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A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflictby Peter Ackerman , Jack DuvallISBN 0312240503 (0-312-24050-3)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict'Book summary:"In a contest of violence against violence," the philosopher Hannah Arendt observed, "the superiority of the government has always been absolute." When confronted with nonviolent resistance on the part of the downtrodden, however, governments have often crumbled--witness the fall of South Africa's apartheid regime and the ousting of Slobodan Milosevic in Yugoslavia.
The worldwide spread of democracy in the 20th century, documentary writers Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall maintain, "would not have come to pass without the power of ordinary people who defied oppressive rulers not by force of arms, but by nonviolent action." By way of example, they cite the collapse of the Argentine military regime following peaceful protests by the mothers of men and women who had been murdered by the secret police; the eventual undermining of the Polish Communist regime by the nonviolent Solidarity labor movement; the refusal of the Danish people to comply with the laws of their Nazi occupiers during World War II; and the exemplary work done in India (and, earlier, South Africa) by Mohandas Gandhi, who took pains to emphasize that nonviolence does not imply passivity.
Ackerman and DuVall's book, the companion volume to a PBS television series, will be of much interest to political activists of all stripes, as well as to students of contemporary history. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Hall 13: Expo 2000 Hanoverby Peter AckermanISBN 3791320181 (3-7913-2018-1)
Softcover, Prestel Pub
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Pilgrimages And Spiritual Quests In Japanby Peter Ackerman , Maria Rodriguez del Alisal, Dolores P. MartinezISBN 0415323185 (0-415-32318-5)
Hardcover, Routledge
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Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: The Dynamics of People Power in the Twentieth Centuryby Peter Ackerman , Christopher KrueglerISBN 0275939162 (0-275-93916-2)
Softcover, Praeger Pub Text
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Things You Shouldn' Say Past Midnightby Peter AckermanISBN 1840023546 (1-84002-354-6)
Softcover, Oberon Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight'Book summary:[via]Ever been racially slurred in the sack? Ever been subjected to strangers yelling at you at 3am about the most intimate details of your life? Ever been to New York? Six characters from wildly different backgrounds make love, war and hysteria late one night in the cultural, sexual and generational smorgasbord that is Manhattan.
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