Written at the height of the Cold War, Russell argues that the only way to end the threat of nuclear war is to end war itself, making this highly controversial text as relevant today as it was on first publication.
"During a television broadcast in 1959, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower remarked that "people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days our governments had better get out of…
Long known as a pioneer in the sociological study of communications and of the middle class, Hans Speier is being rediscovered by younger scholars as a seminal member of the second generation of sociologists that followed the classic thinkers of the turn of the century. Dr Speie…
As the politics of identity begin to replace the politics of ideology, can religion become a force for peace? In a radical proposal for reconciling hatreds, Sacks argues that we must do more than search for values common to all faiths; we must also reframe the way we see our dif…
'The Dignity of Difference', written by a Jewish leader, makes a major global statement about racial, political and religious conflict in the modern world.
As the politics of identity begin to replace the politics of ideology, can religion become a force for peace? In a radical proposal for reconciling hatreds, Sacks argues that we must do more than search for values common to all faiths; we must also reframe the way we see our dif…