Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. First Edition. Paperback. Originally published in Italy as Il Futuro della democrazia (Guilio Einaudi editore 1984). Norberto Bobbio is the foremost political theorist in Italy today. Written with verve and passion as well as erudition, this important work will make a major contribution..... More
New York: Signet Books, 1968. First Edition, Second Printing. Paperback. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2019. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A narrative history of the unlikely Maoist rebellion that terrorized Peru even after the fall of global Communism. On May 17, 1980, on the eve of Peru’s presidential election, five masked men stormed a small town..... More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1993. Trade Paperback. "This will stand as the definitive work on Chile under Pinochet for many years to come."—Library Journal How Chile, once South America's most stable democracy, gave way to a culture of fear. The authors explain and illuminate the rift..... More
New York: A Century Foundation Book, 1999. First Printing. Trade Paperback. With a new preface for the paperback edition Hailed as "absorbing" by the New York Times and "suspense-filled" by Foreign Affairs, Patrick Tyler's A Great Wall became an instant classic; a must-read for anyone concerned with the complicated..... More
New York: Modern Reader Paperbacks, 1968. Fifth Printing. Trade Paperback. Rare edition. No. PB-76 One of the most influential studies ever written in the field of development economics, this book has, since first publication in 1957, bred a whole school of followers who are producing further works along the..... More
Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1992. First edition, reprint. Softcover. Michigan Monogram in Chinese Studies, No. 30. This translation was begun in 1968 as research in an area of personal interest of the author. As a Chinese with an undergraduate major in Western Literature and..... More
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1984. Sixth Edition. Softcover. A concise and well-written overview of the history, culture, and religion of various Asian peoples, including the Chinese, Japanese, Southeast Asians, etc. More
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1979. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. A empirical study of China's foreign policy of supporting revolutions in third-world countries with a focus on historical events. More
London: Wakefield & Nicolson, 2000. Hardcover. A Terrible Beauty presents a unique narrative of the twentieth century. Unlike more conventional histories, where the focus is on political events and personalities, on wars, treaties and elections, this book concentrates on the ideas that made the century so rich, rewarding and provocative..... More
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Trade Paperback. Does the town have a distinctive role in economic developments and social change? Can one distinguish between types of town which have distinctive types of role? Social scientists since Marx have tended to assume that there is a specifically urban contribution to..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1995. First Edition. Trade Paperback. France in the mid-nineteenth century was shaken by a surge of civic activism, the “resurrection of civil society.” But unlike similar developments throughout Europe, this civic mobilization culminated in the establishment of democratic institutions. How, Philip Nord asks, did France..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press/William Heinemann Ltd, 1972. Reprint. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. More
New York: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2017. Trade Paperback. In his final book before his death, Primo Levi returns once more to his time at Auschwitz in a moving meditation on memory, resiliency, and the struggle to comprehend unimaginable tragedy. Drawing on history, philosophy, and his own personal experiences..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2000. `. Trade Paperback. In the final days of World War II, a courageous band of Jewish partisans makes its way from Russia to Italy, moving toward the ultimate goal of Palestine. Based on a true story, If Not Now, When? chronicles their adventures as they wage..... More
Taipei, Taiwan: China Maritime Institute. Softcover, Staple-Bound. Rare. Book has three separate parts. No date of publication indicated. More
Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2020. First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. The master of the visual mash-up returns with his signature idiosyncratic take on the Constitution R. Sikoryak is the master of the pop culture pastiche. In Masterpiece Comics, he interpreted classic literature with defining twentieth century comics. With Terms..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2000. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Lord Shackleton, a...... More
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999. First Edition (presumed). Paperback. The 1996 deployment of two U.S. carrier battle groups to the waters off Taiwan in response to the firing of Chinese missiles close to Taiwan's shores brought home suddenly the genuine danger of a military clash between the United States..... More
London: Verso, 1971. Ben Brewster (tr.), Peter Beglan (tr.), Marguerita Sanchez (tr.), Peter Gowan (tr.). Paperback. The election in Chile of the Marxist leader of the Socialist Party, Salvador Allende, to the presidency in October 1970 inaugurated a political situation unique in Latin America and of world-wide significance. Allende’s Popular..... More
New York: (Self-published), 2020. First Edition. Staple bound chapbook. On October 1, 2019, Hong Kong police shot a protester for the first time in 17 weeks of civil unrest, in a district called the New Territories. That same day, China held state celebrations marking 70 years of Communist Party rule..... More
Harvard Univ. Press, 1994. Softcover. More
London: Polity Press, 2018. Adam Renvoize (cover design). Trade Paperback. Recently there has been an extraordinary international revival of interest in Hannah Arendt. She was extremely perceptive about the dark tendencies in contemporary life that continue to plague us. She developed a concept of politics and public freedom that serves..... More
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