New York: Grove Press, (1923). First edition - A look at the incredible toll gun violence has taken - and it continuing to take - on the United States. Illustrated with photographs by Spencer Ostrander, A book both impassioned in its plea to wake up and one which recounts the incredible statistics on the number of people affected by gun violence. 147 pp.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1965.) dj. Hardcover - Bridges the gap between action and theory. Includes appendices, bibliography, index. 334 pp.

Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, (2018). First edition - A book which "recognizes the promise of this interdisciplinary young science, but also questions its implications for the future. . . . By exposing the shocking parallels between sociogenomics and older, long-discredited, sciences, Bliss persuasively argues for a more thoughtful public reception of any study that reduces human nature to a mere sequence of genes." Extensive notes, 272 pp.

Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which "recognizes the promise of this interdisciplinary young science, but also questions its implications for the future. . . . By exposing the shocking parallels between sociogenomics and older, long-discredited, sciences, Bliss persuasively argues for a more thoughtful public reception of any study that reduces human nature to a mere sequence of genes." Extensive notes, index. 291 pp. ISBN: 978-0804798341.

San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - A publication of the Institute for the Study of Human Problems, Stanford University. Each volume has a bibliography and index. xvi, 400 pp. xix, 399 pp. ISBN: 0-87589-0334; 0-87589-0342.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at those who. either by choice or economic necessity. live and work in the dark - cops, night watchmen, cabbies, prostitutes, and others - as well as those who are night owls, like Duke Ellington. Also includes a chapter on living in Tromso Norway, where the dark persists for 2 months in the winter. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-385-191960.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at those who. either by choice or economic necessity. live and work in the dark - cops, night watchmen, cabbies, prostitutes, and others - as well as those who are night owls, like Duke Ellington. Also includes a chapter on living in Tromso Norway, where the dark persists for 2 months in the winter. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-385-191960.

New York: Random House, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Twenty true stories of families - from Texas to China, from Jamaica to the Ozarks, and more - who survived tremendous hardships in their family lives and who managed to create a better experience today.INSCRIBED on the title page "---- may these stories echo your own." Bibliography. 381 pp. ISBN: 1400062373.

New York: Random House, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - His second book, the stories of people who survived hardships and wound up with a stronger family because of it. Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography. 331 pp. ISBN: 1400062373.

New York: Random House, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Twenty true stories of families - from Texas to China, from Jamaica to the Ozarks, and more - who survived tremendous hardships in their family lives and who managed to create a better experience today. Bibliography. 381 pp. ISBN: 1400062373.

New York & Oxford: Basil Blackwell, (1984) dj. Hardcover - A study of three groups of warring gangs in New York's Harlem, Brooklyn and East New York, focusing on the experiences of one girl in each group. Photographs, notes, index. vii, 277 pp. ISBN: 0-631-133747.

Lanham, MD and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the real meaning of patriotism and how Americans have dealt with life in difficult times from Thomas Jefferson and the American Revolution to Frederick Douglass, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Martin Luther King and our current times, by a White House Correspondent. A title in the American Political Challenges series under the editorship of Larry J. Sabato. Notes, index, 330 pp. ISBN: 0-7425-25910.

Berkeley, CA: Crime and Social Justice, 1974. First edition - 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.

New York: William H. Morrow, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - 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. ISBN: 0-688165303.

New York: HarperCollins, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Bookplate SIGNED by author on front endpaper, noting that this is given to the recipient for support of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Photographs, sources, index. 254 pages. ISBN: 0-06-01743x.

New York: The Viking Press, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - 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. ISBN: 0-670-892750.

New York: Pantheon, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A still relevant look at the false stereotypes which make up our notions of what the US middle class is like - in fact, possibly even more relevant now than when it was written. SIGNED on the title page. Notes, index. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-394556925.

New York: Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - 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. ISBN: 0-805076069.

New York: Basic Books (Perseus), (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A different look at one of the most important - and threatened - American rights: one in which the right to privacy is balanced against concern for public safety and health. Extensive notes, index. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-465040896.

New York: Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt, (2007). Hardcover first edition - A controversial and interesting look at America's psychological response to the 9/11 attacks. She offers a fascinating explanation of why 9/11 led to such a perverse retreat from our own values - "The answer... lies in a historical anomaly unique to the American experience: the nation that in recent memory has been least vulnerable to domestic attack was forged in traumatizing assaults by nonwhite 'barbarians' on town and village. That humiliation lies concealed under a myth of cowboy bluster and feminine frailty." Notes, index. xii, 351 pp. ISBN: 978-0805086928.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - 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. ISBN: 0-671-55209-0.

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: Stein & Day, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - 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?'

Valley Springs, CA: ARM Press, (1994.). SIGNED first edition - An account of The Tennessee Children's Home Society and Georgia Tann - the largest black market baby selling scandal in US history, by a man who was one of the children "sold" to his adoptive parents, and who has since worked for adoption reform. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 2007. Bibliography, 294 pp. ISBN: 0-9658302-09.

New York: Harper & Row, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - Revised edition.

New York: The Viking Press, (1989). Hardcover first edition - "A ground-breaking book that changes the way we look at our world, our culture, ourselves." A book which is both provocative and entertaining as it offers a tour of the modern age from Darwin to quarks - among the topics discussed are computer art, concrete poetry, Dada experiments, word games, the British cracking of the Germans' Enigma code in WW II, and automobiles as "thin-steel sculptures." Illustrated throughout with four full-colored plates inserted. Bibliography and index. xix, 389 pp. ISBN: 0-670825050.

Stanford, CA: Standford Alumni Association, 1976.