The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895-1980
New York: Viking Press, 1981. 25 cm, 465, illus. More
New York: Viking Press, 1981. 25 cm, 465, illus. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 22 cm. [12] 144, [2] pages, acid-free paper, small tear at DJ flap. Post-Cold War musings based on a Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Lecture, given at the Library of Congress in November 1993. Ronald Lewis Steel (born March 25, 1931) is an American writer, historian, and professor. He is the author of the definitive biography of Walter Lippmann. Ronald Steel was born in 1931 in Morris, Illinois outside of Chicago. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and English from Northwestern University (1953) and a Master of Arts degree in political economy from Harvard University (1955). He served in the United States Army and was a diplomat in the United States Foreign Service. He is the author of Walter Lippmann and the American Century, the definitive biography of Lippmann. For this book, he was awarded the 1980 National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction, a National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. The book was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973. Steel is a Professor Emeritus of International Relations, History, and Journalism at the University of Southern California. Before teaching at USC, he taught at Yale University, Rutgers University, Wellesley College, Dartmouth College, George Washington University, UCLA, and Princeton University. Later, Steel wrote for The New Republic in the 1980s. He has also written for the Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times and The New York Review of Books. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, c1994. Spec Limited Edition. First? Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 296 pages, illus., notes, some wear to DJ edges, scratch on front dust jacket. Special Limited edition for the readers of Ms. Magazine. Signed by the author. More
New York: Urizen Books, 1977. First American Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. [6], 267, [3] p.; 24 cm. Notes. More
New York: Urizen Books, c1977. First American Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 267, DJ worn and soiled, large price clipping on front DJ flap. More
Place_Pub: New York: Institute of Human Relations, 1968. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 103, footnotes, bibliographical notes, boards slightly worn and soiled. More
New York: PublicAffairs, 1999. First edition. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xv, [1], 428 pages. Ilustrations. Notes. Index. Signed by author. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Includes a typed apology letter signed with penned post script. More
New York: PublicAffairs, 1999. First Edition. First Printing. 428, illus., notes, index, ink notation on front endpaper. More
New York: PublicAffairs, 1999. First Edition. First Printing. 428, illus., notes, index, some soiling to rear DJ. Inscribed by the author. More
Washington, DC: Clearinghouse/Sci & Hum Righ, 1981. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 161, wraps, illus., corner of cover clipped to remove signature. More
Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, 487, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. DJ has some wear, soiling, and chips. Inscription on the title page signed by Eric Stover. Inscription reads For Annie, With best wishes, Eric Stover. Eric Stover is an American human rights researcher and advocate and faculty director of the Human Rights Center at the University of California at Berkeley. Stover officially began his human rights work as a researcher at Amnesty International in London, England, from 1977-1980. During this time, the organization won the Nobel Peace Prize for its “campaign against torture,” and the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights. Following Amnesty International, Stover became the Director of the Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1992, Stover served as the Executive Director of Physicians for Human Rights where he worked on forensic missions to examine mass gravesites for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. While at PHR, Stover performed research on the sociomedical consequences of land mines in war-torn countries such as Cambodia. His research helped launch the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which, along with the organization’s director, Jody Williams, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997. He has published seven books and numerous reports and articles for press and scholarly publications. Stover became the Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center (HRC) at the UC Berkeley School of Law in 1996, two years after the center was established. More
New York: Carnegie Corporation of NY, 1997. First Edition. First Printing. 63, wraps, notes and references. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, c1999. First Printing. 256, index, minor edge soiling, pencil erasure on front endpaper, tear at top of DJ spine. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, c1999. First Printing. 253, index, some wear to DJ edges, some soiling to rear DJ. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Exposition Press, 1966. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. 119, [1] pages. Format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.5 inches. Inscribed and dated by the author on fep. DJ has some wear and soiling. Paperclip mark and pencil erasure on fep. Herman was called for duty as a medic in the Polish Army in August 1939. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the Blitzkrieg. The Soviet Union occupied eastern Poland according to the German-Soviet Pact on September 17, 1939. Herman, along with the retreating Polish Army, was captured by the Soviet forces after crossing the Bug River. While officers and those of higher rank were sent to Katyn and later executed, lower ranking soldiers were sent to Siberia, a harsh area of the Soviet Union where gulags (Soviet work camps) were located. After the war Herman married Susan Strauss, a fellow survivor. The two immigrated to the United States in 1947. Herman an author of more than twenty novels and books of poetry, was a journalist for over 60 years. More
