From the Place of the Dead: The Epic Struggles of Bishop Belo of East Timor
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First Edition. First Printing. 331, illus., notes, bibliography, index. Introduction by the Dalai Lama. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First Edition. First Printing. 331, illus., notes, bibliography, index. Introduction by the Dalai Lama. More
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1964. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xi, [1], 82, [2] pages. DJ has some wear, tears and soiling. Max Kohnstamm OMRI (22 May 1914 – 20 October 2010) was a Dutch historian and diplomat. Max Kohnstamm was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the son of Philip Kohnstamm, a physicist, philosopher and pedagogue. His father was married to one of the daughters of Jean Baptiste August Kessler, who helped create the company now known as Royal Dutch Shell; one of his uncles was Geldolph Adriaan Kessler, who helped create the Dutch steel industry. During World War II, Kohnstamm and Kessler were both held hostage by the Germans along with other prominent Dutchmen at camp Beekvliet in Sint-Michielsgestel; they became quite close there despite the difference in age. He was one of the founding fathers of the European Union by playing a major part in the 1950s in developing the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and then of the European Economic Community. Kohnstamm was private secretary to Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands from 1945 to 1948, then served with the Netherlands Foreign Office from 1948 to 1952. During this time he was head of its German Bureau and Director of European Affairs. He was Vice President of the Netherlands' Schuman Plan delegation in 1950, serving as Secretary to the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community from 1952 to 1956. He was Vice President of the Action Committee for the United States of Europe from 1956. He was President of the European University Institute in Florence. He was Chairman of the Trilateral Commission in Europe. More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1988. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xiii, 332, [1] p. Sources and Notes. Index. More
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1983. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xvi, 463, [1] pages. Footnotes. Tables. Figures. Index: Persons. Index: Subjects. DJ has some wear, soiling, tears and chips. Pencil erasure residue on fep. Pencil underlining noted. Richard Arthur Preston was a leading British Commonwealth scholar, was appointed the William K. Boyd Professor of History at Duke University in 1965. Preston received a number of awards during his career. He received the Commonwealth Fund fellowship (1933-36); Duke University summer research scholarship (1957); City of Kingston Achievement Award (1957) for his television series and publications on the history of Kingston; Canada Council senior fellowship (1963-64); Social Science Research Council grant (1963); Canada Confederation Medal (1967); Guggenheim fellowship (1971-72); Donner Memorial Medal (1975) for promotion of Canadian studies in the United States; LL.D., Royal Military College of Canada (1977); and the Northern Telecom Gold Medal (1983) for the promotion of Canadian studies. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 263, pencil erasure on front endpaper and dedication page. More
New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1916. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. xxxv, [3], 276, [6] pages. Appendix, which discusses total Naval expenditures by principal Naval Power; Army Appropriations of the Principal Powers; Leading Pacifist Periodicals; Fiction and Drama; and Cases Decided by the Permanent Court of Arbitration. Index. Covers somewhat worn and soiled, spine edges worn. Pencil erasure residue on fep and inside rear cover. Introduction, (pages xiii to xxxv) by Norman Angell. This is a major World War I era pacifist statement, with much World War I data. Includes an introduction by Norman Angell. Part 1 focuses on Nationalism, Its Character, Fallacies, and Faults; Part II focuses on Modern Political and Social Changes and their Reaction on National Rivalry; Part III focuses on Progressive Forces, which seek to overcome the faults of Nationalism and Establish an Order of Things in Agreement with the Evolution of Society; Peace through Diplomacy: Nationalism Retained; Peace through Cooperation: Nationalism Abandoned. World War I has refined or reversed the thought of the opponents of way, and has made them more guarded in their statement, for it has brought the realization that war is not so improbable or impossible as was asserted. A number of pacifists have become more firmly convinced that the only thing that can overcome evil is, not force, but the spiritual weapon of goodwill. The Great War has justified the contention of the opponents of militarism that competitive armaments do not secure peace, but produce war. The Great War has shown that nationalism, as it now is understood, makes war probable. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. x, [4], 262, [10] pages. DJ is price clipped. Abbreviations. Illustrations. Maps. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pencil erasure residue on fep. DJ has sticker residue. Paul F. Langer was a member of the Social Science Department of the RAND Corporation, where he concentrates on Far Eastern affairs. Joseph Zasloff was a professor emeritus of political science, and expert on the politics of Southeast Asia. Joe was born in 1925 in Pittsburgh, PA. When he was eighteen he was drafted, and served as a radio operator in General Patton’s Army in World War II. He was wounded in Alsace, France, when, cut off from his unit, he escaped German tanks by running into a cellar and then a barn, where he hid for three days until, as he wrote, he “slithered past a parked tank and hobbled several miles to reach our rear echelon.” Joe was awarded a Purple Heart and Bronze Star with oak leaf cluster for bravery. Joe described his army service as opening the horizons of his world and inspiring his lifelong involvement in international affairs. Under the GI bill, he earned a BA/MA in political science at the University of Pittsburgh, then went on to earn a Ph.D. at the Institut de Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva. His interest in Southeast Asia began in 1959, when he was given a teaching assignment at the University of Saigon. He would go on to become a leading researcher in the politics of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, publishing seven books. He retired from forty-nine years at the University of Pittsburgh. More
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, c1993. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 317, illus., footnotes, references, index, pencil erasure on front endpaper, DJ slightly soiled. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. First Printing. 25 cm, 231, Offers an authoritative assessment of the Soviet era from the triumph of Lenin to the fall of Gorbachev. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1949. First Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 244, endpaper maps, footnotes, index, press cuttings pasted on rear endpaper. More
