A collection of quotations on peace, war and the human spirit. These quotations were selected by David Krieger, long-time President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, to encourage thought and inspire action toward a more peaceful and nuclear weapon-free world. The book is divided into ten chapters: Lessons of History; War; Peace; Nuclear Weapons / Nuclear War; Earth Citizenship; Human Spirit; Commitment to Life; Individual Power; Individual Responsibility; and Hope. The book includes quotes by Albert Camus; Norman Cousins; Albert Einstein; The XIVth Dalai Lama; Helen Keller; John F. Kennedy; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Eleanor Roosevelt; Albert Schweitzer; Mother Teresa; Howard Zinn, and many other notable individuals.

This book makes a passionate argument that the only sane and rational number of nuclear weapons is zero. With penetrating insight, the author dispels the myth that nuclear deterrence provides protection to a country and argues there exists a human responsibility to eliminate nuclear weapons before they eliminate us. Archbishop Desmond Tutu writes, This book makes a clear and persuasive case for why we must move urgently and globally to zero nuclear weapons. It should be required reading for all citizens of Earth.

The poems in this volume have been written in the shadow of the bomb. They are poems of survival. They challenge the hubris of those who would rely on nuclear arms for their security. They pose the questions: How shall we react? How shall we resist? How shall we awaken before it is too late? This book sounds a warning siren, but it is also a book of hope-hope that people everywhere will awaken to the nuclear dangers that confront us; hope that our shared humanity will prevail; hope that the children of the future will thrive; hope that the bomb and its shadow will be resisted and forever banished from our world; and hope that there will be a new era of love, kindness, compassion and peace.

May Edel's The Chiga of Uganda is in the grand tradition of Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, and Leslie Spier. Written at a time when older ways were menaced by contact with other cultures, Edel's effort was part of a descriptive urgency that aimed to capture the past before the past disappeared. And that past should be viewed from the perspective of the people themselves, by students going into the field to observe, question, and report. This book is an enlarged and amplified edition of The Chiga of Western Uganda published in 1957 by the Oxford University Press for the International African Institute. It is enlarged by a major section on material culture hitherto unpublished.

The Chiga of Uganda provides a special insight into a culture at that time (1933) still intact under the British protectorate. It is for the most part a picture of life as it was then still being lived. Where significant changes were already taking place, the various changes are discussed in the contexts in which they seemed relevant in social structure, kinship, marriage, economics, social control, religion, and education.

What makes this edition unique is the new segment on material culture. This delves into Chiga patterns of food supply and preparation, horticulture, fire and heating, water supplies, cattle raising, hunting, fishing, and problems related to shelter, clothing, and hygiene. Two new special sections deal with tools and utensils, and, no less important, the physical skills and motor habits of the people. Edel's concrete yet wide-ranging descriptions provide an irreplaceable insight into a people and a culture at a unique point in world and colonial history.

The new introduction, written by Abraham Edel, provides a special sort of insight, drawing heavily upon the correspondence that May Edel wrote at the time. The introduction shows how the clouds of war and Nazism in Europe at the time were already changing the character and context of anthropology no less than every other area of human endeavor. A final new aspect of The Chiga of Uganda is May Edel's last reflections focusing on African tribalism, which turns out to be not all that different from ethnic and national rivalries in the Western world. This book will be indispensable to anthropologists, Africanists, and historians.

Portraits: Peacemakers, Warmongers and People Between is a new book of peace poetry by David Krieger, president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. The book begins with an examination of what it means to be human in our time, and ncludes portraits of Albert Einstein, Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, Muhammad Ali, Robert McNamara, and Emperor Hirohito, among others. Archbishop Desmond Tutu writes about the book, Poetry that awakens our deepest humanity. Each poem leaves me wanting another. Perie Longo, Santa Barbara Poet Laureate Emerita, writes, In the lessons of these sometimes tough, often poignant, well wrought poems, lies the hope of humanity's survival. An important book to read and share.

May Edel's The Chiga of Uganda is in the grand tradition of Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, and Leslie Spier. Written at a time when older ways were menaced by contact with other cultures, Edel's effort was part of a descriptive urgency that aimed to capture the past before the past disappeared. And that past should be viewed from the perspective of the people themselves, by students going into the field to observe, question, and report. This book is an enlarged and amplified edition of The Chiga of Western Uganda published in 1957 by the Oxford University Press for the International African Institute. It is enlarged by a major section on material culture hitherto unpublished.

The Chiga of Uganda provides a special insight into a culture at that time (1933) still intact under the British protectorate. It is for the most part a picture of life as it was then still being lived. Where significant changes were already taking place, the various changes are discussed in the contexts in which they seemed relevant-in social structure, kinship, marriage, economics, social control, religion, and education.

What makes this edition unique is the new segment on material culture. This delves into Chiga patterns of food supply and preparation, horticulture, fire and heating, water supplies, cattle raising, hunting, fishing, and problems related to shelter, clothing, and hygiene. Two new special sections deal with tools and utensils, and, no less important, the physical skills and motor habits of the people. Edel's concrete yet wide-ranging descriptions provide an irreplaceable insight into a people and a culture at a unique point in world and colonial history.

