Author: Peter Gelderloo
Publisher: South End Pre
Keywords: state, protects, nonviolence
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0896087727
ISBN-13: 9780896087729

Since the civil rights era, the doctrine of nonviolence has enjoyed near-universal acceptance by the US Left. Today protest is often shaped by cooperation with state authorities-even organizers of rallies against police brutality apply for police permits, and anti-imperialists usually stop short of supporting self-defense and armed resistance. How Nonviolence Protects the State challenges the belief that nonviolence is the only way to fight for a better world. In a call bound to stir controversy and lively debate, Peter Gelderloos invites activists to consider diverse tactics, passionately arg

Author: Joe Herbert
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: brain, ensures, reproduce, danger, alive, keeps, minder, protects
Number of Pages: 476
Published: 2007-06-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 9812703950
ISBN-13: 9789812703958

Ambition, genius, thought, imagination, love, hate, greed and, above all, consciousness ourselves as alive and as part of our world all this is somehow enabled by the brain. The brain is the person, and if it goes wrong, a person is ruined. This book is about part of what the brain does a role of which many of us are hardly aware, but one that has ensured, the survival of mankind. Despite famine, drought, wars, cold, infections and hostile environments, we survive as a species though not always as individuals. All this time, our brains have been coping with what fate throws at us a pro