A Month and a Day & Letters presents an edited version of A Detention Diary, Ken Saro-Wiwa s own record of his arrest in July 1993 and the story of... the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni people and the struggle against the Nigerian military dictatorship. Saro-Wiwa s criticisms of the corrupt regime eventually led to his execution, along with eight others, in November 1995.This edition also includes previously unpublished letters smuggled to and from Saro-Wiwa during his final imprisonment including correspondence with Nelson Mandela, Nadine Gordimer, and Ethel Kennedy, as well as other concerned people from around the world and a letter written by Ken Wiwa to his late father.On September 3, 1993, Saro-Wiwa wrote to the president of International PEN: The writer is his cause. I am more and more convinced ... that the path of literature is the assured way to human salvation and civilisation. I hail the power of the pen. That power is abundantly, and poignantly, displayed in this volume.

A Month in the Country (Russian) is a comedy in five acts by Ivan Turgenev. It was written in France between 1848 and 1850 and was first published in... 1855. Every kind of love, whether happy or unhappy, is a real calamity if you surrender to it wholly...'This heart-felt sentiment, expressed by Turgenev's unfortunate character Rakitin sums up the central predicament of A Month in the Country, Turgenev's most celebrated play. It explores the complexities of that most universal of themes, the eternal love triangle; and in it Turgenev uses his grasp of psychology and brilliant technique to turn this subject into a dazzling tragicomedy.

Eugene O’Neill’s last completed play, A Moon for the Misbegotten is a sequel to his autobiographical Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Moon picks up... eleven years after the events described in Long Day’s Journey Into Night, as Jim Tyrone (based on O’Neill’s older brother Jamie) grasps at a last chance at love under the full moonlight. This paperback edition features an insightful introduction by Stephen A. Black, helpful to anyone who desires a deeper understanding of O’Neill’s work.

Significant climate change as a consequence of human pollution of the atmosphere looks increasingly likely. Some change is already occurring but quite... what magnitude of change will occur and what it will bring to different parts of the world remains unknown. Meanwhile, despite the catastrophic forecasts of the dangers that a warming world poses to human and other species, the consumer society of the North continues in its energy hungry path, and the peoples of the South continue to bear the cost. In the face of this uncertain yet impending crisis, does it make sense to speak of a moral response? Michael Northcott argues not only that it does, but that it is essential if we are to avoid further environmental disaster.

Following extended periods of conflict or repression, political reconciliation is indispensable to the establishment or restoration of democratic... relationships and critical to the pursuit of peacemaking globally. In this important new book, Colleen Murphy offers an innovative analysis of the moral problems plaguing political relationships under the strain of civil conflict and repression. Focusing on the unique moral damage that attends the deterioration of political relationships, Murphy identifies the precise kinds of repair and transformation that processes of political reconciliation ought to promote. Building on this analysis, she proposes a normative model of political relationships. A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation delivers an original account of the failure and restoration of political relationships, which will be of interest to philosophers, social scientists, legal scholars, policy analysts, and all those who are interested in transitional justice, global politics, and democracy.

The renowned tale of Amor and Psyche, from Apuleius's second-century Latin novel The Golden Ass, is one of the most charming fragments of classical... literature. Neumann chose it as the exemplar of an unusual study of feminine psychology. Unfolding the spiritual and mythical background of the pagan narrative, he shows how the contest between the mortal maid Psyche and the great goddess Aphrodite over the god Amor--Aphrodite's son, Psyche's husband--yields surprising and valuable insights into the psychic life of women.

The ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey wants to acquire Saint Winifred's sacred remains for his Benedictine order. And when the ensuing controversy... leads to murder, Brother Cadfael investigates.

Una novela sobre la dificil busqueda de la identidad femenina al margen de convenciones absurdas y estereotipadas Amor: Una posibilidad remota para... Rosa, que hipoteca su vida para pagar unos hijos que no puede disfrutar. Una memoria triste para Cristina, superviviente de una relacion catastrofica con el sexo y las drogas. Un recuerdo borroso para Ana, que se pasa el dia llorando en casa. Curiosidad: La ultima esperanza. Hay otra vida mas alla de los confines del dia a dia, de los escasos metros de refugio que proporciona un despacho de oficina, una casa de diseno o un bar tecnificado? Prozac: Veinte miligramos diarios que bloquean los puntos del cerebro donde se conectan las ideas y los sentimientos. Dudas: Es posible sobrevivir al naufragio? Lucia Etxebarria ha construido una novela sobre la dificil busqueda de la identidad femenina al margen de convenciones absurdas y estereotipadas, con un estilo personalisimo, esculpido a golpe de guinos y ambivalencias en el lenguaje de lo cotidiano.

Amor: Una posibilidad remota para Rosa, una memoria triste para Cristina, un recuerdo borroso para Ana. Curiosidad: Hay otra vida mas alla de los... confines del dia a dia? Prozac: Veinte miligramos diarios que bloquean los conectores entre las ideas y los sentimientos. Dudas: Es posible sobrevivir al naufragio? Una divertida novela sobre la dificil busqueda de la identidad femenina al margen de convenciones absurdas y estereotipadas.

