Scribe publications 2005 (5 résultats)

Super octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Paperback. Condition vg. B/W photos. "This provocative, multi-perspective book traces the growth of organised warfare throughout human history - from the collapse of the walls to Jericho to the fall of Baghdad. Dyer squarely confronts the reality of war, and the threat of nuclear weapons, but does not despair that war is our eternal legacy." 484pp. ISBN 1920769390.…

Etat : Very Good. 8vo softcover 308pp index. very good. Arguing for the viability of the United Nations, this study calls for renewed commitment to the idealistic goals upon which it was founded and condemns the world's most powerful countries for withholding needed resources. A summary of the UN's strengths provides details on more than 60 years of successful peacekeeping missions, world health initiatives, and aid to refugees. The ways the UN has fallen short-including failed efforts to protect human rights, reduce poverty, safeguard the environment, and prevent war-are also discussed, and ways to restructure are suggested.…

Etat : Very Good. 8vo. softcover. 248pp. b/w ilus. Very good, page edges toned.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New small quarto 186pp., colour & b/w plates, Selection of Bill Leak's most caustic cartoons; 'graphically illustrates a period unprecedented in its "bumptiousness, self-importance and stupidity".