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0266805272.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
200544864Washington DC: GPO 2005. First Edition. First Printing. good. 179 wraps illus. minor page creasing. GPO paperback
2007230321TRW011069London: Electoral Reform Society 2007. Softcover. Good Condition. Library sticker on front cover. Pages are unmarked and uncreased. Bindings and spine firm and intact. Otherwise in very good used condition. 144 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Politics & Government; Great Britain; Elections; ISBN: 0903291355. ISBN/EAN: 9780903291354. Add. Inventory No: 230321TRW011069. . 9780903291354 Electoral Reform Society paperback
200663051Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2006. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 79 p. Serial No. 109-54. This hearing focused on the security standards for Federal-leased space. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
2090502113700324Not Available N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
1390726630.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1397372478.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1397372540.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
177445029Leipzig Siegfried Lebrecht Crusius 1774. Bound in 2 very fine contemp. full calf raised bands richly gilt spines. Title-and tomelabels in leather on spines with gilt lettering. gilt border on all covers. Blindtooled decorations on covers in Cambridge-style "mirror-binding". Edges gilt. Stamp on foot of titlepages. 22312;16296 pp. and 11 folded engraved plates. Light browning to some quires and to top of titles otherwise fine. <br/><br/><em>Scarce first edition of the famous German educators mathematical textbook - his suggestion to how mathematics should be taught in his educational reform. Basedow’s views were based on the writings of men such as John Amos Comenius John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His practical teaching methods were more expansive in their implications for education than those of any of his immediate predecessors in the field and by the early 19th century they had become a fundamental force in Germany’s public school systems.Basedow blev i 1753 ansat af J.H.E. Bernstorff ved Sorø Akademi som professor i moral og de skønne videnskaber. Her kom han bl.a. i forbindelse med den danske oplysningsforfatter og Sorø-professor Jens Schielderup Sneedorff hvis værker han oversatte til tysk. Sneedorff blev selv inspirereret af Basedows pædagogiske idéer. </em> hardcover
1972232591972. Prison and IncarcerationSocial activism Prison reform organizing conference broadside. Attica and San Quentin prison organizing stand at the center of this January 1972 Berkeley conference broadside which opens with a Brecht quote "Slave who is it that shall free you.all of us or none" and declares that "no one in America today is more a slave than the inmates in American prisons." The text ties prison struggle to "class and racial oppression" names the murders at Attica and San Quentin and frames the prison system as a site of beatings drugs "behavior modification" and brain surgery schemes. The conference was held just a few months after the 1971 Attica uprising during which prisoners revolted against inhumane treatment and racial discrimination in a violent struggle that left 39 dead. The conference roster grounds the prison rights moment Bay Area Black liberation featuring figures including Afeni Shakur Fay Stender and former Soledad Prison chief psychiatrist Frank Rundle. <br /> "Slave Who Is It Shall Free You . . . All of Us or None." The Struggle Inside. Prison Action Conference. Berkeley 1972. Single-sheet broadside 8.5 x 11 inches for a prison action conference scheduled for January 28-30 in Pauley Ballroom UC Berkeley printed on both sides. Recto features two halftone prison photographs and a dense typed manifesto arguing that prisoner demands had moved "from traditional demands for food and shelter to demands for civil and religious rights and finally to a general challenge to the prison system and the society which fosters it." It announces the conference as "a forum for self education and exploration of potential action to assist the prison movement" with key speakers Afeni Shakur a defendant in the Panther 21 trial Fay Stender a Berkeley attorney with years of prison movement experience and Frank Rundle former chief psychiatrist at Soledad Prison. Verso gives the full three-day program: Friday evening remarks by Stender and Shakur; Saturday sessions on "Medical Repression in Prisons" "Adult Authority and Indeterminate Sentencing" "Economics of Prisons" "Juvenile Reformatories and Detention" and "Prisoners Demands"; and Sunday sessions on "Women in Prison" "Defense of Political Prisoners" "Military Prisons" "Prison-Community Communications" "Prisoners Organizations" "County Jails and Pre-trial Detention" plus a closing "Panel Discussion on Racism." <br /> The broadside illustrates the actions and intentions of the Berkeley prison movement at a time when prison rebellion legal defense anti-racist analysis and ex-prisoner testimony were being brought before public audiences in the aftermath of the Attica Uprising. Afeni Shakur's appearance links the handbill to the political world of the Black Panther movement while the inclusion of sessions on women in prison political prisoners juvenile detention county jails and medical repression demonstrate the intersectional goals of the movement and the broadening of post-Attica activism from outrage over one massacre to a larger indictment of prison administration and criminal punishment. Some light staining; otherwise very good condition. A Bay Area prison movement piece that preserves both the rhetoric and the working program of organizing against U.S. imprisonment in the immediate aftermath of the 1971 Attica Uprising. unknown
