Power And The Powerless

Author : Vaclav Havel,John Keane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315487359

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The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe by Vaclav Havel,John Keane Pdf

Designed as an introduction to emergency management, this book includes pieces on: social, political, and fiscal aspects of risk management; land-use planning and building code enforcement regulations; insurance issues; emergency management systems; and managing natural and manmade disasters.

Author : John Gaventa
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 0252009851

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Power and Powerlessness by John Gaventa Pdf

Explains to outsiders the conflicts between the financial interests of the coal and land companies and the moral rights of the vulnerable mountaineers.

Author : Václav Havel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : UOM:39015012845957

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Václav Havel, Or, Living in Truth by Václav Havel Pdf

Author : Michael Parenti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Social Science
ISBN : MINN:319510011539316

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Power and the Powerless by Michael Parenti Pdf

Author : Jürgen Moltmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0334012783

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The Power of the Powerless by Jürgen Moltmann Pdf

A collection of Juergen Moltmann's sermons on the themes of power and powerlessness."

Author : Matthew Cody
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375844898

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Powerless by Matthew Cody Pdf

Superheroes soar in this promising debut—and they’re kids! Twelve-year-old Daniel, the new kid in town, soon learns the truth about his nice—but odd—new friends: one can fly, another can turn invisible, yet another controls electricity. Incredible. The superkids use their powers to secretly do good in the town, but they’re haunted by the fact that the moment they turn thirteen, their abilities will disappear—along with any memory that they ever had them. Is a memory-stealing supervillain sapping their powers? The answers lie in a long-ago meteor strike, a World War II–era comic book (Fantastic Futures, starring the first superhero, Johnny Noble), the green-flamed Witch Fire, a hidden Shroud cave, and—possibly, unbelievably—“powerless” regular-kid Daniel himself. Superhero kids meet comic book mystery in this action-filled debut about the true meaning of a hero.

Author : Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226301112

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The Politics of Small Things by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb Pdf

Political change doesn’t always begin with a bang; it often starts with just a whisper. From the discussions around kitchen tables that led to the dismantling of the Soviet bloc to the more recent emergence of Internet initiatives like MoveOn.org and Redeem the Vote that are revolutionizing the American political landscape, consequential political life develops in small spaces where dialogue generates political power. In The Politics of Small Things, Jeffrey Goldfarb provides an innovative way for understanding politics, a way of appreciating the significance of politics at the micro level by comparatively analyzing key turning points and institutions in recent history. He presents a sociology of human interactions that lead from small to large: dissent around the old Soviet bloc; life on the streets in Warsaw, Prague, and Bucharest in 1989; the network of terror that spawned 9/11; and the religious and Internet mobilizations that transformed the 2004 presidential election, to name a few. In such pivotal moments, he masterfully shows, political autonomy can be generated, presenting alternatives to the big politics of the global stage and the dominant narratives of terrorism, antiterrorism, and globalization.

Author : David Biale
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307772534

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Power & Powerlessness in Jewish History by David Biale Pdf

To shed light on the tensions he observed between Jewish perceptions of power versus political realitieswhich "are often the cause of misguided political decisions," like Israel's Lebanese WarBiale analyzes Jewish history from the point of view of politics and power. The author of Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-History here challenges the conventions of what he terms the Jewish "mythical past": the anachronistic interpretation that the Diaspora, which occurred between the fall of an independent Jewish commonwealth in A.D. 70 and the rebirth of the State of Israel in 1948, was politically impotent, and, conversely, that the First and Second Temple periods were eras of full Jewish national sovereignty.

Author : Joost A M Meerloo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1773239678

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Delusion and Mass Delusion by Joost A M Meerloo Pdf

In this classic of political and social psychology, Joost Meerloo attempts to account for the mechanisms of mind that have made the brainwashing techniques of totalitarian states so historically successful. His frightening conclusion, that "hardly anyone can resist," appeals to mechanisms undergirding human thought, many of which are not obviously available to individuals.

Author : Václav Havel
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 080213307X

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The Garden Party and Other Plays by Václav Havel Pdf

Gathered together here for the first time are seven plays that span Havel's career from his early days at the Theater of the Balustrade through the Prague Spring, Charter 77, and the repeated imprisonments that made Havel's name into a rallying cry and propelled him to the leadership of his country. They include The Garden Party, The Increased Difficulty of Concentration, Mistake, the Vanek trilogy of Audience, Unveiling, and Protest, and the first fully corrected English version of The Memorandum--the play that won Havel the Obie for Best Foreign Play in 1968.

Author : Cyndi Suarez
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781550926743

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The Power Manual by Cyndi Suarez Pdf

Liberate yourself by understanding and mastering power dynamics All social relations are laden with power. Getting out from under dominant power relations and mastering power dynamics is perhaps the most essential skill for change agents across all sectors seeking to ignite positive change in the world. This concise action manual explores major concepts of power, with a focus on the dynamics of domination and liberation, and presents methods for shifting power relations and enacting freedom. The Power Manual: Clearly distills the major theories of power from post-modern and feminist theory to business management and developmental psychology, and beyond Examines key ways that power is deployed and transformed in society Presents a new theory of power based on enactment-the bringing of something to life through one's actions Explains how to refuse powerless identities and enact powerful ones Helps readers choose egalitarian interactions over domination Demonstrates mastering the process of power expansion Features workshop games and group activities for identifying and shifting power relations. This accessible action manual is ideal for change agents, leaders, and activists across all nonprofit and business sectors aiming to understand, master, and shift power relations.

Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782834533

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Women & Power by Mary Beard Pdf

An updated edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Hillary Clinton. Beard explores the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, considering the public voice of women, our cultural assumptions about women's relationship with power, and how powerful women resist being packaged into a male template. A year on since the advent of #metoo, Beard looks at how the discussions have moved on during this time, and how that intersects with issues of rape and consent, and the stories men tell themselves to support their actions. In trademark Beardian style, using examples ancient and modern, Beard argues, 'it's time for change - and now!' From the author of international bestseller SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome.

Author : Clive Y. Thomas
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780853457442

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The Poor and the Powerless by Clive Y. Thomas Pdf

Argues that another form of development — by the poor and for the poor — is not only possible but necessary.

Author : Václav Havel
Publisher : Random House
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781473561960

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The Power of the Powerless by Václav Havel Pdf

Václav Havel’s remarkable and rousing essay on the tyranny of apathy, with a new introduction by Timothy Snyder Cowed by life under Communist Party rule, a greengrocer hangs a placard in their shop window: Workers of the world, unite! Is it a sign of the grocer’s unerring ideology? Or a symbol of the lies we perform to protect ourselves? Written in 1978, Václav Havel’s meditation on political dissent – the rituals of its suppression, and the sparks that re-ignite it – would prove the guiding manifesto for uniting Solidarity movements across the Soviet Union. A portrait of activism in the face of falsehood and intimidation, The Power of the Powerless remains a rousing call against the allure of apathy. 'Havel’s diagnosis of political pathologies has a special resonance in the age of Trump' Pankaj Mishra

Author : C.WRIGHT MILLS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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THE POWER ELITE by C.WRIGHT MILLS Pdf