Social Movements

The almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith that propelled the Civil Rights Movement are brilliantly captured in these moving personal recollections. Here are the voices of leaders and followers, of ordinary people who became extraordinary in the face of turmoil and violence.

Righteous Troublemakers shines a light on everyday people called to do extraordinary things—like Pauli Murray, whose early work inspired Thurgood Marshall, Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus months before Rosa Parks did the same, and Gwen Carr, whose private pain in losing her son Eric Garner stoked her public activism against police brutality. Sharpton also gives his personal take on more widely known individuals, revealing overlooked details, historical connections, and a perspective informed by years of working in the social justice movement.

Begib dich auf eine revolutionäre Entdeckungsreise in "Harmonisierung des Lebensflusses", in der Katsuzo Nishi unser Verständnis der grundlegenden Rolle des Herzens durch mathematische Erkenntnisse neu gestaltet und dabei auf faszinierende Weise die Gedankenwelt von Rudolf Steiner aufgreift. Dieses nachdenklich stimmende Buch enthüllt ein Paradigma, in dem die Kapillarität als die eigentliche treibende Kraft hinter dem Blutkreislauf erscheint und dabei in erstaunlicher Weise Steiners ganzheitliche Philosophie widerspiegelt.

Wege der Weisheit: Ein Einblick in den Stoizismus für das moderne LebenIn einer Welt, die von rastlosem Streben, ständiger Unruhe und der endlosen Suche nach mehr gekennzeichnet ist, bietet dieses Buch eine dringend benötigte Rückkehr zu einer der tiefgründigsten Philosophien der Antike – dem Stoizismus. Durch eine einfühlsame und zugängliche Sprache öffnet dieses Buch die Tore zu einer Welt der inneren Ruhe, der Selbstbeherrschung und der unaufgeregten Weisheit, die im Stoizismus eingebettet ist.

La psicología siempre se ha usado para la manipulación, aunque ha habido un intento de ocultar cómo, este audiolibro revela los secretos más prohibidos. Si aplicas el contenido de este libro podrás influir en los demás hasta niveles que no crees posible. Esta obra es la biblia de la manipulación porque incluye TODOS los conocimientos científicos que existen hoy sobre el tema.

В мире, полном хаоса и неопределенности, поиск счастья часто кажется невозможной задачей. Но что, если существует вечная философия, которая может показать вам путь к настоящему удовлетворению и наполненной жизни? Стоицизм—это не просто философия—это образ жизни.

The modern Republican Party is the party of conservative Christianity and big business—two things so closely identified with the contemporary GOP that we hardly notice the strangeness of the pairing. Legal historian Mary Ziegler traces how the anti-abortion movement helped to forge and later upend this alliance.

Questo libro è per chi si sente fuori posto o, come si dice in greco, atopos. Pare che uno dei primi a essere definito così sia stato Socrate, giudicato troppo strano, a volte anche fastidioso. Dopo di lui, tutti i filosofi vennero considerati atopoi. Le loro vite erano tormentate dalla ricerca di qualcosa che continuava a sfuggire e osservavano il mondo dall'esterno, senza farne mai davvero parte. Chi si sente fuori posto prova ogni giorno il doloroso desiderio di trovare un luogo da chiamare casa e vive la vita col fiato sospeso, sperando di riuscire un giorno a respirare.

In Spring Training (for the Rest of Your Life), memoirist and intellectual historian John Kaag introduces listeners to the forefathers of American philosophy: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, who created the field of transcendentalism, and William James, the father of American psychology who also invented the philosophical school known as pragmatism.

Are you ready to embark on a mind-expanding journey into the heart of Continental Philosophy? This engaging guide breaks down complex ideas and traces their impact on our world, making it accessible to all who are curious about the human experience.

If you have lost or left your job, this brief self-help guide will assist you in recovering yourself and your faculties. Only after you acknowledge your emotions, reset your mind, and train your body, you will be able to identify and find a befitting occupation. The book will guide you through these steps of recovery and healing by adopting the Stoic virtues of wisdom, courage, justice, and temperance.

This book (in dialogue form) explains what is the nature of politics, and what is the anthropological evolution of the political party by defining the essence of the political left and right and their respective raisons d’etre, what motivates them, and the nature of their ethics. The explanation is contained in 7 Dictums (one set of seven principles each for the Left and the Right). Further, the book demonstrates how the Dictums are relative and explanatory to the rise and fall of empires and the causes of war.

We are about to enter a new era when the combination of human and artificial intelligence will bring about a paradigm with a potential unseen before. This book is an invitation to delve into the labyrinth of the mind, to challenge preconceived notions, and to embrace the mysticism of awareness in all of its forms.

"Uno debe ser superior a la humanidad en fuerza, en altivez de alma y desprecio" En esta obra devastadora, Nietzsche ofrece un sostenido ataque, a menudo morda, contra la moralidad y las creencias de su tiempo, arremetiendo contra filósofos como Hegel, Kant y Schopenhaur. El ocaso de los ídolos es una "declaración de guerra" a la razón, la psicología y la teología; mediante el particular estilo filosófico de Nietzsche.

In the summer of 1964, the FBI found the smoldering remains of the station wagon that James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman had been driving before their disappearance. Shortly after this awful discovery, Julie Kabat’s beloved brother Luke arrived as a volunteer for the Mississippi Summer Project. Teaching biology to Freedom School students in Meridian, Luke became one of more than seven hundred student volunteers who joined experienced Black civil rights workers and clergy to challenge white supremacy in the nation’s most segregated state.

In Proverb Masters: Shaping the Civil Rights Movement, author Raymond Summerville explores how proverbs and proverbial language played a significant role in the long civil rights era. Proverbs have been used throughout history to share and disseminate brief, powerful statements of truth and philosophical insight.

No margin--no mission! What does it take to bring financial justice to communities of color? Cliff Rosenthal, shaped by the movements of the 1960s, fought for decades against government indifference and systemic bias finally seeing change come after the death of George Floyd. Michael McCray, a renowned whistle-blower, led an unprecedented court challenge to the unjust federal termination of his fraternity's Kappa Alpha Psi Federal Credit Union.

Trauma, the nation's epidemic, and mainstream culture's hot topic. Our Broken Brains: The Human Condition highlights modern-day trauma therapy alongside real-life stories of the complexities of psychological trauma. Within a traumatic experience, the human brain becomes physiologically damaged, leaving one underdeveloped, bruised, hijacked, and deficient, creating a hostile mental pathology to future events. This book will guide you to heal from traumas' brokenness and expand your mission of constructing a healthy self and space for wellness.

Stephen A. King and Roger Davis Gatchet examine how Mississippi confronts its history of racial violence and injustice through civil rights tourism. Mississippi's civil rights memorials include a vast constellation of sites and experiences—from the humble Fannie Lou Hamer Museum in Ruleville to the expansive Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson—where the state's collective memories of the movement are enshrined, constructed, and contested.

Accomplished feminist activist and executive Latanya Mapp Frett delivers a powerful and practical exploration of the factors that make a feminist social movement impactful in its place and time. In the book, you'll discover popular and not-so-popular social movements and the leaders, art, research, and narratives that drove them. The author explains what made these social movements so effective and explains the steps that organizations, nonprofits, and social impact professionals can take to replicate that success on the ground and in the present.