78499Trade paperback. Very good. Format is approximately 7.5 inches by 9 inches. 12 LIX 1 232 pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. References. Appendices. Minor wear and soiling. The Commission on Immigration Reform CIR was formed by Congress in 1990 to critically examine United States immigration policies. The bipartisan commission was chaired by the late Congresswoman Barbara Jordan the highly esteemed civil rights advocate and is often referred to as the Jordan Commission. In a series of reports submitted between 1994 and 1997 the commission analyzed the impact of current immigration policies and issued recommendations for reform. The spirit of these recommendations was to return U.S. immigration policy to its stated intentions: reuniting nuclear families providing employers with skilled workers and providing humanitarian aid to refugees. The commission's primary recommendations were to improve controls against illegal immigration revamp the refugee and asylum admission system and reduce legal immigration. As mandated by the Immigration Act of 1990 the Commission conducted more than 40 public hearings consultations and site visits in the United States and some foreign countries. This final report makes recommendations to further the goals of Americanization by setting out immigrant policies to help orient immigrants and their new communities to improve educational programs that help immigrants and their children learn English and civics and to reinforce the integrity of the naturalization process by which immigrants become citizens. The report also makes recommendations for immigration policy repeating and updating the conclusions reached in three previous reports on unlawful migration legal immigration refugee and asylum policy and making additional recommendations for reforming immigration policies. The Commission urges a renewed commitment to the education of immigrant children and a recognition that education is the primary tool of Americanization for children and adults. paperback
18811421251881. Booklet. Fair. 26 p. 23 cm. Grey paper covers. Chips and tears to edges. Rear cover nearly detached. Vertical crease. Paper browning. Faint stain to lower margin of first leaf. <br/><br/>Includes list of committee members list of subscribers to the banquet the extensive menu speeches incl. Wilfrid Laurier poetic address to Blake. unknown
0243019424.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0484108379.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
19952091202133105724Awara Town Land Improvement District Joint Office 1995. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Awara Town Land Improvement District Joint Office paperback
18849636996 Fourth Avenue New York City June 11 1884. 1884. Fine. - Over 60 words penned on both sides of 5-5/8 inch high by 5-1/4 inch wide creamy white paper. Bishop Potter writes to a Mr. Lloyd regarding dividends on 2 insurance policies. Signed "H. C. Potter". Folded vertically down the center else fine. <p>The address 96th Fourth Avenue was the location of Grace Church School and the Church houses.<p>Henry C. Potter 1835-1908 was the seventh Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. In 1892 during his administration the cornerstone of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine was laid. Potter was notable for his interest in social reform and politics. While he was rector of Grace Church New York 1868-1884 he worked to inaugurate working men's clubs day nurseries and kindergartens and long after he became bishop he continued to take part in the summer work of missions on the east side of New York City. In 1900 he attacked the Tammany Hall administration accusing the city of protecting vice and helped lead a reform movement which elected a new mayor. 96 Fourth Avenue, New York City, June 11, 1884. unknown
186036704May 21st circa 1860s. 1860s. Good. - A few words penned in black ink on part of a sheet of letterhead 5-1/4 inches high by 4-1/4 inches wide with the embossed Privy Council seal printed in blind at the top. The paper is mounted on a piece of card of the same size. Signed "John Simon". The letterhead is slightly discolored from the mounting with 2 tiny brown marks near the top edge. The note was folded twice for mailing. There are glue marks remnants of paper & 2 ink notations on the verso of the mount. Good. <p>Simon writes that the change proposed by his correspondent is quite acceptable to him.<p>Sir John Simon 1816-1904 was an English pathologist surgeon and public health reformer. He held surgical posts at King's College Hospital and St. Thomas's Hospital in London from 1840 until 1876. Public health was not considered a responsibility of the government in the early 19th century. Parliament passed the Public Health Act of 1848 partly in response to Simon's influence and to deal with the threat of cholera and other public health problems. Simon was appointed the first Medical Officer of Health for the City of London. He was later made the head of the Medical Department of the Government and remained in that post until his retirement in 1876. Though he had no previous public health experience Simon's ongoing interest in pathology gave him a distinct advantage as a medical officer. He called for municipal action to provide adequate sanitary disposal and drainage improved standards of housing and upgrading of the water supply. His advocacy resulted in the Sanitary Act of 1875 which for the first time made a public health law universal and compulsory. Simon was also a member of Privy Council 1858-1876 and President of the Royal Society 1879-1880. May 21st, circa [1860s]. unknown
1871100858<p>circa 1871-72. 1871-72. Very good. - Over 35 words by the American Congregational minister and prison reform advocate listing his credentials under his signature penned on a 4-1/8 inch high by 8-1/4 inch wide sheet of paper. Signed "E.C. Wines" above his credentials "Secretary of the National Prison Association of America and Commissioner of the Government of the United States to arrange the preliminaries of an International Congress on the prevention and repression of crime including penal and reformatory treatment." Once mounted into an album with tape and glue stains on the verso including a spot rubbed raw. There is a tiny tear to the lower portion of the left edge. Very good.</p><p>The American Congregational minister and prison reform advocate Enoch Cobb Wines 1806-1879 served as a pastor in Cornwall Vermont and East Hampton Long Island as well as a professor of languages at Pennsylvania's Washington College. He was appointed secretary of the New York Prison Association in 1862 and subsequently the National Prison Association in 1870. He organized the first international congress on prison discipline held in London in 1871-72.</p> circa [1871-72].
200462333Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2004. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 119 p. Illustrations. Serial No. 108-192. The hearing was convened to examine the advances in Federal Government initiatives as well as new treatments that have been shown to benefit the medical condition of individuals afflicted with Autism Spectrum Disorder. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
0365318957.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1331514843.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
3744759156.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0259134597.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
066616147X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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