Education for Sustainable Development
October 2004
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New Books in French and English
The French publisher L'Harmattan recently released Cïtoyens du Monde, a French translation of Part I of Global Citizens--The Soka Gakkai Buddhist Movement in the World. The book is a collection of academic papers by internationally esteemed scholars writing on the Soka Gakkai and its worldwide development. The book's coeditors are Dr. David Machacek of the University of California at Santa Barbara and Dr. Bryan Wilson, reader emeritus in sociology at Oxford University.
One by One, a new collection of SGI President Ikeda's essays on the inspirational lives of the remarkable people he has met, will be published by Dunhill Publishing in the U.S. in November 2004. Eighteen individuals--from Arnold Toynbee to Nelson Mandela and Linus Pauling--are introduced, along with three essays in which Mr. Ikeda reminisces about his childhood in wartime Japan.
The book has an introduction by UN Under-Secretary-General Anwarul Chowdhury who writes, "Each one of the essays presents to the reader a shining example of the human spirit." Academy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham comments: "This book has inspired me with the possibility of a world without hate. It has reawakened that hope."
