Washington DC: National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, 2021. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches, by 1.5 inches (thick). [3], 746, [3] pages. Illustrations. Endnotes. Blueprints for Action. Appendices. The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) was an independent commission of the United States of America established in 2018 to make recommendations to the President and Congress to "advance the development of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and associated technologies to comprehensively address the national security and defense needs of the United States". It issued its final report in March 2021, saying that the U.S. is not sufficiently prepared to defend or compete against China in the AI era. The report's recommendations include: dramatically increasing non-defense federal spending on AI research and development, doubling every year from $2 billion in 2022, to $32 billion in 2026. That would bring it up to a level similar to spending on biomedical research creation of a Digital Corps to bring skilled tech workers into government; founding of a Digital Service Academy: an accredited university providing subsidized education in exchange for a commitment to work for a time in government include civil rights and civil liberty reports for new AI systems or major updates to existing systems; expanding allocations of employment-based green cards, and giving them to every AI Ph.D. graduate from an accredited U.S. university; reforming the acquisition management system Department of Defense to make it faster and easier to introduce new technologies. More

New York City, NY: IBM Corporation {International Business Machines], c1960. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus, one of multiple ephemeral originals. Other. The format is approximately 3 inches by 4.25 inches for cover. The pad is approximately 3.75 inches by 4.25 inches. Two sheets of the pad appear to have been removed. Brown leather-like cover with the word "THINK" on the front, and IBM on the back. Company information inside the back cover. Company information has postal zone information but no Zip Code. The Zip Code was introduced in 1962 so this item probably pre-dates in introduction and appear to be an item from the 1950s. From Wikipedia: A notepad is a pad of paper for writing down notes. Note-taking (sometimes written as notetaking or note taking) is the practice of recording information from different sources and platforms. By taking notes, the writer records the essence of the information, freeing their mind from having to recall everything. Notes are commonly drawn from a transient source, such as an oral discussion at a meeting, or a lecture (notes of a meeting are usually called minutes), in which case the notes may be the only record of the event. Since the advent of writing and literacy, notes traditionally were almost always handwritten (often in notebooks), but the introduction of notetaking software has made digital notetaking possible and widespread. Note-taking is a foundational skill in personal knowledge management. More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016. First Simon & Schuster Hardcover Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xviii, [1], 234, [1] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Documents. Glossary. Index. Decorative endpapers. Foreword by Edward Snowden. Afterword by Glenn Greenwald. Jeremy Scahill (born 1974) is an American investigative journalist, writer, a founding editor of the online news publication The Intercept, and author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, which won the George Polk Book Award. His book Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield was published by Nation Books on April 23, 2013. On June 8, 2013, the documentary film of the same name, produced, narrated and co-written by Scahill, was released. It premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Scahill is a Fellow at the Type Media Center. Scahill learned journalism and started his career on the independently syndicated daily news show Democracy Now!. The Intercept is an online American nonprofit news organization that publishes articles and podcasts. The Intercept has published in English since its founding in 2014, and in Portuguese since the 2016 launch of the Brazilian edition staffed by a local team of Brazilian journalists. The Intercept was founded by Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, and Laura Poitras. It was launched in 2014 by First Look Media with funding by eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar. The publication reported on documents released by Edward Snowden. Co-founders Greenwald and Poitras subsequently left amid public disagreements about the leadership and direction of the organization. In January 2023 it spun off from the First Look Institute as an independent nonprofit organization. More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition [stated]. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. ix, [7], 622, [2] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Author's Note. Index. John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American attorney, politician and diplomat currently serving as the first U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. A member of the Forbes family and the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 68th United States secretary of state from 2013 to 2017 in the administration of Barack Obama and represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1985 to 2013. Kerry was the Democratic nominee for president of the United States in the 2004 election. From 1968 to 1969, during the Vietnam War, Kerry served an abbreviated four-month tour of duty in South Vietnam. While commanding a Swift boat, he sustained three wounds in combat with the Viet Cong, for which he earned three Purple Heart Medals. Kerry was awarded the Silver Star Medal and the Bronze Star Medal for valorous conduct in separate military engagements. After completing his active military service, Kerry returned to the United States and became an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War. At the end of the Obama administration in January 2017, Kerry remained active in public affairs from 2017 to 2021 as a vocal opponent of Obama's successor, President Donald Trump. Kerry returned to government in January 2021, becoming the first person to hold the new position of U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, under Joe Biden. More