The new introduction, written by Abraham Edel, provides a special sort of insight, drawing heavily upon the correspondence that May Edel wrote at the time. The introduction shows how the clouds of war and Nazism in Europe at the time were already changing the character and context of anthropology no less than every other area of human endeavor. A final new aspect of The Chiga of Uganda is May Edel's last reflections focusing on African tribalism, which turns out to be not all that different from ethnic and national rivalries in the Western world. This book will be indispensable to anthropologists, Africanists, and historians.

Der vorliegende Band ist aus dem dreijährigen Forschungsprojekt Interreligiöse Umweltethik des Instituts fur Kommunikationsforschung heraus entstanden, das vom Schweizerischen Nationalfonds finanziert wurde und im Rahmen des Schwerpunktprogramms Umwelt lief Das Buch setzt sich aus drei Teilen zusammen: Im ersten Teil wird der Zusammenhang zwischen Natur und Kultur reflektiert. Ausgehend von der Tatsache, dass Umweltforschung schon längst nicht mehr ausschliessliche Fragestellung oder gar Eigentum der Naturwissenschaften ist, werden Natur und Kultur als soziales System aufgefasst. Umwelttfagen, ihre Thematisierung oder Ignorierung sind Ausdruck gesellschaftlicher Kommunikation, bzw. der Art, wie eine Gesellschaft organisiert ist. Dabei wird versucht, Prinzipien einer (geisteswissenschaftlichen) Kulturökologie als Beitrag zur aktuellen Umwelt-und Ökologiediskussion zu skizzieren. Zentral im ersten Teil dieses Bandes ist die Frage nach einer ökologischen Kultur. Damit ist nicht eine Kultur gemeint, die an ihre natürliche Umwelt angepasst ist oder wird, sondern die Organisation gesellschaftlicher Kommunikation, die in sich genügend Komplexität, aber auch Flexibilität aufweist, um die Informationen, welche die Naturwissenschaften ständig liefern, politisch, wirtschaftlich, rechtlich usw. umzusetzen.

Wake Up is the latest poetry book by David Krieger. He has written four books of peace poetry and also edited four peace poetry anthologies. He continues on his path of writing piercing and thought-provoking peace poetry. His poems are often poems of remembrance, as well as warnings about the dangers of the nuclear age. Wake Up is divided into six sections: Truth Is Beauty; War; Remembering Bush II; Global Hiroshima; Peace; Portraits; and Imperfection. Krieger has received many awards for his work for peace and a nuclear-free world, including three peace writing awards from the OMNI Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology. These poems leave us wanting to do more to build a peaceful world and assure humanity's future. The book has received much praise. Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote, There is haunting beauty and truth in this poetry. Doug Rawlings, poet and Vietnam War veteran said of Wake Up that ...it reads like a series of eloquent telegrams sent directly to the heart of a culture, ours... Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and author of A Coney Island of the Mind, wrote: Wake Up is accessible and moving writing, setting itself against the dominant murderous culture of our time. Every poem hits home.

Detroit's fabled gnome, the Nain Rouge, shares his favorite quotes about Detroit as told to him by celebrities and noted historical figures.

For over 300 years the Nain Rouge has lived in Detroit. Considered by many to be a malevolent folk character, for years tales have been spun by those who sought to damage his good nature. Having been blamed for anything detrimental that happened to Detroit throughout its history, by those whose motives are nefarious at best, the Nain Rouge has only started to reclaim his stature as a protagonist for Detroit. Over the centuries, he has collected quotes from some of Detroit's finest and some not so fine.

This collection of quotes tells the story of Detroit through the voices of its own, reliving earlier times and commenting on the Detroit of today. Through the awareness of these opinions, and remarks, the story of Detroit, its history, its ingenuity, and its contributions to the world are better understood and appreciated.

In the more than sixty years since the advent of nuclear weapons, there has been little meaningful progress toward nuclear disarmament. Some countries have nuclear weapons, while other states are forbidden to acquire them, a status quo that lacks rational basis and cannot be sustained. In this remarkable collection, scholars and policy analysts argue that humankind has a choice: either allow nuclear weapons to continue to proliferate throughout the world or move toward their complete elimination.

The vast majority of people on the planet would surely opt to abolish nuclear weapons. But decisions about nuclear weapons are not made by the public, but by small groups of political elites. Consequently, in a world with nuclear weapons, the fate of humanity rests in the hands of a small number of individuals, whose perceptions, communications, and judgment determine whether there is to be a future.

The contributors to this volume provide historical perspective on nuclear weapons policy; explore the role of international law in furthering the prospects of nuclear weapons abolition; consider the obstacles to abolition; present a path to achieving a nuclear weapons-free world; and look beyond abolition to consider issues of post-abolition sovereignty and general and complete disarmament. The goal of a nuclear weapons-free world can be awakened by an engaged citizenry bringing pressure from below in demanding action from political leaders. This book contributes to this awakening and engagement.