You Can’t Padlock an Idea examines the educational programs undertaken at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee and looks specifically at how these programs functioned rhetorically to promote democratic social change. Founded in 1932...
Social Change
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Author:Schneider, Stephen A.Summary: -
Author:Vaughan, GenevieveSummary:Women and the Gift Economy: A Radically Different Worldview is Possible is an attempt to respond to the need for deep and lasting social change in an epoch of dangerous crisis for all humans, cultures, and the planet. Featuring articles...
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Author:Sandlin, Lee.Summary:Long before it was dredged into a shipping channel or romanticized into myth, the untamed Mississippi--the lifeblood of communities that rose and fell along its banks--spawned a motley array of pirates and dignitaries, visionaries and...
- Author:Camfield, DavidSummary:
This book will provide readers with a short and accessible introduction to a Marxist theory for our times. More specifically, it will present and argue for an anti-racist queer feminist historical materialism (ARQFHM). This is a...
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Author:Doctorow, CorySummary:A man known as Hubert, Etc. finds he has no place in society except among the dregs of disaffected youth who party all night and heap scorn on those taking the morning commute. Falling in with Natalie, an ultrarich heiress escaping her...
- Author:Carney, MarkSummary:
A bold and urgent argument by economist and former bank governor Mark Carney on the radical, foundational change that is required if we are to build an economy and society based not on market values but on human values.
Our world... - Author:Bridges, WilliamSummary:
Taking listeners step-by-step through the three perilous stages of any transition, Bridges explains how each stage can be understood and embraced. Offering an elegantly simple yet profoundly insightful roadmap for successfully...
- Author:Davis, Lisa SelinSummary:
Strong Is the New Pretty meets All the Single Ladies in this heartfelt celebration and exploration of the tomboy phenomenon and the future of girlhood, based on the author's viral New York Times op-ed. Inspired by her thought-...
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Author:Edwards, Andres R.Summary:Every 15 seconds on our Earth Island, a child dies from waterborne disease. Three times an hour, another species becomes extinct. Each day we consume 85 million barrels of oil and pump 23 million tons of carbon dioxide into an already...
- Author:Diamond, Jared M.Summary:
Draws on decades of field work in the Pacific islands and other world regions to illuminate the degree to which modern society reflects traditional cultures from earlier and ancient time periods.
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Author:GladwellSummary:New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell looks at why major changes in our society so often happen suddenly and unexpectedly. Ideas, behavior, messages, and products, he argues, often spread like outbreaks of infectious disease.
- Author:Casey, Michael J., Luckett, OliverSummary:
Luckett and Casey deliver a revolutionary theory of social networks, showing how they mimic biological life. By examining cells, viruses, and other microbiological functions, we can master social media in both business and in life.
- Author:Conaty, Pat, Lewis, MikeSummary:
We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place—compelled by the intertwined forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale. The Resilience Imperative argues for a major SEE...
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Author:Gorbis, MarinaSummary:Large corporations, big governments, and other centralized organizations have long determined and dominated the way we work, access healthcare, get an education, feed ourselves, and generally go about our lives. The economist Ronald...
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Author:Rubenstein, JoshuaSummary:This book takes us back to 1952, when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin's murderous regime. Rubenstein vividly describes Stalin's mysterious, sudden death and the unfolding of Soviet and international events in the months...
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The author reaches back to the Cold War to trace the genesis of early twenty-first century Russia. Describes the propagandists, oligarchs, and fixers who worked to set Russia's course after the collapse of the Soviet Union and discusses...
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Author:Gore, AlbertSummary:A frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come by the former vice-president. Gore discusses ever-increasing economic globalization; worldwide digital communications, Internet, and...
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Author:Hanson, RobinSummary:Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations, or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and...
- Author:Rushkoff, DouglasSummary:
"A provocative, exciting, and important rallying cry to reassert our human spirit of community and teamwork."'Walter Isaacson Though created by humans, our technologies, markets, and institutions often contain an...
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