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249 pages. 193 items displayed in magnificent glossy colour photography. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy of this wonderful work. Book
Pages 197-224 plus advertorial covers. Features: Cover photo of North African sand storm; Two photos of H.M. aircraft-carrier "Formidable" at sea; Two pages of photos of American bomber crews training in Britain; Two pages of photos of Caucasus landmarks; Five photos from the El Alamein front; Page of photos of the "Do.217e" Bomber and its tail-brake controls - diving speed to 500 mph; Photos of Churchill in Cairo, Moscow (with Stalin and Molotov), and the Alamein area with Aussie troops; Five photos of the Solomon Islands - now mainly taken from Japan by U.S. Forces; Centrefold artist's rendering of the new Waterloo Bridge as it will appear when completed; Photos of personalities of the week include E.N. Syfret, Sir W. Welsh, Air Marshal P. Babington, Dr. A.P. Newton, Capt. C. Bain-Marais, Canadian air chiefs Breadner, Power and Edwards in London; Princess Margaret, A.C.G. Mars, Harold Drew, Admiral Vian, Sir George Philip Langton, Vincent Harris, Lord Loch, and G. Kingsley Sheils; Page of photos of the Shah of Iran with Queen Fawzieh and baby princess Chahnaz; Photos of Polish submarine "Sokol" returning home after daring Mediterranean exploits; Illustration of blitzed Guildhall in York with charred timbers still standing; Photos of H.M.S. "Manchester" and "Eaglle", both of which are now sunk; Photos of the U.S. Mustang aircraft and the Lancaster bomber under construction; Photo of Aussie female 'picketers' greeting U.S. soldiers with signs warning them not to reveal troop movements with innocent talk; Seven excllent illustrations depict duties of a Merlin bomber crew of seven; Twelve excellent photos show the life of coal miners at a large Midland group of collieries; nostalgic ads; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 365-392. Features: Nice colour B.S.A. one-page ad shows 'dicycle' being driven down boardroom table(!); Cover photo of 6-inch gun captured intact after Rommel's retreat; One page with six photos closely displaying the captured 6-inch gun; Photos of new German gun's muzzle break; Photos of signs in the North African desert; Three photos of General De Gaulle with fighting French forces in the Middle East; The Desert's Dusty Face (article with three dust storm photos); One-page aerial photo of Gialo Oasis - Italian Desert base raided by British Mobile Force; Russia Fighting On (article); Three interesting pages of graphics present household energy-consuming devices and their rates of fuel consumption, how households typically consume energy, and how to keep weekly track of fuel consumption - including instructions to read electricity and gas meters; Two pages with twelve dramatic photos of action in Stalingrad and on the Caucasus Front; Amazing centrefold aerial photo of Stalingrad under siege, showing fires raging in famous factories used as fortresses; Three photos from the New Guinea Front; Three photos of U-boat - going, going, gone; Photo of Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Kaiser at launching of one of his "Liberty" ships - build in 10 days; Photo of crowd of Japanese waiting on the Quayside at Lourenco Marques to board a repatriation ship; Air photo of bombs exploding on deck of whale-oil ship in dock at Cherbourg during "Boston" bomber attack; Two photos of attacks on German positions in Norway; Fascinating page of drawings of shoe styles illustrate "A new phase in modern warfare - both in England and France wood is now being used instead of leather for the soles of shoes; Six nice photos of women's fashions, 1942-1943; Thirteen photos of personalities of the week include Sq. Ldr. D.A.G. Parry, Wendell Willkie in Moscow with Stalin, Lieut.-Colonel Beckles Wilson, and Prebendary Carlile; Nice back cover colour ad for Dewar's White Label Scotch Whisky shows chess game in progress. