A comparison of the cultural and political/institutional dimensions of war's impact on Greece during the Peloponnesian War, and the United States and the two Koreas, North and South, during the Korean War. It demonstrates the many underlying similarities between the two wars.

Raising Myself by Carla Brooks Johnston is a true story set against a background of adventures of a female Tom Sawyer that will keep you turning pages as you empathize with the efforts of a teenager trying to find a life for herself even as she lies in a hospital bed hoping to recover from being stabbed by a would-be rapist. What do you do when you're a girl who is orphaned at 13 with a stepfather who wants to rape you, a school counselor who decides you shouldn't go to college and tries to push you into a vocational curriculum, schoolmates who discriminate against you because you aren't part...

1940 - 2011 Up to her last days Carla B. Johnston worked on editing proofs of this book, leaving it as a legacy of how to make our communities and the world a better place. She hoped that the true stories in this book would encourage readers to become change makers, to join the ordinary people in this book who became extraordinary by getting involved in solving the problems of the worlds in which they lived. Carla believed that each of us can be a change maker, simply by talking with friends, engaging with our communities, working with the media and working with those that have the power to...