Armed conflict poses a huge threat to public health but perhaps not in the way you would think. It's time to reconsider our entire approach to human security. Thanks to our increasingly connected world, we can now witness the worst manifestations of war in ways we never could before. This makes it easier than ever to recognize dangerous conflicts ......
Seeking to honor and extend the critical legacy of Howard Weinbrot, this volume re-examines, rebuilds, and upgrades the most prominent pillars of long eighteenth-century scholarship. The collection is divided into four thematic sections, beginning with a series of chapters offering fresh analyses of Swift, Dryden, Hogarth, and other major authors ......
How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and
"The much-anticipated update to Jarrett Walkers seminal guide to public transportation.
Transportation expert Jarrett Walker believes that transit can be simple, if we focus on the underlying geometry that all transit systems share. In Human Transit, Revised Edition, he provides the basic tools and ......
Iconic Rock Photography from the Beatles to Woodstock and Beyond
In 1964, fifteen-year-old Mike Frankel found himself among professional photojournalists covering a Beatles concert during the band's first tour in the United States. A few years later, he was a regular photographer at the Fillmore East, a storied venue in classic rock. And in 1969, he was onstage at Woodstock, documenting one of the most ......
The direction of Tony Cardens short life was determined by two pandemics: Child Sexual Abuse and HIV/AIDS. Unlike the compassion extended to victims of the recent COVID 19 pandemic, vilification was the burden borne by those who contracted AIDS and silence the lot of Child Sexual Abuse sufferers.
A tribute to the power of spiritual practice, creative expression, and true self-acceptance I Opened the Gate Laughing is the story of one woman's journey to creative freedom through gardening and the teachings of Zen. Born in Japan, Mayumi Oda comes back to the practice of Buddhism at beautiful Green Gulch Farm retreat center in Northern ......
When I grew up, World War II was omnipresent and hidden. This was also true of my father's time in the Air Force. Like most of his generation, it was a rule with him not to talk about what he'd seen at war. "You're not getting any war stories from me," he'd say. Cleaning up the old family house the year before he died, I was surprised to find a ......
Twelve-year-old Luca Verani has his future all mapped out: who needs school when hes going to take over his familys ice cream cafe? But then his aunt announces shes selling the struggling business and Luca realises that his nonnas memory is disappearing. Plus, hes starting high school and one of his best friends Sitara is being targeted by ......