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 649- 676. Features: Cover photo of huge black plume of smoke rising from a Jerusalem cinema, mistakenly thought to be Arab owned and burned by Jews in retaliation for Arab looting; Six dramatic photos of Arab riots in Jerusalem where Britain represents the sole stable factor; Photo of the huge Consolidated Vultee military transport, the XC-99, during its first test flight; Photo inside the belly of the XC-99; Two photos of the air raid shelter, or bunker, where Hitler and Eva Braun died; Two photos of the deep water salvage submarine designed by Italian Pietro Vessena for use in Lake Como; Five photos of Russia's mighty military on parade in Moscow; Five photos of hunger and destitution in postwar Berlin; Article discusses the great communist counter-offensive in France; Photos from Manchuria where China's Civil War continues; Two pages of scenes of sabotage and civil disorder in Paris, Arras and Lille, where the French assertion of the right to work has brought the Communists into the open; One-page reproduction of the famous photo of St. Paul's Cathedral during the 1940 blitz - contrasted with the opposing page which shows St. Paul's today, war-scarred but majestic amid devastation; Five photos show repairs being made to St. Paul's; Two pages of photos illustrate the ancient art of Benin; Photos of personalities of the week include Sir Eustace Pulbrook, King Michael of Rumania and Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parme, Samuel Courtauld, Mr. Molotov, Mr. Vishinsky, Chiang Kai-shek, Harold Wilson, and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek; Photo of a detachment of the York and Lancaster Regiment at Dolni Bousov, Czechoslovakia, receiving back the regimental drum, lost to the Germans in Crete in 1941; Photo of huge crowd in Tel Aviv celebrating news that the UN had voted in favour of the partition of Palestine. Somewhat above average wear. Unmarked. Few tape repairs. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
68 pages. Features: Fantastic colour-photo ad for Marboleum inside front cover shows 1930's bathroom with yellow fixtures; Editorial on Hitler's "Racism Gone Mad"; Attractive one-page colour ad for the new 1939 Plymouth features a blue four-door; News digest contains these headings - The Anti-British Outburst in Moscow; Incidentals of a Month; A 'National Unity' party; Trials of the Rowell Commission; A Summer's Books; Nostalgice one-page ad for the 1939 Dodge Six and Dodge De Luxe (orange); "North American Speaks English" - Bismarck said this was the most impressive thing in modern history - this photo-illustrated military article deals with the matter of the English-speaking North Americans joining in the impending war on the British side; More Fish in the Sea (short story); A Maker of Books (short story); Mace Webb (short story); Going to the Dogs - great photo-illustrated article on greyhound dog racing in England, with photo of General A.C. Critchley; Little Miss Hurricane (short story); Crossways House (short story); Murderers in the Football Stands - without the outlet of sports as a safety valce for his emotions the average human being would probably turn to murder, mayhem, arson and pillage(?); Palmolive ad features the Dionne Quints; Movie news and photos of Gloria Blondell, Carole Lombard, Paulette Goddard, Spencer Tracy, Tyrone Power and Norma Shearer; Lux soap ad features beautiful photos of Loretta Young; Woodbury's Cold Cream ad features photo of Danielle Darrieux; Scott's Emulsion ad features Uncle Dan comic; *Sensational* one-page colour-illustrated ad for Canadian apples shows little boy at top, different apples down left side, and cooked pie foods along bottom, with list of apple varieties and their ripening months; Where the Fashions Start (fashion article; Nice one-page two-colour ad for Heinz Soups says "The Tureen Tells Tales; Cosmetics article; World Sayings; "Serve Fish To Your Family" colour ad inside back cover; Old Dutch cleanser colour ad on back cover; and more. Bits of loss from corners of last page, otherwise average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Gambling in Montreal - "operating wide open and crowded with civilians and servicemen"; A General Comes Home - General H.D.G. Crerar - short article with photo; When Memory Blacks Out - article on amnesia; John Mulloy Comes Home (fiction); Rockets are Coming - Prof. A.M. Low, president of the Interplanetary Society, predicts passenger rockets within twenty years; Manhunter's Moon (fiction); Why Not Pro Football? - by Lew Hayman; Latin America - Whose Customer?; "His Majesty From Sioux City" (fiction); Russian "Wireless" Car at Work - brief article with first photos to reach Canada; One-page Westinghouse ad features fascinating photo and details of a 100-ton cycloton they constructed in 1938; and more. Includes many nice ads in colour and black and white, our favourite being the colour back cover Coke ad which shows servicement engaged in a chess game. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
