A group of friends believe they have found their mission in life when one of their older brothers is murdered in Mississippi during Freedom Summer, and they begin receiving letters from him, seemingly written after his death.
Translates Aristophanes' 411 B.C. play "Lysistrata, " in which an Athenian woman leads many fellow Greek wives in a sex strike until their husbands stop warring with each other.
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams chronicles the tumultuous series of events that led to the historic Good Friday Agreement which may bring peace to Ireland after years of conflict.
Chronicles the history of the peace symbol, from its origins as a nuclear disarmament symbol in the 1950s through its many uses for activist idealism in the following decades and into the twenty-first century.
The troubles in Northern Ireland since 1969 have led to more than 3,500 deaths and have been the most intractable conflict since the Second World War. The 1994 IRA ceasefire began the era of a remarkable transformation. This book provides an introduction to the main events and critically reviews the debates over the conlict by examining events in their proper historical context.
