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On Revolution (Penguin Classics)
Hannah Arendt
Penguin Classics, 2006
Brilliant
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+ Pristine Condition!
+ On "On Revolution"
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50 American Revolutions You're Not Supposed to Know: Reclaiming American Patriotism
Mickey Z
The Disinformation Company, 2005
Ivory Tower Intellectuals Won't Like This Book: Call it Blithe Ignorance
+ Where There Is Injustice, Resistance is Possible
+ Share It With Everyone - Especially Friends, Family, Neighbors, & "Enemies."
+ Good Book, But Obviously Written From Mickey Z's Point of View
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The Message and the Kingdom: How Jesus and Paul Ignited a Revolution and Transformed the Ancient World
Richard A. Horsley, Neil Asher Silberman
Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2002
Finally!
+ Distinguishing the forest from the trees....
+ Social Reform
Professor Horsley has repeatedly offered us books impeccably researched and annotated in great detail. Yet despite the promise of those works, Horsley has too often hidden his gifts behind an impenetrable wall of technicalities and minutia. In his attempts to demonstrate his intelligence, Horsley ...
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The Necessary Revolution: How individuals and organizations are working together to create a sustainable ...
Peter M. Senge, Bryan Smith, ...
US Green Building Council, 2008
An important contribution to sustainability strategies
+ Value Priced, Superb Overview, Isolated from Other Literatures
+ Hits the Nail on the Head
+ A compass and Road Map for Progress
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Literature and Revolution
Leon Trotsky
Haymarket Books, 2005
One of the most important books of the 20th Century
+ The Struggle for Revolutionary Culture
This is simply one of the most important books of the 20th Century. Trotsky wrote this book at the request of Lenin who edited it. They saw fighting against those who wanted to impose a so-called "proletarian" culture as the official culture of the Soviet Union, as a threat to a real Marxist ...
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A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence
Ray Raphael
Harper Perennial, 2002
Filling in the history of this country's birth.
+ The "Real" American Revolution
+ not the best that it could be but still worth reading
Most history of the American Revolution focuses on "the founding fathers" and particular events. Ray Raphael's book, the first in a Howard Zinn series, gives credit to everyday people and seldom told events. Adams, Jefferson, Washington et al would have hardly been able to found a country without ...
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The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift
Andres R. Edwards
New Society Publishers, 2005
A Sustainable Framework
+ Excellent reference
+ Great Intro to Sustainability
The Sustainability Revolution provides a broad portrait of a paradigm shift, as the sub title claims. Although I checked this out of the library, this is a book to own and refer to especially if you are interested in furthering sustainable best practices or even wondering what they are. ...
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Toward the African Revolution (Fanon, Frantz)
Frantz Fanon
Grove Press, 1994
This powerful collection of articles, essays, and letters spans the period between Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961), Fanon’s landmark manifesto on the psychology of the colonized and the means of empowerment necessary for their liberation. These pieces display the genesis of some of Fanon’s greatest ideas — ideas that became so vital to the ...
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New Day Revolution: How to Save the World in 24 Hours
Sam Davidson, Stephen Moseley
Xyzzy Press, 2007
Easy and Educational Read
+ Day by Day
+ when the rubber hits the road
+ Practical, Achievable and Fun
+ Zeal
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Inward Revolution: Bringing About Radical Change in the World
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Shambhala, 2006
Practical Spirituality At Its Best
Jiddu Krishnamurti has been one of the formative influences in my own life. I still have a paperback edition of some of his lectures that I devoured as a fifteen year old. He had enormous personal presence and the clarity of his teaching was amazing. The Dalai Lama described him as one of the ...
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Revolution!: South America and the Rise of the New Left
Nikolas Kozloff
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
Important Book on a Timely Subject
+ "Revolution" in South America
This book is packed with information about the changing social and political situation in 6 major South American countries. Personal observations and reflections are woven throughout, as well as interviews with a wide range of characters. The sea change in our hemisphere is one of the major events ...
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The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet
John Bellamy Foster
Monthly Review Press, 2009
Since the atomic bomb made its first appearance on the world stage in 1945, it has been clear that we possess the power to destroy our own planet. What nuclear weapons made possible, global environmental crisis, marked especially by global warming, has now made inevitable—if business as usual continues. The roots of the present ecological crisis, John Bellamy Foster argues in The ...
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The Translucent Revolution: How People Just Like You are Waking Up and Changing the World
Arjuna Ardagh
New World Library, 2005
No Ordinary Soulful book
+ wonderful!
+ Stay up to Date
Translucent Revolution... is for those who are eager to see a fresh new World of endless possibilities for humanity and the rest of Life. This book shares true-eventful stories from multiple people with different point of views... who are so ordinary ... who were so lost.... but they were so glad ...
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The New Wellness Revolution: How to Make a Fortune in the Next Trillion Dollar Industry
Paul Zane Pilzer
Wiley, 2007
Wellness is worth it!
+ Pilzer knows his stuff!
+ Great Info!
+ great book
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Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth
AK Press, 2006
Raze the Roof!
+ Loved the chapter on Jainism by Charlotte Laws
+ A strong message to be found here!
+ outstanding book
+ Igniting a revolution
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