Contents: Cracks appear in Axis line-up as satellite states look for exits - Finland has best chance to succeed as talks with Moscow open possibility of escape; Two disappointing slow-downs hamper allies' invasion plans - dragging Italian campaign and clash of ideas over Burma; The Admiralty Islands - springboard for combined drive on Philippines; Photo of the "Money Masters" - Presidents of eleven of the nation's twelve Federal Reserve Banks and a vice president of the twelfth; Smog and bombs force 268-year-old Greenwich Observatory to seek a new site from which to measure the world's time; Photo of Joe Louis (Barrow) in training at Camp Sibert, Ala.; Oscar winners of 1944. Above-average wear. Faint ink stamp atop front cover. Varying levels of staining to all pages. All text legible. A worthy reference copy. Book
Contents: Cover illustration of a Long Tom (155 mm) gun firing in Italy; Oldsmobile/GM color ad inside front cover features insigne of the 339th fighter squadron Army Air Forces; GM Diesel Power color ad showing excavating equipment in action; First Act of Invasion Drama - attack on Nazi's Gustav Line - Allies strike hard in Italy following regrouping of Forces - Japs follow suit in China; Air cooperation with ground forces still a problem for invasion command; Sevastopol Rises - smashing 3-day assault brings proudest victory since Stalingrad; Interesting list of fines posted near the front line in Italy (place name deleted by censor); Report on Italy - Our First Continental Invasion - Seven Bloody Months of Fighting; Priest Orlemanski's mission to Moscow ends in suspension from Holy duties - his "treating" with Stalin brings disciplinary action amid Polish-Russian Quarrel; Dramatic photos of Herman Wallenda and a stunt gone wrong at Madison Square Garden - with no net below him!; De Soto Transportation ad - shows cars and planes; Poll-Tax Filibuster; Cold-blooded Ethyl ad shows a sneering airman painting another Jap kill onto his aircraft; PCA Airline ad; Bonds to Battleships - James V. Forrestal; Allies touch up last plans for rule of liberated Europe - but Russia does not yet see eye to eye with U.S. and Britain on Handling of Nazis and Poles; Firestone color centerfold ad; Drama in Stokholm - Allied agents Force SKF to decide on ball bearings vital to the Nazis; Photos of Doukhobors partially disrobed in a Vancouver, B.C. courtroom; El Salvador rebels flock back home as Menendez takes over Presidency; Montgomery-Ward employees celebrate their CIO union's election victory; Rocket to the moon - Willie Ley says it is possible; Budd Manufacturing color ad; Old Overholt whiskey color ad. Moderate wear. Address label atop front cover. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
40 pages. Divinely illustrated front cover. Features: Paris in War Time - an impression of 1916, by E.V. Lucas; The Surrender - a story by Mary Gaunt; Russia - The Charm of Old Moscow, by Alan Lethbridge and illustrated by Arthur Watts; The Sculptor of the Madonna and of Countless Angels - the Della Robbia, by Cecil Headlam; Navarino - a battle of the allies - France, Russia, and Britain against the Turks; The Mystery of a Dress Coat, by Shelland Bradley; Several beautiful full-page colour portraits; Colour centerfold portrait entitled The Last Absolution of the Munsters at Rue du Bois, from a painting by F. Matania; How He Proposed - the different ways in which heroes have proposed to heroines in the novels of 1916; Louvain, 1916; Nice full-page colour ad for Eno's 'Fruit Salt'; Fantastic black and white photographic full-page ad for Napier Motor Carriages; Nice black and white photo ad for the Invincible Talbot automobiles, manufactured by Clement Talbot Limited; Smaller attractive black and white ads for Humber Cars, Austin Motor Co. Ltd., Vauxhall Motors Limited, Crossley Motors, and The Sunbeam Motor Car. Original protective advertising outer layer still present and affixed. Prior owner's name and address atop front advertising cover. Prior owner's name atop front cover. Moderate wear. A very beautiful magazine indeed! Book
