Australia's Changing Population: Trends and Implications
Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1986. First published 1986 [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. First edition. x, 354 p. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index. More
Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1986. First published 1986 [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. First edition. x, 354 p. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index. More
New York, N.Y. Human Rights Watch, 1995. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. 166, [2] pages. Includes Preface; Table of Political Parties and Acronyms; Summary; Background; Human Rights Abuses by the Khmer Rouge; Abuses by Government Forces; Means of Imposing Accountability for Gross Abuses; The Law Against the Khmer Rouge; Mining and Demeaning; Foreign Support for the Khmer Rouge; Foreign Support for the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces; and Conclusions and Recommendations. Also includes Appendix 1: International Human Rights Law and the Laws of War Applicable to the Warring Parties; Appendix II: The Law Against the Khmer Rouge; Appendix III: Statements by Human Rights Watch/Asia on Draft Laws. Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization, headquartered in New York City, that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. The group pressures governments, policy makers, companies, and individual human rights abusers to denounce abuse and respect human rights, and the group often works on behalf of refugees, children, migrants, and political prisoners. Human Rights Watch in 1997 shared in the Nobel Peace Prize as a founding member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and it played a leading role in the 2008 treaty banning cluster munitions. Asia Watch (1985), Africa Watch (1988), and Middle East Watch (1989) were added to what was known as "The Watch Committees". In 1988, all of these committees were united under one umbrella to form Human Rights Watch. More
Chicago, IL: Time, Inc., 1967. Presumed First Edition, First printing this issue. Wraps. quarto, 146 pages, plus covers. Wraps, illustrations (some with color) . Some wear to covers. Address sticker on front cover. Cover has a striking image of Sophia Loren. This issue includes information on Anti-Ballistic Missile, Robert McNamara, China, Rod Taylor, Richard Schickel, Shana Alexander, Sikkim, Ivan Tors, Little Rock, Civil Rights, Refugees, Moshe Dayan, Barbara Streisand, and Scotland Yard. More
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. xxxiv, 307, [3] pages. Sticker residue on fep. Includes foreword by William Jefferson Clinton. Contains List of Illustrations (including maps) (color), Foreword, Preface, and Context: The Balkans, Key Terms and Places, Key Players, Timeline, Introduction, chapters on Madness; To Heal History, Epilogue: The Courage to Hope; Profiles; and Closing Thoughts. Includes Acknowledgments, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Also contains chapters on Madness, Hell Breaks Loose, Love in the Crucible, Reasons for the War, The Lie of Intractable Hatred, To Heal History, Challenges, Women Transforming, The Road to Reconciliation, and an Epilogue: The Courage to Hope. Also includes Profiles, and Closing Thoughts, Acknowledgments, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. This Was Not Our War shares amazing first-person accounts of twenty-six Bosnian women who are reconstructing their society following years of devastating warfare. A university student working to resettle refugees, a paramedic who funded a veterans' aid group, a fashion designer running two nonprofit organizations, a government minister and professor who survived Auschwitz--these women are advocates, politicians, farmers, journalists, students, doctors, businesswomen, engineers, wives, and mothers, from all parts of Bosnia. Hunt met these women through her diplomatic and humanitarian work. Over the course of seven years, she conducted multiple interviews with each one. She provides a narrative framework that connects the women's stories, allowing them to speak to one another. More
Manderville, LA: PBO Publishing, 2017. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Trade paperback. xiv, 452, [2] pages. Illustrations. Dr. Robert V. V. Hurst was Nettie's grandson; she died 20 years before he was born. The book covers her life in Lithuania, her escape to America, New York City and Life in America (including her life in Houston, St. Louis, and Chicago), and her death at the hand of her husband Harry (her 5th husband). The book is inscribed and dated by the author (Dr. Robert Hurst) on the title page. More
Washington, DC: Palestine Information Office, 1975. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Wraps. 63 p.; 22 cm. Illustrations. Selected Bibliography. More
Washington, DC: U.S. Committee for Refugees, 1999. 284, wraps, illus., map. More
Indochina Information Project. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Includes illustrations. Suggestions for Further Reading. Counting covers, 44 pages. More
Organization of American States, 2015. Presumed First English Language Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. 238 pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Cover has flaps. In this report, the Inter-American Commission's purpose is to lay out the legal standards developed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights regarding the scope and content of the human rights of individuals within the context of migration, based on the obligations the States have undertaken with the inter-American instruments, in particular the American Convention on Human Rights, and other relevant inter-American and international instruments. More