Brattleboro, VT: Amana Books, 1989. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 358 p. Appendix. Selected Bibliography. Index. Highlighting/underlining. Some pencil underlining and marginal marks. Scuff inside from cover. DJ has some wear and soiling. Distributed by the American Jewish Alternatives to Zionism, Inc. This collection of essays challenges the conventional wisdom that Israel is a peace loving democracy and the perception that the continuing state of Middle East hostilities is due to intransigent Palestinians and rigid hostility of Israel's arab neighbors. The authors argue that Zionism is a principal obstacle to peace. Roselle Tekiner received academic degrees from the University of Chicago (BA), Columbia University (MA), and the City of New York Graduate Center (Ph.D), and taught at Hunter College, Fairleigh Dickinson University, New College, and Eckerd College. She lived in New York for much of her adult life with her first husband, Sami Tekiner, an immigrant from Turkey who sparked her interest in Turkish society and culture. She and Sami owned the Bremen House on East 86th Street and the German News Company. In 1973, Roselle Tekiner moved to Sarasota, Florida, where she met Rabbi Elmer Berger, a leader in the U.S. anti-Zionist movement. Berger, who became her second husband, channeled her interest in the Middle East toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She and Berger, champions of Palestinian rights, wrote extensively on citizenship and nationality in Israel. Their scholarly papers and correspondence are archived in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University. Roselle Tekiner's life is chronicled in her memoir, Go Laughing. More
New York: Harper & Row, c1979. First Edition. 24 cm, 335, illus., footnotes, DJ spine faded, inscribed by Donald Munro (one of the contributors). More
New York: Harper & Row, c1979. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 335, illus., index, tear at top of rear DJ spine. More
Santa Barbara. CA: The Ad Hoc Committee on the Triple Revolution, 1964. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 16 pages including covers. Rare surviving copy. Some wear and soiling noted. Among those associated with this Ad Hoc Committee are: Tom Hayden, Robert Heilbroner, Irving Howe, Gunnar Myrdal, Linus Pauling, Gerard Piel, Bayard Rustin, and Norman Thomas. "The Triple Revolution" was an open memorandum sent to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and other government figures on March 22, 1964. Drafted under the auspices of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, it was signed by an array of noted social activists, professors, and technologists who identified themselves as the Ad Hoc Committee on the Triple Revolution. The chief initiator of the proposal was W. H. "Ping" Ferry, at that time a vice-president of CSDI, basing it in large part on the ideas of the futurist Robert Theobald. The statement identified three revolutions underway in the world: the cybernation revolution of increasing automation; the weaponry revolution of mutually assured destruction; and the human rights revolution. It discussed primarily the cybernation revolution. The committee claimed that machines would usher in "a system of almost unlimited productive capacity" while continually reducing the number of manual laborers needed, and increasing the skill needed to work, thereby producing increasing levels of unemployment. It proposed that the government should ease this transformation through large-scale public works, low-cost housing, public transit, electrical power development, income redistribution, union representation for the unemployed, and government restraint on technology deployment. More
Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1992. Presumed first edition/first printing of this item of ephemera. Wraps. 1 sheet p. Approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. More
Washington DC: The Brookings Institution Project on Internal Displacement, 1999. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Pamphlet. [6], iii, [1], 61, [1] pages. Illustrations. Cover has some wear and soiling. The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. Our mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level. The Project on Internal Displacement was created to promote a more effective national, regional and international response to this global problem and to support the work of the Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons in carrying out the responsibilities of his mandate. More
London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) LTD, c1949. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 203, [1] pages. Illus. Underling and marks. This was published on behalf of The European Movement Includes Forewords by Winston S. Churchill and Paul-Henri Spaak, Preface, as well as chapters on History of the Idea; Story of the European Movement; Political Union; Creation of the Council of Europe; Basis of Economic Union; Westminster Economic Conference; European Court of Human Rights; Europe's Cultural Heritage; Cultural Section of the European Movement; Unity in Diversity; Attitude of Russia and America; and Role of the European Movement in Relation to the Council of Europe. Also includes as Appendix I the Statue of the Council of Europe and as Appendix II the draft Statute of the European Court of Human Rights. The European Movement was formally created on the 25th October 1948, when the Joint International Committee for European Unity decided to change its name. Duncan Sandys was elected President and Léon Blum, Winston Churchill, Alcide De Gasperi and Paul-Henri Spaak were elected as Honorary Presidents. The first major achievement of the European Movement was the creation of the Council of Europe in May 1949. The European Movement was responsible for the creation of the “Collège d’Europe” in Bruges and the European Centre of Culture in Geneva. Since 1948, the European Movement has played an essential role in European integration by exercising its influence on European and national institutions. It favored of the direct election of the European Parliament by all European citizens, in favor of the Treaty on the European Union and also for a European Constitution. More
Washington, DC: Delegation of the European Union to the United States, 2015. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. 44 p. Chronology. Illustrations (some in color). Map. More
Seoul, South Korea: The Institute for South-North Korean Studies and The Korea Herald Inc., 1993. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 62, [2] pages. Map. Cover has some wear and soiling. Conditions inside North Korean prison camps are unsanitary and life-threatening. Prisoners are subject to torture and inhumane treatment. Public and secret executions of prisoners, especially in cases of attempted escape, are commonplace. The mortality rate is very high, because many prisoners die of starvation, illnesses, work accidents, or torture. The DPRK government denies all allegations of human rights violations in prison camps, claiming that this is prohibited by criminal procedure law, but former prisoners testify that there are completely different rules in the prison camps. Many other former prisoners, including Kang Chol-hwan and Shin Dong-hyuk, gave detailed and consistent testimonies on the human rights crimes in North Korean prison camps. According to the testimony of former camp guard Ahn Myong Chol of Camp 22, the guards are trained to treat the detainees as subhuman. The North Korean prison camp facilities can be distinguished into large internment camps for political prisoners and reeducation prison camps. More