Peace is the cornerstone of our survival as humans. It is imperative for
PEACE to have a prominent place in education. The book Conflict
Resolution and PEACE Education provides this supreme human value a
status in learning."--Desmond M. Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town.
Peace Prize Nobel Laureate The Masters and the Slaves theorizes the
interface of plantation relations with nationalist projects throughout
the Americas. In readings that cover a wide range of genres--from essays
and scientific writing to poetry, memoirs and the visual arts--this work
investigates the post-slavery discourses of Brazil, the United States,
Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti and Martinique. Indebted to Orlando Patterson's
Slavery and Social Death (1982) and Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic
(1993), these essays fill a void in studies of plantation power
relations for their comparative, interdisciplinary approach and their
investment in reading slavery through the gaze of contemporary theory,
with particularly strong ties to psychoanalytic and gender studies
interrogations of desire and performativity. This fascinating work
presents the two conflicting positions within Christian
thought-traditional and radical-as they developed through some of the
most important periods of church history. Simut traces traditional
Christian thought through Late Antiquity, Early Modernity, and Post
Modernity in specific works written by Gregory Nazianzen, Jean Calvin,
and Ion Bria. He analyzes Radical Christian thought as it gradually
developed in Post Modernity, particularly during the twenty and
twenty-first centuries through authors such as Erich Fromm, Paul
Ricoeur, and Vito Mancuso. Public Universities and the Public Sphere
argues that two crises facing America - a crisis of public discourse and
a crisis of public higher education - are closely connected. The center
of significant public discussion in the United States is located in a
core public sphere consisting of publications, associations, and
universities that was consciously constructed in the nineteenth century.
The modern American university originated in the process that created
the core public sphere. Public universities essentially democratized the
core public sphere in the twentieth century. Part of the solution, Smith
argues in this timely work, to both crises lies in understanding and
building on the connection. This book delves into the reasons why pop
culture, and all of its "X-Rated" features, are so appealing to masses
of people, even though they may hate to love it. The late eighteenth
century witnessed the emergence of the literary family: a collaborative
kinship network of family and friends that, by the end of the century,
displayed characteristics of a nascent corporation. This book examines
different models of collaboration within English literary families
during the period 1760-1820. Beginning with the sibling model of Anna
Barbauld and John Aikin, and concluding with the intergenerational model
presented by the Godwins and the Shelleys, this study traces the
conflict and cooperation that developed within and among literary
families as they sought to leave their legacies on the English world of
letters. In this compelling narrative, Alessandra Piontelli explores the
different roles that twins play in societies around the world. In her
travels throughout Africa, Asia, South America, and the Pacific rim,
Piontelli has observed how some cultures deify twins while other
cultures attribute evil spirits to them and others outright destroy all
multiple siblings. Twins in the World mixes anthropology, ethnography,
and religious studies to show the most critical aspect of comparative
world culture--how a society cares for its young--through the lens of
twins, who seem to hold a special place in all cultures. Listening to
poets read their work focuses critical attention on the craft of the
poem, while raising questions about the relationship between social
history, technology, and the poet's
