meridian new american library times mirror new york (11 results)

Paper Back. Condition: Fair. First Thus. Octavo. Sun bleached spine with soiling. Dust stains & soiling to textblock edges.Margins of verso of front and back covers heavily darkened. Top left edge of back cover chewed in narrow line by small rodent, large silverfish or some such thing. First Meridian printing. With complete number line. [388 pages].

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Meridian Printing. 512 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Covers shows wear in some places. Creased spine. Light foxing on page edges.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Meridian Printing: October 1977. 304 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Slightly creased and damaged spine. Stains on fore and bottom edges.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Milton Charles (Jacket Design & Photo) (illustrator). 3rd Printing: May 1970. 300 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Publisher's remainder copy. Previous owner's name inscribed on first front-end page.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Revised Edition. 590 pp. Flawless book, except crease down spine. Moderately browned pages.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 724 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Light foxing on page edges. Slightly creased spine. Pencil mark on bottom edge.

Paperback. 484p. A softcover book in very good condition. Light crinkling along the edges and a small scuff at the head of the spine; otherwise clean and tight.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 276 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Moderate foxing on pages. Slightly creased spine.

Trade paperback. Condition: Good. The format is approximately 5.25 inches by 8 inches. 255, [1] pages. With 58 illustrations. Foreword. Note. Appendix--From Emerson on Farming. The cover has some wear, soiling, sticker residue and corner creases. Lower front corner of first page missing. Some page discoloration noted. This is an authorized reprint of a hardcover edition published by Horizon Press, Inc. Near the end of his life, in 1958, Wright published The Living City, the final version of his vision of an ideal social order. Indeed, all of his building and projects can be seen, retrospectively, as prototypes and proposals, models for the new, decentralized pattern of living that he offered as a blueprint for the future and from which we have much to learn today. This book is an innovative survey of Wright's career focused upon the nine basic building types found in the Living City and pursuing the evolution of each throughout his career. Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. (June 8, 1867 - April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing architects worldwide through his works and hundreds of apprentices in his Taliesin Fellowship. Wright believed in designing in harmony with humanity and the environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was exemplified in Fallingwater (1935), which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture". Wright is widely considered the greatest American architect and certainly one of the most influential. Throughout a career of nearly 70 years, he produced masterpiece after masterpiece, each different and boldly new and yet each with the unmistakable touch of Wright's genius in the treatment of material, the detailing, and the overall concept. Wright studied civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin and began his career in Chicago as chief assistant to Louis Henry Sullivan, who influenced his early thinking on the American architect as harbinger of democracy and on the organic nature of the true architecture. Out of these ideas, Wright developed the so-called prairie house, of which the Robie House in Chicago and the Avery Coonley House in Riverdale, Illinois, are outstanding examples. In the "prairie-style," Wright used terraces and porches to allow the inside to flow easily outside. Movement within such houses is also open and free-floating from room to room and from layer to layer. Public buildings followed: the Larkin Administration Building in Buffalo (destroyed) and the Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois, the former probably the most original and seminal office building up to that time (1905). The Midway Gardens in Chicago and the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo came next, winning Wright still greater acclaim. Personal tragedy, misunderstanding, and neglect dogged Wright's middle years, but he prevailed, and in his later life gathered enormous success and fame. The masterworks of his mature years are the Johnson Wax Building in Racine, Wisconsin, and Fallingwater, Bear Run, Pennsylvania---with its bold cantilevered balconies over a running stream, probably the most admired and pictured private house in American architecture; then, toward the end of his life, the spiral design of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Wright's own houses, to which he joined architectural studios, are also noteworthy: Taliesin West was a true Shangri-la in the Arizona desert, to which he turned in order to escape the severe winters in Wisconsin, where he had built his extraordinary Taliesin East. Wright was a prolific and highly outspoken writer, ever polemical, ever ready to propagate his ideas and himself. All of his books reflect a passionate dedication to his beliefs---in organic architecture, democracy, and creativity. Paperback reprint edition. Fifth printing [stated].

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Thus 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SUB-TITLE: Scientists in the Political Arena. BOOK NUMBER: F443. CONTENTS: Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I BACKGROUND 1 Introduction 2 The Supersonic Transport: A Case History in the Politics of Technology; PART II ADVISING OR LEGITIMIZING? 3 The Uses and limitations of Science Advisors 4 Not the Whole Truth: The Advisory Reports on the Supersonic Transport 5 Invoking the Experts: The Antiballistic Missile Debate 6 Studies as an Excuse for Inaction: The Saga of 2,4,5-T 7 The Politician's Helper: Legitimizing the Cyclamates Decision; PART III RESPONSIBILITIES OF SCIENCE ADVISORS IN A DEMOCRACY 8 The Advisor's Dilemma 9 Toward an Open Advisory System; PART IV THE PEOPLE'S SCIENCE ADVISORS - CAN OUTSIDERS BE EFFECTIVE? 10 The Battle Over Persistent Pesticides: From Rachel Carson to the Environmental Defense Fund 11 Matthew Meselson and Federal Policy on Chemical and Biological Warfare 12 Watching the Federal Government in Colorado: The Colorado Committee for Environmental Information 13 Stopping Sentinel 14 Public Interest Science in the University: The Stanford Workshops on Political and Social Issues 15 Challenging the Atomic Energy Commission on Nuclear Reactor Safety: The Union of Concerned Scientists; PART V PUBLIC INTEREST SCIENCE 16 When Outsiders Can Be Effective 17 Organizing for Public Interest Science 18 Congress and Technology; PART VI CONCLUSION 19 The Choice for Scientists and for Society; Appendix: A Summary of Science Advisory Organizations; Index. SYNOPSIS: Almost every day we read about new hazards in the food we eat, in our environment, and from the nuclear arms race. Why is there so rarely an aggressive government action to protect us against such dangers? Why doesn't our government heed the warnings of its advisers when making decisions on major technological and scientific issues? Advice and Dissent answers these questions by revealing the facts about how the Federal government scandalously misrepresents, buries, and "reinterprets" the information it buys (with your tax dollars) from technological experts. But this book does more than blow the whistle on foul play. It cites actual cases of citizen-scientist alliances that challenged the Federal government on such major issues as nuclear-reactor safety, the development of the SST, the deployment of ABMs, defoliation in Vietnam, the uncontrolled use of pesticides at home, and the addition of cyclamates and other chemicals to our food. By reporting the important victories achieved, this probing, informative study proves that people who care can fight City Hall and win the right to have a voice in decisions about any matter which could have a dangerous effect on public health and welfare. Joel Primack is Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Frank von Hippel is a research scientist at the Center for Environmental Studies at Princeton University. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Meridian Printing. 754 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Slightly creased spine and front cover. Slightly skewed spine.