Bibliography of Peace

Adams, Judith Porter. Peacework: Oral Histories of Women Peace Activists. Twayne Publishers, Boston, MA: 1991.

Alonso, Harriet Hyman. Peace as a Woman’s Issue: a History of the U.S. Movement for World Peace and Women’s Rights. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY: 1993.

Benjamin, Medea, and Jodie Evans, editors. Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism. Inner Ocean Publishing, Inc, Makawao, HI: 2005.

Boulding, Elise. Cultures of Peace: the Hidden Side of History. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY: 2000.

Buchwald, Emilie, Pamela R. Fletcher, and Martha Roth, editors. Transforming a Rape Culture. Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, MN: 2005.

Chappel, David W., editor. Buddhist Peacework: Creating Cultures of Peace. Wisdom Publications, Boston: 1999.

Chapple, Christopher Key. Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions. State University of New York Press, NY: 1993.

Chodron, Thubten. Taming the Mind. Snow Lion Publications, Ithaka, NY: 2004.

--Working with Anger. Snow Lion Publications, Ithaka, NY: 2001.

Chopra, Deepak. Peace is the Way: Bringing War and Violence to an End. Harmony Books, NY: 2005.

Cortwright, David. Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence for an Age of Terrorism. Paradigm, Boulder, CO: 2006.

Davies, Miranda. Women and Violence. Zed Books Ltd., NY: 1997.

Diamond, Louise. The Courage for Peace: Daring to Create Harmony in Ourselves and the World. Conari Press, Berkeley, CA: 2004.

Dunlap, Louise. Undoing the Silence: Six Tools for Social Change Writing. New Village Press, Oakland, CA: 2007.

Eisler, Riane. The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future. HarperSanFrancisco: 1988.

Eisler, Riane, and Ron Miller. Educating for a Culture of Peace. Heinemann, 2004.

Elgin, Suzette Haden. The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense. Barnes & Noble Books, NY: 1980.

Erikson, Erik H. Gandhi’s Truth: on the Origins of Militant Nonviolence. W. W. Norton & Company, NY: 1969.

Gandhi, Mohandas K. Autobiography: the Story of My Experiments with Truth. Dover Publications, Inc., NY: 1983.

Griffin, Susan. A Chorus of Stones: the Private Life of War. Anchor Books, NY: 1992.

Gyatso, Tenzen (the Dalai Lama). Healing Anger: the Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, Delhi, India: 2003.
--An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life. Hodder & Stoughton, London, England, 2001.

Hahn, Thich Nhat. Anger. Riverhead Books, NY: 2001.

--Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World. Free Press, NY: 2003.

--The Thich Nhat Hanh Collection. One Spirit, NY: 2004.

Hooks, bell. Killing Rage: Ending Racism. Henry Holt and Company, NY: 1995.

Hopkins, Jeffrey, editor. The Art of Peace: Nobel Peace Laureates Discuss Human Rights, Conflict and Reconciliation. Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca, NY: 2000.

Hutchinson, Francis P., F. Hutchinson, and Frank Hutchinson. Educating Beyond Violent Futures. Routledge, NY: 1996.

Ikeda, Daisaku. For the Sake of Peace: Seven Paths to Global Harmony, a Buddhist Perspective. Middleway Press, Santa Monica, CA: 2002.

Iram, Yaacov, Hillel Wahrman, Zehavit Gross, editors. Educating Toward a Culture of Peace. Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2006.

Jack, Homer A. The Gandhi Reader: a Sourcebook of His Life and Writings. Grove Press, NY: 1956.

Juergensmeyer, Mark. Gandi’s Way: a Handbook of Conflict Resolution. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA: 2002.

King, Mary Elizabeth. A Quiet Revolution: the First Palestinian Intifada and Nonviolent Resistance. Nation Books, NY: 2007.

Kurlansky, Mark. Nonviolence: the History of a Dangerous Idea. Modern Library, NY: 2006.

McAllister, Pam, ed. Reweaving the Web of Life: Feminism and Nonviolence. New Society Publishers, Philadelphia, PA: 1982.

Meltzer, Milton. Ain’t Gonna Study War No More: the Story of America’s Peace Seekers. Random House, NY: 2002.

Piburn, Sidney, compiled and edited. A Policy of Kindness: an Anthology of Writings by and About the Dalai Lama. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, Delhi, India: 2002.

Rosenberg, Marshall. Nonviolence: a Language of Life. PuddleDancer Press, Encinitas, CA: 2003.

--Speak Peace in a World of Conflict. PuddleDancer Press, Enicinitas, CA: 2005.