[Washington]: U.S. News & World Report, 1970. Number 311 of The Presentation Edition. Wraps. 6 v. : illus., ports.; 29 cm. Indexes. More
New York, N.Y. American Heritage Press, 1971. Presumed First U. S. Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 127, [1] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Maps DJ has wear, tears, creases, and soiling. This is one of the Library of the 20th Century series. Includes chapters on Slaves and Frontiers; The Growth of Afrikaner Nationalism; The Status of the Afrikaner; The Genesis of Afrikaner Supremacy; Apartheid and the Congress Movement; Republicanism Regained; and Conclusion. Also contains many black-and-white and color illustrations in the text, as well as a Chronology of Events; an index of main people, places, and events; and Author's suggestions for further reading. Godfrey Hugh Lancelot Le May (1919-2012) was a tutor and Emeritus Fellow at Worcester College, University of Oxford, and a former Dean of History at Worcester College. His focus area was modern British history. Born in South Africa, Le May's family traveled from England to South Africa during the Boer Wars, in which his grandfather was an officer. Le May served as a speech writer for Winston Churchill. He was a political advisor to Nelson Manuela. LeMay's most famous student was Benazir Bhutto. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1942. Reprint Edition. 249, maps, index, pages slightly darkened, some soiling to edges, DJ worn and soiled, tears and chips to DJ edges. More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1889. Presumed first U.S. edition/first printing thus. Hardcover. xxiv, 320, p. Occasional footnotes. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1968. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 21 cm. 287, [1] pages. Footnotes. Appendices [Biographies, Documents, The Geneva Agreement, and The Poats Testimony]. DJ worn, torn, chipped and soiled. Signed on fep. A shattering, first hand report of America`s self-inflicted defeats overseas, notably Vietnam, where we are losing at every level while being told we are winning. Hard evidence that self-deception and ignorance are now our greatest national problem. The author was the co-author of The Ugly American. William Julius Lederer, Jr. (March 31, 1912 – December 5, 2009) was an American author and naval officer. He was a US Naval Academy graduate in 1936. His first appointment was as the junior officer of the USS Tutuila, a river gunboat on the Yangtze River. His best selling work, 1958's The Ugly American, was one of several novels co-written with Eugene Burdick. Disillusioned with the style and substance of America's diplomatic efforts in Southeast Asia, Lederer and Burdick openly sought to demonstrate their belief that American officials and civilians could make a substantial difference in Southeast Asian politics if they were willing to learn local languages, follow local customs and employ regional military tactics. More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 611, [3] pages. Maps Illustrations. Notes. Index. Minor edge creases at several back pages. Derek Leebaert is an American technology executive who writes books on history and politics, which evoke insights on leadership. He won the biennial 2020 Truman Book Award for Grand Improvisation, and he's a founder of the National Museum of the United States Army. Leebaert's book on elite military operations, To Dare and To Conquer has been on various United States Special Operations Command reading lists. It has been required reading in the Q Course at Ft. Bragg as well. To Dare and to Conquer was a Washington Post Book World "Nonfiction Best Book" of 2006, as was his subsequent book, Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy from Korea to Afghanistan, for 2010. His latest book, Grand Improvisation (2018) was a New York Times "Best Book," and reviews are found in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Review of Books, the Times (London), et al. Leebaert also co-authored the MIT Press trilogy on the IT revolution, including The Future of the Electronic Marketplace and The Future of Software. He holds a B.A. from Vanderbilt (history/economics), an M.A. from Columbia University (international affairs), and a D.Phil. in political economy from Oxford University (1983). From 2001-2010, he taught "The Price of U.S. Global Engagement" for Georgetown's Department of Government. He is a founding editor of three enduring periodicals: International Security, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and The International Economy. More
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1951. Reprint. Wraps. Pagination 173-180 pages plus approximately 30 pages of color illustration. Cover has slight wear and soiling. There are 38 Illustrations, including thirty-three paintings. John Leeper was born in 1921 in Dennison, Texas; BS in journalism from Southern Methodist University and an MA in art history from Harvard University; Blanche Magurn Leeper was born in 1911 in Boston, Massachusetts; BA in philosophy and MA in Fine Arts from Radcliffe College; she was assistant curator of Oriental Art at the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum at Harvard; assistant to the director, Pasadena Art Museum, 1950-53; married John Leeper in 1953; from 1954-90 John served as the director of the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas, and Blanche became a librarian there in 1954. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970. First edition. Scribner's A on verso. Hardcover. ix, 310 pages. 22 cm. Notes. Index. Includes bibliographical references. Ex-library. Usual library markings. DJ has some wear and soiling, edge tears and chips. Bookplate removed. Stamp of previous owner on fep. More
Washington, DC: American Enterprise Inst. 1971. Fourth Printing. 26 cm, 129, wraps, illus., maps, chapter notes, bibliographical references, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1995. Second Printing. 24 cm, 276, acid-free paper, some underlining and marginal notations sporadically throughout the book. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1995. Second Printing. 24 cm, 276, acid-free paper. More
New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. Reprint. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. Glued binding. With dust jacket. [12], 276 p. More
Washington, DC: Middle East Institute, c1980. 23 cm, 113, wraps, illus., chapter notes. More
Washington, DC: Middle East Institute, c1980. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 113, wraps, illus., maps, some wear and soiling to covers. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, c1989. First Printing. 25 cm, 304, glossary, index, DJ soiled, DJ edges somewhat worn and small tear. More