68 pages. Features: Early morning photos of nostalgic scenes in Vancouver and Victoria, B.C.; Weston's / George Weston Limited one-page ad features the Canadian share owner; Very colourful one-page colour ad for the 1948 Ford Meteor (green); Reconstrukzija (Reconstruction) - excellent photo-illustrated report from Moscow describes daily life for her citizens; I'm a Hermit (short story); Morley Callaghan explains why he prefers town life to the joys of a summer cottage; Article on 1920's Jazz - songs the author would like to see stay; "Poor Little Fellers" (short story); Lawrence Skey, M.P., Criticizes Canada's "Paper Air Force"; Encounter with Cinderella (short story); What is at Stake in Palestine (Israel)? - article by Dr. H.L. Stewart; Remembrance of Things Past - a poem by E.J. Pratt accompanies photos of Old Niagara which are part of an Art Gallery of Toronto exhibit; Half-page Canadian Pacific ad features their vessel the "White Empress"; Quarter-page ad for Thistle brand baby carriages; Photos of summer fair scenes; Gerhard Kennedy looks at women's fashions - with photos; Women - The All-time Flop in Politics! - article with photos of Mrs. Iva Fallis, Miss Agnes Macphail, Mrs. Martha Black, Mrs. Gladys Strum, Mrs. Dorise Nielsen, Mrs. Cora Casselman and Mrs. Cairine Wilson; Lovely one-page colour ad for Frigidaire fridges show mom and son standing in front of loaded fridge; Recipes for preserves; One-page Chevrolet ad features green car; Battle of the Hair-doos - shops hope to regain business lost to home perms; Nice colour Coke ad on back cover includes tennis racquet and ball; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
60 pages. Features: News digest includes 'a British ministry of propaganda', America's altered mood, free speech in Canada, Moscow bargaining, and from Poland to Rumania; Canada's Prison Shame - intersting article by J. Alex. Edmison includes photos of - the B.C. Penitentiary at New Westminster, youn ladies in the Borstal Institute at Aylesbury, England, Montreal Gaol (Bordeaux Gaol), and members of the Archambault Commission - R.W. Craig, J.L. KKent, Mr. Justice Archambault, J.C. McRuer, and Allan Fraser; Uncle Romeo and the White Pendennings (short story); The Missing Passenger (short story); A Letter to Anne (short story); Samaritan on Wheels - the story of the Empire's greatest philanthropist and leading industrialist William Richard Morris, now Viscount Nuffield - article with photos; Land of Wish-It-Were (verse); If I Die Before I Wake (part 4); Nice one-page ad by the Automotive Industries of Canada features the province of Alberta with map and text; Colgate ad features illustration of the Dionne Quints; Palmolive soap ad features illustration of the faces of the Dionne Quintuplets and (faux) signed photo of Gladys Cooper of 1973 Robson St. in Vancouver; Stewart-Warner radio ad features photos of the 4575, 4351 and 4511 models; When Contagious Diseases Stay Home; Movie news and photos, with brief write-up and photo of Geraldine Fitzgerald, plus additional photos of King Vidor, Alexander Hall, Howard Hawks, Frank Capra, Sam Wood, Jack Conway, Clarence Brown, Frank Borzage, Tod Browning, George Cukor, Victor Fleming and Norman Taurog; Fashion illustrations; Nice half-page two-colour ad for RCA Victor radios shows the A-2, A-1 and A-4; Scales of Fortune (short story); Half-page tourism ad for Italy (unfortunately, many young Canadians would soon be fighting there!); Beauty article; Charis foundations ad features nostalgic photo; Autumn fashion preview; Pickling Made Easier; Quotes of the World; Nice Heinz ketchup ad inside front cover includes photo of restaurant scene; Vintage colour back cover ad for Canadian-grown fruits and vegetables; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
