2016, ISBN: 9781594202445
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W. W. Norton & Company, 2016. Hardcover. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2016 W. W. Norton & Company hardcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and fre… mais…
W. W. Norton & Company, 2016. Hardcover. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2016 W. W. Norton & Company hardcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. n a letter to his wife Abigail, John Adams judged the author of Common Sense as having "a better hand at pulling down than building." Adams's dismissive remark has helped shape the prevailing view of Tom Paine ever since. But, as Edward G. Gray shows in this fresh, illuminating work, Paine was a builder. He had a clear vision of success for his adopted country. It was embodied in an architectural project that he spent a decade planning: an iron bridge to span the Schuylkill River at Philadelphia. When Paine arrived in Philadelphia from England in 1774, the city was thriving as America's largest port. But the seasonal dangers of the rivers dividing the region were becoming an obstacle to the city's continued growth. Philadelphia needed a practical connection between the rich grain of Pennsylvania's backcountry farms and its port on the Delaware. The iron bridge was Paine's solution. The bridge was part of Paine's answer to the central political challenge of the new nation: how to sustain a republic as large and as geographically fragmented as the United States. The iron construction was Paine's brilliant response to the age-old challenge of bridge technology: how to build a structure strong enough to withstand the constant battering of water, ice, and wind. The convergence of political and technological design in Paine's plan was Enlightenment genius. And Paine drew other giants of the period as patrons: Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and for a time his great ideological opponent, Edmund Burke. Paine's dream ultimately was a casualty of the vicious political crosscurrents of revolution and the American penchant for bridges of cheap, plentiful wood. But his innovative iron design became the model for bridge construction in Britain as it led the world into the industrial revolution., W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, 6, Cambridge University Press, 2011. Hardcover. Near Fine/Pictorial Cover. clean, unmarked copy., Cambridge University Press, 2011, 4, Cambridge: Harvard Press, 1965. Un volume (24 cm) di XX-475 pagine. In lingua inglese. Tela editoriale blu con titolo dorato al dorso. Ottime condizioni. Index: Part I. The Italian Miracle: I. The Postwar Economy of Italy in Perspective; II. Inflation and Monetary Policy, 1945-1949: The Inflation Process, The Impacts of Monetary Stabilization; III. The Long Boom, 1948-1961 -- Output, Prices, and Income: The Growth of Output and Its Stability, The Effects of Intervention into the South upon Interregional Imbalance; IV. The Long Boom, 1948-1961 -- The Foreign Balance and Money Supply: The Foreign Balance, Monetary and Fiscal Operations. Part II. The Labor Market: V. Population and the Labor Market: Quantitative Movements, Qualitative Changes; VI. The Labor Force -- Its Growth and Uses: Quantitative and Qualitative Characteristics, Movements in the Structure of Employment; VII. The Problem of Unemployment: The History of the Unemployment Question in Italy, Postwar Unemployment, The Question of Underemployment, A Comparison with West Germany, 1951-1961, Why Persistent Mass Unemployment, 1945-1959; VIII. Wage and Social Secutity Policy: Italian Wage Policy since the Thirties, The Recent Evolution of the Social Welfare System; IX. Postwar Movements in Wages: Wage Movements by Main Sectors, Postwar in Industry, The Broader Significance of the Bifurcated Wage System. Part III. Diversities of Structure: X. Evidence of the Dual Character of the Italian Economy: introduction, Dualism in the Italian Economy; XI. Geographic Dualism: The Paroblem of South Italy; XII. Long-Run Forces Obstructing the Emergence of a Unified Industrial Economy: The Inherent and Acquired Advantages of the North, The Chronic Backwardness of the South, Restricted Capital Formation, Conclusion; XIII. Technological Restraints: Did They delay Economic Unification?: Structural Disequilibrium and the Competitive Model; XIV. Market Imperfections As a Factor in Delayed economic Unification: Before World War II, Market Imperfections and Continued Obstruction of Economic Unification After World War II, Conclusion; XV. Achievements, Problems, and Prospects: Explaining the Boom, Economic Develoopments After 1961, Issues and Prospects; selected bibliography, notes, index. First Edition., Harvard Press, 1965, 0, Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum, 2001 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 223 pp, acknowledgments, foreword by William Jefferson Clinton, American Notes by Charles Dickens; Beautiful Dreamers by Stephen White; A European Dream by Andreas Bluhm; american Identities; All Men are Created Equal; Men to Match by Mountains; Manufacturing the Dream; New Frontiers; The City Rises; index with 183 b&w plates. First Edition, 2001. "Perhaps no nation's dreams have been captured on camera as often and as diversely as America's. The mythic American Dream has been the subject of photographic documentation since the 1840s, when photographers first began traveling to the New World in search of subjects. From an unknown photographer's picture of newborn George B. Billings Rego, scion of an immigrant Portuguese family and the first child ever born at Boston Long Wharf, to Lewis Hine's wrenching image of a young cotton mill worker in Georgia, to Alfred Stieglitz's awesome New York cityscapes, the photographs collected here reveal the multiple facets of 100 of the most decisive years of American development. Between 1840 and 1940, immigrants became homeowners, untouched lands exploded in superhuman industrial growth, tourists replaced pioneers, and the American metropolis grew taller and shinier -- and the camera caught it all." Not Price Clipped. Lightly bumped bottom fore-edge corners, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Red paper-covered boards with tipped-in b&w photograph on front board, white lettering to front board and spine, and decorative endpapers with white stars against blue background.., Van Gogh Museum, 2001, 5, Newton Abbot, Devon [UK]: David & Charles, 1974. Fine condition in bright, shiny, Fine dust jacket. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (£5.75). No chips or tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Illustrated with maps and tables. From the Dust Jacket: "The first major account in English of the economic history of Hungary covers the period from the abolition of serfdom and the formation of a modern capitalist economy in the mid-nineteenth century down to the late 1960s. The first part examines the preconditions and special features of the industrial revolution in Hungary, together with its integration into the wider economic system of the Austro-Hungarian empire. The second part analyses the economic effects of the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian empire and considers the dual themes of depression and a growing German penetration After a description of the World War II economy, the third part deals with the economic growth of the socialist period." A volume in the National Economic Histories series. Bibliography. Index. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. 263pp., David & Charles, 1974, 5, Lawrence, KS: The Regents Press of Kansas, 1978 The Regents Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 1978. Hardcover. First Edition. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good; sunfading to spine and board tops; light shelfwear to board bottoms. DJ: Good; chipping at head; light wear at tips; rubbing to panels and at spine edges. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. 228 pp 8vo. This is the story of the American aerospace industry and its triumphs and trials during thirty years of fantastic growth. This book covers all major aspects of the industry, including management, economics, politics, design, production, marketing, and industry-government relations. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket., The Regents Press of Kansas, 1978, 2.5, Grand Junction, CO: U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, Grand Junction Office, Resource Division, 1973. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Good. [2], 7, [1] pages, plus covers. Figure/Map. Tables. References. Staplebound. Some discoloration around staples. Cover has some wear. This report is one of a series on uranium supply and demand. The major exploration in the U.S. has been in or near the producing districts in the Colorado Plateau *Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona), the Wyoming Basins, and the Gulf Coastal Plains with lesser activities elsewhere in the western states. The eastern U.S. and large parts of the west have received only minor attention and are not evaluated in this report. The large projected increase in the growth of nuclear power necessitates a better understanding of the total U.S. uranium resource position. Data generated by industry exploration activity provides the principal basis for AEC evaluations. Uranium is used to fuel the 98 operable nuclear reactors in the United States, providing 20% of the nation's electricity. More than 95% of this uranium is imported, and the rest is produced from uranium mines in Wyoming, Nebraska and Texas and a uranium mill in Utah. The potential for uranium production in the United States was last fully evaluated during the energy crisis of the 1970's, and USGS is working to update this estimate by focusing on high priority regions throughout the United States. Methods to expand evaluation of uranium resources to include the impacts of mining these resources are also being developed. Scientists on the project also participate with and lead international groups of uranium resource experts to monitor world uranium supply which is critical for continued operation of domestic reactors. This research and accompanying assessments benefit industry, regulators, land owners, land managers, utilities and aid in formulating energy policy in the United States., U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, Grand Junction Office, Resource Division, 1973, 2.5, Washington, DC: Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc, 1980. Presumed first edition/first printing. Good. Staple holes in front cover. Recieved stamd on front cover. 