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Author : Brian Urquhart
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393307719
The author depicts his life and his experiences as the Under Secretary-General of the United Nations
Author : Kofi Annan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101595961
"[A] resolute, detailed, and unflinching review of [Annan’s] most difficult hours…No one ever came closer to being the voice of “we the peoples” and no one paid a higher price for it. The world still needs such a voice, but the next person who tries to fill that role will want to reflect long and hard on the lessons of this candid, courageous, and unsparing memoir." --Michael Ignatieff, The New York Review of Books Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in December 2001, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan spoke to a world still reeling from the terrorist attacks of September 11. “Ladies and Gentlemen,” proclaimed Annan, “we have entered the third millennium through a gate of fire. If today, after the horror of 11 September, we see better, and we see further—we will realize that humanity is indivisible. New threats make no distinction between races, nations, or regions.” Yet within only a few years the world was more divided than ever—polarized by the American invasion of Iraq, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the escalating civil wars in Africa, and the rising influence of China. Interventions: A Life in War and Peace is the story of Annan’s remarkable time at the center of the world stage. After forty years of service at the United Nations, Annan shares here his unique experiences during the terrorist attacks of September 11; the American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan; the war between Israel, Hizbollah, and Lebanon; the brutal conflicts of Somalia, Rwanda, and Bosnia; and the geopolitical transformations following the end of the Cold War. With eloquence and unprecedented candor, Interventions finally reveals Annan’s unique role and unparalleled perspective on decades of global politics. The first sub-Saharan African to hold the position of Secretary-General, Annan has led an extraordinary life in his own right. His idealism and personal politics were forged in the Ghanaian independence movement of his adolescence, when all of Africa seemed to be rising as one to demand self-determination. Schooled in Africa, Europe, and the United States, Annan ultimately joined the United Nations in Geneva at the lowest professional level in the still young organization. Annan rose rapidly through the ranks and was by the end of the Cold War prominently placed in the dramatically changing department of peacekeeping operations. His stories of Presidents Clinton and Bush, dictators like Saddam Hussein and Robert Mugabe, and public figures of all stripes contrast powerfully with Annan’s descriptions of the courage and decency of ordinary people everywhere struggling for a new and better world. Showing the successes of the United Nations, Annan also reveals the organization’s missed opportunities and ongoing challenges—inaction in the Rwanda genocide, continuing violence between Israelis and Palestinians, and the endurance of endemic poverty. Yet Annan’s great strength in this book is his ability to embed these tragedies within the context of global politics, demonstrating how, time and again, the nations of the world have retreated from the UN’s founding purpose. From the pinnacle of global politics, Annan made it his purpose to put the individual at the center of every mission for peace and prosperity. A personal biography of global statecraft, Annan’s Interventions is as much a memoir as a guide to world order—past, present, and future.
Author : Brian Urquhart
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015012254507
"The author depicts his life and his experiences as the Under Secretary-General of the United Nations." --
Author : Peter Turchin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0452288193
Argues that the key to the formation of an empire lies in a society's capacity for collective action, resulting from people banding together to confront a common enemy, and describing how the growth of empires leads to a growing dichotomy between rich and poor, increasing conflict instead of cooperation, and inevitable dissolution. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
Author : Brian Urquhart
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393312534
As the 1990s place greater demands on the UN, this inspiring biography shows how Hammarskjold perfected the active but quiet diplomacy that proved successful in a series of seemingly hopeless situations, from the Suez Crisis to Indochina, and how he stood up for principle against the greatest powers. Photos.
Author : Robert Serber,Robert P. Crease
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Atomic bomb
ISBN : 0231105460
"The memoir of a prominent member of the Manhattan Project, and an intimate friend of J. Robert Oppenheimer."--Jacket.
Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015002965383
Reveals the daily lives of Russian people during the rule of the Romanovs, including the celebrated serf actor Mikhail Shchepkin, Princess Catherine Dashkova, and others of the period.