68 pages. Features: Ford Motor Company ad inside front cover illustrates their manufacture of war materials; News digest includes the war in the air, an aerial 'second front', the Wendell Willkie Reports, and no 'fifth column' in Moscow; Editorial on the overseas cigarette muddle; Lew Hayman Looks at Football Stars - photo-illustrated article documents the outstanding players of the last decade; Fantastic Tomorrow - futuristic illustrated article on designs/architecture of tomorrow; Swan Song in Satin (short story); He Would Know About Beezy (short story); I Once Had a Heart (short story); Canada's Airlined Youth - photo-illustrated article on the training of Canadian Air Cadets, including photos of Air Marshal W.A. Bishop and Wing Commander D.R. (Don) MacLaren; A Man's Castle (short story); Hollywood news and photos; Land of Wish-It-Were (poem by a grasshopper); Prestone anti-freeze one-page ad includes nice illustration of horse-drawn sleigh; Canadian General Electric ad says "Eat Right... Keep Right"; Royal Canadian Air Force (R.C.A.F.) Air Crew one-page recruiting ad shows "A Veteran at 20!"; Rare one-page Canada Starch company one-page ad features article of saluting housewife in apron and title "Canada's Housoldiers are Serving the Nation"; Woodbury Soap one-page ad features photos of Betty Cordon; Pepsodent ad features photos of drum majorettes Charlene and Shirley; Beautiful one-page colour-photo-illustrated Woodbury Cold Cream ad features Ilona Massey in bed; Article on beauty and fashions; Woodbury Powder one-page ad features nice colour photo of Georgia Carroll; Fashion illustrations; Quotes from around the world; Colour Victory Bond ad inside back cover with title "Mother Budgets Our Future Now"; Nice back cover colour ad for Wabasso Cottons. and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this excellent wartime issue. Book
28 pages. Features: Wonderful colour ad inside front cover features a 1939 Daimler Straight Eight Touring Limousine; Title page photos of tanks returning to England from the failed Dieppe raid; The Commando Raid on Dieppe - aerial photos and a chart of the town; Twelve photos during and after the Dieppe raid; Four sketches of Dieppe action by artist Captain Bryan De Grineau; A Review of Many Events of the War - article by Cyril Falls; Photo portraits of new commanders for our armies in the Middle East - The Hon. Sir Harold Alexander, Major-General Herbert Lumsden and Lieut.-General B.L. Montgomery (Monty); Egypt's contribution to our way of life, by Sir John Squire; Excellent full-page photo portrait of the late Air Commodore H.R.H. The Duke of Kent with the Duchess; Interesting photos at home and abroad; Fifteen photos of personalities and events of the week; Centerfold illustration by Captain Bryan De Grineau depicts zero hour off Dieppe - the combined services launching their attack at the appointed time and place; Excellent two-page illustrations present structural details of the Focke-Wulf "F.W. 190" Fighter Plane; Photos of war activities on three fronts - Pacific, Mediterranean and Channel; Five photos of British 4.5 Heavy Guns in action on the El Alamein Battlefield; Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy - Six photos; The Prime minister visits the Eighth Army at El Alamein - 6 photos; Mr. Churchill visits Egypt and Moscow - six photos including shots of Churchill with Molotov and Stalin; Four large dramatic photos of Naval action in the Great Convoy Fight off Malta; Series of illustrations depict how the tanker "Ohio" delivered fuel to Malta; Great back cover colour ad for Dewar's "White Label" Scotch Whiskey shows a crate of whisky being wheeled past a smiling traffic officer. Somewhat above-average wear to covers. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Book
292 pages. Richard Wurmbrand's response to the bible of the communist world - The Atheist's Handbook. Signed and dated by author upon title page. Moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
1891VBA-105Série complète des 8 numéros parus entre le 3 mai et le 17 septembre 1891. Reliure modeste demi toile à dos muet. 38 x 28,5 cm. Au total : 64 pages + hors-texte. Nombreuses illustrations (voir photos).
