The Dictator's Learning Curve: Inside the Global Battle for Democracy
New York, NY: Doubleday, 2012. First edition. First Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. [10], 341, [1] p. Notes. Index. More
New York, NY: Doubleday, 2012. First edition. First Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. [10], 341, [1] p. Notes. Index. More
Washington, DC: Brassey's, 1990. First Printing. 23 cm, 124, wraps, footnotes Examines the political, economic, social, and intellectual trends in China.Assesses the prospects for reform and democratization in China, and recommends policies that could promote stability in East Asia and an improvement in U.S.-China relations. More
New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2002. First? Edition. First? Printing. 73, wraps. More
Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 2015. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xxiii, [1], 164, [4] pages. Illustrated front cover. Notes. Conference Agenda. Index. Among the contributors are: Serge Schmemann, Bryan Hebir, Willing Swing, Raymond Jeanloz, Lucy Shapiro, Elizabeth Holmes, Christopher Stubbs, James Ellis, James Mattis, David Holloway, and James Goodby. Among the issues raised were: Environmental Effects, Nuclear War, Infectious Disease, Disruptive Technologies, Ethics, and Moral Reasoning. Sidney David Drell (September 13, 1926 – December 21, 2016) was an American theoretical physicist and arms control expert. He was professor emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Drell was a noted contributor in the fields of quantum electrodynamics and high-energy particle physics. The Drell–Yan process is partially named for him. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1949. He co-authored the textbooks Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Relativistic Quantum Fields with James Bjorken. Drell was active as a scientific advisor to the U.S. government, and was a founding member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group. He was an expert in nuclear arms control and cofounder of the Center for International Security and Arms Control, now the Center for International Security and Cooperation. George Pratt Shultz (December 13, 1920 – February 6, 2021) was an American economist, diplomat, and businessman. He is one of only two people to have held four different Cabinet-level posts. He played a major role in shaping the Reagan Administration's foreign policy. More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968. Presumed First U.K. Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xix, [1], 240 pages. Footnotes Notes. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. RARE SIGNED/INSCRIBED COPY. Several line inscription from 1989 by the author in either Ukrainian or Russian on the title page. Business card in Ukrainian taped on page facing title page. Contents include Preface by Peter Archer; The Author and his book; Abbreviations; Letter to P. Y. Shelest and V. V. Shcherbyts'ky; Introduction, fourteen number and titled chapters, Conclusions. Ivan Mykhailovych Dziuba (26 July 1931 – 22 February 2022) was a Ukrainian literary critic, social activist, dissident, Hero of Ukraine, academic of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the second Minister of Culture of Ukraine (1992—1994), and head of the Committee for Shevchenko National Prize (1999–2001). He was the Co-Chief of Editorial Board of the Encyclopaedia of Modern Ukraine. He graduated from Donetsk Pedagogical Institute, and pursued postgraduate studies in the Shevchenko Institute of Literature. His work was first published in 1959. In the 1970s, he was subjected to political persecutions for the views he expressed in some publications. After the change of political situation in the Soviet Union and transition to the independent Ukraine Dziuba became popular. He became co-founder of the People's Movement of Ukraine. From 1991 Dziuba was the head publisher of the Suchasnist Magazine. Laureate of the Shevchenko Prize, O. Biletsky Prize, Antonovich Fund International Prize, Volodymyr Vernadsky Prize. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. [8], 191, [1] pages., Notes. Index. Signed with comment on the title page: Best wishes from Abba Eban. Has chapters on A Credentials Ceremony; September 15, 1950; The Cold War Remembered; Dilemmas of Diplomats; The Perils of Analogy; Human Rights Seldom Win; The Intrusive Media; Where--If Not at the Summit?; Still Too Many Wars; The United Nations: No New Order. Eban concludes with thoughts about the quest for peace in the Middle East. In this wise and eloquent book, one of the world's preeminent senior statesmen presents his views on the challenges of diplomacy in the post Cold War era. Abba Eban draws on his years of experience and knowledge to offer an overview of diplomacy as practices in today's world. Interweaving historical data with personal reminiscences, Eban reviews the Cold War period and its end in 1989, praising the diplomatic restraint in the years that have followed; discusses the ethical confrontation between power an conscience in a range of international decisions and actions; and points out the difficulty of reconciling the promotion of human rights with respect for national sovereignty. Eban goes on to deplore the lack of privacy in international negotiations that is the result of an intrusive media, and shows that nuclear warfare is not a restraint. Instructive, erudite, and witty, Eban's tour through diplomatic history vividly demonstrates that the wisdom of the past can be immensely valuable as we seek to negotiate and maintain peace in the future. More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. First Printing. 191, notes, index. More
Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., 1968. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. [4], 76 pages. Illustrations. Some cover wear. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968. Born in Atlanta, King is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, tactics his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi helped inspire. In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. His death was followed by riots in many U.S. cities. Allegations that James Earl Ray, the man convicted and imprisoned of killing King, had been framed or acted in concert with government agents persisted for decades after the shooting. Sentenced to 99 years in prison for King's murder. Ray served 29 years of his sentence and died from hepatitis in 1998 while in prison. More
Berkeley, CA: Interstellar Media, [c1988]. First Printing. 24 cm, 274, illus., index, pencil erasure on front endpaper. Foreword by Claude Pepper. More
