The Encarta Book of Quotations
The Encarta Book of Quotations

Author: Bill Swainson

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2000-09-30

Total Pages: 1360

ISBN-13: 9780312230005

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Here are 25,000 quotations drawn from the history, politics, literature, religions, science, and popular culture of the world--ranging from the earliest Chinese sages through Shakespeare to the present day.

A Pilgrim People
A Pilgrim People

Author: Gerald W Schlabach

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2019-10-28

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0814644546

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Recent decades have seen a steady trend in Roman Catholic teaching toward a commitment to active nonviolence that could qualify the church as a "peace church." As a moral theologian specializing in social ethics, Schlabach explores how this trend in Catholic social teaching will need to take shape if Catholics are to follow through. Globalization, he argues, is an invitation to recognize what was always supposed to be true in Catholic ecclesiology: Christ gives Christians an identity that crosses borders. To become a truly catholic global peace church in which peacemaking is church-wide and parish-deep, Catholics should recognize that they have always properly been a diaspora people with an identity that transcends tribe and nation-state.

Between Peace and War
Between Peace and War

Author: Richard Ned Lebow

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-08-31

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 3030434435

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This is an updated edition of the now-classic original of the same title. It has three new substantial chapters: a prologue, a chapter on new evidence on World War I, and an epilogue. The updated edition contains the now-famous typology of international crisis, the original critique of deterrence, the emphasis on agency, and the turn to political psychology to explain sharp departures from rational policy-making. The new chapters update and reevaluate these arguments and approach a critical hindsight assessment in light of post-Cold War developments.

A Writer's Reference with Resources for Multilingual Writers and ESL
A Writer's Reference with Resources for Multilingual Writers and ESL

Author: Diana Hacker

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2011-01-21

Total Pages: 683

ISBN-13: 0312649363

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This version of the best selling college handbook helps both resident and international students understand college expectations and develop strategies for improving their academic English and academic writing. Written by an ESL expert, this booklet includes plenty of helpful charts, activities, exercises, and model papers — along with notes about where to find additional resources online and on campus. Resources for Multilingual Writers and ESL is also available in a packageable, stand-alone booklet (ISBN: 978-0-312-65685-0). Contact your sales representative or [email protected] for a copy.

Tolstoy On War
Tolstoy On War

Author: Rick McPeak

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2012-09-15

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 0801465451

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In 1812, Napoleon launched his fateful invasion of Russia. Five decades later, Leo Tolstoy published War and Peace, a fictional representation of the era that is one of the most celebrated novels in world literature. The novel contains a coherent (though much disputed) philosophy of history and portrays the history and military strategy of its time in a manner that offers lessons for the soldiers of today. To mark the two hundredth anniversary of the French invasion of Russia and acknowledge the importance of Tolstoy’s novel for our historical memory of its central events, Rick McPeak and Donna Tussing Orwin have assembled a distinguished group of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds—literary criticism, history, social science, and philosophy—to provide fresh readings of the novel. The essays in Tolstoy On War focus primarily on the novel’s depictions of war and history, and the range of responses suggests that these remain inexhaustible topics of debate. The result is a volume that opens fruitful new avenues of understanding War and Peace while providing a range of perspectives and interpretations without parallel in the vast literature on the novel.