n 12° (11,4×6 cm); 327, (9) pp. Legatura coeva in piena pergamena floscia. Titolo manoscritto al dorso, in parte sbiadito. Alcuni difetti alla legatura nel margine basso del dorso e ai piatti (leggeri), mentre, all’interno a parte un leggerissimo alone al margine alto del volume, praticamente invisibile ed ininfluente, il volume si presenta in buone-ottime condizioni di conservazione. Prima edizione di questa elzeviriana dedicata agli sconfinati territori della Russia. L’opera è una dettagliata descrizione ella situazione storica, geografica, folklorica, politica, militare, economica, religiosa, della Russia, di Mosca e della Tartaria nei primi decenni del diciassettesimo secolo. Lo studio è normalmente attribuita al noto studioso olandese, Marc Zuerius Von Boxhorn (28 agosto 1612 – 3 ottobre 1653) che fu a lungo professore all’Univeristà di Leida. Studioso di linguistica, trovò un collegamento fra le lingue indoeuropee arrivando a definire una comune radice linguistica in una lingua che von Boxhorn chiamò “scita”. La sua ipotesi vedeva come facenti parte dello stesso ceppo linguisitco l’olandese, il greco, il latino, il persiano e il tedesco, aggiungendo in seguito le lingue slave, celtiche e baltiche. In modo alquanto curioso escluse altre lingue da queste comuni origini, come ad esempio, l’ebraico. Rif. Bibl.: IT\ICCU\TO0E\008429; Rahir, 312; Berghman, 1890; Goldsmith, III, 37; Rostenberg, 128; Cat. Russica, II, 233. Manca al Brunet e al Graesse. Coquebert de Taizy, nella voce da lui scritta sul Boxhorn per la “Biographie Universelle” del Michaud (V, 416-417), non conosce questo scritto, forse in ragione della sua anonimia.
2022x-9814968021Jenny Stanford Pub 2022. Hardcover. New. 600 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. Jenny Stanford Pub hardcover
1973013112Moscou - Moskau The Young guard - Molodaja gvardia 1973 In-4 Cartonnage et jaquette illustrée de l'éditeur
1955007408Paris Gallimard 1955 In-12 Broché
1787PHO-1232À Genève, chez Barde, Manget & Cie, 1787. 4 vol. in-8, veau havane moucheté époque, dos lisse orné avec pièce de titre rouge , pièce de titre rouge, tomaison dorée, tranches rouges (qq. défauts aux reliures dont épid. et des coins usés ,mouillures claires, etc ; 1 pl. en déficit).
P6161Moscow: Informatsionnyi Tsentr Moskovskogo Narodnogo Fronta 1988. Octavo 19 × 14 cm. Original side-stapled blind card wrappers: 123 pp. Wrappers lightly soiled; some rust to staples. Internally very good or better. This samizdat directory of "amateur socio-political organizations" published by the Moscow People's Front is a remarkable record of the burgeoning civil society in the late Soviet period as well as such phenomena as environmentalism and urban conservation. The Moscow People's Front MNF was founded in June 1988 when members of some forty amateur organizations convened to draft a ratification document and elect a governing body. According to this document "The objective of MNF is to aid in the democratic self-organization of the masses and to fight for socialist renewal of society for a democratic socialism." While the group advocated democracy "freedom of press and speech freedom of public protest" as well as for "a democratic planning of the economy" they saw this reform happening within the framework of socialism and "respect for the principles of socialism" was discussed as being of key significance. MNF further advocated for all government to be given over to "democratically elected Soviets" for labor unions to exist outside of government control and for ecological concerns to be taken seriously in the management of country's natural resources. The organization held weekly protests at Pushkinskaia Square in Moscow throughout the summer of 1988 to draw attention to its goals. This directory of socio-political organizations throughout the Soviet Union was created by MNF in the same year for internal use. <br /> <br /> The first "amateur organisations" sprang up in the Soviet Union in the 1960s during the Thaw. However these were mostly non-political in nature cultural literary scientific or sports clubs. Emboldened by Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of Glasnost and Perestroika Transparency and Rebuilding the amateur organisations took on an increasingly political bent. In 1986 a new decree "Regulations on Amateur Associations" legalised the registration and functioning of amateur or "informal" associations in the Soviet Union. Observing this movement in 1990 Lyudmila Alekseeva wrote for the Helsinky Watch Committee: "The emergence of so many spontaneous free associations since 1986 is working a fundamental change in Soviet life. What was for so long a grey and mute mass is now speaking out in a chorus of vigorous dissonant voices. A society that was atomized by Stalinist terror has begun to restructure itself. . Nicknamed by the Soviet press as neformaly or "informals" to distingush them from participants in officially organised and controlled bodies these millions of historic preservationists environmentalists political activists nationalists human rights campaigners body-builders pacifists sports fans Afghan war veterans hippies rock-music devotees and others are the grassroots activsts and sometimes the strategists of the new social movements" Neformaly: Civil Society in the USSR. New York: Helsinki Watch 1990. Despite the publicaton of this report the burgeoning of civil society in the late Soviet period was quickly forgotten. It comes to light in this directory.