New York: Three Rivers Press, 2000. Fourth Edition [stated]. Later printing stated. Wraps. The format is approximately 4.875 by 10 inches. xxvii, [1], 1055, [1]. Front and rear cover have flaps. Glossary. Illustrations (some with color). Maps. Norval Crawford White (June 12, 1926 – December 26, 2009) was an American architect, architectural historian and professor. He designed buildings throughout the U.S., but he is best known for his writing, particularly the AIA Guide to New York City (with Elliot Willensky). White was widely considered to be one of the great figures of New York architecture. In 1962, upon hearing of the imminent demolition of New York City's historic Pennsylvania Station, White and several other architects, including Willensky, founded AGBANY (Action Group for Better Architecture in New York). They picketed the station and handed out fliers in protest. In 1967, White and Willensky proposed a guide to New York City architecture to the American Institute of Architects (AIA). The AIA Guide to New York City, a 464+ page guidebook featuring over 2,600 buildings in its first edition The fourth edition of this guide was issued in 1999, then without further contributions from Willensky, who had died in 1990. White was able to finalize the 5th edition of the AIA Guide before his death, which was published in 2010. Elliot Willensky served as the officially appointed Borough Historian of Brooklyn and as Vice-Chairman of the Landmarks Preservation Commission of the City of New York. A consulting architect and exhibition designer who frequently wrote and lectured on urban themes, he has taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture and Planning. More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994. First Norton Paperback [stated]. Trade paperback. 334, [2] pages. Illustrated front cover. Footnotes. Illustrations. Index. Substantial text on back cover. Matthys Levy, P.E. is chairman emeritus of Weidlinger Associates, Inc., and former director of its Building Design Group. Levy is the recipient of numerous professional awards. He is also the author of many popular books on structures and climate effects, including the classic Why Buildings Fall Down. Mario G. Salvadori (March 19, 1907 – June 25, 1997) was an American structural engineer and professor of both civil engineering and architecture at Columbia University. During World War II he was – unbeknownst to himself at the time – a consultant on the Manhattan Project for three years. After the war, he took up teaching at Columbia University, where he would become a professor in 1959 in the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; he taught at Columbia for 50 years. From 1954 to 1960, Salvadori worked as a consultant and then principal at Weidlinger Associates. He then became a partner until 1991, when he became honorary chairman. As a structural engineer, Salvadori became known for the design of thin concrete shells as he strove to create great architecture in all of his projects, including the concrete structural system for the CBS Building in Manhattan, designed by Eero Saarinen. He was also considered to be an authority on structural failure, and, as a forensic engineer helped to investigate numerous building failures due to natural disasters such as earthquakes and human error in construction or design. More

Toronto: Bantam Books, c1980. Second printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. ciii, [2], 308, [2} pages. Bibliography on Children of Survivors. Slightly cocked. Some cover wear and soiling. Some page discoloration noted. Born to survivors of Auschwitz and Terezin, the author recounts her private quest to come to terms with her parents' past, a quest which took her to Israel and into the homes of other children of concentration-camp survivors. Helen Epstein is an American writer of memoir, journalism and biography. Helen Epstein was born in Prague, grew up in New York City, and graduated from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. She became a journalist at the age of 20, while caught in the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia. Her account was published in the Jerusalem Post. Her articles and reviews have appeared in many major American publications and include profiles of art historian Meyer Schapiro and musicians Vladimir Horowitz and Leonard Bernstein. Helen Epstein is the author, co-author, translator or editor of ten books of narrative non-fiction including the non-fiction trilogy Children of the Holocaust, Where She Came From: A Daughter’s Search for Her Mother’s History and The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma; and Joe Papp: An American Life. She translated Heda Kovaly’s Under a Cruel Star and Paul Ornstein’s Looking Back: Memoir of a Psychoanalyst. The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma was published in 2018. In 2020, she published her late mother's memoir as Franci's War and in 2022, her cancer memoir Getting Through It. She was the first tenured woman journalism professor in New York University and taught about 1000 students over 12 years. More

