Product Description: Candles in the Dark is an international compendium of essays that share a sense of the importance of introducing ethical and spiritual concepts and values into the public discourse on progress and globalization issues. They offer a new approach to international relations and public policy that esteems the human spirit and dignity as central values in decision making, seeks links between self interest and the common good, and introduces, in a practical way, philosophical, spiritual, and cultural perspectives in the political discourse on global political and socioeconomic problems...read more

Product Description: An astonishingly candid memoir from the acclaimed, dissident playwright elected President after the dramatic Czechoslovakian Velvet Revolution — one of the most respected political figures of our time.As writer and statesman, Václav Havel played an essential part in the profound changes that occurred in Central Europe in the last decades of the twentieth century...read more

Product Description: This collection of prison writings straddles two continents, and compares and contrasts the political struggles that gave birth to two vibrant new democracies of the twenty-first century: South Africa and the Czech Republic. The triumph over decades of suffering endured by the ordinary citizens of these two countries is symbolized by their leaders, Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel...read more

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Product Description: Czech President Vaclav Havel gives new meaning to the word "politics" in this paperback collection. "Like his American predecessor Thomas Jefferson, Vaclav Havel is a politician with the soul of a writer and a writer with the savvy of a politician...read more

When Professor Leopold Nettles writes a book that contains passages unacceptable to the government he faces pressures from the state

Product Description: Autobiografía del más prestigioso crítico literario alemán, que abunda en anécdotas ilustrativas de una vida tan agitada como estremecedora, entre las que destacan sus vivencias en el campo de concentración de Auschwitz. Su autor también relata su labor como crítico y su relación con grandes personalidades de la literatura...read more

In a collection of writings that span from 1990 to 1996, the president of the Czech Republic shares his thoughts on the world of politics, from his first days in office, through his initiation into the complexities of foreign affairs and his country's division, to the present day. 17,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

Reflects on the political, ethical, economic, and cultural complexities of the post-communist era, addressing such issues as the survival of morality in politics, repairing the ravages of communism, and the creation of a new order

Product Description: In this powerfully moving account, the author, whose family lived in Kolin, Czechoslovakia, for many generations, shares episodes of her life during and after the Holocaust. Introduction by Vaclav Havel, President of Czech Republic...read more

Presents essays and other writings covering the author's twenty-five years of political activism (view table of contents)

The president of Czechoslovakia discusses his political and theatrical work, and his view of recent events in Eastern Europe

Product Description: Book by Havel, Vaclav, Wilson, Paul

When Professor Leopold Nettles writes a book that contains passages unacceptable to the government he faces pressures from the state