One day at a beach Kathleen Barry witnessed an accidental death. Seeing how empathy drew together the bystanders - strangers until that moment - in shared human consciousness, she asked: "Why do we value human lives in everyday moments but accept the killing in war as inevitable ?"

In Unmaking War, Remaking Men, Kathleen Barry explores soldiers' experiences through a politics of empathy. By...

Unspeakable is available exclusively as an eBook.

This is a book about speech and the silencing of speech; about who gets to speak and who does not; about who is listened to and who is ignored. In this down-to-earth analysis of the democratic principle of freedom of speech, Betty McLellan insists that, if this prized democratic principle is to have any continuing credibility, free speech must...