An Interpretation of the Life of Viscount Shibusawa
Tokyo: Tokyo Printing Company, Ltd., 1938. 399, illus., index, foxing on fore-edge, boards scuffed & wrinkled, lettering on spine somewhat faded. More
Tokyo: Tokyo Printing Company, Ltd., 1938. 399, illus., index, foxing on fore-edge, boards scuffed & wrinkled, lettering on spine somewhat faded. More
Thessaloniki, Greece: Patriarchal Institute for Patristic Stydies [Studies spelled correctly on DJ], 1985. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 554, [2] pages. Frontis Illustration. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by the author on the fep. DJ has some wear and soiling. The author was the winner of the Award of the Academy of Athens, 1983. Minor page soiling noted. Father George Papaionnou has published books and numerous articles and monographs related to Hellenism and Orthodoxy in America. More
New York: Harper and Brothers, [1945]. Hardcover. 202 pages. Front DJ flap price clipped, bookplate on flyleaf. Signed by both authors on title page. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition. First? Printing. 415, notes, index, some wear, soiling, and small edge tears to DJ. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xii, 415, [5] pages. Notes. Index. Inscribed to Bill Haynes, signed by both authors on fep. DJ has slight wear and soiling. This was possibly presented to William James Haynes II (born March 30, 1958) is an American lawyer and was General Counsel of the Department of Defense during much of 43rd President George W. Bush's administration and his war on terror. Haynes resigned as General Counsel effective March 2008. He had been General Counsel of the Department of the Army during the administration of 41st President George H.W. Bush. An unfettered, probing dialogue between Mexican and American political analysts on the complex relationship between their countries. Few nations are as closely interrelated as the United States and Mexico. Few relationships between nations are so prickly. America's inveterate problem-solving strikes Mexicans as clandestine imperialism. Mexicans are accused of ignoring the flow of drugs through their country; Americans are accused of saddling Mexico with their drug problem. Americans brood over the influx of Mexican immigrants; Mexicans worry that their culture and traditions are being diluted from the north. These differences are now aired—and their origins made clear—in this landmark book by a former official in the Carter administration and one of Mexico's most respected political scholars. In alternating chapters on foreign policy, economic relations, immigration, and social influence, Robert A. Pastor and Jorge C. Castañeda offer a multifaceted view of the ties and conflicts between their countries. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1984. Eighth Printing. Hardcover. 601 pages. , appendices, notes, bibliograph, index, stamp on fore-edge, DJ edges worn and torn: small chips missing, gift inscription NOT from author. Joan Peters (née Friedman; April 29, 1936 – January 5, 2015), was a journalist and broadcaster. She wrote the 1984 book From Time Immemorial, a controversial account of the origins of the Palestinians. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Peters wrote for magazines and was a consultant in the creation of CBS news documentaries in 1973 about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and provided commentary on the subject for PBS. Her dedication to the cause of Israel may have been triggered by a visit in the 1970s to the Soviet Union, where officials treated her and her husband with suspicion. According to the Walker Agency, which booked speaking and touring engagements for her, Peters also served as an adviser to the White House on American foreign policy in the Middle East during the Carter administration. In From Time Immemorial (1984), she argued that Palestinians are largely not indigenous to modern Israel and therefore have no claim to its territory. The book, a bestseller, became controversial. Scholars and writers such as Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Yehoshua Porath. and Ian and David Gilmour criticized it. Shortly before her death, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, telephoned to convey to her that Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was deeply grateful for her work. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1984. Seventh Printing [stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 601, [9] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Maps. Tabular Data. Appendices. Notes Bibliography. Index. DJ edges worn and Small tear at top of spine. Some staining and discoloration to the bottom right corner of the front board. No DJ discoloration at that area. Joan Peters (née Friedman; April 29, 1936 – January 5, 2015), was a journalist and broadcaster. She wrote the 1984 book From Time Immemorial, a controversial account of the origins of the Palestinians. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Peters wrote for magazines and was a consultant in the creation of CBS news documentaries in 1973 about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and provided commentary on the subject for PBS. Her dedication to the cause of Israel may have been triggered by a visit in the 1970s to the Soviet Union, where officials treated her and her husband with suspicion. According to the Walker Agency, which booked speaking and touring engagements for her, Peters also served as an adviser to the White House on American foreign policy in the Middle East during the Carter administration. In From Time Immemorial (1984), she argued that Palestinians are largely not indigenous to modern Israel and therefore have no claim to its territory. The book, a bestseller, became controversial. Scholars and writers such as Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Yehoshua Porath. and Ian and David Gilmour criticized it. Shortly before her death, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, telephoned to convey to her that Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was deeply grateful for her work. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1984. First Edition. Seventh Printing [stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 603, [7] pages. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ is price clipped and has some edge wear and sticker residue at back. Inscribed by the author on the title page Inscription reads To the Bartnetts, With warm regards, and with hope--Joan Peters September 17, 1985. Joan Peters (April 29, 1936 – January 5, 2015), was a journalist and broadcaster. She wrote the 1984 book From Time Immemorial, a controversial account of the origins of the Palestinians. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Peters wrote for magazines such as Harper's, Commentary, The New Republic, and The New Leader, was a consultant for of CBS news documentaries in 1973 about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and provided commentary for PBS. Her dedication to the cause of Israel may have been triggered by a visit in the 1970s to the Soviet Union, where officials treated her and her husband with suspicion. According to the Walker Agency, which booked engagements for her, Peters served as an adviser to the White House on foreign policy in the Middle East during the Carter administration. In From Time Immemorial (1984), she argued that Palestinians are largely not indigenous to modern Israel and therefore have no claim to its territory. The book, a best-seller, became controversial. Scholars and writers such as Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Yehoshua Porath. and Ian and David Gilmour criticized it. Shortly before her death, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, telephoned to convey to her that Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was deeply grateful for her work. More
New York: Random House, c1980. First Edition. 24 cm, 201, appendix, usual library markings, some wear and small tears at DJ edges. More
New York: Random House, c1980. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 201, appendix, notes, some wear to DJ edges. More
New York: Fawcett Crest, 1975. Later printing. Mass market paperback. 432 pages. Some damp staining to cover and some pages. David Lurie learns that all beginnings are hard. He must fight for his place against the bullies in his Depression-shadowed Bronx neighborhood and his own frail health. As a young man, he must start anew and define his own path of personal belief that diverges sharply with his devout father and everything he has been taught. Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 – July 23, 2002) was an American author, novelist, playwright, editor and rabbi. Of the more than dozen novels he authored, his first book The Chosen (1967), was listed on The New York Times’ best seller list for 39 weeks and which was adapted into a well-received 1981 feature film by the same title. After receiving a master's degree in English literature, Potok enlisted with the U.S. Army as a chaplain. He served in South Korea from 1955 to 1957. He described his time in South Korea as a transformative experience. In 1964, the Potoks moved to Brooklyn, where Chaim became the managing editor of the magazine Conservative Judaism and joined the faculty of the Teachers’ Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary. The following year, he was appointed editor-in-chief of the Jewish Publication Society in Philadelphia and later, chairman of the publication committee. Potok has had a considerable influence on Jewish American authors. His work was significant for discussing the conflict between the traditional aspects of Jewish thought and culture and modernity to a wider, non-Jewish culture. He taught a graduate seminar on Postmodernism at the University of Pennsylvania. More
Nashville, TN: Word Publishing, 1999. First Printing. 227, book slightly bowed. More
Jerusalem, Israel: Rina Quint, 2018. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. The format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.25 inches. 349, [3] pages. Illustrations. Timeline. Bibliography. Appendix. Decorative front cover Cover has slight wear and soiling. Inscribed by the author (Quint) inside the front cover. Inscription reads To the Herron Family Best wishes for a wonderful life Rena Quint. Rena Quint was born as Freida "Freidel" Lichtenstein in December 1935 in the city of Piotrkow, Poland. In 1939, the Nazis occupied her hometown. In October 1942, her mother and her two older brothers were deported to Treblinka where they were murdered. Rena, who was not yet seven years old, was deported with her father to a concentration camp, where she pretended to be a boy in order to survive. When Rena's father was murdered, she was left alone in the camp. She was sent to Bergen Belsen. In the various camps she was adopted by different women, but they all died. At the end of the war, Rena went to Sweden, where she was adopted by a Holocaust survivor who passed away a few months later. In 1946, Rena emigrated to the United States with an adoptive mother, also a Holocaust survivor, who after three months also passed away. Rena was then adopted by a Jewish couple who didn't have children. Rena earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in education and worked as a teacher in schools and, as a lecturer at Adelphi University in New York and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 1984, Rena and her husband emigrated to Israel with their four children who were already married. Rena has been volunteering for more than 30 years at Yad Vashem. More