8 p. Three-hole punched The Atomic Industrial Forum was an international association of more than 600 corporate and institutional members dedicated to the development of peaceful uses of nuclear energy. From Wikipedia: The Atomic Industrial Forum (AIF) was an American industrial policy organization for the commercial development of nuclear energy. Its history dates to Autumn 1952, when it was being first organized: I would propose that those industrial concerns, institutions and individuals that are today actively engaged in atomic energy research, development and operations form voluntarily and without governmental urging or subsidy a national association of atomic industries. --T. Keith Glennan, President of the Case Institute of Technology and founding member, AIF Board of Directors, November 1952 In response, some 30 industrialists, engineers, and educators met in January 1953 to establish the forum. The AIF was formally incorporated on April 10, 1953 in New York, and marked the beginning of the commercial nuclear power industry in the United StatesThe first Executive Director of AIF was Charles Robbins. As a non profit trade association the AIF advocated the peaceful uses of atomic energy and increasing the role of the private sector in its development. Its first order of business was to advocate revising the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 to allow and foster the commercial ownership of non weapons nuclear facilities, such as production of radioactive isotopes and nuclear power plants. AIF established strong working relationships with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. AIF's efforts helped to achieve the passage of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954which resulted in the growth of a commercial nuclear industry. AIF also conducted numerous exhibitions, seminars and workshops on atomic energy and established relationships with similar organizations world wide. AIF was organized on the basis of an executive committee, the annual election of officers and a permanent operations staff, headed by an Executive Director, Mr. Charles Robbins. In 1963 AIF established an international public information program. Working with other forums around the world, the program sought, through publications, exhibitions, speeches and outreach, to foster and acieve better understanding of the peaceful uses of atomic energy. Its first program director was Charles B. Yulish. The government and prive sector involvement in atomic energy grew steadily, and with it, strong debates on its safeguards and regulation. The Atomic Energy Commission, which both promoted, developed and regulated nuclear development, was split into two agencies the Energy Research and Development Agency and the independent U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Administration. As the new challenges evolved, leaders in the nuclear industry determined that new entities were required to address challenges and opportunities. As a result of these actions other representation entities were created. In 1987 the AIF ceased to exist as its function was split among two smaller organizations: the Nuclear Utility Management and Resources Council (NUMARC), which addressed generic regulatory and technical issues, and the U.S. Council for Energy Awareness (USCEA), originally founded in 1979. These two organizations remerged in 1994 as the Nuclear Energy Institute, along with the American Nuclear Energy Council (ANEC), which conducted government affairs, and the nuclear division of the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), which handled issues involving nuclear fuel supply and management, and the economics of nuclear energy. In 2011, the leading organization of the nuclear industry is the Nuclear Energy Institute, headquartered in Washington, DC., Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc, 1980, 2.5, New York: Harper & Row, 1963. good, good. 282, illus., bibliography, index, slight discoloration inside boards and flyleaves, DJ in plastic sleeve, some soiling to DJ. Small edge tear and some soiling to rear DJ. This book is based on articles originally published in Fortune Magazine, written in response to a request of a daughter of one of the editors of the magazine for something to counteract the "robber baron" depiction of American businessmen. This book depicts American business history in terms of the inventiveness of Americans and how the inventions that they developed were turned into great businesses. Topics covered include the establishment of banking systems and the funding of a national economy; the development of a world-wide system of trade; industry, invention, and mass production; oil, steel, and the early trusts; the growth of money power; the creative as well as the destructive aspects of the men who have been called "robber barons"; the surprising expansion of business frontiers in the depressed Thirties; and many others., Harper & Row, 1963, 2.5, Brookline, MA: Autumn Press, 1979. Third Printing. Trade paperback. Good/No DJ issued. Bill Burns (Cover illustration). 23 cm, 120, [2] pages. Wraps. Map. Footnotes. Bibliography. pencil erasure on first page, covers somewhat worn and soiled. Helen Mary Caldicott (born 7 August 1938) is an Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate. Caldicott's interest in nuclear issues was sparked when she read the 1957 Nevil Shute?s book On the Beach, a novel about a nuclear holocaust set in Australia. In the 1970s, she gained prominence in Australia, New Zealand and North America, speaking on the health hazards of radiation from the perspective of pediatrics. Her early achievements included convincing Australia to sue France over its atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons in the Pacific in 1971 and 1972, which brought the practice to an end. In 1980, she founded the Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND) in the United States, which was later renamed Women's Action for New Directions. It is a group dedicated to reducing or redirecting government spending away from nuclear energy and nuclear weapons towards what the group perceives as unmet social issues. Caldicott stood as an independent candidate for the House of Representatives at the 1990 federal election, contesting the Division of Richmond, against the Leader of the National Party, Charles Blunt. She polled 23.3% of the votes; not enough to win, but her preferences went mostly to the Labor candidate, Neville Newell, electing him and unseating Blunt. In 2002 Caldicott released The New Nuclear Danger, a commentary on the George Bush Military-Industrial Complex. Dr. Caldicott was a leader of the so-called "Ground Zero" movement that many accused of being naive and of advocating positions incompatible with United States national security interests vis a vis the Soviet Union during the late stages of the Cold War. First published in 1978, Helen Caldicott's cri du coeur about the dangers of nuclear power became an instant classic. In the intervening years much has changed . The Cold War is over, nuclear arms production has decreased, and there has been a marked growth in environmental awareness. But the nuclear genie has not been forced back into the bottle. The disaster at Chernobyl and the "incidents" at other plants around the world have disproven the image of "safe" nuclear power. Nuclear waste dumping has further poisoned our environment, and developing nuclear technology in the Third World poses still further risks., Autumn Press, 1979, 2.5, New York: The Penguin Press, 2010. SIGNED by the AUTHOR directly on the title page ("With best wishes" and his signature only, NOT personalized to anyone). Appears unread. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($25.95). Clean and square. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp and unmarked -- apparently never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 2010. First Printing of the First Edition. Bound in the original blue boards with a gray spine stamped in black. From the dust jacket: "Visionary social thinker Joel Kotkin looks ahead to America in 2050, revealing how the addition of one hundred million Americans by midcentury will transform how we all live, work, and prosper. In stark contrast to the rest of the world's advanced nations, the United States is growing at a record rate and, according to census projections, will be home to four hundred million Americans by 2050. This projected rise in population is the strongest indicator of our long-term economic strength, Joel Kotkin believes, and will make us more diverse and more competitive than any nation on earth. Drawing on prodigious research, firsthand reportage, and historical analysis, THE NEXT HUNDRED MILLION reveals how this unprecedented growth will take physical shape and change the face of America. The majority of the additional hundred million Americans will find their homes in suburbia, though the suburbs of tomorrow will not resemble the Levittowns of the 1950s or the sprawling exurbs of the late twentieth century. The suburbs of the twenty-first century will be less reliant on major cities for jobs and other amenities and, as a result, more energy efficient. Suburbs will also be the melting pots of the future as more and more immigrants opt for dispersed living over crowded inner cities and the majority in the United States becomes nonwhite by 2050. In coming decades, urbanites will flock in far greater numbers to affordable, vast, and autoreliant metropolitan areas-such as Houston, Phoenix, and Las Vegas-than to glamorous but expensive industrial cities, such as New York and Chicago. Kotkin also foresees that the twenty-first century will be marked by a resurgence of the American heartland, far less isolated in the digital era and a crucial source of renewable fuels and real estate for a growing population. But in both big cities and small towns across the country, we will see what Kotkin calls "the new localism"-a greater emphasis on family ties and local community, enabled by online networks and the increasing numbers of Americans working from home. THE NEXT HUNDRED MILLION provides a vivid snapshot of America in 2050 by focusing not on power brokers, policy disputes, or abstract trends, but rather on the evolution of the more intimate units of American society-families, towns, neighborhoods, industries. It is upon the success or failure of these communities, Kotkin argues, that the American future rests.". SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. (xii), 308pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping., The Penguin Press, 2010, 4.5<
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2010, ISBN: 9781594202445
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New York: HarperCollins, 2005. CI2 - An advance reader's edition paperback book in very good condition that has some bumped corners, wrinkling and crease, light discoloration and shel… mais…
