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War and Anti-War: Making Sense of Today's Global Chaos

War and Anti-War: Making Sense of Today's Global Chaos

by Alvin Toffler, Heidi Toffler

Citing the millions of lives that have been lost during Cold War conflict, a study predicts where and how future wars will be fought and present a paradigm for peace through technology, communication, and human innovation. Reprint. PW.

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

by J. Kevin Sheehan

A Leader Becomes a Leader opens with a window on history: Henry David Thoreau riding a borrowed horse and wagon into the woods around Concord, Massachusetts to Walden Pond in 1845. There, he writes a classic work that has a powerful effect on the lives and philosophies of seminal leaders in the next century as diverse as Mohandas Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela. Thoreau believed that a... (more)

Longitudes and Attitudes

The World in the Age of Terrorism

by Thomas L. Friedman

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist and bestselling author of From Beirut to Jerusalem and The Lexus and the Olive Tree comes this smart, penetrating, brilliantly informed book that is indispensable for understanding today’s radically new world and America’s complex place in it. Thomas L. Freidman received his third Pulitzer Prize in 2002 “for his clarity of vision, based on... (more)

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (Vintage)

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (Vintage)

by Paul M. Kennedy

About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe.

A Problem from Hell

America and the Age of Genocide

by Samantha Power

Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize For General Nonfiction National Book Critics Circle Award Winner In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power -- a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy -- asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to stop... (more)

Hiroshima

by John Hersey

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. This book tells what happened on that day, told through the memoirs of survivors.

A History of Warfare

by John Keegan

The acclaimed author of The Face of Battle examines centures of conflict in a variety of diverse societies and cultures. "Keegan is at once the most readable and the most original of living military historians . . . A History of Warfare is perhaps the most remarkable study of warfare that has yet been written."--The New York Times Book Review.

Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from The Sedition Act of 1798 to The War on Terrorism

Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from The Sedition Act of 1798 to The War on Terrorism

by Geoffrey R. Stone

"A masterpiece of constitutional history, Perilous Times promises to redefine the national debate on civil liberties and free speech."—Elena Kagan, Harvard Law School Geoffrey Stone's Perilous Times incisively investigates how the First Amendment and other civil liberties have been compromised in America during wartime. Stone delineates the consistent suppression of free speech in six historical periods... (more)

Hard Hand of War, The

by Mark Grimsley

This volume fits into an emerging interpretation of the Civil War that questions its status as a "total war" and emphasizes instead the survival of political logic and control even in the midst of a sweeping struggle for the nation's future. Through comparisons with earlier European wars and through the testimony of Union soldiers and Southern civilians alike, Grimsley shows that Union soldiers exercised... (more)

Arguing About War (Yale Nota Bene)

by Michael Walzer

Michael Walzer is one of the world’s most eminent philosophers on the subject of war and ethics. Now, for the first time since his classic Just and Unjust Wars was published almost three decades ago, this volume brings together his most provocative arguments about contemporary military conflicts and the ethical issues they raise. The essays in the book are divided into three sections. The first deals with... (more)

White Roots of Peace: The Iroquois Book of Life

White Roots of Peace: The Iroquois Book of Life

by Paul A. W. Wallace

Beyond Nationalism : the Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch

Henry Dunant (Great Nobel prizes)Ellen Hart

Henry Dunant (Great Nobel prizes)

by Ellen Hart

A Diplomatic History of the United States Third EditionSamuel Flagg Bemis

A Diplomatic History of the United States Third Edition

by Samuel Flagg Bemis

Lusitania

by Diana Preston

A brilliantly sunny day, and then the explosion; on what had been an ordinary weekday, there is suddenly fire, smoke, confusion, bodies, panic... On May 7, 1915, the ocean liner Lusitania was struck by a terrifying new weapon-and became a casualty of a terrible new kind of war. This is a vivid account of the event that shocked the world; of the heyday of the luxury liner and the first days of the modern... (more)

Eugene V. Debs: Spokesman For Labor And Socialism

Eugene V. Debs: Spokesman For Labor And Socialism

by Bernard J Brommel

The classic biography covering all of Debs public career of 52 years - as City Clerk and State Representative, American Railway Union organizer, and his conversion to socialism, five campaigns for the presidency and his leadership of anti-war dissenters and other causes. Based on research in family papers, this is still the finest sympathetic story of "the nation's foremost radical hero, the most popular leader of... (more)

Hugo Grotius and International Relations (Clarendon Paperbacks)

Hugo Grotius and International Relations (Clarendon Paperbacks)

Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), "the miracle of Holland," was famous as a child prodigy, theologian, historian, Dutch political figure, escaped political prisoner, and finally as Sweden's Ambassador to France. Addressing his contribution to international relations, this book critically reappraises Grotius' thought, comparing it to his predecessors and examining it in the context of the wars and controversies of his... (more)

Norman Thomas, the last idealistW. A Swanberg

Norman Thomas, the last idealist

by W. A. Swanberg

Words on Fire: The Life and Writing of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (Douglas Series on Womans Lives and the Meaning of Gender)Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Words on Fire: The Life and Writing of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (Douglas Series on Womans Lives and the Meaning of Gender)

by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Iron in Her Soul: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and the American Left

Iron in Her Soul: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and the American Left

by Helen C. Camp

Camp has written an informative study of one of the most important radicals to emerge out of the American labor movement. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964) first made her mark as an organizer and speaker for the Industrial Workers of the World. She joined the Communist Party in the mid-1930s and was a leading member for many years. Also active in the area of free speech, Flynn was a founding member of the... (more)

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