New York, NY: Rayo, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2005. First edition. First Edition [stated]. First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xvi, [2], 173, [1] pages. Illustrations. Map. DJ has slight wear and soiling. From Wikipedia: "Jorge Gilberto Ramos Ávalos (born March 16, 1958) is a Mexican-American journalist and author, regarded as the best-known Spanish-language news anchor in the United States, for which he has been referred to as "The Walter Cronkite of Latino America". He is currently based in Miami, Florida. He anchors the Univision news television program, Noticiero Univision; hosts the Univision Sunday-morning, political news program, Al Punto; and hosts the Fusion TV English-language program, America with Jorge Ramos. He has covered five wars, and events ranging from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the War in Afghanistan." More
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxxiii, [1], 654 pages. Map. Foreword by Gerhard L. Weinberg. List of Illustrations. List of Abbreviations. Afterword by Alan M. Dershowitz. Time line. Bibliography. Notes. Index. DJ has rear flap crease. Robert N. Rosen is a writer, historian, lecturer, and attorney. Called to the bar of South Carolina, 1973. City of Charleston, SC, assistant corporation counsel, 1976-85, general counsel, housing authority, 1984-2003; Charleston County School District, general counsel, 1982-2003; attorney in private practice, 2003—. Member of the board of the South Carolina Historical Society and the Historic Charleston Foundation. His published works include: A Short History of Charleston, Lexikos (San Francisco, CA), 1982, 2nd edition, Peninsula Press (Charleston, SC), 1992. Confederate Charleston: An Illustrated History of the City and the People during the Civil War, University of South Carolina Press (Columbia, SC), 1994. The Jewish Confederates, University of South Carolina Press (Columbia, SC), 2000. (With Solomon Breibart and Jack Bass) Explorations in Charleston's Jewish History, The History Press (Charleston, SC), 2005. Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust, foreword by Gerhard Weinberg, afterword by Alan M. Dershowitz, Thunder's Mouth Press (New York, NY), 2006. More
New York: Public Affairs, 2019. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xii, 360, [8] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Authors' Note. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed on the title page by author Ross. Inscription reads: To Gil & Rona--This makes it authentic--Happy Reading--Dennis Ross. Dennis B. Ross (born November 26, 1948) is an American diplomat and author. He has served as the Director of Policy Planning in the State Department under President George H. W. Bush, the special Middle East coordinator under President Bill Clinton, and was a special adviser for the Persian Gulf and Southwest Asia (which includes Iran) to the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. After leaving his position as envoy, Ross returned to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy as counselor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow. He became chair of the Jerusalem-based think tank, the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, funded and founded by the Jewish Agency in 2002. David Makovsky (born June 21, 1960) is the Ziegler distinguished fellow and director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy Project on the Middle East Peace Process. In addition, he is adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in the Middle Eastern studies program. He is coauthor of the book Myths, Illusions, & Peace with Dennis Ross. Mr. Makovsky's commentary on U.S. policy towards the Middle East and Middle East peace process has been broadcast on the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. His writings can be found in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Foreign Affairs. More
New York, N.Y. The Century Co., 1914. First Printing Thus. Hardcover. [12], 327, [3] pages. Front flyleaf removed. Cover has some wear and soiling. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. Includes Preface, as well as chapters on The Original Make-up of the American People; The Celtic Irish; The Germans; The Scandinavians; The Italians; The Slavs; The Eastern European Hebrews; The Lesser Immigrant Groups; Economic Consequences of Immigration; Social Effects of Immigration; Immigrants in Politics; and American Blood and Immigrant Blood. Also includes Appendix and Index. Edward Alsworth Ross (December 12, 1866 – July 22, 1951) was a progressive American sociologist, eugenicist, economist, and major figure of early criminology. I n 1906, he moved to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he became Professor of Sociology, and eventually chairman of the department. He retired in 1937. His understanding of Americanization and assimilation bore a striking resemblance to that of another Wisconsin professor, Frederick Jackson Turner. In 1897, just four years after Turner had presented his frontier thesis to the American Historical Association, Ross, then at Stanford, argued that the loss of the frontier destroyed the machinery of the melting pot process. In 1913, the State of Wisconsin passed its first sterilization law. Ross, who lived in Wisconsin at the time, was a reserved proponent of sterilization and indicated his support for the measure. Involuntary sterilization remained legal in Wisconsin until July 1978. From 1900 to the 1920s, Ross continued to support eugenics and immigration restriction. More
