November 7, 2000 For Immediate Release

Three UNBC professors will be unveiling their new publications at a public event at Mosquito Books on Friday, November 10th. The event will start at 7pm and include a discussion of the books, as well as a short reading from each author.

In Democracy: A History of Ideas, Political Science professor Boris DeWiel writes that politics at its best is about competing values. The richness of modern democracy, he argues, is due to the fact that our shared political values are not entirely compatible with each other. Democracy is a conflict of values - between groups, parties, and within each citizen.

International Studies professor Larry Woods is the editor of the 60th anniversary edition of Herbert Norman's classic work, Japan's Emergence as a Modern State: Political and Economic Problems of the Meiji Period. Focusing on the period 1868 to 1912, the book tells the story of how Japanese elites maintained their domination of society, drawing attention to the ongoing repression of the masses. Dr Woods has dedicated this book to the memory of UNBC colleagues Gordon Ternowetsky and Anna Sorkomova.

International Studies professor Nick Tyrras gathered personal correspondence in Letters of Life in an Aristocratic Russian Household Before and After the Revolution: Amy Coles and Princess Vera Urusov. The first set of letters was written by Amy Coles between 1879 and 1883 when she was employed as an English tutor and companion to two Russian girls in what is now the Ukraine. The second set was written some forty years later by Princess Vera, one of Coles' pupils. The two sets tell the story of family lore, the daily rituals of Russian families, and the horrors of revolution and civil war.

Each of the books is available for purchase at Mosquito Books and the UNBC Bookstore.