New York: Bantam Books, 2008. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, [4], 429, [5] pages. Related Readings. Index. DJ has minor edge wear. Inscribed by the author. Inscription reads To Lynne Many blessings! Jack. Jack Kornfield (born 1945) is an American author and teacher in the Vipassana movement in American Theravada Buddhism. He trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma and India, first as a student of the Thai forest master Ajahn Chah and Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma. He has taught mindfulness meditation worldwide since 1974. In 1975, he co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein, and subsequently in 1987, Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. Kornfield has worked as a peacemaker and activist, organized teacher trainings, and led international gatherings of Buddhist teachers including the Dalai Lama. Kornfield has worked to make Buddhism accessible for Westerners.[10] He has focused on combining loving kindness and self compassion with the practice of mindfulness, and incorporating together the wisdom of Eastern and Western psychology. In Jack Kornfield's book After the Ecstasy, the Laundry, he writes about the honest development of the wise heart within the cycles of day-to-day life; for instance "amid all the Western masters and teachers I know, some idealistic perfection is not apparent. Times of great wisdom, deep compassion, and a real knowing of freedom alternate with periods of fear, confusion, neurosis, and struggle. Most teachers will readily admit this." Kornfield lectures were featured by Joe Frank on his radio series "The Other Side. More

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961. Second printing [stated]. Wraps. [12],218, [2] pages. Text is in English and Chinese. Some marks to text and page soiling noted. Cover has some, spine tear, other wear and soiling. This is volume XIX of the Harvard-Yenching Institute Studies. These works were originally published in Harvard journal of Asiatic studies, 1939-1941, and are reprinted here without being reworked. This volume, the nineteenth of the Harvard-Yenching Institute Studies, was financed from the residue of the funds granted during World War II by the Rockefeller Foundation for the publication of Chinese and Japanese dictionaries. This series is distinct from the Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series and consists primarily of bibliographical studies, grammars, reference works, translations and other study and research aids. John King Fairbank (May 24, 1907 – September 14, 1991) was an American historian of China and United States–China relations. He taught at Harvard University from 1936 until his retirement in 1977. He is credited with building the field of China studies in the United States after World War II with his organizational ability, his mentorship of students, support of fellow scholars, and formulation of basic concepts to be tested. The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard is named after him. Among his most widely read books are The United States and China, first published in 1948 and revised editions in 1958, 1979, and 1983; East Asia: The Great Tradition (1960) and East Asia The Great Transformation (1965), co-authored with Edwin O. Reischauer; and his co-edited series, The Cambridge History of China. More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1918. Presumed First U. S. Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 7.5 inches. xi, [1], 212, [8] pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. Compliments of card pasted inside the front cover. Frontispiece. Hugo Friedrich Philipp Johann Freiherr von Freytag-Loringhoven (May 20, 1855 in Copenhagen – October 19, 1924 in Weimar) was a Prussian general and a writer on military matters, being awarded the Pour le Mérite in 1916 for his work as a historian. He came from a Baltic German family originated in Westphalia, the son of a diplomat, Karl von Freytag-Loringhoven. He entered the Imperial German army in 1877, a few years after German unification. From 1887 to 1896 he taught military history at the Prussian Military Academy in Berlin. He then worked for Alfred von Schlieffen, later being described as "Schlieffen's favorite disciple", and in 1907 took command of the 12th Regiment of Grenadiers at Frankfurt an der Oder. In 1910 he became Oberquartiermeister, and in December 1913 took command of the 22nd Division at Cassel. With the mobilization in 1914 for WWI, he became first a liaison officer with the Austro-Hungarian forces. He then returned to the Supreme Army Command as Stellvertretender Generalquartiermeister, where he became an unofficial adviser to Erich von Falkenhayn although he bemoaned his lack of influence. He briefly led the 9th Reserve Corps, then the 17th Reserve Division, and in September 1916 went back to the Supreme Army Command. On April 18, 1918 he was promoted to General of the Infantry. Deductions from the World War the English translation of Folgerungen aus dem Weltkriege (1918). More

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. ix, [3], 224, [2] pages. Notes. Index. Some highlighting and marks noted. minor endpaper discoloration. Colin Dueck is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he is focusing on the interconnection between US national security strategies and party politics, conservative ideas, and presidential leadership. He is also a professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, where he is the faculty adviser for the Alexander Hamilton Society. A senior nonresident fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, he has also served as a foreign policy adviser on several Republican presidential campaigns. Dr. Dueck is the author of three books on American foreign and national security policies: “The Obama Doctrine: American Grand Strategy Today” (Oxford University Press, 2015), “Hard Line: The Republican Party and US Foreign Policy Since World War II” (Princeton University Press, 2010), and “Reluctant Crusaders: Power, Culture, and Change in American Grand Strategy” (Princeton University Press, 2006). He has testified before Congress and has been published in academic journals and the popular press. These include International Security, Orbis, Political Science Quarterly, the Review of International Studies, Security Studies, World Policy Journal, The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, RealClearPolitics, and National Review. A Rhodes scholar, Dr. Dueck has a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University and an M.Phil. in international relations from Oxford University. His earlier degrees in history were obtained from the University of Saskatchewan. More

