Johnathan bryant (4 résultats)

Navy Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First American Edition, First Printing. The "New Moderns" of the title are ordinary clients, customers, and consumers, not a special school of architects or interior designers. The esthetic qualities they are looking for are "space, light, versatility and freedom from clutter. Modern space flows. Conventional rooms disappear, to be replaced by a seamless sequence of living spaces which produce light and airy interiors that make optimum use of available space. Without conventional walls separating rooms, daylight flows through a New Modern interior. Mezzanine levels and open stairs dispense with conventional gloomy corridors." [Introduction] 191 pages, with prefatory matter, including a Foreword by Charles Gwathemy, 250+ color photos, Directory [Sources], and Index. DJ is puckered at upper edges, and has a small loss on front inside flap, otherwise clean and sound; boards are pushed at front lower leading edge; text is clean and strong. : Photos By Richard Bryant (illustrateur). …

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - He was born in Morocco. Raised in America. Adopted twice by the same American parents. Then America sent him away.For most of his life, Johnathan Bryant knew his father, Joe Nugent, through fragments-old photographs, scattered memories, family stories, and questions nobody seemed able to answer.Then one afternoon, a simple conversation with his aunt sent Johnathan searching.About six hours later, he found his father.In Morocco.Deported.Joe had been brought to the United States as a young child and raised by an American-born father and a naturalized American mother. He attended American schools, grew up in Texas, worked, became a father, made serious mistakes, served time in prison-and lived almost his entire life believing he was American.The United States government eventually decided otherwise.But decades later, the documents surrounding Joe's childhood, adoption, immigration history, and parents' citizenship raise a haunting question: Did America ever have the legal right to deport him in the first place Not Your Average Joe isn't the story of a perfect man.It's the story of an imperfect father and an imperfect son who lost decades to separation, prison, anger, distance, and decisions they cannot undo-and who must now decide what to do with the time they still have.It's about adoption and identity. Fathers and sons. Crime and consequences. Immigration and citizenship. Forgiveness without forgetting. And a grandson named Steele who gave two generations another reason to look forward instead of backward.Today, Joe lives in the country where he was born, yet the people around him know him simply as: The American.Johnathan is still searching through the records.Joe is still waiting.And neither knows how the story ends.Because they're still living it.Not Your Average Joe is Volume I of AMERICAN - A True Story Series, exploring extraordinary lives that force us to ask a deceptively simple question: What makes someone American.…

Etat : New. Print on Demand.

no binding. Etat : good. First Edition. Original Printed patent disbound with printed front blue wrapper present but not the back wrapper (both often lacking in early patents) About 27cm by 18cm some wear and tear due to the disbinding.