1000 Peace Women Across the Globe.1000 Peace Women Across the Globe published by 1000 Peace Women Across the Globe Scalo/2208 pp./$45.00 (hb). 1000 Peace Women Across the Globe (2005) is the internationally coordinated work of hundreds of writers, photographers, editors, and translators. Contained within its 2,208 pages are inspiring, terrible, and informative sketches about the lives and work of 1,000 women from over 150 countries, each pursuing a courageous and often creative path to peace that would rouse even the most apathetic ap·a·thet·ic adj. Lacking interest or concern; indifferent. ap  a·thet to action. One
organizes a boat that travels to countries where women are dying from
illegal, unsafe abortions, the only kind to which they have access. They
are provided with safer alternatives once they reach international
waters. Another risks her life daily to educate forgotten children,
while still another mobilizes young men to peacefully disarm militias
terrorizing their villages. The women's brief biographies are
accompanied by photographs and provide an excellent starting resource
for research, a directory of sorts for international peace activism.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The book was born from an idea to nominate 1,000 women from around the world for the Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. in 2005, one hundred years after the first woman received this honor. The book's existence is testament not only to what is possible through collaboration but also to the Internet's power to link people. As one of the tools that helped make this work possible, the Internet is also used by the book's creators as an interactive virtual platform--a meeting place for people who understand that peace is not just the absence of war. For more information see www.1000peacewomen.org. Academic Freedom after September 11, edited by Beshara Doumani Beshara Doumani is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley specializing in Middle Eastern history. A frequent commentator on Middle East affairs appearing regularly in various media, he is amongst a handful of academics that . Zone Books/327 pp./$21.95 (sb). Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive, by Joel Meyerowitz The creator of this article, or someone who has substantially contributed to it, may have a conflict of interest regarding its subject matter. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. . Phaidon/349 pp./$75.00 (hb). American Exposures, by Louis Kaplan. University of Minnesota (body, education) University of Minnesota - The home of Gopher. http://umn.edu/. Address: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Press/248 pp./$78.00 (hb), $26.00 (sb). American Visual Cultures, edited by David Holloway and John Beck John Beck is the name of:
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Assignments: The Press Photographer's Year, edited by Tony McGrath. Prestel/136pp./$39.95 (sb). At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet, edited by Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumark. MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press/496 pp./$39.95 (hb), $19.95 (sb). Civilizing the Museum, by Elaine Heumann Gurian. Routledge/208 pp./$110.00 (hb), $35.95 (sb). The Conspiracy of Art, by Jean Baudrillard. Semiotext(e)/232 pp./$14.95 (sb). |
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