New York: HarperCollins, 2005. CI2 - An advance reader's edition paperback book in very good condition that has some bumped corners, wrinkling and crease, light discoloration and shelf wear. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know so well. 9"x6", 392 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Born in southern California late in the eighteenth century, he is a child of two worlds. Diego de la Vega's father is an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner; his mother, a Shoshone warrior. Diego learns from his maternal grandmother, White Owl, the ways of her tribe while receiving from his father lessons in the art of fencing and in cattle branding. It is here, during Diego's childhood, filled with mischief and adventure, that he witnesses the brutal injustices dealt Native Americans by European settlers and first feels the inner conflict of his heritage. At the age of sixteen, Diego is sent to Barcelona for a European education. In a country chafing under the corruption of Napoleonic rule, Diego follows the example of his celebrated fencing master and joins La Justicia, a secret underground resistance movement devoted to helping the powerless and the poor. With this tumultuous period as a backdrop, Diego falls in love, saves the persecuted, and confronts for the first time a great rival who emerges from the world of privilege. Between California and Barcelona, the New World and the Old, the persona of Zorro is formed, a great hero is born, and the legend begins. After many adventures - duels at dawn, fierce battles with pirates at sea, and impossible rescues - Diego de la Vega, a.k.a. Zorro, returns to America to reclaim the hacienda on which he was raised and to seek justice for all who cannot fight for it themselves.. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reading Copy (ARC)., HarperCollins, 2005, 3, London: Vega. Very Good+. 2001. Paperback. 1843330113 . 200gms weight; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 186 pages ., Vega, 2001, 3, Knopf. Very Good. 6 x 1.25 x 10 inches. Hardcover. 1999. 448 pages. <br>No contemporary scientist has done more to shape o ur understanding of the universe than Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel Prize-winner many consider the most brilliant physicist of his g eneration. His discoveries of the quark and the Eightfold Way wer e cornerstones for all that has followed in particle physics, the effort to explain the very stuff of creation. In this first biog raphy of Gell-Mann, George Johnson tells the story of a remarkabl e life. Born on New York's Lower East Side, Gell-Mann was quickl y recognized as a child prodigy. Propelled by an intense boyhood curiosity and a love for nature, he entered Yale at fifteen. By a ge twenty-three he had ignited a revolution, laying bare in his g roundbreaking work the strange beauty of the minute particles tha t constitute the ultimate components of physical reality. Partic le physics is the most competitive of sports, and Johnson shows u s the precocious polymath holding his own with giants like Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Richard Feynman -- Gell-Mann's fa vorite intellectual sparring partner and sometimes antagonistic r ival. We see Gell-Mann the self-taught linguist (who couldn't res ist correcting visitors on the pronunciation of their own names); Gell-Mann the birdwatcher and amateur archaeologist; Gell-Mann t he Aspen socialite, world traveler, and environmental crusader. We watch him making his scientific breakthroughs, his abrasive, c ompetitive drive leaving behind a growing trail of enemies. The e arly death of his first wife and a family crisis sent him veering in new directions. Turning from the physics of simple particles, like quarks, he began exploring how complex phenomena like life can be understood scientifically. George Johnson's informed and insightful biography goes far in helping us understand the comple xities of both the man and the science in which he has loomed so large. Editorial Reviews Review Murray Gell-Mann is a leading light in 20th-century physics, yet his name rings bells only for those interested in particle physics. Science writer Ge orge Johnson was fortunate enough to develop a friendly relations hip with the great scientist, and his biography, Strange Beauty, glows with a rare intimacy gained from a notoriously private and irascible man. From his childhood in New York City to his current scientific elder-statesman status in New Mexico, Johnson explore s Gell-Mann's life in glorious detail. A passionate, jealous, and brilliant man, he was capable of both profound insight and bitte r lifelong rivalries, but Johnson finds there's much more to the man than these two simple poles; Gell-Mann's volatile family life and deft academic maneuvering also find room in this expansive b iography. The reader finds that Johnson's careful attention to d etail shows more than it tells through enlightening stories of Ge ll-Mann's troubled, romantic, or pretentious dealings with peers, family, and even strangers. Explaining his strange surname means investigating old phone books, scientific legend, and family his tory, as the scientist is unwilling to shed light on the mystery (it turns out that his father hyphenated it, and Murray dreamed u p etymologies as needed--giving rise to the tangled web of myths) . Johnson is up to the challenge of recording the life story of a man nearly as strange as the quarks he discovered and named, and Strange Beauty lives up to the promise of its title. --Rob Light ner From Publishers Weekly Up, down, top, bottom, strange and c harm aren't just states of mind: they're kinds of quarks, the min d-bending, omnipresent sub-subatomic particles co-discovered and named in the early 1960s by the American physicist Murray Gell-Ma nn. New York Times science reporter Johnson (Fire in the Mind) ha s written a brisk, accessible life of the Nobel-winning scientist , who will turn 70 next month. Gell-Mann grew up poor in New York City, the son of Eastern European Jews. Still in his teens, he a ttended Yale and MIT, and soon afterward won notice for his work on cosmic rays. Gell-Mann followed up his insights about quarks w ith important work at Caltech and elsewhere on superstrings, supe rgravity and mathematical complexity. His adult life has had its hardships: his daughter gave much of her life to an American Stal inist fringe group, and his wife died of cancer in 1981. (He's si nce remarried.) Johnson makes clear that Gell-Mann's direct, some times arrogant manner could make him difficult to work with; admi red by physicists, he failed to achieve the wider fame of his med ia-friendly colleague, the late Richard Feynman. While Johnson re lates such troubles sympathetically, the story of Gell-Mann's lif e is in large part the story of his and others' researches and di scoveries. Explaining difficult fields like quantum physics, John son uses as many analogies, and as little math, as he can, while trying always to give some picture of what scientific problems Ge ll-Mann and his fellow scientists solved. The result is a careful if colloquial biography, perfect for readers who aren'tAor aren' t yetAworking scientists. (Oct.) Copyright 1999 Reed Business In formation, Inc. From Publishers Weekly Up, down, top, bottom, st range and charm aren't just states of mind: they're kinds of quar ks, the mind-bending, omnipresent sub-subatomic particles co-disc overed and named in the early 1960s by the American physicist Mur ray Gell-Mann. New York Times science reporter Johnson (Fire in t he Mind) has written a brisk, accessible life of the Nobel-winnin g scientist, who will turn 70 next month. Gell-Mann grew up poor in New York City, the son of Eastern European Jews. Still in his teens, he attended Yale and MIT, and soon afterward won notice fo r his work on cosmic rays. Gell-Mann followed up his insights abo ut quarks with important work at Caltech and elsewhere on superst rings, supergravity and mathematical complexity. His adult life h as had its hardships: his daughter gave much of her life to an Am erican Stalinist fringe group, and his wife died of cancer in 198 1. (He's since remarried.) Johnson makes clear that Gell-Mann's d irect, sometimes arrogant manner could make him difficult to work with; admired by physicists, he failed to achieve the wider fame of his media-friendly colleague, the late Richard Feynman. While Johnson relates such troubles sympathetically, the story of Gell -Mann's life is in large part the story of his and others' resear ches and discoveries. Explaining difficult fields like quantum ph ysics, Johnson uses as many analogies, and as little math, as he can, while trying always to give some picture of what scientific problems Gell-Mann and his fellow scientists solved. The result i s a careful if colloquial biography, perfect for readers who aren 'tAor aren't yetAworking scientists. (Oct.) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal One of the most notable physicists of the Nuclear Age, Murray Gell-Mann worked cl osely with Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynmann, and others to help unl ock the secrets of the subatomic world. In 1969, he received a No bel prize for his work on the interaction of elementary particles and their classification. Now New York Times science writer John son (Fire in the Mind) has written a well-balanced biography of t his renowned scientist's complex life and work. Noting Gell-Mann' s idiosyncrasies, his faults, and his accomplishments, Johnson fo llows his subject through his passions (nature and conservation, art collection, anthropology, ornithology, and linguistics), his struggles with chronic writer's block, and his incredible scienti fic achievements. While it is necessarily dense in parts, this bo ok is free of mathematics and is accessible to the advanced lay r eader. Recommended for large public and academic libraries.AJames Olson, Northeastern Illinois Univ. Lib., Chicago Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Scientific American 'Stran ge Beauty' brings together an irresistible subject -- the difficu lt polymath Murray Gell-Mann -- and a talented writer who spins a n enthralling tale out of the kind of esoteric physics that gener ally flies right over our heads. Johnson is one of the best scien ce journalists writing today, known for his books 'Fire in the Mi nd' and 'In the Palaces of Memory' and for incisive reporting in the New York Times. This is his most ambitious project yet -- com municating the fascination of a kind of science that only an elit e of superbright people fully understands. He succeeds brilliantl y. From Kirkus Reviews Part biography, part textbook on quarks a nd other phenomena discovered by one of the great particle physic ists of the twentieth century. Johnson (a New York Times science writer) first