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Cambridge, MA:: The MIT Press, , (1987). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First edition. Interviews with 22 thinkers, artists, scientists, statesmen, and philosophers, originally published as part of a series in the Christian Science Monitor. "While the group generally agrees on the set of issues most critically in need of addressing, there is often sharp disagreement over the course the future will take.Educator Michael Hooker, for instance, foresees a world in which technology has solved humanity's survival questions, and in which the main problem is an excess of leisure time. The Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky, on the other hand, worries about human beings becoming increasingly standardized, resembling more and more the robots they have created. Philosopher Mortimer Adler calls for a massive commitment to education in critical thinking, without which, he says, democracy cannot survive. Historian Barbara Tuchman and novelist Carlos Fuentes each focus on… Read More

New York: Crown,, (c.1995.). Hardcover -. Very good in very good dust jacket (prev owner's name). 4th printing. A book about inner city children - growing up in the South Bronx - and the guarantee that they will lead lives full of heartbreak, violence and disease unless people start trying to make a difference. Index. 286 pp.

New York: Crown,, (c.1995.). Hardcover -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some splotching to the top of the textblock.). 3rd printing. A book about inner city children - growing up in the South Bronx - and the guarantee that they will lead lives full of heartbreak, violence and disease unless people start trying to make a difference. Index. 286 pp.

New York:: The Viking Press,, (2004.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.). First printing. A New York Times reporter investigates the claims of Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign promise to "end welfare as we know it," which ultimately dropped nine million women and children from the rolls. He follows three women in one extended family along with a cast of politicians, reformers, case workers and rogues to trace the unlikely successes and haunting failures of "welfare reform" in the U.S.A. Timeline, notes, index. 421 pp.

New York:: The Viking Press,, (1969.). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (crease to front flap of dj.). First US printing. A "critical but sympathetic analysis by an outsider" - this exiled South African writer and journalist - of US society during the 1960s: an era of dissent and insurrection, divisions over the war in Vietnam, contradiction between great wealth and great poverty, the disintegration of Ameircan cities, racial conflict., and more. Includes notes, index. 340 pp.

New York:: Stein & Day,, 1970.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket.. First printing. Includes interviews with Americans ranging from James Baldwin to Barry Goldwater, Jesse Jackson to Benjamin Spock, Truman Capote, Helen Hayes, Louis Armstrong, and Orson Welles. The interview with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper is titled 'Are we all pushers?'

New York:: Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt,, (2005). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A look at some Americans who have done everything right - gotten college degrees and marketable skills, built up impressive resumes - but still find themselves vulnerable to financial disaster. SIGNED on the title page. 237 pp.

New York:: Henry Holt,, (2001). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) His often hilarious explanation of how a generation that started out with so much promise lost its way. SIGNED on the title page. 211 pp.

New York:: Henry Holt,, (2001). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. His often hilarious explanation of how a generation that started out with so much promise lost its way. SIGNED on the title page. 210 pp.

Boston:: Gambit Inc., 1971.. First edition -. Near fine.. First printing, a trade paperback. A look at the potential problems of increased population due to the fact that premature deaths have been reduced in much of the world. "Over the long term, people and resources must be in balance. This book views the problem for America and the world, suggesting directions in which we should seek to go." References, index. 241 pp.

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, 1986.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.. First printing. Fascinating book by this Pulitzer prize winning writer - much of it was originally published in the New Yorker. This is a look at 4 cultural enclaves which took shape in the 60's and 70's - the Castro in San Francisco, Jerry Falwell's Liberty Baptist Church in Lynchburg, West Virginia, a retirement town in Florida - Sun City, and the Rajneeshee community in Oregon. 414 pages.

Toronto:: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,, (1966). First edition -. Near fine in illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. Seven talks presented on CBC Radio in January and February 1966. The topics include Nature and origins; non-violence in the ancient East, the precursors of Gandhi; Civil disobedience and the tradition of English dissent; strikes and civil disobedience; Tolstoy: the theory of non-violence; Gandhi: the practice of non-violence; and That other America (on Thoreau, civil rights movement and more). 69 pp.

New York:: William H. Morrow,, (1999). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket.. First printing. An examination of the changing demographics and the racial attitudes in the United States, especially among the young. "By the year 2050, there will be more nonwhite than white Americans, and most of the nonwhite population will be Asian and Latino, not black. Increasingly, America is becoming a multiracial society. Americans in their teens and twenties are at the forefront of this cultural revolution. . . Chideya allows the voices of the next generation(black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, and multiracial(to ring out with truth and clarity and guide us to the kaleidoscope of our future." xii. End Notes. 273 pp.

New York:: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,, (1965.). Hardcover -. Good in a very good dust jacket (some scattered marginal notations and underlining in pencil, otherwise a tight and clean copy, small chip to back cover of dj.). Early printing. Bridges the gap between action and theory. Includes appendices, bibliography, index. 334 pp.

Berkeley, CA:: Crime and Social Justice / Synthex Press,, 1979.. First edition -. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (address label,). . First printing. Includes articles on business racketeering and trade unionism by Alan Block and William Chambliss, on government research funding, on the police use of deadly force by Paul Tagaki, book reviews and more. Photographs, ads, large format (8.0 by 11.0 inches), 82 pp.

Berkeley, CA:: Crime and Social Justice,, 1977.. First edition -. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (address label,). . First printing. Includes an announcement that the Berkeley School of Criminology - which was the impetus behind this journal and the only progressive program of study of criminlogy in the US - had been abolished. This issue contains articles on Class consciousness and crime in Chile by James Petras; on prison psychiatrists and drugs by Richard Speigelman, on the FBI and more. Photographs, ads, large format (8.5 by 11.5 inches), 74 pp.

Berkeley, CA:: Crime and Social Justice / Synthex Press,, 1978.. First edition -. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (address label,). . First printing. Includes articles on social class and sentencing, on the federal bureau of narcotics, poems by Luis Talamantaz, book reviews and more. Photographs, ads, large format (8.0 by 11.0 inches), 64 pp.

Berkeley, CA:: Crime and Social Justice,, 1974.. First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers. . First printing. The second issue of this co-operatively produced (and fairly long running periodical). Includes articles by Robert Cantor, Nguyen Khac Vien, Paul Tagaki, Mimi Goldman, Peter Miller, Peter Shapiro and many others. Article include survivors of the Saigon jails, the writings of Norma Stafford, the Santa Cruz women's prison project, justice for Tyrone Guyton, poems of Luis Talamantez, San Quentin on trial, reviews of books and political films and more. Large format (8.5 by 11.5 inches), 122 pp.

Ann Arbor, MI:: UMI Dissertation Services,, 1995.. SIGNED hardcover -. Fine in blue boards with white lettering on the spine. . Hardcover. A dissertation written for a PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1994. Includes footnotes, tables, appendices, bibliography. INSCRIBED on the first page to " -- my editor and mentor. You gave life and beauty to my dissertation." 647 pp.

Madison, WI:: The University of Wisconsin Press, , (1999.). Fine in black wrappers. . Trade paperback. A passionate, eloquent and well-researched look at the death penalty (and what is wrong with it) by an insider - an attorney who has been involved in many death penalty appeals. Foreword by David Von Drehle. Notes, index, 393 pp.