Stanford University, CA: Stanford University Press, 1931. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. Ex-library with the usual library markings. Cover very worn, with edges worn and corners bumped. Spine worn and torn. Some pages chipped and have tears repaired with tape. Some marks to text noted. 500 pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Appendix. Index. Contains three monographs. No. 1. The Reform Movement in China, 1898-1912 By Meribeth E. Cameron, Ph.D. (Stanford); No. 2. George D. Herron and the European Settlement by Mitchell Pirie Briggs, Ph.D. (*Stanford); and No. 3. Oriental Crime in California: A Study of Offenses Committed by Orientals in That State, 1900-1927 by Walter G. Beach. George D. Herron (January 21, 1862 – November 9, 1925) was an American clergyman, lecturer, writer and socialist activist. During World War I, Herron broke with the anti-militarist Socialist Party of America, became a self-assigned diplomat and filed regular intelligence reports on German public opinion to the American and British governments in support of the Allied war effort. In 1916, when President Woodrow Wilson campaigned successfully for re-election under the slogan "He Kept Us Out of War", Herron contended that Wilson was far from neutral towards the European conflict and inferred that he was waiting for the appropriate juncture to enter the United States into the conflict Herron was considered in Europe as among the most reliable interpreters of the intentions of the Wilson administration, an assessment that was only enhanced when Herron's pronouncements came true in April 1917, only the second month of Wilson's second term as President, with American entry into the war. More

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xii, [2], 370 pages. Illustrations. Index. Slight foxing to fore-edge. DJ edges worn and small tear. Signed by the author with sentiment on the fep. Reads Best Wishes Rosalynn Carter. The former first lady's memoir covers her small-town childhood, her life as a wife and mother, her role in the family business, her public and political efforts, and her years near the center of power. It is “a readable, lively and revealing account of the Carters and their remarkable journey from rural Georgia to the White House in a span of ten years” (The New York Times). Eleanor Rosalynn Carter (née Smith; born August 18, 1927) is an American writer and activist who served as First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981 as the wife of President Jimmy Carter. For decades, she has been a leading advocate for numerous causes, including mental health. Carter was politically active during her White House years, sitting in on Cabinet meetings. She was her husband's closest adviser. She also served as an envoy abroad, particularly in Latin America. Like her husband, Rosalynn Carter is considered a key figure in the Habitat for Humanity charity. After Bess Truman, Carter is the second-longest lived First Lady of the White House. More

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1988. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 494, [4] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Name of previous owner on fep. Cover has some wear and soiling. An account of a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer whose blossoming literary career was sabotaged by her personal trauma--unhappy marriages, deteriorated mental health, and alcoholism--studies the many facets of the enigmatic Jean Stafford. From a Kirkus review: Compassionate, thoroughly readable biography of a brilliant, troubled American novelist. Stafford's was a life of affliction, and Roberts conveys its desperation by pursuing the disappointments at its center: how Stafford suffered both feminine and writerly inferiority complexes; how she endured a short, tortuous marriage to the misogynist Robert Lowell, loving him because he could "dominate" her; how poverty and alcoholism--the inheritance of a failed father--made "disenchantment" the theme of her work and life; finally, how, after producing three bright novels, numerous essays and reviews, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning short-story collection, Stafford succumbed to illness and writer's block in her final years after the death of her last husband--A. J. Liebling, alienating publishers and friends, cursing the world en route to death in 1979. Roberts, using Stafford's astounding letters, interviews with numerous surviving friends, and a close reading of her fiction--including several early, unpublished novels--to reconstruct her heartbreaking life. This is a flesh-and-blood portrait of Stafford, a woman in great pain, something biographies often explain but rarely convey. Provocative, illuminating, distressing. More

Shanghai: The National Medical Journal of China, 1921. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. Text is primarily in English but has a number of pages in Chinese. Ex-library with usual library markings. Bookplate inside front cover. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some signs of moisture staining at the top edge. Volume VI, 256 pages, plus advertisements and Chinese language text. Volume VII, 267 page, plus advertisements and Chinese language text. Illustrations. Some pages have both black and red ink color. Among the topics covered are: Cholera Epidemic in Harbin, Selection of Men for Aviation Service, Nutritive Value of Soy Products, Morphinism, Narcotic Problem, Hookworm, Bubonic Plague, Goiter, Syphilis, Chinese Hermaphrodite, Uterine Fibroids, Famine, Typhus, Delouser, Diphtheria, Venereal Diseases in Armies, Rockefeller, Medical College at Peking, Pneumonic Plague, and Insanity. More

