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New York: A Meridian Book - The New American Library, Inc. Times Mirror, 1976. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SUB-TITLE: Scientists in the Political Arena. BOOK NUMBER: F443. CONTENTS: Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I BACKGROUND 1 Introduction 2 The Supersonic Transport: A Case History in the Politics of Technology; PART II ADVISING OR LEGITIMIZING? 3 The Uses and limitations of Science Advisors 4 Not the Whole Truth: The Advisory Reports on the Supersonic Transport 5 Invoking the Experts: The Antiballistic Missile Debate 6 Studies as an Excuse for Inaction: The Saga of 2,4,5-T 7 The Politician's Helper: Legitimizing the Cyclamates Decision; PART III RESPONSIBILITIES OF SCIENCE ADVISORS IN A DEMOCRACY 8 The Advisor's Dilemma 9 Toward an Open Advisory System; PART IV THE PEOPLE'S SCIENCE ADVISORS - CAN OUTSIDERS BE EFFECTIVE? 10 The Battle Over Persistent Pesticides: From Rachel Carson to the… Read More

London: Unwin Paperbacks, 1985. Previous Owner Markings (Underlining); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. CONTENTS: 1 Social Cohesion and Human Nature 2 Social Cohesion and Government 3 The Role of Individuality 4 The Conflict of Technique and Human Nature 5 Control and Initiative: their Respective Spheres 6 Individual and Social Ethics. SYNOPSIS: Which is more important, freedom or order? Bertrand Russell explores one of the most hotly debated issues of our century, the ever sharper confrontation between law, order and authority and the rights of each individual man and woman. - and - Which is more important, freedom or order? In these, the first of the BBC's famous Reith Lectures, Bertrand Russell tackles one of the most hotly debated issues of the twentieth century, the ever sharper confrontation between law, order and authority and the rights of each individual man and woman. Russell's theme touches… Read More

New York: Berkley Books - The Berkley Publishing Group Previous Dealer Markings (Hole Punched in Upper Right Corner of Front Cover); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Ex-Soviet Journalists Expose the Shocking Secrets of Russian Power! TRANSLATED BY: Guy Daniels in Collaboration with the Authors. CONTENTS: Introduction: The Limits of Understanding (What the World Knows About the Kremlin, and What the Kremlin Knows About the World) 1. A Throne on a Deathbed 2. The Duel at the Tyrant's Coffin 3. An Intermezzo With Konstantin Chernenko 4. The Empire's Secret Government: The KGB 5. The Kremlin's Hamlet Complex: What to Do or Not to Do About Poland? 6. The Origin of the Kremlin Mafias: Why There Are No Jews, Women, Muscovites, or Military Men in the Politburo 7. The King is Dead, Long Live the King! 8. Meet Mikhail Gorbachev 9. Stalin's Shadow Over the Kremlin 10. The Kremlin, the Empire, and the… Read More

New York: Penguin Books - Viking Penguin Inc., 1986. Remainder Mark; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Finally, a practical plan that both superpowers can agree on - and that we can all work toward. William L. Ury, Co-author of Getting to Yes. SUB-TITLE: How Crisis Control Can Prevent Nuclear War. EDITED BY: Martin Linsky. COVER DESIGN BY: Richard Adelson. CONTENTS: Foreword to the Penguin Edition; Preface; Prologue: The Silver Trumpets; Why Crisis Control?; PART I The Most Likely Path to War 1 Sparks in the Tinderbox 2 Runaway Escalation; PART II Creating a Crisis Control System 3 Beyond the Hotline 4 A Joint Crisis Control Center 5 Emergency Safety Procedures 6 Cabinet-level Talks 7 A Briefing for the President 8 The Hard Case: What If the Other Side Wants to Win?; PART III What Can Be Done? 9 But Will the Soviets Agree? And What About the Americans? 10 Making… Read More

Canadian-American Committee, 1978. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. The Canadian-American Committee was established in 1957 to study and discuss the broad range of economic factors affecting the relationship between Canada and the United States. Its members are business, labour, agricultural, and professional leaders from the private sector who have direct involvement and experience in relations between the two countries. There is approximately equal membership from both nations, with the objective of obtaining representative views from the major geographic regions and industrial sectors in each. The Committee is sponsored by two non-profit research organizations - the C. D. Howe Research Institute in Canada and the National Planning Association in the United States. CONTENTS: The Canadian-American Committee and Its Sponsoring Organizations, Foreword, (1) Introduction: - Why the Change? - The… Read More

Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1969. BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Moderately Scuffed; Moderately Creased; Moderately Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: When Blair Fraser died in May 1968 people all across Canada felt a sense of shock and loss. In his twenty-four years with Maclean's Magazine Fraser had become one of Canada's best-known and most highly respected political journalists. His hundreds of articles for Maclean's, his frequent broadcasts for the C.B.C., and his clear and direct style had made him a national figure. For the many people who knew him personally there was, added to the concern, insight, and sheer hard work he put into his writings, the warmth and strength of his personality. Blair Fraser was continually fascinated by the Canadian political process, and he was happiest when he was writing about it from its centre, Ottawa. In addition, the… Read More

1979. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. CONTENTS: The Canada-U.S. Prospects Series and Its Sponsoring Organizations, Foreword, Preface (1) Introduction and Overview - Deterioration of Relations: 1970-76 - Improvement of Relations: 1976-79 - Variability of Issues - Prospects - Approach of the Study (2) The Changing Environment of Canadian-U.S. Relations - Introduction - Global Factors and Bilateral Relations - Domestic Factors and Bilateral Relations - Conclusions (3) The Current Agenda of Canadian-U.S. Relations - Issue Focus: A Historical Comparison - Current Issues in Canadian-U.S. Relations - Conclusions (4) The Future: Canadian-U.S. Relations in Transition - Method of Approach - Prospects - Implications for Bilateral Relations - The Free Trade Issue - The Quebec Independence Movement - Conclusions (5) Alternative Futures - Free Trade Arrangements - The Third Option by Default, Appendix,… Read More

New York: Penguin Books - the Penguin Group Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc., 1992. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. COVER PAINTING: Leon Golub, White Squad II (detail), 1982; Collection: Seattle Art Museum; Photograph: Courtesy of Josh Baer Gallery, NY. CONTENTS: Introduction; ONE Quijote; TWO The Good Sailor; THREE Dialectic; FOUR The Laboratory; FIVE The Triumph; SIX The Pig's Tail; Selected Bibliography. SYNOPSIS: Drinking coffee with hit men, sunbathing with death-squad financiers - an award-winning journalist goes behind the scenes to present six vivid and haunting portraits of violence in Latin America. An honest just in Medellin, a Maoist guerrilla of Peru's Shining Path, the fair-haired Angel of Death in Argentina's Dirty War, the pool-party rich of El Salvador, the disabused revolutionaries of Nicaragua, and the ordinary Chileans who became silent… Read More

New York: A Borzoi Book - Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1952. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Repaired; Moderately Scuffed; Moderately Creased; Moderately Chipped; Moderate Sticker Pull; Moderately Soiled; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. The moving story of man's perennial vision of human unity and his quest for the One World ideal. SUB-TITLE: An Inquiry into Power Politics and World Government. CONTENTS: Chapter One - The Way of Violence; Chapter Two - The Vision of Man; Chapter Three - Peace by Conquest; Chapter Four - The New Caesarism; Chapter Five - Peace by Treason; Chapter Six - Peace by Planning; Chapter Seven - Peace by War; Chapter Eight - Peace by Contract; Epilogue: When the Sleeper Wakes; Index. SYNOPSIS: A brilliantly written, timely, and challenging history of the vision of human unity and of man's perennial quest for world order. In The Commonwealth of Man Mr. Schuman… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1981. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; PART ONE: SOCIAL DEMOCRACY 1 The Values of Socialism 2 The Decentralist Tradition 3 The Growth of Corporatism 4 The Social Democratic Tradition; PART TWO: THE PURSUIT OF EQUALITY 5 Inequality 6 Economic Policy 7 Incomes Policy; PART THREE: THE MIXED ECONOMY 8 Industrial Policy 9 Energy Policy 10 State Intervention 11 Co-operatives 12 Industrial Democracy; PART FOUR: REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY 13 Parliamentary Government 14 Constitutional Reform 15 Local Government 16 Community Care 17 Freedom with Security; PART FIVE: INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM 18 The Internationalist Tradition 19 Negotiate and Survive 20 The Community of Twelve; Notes; Index. SYNOPSIS: Face the Future presents a radical strategy for social democrats. It savages… Read More

Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc. Repaired; Lightly Scuffed; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SERIES: The aim of this series is to provide a group of books that will integrate the major aspects of modern political science. Guided by the highest standards of contemporary scholarship and a concern for the major historic problems of politics, the series will make available the fruits of the most recent empirical and theoretical studies. Robert A. Dahl, Editor. CONTENTS: Introduction; Part One What We Want to Know: The Substance of International Relations; Chapter One Ten Fundamental Questions; Chapter Two Tools for Thinking: A Few Basic Concepts (Some Concepts about Social Systems, Some Concepts about Politics); Chapter Three Power and the Nation-State (The Basis of Power, Some Other Dimensions of Power); Chapter Four The Limits of Power: Symbol and Reality (Power as a Symbol, Power as a… Read More

Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc. Previous Owner Markings (Including Underlining); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Edges Moderately Soiled. SERIES: The aim of this series is to provide a group of books that will integrate the major aspects of modern political science. Guided by the highest standards of contemporary scholarship and a concern for the major historic problems of politics, the series will make available the fruits of the most recent empirical and theoretical studies. Robert A. Dahl, Editor. EXCERPT: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: I am grateful to all the contributors to this volume who have so graciously allowed me to reprint their work. I am especially indebted to J. David Singer and Ole R. Holsti who have made new or revised manuscripts available, to Morton A. Kaplan and Anatol Rapoport who have helped me with copyright problems, and to Karl W. Deutsch who has advised and generally encouraged me. The readings in this book… Read More

Avon Book Division - The Hearst Corporation Previous Owner Markings; Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers Spine; Front, Rear Covers Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. A comprehensive volume that brings together the crucial ideas in political philosophy: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Cicero, Machiavelli, Aquinas, Harrington, Montesquieu, Calvin, Hobbes, Locke, Luther. SUB-TITLE: From Plato and Aristotle to Locke and Montesquieu. BOOK NUMBER: V-2036. ALSO KNOWN AS: Extracts from Seneca's writings taken from The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca by Moses Hadas. Copyright 1958 by Moses Hadas. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday & Company, Inc. Extracts from Aquinas' writings taken from The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas by Dino Bigongiari. Copyright 1953 by Hafner Publishing Company. Reprinted by permission of Hafner Publishing Company, Inc. Extracts from Augustine's writings taken from The City of God,… Read More

Nashville: The LockeSmith Institute Spine Bumped; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. SUB-TITLE: Student Scholarship of Classical Liberal Thought. VOLUME I STUDENT EDITORIAL BOARD: Scholarly Articles Editor - Amy H. Sturgis; Policy Analysis Editor - Nathan D. Griffith; Reviews Editor - Melissa English; Commentary Editor - Joshua B. Johnson; Business Director - Kevin D. Weimer. FACULTY ADVISOR: Larry M. Hall. CONTENTS: Preface - Larry M. Hall; List of Contributors; Introduction - Amy H. Sturgis; Biographies: Locke and Smith; SCHOLARLY ARTICLES The Rise, Decline, and Reemergence of Classical Liberalism - Amy H. Sturgis; Stability Within Common Life: The Standard of Hume's Reflections - Richard L. Varco, III; Classical Trade Theory and Its Assumptions: The Legacy of Smith, Ricardo, and Mill - Ian MacInnes; Alexis de Tocqueville and Decentralist Liberalism - Daniel Crosby; Praxeology and Society: The Social Thought of Ludwig von Mises - John E. Moser; The Social… Read More

New York: Frederick A Praeger, Inc., Publishers, 1968. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front Cover Lightly Chipped; Rear Cover, Spine Moderately Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. BOOK NUMBER: U-650. CONTENTS: Foreword to the Third Edition; Foreword to the First Edition 1. Introduction 2. The Indian Setting 3. The Great Vista of India's Past 4. The Nature and Legacy of the Muslim Period 5. The Rise and Consolidation of British Rule 6. Toward Independence - and After 7. Hinduism - The Religion of the Majority 8. The Religious Minority Groups 9. Caste, Family, and Social Change 10. Villages and Cities 11. Language Barriers and Separatism 12. Education: Problems and Progress 13. Nehru and India's Western-Type Government 14. The Indian Nature of Indian Politics 15. Toward Economic Development 16. Foreign Policy 17. The Defense Forces and Their British Background 18. The World of India; Notes; Bibliography; Index. EDITION: This is the third edition, revised, updated, and… Read More

