The best United Nations books

Written for the APS1025 Infrastructure Protection course at the University of Toronto, Before the Storm continues the story of Marianne as she explores the essential principles and concepts of protection and security integration. The characters and situations are all hybrid versions of real people and case studies, exaggerated to amplify the lessons. Her previous exploration of operational risk and resilience directly resulted in a partial grade improvement across the APS Infrastructure Resilience class. Marianne's exploits will never attract awards for storytelling, but they can help you understand the how and why of protection and adaptation, and the role and application of risk in understanding complex systems.

Mastering Creation Using The Law Of Unification brings to you the theory of creation and introduces a new law called “Law of Unification” followed by the ancient Creator Gods such as Quetzalcoatl and Isis. Law of Unification has been used by creators, inventors, and geniuses. With the practical techniques discussed in the book, you’ll be able to practice the Law of Unification and gain access to the source of hidden potential to uncover your life’s purpose and create a fulfilling life. 

In this book, you’ll learn how to: 1. transform your life, 2. create new creations, 3. eliminate suffering, and 4. consciously fulfill your life’s purpose.

The United Nations committed itself to the promotion of human rights in its Charter of 1945 and elaborated these principles in its Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Since then a vast body of international, regional and national law has developed to clarify and protect human rights. Yet for a long time the social sciences largely ignored these developments.

Since the end of the last century, social science has woken up to the role human rights play in international and national law and politics. In this book, I describe and evaluate these contributions, and relate them to human rights law and `real-world’ politics. I consider the interaction of law and politics, claims of `universal’ rights and cultural diversity, human rights and global inequalities, and the supposed crisis of liberal democracy.

The way out of our current culture of contempt can be hard to see unless you know where to look.

This book will show you. It offers insights from leading research on how deeply divided societies can and do change. It will suggest what you can do – the actions, skills, and competencies that will help you navigate these times most effectively – as well as what to look for in groups and organizations in your community that are already at work making America more functional again.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) was intimately involved in the political life of her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. She led women's organizations and youth movements and fought for consumer welfare, civil rights, and improved housing. Under her leadership the United Nations approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, acknowledged as a paramount achievement of the 20th century. Mrs. Roosevelt was named “Woman of the Century” by the National Women's Hall of Fame. Her hugely popular syndicated column “My Day” (1936 to 1962) had millions of readers worldwide. This collection displays her singular wit, elegance, compassion, and insight on everything from perspectives on the New Deal and World War II, to her painstaking diplomacy at the United Nations, to the joys of gardening at her beloved Hyde Park home.

Leadersmithing is a book of practical advice based on the experience of the thousands of senior leaders the author met during her career teaching at Ashridge Business School. Most leaders learn their trade the hard way, through bitter experience, but the latest in neurobiological research shows that there is an easier way. The book explains how to acquire the templates leaders need to lead with ease, and under pressure, and teaches leaders the tricks of the trade they need for mastery. It explores the 17 Critical Incidents of leadership and accelerated ways to become job-ready now. It introduces 52 leadership practices that map to these 17, so that aspiring leaders can curate their over development journey to develop the muscle memory they need for success.

Weary Warriors explores the impact of armed conflicts on the human body, mind, and soul of combatants across two centuries of wars in modern times. It offers a history of military psychiatry from the American Civil War to the recent Afghanistan conflict. The invisible wounds of combat and warfare are themselves a military occupation of the individual veteran’s body, personality, human spirit, and life. Cultural constructs of masculinity are also examined. A complex interplay of truths and traumas, and of power relations and diagnostic and treatment practices, operate through dynamic relationships of combat, care, and control.    

As World War I drew to a close, statesmen and diplomats descended on Paris, promising to build a new international order rooted in peace, justice, and democracy. Women demanded they live up to their word. Excluded from the negotiations, female activists met separately and insisted boldly that peace would never be secured to the exclusion of half of humanity. My book follows dozens of remarkable women from Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and North America as they demanded women’s right to dignity, security, and equality in civil, political, and economic life. It shows how, in the watershed year of 1919, nascent feminists from across the world transformed women’s rights into a global rallying cry.

Gladiator meets 1984 in this near-future thriller featuring timeslips, ancient magic, and a disturbingly plausible dystopian Britain. 68 CE: Fleeing disaster, young Winston Monk wakes to find himself trapped in the past, imprisoned by the mad Emperor Nero. The Roman civilization he idolized is anything but civilized, and his escape from a barbaric home has led him somewhere far more dangerous.

2070 CE: As the European Union crumbled, Britain closed its borders, believing they were stronger alone. After decades of hardship, British envoy Lindon Banks joins a diplomatic team to rebuild bridges with the hypermodern European Confederacy. But in Rome, Banks discovers his childhood friend who disappeared without a trace. Monk tells a different story: a tale of Caesars, slavery, and something altogether more sinister. Monk's mysterious emergence sparks the tinderbox of diplomatic relations between Britain and the Confederacy, controlled by shadowy players with links back to the ancient world itself.

In the years before the United States joined WWI, a fearless New England newsman called John Revelstoke Rathom became a media celebrity for his sensational scoops about German espionage and propaganda in the U.S. His articles were designed to condition America to see the German Empire as an enemy worth fighting at war. What the public did not know was that the famous editor was not who he said he was. Rathom was a confidant of President Woodrow Wilson, he was trusted by millions of readers, and yet there is no evidence he ever spoke his real name on this continent. His darkly funny tale exposes murky details of the propaganda wars waged by foreign nations to influence American public opinion, which echoes today.