Böcker i Echoes and Reflections Series-serien

Addresses topics and issues which are of importance to human flourishing, including: sexual morality, the limits of tolerance and religious freedom, the family, the belief in an afterlife, and the idea of sin.

Presents author's discussion with Daisaku Ikeda, President of Soka Gakkai - and another tireless champion for peace and dialogue. This book covers such perennially critical themes as ethics and technology, the appropriate use to which science should be put, the nature of morality and the human quest for progress, justice and equality.

Engaging with such seemingly intractable problems as population growth, the decline of natural resources, desertification, pollution and deforestation, this book shows that many of these problems are interrelated. It argues that by working together for peace and justice human beings can expect to find lasting solutions.

Chingiz Aitmatov is best known for his novella "Jamila", on the publication of which he achieved great fame in the Soviet Union in 1958. This title offers tribute to the thought of a powerful writer and a fascinating individual and a reflection on such themes of the process of literary creation, spiritual growth and the essence of humanity.