"No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs to the living generation."--Thomas Jefferson"A constitution... intended to endure for years to come [is] consequently to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs."--John Marshall "This book will ask readers to set aside their own political loyalties, to look past the current 'values' debates and hot-button issues, to consider this very real possibility: that the failure of the nation to update the Constitution and the structure of government it originally bequeathed to us is at the root of our current political dysfunction."--Larry Sabato The political book of the year, from the acclaimed founder and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. Larry Sabato has one of the most visionary and fertile political minds in America. Like so many, he is increasingly alarmed at the growing dysfunction and unfairness of our political system. To solve this, to restore the equity for ordinary citizens that is at the core of our democratic society, we must take a radical step--to revise the Constitution, the document that guides our political process, for until some of its outmoded provisions are reformed, we will only have more of the same.The original framers fully expected the Constitution to be regularly revised by succeeding generations to reflect the country's changing needs; yet, apart from the ten amendments in the Bill of Rights, it has only been amended 17 times in 220 years, and most of those amendments had minor ramifications. Today, partisan gridlock dominates Washington; 17 percent of voters elect a majority of senators; the presidency has assumed unprecedented and unintended powers; while politicians spend as much time campaigning for office as they do governing; and average Americans feel more and more disconnected from the political process so that half or more don't vote in many elections--all of which would have horrified Jefferson and Madison.A More Perfect Constitution presents twenty three creative and dynamic proposals to reinvigorate American governance at a time when such change is urgently needed. Combining idealism and pragmatism, and with full respect for the original document, Sabato's thought-provoking ideas range from the length of the president's term in office and the number and terms of Supreme Court justices to the structure of Congress, the vagaries of the antiquated Electoral College, and a compelling call for universal national service--all laced through with the history behind each issue and their potential impact on the lives of ordinary people.Aware that such changes won't happen easily, Sabato urges us nonetheless to engage in the debate and discussion they will surely engender. As we head towards a presidential election year, no book is more relevant or significant than his.

The political book of the year, from the acclaimed founder and director of the Center for politics at the University of Virginia.A More Perfect... Constitution presents creative and dynamic proposals from one of the most visionary and fertile political minds of our time to reinvigorate our Constitution and American governance at a time when such change is urgently needed, given the growing dysfunction and unfairness of our political system .  Combining idealism and pragmatism, and with full respect for the original document, Larry Sabato’s thought-provoking ideas range from the length of the president’s term in office and the number and terms of Supreme Court justices to the vagaries of the antiquated Electoral College, and a compelling call for universal national service—all laced through with the history behind each proposal and the potential impact on the lives of ordinary people.  Aware that such changes won’t happen easily, but that the original Framers fully expected the Constitution to be regularly revised, Sabato urges us to engage in the debate and discussion his ideas will surely engender. During a presidential election year, no book is more relevant or significant than this.

By 1514, the reclusive cleric Nicolaus Copernicus had written and hand-copied an initial outline of his heliocentric theory-in which he defied common... sense and received wisdom to place the sun, not the earth, at the center of our universe, and set the earth spinning among the other planets. Over the next two decades, Copernicus expanded his theory through hundreds of observations, while compiling in secret a book-length manuscript that tantalized mathematicians and scientists throughout Europe. For fear of ridicule, he refused to publish.In 1539, a young German mathematician, Georg Joachim Rheticus, drawn by rumors of a revolution to rival the religious upheaval of Martin Luther's Reformation, traveled to Poland to seek out Copernicus. Two years later, the Protestant youth took leave of his aging Catholic mentor and arranged to have Copernicus's manuscript published, in 1543, as De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres)-the book that forever changed humankind's place in the universe.In her elegant, compelling style, Dava Sobel chronicles, as nobody has, the conflicting personalities and extraordinary discoveries that shaped the Copernican Revolution. At the heart of the book is her play And the Sun Stood Still, imagining Rheticus's struggle to convince Copernicus to let his manuscript see the light of day. As she achieved with her bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Sobel expands the bounds of narration, giving us an unforgettable portrait of scientific achievement, and of the ever-present tensions between science and faith.

A More Perfect Ten is a revision of Gary Garrison's pioneering book on writing and producing the 10-minute play, and it is now the most authoritative... book on this emerging play form. The 10-minute play has become a regular feature of theatre companies and festivals from coast to coast, and Garrison has distilled the advice of many of those people who had been instrumental in promoting the ten minute play for the last few years. Replete with advice and tips on creating the successful 10-minute play, and cautions for avoiding the pitfalls, this new edition also includes addresses for the biggest and most important ten-minute festival opportunities, new sample ten minute plays and questions for thought and discussion, and sample layout templates for laying out the play for submission. The savvy playwright at any level of skill can use this little book to great advantage. Plus Gary Garrison is warm, funny, irreverent, and essential.