<br /> <br /> The directory is organized by republic and city and each entry gives the name of the organization the organization's focus and objectives as well as a brief history of its formation closing with contact information. Nearly 200 socialist anarchist nature and historical preservation organizations are listed all across the country each ranging in size from just a dozen to hundreds of members. The primary purpose of many of the associations listed in the directory is a kind of whistleblowing. For example the Moscow based "press-club" Glasnost defined its mission as "helping the individuals whose rights are being trampled by local authorities. . The aid is provided by publishing their story in the eponymous journal printed and distributed by the organization." Demokraticheskii Soiuz Democratic Union defined its mission as "opposition to totalitarianism" by organizing events and protests "promoting pluralism." Another Moscow based organization "Narodnyi arkhiv" People's Archive was actively compiling an archive of all manner of Samizdat self-published materials. The Leningrad based Demokratizatsiia profsoiuzov Democratization of Worker's Unions advocated "the creation of worker's unions that would be independent from the state." Arkhangelsk based "Ekologiia severa" Ecology of the north is one of many environmental organizations listed in the directory. The volume closes with organizations with a nationwide presence such as "Memorial" а group for the "preservation of memory of victims of Stalinism" and "providing aid to the victims of Stalinism" headed by the Soviet scientist and dissident activist Andrei Sakharov. Together the organizations in the directory provide a broad overview of the social concerns of Soviet citizens as well as the mechanisms that were available for their organizing. The volume is a remarkable time capsule of the burgeoning civil society in the last years of the Soviet state. Many of the organizations went on to achieve significant results often on the regional level and some of their initiators were to be elected to political positions. <br /> <br /> KVK OCLC show various copies of the first part suggesting that no further issues were published. Scarce in the trade. unknown
90577A Paris, chez Treuttel et Wütz, Libraires, A Strasbourg, même Maison de Commerce, 1824/ Londres, Chez Treuttel, Würtz Treuttel Fils, et Richter, 1827, 2 textes reliés dans un volume in-8 de 130x210 mm environ, (1) un portrait de l'auteur en frontispice, dessiné d'après nature et sur pierre par C. Carbonnier, Lith. de G. Engelmann, viij-440-80 pages, (1) f., cartonnage moderne. Avec un envoi de l'auteur sur la première garde du premier texte. Des rousseurs et petites mouillures claires dans les marges du premier texte, sinon bon état.
68 pages. Features: Schools should teach religion as a subject, not a faith; Macmillan's 30 fateful minutes in Moscow; *Fantastic* two-page colour ad for International trucks shows five different models; Gorgeous colour photo ad for the 1959 Buick Le Sabre convertible; How Dangerous is Natural Gas? - some people are concerned; Can the University of Toronto (U of T) survive sheer size? - article with photos; The hectic scramble for the class of 1959 - courted by hundreds of company recruiters; Canada needs a lobby in Washington; The Sleuths who probe our air disasters - with photo of the remains of a DC-4 which crashed in Quebec in 1957, killing 79 people; James Wilson Morrice - the painter we weren't ready for - article with colour illustrations; Nice Canadian Pacific centrefold ad for Canadian Pacific shows a large map of the world and their various transporations services; Nice Black Label beer ad shows massive glass of beer in the wilderness; Two-page black and white photo ad for Toro lawn mowers; Nice colour photo ad for Old Vienna beer inside back cover; Colour ad on back cover for S.O.S. pads and how they can be used to clean white wall tires; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
2000Star-9783540663102Springer 2000. Hardcover. New. Springer hardcover
2000Star-9783540663102Springer 2000. Hardcover. New. Springer hardcover
