were scheduled. More

Santa Monica, CA: Random House, 1988. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xix, [1], 118 pages. Illustrated end papers. Tables. Appendix: Instructive Scenario Segments. Ex-library with the usual library markings. This was prepared for The Director of Net Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense. Title page has two pasted in a slip with two paragraphs that were inadvertently omitted from the preface. This document was approved for public release. James F. Digby led the RAND Corporation’s International Security Affairs program in the 1960s. Digby was a key player for six decades in understanding how new technology would change the face of warfare. Digby was an advocate for finding ways to avoid hitting civilians in war. Frequently, it was his job to translate the work of more flamboyant thinkers into practical terms that officials at the Pentagon could listen to and act upon. In the early 1970s, Digby foresaw the change that smart bombs-then called precision-guided munitions-would change the way warfare was conducted, and set about getting the military to begin changing strategies. Working with other experts from all political stripes, Digby helped rethink the kinds of things the U.S. military should invest in. In the 1980s, Digby coordinated the RAND Corporation’s contributions to the Pentagon’s bipartisan Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy. Digby graduated magna cum laude from Louisiana Tech University with a bachelor’s degree in engineering in 1941 and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1942. During World War II, Digby flew to England to get the radar of a troop carrier squadron in operational shape for the D-Day invasion. More

London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1946. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. The format is approximately 6 inches by 9.75 inches. vi, 21, [3] pages, plus covers. Illustrations (unpaginated--12 pages, two images per page). Tabular data. Diagram. Cover is worn and soiled, with some damp staining at page bottoms and the back. In the course of the war the Ministry of Home Security had evolved a scientific method for the measurement of the effect of air attack in the various forms and the Home Office regarded it as desirable to invite the United States Authorities to agree that a British team of experts trained in that method should co-operate with the United States Strategic Bombing Survey to conduct an investigation into the effects of the bombing of the two Japanese cities. The United States authorities provided every possible facility for the investigation, and the detailed arrangements were made by the United States Strategic Bombing Survey. In addition to factual examinations at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States Authorities placed at the disposal of the British experts the records and observations which their more prolonged and detailed study had produced. In particular the part of this report which deals with the effects of atomic bombs on the human structure is based on material supplied by the Medical Section of the Joint Commission for the Investigation of the Effects of the Atomic Bomb. This report by the British experts is now published in this country simultaneously with the publication in America of the corresponding report of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey. More