New York: Random House, 1964. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. The format is approximately 5.875 by 8.625 inches. [8], 262, [2] pages. Notes. Suggested Readings. Table of Cases. Index. DJ has some wear, tears, soiling, and chips. Joseph Anthony Lewis (March 27, 1927 – March 25, 2013) was an American public intellectual and journalist. He was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and was a columnist for The New York Times. He is credited with creating the field of legal journalism in the United States. Early in Lewis' career as a legal journalist, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter told an editor of The New York Times: "I can't believe what this young man achieved. There are not two justices of this court who have such a grasp of these cases." He wrote a series of articles on the case of Abraham Chasanow, a civilian employee of the U.S. Navy, who had been dismissed on the basis of allegations by anonymous informers that he associated with subversives. The series won Lewis a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1955. Lewis won a second Pulitzer Prize in 1963 for his coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court. The citation singled out his coverage of the court's reasoning in Baker v. Carr, a Supreme Court decision which held that federal courts could exercise authority over legislative redistricting on the part of the states, and the decision's impact on specific states. During a newspaper strike, Lewis wrote Gideon's Trumpet, the story of Clarence Earl Gideon, the plaintiff in Gideon v. Wainwright, the 1963 case in which the Supreme Court held that states were required to provide counsel for indigent defendants charged with serious crimes. More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. Later printing, after copyright has been renewed. Hardcover. 190, [2] pages. No dust jacket present. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. Fitzgerald received critical acclaim only after his death and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He attended Princeton University where he befriended future literary critic Edmund Wilson. This Side of Paradise (1920) became a cultural sensation and cemented his reputation as one of the eminent writers of the decade. His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), propelled him further into the cultural elite. He wrote numerous stories for popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Weekly, and Esquire. His third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), received generally favorable reviews. The Great Gatsby is now hailed by some literary critics as the "Great American Novel". Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood where he embarked upon a career as a screenwriter. While living in Hollywood, he cohabited with columnist Sheilah Graham, his final companion. After a long struggle with alcoholism, he attained sobriety only to die of a heart attack in 1940, at 44. His friend Edmund Wilson edited and published an unfinished fifth novel, The Last Tycoon (1941), after Fitzgerald's death. More

New Haven: Yale Nota Bene/Yale University Press, 2002. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xxiii, [17], 486, [6] pages. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Some highlighting and ink marks in the early portions of the work noted. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Minor page discoloration noted. Dominic Lieven (born 19 January 1952) is an English research professor at Cambridge University (Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College) and a Fellow of the British Academy and of Trinity College, Cambridge. Lieven was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated top of the class of 1973 (Double First with Distinction), and was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University in 1973/4. Lieven is a writer on Russian history, on empires and emperors, on the Napoleonic era and the First World War, and on European aristocracy. Lieven is on the Editorial Board of Journal of Intelligence and Terrorism Studies. He was elected in 2001 Fellow of the British Academy, and was head of the History Department at the London School of Economics from 2009 to 2011; he was appointed lecturer there in 1978, and professor in 1993. He was appointed to his current position at the University of Cambridge in 2011. More