New York: American Association for the United Nations, Inc., 1945. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Wraps. 48 pages. Includes index. Name of previous owner written in book. Covers somewhat worn and soiled. Some page discoloration. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1978. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 675, wraps, some wear and soiling to covers. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1959. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 5.625 inches by 8.5 inches. x, [2], 372 pages. Footnotes. Index. The DJ has Spine scuff, wear and soiling and is price-clipped. Ink notation on the fep. A bold study of the New Deal from the viewpoint of Europe and American by the Goldwin Smith Professor of Government at Cornell University. Among the topics covered are Europe's Image of America, The Great Depression, Roosevelt, New Tools for the New State, Electricity and Freedom, The Supreme Court and the Constitution, The Meaning of Freedom and Equality, The New Landscape of American Society: Lights and Shadows, and Reflections on Tocqueville. Mario Einaudi was born in 1904 in one of the most influential family in Italy. His father, Luigi Einaudi, was one of Italy's great economic thinkers and became the second President of the Republic of Italy. After graduation from Turin with a dissertation on Edmund Burke, Einaudi spent two years at the London School of Economics, working with William Beveridge and Harold Laski. He worked for the Office of War Information and the Council on Foreign Relations and began to teach future Allied Military Government personnel about European government once a week at Cornell University. Three central tenets to Einaudi's work were: that the study of politics must be embedded in history; that Europe and the United States have much to teach each other about the practice of democratic politics; and that the classics of political theory must inform the study of contemporary democratic states. These themes were best embodied in his 1959 book, The Roosevelt Revolution. More
New York: Wings Books, c. 1990. Reprint Edition. 377, slight browning to text. More
Washington, DC: Electronic Privacy Info Cen, 1999. First Edition. 129, wraps, tables Government regulation of techniques such as encryption that help to protect individual privacy may also be contrary to the spirit of international laws and norms that recognize privacy as a fundamental human right. More
Washington, DC: Electronic Privacy Info Cent, 1999. First Edition. First? Printing. 129, wraps, footnotes. More
New York: Basic Books, 2003. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xi, 240 pages. Notes. Index. Highlighting/underlining. Previous owner's stamp on fep. Ink underlining in several places. One of America's foremost political philosophers mounts an impassioned defense of a "just war" against terror. Jean Bethke Elshtain (January 6, 1941 – August 11, 2013) was an American ethicist, and political philosopher. She was the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the University of Chicago. She was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2002, Elshtain received the Frank J. Goodnow award, the highest award for distinguished service to the profession given by the American Political Science Association. The focus of her work is an exploration of the relationship between politics and ethics. After the September 11, 2001 attacks she was one of the more visible academic supporters of U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan. She published over five hundred essays and authored and/or edited over twenty books, including Democracy on Trial, Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World, Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy, and Augustine and the Limits of Politics. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, c1977. 22 cm, 220, usual library markings, pencil erasure on front endpaper, DJ worn. More
New York: Akashic Books/RDV Books, 2007. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 368 pages. Footnote. Signed by the Author sticker on front of the DJ. Sign with a sentiment on the title page. Sentiment reads Peace! Mike Farrell 3/22/07. Michael Joseph Farrell Jr. (born February 6, 1939) is an American actor, best known for his role as Captain B.J. Hunnicutt on the television series M*A*S*H (1975–83). In addition, Farrell was a producer of Patch Adams (1998) starring Robin Williams, and he starred in the television series Providence (1999–2002). Farrell is also an activist and public speaker for various political causes. He has been the President of Death Penalty Focus since 1994. He is a long-time opponent of the death penalty. In 2001, Farrell said of the work: “I’ve wept many times. But I keep finding people who inspire me--some of them on death row, and more of them in the trenches, in the courts, in religious circles, fighting against the death penalty.” Farrell has helped raise defense funds for inmates he believes are innocent. Farrell's big break came in 1975 when Wayne Rogers departed M*A*S*H at the end of the third season. Farrell was recruited for the newly created role of B. J. Hunnicutt.Farrell wrote an autobiography, Just Call Me Mike: A Journey to Actor and Activist. The book covers his working-class childhood in West Hollywood, his break into show business, his personal life, and his increasing involvement in politics and the human rights movement in the United States, Cambodia, and Latin America. His second book, Of Mule and Man , is a journal of his five-week, 9,000-mile drive around the U.S. to promote the paperback edition of his first book. More
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xvi, 503 p. Names Index. Index. More
Human Rights Watch, 1994. Trade paperback. vii, 80 p. Map. Footnotes. Frequently used abbreviations. More
Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1979. 204, index, DJ worn, torn, chipped, and soiled, large tear in front DJ. More
New York: Ford Foundation, 2002. First? Edition. First? Printing. 195, wraps, list of interviewees, cover torn in front, bookmark from the Asian American Women's Project of AAPIP laid in. More
London: International Institute for Strategic Studies/Oxford University Press, 2004. Presumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. 94, [2] p. Notes. More
Washington DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2007. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. vi, 27, [3] pages. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Jason W. Forrester is an advisor on the needs of US armed services members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. As of 2008 he was the Director of Policy/Co-Director of the National Guard Program at Veterans for America, the successor organization to the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation. At Veterans for America, Forrester helps direct VFA’s bipartisan effort rebuilding the U.S. military, focusing on assisting the National Guard and improving post-combat care for service members with psychological and neurological wounds. He has testified before Congress and a presidential commission on wounded warrior care. Forrester has spent more than 10 years as a foreign policy analyst and advisor, including roles with the Brookings Institution and multiple presidential campaigns, including Gore-Lieberman, Wesley Clark’s presidential campaign and Kerry-Edwards. He was a member of the Obama-Biden national security policy teams and has advised various U.S. Senate and House races. He also served in the Senate and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. More
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1989. First Edition. First Printing. 293, map, notes, index, DJ slightly worn and soiled, slight corner bumping. Inscribed by the author (long, interesting inscription). More