Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Rolf-Peter Horstmann $21.00
This is a major work by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, whose writings have been deeply influential on subsequent generations of philosophers. It is offered here in a new translation by Judith Norman, with an introduction by Rolf Peter Horstmann that places the work in its historical and philosophical context.
Phaedo (Clarendon Plato Series) by David Gallop $50.00
Library of Liberal Arts title.
All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity) by Princeton University Press $35.00
Within days of Madeleine Albright's confirmation as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in 1993, she instructed David Scheffer to spearhead the historic mission to create a war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. As senior adviser to Albright and then as President Clinton's ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, Scheffer was at the forefront of the efforts that led to criminal...
Justice and the Enemy: Nuremberg, 9/11, and the Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed by PublicAffairs $26.99
Since the Nuremberg Trials of 1945, lawful nations have struggled to impose justice around the world, especially when confronted by tyrannical and genocidal regimes. But in Cambodia, the USSR, China, Bosnia, Rwanda, and beyond, justice has been served haltingly if at all in the face of colossal inhumanity. International Courts are not recognized worldwide. There is not a global consensus on how...
Auschwitz: A New History by PublicAffairs $30.00
Published for the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-a devastating and surprising account of the most infamous death camp the world has ever known. Auschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fully known. In Auschwitz, Laurence Rees reveals new insights from more than 100 original interviews with Auschwitz survivors and Nazi...
The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power by Basic Books $18.99
America's "small wars," "imperial wars," or, as the Pentagon now terms them, "low-intensity conflicts," have played an essential but little-appreciated role in its growth as a world power. Beginning with Jefferson's expedition against the Barbary Pirates, Max Boot tells the exciting stories of our sometimes minor but often bloody landings in Samoa, the Philippines, China, Haiti, the Dominican...
The Nuremberg Trial by Mcgraw-Hill $9.95
Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials, a new edition of a history of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg after the Second World War, drawing on a variety of sources, including extensive interviews with surviving participants.
Defiance: The Bielski Partisans by Oxford University Press, USA $14.95
The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust years is one of helpless victims under a death sentence, unable to fight consignment to the ghettos, to the camps, and to the gas chambers. In fact, many Jews struggled alone or with others against the terrors of the Third Reich, risking their lives against overwhelming odds for the slimmest chance of survival, or a mere glimpse of...
Tackling America's Toughest Questions: Alternative Media Interviews by Clarity Press $14.95
Testifying to his reputation worldwide for international legal expertise and political insight, Francis A. Boyle may be one of the few lawyers and scholars in the world who, over a long career, has enjoyed multiple interviews with most of the world's major media. He is knowledgeable of and has been questioned on a wide range of issues related to a succession of wars on several continents, nuclear...
Protesting Power: War, Resistance, and Law (War and Peace Library) by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers $80.00
In this indispensable book, distinguished activist lawyer Francis Boyle sounds an impassioned clarion call to citizen action against Bush administration policies, both domestic and international. Especially since the Reagan Administration, hundreds of thousands of Americans have used non-violent civil resistance to protest against elements of U.S. policy that violate basic principles of...