Oxford, United Kingdom: Michael Tomkinson Publishing, 2007. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 6.125 inches by 8.5 inches. 144 pages. Illustrations (many in color). Maps. Index. Small scuff on fep. Signed by the author on the fep. The contents Cemeteries, Tunisian Campaign, Battlefields, Beja, Bizerta, Carthage, Enfidaville, Borj Cedria, Gammarth, Massicault, Borj el-Amri, Mejez el-Bab, Oued Zarga, Thibar, Sfax, Tabarka-Ras Rajel, Takrouna, Tarf ech-Chena, Haffouz, and Battle Monument. Lillian Craig Harris has been an instructor in English and journalism Wheaton (Illinois) College, 1966-1968, Haigazian College, Beirut, 1968-1970. Public information officer United Nations Relief and Works Agency, 1970-1972. Public relations consultant, news broadcast writer Voice of America, Washington, 1973-1975. She was a political officer United States Embassy, Beirut, 1976. Political analyst United States Department State, Washington, 1977-1986. Free-lance writer, consultant London and Cairo, 1986-1995. She has also been a part-time professor American University Cairo, Egypt, 1990-1993. Founding director Befrienders Cairo, Egypt, 1992-1994. Founder The Bishop Mubarak Fund for Nuba Women, 1996, Befrienders Khartoum, Sudan, 1997, English Language Foundation, Khartoum, 1996, The Women's Action Group, Khartoum, since 1996, Together for Sudan, London, since 1999. Lillian Craig Harris has been listed as a notable Writer, educator by Marquis Who's Who. More

Washington: Robert B. Luce, Inc., 1972. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.75 inches. 247, [1] pages. Notes. Index. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads To Tom Greenland, with best wishes, Frank Van de Linden September 13, 1972. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Frank Morris van der Linden was a historian, journalist, and member of the White House Press Corps. He graduated from Lenoir-Rhyne College with a B .A. degree in History in 1939. He followed his dream of becoming a journalist. In 1944, his first article appeared in the Washington Post based on his first book, Dark Horse, about President James Polk. Several months later, in March 1945, he moved to Washington, D.C. to cover Congress and the White House. His columns were nationally distributed by the United Feature Syndicate in New York. During his career, he was a frequent panelist on NBC's Meet the Press. Van der Linden interviewed every president, from Harry S. Truman to George H. W. Bush, and he was a regular participant in White House press conferences. He traveled the world covering presidents and vice presidents, including former president Richard Nixon's historic trip to the Soviet Union in 1972. Van der Linden's avocation was American history. His 1962 book, The Turning Point, was a well-received study of Thomas Jefferson's battle for the presidency. After retiring from daily journalism in 1992, he rekindled his interest in the Civil War, publishing numerous articles and books, including Lincoln: The Road to War, in 1998, and The Dark Intrigue: A True Story of a Civil War Conspiracy, in 2007. More

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1959. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [2], 205, [1] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Sources. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads To Matt & Marion--The luck of Ninaiva [sp?] Theodora Kroeber. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Foreword by Oliver La Farge. The nine stories from the California Indians which make up The Inland Whale emphasize the common nature of men and women. Love, death, immortality; youth, revenge, incest; faith, murder, humor--all are found in this book. This collection remains in print more than 60 years after its original publication and has proven to be an enduring work of comparative literature. Kroeber was the wife of Alfred Kroeber, an anthropologist known for his work on Native California languages. The Kroebers' daughter was Ursula Le Guin. Theodora Kroeber (née Theodora Covel Kracaw; March 24, 1897 – July 4, 1979) was an American writer and anthropologist, best known for her accounts of several Native Californian cultures. Kroeber attended the University of California, Berkeley and received a master's degree in 1920. She began doctoral studies in anthropology at UC Berkeley. She met anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber and married him in 1926. Kroeber began writing professionally late in her life. She published The Inland Whale, a collection of translated Native Californian narratives in 1959. Two years later she published Ishi in Two Worlds, an account of Ishi, the last member of the Yahi people of Northern California. This volume received high praise. Kroeber published several other works in her later years, including a collaboration with her daughter Ursula and a biography of Alfred Kroeber. More