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Away -- Baffin Island -- "All is individuality" -- Science and circuses -- Headhunters -- American empire -- "A girl as frail as Margaret" -- Coming of age -- Masses and mountaintops -- Indian country -- Living theory -- Spirit realms -- War and nonsense -- Home.

Describes the vibrant Black Sea port city of Odessa and the thriving Jewish population that included Alexander Pushkin, Isaac Babel, and Zionist activist Vladimir Jabotinsky, and examines the mass murders of the Romanian occupation during World War II

Based on research in multiple languages, this book is a guide to the history, cultures, and politics of the fascinating Black Sea area and its future at the heart of Europe and Eurasia. It demonstrates how a region often thought of as a zone of timeless conflict has experienced long periods of integration and co-operation.

"Based on extensive field research and archival findings that no other Western researcher has seen, this book is the first comprehensive account of the history and contemporary politics of the Republic of Moldova. Charles King traces the major events that have shaped what is perhaps the least known of the former Soviet Union's successor states, from its rise as an autonomous principality in the fourteenth century to the traumatic territorial changes of more recent times."--Jacket

Empathy is the antithesis of selfishness and therein lies our species? only hope of survival. For too long our selfishly anthropocentric approach ? that which considers human beings as the most significant entity of the universe ? has powerfully held sway. This has seen our world disintegrate on countless levels; climatic change being the main case in point. As a species, not only have we turned anyone not in our group(s) into the other, we have even othered nature. I explore how globalised cultures and economies, because contemporary market economies profit from the control and commodification of all that lives, threaten our planet?s sustainability. My chapter argues that, thankfully, a historic wave of empathy is challenging our highly individualistic, self-obsessed cultures, in which most of us have become far too absorbed in our own lives to give much thought to anyone else. That is why we have to take difference and diversity ? the embracing of the other on every level ? as our main point of reference. We must suspend belief that political participation, moral empathy, and social cohesion can only be produced on the basis of the notion of recognition of sameness. Empathy, maintains Roman Krznaric, is an ideal that has the power both to transform our own lives and to bring about fundamental social change; it can create a radical revolution. Furthermore, within my sphere of influence as a journalism lecturer, I am agitating for the incorporation of empathy into journalism curricula so that future young African journalists (tomorrow?s information gatekeepers) will be taught ?empathy skills?; because the communications industry, especially print media, digital journalism, television, and radio, are critical in this revolution.

The substantial literature on mass violence, from ethnic cleansing to civil wars, has paid surprisingly little attention to the largest instance of mass violence in human history: the Holocaust. When political scientists have approached the subject, the trend has been to treat the Holocaust as a single case, comparing it—sometimes controversially—with other instances of genocide such as Rwanda or Cambodia. But historically grounded work on the destruction of European Jewry can help illuminate the microfoundations of violent politics, unpack the relationship between a ubiquitous violence-inducing ideology (antisemitism) and highly variable murder, and recast old questions about the origins and evolution of the Holocaust itself. After reviewing new trends in history-writing, I highlight opportunities for social-scientifically oriented research centered on the interaction of state power, local communities, and violent mobilization in five areas: military occupation, repertoires of violence, alliance politics, genocidal policymaking, and resistance. My conclusion addresses thorny issues of comparison, morality, and memory.