New York: Praeger Publishers, 1973. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 7 inches by 9.4 inches. 272 pages Illustrations. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Foreword by Vincent Scully. The John W. Cook Interviews with Architects consist of recorded interviews conducted with American architects prominent in the mid-to-late 20th century. These interviews were recorded by Cook and Heinrich Klotz in 1969-1970 and largely transcribed in their book Conversations with Architects. Dr. Cook, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, was a passionate advocate of theological education and a pioneer in the area of Religion and the Arts. Rev. Cook resided as Pastor of River Oaks Baptist Church (1963-1965) and 1st Congregational Church of Derby, CT (1965-1968) before being called to teaching. He received a Master's of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, a Master’s of Philosophy from Yale, a doctorate in theology at the University of Bonn, and earned a Ph.D. in Art and Architecture at Yale. He received many honors and fellowships throughout his career. Of the many were the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Institute of Architects, and Professor Emeritus from Yale. For 28 years he taught courses on Christianity and the Arts at Yale Divinity School, where he also hosted colloquia and organized European study trips. He later became Director of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music (1984-1992), which he served until his appointment as President of the Henry Luce Foundation (1992-2002). Dr. Cook, an author of ten books, is remembered especially for Conversations with Architects (1973) and Louis I. Kahn in Conversation (2015). More

New York: The Monacelli Press, 2000. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. 320 pages. Illustrations. Foreword by I. M. Pei. Dramatis Personae. Index. Cover has front and back flaps. Cover has slight wear and soiling. This includes an Introductory Biography of Marcel Breuer: 1902-1953. Robert F. Gatje FAIA (November 27, 1927 – April 1, 2018) was an American architect. Gatje completed his bachelor's degree in architecture from Cornell University in 1951, after working for the United States Army Corps of Engineers between 1946 and 1947. He was a Fulbright Scholar in London before joining Marcel Breuer's firm in 1953, as a draftsman. Gatje left Breuer's firm in 1982, forming a partnership with Tician Papachristou and Hamilton Smith, then joined Richard Meier five years later. Gatje established a private practice in 1995. Marcel Lajos Breuer (21 May 1902 – 1 July 1981), was a Hungarian American modernist architect and furniture designer. He moved to the United States in 1937 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1944. At the Bauhaus he designed the Wassily Chair and the Cesca Chair, which The New York Times have called some of the most important chairs of the 20th century. Breuer extended the sculpture vocabulary he had developed in the carpentry shop at the Bauhaus into a personal architecture that made him one of the world's most popular architects at the peak of 20th-century design. His work includes art museums, libraries, college buildings, office buildings, and residences. Many are in a Brutalist architecture style. He is regarded as one of the great innovators of modern furniture design and one of the most-influential exponents of the International Style. More

San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2010. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. The format is approximately 7.25 inches by 7.25 inches. 79, [1] pages. Decorative endpaper. Illustrations (many in color) Foreword by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer. Notes. Bibliography. Contents include Acknowledgments, Foreword, Introduction, The People, Designing the Tower, Building the Tower, The Tower Rises: An Essay in Pictures; Layout of the Tower; Aesthetic Triump or Practical Success? Addition to the Tower Complex, and The Tower Closes. A corporate commitment to innovation combined with Wright’s penchant for visionary design, yielded a pioneering yet challenged structure. An expansion of the company headquarters adjacent to the Wright-designed Administration Building from a decade earlier, the tower design expanded on the architect's visions for modern workspace and biomimetic structural systems. Floor slabs cantilever from a reinforced concrete “taproot” core, and bands of brick and crystalline glass tubes enclose laboratory spaces. Reverently maintained yet mostly unused by the SC Johnson company today, the tower can be considered either form pursued at the expense of function or a daring architectural accomplishment. The author is a freelance photojournalist, contract photographer for ZUMA Press Wire; Racine Journal Times 1978-2012 (Director of Photography); Author and photographer of four books about Frank Lloyd Wright's work in SE Wisconsin (all written on contract, not self-published). Lecturer about Wright's work in SE Wisconsin, including designated Expert Lecturer for Road Scholar Wright tours in Wisconsin. More

