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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Global Governance and the Lesser Peace	Foad Katirai D.Phil (Oxon)	xii, 148 p. ; 19 cm	OL10334055W
Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell	Bertrand Russell	"Bertrand Russell was one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers. His astonishingly productive life spanned nearly a hundred years (1872-1970) and his contributions to global thought - in p…	OL1088530W
Break new ground	Sue Brown	32p. : 21cm	OL11538504W
Black mass	John Gray	Philosopher John Gray examines the history of utopianism, links it to apocalyptic religious beliefs, and argues that utopianism currently dominates mainstream politics, discussing its impact in Iraq …	OL12344W
Peace, Locomotion	Jacqueline Woodson	Twelve-year-old Lonnie is fi nally feeling at home with his foster family. But because he's living apart from his little sister, Lili, he decides it's his job to be the "rememberer"—and write down ev…	OL14952466W
Toward a Nonkilling Paradigm	Olivier Urbain	The open challenge to the widespread acceptance of lethality and lethal intent trespasses the limits of an ideology for social change entailing a new scientific model based on the refutation of killi…	OL14982322W
Christmas and the Second World War	Abhijit Dutta	Celebration of Christmas in the inter-war years, 1939-1944. The celebration of a happy occasion in the most unhappy of times with reference to both adults and children of western Europe finds promine…	OL15121238W
Joseph Rotblat	Reiner Braun	Sir Joseph Rotblat (1908-2005), British physicist and one of the most prominent critics of the nuclear arms race, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 in conjunction with the Pugwash Conferences on…	OL15171778W
Rites of peace	Adam Zamoyski	Traces the epic events following Napoleon's exile in 1814 and the subsequent Treaty of Paris, examining how the eight-month Viennese carnival brought thousands of aristocrats to the Austrian capital …	OL15832915W
Crystal mask	Roberts, Katherine	Renn, a novice Singer, and Shaiala, a girl raised by centaurs, battle against a great evil and try to restore harmony to the world.	OL16070317W
1973 nervous breakdown	Andreas Killen	Tumultuous and exciting, 1973 marked the end of the 1960s and the birth of a new cultural sensibility. A year of shattering political crisis, 1973 was defined by defeat in Vietnam, Roe v. Wade, the o…	OL16070559W
Illegal peace in Africa	Jeremy I. Levitt	"This volume examines the legal and political efficacy of transitional political power-sharing between democratically constituted governments and the African warlords, rebels, or junta that seek to v…	OL16117799W
Blood on the tracks	S. Brian Willson	After serving in the Vietnam War, S. Brian Willson became a radical, nonviolent peace protester and pacifist, and this memoir details the drastic governmental and social change he has spent his life …	OL16175323W
American foreign policy in regions of conflict	Howard J. Wiarda	"America's regional foreign policy priorities are shifting, toward Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa, and away from Europe and Russia. Wiarda examines these changes and the reasons for…	OL16189109W
Laying Down the Sword	Philip Jenkins	Commands to kill, to commit ethnic cleansing, to institutionalize segregation, to hate and fear other races and religions -- all are in the Bible, and all occur with a far greater frequency than in t…	OL16266994W
Dead line	Stella Rimington	MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is summoned to a meeting with her boss Charles Wetherby, head of the Service's Counter-Espionage Branch. His counterpart over at MI6 has received alarming intelli…	OL16420165W
Munich in the cobwebs of Berlin, Washington, and Moscow	Siegfried H. Sutterlin	This monograph is a standard one, but the preface and introduction are the result of a first rate synthesis and a profound grasp and understanding of the vast sweep of diplomatic/political history th…	OL3477725W
The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness and Peace	Jack Kornfield	Over the centuries, many people have kept commonplace books, or repositories of personally meaningful quotations and reflections. Not a diary or a journal, a commonplace book was an individual's mean…	OL3953116W
Holy War, Holy Peace	Marc Gopin	Part I: Analysis 1. The Interaction between Religion and Culture in Peace and Conflict2. Family Myths and Cultural Conflict3. Political and Mythic Interdependencies4. Patterns of Abrahamic Incriminat…	OL47542W
The Much Too Promised Land	Aaron David Miller	For nearly twenty years, Aaron David Miller has played a central role in U.S. efforts to broker Arab-Israeli peace. His position as an advisor to presidents, secretaries of state, and national securi…	OL5255637W