introduces us to Murray Gell-Mann in the present da y, as a likable retiree living in Santa Fe. He sets his personal experiences with Gell-Mann against Gell-Mann the legend, cutting colleagues down to size if their viewpoints didn't coincide with his own, or calling them by unpleasant and sarcastic nicknames. G ell-Mann's broad scope of knowledge started in his youth in New Y ork City, where he would visit museums, the zoo, anywhere he coul d learn about the world around him. In school young Murray was al ways eager to show off his knowledge, winning a spelling bee at t he age of seven. At fourteen, he won a scholarship to Yale, movin g from there to MIT, where he reveled in the unsolved problems in physics. It was these problems, theories about particles yet to be discovered, that Gell-Mann would spend his career solving. Joh nson is not afraid to present these theories in great detail, giv ing crystal-clear descriptions of some of the most abstract and c onvoluted ideas in physics. Nor is he afraid to delve into the pe rsonal side of Gell-Mann, including his relationship with his col league Richard Feynman, a friendship at times strained by the fam e that Feynman achieved from his best-selling book of autobiograp hical anecdotes. Gell-Mann wanted to write one, too, but for all his knowledge he was crippled by a lifelong case of writer's bloc k. The limited success of his autobiography once it was finished presumably led to Strange Beauty. A must-read for anyone studying physics or its history, and for others not afraid to swim in the sometimes deep and murky waters of cutting-edge science. -- Copy right ®1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. Review George Johnson has nailed this biography of the brilliant and ira scible Murray Gell-Mann. Strange Beauty is complex, mind-expandin g, beautiful, and true. -- James Gleick When you have one of the world's most accomplished science writers recounting the life an d times of one of the world's most accomplished scientists, reade rs' expectations are justifiably high. They are fully met. Johnso n gives us an extraordinary view of an extraordinary man, and nav igates through science that ordinarily would seem difficult, with such skill that it is not difficult at all. Strange Beauty is a masterpiece of modern biography. -- Roger Lewin Gell-Mann could not have written such a perceptive book about himself as Johnson has....Reads like a detective novel. Johnson does a wonderful job of describing the competition and cooperation among scientists, the egos and insecurities, the disappointments and triumphs, and the disputes, suspicions and shifting allegiances. -- The New Yor k Times Book Review Skillfully and engagingly written . . . John son paints a convincing portrait of Gell-Mann's personality, whic h is in turn charming, irritating, and generous . . . Johnson cap tures well his subject's inner scientific conflicts. -- Science Few physicists have displayed the poetic inspiration of the Nobel ist Murray Gell-Mann....In this biography he emerges as brilliant and often insufferable, relentlessly curious, hopelessly pedanti c, and one of the best synthetic thinkers in the history of his f ield. The book [offers] a vivid sense of Gell-Mann and his contem poraries (including his collaborator and competitor Richard Feynm an).... --The New Yorker From the Publisher A conversation with George Johnson, author of STRANGE BEAUTY: Murray Gell-Mann and t he Revolution in Twentieth Century Physics Q. Why do you call t he book Strange Beauty? A. When Gell-Mann was in his early 20s, physicists were baffled by cosmic-ray particles, bombarding the earth from outer space, that seemed to defy the known laws of phy sics. Gell-Mann solved the problem by proposing that the particle s were affected by a previously unknown phenomenon that he decide d to call strangeness. The theory, weird name and all, created a sensation. It was the first example of the strange beauty he kept finding in the universe -- mesmerizing patterns that lie beneath the surface of reality. Q. What happened next? A. From there h e went on to discover The Eightfold Way and quarks, always bestow ing his creations with whimsical names. There are top quarks, bot tom quarks, strange quarks, charmed quarks. They're held together by things called gluons. Physics was never again the same. Q. W hat is the Eightfold Way? And where do quarks fit in? A. Before Gell-Mann came onto the scene, there were hundreds of tiny subato mic particles of all shapes and sizes. Gell-Mann saw in a flash o f insight that they could all be arranged into patterns. He saw o rder where there had been confusion. The result was the Eightfold Way. Just as the Periodic Table of the Elements is used to arran ge all the different kinds of atoms, the Eightfold Way is used to arrange all the subatomic particles. A little later, Gell-Mann r ealized that the particles line up this way because they are made of tinier things called quarks. A Nobel prize was around the cor ner. Q. One of the classic rivalries in science is between Gell- Mann and Richard Feynman. Why was there so much friction between these two intellectual giants? A. A favorite pastime of physicis ts was arguing over who was smarter, Dick or Murray. At any unive rsity in the world, each would have been the unquestioned star. B ut at Caltech they were crowded into the same small department, j ust two doors from each other (with the same poor secretary in be tween.) Each was always trying to upstage the other. And they had strikingly different styles. Feynman would speak in an affected Brooklyn drawl and refuse to wear a coat and tie. Murray was as i mpeccable in his dress as he was in his pronunciation -- and not just in English but in dozens of other languages. He's famous for sitting down at Ch, Knopf, 1999, 3, New York: Penguin Press Hc, The, 2010-02. New. Visionary social thinker Joel Kotkin looks ahead to America in 2050, revealing how the addition of one hundred million Americans by midcentury will transform how we all live, work, and prosper In stark contrast to the rest of the world's advanced nations, the United States is growing at a record rate and, according to census projections, will be home to four hundred million Americans by 2050 This projected rise in population is the strongest indicator of our long-term economic strength, Joel Kotkin believes, and will make us more diverse and more competitive than any nation on earthDrawing on prodigious research, firsthand reportage, and historical analysis, The Next Hundred Million reveals how this unprecedented growth will take physical shape and change the face of America The majority of the additional hundred million Americans will find their homes in suburbia, though the suburbs of tomorrow will not resemble the Levittowns of the 1950s or the sprawling exurbs of the late twentieth century The suburbs of the twenty-first century will be less reliant on major cities for jobs and other amenities and, as a result, more energy efficient Suburbs will also be the melting pots of the future as more and more immigrants opt for dispersed living over crowded inner cities and the majority in the United States becomes nonwhite by 2050In coming decades, urbanites will flock in far greater numbers to affordable, vast, and autoreliant metropolitan areas-such as Houston, Phoenix, and Las Vegas-than to glamorous but expensive industrial cities, such as New York and Chicago Kotkin also foresees that the twenty-first century will be marked by a resurgence of the American heartland, far less isolated in the digital era and a crucial source of renewable fuels and real estate for a growing population But in both big cities and small towns across the country, we will see what Kotkin calls "the new localism"-a greater emphasis on family ties and local community, enabled by online networks and the increasing numbers of Americans working from homeThe Next Hundred Million provides a vivid snapshot of America in 2050 by focusing not on power brokers, policy disputes, or abstract trends, but rather on the evolution of the more intimate units of American society-families, towns, neighborhoods, industries It is upon the success or failure of these communities, Kotkin argues, that the American future rests 308 pp, Penguin Press Hc, The, 2010-02, 6<
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New York: The Penguin Press, 2010. SIGNED by the AUTHOR directly on the title page ("With best wishes" and his signature only, NOT personalized to anyone). Appears unread. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($25.95). Clean and square. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp and unmarked -- apparently never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 2010. First Printing of the First Edition. Bound in the original blue boards with a gray spine stamped in black. From the dust jacket: "Visionary social thinker Joel Kotkin looks ahead to America in 2050, revealing how the addition of one hundred million Americans by midcentury will transform how we all live, work, and prosper. In stark contrast to the rest of the world's advanced nations, the United States is growing at a record rate and, according to census projections, will be home to four hundred million Americans by 2050. This projected rise in population is the strongest indicator of our long-term economic strength, Joel Kotkin believes, and will make us more diverse and more competitive than any nation on earth. Drawing on prodigious research, firsthand reportage, and historical analysis, THE NEXT HUNDRED MILLION reveals how this unprecedented growth will take physical shape and change the face of America. The majority of the additional hundred million Americans will find their homes in suburbia, though the suburbs of tomorrow will not resemble the Levittowns of the 1950s or the sprawling exurbs of the late twentieth century. The suburbs of the twenty-first century will be less reliant on major cities for jobs and other amenities and, as a result, more energy efficient. Suburbs will also be the melting pots of the future as more and more immigrants opt for dispersed living over crowded inner cities and the majority in the United States becomes nonwhite by 2050. In coming decades, urbanites will flock in far greater numbers to affordable, vast, and autoreliant metropolitan areas-such as Houston, Phoenix, and Las Vegas-than to glamorous but expensive industrial cities, such as New York and Chicago. Kotkin also foresees that the twenty-first century will be marked by a resurgence of the American heartland, far less isolated in the digital era and a crucial source of renewable fuels and real estate for a growing population. But in both big cities and small towns across the country, we will see what Kotkin calls "the new localism"-a greater emphasis on family ties and local community, enabled by online networks and the increasing numbers of Americans working from home. THE NEXT HUNDRED MILLION provides a vivid snapshot of America in 2050 by focusing not on power brokers, policy disputes, or abstract trends, but rather on the evolution of the more intimate units of American society-families, towns, neighborhoods, industries. It is upon the success or failure of these communities, Kotkin argues, that the American future rests.". SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. (xii), 308pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping., The Penguin Press, 2010, 4.5<
