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Banning Landmines: Disarmament, Citizen Diplomacy, and Human
Security looks at accomplishments and setbacks in the crucial first
decade of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. The first half of the book
considers the implementation of the prohibitions and humanitarian
assistance provisions of the treaty, as well as efforts to promote
universal acceptance of the treaty among governments and non-state
armed groups. The second half of this book considers the impact of
the landmine movement on other issues (such as cluster munitions
and disability rights), as well as the extent to which it has
contributed to the field of human security. Edited by Nobel Peace
Laureate Jody Williams and two other long-time leaders of the mine
ban movement, Stephen Goose and Mary Wareham, Banning Landmines
features contributions by grassroots activists, diplomatic
negotiators, mine survivors, arms experts, and human rights
defenders. This diverse group of writers at the forefront of the
landmine ban movement is well placed to provide insights into this
remarkable process, its precedents, and implications for other work
and issues.
The best of French Bistro cooking--simple yet sophisticated
tastes--by the owner and chef of the celebrated New York
restaurant.
BUVETTE: The Pleasure of Good Food
BUVETTE will celebrate and capitalize on the trend of informal
eating and simple entertaining, but with delicious flair. Jody
Williams, owner of Buvette restaurant, shows the home cook how to
create casual, polished meals without spending a lot of money or
time. She has a certain aesthetic that is a combination of Italian
and French bistro cooking in that she uses sophisticated taste
combinations, but prepared in simple ways to make unforgettable
dishes. A comfortable and interesting table will make your meals a
pleasure and Williams offers suggestions for using varied plates
(from your shelves or the flea market) and helps you think
creatively about serving food, like scooping ice cream into a tea
cup, or serving chocolate mousse in a silver tablespoon.
There will be recipes like Ricotta Fritters, Carrot Spoon Bread,
Shaved Brussels Sprouts with Pecorino and Walnuts, Potato Chips
with Rosemary Salt, Scallops with Caper Brown Butter, Ratatouille,
Roasted Heirloom Apples Stuffed with Pork Sausage, Chocolate on a
Spoon, and her special Tarte Tatin. There will be sections on
Aperitifs and Cocktails and Coffees and Teas. Also included will be
25 sidebars that offer useful tips on everything from building a
bar to removing wine stains. With gorgeous photography and
surprisingly simple recipes, this will be the book cooks will turn
to again and again.
A cookbook with recipes from peace advocates around the world
including Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Shirin Ebadi, Wangari
Maathai, Mairead Maguire, President Jose Ramos-Horta, Rigoberta
MenchA' Tum, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Betty Williams and Jody
Williams. Proceeds will be donated to support the work of the Nobel
Women's Initiative (www.nobelwomensinitiative.org) and the ongoing
work to ban landmines and cluster bombs. Featured in USATODAY:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2009-12-03-cookbook03_ST_N.htm
As Eve Ensler says in her inspired foreword to this book, "Jody
Williams is many things - a simple girl from Vermont, a sister of a
disabled brother, a loving wife, an intense character full of fury
and mischief, a great strategist, an excellent organizer, a brave
and relentless advocate, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. But to me
Jody Williams is, first and foremost, an activist". From her modest
beginnings to becoming the tenth woman - and third American woman -
to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Jody Williams takes the reader
through the ups and downs of her tumultuous and remarkable life. In
a voice that is at once candid, straightforward, and intimate,
Williams describes her Catholic roots, her first step on a long
road to standing up to bullies with the defense of her deaf brother
Stephen, her transformation from good girl to college hippie at the
University of Vermont, and her protest of the war in Vietnam. She
relates how, in 1981, she began her lifelong dedication to global
activism as she battled to stop the U.S. backed war in El Salvador.
Throughout the memoir, Williams underlines her belief that an
"average woman" - through perseverance, courage and imagination -
can make something extraordinary happen. She tells how, when asked
if she'd start a campaign to ban and clear anti-personnel mines,
she took up the challenge, and the International Campaign to Ban
Landmines (ICBL) was born. Her engrossing account of the genesis
and evolution of the campaign, culminating in 1997 with the Nobel
Peace Prize, vividly demonstrates how one woman's commitment to
freedom, self-determination, and human rights can have a profound
impact on people all over the globe.
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