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1980. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. A dissident's memoir of his detention in the most notorious Soviet psychiatric institution. SUB-TITLE: Notes from the Serbsky. EDITED AND TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY: Marco Carynnyk and Marta Horban. CONTENTS: Introduction; Editors' Note; Preface; INSTITUTE OF FOOLS; APPENDIX; The Trial of Nekipelov; Oprichnina 1977; Oprichnina 1977 Continues; Our Searches; Notes to the Appendix; Bibliography; Index of Names. SYNOPSIS: We now know, from grimly authentic sources, the truth about the Gulag labour camps in the Soviet Union. But we still know comparatively little, at first hand, about the increasing use of mental institutions as part of the system of political repression. Here for the first time is a detailed account, from the inside, of the… Read More

Fairfax: Institute for Humane Studies, 1990. Light Creasing on Rear Cover; Spine Lightly Chipped; Light Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Front Cover Lightly Soiled. ALSO KNOWN AS: This essay first appeared in The University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 16, No. 3, Spring 1949, and is reprinted by permission. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Friedrich A. Hayek, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974, is best known for the book The Road to Serfdom, which has been translated into twelve languages. Receiving doctorates in law and economics from the University of Vienna, he has served on the faculties of the Universities of London, Chicago, Freiburg, and Salzburg. His major books include The Constitution of Liberty, The Sensory Order, The Pure Theory of Capital, The Counter-Revolution of Science, Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and The Fatal Conceit. A complete bibliography of his works can be found in Literature of Liberty, Vol. 5, No. 4, 1982, pp. 68-101. This work also includes a bibliography of… Read More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1969. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. CONTENTS: Note to the Second Edition; Preface; 1 The States as Units of International Society 2 The Making of Foreign Policy 3 The foreign Policies of some Great Powers 4 Interaction among States and State Power 5 Instruments and Techniques of State Interaction 6 International Society and its Current Problems 7 The Instruments and Agencies of International Society 8 Prospects; Reading List; Index. EXCERPT: Note to the Second Edition: As the treatment is analytical, it can be left essentially unchanged after the lapse of four years since the first edition, apart from reference to major international events, up to and including the Czechoslovak Crisis in August 1968. The major additions refer to the developments in the Cold War and in Chinese foreign policy. - J. F., September 1968.. Second Edition 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very… Read More

Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1975. Repaired; Last Few Pages, Rear Cover Moderately Gouged (No Impediment to Text); Heavy Sticker Pull to Front Cover (In 2 Places); Front, Rear Covers, Edges Lightly Soiled. Workers of all Countries, Unite! ALSO KNOWN AS: The present English edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party is a reproduction of the translation made by Samuel Moore in 1888 from the original German text of 1848 and edited by Frederick Engels. Included are Engels' annotations for the English edition of 1888 and the German edition of 1890 as well as all the authors' prefaces to the various editions, the last being reprinted, with some changes in translation, from various English editions. The footnotes and the notes at the end of the book are based on those given in the German and Chinese editions. CONTENTS: Preface to the German Edition of 1872; Preface to the Russian Edition of 1882; Preface to the German Edition of 1883; Preface to the English Edition of 1888; Preface to… Read More

Don Mills: Paperjacks - General Publishing Co. Limited, 1975. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Moderate Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. CONTENTS: Acknowledgements; An Open Letter to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II; Introduction 1. How the Monarchy Survives 2. The Price of Monarchy 3. The crown Estate, the Duchies and Other Matters 4. The British Labour Party and the Crown 5. The Monarchy and the Class Structure 6. Honours and Patronage Galore 7. Canute and the Commonwealth 8. Family Portraits 9. The Future of the Monarchy; Appendices; A. The Palace and the Media B. Taxation of Members of the Royal Family C. Accounts of the Revenues of the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall D. 1913 Opinion on the Duchy of Cornwall E. Honours (Peerages, Baronetcies, Knighthoods and D.B.E.s) to Conservative and Labour M.P.s, 1952-73 F. A Record of Correspondence G. A Motion… Read More