A reckoning with the great drama that ensued after war came to an end in 1945. Regime change had come on a global scale, creating the greatest power vacuum in history. Out of the vicious power struggles emerged the modern world as we...
Peace
- Author:Buruma, IanSummary:
- Author:Meyer, JoyceSummary:
Joyce Meyer shows how to rely on God's strength during difficult circumstances by revealing the nature of God's peace as found in Scripture. She explains how to trade anxiety for joy, develop a childlike attitude of faith, and give our...
- Author:Nouwen, Henri J. M.Summary:
Throughout his life Henri Nouwen stressed the connection between intimacy with Christ and solidarity with a wounded world. From his early support for the civil rights movement, through his engagement in the cause of peace, to his life...
- Author:Dershowitz, Alan M.Summary:
All reasonable people, Dershowitz argues, know what a final peace settlement will look like: two states, based on Israeli withdrawals from Gaza and most of the West Bank; a symbolic recognition by Israel of the rights of Palestinian...
- Author:Buttrose, Larry editorSummary:
A collection of speeches from world leaders on the topic of war and peace.
- Author:MacMillan, MargaretSummary:
In this course, University of Toronto history professor Margaret MacMillan takes us back to Paris in 1919, when, for six months, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George and French Prime Minister George...
- Author:MacMillan, MargaretSummary:
In this work of narrative history, MacMillan brings extraordinary personalities to life. The great-granddaughter of Lloyd George, she makes use of his personal papers and gives a scintillating view of those dramatic and fateful days...
- Author:Hébert, Marie-FrancineSummary:
Comment fait-on quand la guerre entre dans la maison et que, sous les masques des soldats, on reconnaît un regard ? Qu'emporte-t-on lorsque l'on doit s'enfuir ? Laisse-t-on derrière soi le poisson à qui l'on a promis le plus bel univers...
- Author:Williams, Kayanesenh PaulSummary:
Several centuries ago, the five nations that would become the Haudenosaunee — Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca — were locked in generations-long cycles of bloodshed. When they established Kayanerenkó:wa, the Great Law of...
- Author:Stepanek, Mattie J. T., Carter, JimmySummary:
"I was touched by the depth of passion and awed by the firm resolve with which Mattie Stepanek pursued a dream that has evaded men and women throughout history. What began as a casual discourse, not too different from others I have had...
- Author:Tolstoy, Leo, grafSummary:
A letter on the Russian-Japanese war.
- Author:Vonnegut, KurtSummary:
Published on the first anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, this is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace, imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful humor.