Roy, Arundhati. An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire. South End Press, Cambridge, MA: 2004.

--Power Politics. South End Press, Cambridge, MA: 2001.

--War Talk. South End Press, Cambridge: 2003.

Sivaraksa, Sulak. Conflict, Culture, Change: Engaged Buddism in a Globalizing World. Wisdom Publications, Boston, MA: 2005.

--Seeds of Peace: a Buddhist Vision for Renewing Society. Parallax Press, Berkeley, CA: 1992.

Stafford, William. Edited and with introduction by Kim Stafford. Every War Has Two Losers. Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, MN: 2003.

Walker, Alice. We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness. The New Press, NY: 2006.

Woolf, Virginia. Three Guineas. Harcourt, Inc., NY: 1966.

Gratitude

In the fall, I'll be starting out as a graduate student in Book Publishing and am very excited about it. As an author, I want to take a moment to thank people who have helped me in my writing career.

First, I must thank my ninth-grade English teacher, Ms. Downard, who was the first person to encourage my writing. She praised my short stories and essays highly, published some of them in the high school newsletter, and encouraged me to participate in writing contests.

Second, I am thanking my other high school English teacher, Mr. Floran, who among other things taught College Prep English and commented that I showed understanding in the class while most of my classmates were confused. He assured me that whatever art form I focused on for my future career, I would do well.

As a college student, my favorite writing instructor was Joe Schuster, and I thank him for giving such positive and encouraging feedback on my stories. He also happened to be one of the coolest teachers on campus.

I must also thank college friends, in particular Alice Warner Henderson and Jeff Spinks, whose words of encouragement and praise helped me to feel better about myself and to have more confidence in my art.

Crazy Cats and Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde is a Welsh novelist who wrote the alternative reality science fiction series starring Thursday Next. The series begins with the book The Eyre Affair, and involves fictional characters coming out of the books. Miss Havisham is a reckless driver, I might add.

http://www.twolumps.net/d/20090522.html

Oscar Wilde the Grouch

1) Garbage is neither moral nor immoral. It is either good garbage or bad garbage.

2) We are all in the garbage can, but some of us are gazing at the recycle bin.

3) Only the trashy know themselves.

4) The only thing worse than having something to grumble about is having nothing to grumble about.

5) The only thing worse than being grumbled about is not being grumbled about.

6) Arguing and stubbornness are to the grouch instruments of an art.

7) No grouch has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in a grouch is an unpardonable mannerism of life style.

8) It is the grumbler alone in the garbage can, and not the kids playing in the alley, that art really mirrors.

9) All garbage is quite useless.

10) Big Bird is quite tolerant. He forgives everything except grumpiness.

Promoting an Old Friend

An old college friend, Lawrence Clayton, just got a story published online:

http://www.uglycousin.com/

Strangely, I didn't meet him while I was majoring in Creative Writing. We were both enrolled in the Conservatory of Theater Arts at Webster University. It's one of the top academic theater programs in the United States, even though whenever I mention Webster people say, "Oh, where's that? I've never heard of it."

Beware of Ripoff Insurance Companies!

I'm not the only unpaid and underpublished writer, and since I was laid off from a paying job a year ago, I am currently job hunting in addition to writing, trying to get published, and sculpting.

I received e-mails from not one but two insurance companies, United American Insurance and American Income Life Insurance, saying that they saw my resume online and asking me to call them for a job interview. My "Aversion" alert went off, which is hardly surprising because working in sales for an insurance company isn't my idea of following my heart, and I have a serious fear of going back into the trap of working at a thankless and meaningless job that I hate becuase it supplies me with a paycheck. But I told myself it would be irresponsible to not call back. Fortunately, I Googled both companies before calling...and I discovered that both are misleading and actually give you commission jobs rather than a regular paycheck.


http://www.ripoffreport.com/searchresults.asp?q1=ALL&q4=&q6=&q3=&q2=&q7=&searchtype=0&submit2=Search!&q5=United+American+Insurance


http://www.419legal.org/blog/2008/02/02/american-income-life-insurance-scam-or-not/

Hubpages

I am hopefully going to earn some money by posting essays on a website called Hubpages. Here is a link to one of my web pages: www.hubpages.com/hub/trafficindelhi. If you visit my hubs and click on ads, then I actually get paid for writing. Meanwhile, I hope to contribute essays and travel journal excerpts that are worthwhile....


http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=96891746880&h=_dbFG&u=WS1w7&ref=nf
Source: www.hubpages.com

Then again, here is a link that might actually function:
http://hubpages.com/profile/LobeliaToadfoot