Harvard University Press

In hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine and Hiroshima’s Ground Zero, comics display a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma.

"Samuel Moyn breaks new ground in examining the relationship between human rights and economic fairness. If we don't address the growing global phenomenon of economic inequality, the human rights movement as we know it cannot survive or flourish."

In an age when few people ventured beyond their place of birth, And Palmeiro left Portugal on a journey to the far side of the world.

The Therigatha, composed more than two millennia ago, is an anthology of poems in the Pali language by and about the first Buddhist women. These women were theris, the senior ones, among ordained Buddhist women, and they bore that epithet because of