Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A candid look at what makes Southern California's people and economy tick. As Kevin Starr commented thanks to this book "we can better understand how off-shore investment, technology, decentralization, can-do entrepreneurialism and sheer panache have created one of the strongest economies on the planet as well as a working model for American competition in a global age." SIGNED on the title page with the words "Best wishes." Map, photographs, charts. Notes and index. xxi, 192 pp. ISBN: 978-0804756259.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which "brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy . . Friedman proposes that an ambitious national strategy - which he calls "Geo-Greenism"-is not only what we need to save the planet from overheating; it is what we need to make America healthier, richer, more innovative, more productive, and more secure." SIGNED on the half title page. Charts, index. 438 pp. ISBN: 978-0374166854.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel by this Irish writer -"about power, lies and the corrupting influence of money. . . the dark and clandestine underside of globalization." Cover praise from such diverse writers as John Connolly, George Pelecanos, Ken Bruen, Val McDermid and more. 311 pp. ISBN: 9780312539221.