2008, ISBN: 9780847820863

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Washington, D.C. / Cambridge, Mass.: Brookings Institution Press / The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1997. Bottom edges of corner tips lightly rubbed. D/j edges lightly rubbed on head… Mehr…

Washington, D.C. / Cambridge, Mass.: Brookings Institution Press / The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1997. Bottom edges of corner tips lightly rubbed. D/j edges lightly rubbed on head of spine edge of d/j. Thank you inscription signed with author's first and last name on front endpage. Black cloth with gold lettering on spine. 224 pages.. Inscribed and Signed By Author. First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine d/j. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Brookings Institution Press / The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1997, 4, Springfield:: Charles C. Thomas, 1961., 1961. 8vo. xv, [1], 414 pp. Blue gilt-stamped cloth, dust-jacket. Near fine. The essays on the dangers of air pollution, especially as it affects lung cancer, are prescient. The proceedings of twenty presentations and five panel discussions of the 1960 symposium of environmental threats to the air, smog, lung cancer, etc., held at the University of California, Berkeley. Among the contributors: John B. deC. M. Saunders (1903-1991), Harold Urey (1893-1981) [won Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1934, pioneered the new field of paleoclimatic research], L.P. Harrington, Nello Pace, Capt. Albert R. Behnke, Jr. (1903-1992) ["Behnke separated the symptoms of Arterial Gas Embolism (AGE) from those of decompression sickness and suggested the use of oxygen in recompression therapy"], Roger H.L. Wilson, J. Ralph Audy (1914-1974) [founding associate editor of Human Ecology], Theodore F. Hatch (1901-1986) [Professor of Industrial Health Engineering, University of Pittsburgh], Thomas F. Mancuso (ca.1912-2004) ["pioneering epidemiologist who developed methods now widely used to examine the long-term effects of workplace health hazards"], R.R. Newell, John R. Goldsmith, Alexander Goetz, Arie Jan Haagen-Smit (1900-1977) ["best known for linking the smog in Southern California to automobiles and is therefore known by many as the "father" of air pollution control"], Richard A. Prindle (ca.1926-2001) ["in the 1950s and 1960s oversaw studies linking air pollution to serious health problems and who served as acting U.S. surgeon general in 1969 and 1970. . . The most prominent of the research was the Nashville Study, released in the 1960s. Dr. Prindle, among the first to link air pollution with cancer, helped plan and coordinate what was regarded as the most comprehensive U.S. study of air pollution and its relation to respiratory disease and other ailments." - Graeme Zielinski, Washington Post, September 15, 2001], Leslie A. Chambers, Patrick Joseph Lawther (1921-2008) ["Lawther was the UK's leading authority on the effects of air pollutants on health and a pioneer in the field of occupational medicine" Royal College of Physicians], T.J. Kent, Jr., Benjamin Linsky, Roy Sorenson [Chairman, Governor's Commission on Metropolitan Problems, San Francisco], Jethro Gough (1903-1979), Professor of pathology, Welsh National School of Medicine, Malcolm B. McIlroy Cardiovascular Research Institute, UCSF, Jay A. Nadel Cardiovascular Research Institute, UCSF, C.P. Yaglou Harvard School of Public Health, Paul Kotin (1916-2008) ["pioneer environmental health physician-scientist and NIEHS director from 1966 to 1971"], E. Cuyler Hammond, Joseph Berkson, David F. Eastcott, Lester Breslow., Charles C. Thomas, 1961., 1961, 0, New York: Rizzoli, 1998. Hardcover. VG-/VG- (book shows minimal wear at top and bottom of spine and corners, all pages clear and intact - dust jacket shows minor rubbing at edges). Black cloth boards with silver gilt lettering on spine, black dust jacket with color illustration. 239 pp. Profusely illustrated with bw and color photographic images. "John Russell Pope is considered one of America's finest and most important classical architects, and this lavishly illustrated book, long overdue, is the first comprehensive survey of his work. This definitive study, comprised mainly of projects dating from 1910 to 1937, includes the Jefferson Memorial, the National Gallery of Art, Constitution Hall, the National Archives, and the Temple of the Scottish Rite in Washing DC; the Frick Collection and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Duvean Sculpture Gallery at the British Museum and the Sculpture Hall at the Tate Gallery, both in London; mansions for the Vanderbilts and Marshall Field,; and campus plans for Yale and The Johns Hopkins Universities. Steven McLeod Bedford follows the architect's career from his early education through his development as one of the most important figures in classicism, examining every aspect of Pope's architectural output, from his residential and commercial projects to his museums and monuments. Illustrated with archival photographs and Jonathan Wallen's never-before-published new color photography, John Russell Pope: Architect of Empire captures the enduring beauty and significance of this American master's oeuvre." - dust jacket description., Rizzoli, 1998, 3<

1998, ISBN: 0847820866

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[EAN: 9780847820863], Tweedehands, zeer goed, [SC: 39.44], [PU: Rizzoli, New York], ARCHITECTURE ILLUSTRATED CLASSICAL 20TH CENTURY, Jacket, 239pp. Black boards. photo frontispiece. 100's… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780847820863], Tweedehands, zeer goed, [SC: 39.44], [PU: Rizzoli, New York], ARCHITECTURE ILLUSTRATED CLASSICAL 20TH CENTURY, Jacket, 239pp. Black boards. photo frontispiece. 100's of color, and black and white photographs throughout. Rubbing to the corner tips, othewise a clean,unmarked copy. Unclipped pictorial jacket has light edgewear, otherwise a near fine. "John Russell Pope is considered one of America's finest and most important classical architects, and this lavishly illustrated book, long overdue, is the first comprehensive survey of his work. This definitive study, comprised mainly of projects dating from 1910 to 1937, includes the Jefferson Memorial, the National Gallery of Art, Constitution Hall, the National Archives, and the Temple of the Scottish Rite in Washington, D.C.; the Frick Collection and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Duveen Sculpture Gallery (for the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon) at the British Museum and the Sculpture Hall at the Tate Gallery, both in London; mansions for the Vanderbilts and Marshall Field; and campus plans for the Yale and The Johns Hopkins Universities." Size: 9 1/4" x 12", Books<

1998, ISBN: 9780847820863

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Hardcover, 9 1/4" x 12", Very Good+ in Very Good+ jacket, [ED: 1], Architecture Illustrated Classical Architecture 20th Century, 239pp. Black boards. photo frontispiece. 100's of color, a… Mehr…

Hardcover, 9 1/4" x 12", Very Good+ in Very Good+ jacket, [ED: 1], Architecture Illustrated Classical Architecture 20th Century, 239pp. Black boards. photo frontispiece. 100's of color, and black and white photographs throughout. Rubbing to the corner tips, othewise a clean, unmarked copy. Unclipped pictorial jacket has light edgewear, otherwise a near fine. "John Russell Pope is considered one of America's finest and most important classical architects, and this lavishly illustrated book, long overdue, is the first comprehensive survey of his work. This definitive study, comprised mainly of projects dating from 1910 to 1937, includes the Jefferson Memorial, the National Gallery of Art, Constitution Hall, the National Archives, and the Temple of the Scottish Rite in Washington, D.C.; the Frick Collection and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Duveen Sculpture Gallery (for the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon) at the British Museum and the Sculpture Hall at the Tate Gallery, both in London; mansions for the Vanderbilts and Marshall Field; and campus plans for the Yale and The Johns Hopkins Universities.", New York, [PU: Rizzoli]<