New York: Random House, 2019. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 352, [2] pages. Illustrations (most in color). Index. Signed by the author on a bookplate on the front free endpaper. Howard D. Schultz (born July 19, 1953) is an American businessman, author, and philanthropist. He served as the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Starbucks Coffee Corporation for more than two decades; first from 1986 to 2000, and then from 2008 to 2017. After stepping down as CEO, Schultz stayed at the company from 2017 to 2018 as its executive chairman overseeing Starbucks's philanthropic and charitable giving arm. Born and raised in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Schultz graduated from Northern Michigan University in 1975. Coffeehouse startup Starbucks onboarded him as their marketing and operations head in 1982. A business trip to Milan, Italy and the country's coffee culture inspired him to open Il Giornale, a specialty coffeeshop that merged with Starbucks during the late-1980s. Shultz pushed the new company to sell more than coffee beans and equipment, quickly establishing a large network of stores that served espresso, coffee, teas, and casual food. Following large-scale distribution deals–particularly with major hotels, groceries, and bookstores–Starbucks became the largest coffeehouse chain in the world. Shultz took the company public in 1992 and used a $271 million valuation to double their store count in a series of highly publicized coffee wars. He stepped down in 2000 to focus on Starbucks' international expansion. He authored three business books, Pour Your Heart Into It (1997), Onward (2011), and From the Ground Up (2019). More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2021. Signed Edition, specially bound by the Publisher, First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. xi, [3], 336 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Index. Signed on a special half-title page bound in after the fep. Christopher John Matthews (born December 17, 1945) is an American political commentator, retired talk show host, and author. Matthews hosted his weeknight hour-long talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, on America's Talking and later on MSNBC, from 1997 until March 2, 2020. He announced on his final episode that he was retiring, following an accusation that he had made inappropriate comments to a Hardball guest four years earlier. On that occasion, he stated: "The younger generation's out there ready to take the reins. We see them in politics, in media, in fighting for their causes. They're improving the workplace. Matthews worked in print media for 15 years, spending 13 years as Washington, D.C. bureau chief for the San Francisco Examiner (1987–2000) and two years as a nationally syndicated columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. Matthews covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, the first all-races election in South Africa, and the Good Friday Peace Talks in Northern Ireland. In 1997 and 1998, his research in the National Archives produced a series of exclusives on the Nixon presidential tapes. Matthews covered American presidential election campaigns from 1988 until his retirement in 2020. Matthews' Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero spent 12 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. In 2013, Matthews signed a long-term contract extension with MSNBC and would no longer host The Chris Matthews Show in order to focus on Hardball, writing books, and documentaries. More

New York: Doubleday, 2021. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [8], 357, [3] pages Bookplate, signed by the author, specific to this title on the fep. John Ray Grisham Jr. (born February 8, 1955, in Jonesboro, Arkansas) is an American novelist, lawyer and former member of the 7th district of the Mississippi House of Representatives, known for his popular legal thrillers. According to the American Academy of Achievement, Grisham has written 28 consecutive number-one fiction bestsellers, and his books have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Along with Tom Clancy and J. K. Rowling, Grisham is one of only three authors to have sold two million copies on the first printing. Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University and earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981. He practiced criminal law for about a decade and served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1983 to 1990. Grisham's first novel, A Time to Kill, was published in June 1989, four years after he began writing it. Grisham's first bestseller, The Firm, sold more than seven million copies. The book was adapted into a 1993 feature film of the same name, starring Tom Cruise, and a 2012 TV series which continues the story ten years after the events of the film and novel. Seven of his other novels have also been adapted into films: The Chamber, The Client, A Painted House, The Pelican Brief, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, and Skipping Christmas. More

New York: Viking Press, 2020. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [14], 913, [3] Pages. Signed copy sticker on front of the DJ. Signed by the author on the second fep. Signature verified through comparison with those found on the internet. HOWEVER, his signature is upside-down on the page as if the page (of a slightly heavier stock) was bound in wrong or the book was improperly presented to him to sign--very, very RARE. Kenneth Martin Follett, CBE, FRSL (born 5 June 1949) is a British author of thrillers and historical novels who has sold more than 160 million copies of his works. Many of his books have achieved high ranking on best seller lists. For example, in the US, many reached the number-one position on the New York Times Best Seller list, including Triple (1979), The Key to Rebecca (1980), Lie Down with Lions (1985), A Dangerous Fortune (1993), World Without End (2007), Fall of Giants (2010), Winter of the World (2012), and Edge of Eternity (2014). After three years in Cardiff, he returned to London as a general-assignment reporter for the Evening News. Finding the work unchallenging, he left journalism for publishing and became, by the late 1970s, deputy managing director of the London publisher Everest Books. He began writing fiction as a hobby. Later, he said, he began writing books when he needed extra money to fix his car, and the publishers' advance a fellow journalist had been paid for a thriller was the sum required for the repairs. Success came gradually at first, but the 1978 publication of Eye of the Needle, which became an international bestseller and sold over 10 million copies, made him both wealthy and internationally famous. More

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Iix, [3], 206, [6] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Essay on Sources. Index. Inscription on the fep signed by both authors. Inscription reads Dear Dian, Hope that you might enjoy this "slice' of NSF history--a complement to your own book. With best wishes. Tom Misa Jan 2016. Also signed below by Jeffrey R. Yost. DJ has slight soiling and some sticker residue. This is one of the Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. Thomas J. Misa is the author or coauthor of many books, including A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America, 1865–1925 and FastLane: Managing Science in the Internet World. Thomas J. Misa is ERA-Land Grant Professor of the History of Technology at the University of Minnesota, where he directs the Charles Babbage Institute. Jeffrey R. Yost is Associate Director of the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota, where he is also on the faculty of the Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. More