Author : Leo Tolstoi
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 1122 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732632831
Reproduction of the original: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoi
Author : Karl Ove Knausgaard
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300240559
The second book in the Why I Write series provides generous insight into the creative process of the award-winning Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard “Why I Write” may prove to be the most difficult question Karl Ove Knausgaard has struggled to answer yet it is central to the project of one of the most influential writers working today. To write, for the Norwegian artist, is to resist easy thinking and preconceived notions that inhibit awareness of our lives. Knausgaard writes to “erode [his] own notions about the world. . . . It is one thing to know something, another to write about it.” The key to enhanced living is the ability to hit upon something inadvertently, to regard it from a position of defenselessness and unknowing. A deeply personal meditation, Inadvertent is a cogent and accessible guide to the creative process of one of our most prolific and ingenious artists.
Author : Yiyun Li,A Public Space
Publisher : Public Space Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1734590769
A reader's companion for Tolstoy's epic novel, War and Peace, inspired by the online book club led by Yiyun Li. For the writer Yiyun Li, whenever life has felt uncertain, War and Peace has been the novel she turns to. In March 2020, as the pandemic tightened its grip, Li and A Public Space launched #TolstoyTogether, a War and Peace book club, on Twitter and Instagram, gathering a community (that came to include writers such as Joyce Carol Oates, Garth Greenwell, and Carl Phillips) for 85 days of prompts, conversation, succor, and pleasure. It was an experience shaped not only by the time in which they read but also the slow, consistent rhythm of the reading. And the extraordinary community that gathered for a moment each day to discuss Tolstoy, history, and the role of art in a time like this. Tolstoy Together captures that moment, and offers a guided, communal experience for past and new readers, lovers of Russian literature, and all those looking for what Li identifies as "his level-headedness and clear-sightedness offer[ing] a solidity during a time of duress.
Author : W. John Morgan,Alexandre Guilherme
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030486716
Peace and War: Historical, Philosophical, and Anthropological Perspectives is an accessible, higher-level critical discussion of philosophical commentaries on the nature of peace and war. It introduces and analyses various philosophies of peace and war, and their continuing theoretical and practical relevance for peace studies and conflict resolution. Using a combination of both historical and contemporary philosophical perspectives, the book is at once eclectic in its approach and broad in its inquiry of these enduring phenomena of human existence.
Author : Margaret MacMillan
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 1065 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143190240
The First World War followed a period of sustained peace in Europe during which people talked with confidence of prosperity, progress, and hope. But in 1914, Europe walked into a catastrophic conflict that killed millions, bled its economies dry, shook empires and societies to pieces, and fatally undermined Europe’s dominance of the world. It was a war that could have been avoided up to the last moment—so why did it happen? Beginning in the early nineteenth century and ending with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, award-winning historian Margaret Macmillan uncovers the huge political and technological changes, national decisions, and just as important, the small moments of human muddle and weakness that led Europe from peace to disaster. This masterful exploration of how Europe chose its path towards war will change and enrich how we see this defining moment in history.
Author : Michael Howard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826491251
Awarded the Military Cross in the Second World War, the author recounts how between battles he befriended the young film director Franco Zefirelli. His account of beating the Germans out of Italy with Bishop Simon Phipps and the ballet critic Richard Buckle is hilarious. This memoir gives insight into the history of Britain in the post war years.
Author : Harold Ristau
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630873929
Although the moral and ethical dimensions of NATO presence in Afghanistan has been the focus of debate by politicians and media alike, questions of the religious culture and spirituality that underlie the complexities of both the conflict and convictions of those affected have rarely been discussed. The entries of this thought-provoking journal offer a unique window into this strange and unpredictable war-torn realm from the perspective of a Christian army chaplain who has experienced the terrors of war "from the foxhole." This diary represents the brutally honest, yet deeply spiritual reflections and questions of a Lutheran clergyman whose aim is not to justify, but to record, the life of faith. Join Padre Ristau in a journey marked by episodes of wonder and struggle, celebration and hardship, and come away . . . changed. True stories: some inspiring; some frightening. Yet none of them remain unfamiliar to the Divine.
Author : Daphne Pearson
Publisher : Thorogood Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1854182110
In War And Peace is the autobiography of a truly remarkable woman, Daphne Pearson, born May 1911, was the first woman to receive the George Cross for acts of courage in circumstances of extreme danger.