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 7.25 inches by 10,25 inches. xvi, 560 p. Illustrations. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Foreword by George P. Shultz. Preface by David L. Boren. This memoir of one of America's most courageous statesmen, Edward J. Perkins, is illustrated with 50 black and white photographs and 6 maps. Edward Joseph Perkins (June 8, 1928 – November 7, 2020) was an American career diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, South Africa, the United Nations, and Australia. He also served as the director of the United States State Department's Diplomatic Corps. Perkins passed the Foreign Service exam in 1971. Through a satellite campus of the University of Southern California, he would later earn his master’s degree in 1972 and a doctorate in 1978, both of which were in public administration. Concerned with the lack of support for fellow black members of the Foreign Service, Perkins became a founding member of the Thursday Luncheon Group with John W.H. Gravely, a weekly support and advocacy group for black officers. During his appointment tenure, Perkins focused on improving communication between blacks, whites, and other ethnic groups in the country, holding integrated receptions, attending church services, and visiting South African towns and villages. He overcame South African black activists’ initial hostility towards him through “carefully chosen shots” at the South African regime that demonstrated solidarity with the country’s victims of apartheid, including attendance at the Delmas Treason Trial. More

New York: Pantheon Books, 2016. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Endpaper map. xvii[1], 724, [6] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Heather Ann Thompson is an American historian, author, activist, professor, and speaker from Detroit, Michigan. Thompson won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in History, the 2016 Bancroft Prize, and other awards for her work Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy. Thompson earned a bachelor's degree and master's degree from the University of Michigan and completed her Ph.D. at Princeton University. Thompson was a faculty member at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte from 1997 to 2009, and then was a faculty member of Temple University in Philadelphia from 2009 to 2015. In 2015. Thompson accepted a faculty positions at the University of Michigan. Thompson writes about the history and current crises of mass incarceration for numerous publications. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Jacobin, NBC, Time Magazine, The Atlantic, Salon, Huffington Post, and Dissent. Several of Thompson's scholarly pieces, including "Why Mass Incarceration Matters," have won best article awards, and her popular piece in The Atlantic, "How Prisons Change the Balance of Power in America," was named a finalist for the Best Media Award given by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Thompson served on a National Academy of Sciences blue-ribbon panel to study causes and consequences of incarceration in the U.S. Thompson's books include: Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Rebellion of 1971 and its Legacy. More

New York: Regan [An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers], 2006. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [12], 210, [1] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Inscribed on the fep by author. Inscription reads Gail & Shelly You both are too sweet. Love Rainy Pryor. Rain Pryor is an American actress and comedian. Her television credits include sitcoms Head of the Class and Rude Awakening. She is the daughter of comedian Richard Pryor. Her award-winning solo show Fried Chicken and Latkes explores racism in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Pryor starred in the ABC series Head of the Class. Pryor starred for several years as Jackie, the lipstick-lesbian drug addict on the Showtime series Rude Awakening, and has guest-starred on network television series such as The Division and Chicago Hope. She has appeared numerous times on both The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, as well as The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and The Tavis Smiley Show. Pryor has also performed as a jazz/blues vocalist since 1993. Pryor created and toured in the award-winning show based on her life, Fried Chicken and Latkes, in 2004 and 2005. She appeared in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2006. In 2012, Pryor was named the artistic director of Baltimore's Strand Theater. In 2015, Pryor received the inaugural British Urban Film Festival honorary award from Ellen Thomas on behalf of her father for his outstanding contribution to film and television. The festival also screened the UK premiere of That Daughter's Crazy, a documentary about her life living in the spotlight of her famous father. More

New York: Boni & Liveright, Inc., 1917. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 7.5 inches. [10], 422 pages. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Cover has some wear and soiling. This was one the very first books to bear the Boni & Liveright imprint and is exceedingly scarce. Bookplate of Harriet Borland inside front cover!!! Borland is know for her study of the Soviet Union's First Five Year Plan from 1928-1932 where an intensive effort was made to mobilize literature for use as propaganda. It looked at how the writer became a professional worker with duties determined by political, social, and economic considerations. Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin (27 January [O.S. 15 January] 1826 – 10 May [O.S. 28 April] 1889), born Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov and known during his lifetime by the pen name Nikolai Shchedrin, was a major Russian writer and satirist of the 19th century. He spent most of his life working as a civil servant in various capacities. After the death of poet Nikolay Nekrasov, he acted as editor of a Russian literary magazine Otechestvenniye Zapiski until the Tsarist government banned it in 1884. In his works Saltykov mastered both stark realism and satirical grotesque merged with fantasy. His most famous works, the family chronicle novel The Golovlyov Family (1880) and the political novel The History of a Town (1870) became important works of 19th-century fiction, and Saltykov is regarded as a major figure of Russian literary Realism. Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin is regarded to be the most prominent satirist in the history of the Russian literature. More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1885. Authorized Edition. Hardcover. xvi, [2], 381, [21] pages. Occasional footnotes. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some front board weakness. Author's Preface the the American Edition. Slip stating imported by Chas. Scribner's Sons laid in. Ink notation on fep states Stepniak alias for a man named Krauchinski--an ex artillery officer who assassinated Mezentsev head of the notorious third division. Signature and date of previous owner also on fep. Part I chapter headings include: The Mir; The Vetche; A Russian Republic; Survival of Self-Government; The Making of the Depotism; The Power of the Church; The Russian Theocracy; The Great Reformer; Emancipation; Tzar's justice; Military Tribunals; Siberia; Life in Exile; Education; The Zestvo; Alexander II; Russia and Europe, There are Parts II and III (Dark Places and Administrative Exile ending with chapter XXXII. More