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Land Mines and Demining in the 20Th Century: a Bibliography Calhoun: The NPS Institutional Archive Dudley Knox Library Publications Bibliographies 2000 Land Mines and Demining in the 20th Century: A Bibliography Marlatt, Greta E. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/6969 Home » Library Home » Research Tools » Bibliographies » LandMines Land Mines and Demining: Books Books Land Mines & Demining in the 20th Century: A Bibliography Please note: not all these resources are available in the Dudley Knox Library but they can be requested through Interlibrary Loan. Anderson, Kenneth. "An Overview of the Global Land Mine Crisis." pp. 17-24, IN: Cahill, Kevin M. (ed.) Clearing the Fields: Solutions to the Global Land Mines Crisis. New York, NY: Basic Books, c1995. 237p. Anti-Personnel Landmines: Friend or Foe?: A Study of the Military Use and Effectiveness of Anti-Personnel Mines. 2nd ed. Geneva: International Committee of the Red Cross, 1997, 88p. Anti-Personnel Mines in Central America: Conflict and Post-Conflict: Landmines Must be Stopped. Geneva: International Committee of the Red Cross, 1996, 26p. Banks, Eddie. Anti-Personnel Mines: How to Recognize and Defuse. Washington, DC: Brassey’s, 1997. Banks, Eddie and R. C. Gravett. Anti-Personnel Mines: Recognising & Disarming. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 1997. 217p. Banning Anti-Personnel Mines: The Ottawa Treaty Explained. Geneva: International Committee of the Red Cross, 1998, 22p. Eliasson, Jan. "An International Approach Toward Humanitarian Assistance and Economic Development of Countries Affected by Land Mines." pp. 166-178, IN: Cahill, Kevin M. (ed.) Clearing the Fields: Solutions to the Global Land Mines Crisis. New York, NY: Basic Books, c1995. 237p. Bigl, Susan R. Change in Orientation of Artillery-Delivered Anti-Tank Mines in Snow. [Hanover, N.H.]: US Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory, [1984]. CRREL report; 84-20. 20p. Bingham, Price T. Air Power and the Defeat of a Warsaw Pact Offensive: Taking a Different Approach to Air Interdiction in NATO. Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Air University Press, 1987. AU-ARI-CP; 87-2. 41p. Blagden, Patrick. "The Use of Mines and the Impact of Technology." pp. 112-123, IN: Cahill, Kevin M. (ed.) Clearing the Fields: Solutions to the Global Land Mines Crisis. New York, NY: Basic Books, c1995. 237p. Bottoms, Albert, James N. Eagle, and Howard Bayless (eds.). Proceedings of the Autonomous Vehicles in Mine Countermeasures Symposium, 1995. Monterey, CA: Naval Postgraduate School, 1995. 1 Bottoms, Albert M., Ellis A. Johnson and Barbara Honegger (eds.). Proceedings of the Technology and the Mine Problem Symposium. 2 vols. Monterey, CA: Naval Postgraduate School, 1996. Boutwell, Jeffrey and Michael Klare, (eds). Light Weapons and Civil Conflict: Controlling the Tools of Violence. Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict series, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, c1999. 262p.http://www.ccpdc.org/pubs/light/lighfr.htm Cahill, Kevin M. (ed.) Clearing the Fields: Solutions to the Global Land Mines Crisis. New York: Basic Books, 1995. 237p. Cahill, Kevin M. and Abdulrahim Abby Farah. "Developing Indigenous Amputee Programs: Lessons From Nicaragua and Somalia." pp. 148-161, IN: Cahill, Kevin M. (ed.) Clearing the Fields: Solutions to the Global Land Mines Crisis. New York, NY: Basic Books, c1995. 237p. Cahill, Kevin M and Thomas Roma. Silent Witnesses. [New York?]: United Nations: Center for International Health and Cooperation: Worldwide distribution by HarperCollins, c1995. 91p. Cameron, Maxwell A., et al. To Walk Without Fear: The Global Movement to Ban Landmines. Oxford University Press; 1999. 416p. Canada. Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament Division. Anti-Personnel Land-Mines, An Annotated Bibliography. Ottawa: Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 1996. 114p. Chan, Philemon C. et al. "Acceleration Threat to Truck Occupants Due to Land Mine Explosions." pp. 447-460 IN: SAFE Association (U.S.). Symposium. Proceedings of the Annual Symposium, SAFE Association. 33rd (1995). Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons (1980) Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons: Message From the President of the United States Transmitting the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use. [Corr. print.]. Washington, DC: U.S. GPO, 1995. Treaty document; 103-25. 23 p. Cooper, Andrew. Exposing the Source: U.S. Companies and the Production of Antipersonnel Mines. Human Rights Watch Project Report, v. 9, no. 2, April 1997. New York: Human Rights Watch, 1997. 47p. Cornish, Paul. Anti-Personnel Mines: Controlling the Plague of ‘Butterflies’. London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, c1994. 38p. Croll, Mike. The History of Landmines. Barnsley [U.K.]: Leo Cooper, 1998. 164p. Davies, Paul. War of the Mines: Cambodia, Landmines and the Impoverishment of a Nation. London [England]; Boulder, CO: Pluto Press, 1994. 172p. De Waal, Alexander. Violent Deeds Live On: Landmines in Somalia and Somaliland. Cockermouth, Cumbria [England]: Mines Advisory Group; London African Rights, [1993]. 82p. Dickey, Thomas S. and Peter C. George. Field Artillery Projectiles of the American Civil War; Including a Selection of Navy Projectiles, Hand Grenades, Rockets and Land Mines. Atlanta, GA: Arsenel Press, 1980. 505p. Disarmament Week Symposium (1994: United Nations) Disarmament: Ending Reliance on Nuclear and 2 Conventional Arms. New York: United Nations, c1995. 155p. DoD Humanitarian Demining R & D Program (US Army Communications-Electronics Command). Humanitarian Demining: Developmental Technologies, 1998. [Washington, D.C.?] : Dept. of Defense, [1998] 55p. Dubey, Abinash C. et al (eds.) Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets. 9-12 April 1996, Orlando, Florida; sponsored by SPIE--the International Society for... Bellingham, Wash.: SPIE, c1996. Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering; v. 2765. 588p. Dubey, Abinash C. et al (eds.) Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets II. 21-24 April 1997, Orlando, Florida; sponsored by SPIE--the International Society for... Bellingham, Wash.: SPIE, c1997. Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering; v. 3079. 842p. Dubey, Abinash C. et al (eds.). Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets III. 13-17 April 1998, Orlando, Florida. Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering; v. 3392. Bellingham, WA: SPIE, c1998. 1271p. Dubey, Abinash C. et al (eds.) 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New York, NY: Basic Books, c1995. 237p. Falk, Richard. "Walking the Tightrope of International Humanitarian Law: Meeting the Challenges of Land Mines." pp. 69-86, IN: Cahill, Kevin M. (ed.) Clearing the Fields: Solutions to the Global Land Mines Crisis. New York, NY: Basic Books, c1995. 237p. Fighting Landmines: The Ottawa Process and the United Nations Role. New York, NY: United Nations Dept. of Public Information, [1997] 8p. Fine, Jonathan E. Hidden Enemies: Land Mines in Northern Somalia: A Report. Boston, MA: Physicians for Human Rights, 1992. 5p. Gerken, Louis. Mine Warfare Technology. American Scientific Group, 1989. Geyer, Richard G. Magnetostatic Measurements for Mine Detection. Boulder, CO: National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, 1988. NISTIR ; 88-3098. Giannou, Chris and H. Jack Geiger. "The Medical Lessons of Land Mine Injuries." pp. 138-147, IN: Cahill, Kevin M. (ed.) Clearing the Fields: Solutions to the Global Land Mines Crisis. 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