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[EAN: 9781594202445], [PU: The Penguin Press, New York], Jacket, New York: The Penguin Press, 2010. SIGNED by the AUTHOR directly on the title page ("With best wishes" and his signature only, NOT personalized to anyone). Appears unread. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($25.95). Clean and square. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp and unmarked -- apparently never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 2010. First Printing of the First Edition. Bound in the original blue boards with a gray spine stamped in black. From the dust jacket: "Visionary social thinker Joel Kotkin looks ahead to America in 2050, revealing how the addition of one hundred million Americans by midcentury will transform how we all live, work, and prosper. In stark contrast to the rest of the world's advanced nations, the United States is growing at a record rate and, according to census projections, will be home to four hundred million Americans by 2050. This projected rise in population is the strongest indicator of our long-term economic strength, Joel Kotkin believes, and will make us more diverse and more competitive than any nation on earth. Drawing on prodigious research, firsthand reportage, and historical analysis, THE NEXT HUNDRED MILLION reveals how this unprecedented growth will take physical shape and change the face of America. The majority of the additional hundred million Americans will find their homes in suburbia, though the suburbs of tomorrow will not resemble the Levittowns of the 1950s or the sprawling exurbs of the late twentieth century. The suburbs of the twenty-first century will be less reliant on major cities for jobs and other amenities and, as a result, more energy efficient. Suburbs will also be the melting pots of the future as more and more immigrants opt for dispersed living over crowded inner cities and the majority in the United States becomes nonwhite by 2050. In coming decades, urbanites will flock in far greater numbers to affordable, vast, and autoreliant metropolitan areas-such as Houston, Phoenix, and Las Vegas-than to glamorous but expensive industrial cities, such as New York and Chicago. Kotkin also foresees that the twenty-first century will be marked by a resurgence of the American heartland, far less isolated in the digital era and a crucial source of renewable fuels and real estate for a growing population. But in both big cities and small towns across the country, we will see what Kotkin calls "the new localism"-a greater emphasis on family ties and local community, enabled by online networks and the increasing numbers of Americans working from home. THE NEXT HUNDRED MILLION provides a vivid snapshot of America in 2050 by focusing not on power brokers, policy disputes, or abstract trends, but rather on the evolution of the more intimate units of American society-families, towns, neighborhoods, industries. It is upon the success or failure of these communities, Kotkin argues, that the American future rests.". SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. (xii), 308pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping., Books<
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W. W. Norton & Company, 2016. Hardcover. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2016 W. W. Norton & Company hardcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. n a letter to his wife Abigail, John Adams judged the author of Common Sense as having "a better hand at pulling down than building." Adams's dismissive remark has helped shape the prevailing view of Tom Paine ever since. But, as Edward G. Gray shows in this fresh, illuminating work, Paine was a builder. He had a clear vision of success for his adopted country. It was embodied in an architectural project that he spent a decade planning: an iron bridge to span the Schuylkill River at Philadelphia. When Paine arrived in Philadelphia from England in 1774, the city was thriving as America's largest port. But the seasonal dangers of the rivers dividing the region were becoming an obstacle to the city's continued growth. Philadelphia needed a practical connection between the rich grain of Pennsylvania's backcountry farms and its port on the Delaware. The iron bridge was Paine's solution. The bridge was part of Paine's answer to the central political challenge of the new nation: how to sustain a republic as large and as geographically fragmented as the United States. The iron construction was Paine's brilliant response to the age-old challenge of bridge technology: how to build a structure strong enough to withstand the constant battering of water, ice, and wind. The convergence of political and technological design in Paine's plan was Enlightenment genius. And Paine drew other giants of the period as patrons: Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and for a time his great ideological opponent, Edmund Burke. Paine's dream ultimately was a casualty of the vicious political crosscurrents of revolution and the American penchant for bridges of cheap, plentiful wood. But his innovative iron design became the model for bridge construction in Britain as it led the world into the industrial revolution., W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, 6, Cambridge University Press, 2011. Hardcover. Near Fine/Pictorial Cover. clean, unmarked copy., Cambridge University Press, 2011, 4, Cambridge: Harvard Press, 1965. Un volume (24 cm) di XX-475 pagine. In lingua inglese. Tela editoriale blu con titolo dorato al dorso. Ottime condizioni. Index: Part I. The Italian Miracle: I. The Postwar Economy of Italy in Perspective; II. Inflation and Monetary Policy, 1945-1949: The Inflation Process, The Impacts of Monetary Stabilization; III. The Long Boom, 1948-1961 -- Output, Prices, and Income: The Growth of Output and Its Stability, The Effects of Intervention into the South upon Interregional Imbalance; IV. The Long Boom, 1948-1961 -- The Foreign Balance and Money Supply: The Foreign Balance, Monetary and Fiscal Operations. Part II. The Labor Market: V. Population and the Labor Market: Quantitative Movements, Qualitative Changes; VI. The Labor Force -- Its Growth and Uses: Quantitative and Qualitative Characteristics, Movements in the Structure of Employment; VII. The Problem of Unemployment: The History of the Unemployment Question in Italy, Postwar Unemployment, The Question of Underemployment, A Comparison with West Germany, 1951-1961, Why Persistent Mass Unemployment, 1945-1959; VIII. Wage and Social Secutity Policy: Italian Wage Policy since the Thirties, The Recent Evolution of the Social Welfare System; IX. Postwar Movements in Wages: Wage Movements by Main Sectors, Postwar in Industry, The Broader Significance of the Bifurcated Wage System. Part III. Diversities of Structure: X. Evidence of the Dual Character of the Italian Economy: introduction, Dualism in the Italian Economy; XI. Geographic Dualism: The Paroblem of South Italy; XII. Long-Run Forces Obstructing the Emergence of a Unified Industrial Economy: The Inherent and Acquired Advantages of the North, The Chronic Backwardness of the South, Restricted Capital Formation, Conclusion; XIII. Technological Restraints: Did They delay Economic Unification?: Structural Disequilibrium and the Competitive Model; XIV. Market Imperfections As a Factor in Delayed economic Unification: Before World War II, Market Imperfections and Continued Obstruction of Economic Unification After World War II, Conclusion; XV. Achievements, Problems, and Prospects: Explaining the Boom, Economic Develoopments After 1961, Issues and Prospects; selected bibliography, notes, index. First Edition., Harvard Press, 1965, 0, Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum, 2001 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 223 pp, acknowledgments, foreword by William Jefferson Clinton, American Notes by Charles Dickens; Beautiful Dreamers by Stephen White; A European Dream by Andreas Bluhm; american Identities; All Men are Created Equal; Men to Match by Mountains; Manufacturing the Dream; New Frontiers; The City Rises; index with 183 b&w plates. First Edition, 2001. "Perhaps no nation's dreams have been captured on camera as often and as diversely as America's. The mythic American Dream has been the subject of photographic documentation since the 1840s, when photographers first began traveling to the New World in search of subjects. From an unknown photographer's picture of newborn George B. Billings Rego, scion of an immigrant Portuguese family and the first child ever born at Boston Long Wharf, to Lewis Hine's wrenching image of a young cotton mill worker in Georgia, to Alfred Stieglitz's awesome New York cityscapes, the photographs collected here reveal the multiple facets of 100 of the most decisive years of American development. Between 1840 and 1940, immigrants became homeowners, untouched lands exploded in superhuman industrial growth, tourists replaced pioneers, and the American metropolis grew taller and shinier -- and the camera caught it all." Not Price Clipped. Lightly bumped bottom fore-edge corners, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Red paper-covered boards with tipped-in b&w photograph on front board, white lettering to front board and spine, and decorative endpapers with white stars against blue background.., Van Gogh Museum, 2001, 5, Newton Abbot, Devon [UK]: David & Charles, 1974. Fine condition in bright, shiny, Fine dust jacket. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (£5.75). No chips or tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Illustrated with maps and tables. From the Dust Jacket: "The first major account in English of the economic history of Hungary covers the period from the abolition of serfdom and the formation of a modern capitalist economy in the mid-nineteenth century down to the late 1960s. The first part examines the preconditions and special features of the industrial revolution in Hungary, together with its integration into the wider economic system of the Austro-Hungarian empire. The second part analyses the economic effects of the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian empire and considers the dual themes of depression and a growing German penetration After a description of the World War II economy, the third part deals with the economic growth of the socialist period." A volume in the National Economic Histories series. Bibliography. Index. