Making Peace: A Reading/Writing/Thinking Text on Global Community

By Elaine Brooks and Len Fox

Book Overview

This book uses peace education to teach reading and writing skills. Making Peace offers reading selections on a variety of subjects, ranging from conflict resolution and the creation of a more peaceful world, to environmentalism and education. The text develops analytical and critical thinking and includes integrated reading and writing activities.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521657806
• ISBN13: 9780521657808
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Great reading and writing book

It's a good pocket book. Also, it's cheap price, fast delivery. Great!!! I can learn academic vocabularies, and plan for my writing course. Moreover, The author's writing pattern is good for international students to acknowledge.

Making Peace: An Excellent College ESL Textbook

This collection of essays, discussion and writing exercises is challenging material for English as a Second Language students. I use Making Peace for intermediate and advanced writing courses and it has a section of very useful editing and revision checklists and pre-writing ideas. I am especially impressed with the range of topics and the author's efforts to demostrate the interconnectedness of gender, race and class oppression. My one criticism is that the essay, Anglo versus Chicano is disappointingly off the mark. (But this is a fault of the essay and not the editors.) I look forward to an updated edition, though there are easy connections to current topics of peace: global war on terrorism, race and gender presidential politics, etc. Some might object to such a "political" reader, but in fact, all education is political. In the fine tradition of progressive and radical educators, Making Peace simply makes its politics conscious and overt. Ruben Rangel New York