New York: International Newspaper Syndicate, 1934. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. Approximately 200 pages. Red binding. Profusely Illustrated (Compilation of black and white photographs with short captions). Binding torn at spine, Corners and edges rubbed. Some damp stains noted at bottom. Although this was not issued during the Great War, it presents images taken for the most part during this conflict. Many believe it is an essential item in any serious collector's or historian's library. These are images rarely seen of mangled bodies, dog fights, trench warfare, and the action of combat. More
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, c1983. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 559, illus. More
New York: Viking Press, 1952. First? Edition. First? Printing. 413, frontis illus., index, DJ worn, soiled, and small edge tears/chips. More
New York: Scribner, 2013. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. viii, [2], 338, [4] pages. Author's Note. Glossary of USGspeak. Further Reading. To Help the List Project. Index. Kirk W. Johnson is an American author and founder of The List Project, a not-for-profit organization that helps Iraqi refugees who previously worked for the U.S. government during the Iraq War. He served as the U.S. Agency for International Development regional coordinator for reconstruction in Fallujah, Iraq in 2005. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Policy, among other publications. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 2002, with a degree in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. In addition to studying in Syria on a Foreign Language Acquisition Grant (2001), Johnson received a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research on political Islamism in Egypt (2002-03). More
Washington, DC: Office of Surgeon General, 1994. First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. 29 cm. xv, [1], 315, [1] pages. Color frontis illustration. Illustrations (Tables, Exhibits). Chapter References. Acronyms. Index. Inscribed on fep by Dr. Jones and Dr. Rothberg. Through a long career that spanned three wars and important changes in patterns of health care, Franklin Delano Jones (1935-2005) provided medical and psychiatric care to the most vulnerable members of our society, civilian as well as military. He compiled and codified the essential practices of wartime psychiatry into comprehensive and accessible texts. His neutrality, persistence, and sharp intellect stabilized and strengthened American military psychiatry in the post-Vietnam era. His culminating achievement, War Psychiatry, which is the codified clinical intelligence of several generations of military psychiatrists, is an essential foundation for clinical practice and for research. More
Washington, DC: Office of Surgeon General, 1994. First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. 29 cm. xv, [1], 315, [1] pages. Color frontis illustration. Illustrations (Tables, Exhibits). Chapter References. Acronyms. Index. Through a long career that spanned three wars and important changes in patterns of health care, Franklin Delano Jones (1935-2005) provided medical and psychiatric care to the most vulnerable members of our society, civilian as well as military. He compiled and codified the essential practices of wartime psychiatry into comprehensive and accessible texts. His neutrality, persistence, and sharp intellect stabilized and strengthened American military psychiatry in the post-Vietnam era. His culminating achievement, War Psychiatry, which is the codified clinical intelligence of several generations of military psychiatrists, is an essential foundation for clinical practice and for research. More
Washington, DC: Office of Surgeon General, 1995. First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. 29 cm. xv, [1], 508] pages. Color frontis illustration. Illustrations (Tables, Exhibits, color plates). Chapter References. Acronyms. Index. Through a long career that spanned three wars and important changes in patterns of health care, Franklin Delano Jones (1935-2005) provided medical and psychiatric care to the most vulnerable members of our society, civilian as well as military. He compiled and codified the essential practices of wartime psychiatry into comprehensive and accessible texts. His neutrality, persistence, and sharp intellect stabilized and strengthened American military psychiatry in the post-Vietnam era. His culminating achievement, War Psychiatry, which is the codified clinical intelligence of several generations of military psychiatrists, is an essential foundation for clinical practice and for research. More
Washington, DC: Middle East Policy Council, 2000. Wraps. iv, 214, [6] p. Includes illustrations. Footnotes. More
Washington, DC: Middle East Policy Council, 2001. Wraps. iv, 202, [2] p. Includes illustrations. Footnotes. More
Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xvi, 283 p. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. More
New York: Arcade Publishing, 1998. First edition. First Edition [edition], first printing [stated]. Hardcover. xxiv, [2], 256 p. Map. Chronology. Index. More
New York: Arcade Publishing, 1996. First Edition. First Printing. 304, illus., maps, chronology, index, ink notation inside front board, ink name, very slightly cocked, DJ somewhat worn/soiled. More
New York: Holt, 1987. First American Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 309, WWII as it was lived on the other side of what later became the Iron Curtain. More
New York: Stein and Day, 1983. Hardcover. 24 cm, 304 pages. Illus., DJ worn and torn at rear. Signed by the author. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1918. Hardcover. x, 219 p. Includes illustrations. Name of previous owner present. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling. Spine torn at bottom and worn at top. Some edge soiling. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1943]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 20 cm, 81, illus., boards worn and soiled, corners bumped, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More