According to writer and philosopher A. C. Grayling, reading can be better appreciated by taking a historical look at the subject.

The majority of wars today are intrastate conflicts fought with small arms, and where such conflicts take place, many of those fighting are children.

Military organizations as well as non-state opposition groups in war-ravaged areas of the world often recruit children to serve as child soldiers.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Director, Julia Unwin, suggests that underlying today’s social problems are our growing affluence, avarice, alienation and anger.

As a veritable cascade of material wealth floods much of the globe, many wonder why they do not feel any happier or more content with life.

The trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor coincidentally followed the release of a book by former child soldier Ishmael Beah.

Confronted with the evidence of the inhumanity of slavery, William Wilberforce’s hope was to abolish it throughout the British Empire.