New York: HarperOne, 2009. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxv, [3], 209, [1] pages. Illustrations. Index. Foreword by Pico Iyer. DJ has signed by the author sticker on the front. Bookplate signed by Huston Smith on the fep. Signed by Jeffrey Paine on the title page. Huston Cummings Smith (May 31, 1919 – December 30, 2016) was a scholar of religious studies. He authored at least thirteen books on world's religions and philosophy, and his book about comparative religion, The World's Religions (originally titled The Religions of Man) remains a classic. Born and raised in Suzhou, China in a Methodist missionary family, Smith moved back to the United States at the age of 17 and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1945 with a Ph.D. in philosophy. He spent the majority of his academic career as a professor at Washington University in St. Louis (1947–1958), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1958–1973) and Syracuse University (1973–1983). In 1983, he retired from Syracuse and moved to Berkeley, California, where he was a visiting professor of religious studies at the University of California, Berkeley until his death. Due to his connection with Heard and Huxley, Smith went on to meet Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), and others at the Center for Personality Research, where Leary was research professor. The group began experimenting with psychedelics and what Smith called "empirical metaphysics". The experience and history of the group are described in Smith's book Cleansing the Doors of Perception. Smith was also part of the Harvard Psilocybin Project, an attempt to raise spiritual awareness through entheogenic plants. More

New York: Sentinel, 2013. Second printing [stated]. hardcover. x, 278 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Signed by the author (Scott Walker) on the half-title page. Autograph verified through comparison with signatures found on the internet. Scott Kevin Walker (born November 2, 1967) is an American politician who served as the 45th Governor of Wisconsin from 2011 to 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party. Walker was raised in Delavan, Wisconsin. He was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1992, representing a district in western Milwaukee County. In 2002, Walker was elected Milwaukee County Executive in a special election following the resignation of F. Thomas Ament; he was elected to a full term in 2004 and was re-elected in 2008. Walker ran for Governor of Wisconsin in 2006, but dropped out of the race before the primary election. He ran again in 2010 and won. Shortly after his inauguration in 2011, Walker gained national attention by introducing the Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill; the legislation proposed to effectively eliminate collective bargaining for most Wisconsin public employees. In response, opponents of the bill protested at the Wisconsin State Capitol and Senate Democrats left the state in an effort to prevent the bill from being passed. Nevertheless, the Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill became law in March 2011. Opposition to the law led to an attempt to recall Walker from office in 2012. Walker prevailed in the recall election, becoming the first incumbent governor in the history of the United States to win a recall election. He is the only U.S. governor to have survived a recall attempt. Walker was re-elected in 2014. More

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2005. Presumed First Paperback Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. [10], 354, [8] pages. Illustrations A Note on Sources. Notes. Index. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads For Sigrid--With best wishes on your own adventures--Dane Kennedy. Dane Kennedy is Professor of History and International Affairs at The George Washington University and author of Islands of White: Settler Society and Culture in Kenya and Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1939. Kennedy's Burton book, The Highly Civilized Man, was widely praised. Times Literary Supplement contributor Michael Saler found it a "wonderfully engaging and nuanced biography," as well as "the best biography of Burton as a man intimately involved with the central questions of his day, and of ours." Similar praise came from a Publishers Weekly reviewer who observed, "Kennedy succeeds in re-establishing Burton as a relevant figure for a 21st-century world grappling with issues of ethnic, cultural and sexual diversity." Likewise, Paul Laity, writing in the New Statesman, felt the book was a "thoughtful study," while New Criterion critic Eric Ormsby commended Kennedy for making it "plain how most of Burton's extraordinary activity was motivated less by passionate curiosity or scholarly fascination than by sheer cussedness." Ormsby further commented that Kennedy's "fascinating study is not a new biography, but an extended reflection on his subject's multiple, and protean, manifestations." "I also remain very interested in the historiographical and methodological shifts that have taken place over the past few decades in our understanding of the nature and consequences of the imperial experience," Kennedy concluded in his CA interview. "With the heightened awareness that America currently holds a hegemonic position similar to that of Britain in the mid-nineteenth century, these debates about the past are particularly relevant to the world we live in." More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2017. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 256 Pages Signed by the author sticker on the front of the DJ. Signed by the author on the title page. DJ has slight wear and soiling. "Advances an analysis that should encourage progressives, be cautionary for conservatives, and engage and enlighten everyone who cares about America's political and economic future." --James Fallows, national correspondent, The Atlantic. "A tonic, not because it will make you feel better, although it might, but because he makes a powerful, provocative and persuasive case that progressives are in a better position than they realize to make our world better." --E. J. Dionne Jr., author of Why the Right Went Wrong. T Ruy Teixeira (born December 15, 1951) is an American political scientist and commentator who has written several books on various topics in political science and political strategy. He is most noted for his work on political demography, and particularly for The Emerging Democratic Majority (2002), which he co-wrote with John Judis, a book arguing that the Democratic Party are demographically destined to become a majority party in the United States of the early 21st century. He writes and edits the weblog The Democratic Strategist. In 1999, he moved to the Century Foundation’s Washington office, where he is a Senior Fellow and in 2003 he became a Senior Fellow of a newly formed think tank, the Center for American Progress, headed by John Podesta, Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton and co-chair of President Barack Obama's transition team. Teixeira is a Senior Fellow at both the Century Foundation and the Center for American Progress. More