2016, ISBN: 9781594202445

Taschenbuch, Gebundene Ausgabe

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… Mehr…

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<

ISBN: 9781594202445

Penguin Press HC, The. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible… Mehr…

Penguin Press HC, The. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., Penguin Press HC, The, 2.5<

2010, ISBN: 9781594202445

Hardcover, This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear., Good in good dust j… Mehr…

Hardcover, This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear., Good in good dust jacket., [PU: Penguin Press HC, The]<

ISBN: 9781594202445

Penguin Publishing Group. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects., Penguin Publishing Group, 3