New York: Norton, c1998. First Edition. First Printing. 22 cm, 320, crease in front DJ. More
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998. First edition. First edition stated. First printing stated. Hardcover. xviii, 334 p. Illustrations. Index. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973. First Printing. 267, illus., DJ slightly worn and soiled. Afterword by Ezra Rusinek. More
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. viii, 200 pages. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed on t-p. Marc Sageman, M.D., Ph.D., is a former CIA Operations Officer (covered as a Foreign Service officer) who was based in Islamabad from 1987 to 1989, where he worked closely with Afghanistan's mujahedin. He has advised various branches of the U.S. government in the War on Terror. He is also a forensic psychiatrist and a counter-terrorism consultant. He first drew wide attention for his book Understanding Terror Networks, a book that The Economist called "influential." "The most sophisticated analysis of global jihadis yet published. . . . His conclusions have demolished much of the conventional wisdom about who joins jihadi groups." In Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century, Sageman "suggests that radicalization is a collective rather than an individual process in which friendship and kinship are key components." More
Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society, [1944]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 316, boards somewhat worn, soiled, and faded, ink marks inside front board. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2013. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. viii, [2], 308, [2] pages. Illustrations. Selected Sources. List of Organizations. Index. Some underlining noted. Inscribed by Debbie on the half-title page. Deborah Wasserman Schultz (born September 27, 1966) is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Florida's 23rd congressional district, first elected to Congress in 2004. She is a member of the Democratic Party and a former Chairwoman for the Democratic National Committee. Wasserman Schultz was a national campaign co-chair for Hillary Clinton's unsuccessful 2008 run for president. She is the first Jewish representative elected from Florida. Wasserman Schultz was elected chairperson of the Democratic National Committee in May 2011, replacing Virginia Senator Tim Kaine. More
Greeley, CO: University of Northern Colorado, Michener Library, 1982. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11.25 inches by 2 inches thickness. ix, 460, [1] pages and six Guide to the Volumes --By Dubester Number charts in rear pocket. Maps. Tabular data. Library blue buckram binding with decorative design. Signed by the author with 'personal copy' notation on fep. Page "v" appears twice. The contents include How to use this book, Summary of subjects of Census Inquiries, 1790-1890, Terminology used in this volume, States and Territories as they appear in Census Volumes 1970-1890 [sic, 1790-1890], Congressional Serial Set volumes which include Census, data, Explanation of Roman Numerals, National Archives and Records Service, State Censuses, State Censuses and Original Schedules Listed in Dubester "State Censuses", Bibliography, and Union List of Library Holdings. There is a note which states--There are no pages numbered 161-180. Sue Schulze was born in Detroit, Michigan, on January 14, 1922. She attended the University of Michigan and earned master's degrees in political science and library science. She became a professional archivist and government documents librarian, retiring from the University of Northern Colorado in 1989. She published the definitive works on the vast information available in 19th and 20th Century US censuses. She also became a leading expert on Horace Greeley. She served on the Rhode Island board of the American Civil Liberties Union, was president of the Joint Legislative Council of Rhode Island, and was appointed by the Governor to the Rhode Island House of Representatives reapportionment commission. More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1968. presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xiv, 241, [1] pages. Footnotes. Tabular data. Appendices. Sources. Inscribed by the author on the title page. The inscription reads For Marty Fanzglass--With Best Wishes. Abba Schwartz Jan. 1969. Abba Philip Schwartz (April 17, 1916 – September 13, 1989) was United States Assistant Secretary of State for Security and Consular Affairs from 1962 to 1966. He attended Harvard Law School, receiving an LL.B. in 1939. After WWII, Schwartz took a job with the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees in London. In 1947, he joined the United Nations International Refugee Organization in Geneva as reparations director. From 1949 to 1962, he was also special legal counsel for the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration. During the 1950s, he became a close political associate of Sen. John F. Kennedy (D—MA) and his brother Robert F. Kennedy. When John F. Kennedy became President of the United States, he named Schwartz Assistant Secretary of State for Security and Consular Affairs. Schwartz encouraged Robert F. Kennedy to exercise the discretion granted by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 to allow East European refugees and visitors to come to the United States. He also negotiated a deal with Cuba that allowed thousands of Cubans to come to the United States as refugees. In 1967, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara named Schwartz his special assistant for prisoners of war in Vietnam. He promoted programs to help refugees in South Vietnam and to repatriate prisoners taken by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese. More