New York: Basic Books, (2015). SIGNED first edition - A report on the fast-growing world of sensory science.... including AI developers, VR engineers, pain analysts, flavor enhancers, and "even a few people who really are making the world a better place." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Notes. xxi, 265 pp.

Berkeley, CA: Crime and Social Justice / Synthex Press, 1979. First edition - 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.

New York: Henry Holt, (2001). SIGNED first edition - 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) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - 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. ISBN: 0-805067205.

Berkeley, CA: Crime and Social Justice / Synthex Press, 1978. First edition - 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.

New York: Times Books, (1992). A graphic portrait of life inside one of America's largest prisons - the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, written by the prisoners themselves for The Angolite. the award winning prison magazine. In his NY Times Review, Russell Banks said that this should be ". . .required reading for all fifty United States governors and for all present and future Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates...the most convincing argument I have read against our nationwide desire to deal with lawbreakers by 'locking 'em up and throwing away the key'." Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography, index. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-812920481.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Hardcover first edition - A book which looks at the fact that man for the first time may annihilate itself as a species. The NY Times review stated "This is a work of enormous force. There are moments when it seems to hurtle almost out of control, across an extraordinary range of fact and thought. But in the end, it accomplishes what no other work has managed to do in the years of the nuclear age. It compels us and compel is the right word to confront head on the nuclear peril.Ó While this book focuses on the dangers of nuclear arms, it is also relevant to today's climate crisis. Index. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-394525590.

New York: Basic Books, (1963) dj. Hardcover - Concise papers from 11 contributors including Leon Festinger, Charles E. Osgood, and other experts in this emerging field. Edited and with an introduction by Schramm. Suggestions for further reading at the end of each paper. Index. viii, 158 pp.

New York: The Viking Press, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - 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. ISBN: 0-670-590584.

New York: Times Books, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Before Shames became known for his offbeat Key West mysteries, he was a journalist, and the author of serious non-fiction books. This, his second book, is perhaps even more relevant today than it was when it was written. "More. If there's a single word that summarizes American hopes and obsessions, that's it. More money. More success. More luxuries and gizmos.. . [as argued in] this brilliant and acerbic analysis of contemporary American values and foibles, the hunger for more has characterized America from its frontier beginnings." SIGNED on the title page. Notes, index. xi, 291 pp. ISBN: 0-812916565.

New York: Macmillan, (1969.). Hardcover - Includes contributions by Robert H. Billigmeier. A comprehensive approach to the subject: beginning with the dispute that arose over who was first on Everest, Mallory or the Nepalese Tenzing this goes on to discuss the many ways in which ethnicity, race and/or skin color can affect lives and societies. Name and subject indexes, xi, 626 pp

London: Harrap, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A ground-breaking book about what life is really like behind bars. In 1985, the poet Ken Smith was invited to spend 2 years as Writer-in-Residence at Wormwood Scrubs prison. His brief was to encourage prisoners to express their condition and their feelings in words. Smith developed a close relationship with several of the prisoners, one of whom 'Dave Wait', emerged as a very talented writer. One section of the book - 'Living in My Head' - is by him. For the most part, the book describes, in a painfully honest and unsentimental way, the life of prisoners from those on remand to those serving life sentences." Glossary. 237 pp Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-245547207.

Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Former Human Rights Campaign president Joe Solmonese shares powerful lessons learned from negotiating and collaborating with others who disagreed and even despised him." Foreword by Judy Shepard, the mother of Matthew Shepard who was brutally murdered in Wyoming; she was instrumental in passing the anti-hate crime bill named after her son. SIGNED by Solmonese on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Index. 190 pp. ISBN: 978-1626565883.

Sausalito, CA: PoliPoint Press (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which blends "personal history and social commentary, [as it] documents five decades of rising American militarism and the medias all-too-frequent failure to challenge it. Drawing on 40 years of intense activism, Solomon shows how the mainstream media have shaped our view of war, technology, and national purpose." Foreword by Daniel Ellsberg who notes that the authors unique weave of personal narrative and historical inquiry helps us understand where we are now and how we got here. Boldly INSCRIBED by Solomon on the front endpaper. Business card laid in. Notes, index. xiii, 246 pp plus publisher's ads. ISBN: 978-0977825349.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. DJ. Hardcover first edition - A "philosophical meditation of the relationship between two keyboards - the piano and the word-processor - -and what it means to use one's imagination (to improvise) on either. " The last chapter, which he states he typed at a very fast rate without going back to correct errors, in an unintentional example of the premise on which this books seems to be based: the fallacy that the "body" - the hands - are more important than the brain in creativity. 126 pp. ISBN: -394502701.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A detailed and in-depth account of the 69 day ordeal of these 33 miners by this Pulitzer prize winning journalist. SIGNED on the title page. 309 pp. ISBN: 978-0374280604.

Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Dissertation Services, 1995. SIGNED 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.

New York: Macmillan / Free Press, (1974.). Covers the colonial period to the post World War II decades. Bibliographies after each chapter. Index. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-02-9327008.

New York: Stein & Day, (1973) dj. Tongue in cheek essays on the life extension movement by this rather prolific writer and Libertarian activist. "Death is on its way out" - as scientists work on cryonics, and more. References, 191 pp. ISBN: 0-812815203.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which combines empirical research with the emotional impact of a novel. The family whose life is depicted in these pages in one that meets the definition of "average" according to the census. A working father, a stay-at-home mother (who might work part-time), 2.4 children in their teen years, living in suburbia. Quite aside from this as an interesting sociological study, what is most striking is how much the "average" American family has changed in the intervening 40 years. 366 pp. ISBN: 0-397010796.

Boston: Gambit Inc. 1971. First edition - 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. ISBN: 0-876450869.

Toronto: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, (1966). First edition - 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.