Middle East Review, Number 5 and 6, Fall 1975. Special Issue: The Meaning of Peace
New York: Am Academic Assoc for Peace, 1975. 26 cm, 105, wraps, footnotes, some wear to cover edges, mailing label on rear cover, rear cover creased. More
New York: Am Academic Assoc for Peace, 1975. 26 cm, 105, wraps, footnotes, some wear to cover edges, mailing label on rear cover, rear cover creased. More
New York, N.Y. American Association for the United Nations, 1950. Presumed first issueance thus. Bookmark. Format is 5.75 inches by 2 inches. Slight darkening to bookmark. Some wear noted. The front of the bookmark has a prominant illustration of the UN building and text that includes "Let US Salute the United Nations", the date of United Nations week [Oct. 16-24] and United Nations Day [October 24], with statement the "Today's best hope for peace UN plus you" The 'you' is emblazoned on a circle partially overlayed on the image of the United Nations building. There is the statement "Souvenir Bookmark of United Nations Week, United Nations Day, 1950" at the bottom. A statement from President Harry S. Truman appears on the back of the bookmark; it reads: The Strength of the United Nations depends upon the support it receives from the people throughout the world. Also included is an invitation to learn more from the American Association for the United Nations. Bears the logo of the Allied Printing Trades Council New York Union Label and the number 181 at the lower left corner. In 1947, the United Nations General Assembly declared 24 October, the anniversary of the Charter of the United Nations, as which "shall be devoted to making known to the people of the world the aims and achievements of the United Nations and to gaining their support for" its work. More
Washington, DC: Cen for the New Leadership, c1987. 28 cm, 93, wraps, pencil erasure on title page. Forewords by Steve Custer and Judith Langer. More
Chicago, IL: Commission on World Peace, [1941?]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 127, wraps, usual library markings, covers worn, torn, and soiled. More
Washington DC: Friends Meeting of Washington of the Religious Society of Friends, 1977. Second reprinting, with Further Minor Corrections and Additions in Part II. Wraps, Staplebound. Format is approximately 6 inches by 9 inches. 40 pages. Illustrated front cover and title page. Cover has some wear, soiling and discoloration. Chapters cover Faith and Practice, as well as Organization and Procedures. Also includes information on Nature and Purpose of the Discipline; Quaker Origins: George Fox and the Period of Religious Openings; The Period of Readjustment; Form and Conduct of the Meeting of the Meeting for Worship; The Testimonies; The Queries; Condition of Membership; Transfers; New Members, Committee of Welcome; Separation by Disownment; The Meeting for Business; Officers and Committees; Duties of Officers; Duties of Standing Committees; and Marriages; Deaths, Funerals, and Memorial Meetings. This was originally published in 1938 and reprinted with minor corrections in 1950. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1938. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. vi, 323, [3] pages. Frontis illustration. Dunant's Principal Works. Works Consulted. No DJ present. Boards discolored and scuffed, discoloration inside boards, and stamp inside front board. Martin Gumpert (13 November 1897 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born physician, dermatologist, historian, and author. Born in Berlin, Gumpert specialized in dermatology and medical history. His early life included service as a medical orderly during WI and academic pursuits in Berlin and Heidelberg, culminating in a dissertation on syphilis in 1923. Gumpert also engaged in expressionist poetry and literature. He went on to write texts on pediatrics and developmental deformity. In 1933 Gumpert was forced out of his medical position by the Nazi rise to power. Over the next few years he wrote several texts of literature and the history of science and medicine. He was further excluded from the association of German writers, the Reichsverband deutscher Schriftsteller as a Jew in 1935 and emigrated to the United States in 1936. Gumpert opened a dermatology practice in New York in 1936 and became a US citizen in 1942.[ During these years Gumpert became a friend of the siblings Erika and Klaus Mann and in 1949 visited their father Thomas Mann in Germany. Thomas Mann used Gumpert's medical knowledge on the course of syphilis in writing his novel Doktor Faustus. From 1952 Gumpert edited the gerontology journal Lifetime Living and worked as a geriatrician at the Jewish Memorial Hospital, New York. Gumpert continued to write about the exile experience in poems and literary publications. More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1951. 620, tables, appendix, index, fr bd weak, library stamps & pocket, bds & spine scuffed & edges worn, library call number on spine. More
New York, N.Y. The Commission to Study the Bases of a Just and Durable Peace of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, 1941. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Staplebound. 64 pages plus covers. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some page soiling. Minor edge tear to back cover and adjacent pages. Includes Foreword, Principles of a Just and durable Peace Recommended by Responsible Christian Leaders, as well as Proposals of Protestant and Roman Catholic Leaders of England; Religious Leaders Manifesto (Britain) December, 1940; Excerpts from Memorandum prepared by an International Conference of Lay Experts and Ecumenical Leaders convened by the Provisional Committee of the World Council of Churches (1939). Principles of a Just and Durable Peace Recommended by Responsible Christian Leaders. Also contains Memoranda of Study Department, prepared under Auspices of The Provisional Committee of the World Council of Churches (1939-41), as well as Relation of the Christian and the Church to the International Order, as well as Statements by Pope Pius XII (1939-1940), as well as Current Proposals Regarding a New World Order. Also contains Appendix A--Syllabus of Discussion Questions, and Appendix B--Bibliography. The publication of this handbook constituted the first act of the Commission set up by the Federal Council of Churches to work toward the achieved of a just and durable peace. This handbook included a short resume of some concrete proposals for a new world order. The Commission shares the desire, and has the intention, to be practical. John Foster Dulles was Chairman of the Commission. More
State College, PA: Sycamore Community, c. 1980. Reprint Edition. Wraps. 151 + 20 pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Tables. Figures. Appendices. Reading list. Glossary. Some darkening and wear to covers. The Sycamore Community, a small Christian community and house church in State College, PA, reprinted the OTA assessment which was originally published in 1979. In addition to the full text of the original report, this edition contains appeals to conscience from Pope John Paul II, Kenneth Boulding (president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science), W. H. Ferry (formerly vice president of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions), and W. J. Price (co-founder of World Peacemakers). This edition also contains a section entitled "What You Can Do, " providing practical suggestions on how to avoid war. More