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Tucson, AZ: Lynn Jacobs, 1992. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/trace wear to corner tips & small rubs to upper/lower spine. Author signed to title page, with taped Errata. LAID-IN: Promotional pamphlet to volume. A socio-political study of the practice of cattle grazing on public lands and the consequent ecological impact.

Tucson, AZ: Lynn Jacobs, 1992. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/trace wear to corner tips & small rubs to upper/lower spine. Author signed to title page, with taped Errata. LAID-IN: Promotional pamphlet to volume. A socio-political study of the practice of cattle grazing on public lands and the consequent ecological impact.

Tucson, AZ: Lynn Jacobs, 1992. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Lynn Jacobs (Author - Photographer). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. First Edition, 2nd Printing. Soft cover/NF w/faint creasing to front. Critical analysis of the practice of cattle grazing on some 70% of federal Public Lands American West & consequent socio-political issues & degradation of land & water resources from unmanaged sheep & cattle grazing. Born from homesteading days, formalized after the Civil War, and present today. Complex history not without periodic modifications. 602 pgs , b/w photos by author, in 13 chapters: I, History of Public Lands Grazing; II, Public Lands Grazing Today; III, Livestock Grazing: Environmental Effects; IV, Range Development: Environmental Effects; V, Livestock Suffer, Too; VI, Global Perspective; VII, Welfare Ranching; VIII, Social/Cultural Issues; IX, Politics; X, Benefits of Public Lands Ranching; XI, Justifications/Myths; XII, Alternatives; XIII, A… Leer más

New York, NY: Random House/The Modern Library, 1938. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/NEW & Bright. Gilt embossed red linen boards/VG/sound w/discoloration to upper front & trace soiling to back. DJ/None. Upper text block dyed green w/light spotting (water drops?) Scholarly presentation of Chinese of pre-Han classic Confucian socio-political thought by Lin Yutang (1895 - 1976), known for My Country & My People published in 1935, and the Gay Genius, 1947, biography of poet Su Tungpo. 290 pgs in 11 chapters: I, Introduction; II, The Life of Confucius (Szema Ch'ien); III, Central Harmony; III, Ethics & Politics; IV, Ethics & Politics; V, Aphorisms of Confucius; VI, First Discourse: Education through the Six Classics; VII, Second Discourse: An Interview with Duke Ai; VIII, Third Discourse: The Vision of a Social Order; IX, On Education; X, On Music; and XI, Mencius. Fine copy, less dustjacket & despite flaws.

New York, NY: Basic Books, 1980. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Text/NEW & Bright. Vintage 1980, First Edition, 2nd Printing. Gilt embossed, charcoal linen boards/Fine. DJ/Fine. PO name to front endpaper. Socio-economics. Classic analysis of US economic policies --- addressing slow growth, declining productivity, energy shortages, over-regulationi, chronic inflation of the 1970s --- all still relevant today. Lester Carl Thurow (1938 - 2016), American political economist, Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management, and advisor to George McGovern's 1972 bid for presidency, forwards income redistribution as a major issue. Thurow argues the nation's economic problems stem from America's inability to decide whose income ought rightly to increase versus whose ought justifiably to decline, and, ought winners compensate losers? In short, how to divide up the one pie? 230 pgs in 8 chapters: 1, An Economy That No Longer Performs; 2, Energy; 3. Inflation; 4, Slow… Leer más