Suggested reading to mark the International Day of Peace September 21st
MAW is inviting leading booksellers to create a display to mark the annual International Day of Peace on September 21st. We have suggested a book list from which they could select titles, this is listed below. Why not ask if a bookshop near you will take part?
Voices for Peace - An Anthology
ed Anna Kiernan ( Simon & Schuster/Scribner 2001) ISBN 9780743230667
War No More - Eliminating Conflict in the Nuclear Age
Robert Hinde & Joseph Rotblat ( Pluto Press 2003) ISBN 9780745321912
The No-Nonense Guide to Conflict and Peace
ed Helen Ware ( New Internationalist Publications 2006) ISBN 9781904456421
Non-Violence: The History of a Dangerous Idea
Mark Kurlansky ( Vintage 2007) ISBN 9780099494126
Waging Peace
Scott Ritter ( Avalon Publishing Group/Nation Books 2007) ISBN 9781568583280
Beyond Terror: The Truth About the Real Threats to Our World
Chris Abbott, Paul Rogers and John Sloboda (Rider 2007) ISBN 978-1-8460-4070-2
Unarmed Heroes; the courage to go beyond violence
ed Scilla Elworthy, Anita Roddick, Francesca Cerletti ( Temple Lodge Publishing/Clairview Books 2004) ISBN 9781902636528
Searching for Peace
Johan Galtung & Carl G.Jacobsen (Pluto Press 2002) ISBN 9780745319285
People, Peace and Power: Conflict Transformation in Action
Diana Francis (Pluto Press 2002) ISBN 9780745318356
CND - Now More Than Ever: the story of a peace movement
Kate Hudson ( Vision Paperbacks) ISBN 9781904132691
Peace - 50 years of protest, 1958-2008
Barry Miles (Anova Books/Collins & Brown 2008) ISBN 9781843404576
Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas
David Cortright (CUP 2008) ISBN 9780521854023 & 9780521670005
The Search for a Nonviolent Future
Michael Nagler (Inner Ocean Publishing 2004) ISBN 9781930722408
The Anti-War Quote Book
Eric Groves (Quirkbooks 2008) ISBN 9781594742293
As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela
Mark Thomas (Ebury Press 2007) ISBN 9780091909222
Education for Peace
ed Robert Hinde and Donald Parry (Spokesman 1989) ISBN 978 0 85124 513 3
Bending the Rules: The twenty-first century morality
Robert A Hinde (OUP 2008) ISBN 9780199218981
War - A Cruel Necessity? - Bases of Institutionalised Violence
Robert Hinde, Helen Watson (IB Taurus & Co1994) ISBN 9781850438243
Frreedom from Nuclear Weapons: world court coalition
ed George Farebrother (Spokesman 2007) ISBN 978 0 85124 748 9
The Carnage Continues... And now for Trident
Ken Coates, Noam Chomsky, Harold Pinter (Spokesman 2006) ISBN 9780851247298
Losing Control: Global Security in the 21st Century
Paul Rogers (Pluto Prerss 2002) ISBN 9780745319094
The Unfinished Twentieth Century: the crisis of weapons of mass destruction
Jonathan Schell (Verso Books 2003) ISBN 9781859844939
Human Smoke
Nicholson Baker (Simon & Schuster 2008) ISBN 9781847373038
Political Writings
Henry David Thoreau (CUP 1996) ISBN 9780521476751 OR
Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau (Presa Press 2006) ISBN 9780974086811
The Complaint of Peace
Desiderius Erasmus (Cosimo Inc 2004) ISBN 9781596050198
Briand - Man of Peace
Valentine Thompson (Read Books 2007) ISBN 9781406755930
All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
Mahatma Gandhi, Krishna Kripalani (Continuum 1997) ISBN 9780826400031
Gandhi - A Very Short Introduction
Bhikhu Paraekh (OUP 2001) ISBN 9780192854575
Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War
Stanley Meisler (John Wiley 2008) ISBN 13 9780470281697
Amity in the Middle East: How the World Sports Peace Project and the Passion for Football brought together Arab and Jewish Youngsters
Geoffrey Whitfield (Alpha Press 2006) ISBN 9781898595489
The Palace of Crystal: a world without war
Harry Davis (Arena Books 2007) ISBN 13 978 0 9556055 0 5
Making Terrorism History
Schilla Elworthy and Gabrielle Rifkind (Rider 2004) ISBN 9781846040474
Rethinking War and Peace
Diana Francis (Pluto Press 2004) ISBN 9780 7453 21875
War Prevention Works
Dylan Matthews (Oxford Research Group 2001)
Ending War: the Force of Reason
Maxwell Bruce and Tom Milne (Macmillan 1999) ISBN 0333774825
Losing Control: Global Security in the 21st Century
Paul Rogers (Pluto Press 2002) ISBN 0745319092
The War On Terror: how should Christians respond?
Nick Solly Megoran (Inter-Varsity Press 2007) ISBN 9781844741755
War Law
Michael Byers (Atlantic Books 2005) ISBN 1843543389
The Trillion Dollar War: the true cost of the Iraq conflict
(Allen Lane 2008) ISBN 9781846141287