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Riane Eisler: Spiritual Courage

By Riane Eisler — 2016

Riane Eisler, an eminent social scientist and activist, attorney, and author, explains how her mother exemplified spiritual courage, the courage to stand up to injustice out of love.

04:22 min

Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds

Meticulously researched and beautifully written, the true story of a Japanese American family that found itself on opposite sides during World War II—an epic tale of family, separation, divided loyalties, love, reconciliation, loss, and redemption—this is a riveting chronicle of U.S.

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Pamela Rotner Sakamoto
2017
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Necessary Targets: A Story of Women and War

In her first new work since The Vagina Monologues, her Obie Award-winning smash hit, Eve Ensler tells the story of two American women, a Park Avenue psychiatrist and a human rights worker, who go to Bosnia to help women confront their memories of war and emerge deeply changed themselves.

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Eve Ensler
2025
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared.

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Laura Hillenbrand
2025
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Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII’s Forgotten Heroes

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar first became immersed in the history of the 761st Battalion through family friend Leonard “Smitty” Smith, a veteran of the unit.

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Anthony Walton
2025
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Global Challenges: War, Self Determination and Responsibility for Justice

In the late twentieth century, many writers and activists envisioned new possibilities of transnational cooperation toward peace and global justice. In this book Iris Marion Young aims to revive such hopes by responding clearly to what are seen as the global challenges of the modern day.

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Iris Marion Young
2025
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FindCenter Quotes ImageWars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea

In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity, a course of action, rather than a mere state of mind.

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Mark Kurlansky, The Dalai Lama (foreword)
2008
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The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn: A Lakota History

An account of the legendary battle, told from a Lakota perspective, documents key Lakota oral traditions to reveal the nuanced complexities that led up to and followed the conflict.

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Joseph M. Marshall III
2007
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War Talk

War Talk collects new essays on politics, war and activism by Arudhati Roy, the author of The God of Small Things.

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Arundhati Roy
2003
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Einstein’s Letter to Freud About the Psychology of War and Governance

Einstein admired Freud’s work and believed that some of his psychological ideas could help him unravel the eternal problem of man’s affinity for violence.

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Mike Colagrossi
2019
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