"A top historian offers a new history of Paris's Belle aEpoque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacrae-C�ur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes over what it meant to be French From the wrought ironwork of the Eiffel Towerto the flourishing art nouveau movement, the Belle aEpoque is remembered as a golden age for Parisian culture. Beneath the veneer of elegance, however, fin de siaecle Paris was a city at war with...

"A collection of key writings on nonviolent social change for activists from the 1960s until 2013 by Vietnamese peace advocate and Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh, including the script of a play set during the war in Vietnam"--