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. 263pp., David & Charles, 1974, 5, Lawrence, KS: The Regents Press of Kansas, 1978 The Regents Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 1978. Hardcover. First Edition. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good; sunfading to spine and board tops; light shelfwear to board bottoms. DJ: Good; chipping at head; light wear at tips; rubbing to panels and at spine edges. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. 228 pp 8vo. This is the story of the American aerospace industry and its triumphs and trials during thirty years of fantastic growth. This book covers all major aspects of the industry, including management, economics, politics, design, production, marketing, and industry-government relations. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket., The Regents Press of Kansas, 1978, 2.5, Grand Junction, CO: U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, Grand Junction Office, Resource Division, 1973. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Good. [2], 7, [1] pages, plus covers. Figure/Map. Tables. References. Staplebound. Some discoloration around staples. Cover has some wear. This report is one of a series on uranium supply and demand. The major exploration in the U.S. has been in or near the producing districts in the Colorado Plateau *Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona), the Wyoming Basins, and the Gulf Coastal Plains with lesser activities elsewhere in the western states. The eastern U.S. and large parts of the west have received only minor attention and are not evaluated in this report. The large projected increase in the growth of nuclear power necessitates a better understanding of the total U.S. uranium resource position. Data generated by industry exploration activity provides the principal basis for AEC evaluations. Uranium is used to fuel the 98 operable nuclear reactors in the United States, providing 20% of the nation's electricity. More than 95% of this uranium is imported, and the rest is produced from uranium mines in Wyoming, Nebraska and Texas and a uranium mill in Utah. The potential for uranium production in the United States was last fully evaluated during the energy crisis of the 1970's, and USGS is working to update this estimate by focusing on high priority regions throughout the United States. Methods to expand evaluation of uranium resources to include the impacts of mining these resources are also being developed. Scientists on the project also participate with and lead international groups of uranium resource experts to monitor world uranium supply which is critical for continued operation of domestic reactors. This research and accompanying assessments benefit industry, regulators, land owners, land managers, utilities and aid in formulating energy policy in the United States., U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, Grand Junction Office, Resource Division, 1973, 2.5, Washington, DC: Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc, 1980. Presumed first edition/first printing. Good. Staple holes in front cover. Recieved stamd on front cover. 8 p. Three-hole punched The Atomic Industrial Forum was an international association of more than 600 corporate and institutional members dedicated to the development of peaceful uses of nuclear energy. From Wikipedia: The Atomic Industrial Forum (AIF) was an American industrial policy organization for the commercial development of nuclear energy. Its history dates to Autumn 1952, when it was being first organized: I would propose that those industrial concerns, institutions and individuals that are today actively engaged in atomic energy research, development and operations form voluntarily and without governmental urging or subsidy a national association of atomic industries. --T. Keith Glennan, President of the Case Institute of Technology and founding member, AIF Board of Directors, November 1952 In response, some 30 industrialists, engineers, and educators met in January 1953 to establish the forum. The AIF was formally incorporated on April 10, 1953 in New York, and marked the beginning of the commercial nuclear power industry in the United StatesThe first Executive Director of AIF was Charles Robbins. As a non profit trade association the AIF advocated the peaceful uses of atomic energy and increasing the role of the private sector in its development. Its first order of business was to advocate revising the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 to allow and foster the commercial ownership of non weapons nuclear facilities, such as production of radioactive isotopes and nuclear power plants. AIF established strong working relationships with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. AIF's efforts helped to achieve the passage of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954which resulted in the growth of a commercial nuclear industry. AIF also conducted numerous exhibitions, seminars and workshops on atomic energy and established relationships with similar organizations world wide. AIF was organized on the basis of an executive committee, the annual election of officers and a permanent operations staff, headed by an Executive Director, Mr. Charles Robbins. In 1963 AIF established an international public information program. Working with other forums around the world, the program sought, through publications, exhibitions, speeches and outreach, to foster and acieve better understanding of the peaceful uses of atomic energy. Its first program director was Charles B. Yulish. The government and prive sector involvement in atomic energy grew steadily, and with it, strong debates on its safeguards and regulation. The Atomic Energy Commission, which both promoted, developed and regulated nuclear development, was split into two agencies the Energy Research and Development Agency and the independent U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Administration. As the new challenges evolved, leaders in the nuclear industry determined that new entities were required to address challenges and opportunities. As a result of these actions other representation entities were created. In 1987 the AIF ceased to exist as its function was split among two smaller organizations: the Nuclear Utility Management and Resources Council (NUMARC), which addressed generic regulatory and technical issues, and the U.S. Council for Energy Awareness (USCEA), originally founded in 1979. These two organizations remerged in 1994 as the Nuclear Energy Institute, along with the American Nuclear Energy Council (ANEC), which conducted government affairs, and the nuclear division of the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), which handled issues involving nuclear fuel supply and management, and the economics of nuclear energy. In 2011, the leading organization of the nuclear industry is the Nuclear Energy Institute, headquartered in Washington, DC., Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc, 1980, 2.5, New York: Harper & Row, 1963. good, good. 282, illus., bibliography, index, slight discoloration inside boards and flyleaves, DJ in plastic sleeve, some soiling to DJ. Small edge tear and some soiling to rear DJ. This book is based on articles originally published in Fortune Magazine, written in response to a request of a daughter of one of the editors of the magazine for something to counteract the "robber baron" depiction of American businessmen. This book depicts American business history in terms of the inventiveness of Americans and how the inventions that they developed were turned into great businesses. Topics covered include the establishment of banking systems and the funding of a national economy; the development of a world-wide system of trade; industry, invention, and mass production; oil, steel, and the early trusts; the growth of money power; the creative as well as the destructive aspects of the men who have been called "robber barons"; the surprising expansion of business frontiers in the depressed Thirties; and many others., Harper & Row, 1963, 2.5, Brookline, MA: Autumn Press, 1979. Third Printing. Trade paperback. Good/No DJ issued. Bill Burns (Cover illustration). 23 cm, 120, [2] pages. Wraps. Map. Footnotes. Bibliography. pencil erasure on first page, covers somewhat worn and soiled. Helen Mary Caldicott (born 7 August 1938) is an Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate. Caldicott's interest in nuclear issues was sparked when she read the 1957 Nevil Shute?s book On the Beach, a novel about a nuclear holocaust set in Australia. In the 1970s, she gained prominence in Australia, New Zealand and North America, speaking on the health hazards of radiation from the perspective of pediatrics. Her early achievements included convincing Australia to sue France over its atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons in the Pacific in 1971 and 1972, which brought the practice to an end. In 1980, she founded the Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND) in the United States, which was later renamed Women's Action for New Directions. It is a group dedicated to reducing or redirecting government spending away from nuclear energy and nuclear weapons towards what the group perceives as unmet social issues. Caldicott stood as an independent candidate for the House of Representatives at the 1990 federal election, contesting the Division of Richmond, against the Leader of the National Party, Charles Blunt. She polled 23.3% of the votes; not enough to win, but her preferences went mostly to the Labor candidate, Neville Newell, electing him and unseating Blunt. In 2002 Caldicott released The New Nuclear Danger, a commentary on the George Bush Military-Industrial Complex. Dr. Caldicott was a leader of the so-called "Ground Zero" movement that many accused of being naive and of advocating positions incompatible with United States national security interests vis a vis the Soviet Union during the late stages of the Cold War. First published in 1978, Helen Caldicott's cri du coeur about the dangers of nuclear power became an instant classic. In the intervening years much has changed . The Cold War is over, nuclear arms production has decreased, and there has been a marked growth in environmental awareness. But the nuclear genie has not been forced back into the bottle. The disaster at Chernobyl and the "incidents" at other plants around the world have disproven the image of "safe" nuclear power. Nuclear waste dumping has further poisoned our environment, and developing nuclear technology in the Third World poses still further risks., Autumn Press, 1979, 2.5, New York: The Penguin Press, 2010. SIGNED by the AUTHOR directly on the title page ("With best wishes" and his signature only, NOT personalized to anyone). Appears unread. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($25.95). Clean and square. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp and unmarked -- apparently never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 2010. First Printing of the First Edition. Bound in the original blue boards with a gray spine stamped in black. From the dust jacket: "Visionary social thinker Joel Kotkin looks ahead to America in 2050, revealing how the addition of one hundred million Americans by midcentury will transform how we all live, work, and prosper. In stark contrast to the rest of the world's advanced nations, the United States is growing at a record rate and, according to census projections, will be home to four hundred million Americans by 2050. This projected rise in population is the strongest indicator of our long-term economic strength, Joel Kotkin believes, and will make us more diverse and more competitive than any nation on earth. Drawing on prodigious research, firsthand reportage, and historical analysis, THE NEXT HUNDRED MILLION reveals how this unprecedented growth will take physical shape and change the face of America. The majority of the additional hundred million Americans will find their homes in suburbia, though the suburbs of tomorrow will not resemble the Levittowns of the 1950s or the sprawling exurbs of the late twentieth century. The suburbs of the twenty-first century will be less reliant on major cities for jobs and other amenities and, as a result, more energy efficient. Suburbs will also be the melting pots of the future as more and more immigrants opt for dispersed living over crowded inner cities and the majority in the United States becomes nonwhite by 2050. In coming decades, urbanites will flock in far greater numbers to affordable, vast, and autoreliant metropolitan areas-such as Houston, Phoenix, and Las Vegas-than to glamorous but expensive industrial cities, such as New York and Chicago. Kotkin also foresees that the twenty-first century will be marked by a resurgence of the American heartland, far less isolated in the digital era and a crucial source of renewable fuels and real estate for a growing population. But in both big cities and small towns across the country, we will see what Kotkin calls "the new localism"-a greater emphasis on family ties and local community, enabled by online networks and the increasing numbers of Americans working from home. THE NEXT HUNDRED MILLION provides a vivid snapshot of America in 2050 by focusing not on power brokers, policy disputes, or abstract trends, but rather on the evolution of the more intimate units of American society-families, towns, neighborhoods, industries. It is upon the success or failure of these communities, Kotkin argues, that the American future rests.". SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. (xii), 308pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping., The Penguin Press, 2010, 4.5<
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New York: HarperCollins, 2005. CI2 - An advance reader's edition paperback book in very good condition that has some bumped corners, wrinkling and crease, light discoloration and shelf wear. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know so well. 9"x6", 392 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Born in southern California late in the eighteenth century, he is a child of two worlds. Diego de la Vega's father is an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner; his mother, a Shoshone warrior. Diego learns from his maternal grandmother, White Owl, the ways of her tribe while receiving from his father lessons in the art of fencing and in cattle branding. It is here, during Diego's childhood, filled with mischief and adventure, that he witnesses the brutal injustices dealt Native Americans by European settlers and first feels the inner conflict of his heritage. 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Advance Reading Copy (ARC)., HarperCollins, 2005, 3, London: Vega. Very Good+. 2001. Paperback. 1843330113 . 200gms weight; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 186 pages ., Vega, 2001, 3, Knopf. Very Good. 6 x 1.25 x 10 inches. Hardcover. 1999. 448 pages. <br>No contemporary scientist has done more to shape o ur understanding of the universe than Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel Prize-winner many consider the most brilliant physicist of his g eneration. His discoveries of the quark and the Eightfold Way wer e cornerstones for all that has followed in particle physics, the effort to explain the very stuff of creation. In this first biog raphy of Gell-Mann, George Johnson tells the story of a remarkabl e life. Born on New York's Lower East Side, Gell-Mann was quickl y recognized as a child prodigy. Propelled by an intense boyhood curiosity and a love for nature, he entered Yale at fifteen. By a ge twenty-three he had ignited a revolution, laying bare in his g roundbreaking work the strange beauty of the minute particles tha t constitute the ultimate components of physical reality. Partic le physics is the most competitive of sports, and Johnson shows u s the precocious polymath holding his own with giants like Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Richard Feynman -- Gell-Mann's fa vorite intellectual sparring partner and sometimes antagonistic r ival. We see Gell-Mann the self-taught linguist (who couldn't res ist correcting visitors on the pronunciation of their own names); Gell-Mann the birdwatcher and amateur archaeologist; Gell-Mann t he Aspen socialite, world traveler, and environmental crusader. We watch him making his scientific breakthroughs, his abrasive, c ompetitive drive leaving behind a growing trail of enemies. The e arly death of his first wife and a family crisis sent him veering in new directions. Turning from the physics of simple particles, like quarks, he began exploring how complex phenomena like life can be understood scientifically. George Johnson's informed and insightful biography goes far in helping us understand the comple xities of both the man and the science in which he has loomed so large. Editorial Reviews Review Murray Gell-Mann is a leading light in 20th-century physics, yet his name rings bells only for those interested in particle physics. Science writer Ge orge Johnson was fortunate enough to develop a friendly relations hip with the great scientist, and his biography, Strange Beauty, glows with a rare intimacy gained from a notoriously private and irascible man. From his childhood in New York City to his current scientific elder-statesman status in New Mexico, Johnson explore s Gell-Mann's life in glorious detail. A passionate, jealous, and brilliant man, he was capable of both profound insight and bitte r lifelong rivalries, but Johnson finds there's much more to the man than these two simple poles; Gell-Mann's volatile family life and deft academic maneuvering also find room in this expansive b iography. The reader finds that Johnson's careful attention to d etail shows more than it tells through enlightening stories of Ge ll-Mann's troubled, romantic, or pretentious dealings with peers, family, and even strangers. Explaining his strange surname means investigating old phone books, scientific legend, and family his tory, as the scientist is unwilling to shed light on the mystery (it turns out that his father hyphenated it, and Murray dreamed u p etymologies as needed--giving rise to the tangled web of myths) . Johnson is up to the challenge of recording the life story of a man nearly as strange as the quarks he discovered and named, and Strange Beauty lives up to the promise of its title. --Rob Light ner From Publishers Weekly Up, down, top, bottom, strange and c harm aren't just states of mind: they're kinds of quarks, the min d-bending, omnipresent sub-subatomic particles co-discovered and named in the early 1960s by the American physicist Murray Gell-Ma nn. New York Times science reporter Johnson (Fire in the Mind) ha s written a brisk, accessible life of the Nobel-winning scientist , who will turn 70 next month. Gell-Mann grew up poor in New York City, the son of Eastern European Jews. Still in his teens, he a ttended Yale and MIT, and soon afterward won notice for his work on cosmic rays. Gell-Mann followed up his insights about quarks w ith important work at Caltech and elsewhere on superstrings, supe rgravity and mathematical complexity. His adult life has had its hardships: his daughter gave much of her life to an American Stal inist fringe group, and his wife died of cancer in 1981. (He's si nce remarried.) Johnson makes clear that Gell-Mann's direct, some times arrogant manner could make him difficult to work with; admi red by physicists, he failed to achieve the wider fame of his med ia-friendly colleague, the late Richard Feynman. While Johnson re lates such troubles sympathetically, the story of Gell-Mann's lif e is in large part the story of his and others' researches and di scoveries. Explaining difficult fields like quantum physics, John son uses as many analogies, and as little math, as he can, while trying always to give some picture of what scientific problems Ge ll-Mann and his fellow scientists solved. The result is a careful if colloquial biography, perfect for readers who aren'tAor aren' t yetAworking scientists. (Oct.) Copyright 1999 Reed Business In formation, Inc. From Publishers Weekly Up, down, top, bottom, st range and charm aren't just states of mind: they're kinds of quar ks, the mind-bending, omnipresent sub-subatomic particles co-disc overed and named in the early 1960s by the American physicist Mur ray Gell-Mann. New York Times science reporter Johnson (Fire in t he Mind) has written a brisk, accessible life of the Nobel-winnin g scientist, who will turn 70 next month. Gell-Mann grew up poor in New York City, the son of Eastern European Jews. Still in his teens, he attended Yale and MIT, and soon afterward won notice fo r his work on cosmic rays. Gell-Mann followed up his insights abo ut quarks with important work at Caltech and elsewhere on superst rings, supergravity and mathematical complexity. His adult life h as had its hardships: his daughter gave much of her life to an Am erican Stalinist fringe group, and his wife died of cancer in 198 1. (He's since remarried.) Johnson makes clear that Gell-Mann's d irect, sometimes arrogant manner could make him difficult to work with; admired by physicists, he failed to achieve the wider fame of his media-friendly colleague, the late Richard Feynman. While Johnson relates such troubles sympathetically, the story of Gell -Mann's life is in large part the story of his and others' resear ches and discoveries. Explaining difficult fields like quantum ph ysics, Johnson uses as many analogies, and as little math, as he can, while trying always to give some picture of what scientific problems Gell-Mann and his fellow scientists solved. The result i s a careful if colloquial biography, perfect for readers who aren 'tAor aren't yetAworking scientists. (Oct.) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal One of the most notable physicists of the Nuclear Age, Murray Gell-Mann worked cl osely with Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynmann, and others to help unl ock the secrets of the subatomic world. In 1969, he received a No bel prize for his work on the interaction of elementary particles and their classification. Now New York Times science writer John son (Fire in the Mind) has written a well-balanced biography of t his renowned scientist's complex life and work. Noting Gell-Mann' s idiosyncrasies, his faults, and his accomplishments, Johnson fo llows his subject through his passions (nature and conservation, art collection, anthropology, ornithology, and linguistics), his struggles with chronic writer's block, and his incredible scienti fic achievements. While it is necessarily dense in parts, this bo ok is free of mathematics and is accessible to the advanced lay r eader. Recommended for large public and academic libraries.AJames Olson, Northeastern Illinois Univ. Lib., Chicago Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Scientific American 'Stran ge Beauty' brings together an irresistible subject -- the difficu lt polymath Murray Gell-Mann -- and a talented writer who spins a n enthralling tale out of the kind of esoteric physics that gener ally flies right over our heads. Johnson is one of the best scien ce journalists writing today, known for his books 'Fire in the Mi nd' and 'In the Palaces of Memory' and for incisive reporting in the New York Times. This is his most ambitious project yet -- com municating the fascination of a kind of science that only an elit e of superbright people fully understands. He succeeds brilliantl y. From Kirkus Reviews Part biography, part textbook on quarks a nd other phenomena discovered by one of the great particle physic ists of the twentieth century. Johnson (a New York Times science writer) first introduces us to Murray Gell-Mann in the present da y, as a likable retiree living in Santa Fe. He sets his personal experiences with Gell-Mann against Gell-Mann the legend, cutting colleagues down to size if their viewpoints didn't coincide with his own, or calling them by unpleasant and sarcastic nicknames. G ell-Mann's broad scope of knowledge started in his youth in New Y ork City, where he would visit museums, the zoo, anywhere he coul d learn about the world around him. In school young Murray was al ways eager to show off his knowledge, winning a spelling bee at t he age of seven. At fourteen, he won a scholarship to Yale, movin g from there to MIT, where he reveled in the unsolved problems in physics. It was these problems, theories about particles yet to be discovered, that Gell-Mann would spend his career solving. Joh nson is not afraid to present these theories in great detail, giv ing crystal-clear descriptions of some of the most abstract and c onvoluted ideas in physics. Nor is he afraid to delve into the pe rsonal side of Gell-Mann, including his relationship with his col league Richard Feynman, a friendship at times strained by the fam e that Feynman achieved from his best-selling book of autobiograp hical anecdotes. Gell-Mann wanted to write one, too, but for all his knowledge he was crippled by a lifelong case of writer's bloc k. The limited success of his autobiography once it was finished presumably led to Strange Beauty. A must-read for anyone studying physics or its history, and for others not afraid to swim in the sometimes deep and murky waters of cutting-edge science. -- Copy right ®1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. Review George Johnson has nailed this biography of the brilliant and ira scible Murray Gell-Mann. Strange Beauty is complex, mind-expandin g, beautiful, and true. -- James Gleick When you have one of the world's most accomplished science writers recounting the life an d times of one of the world's most accomplished scientists, reade rs' expectations are justifiably high. They are fully met. Johnso n gives us an extraordinary view of an extraordinary man, and nav igates through science that ordinarily would seem difficult, with such skill that it is not difficult at all. Strange Beauty is a masterpiece of modern biography. -- Roger Lewin Gell-Mann could not have written such a perceptive book about himself as Johnson has....Reads like a detective novel. Johnson does a wonderful job of describing the competition and cooperation among scientists, the egos and insecurities, the disappointments and triumphs, and the disputes, suspicions and shifting allegiances. -- The New Yor k Times Book Review Skillfully and engagingly written . . . John son paints a convincing portrait of Gell-Mann's personality, whic h is in turn charming, irritating, and generous . . . Johnson cap tures well his subject's inner scientific conflicts. -- Science Few physicists have displayed the poetic inspiration of the Nobel ist Murray Gell-Mann....In this biography he emerges as brilliant and often insufferable, relentlessly curious, hopelessly pedanti c, and one of the best synthetic thinkers in the history of his f ield. The book [offers] a vivid sense of Gell-Mann and his contem poraries (including his collaborator and competitor Richard Feynm an).... --The New Yorker From the Publisher A conversation with George Johnson, author of STRANGE BEAUTY: Murray Gell-Mann and t he Revolution in Twentieth Century Physics Q. Why do you call t he book Strange Beauty? A. When Gell-Mann was in his early 20s, physicists were baffled by cosmic-ray particles, bombarding the earth from outer space, that seemed to defy the known laws of phy sics. Gell-Mann solved the problem by proposing that the particle s were affected by a previously unknown phenomenon that he decide d to call strangeness. The theory, weird name and all, created a sensation. It was the first example of the strange beauty he kept finding in the universe -- mesmerizing patterns that lie beneath the surface of reality. Q. What happened next? A. From there h e went on to discover The Eightfold Way and quarks, always bestow ing his creations with whimsical names. There are top quarks, bot tom quarks, strange quarks, charmed quarks. They're held together by things called gluons. Physics was never again the same. Q. W hat is the Eightfold Way? And where do quarks fit in? A. Before Gell-Mann came onto the scene, there were hundreds of tiny subato mic particles of all shapes and sizes. Gell-Mann saw in a flash o f insight that they could all be arranged into patterns. He saw o rder where there had been confusion. The result was the Eightfold Way. Just as the Periodic Table of the Elements is used to arran ge all the different kinds of atoms, the Eightfold Way is used to arrange all the subatomic particles. A little later, Gell-Mann r ealized that the particles line up this way because they are made of tinier things called quarks. A Nobel prize was around the cor ner. Q. One of the classic rivalries in science is between Gell- Mann and Richard Feynman. Why was there so much friction between these two intellectual giants? A. A favorite pastime of physicis ts was arguing over who was smarter, Dick or Murray. At any unive rsity in the world, each would have been the unquestioned star. B ut at Caltech they were crowded into the same small department, j ust two doors from each other (with the same poor secretary in be tween.) Each was always trying to upstage the other. And they had strikingly different styles. Feynman would speak in an affected Brooklyn drawl and refuse to wear a coat and tie. Murray was as i mpeccable in his dress as he was in his pronunciation -- and not just in English but in dozens of other languages. He's famous for sitting down at Ch, Knopf, 1999, 3, New York: Penguin Press Hc, The, 2010-02. New. Visionary social thinker Joel Kotkin looks ahead to America in 2050, revealing how the addition of one hundred million Americans by midcentury will transform how we all live, work, and prosper In stark contrast to the rest of the world's advanced nations, the United States is growing at a record rate and, according to census projections, will be home to four hundred million Americans by 2050 This projected rise in population is the strongest indicator of our long-term economic strength, Joel Kotkin believes, and will make us more diverse and more competitive than any nation on earthDrawing on prodigious research, firsthand reportage, and historical analysis, The Next Hundred Million reveals how this unprecedented growth will take physical shape and change the face of America The majority of the additional hundred million Americans will find their homes in suburbia, though the suburbs of tomorrow will not resemble the Levittowns of the 1950s or the sprawling exurbs of the late twentieth century The suburbs of the twenty-first century will be less reliant on major cities for jobs and other amenities and, as a result, more energy efficient Suburbs will also be the melting pots of the future as more and more immigrants opt for dispersed living over crowded inner cities and the majority in the United States becomes nonwhite by 2050In coming decades, urbanites will flock in far greater numbers to affordable, vast, and autoreliant metropolitan areas-such as Houston, Phoenix, and Las Vegas-than to glamorous but expensive industrial cities, such as New York and Chicago Kotkin also foresees that the twenty-first century will be marked by a resurgence of the American heartland, far less isolated in the digital era and a crucial source of renewable fuels and real estate for a growing population But in both big cities and small towns across the country, we will see what Kotkin calls "the new localism"-a greater emphasis on family ties and local community, enabled by online networks and the increasing numbers of Americans working from homeThe Next Hundred Million provides a vivid snapshot of America in 2050 by focusing not on power brokers, policy disputes, or abstract trends, but rather on the evolution of the more intimate units of American society-families, towns, neighborhoods, industries It is upon the success or failure of these communities, Kotkin argues, that the American future rests 308 pp, Penguin Press Hc, The, 2010-02, 6<
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