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Damned fools in utopia : and other writings on anarchism and war resistance
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ISBN: 9781604862225 160486222X Year: 2011 Publisher: Oakland, Calif. : London, PM ;

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Neispričana povijest : antiratna kampanija 1991-2011
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Year: 2011 Publisher: Zagreb : Documenta - Centar za suočavanje s prošlošću,

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The better angels of our nature : why violence has declined
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ISBN: 9780670022953 9780143122012 Year: 2011 Publisher: London Penguin books

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We've all asked, "What is the world coming to?" But we seldom ask, "How bad was the world in the past?" Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the past was much worse. Evidence of a bloody history has always been around us: genocides in the Old Testament, gory mutilations in Shakespeare and Grimm, monarchs who beheaded their relatives, and American founders who dueled with their rivals. The murder rate in medieval Europe was more than thirty times what it is today. Slavery, sadistic punishments, and frivolous executions were common features of life for millennia, then were suddenly abolished. How could this have happened, if human nature has not changed? Pinker argues that thanks to the spread of government, literacy, trade, and cosmopolitanism, we increasingly control our impulses, empathize with others, debunk toxic ideologies, and deploy our powers of reason to reduce the temptations of violence.


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Civil resistance and power politics : the experience of non-violent action from Gandhi to the present.
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ISBN: 9780199552016 9780199691456 0199691452 Year: 2011 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press


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(Be-)richten und Erzählen : Literatur als gewaltfreier Diskurs ?
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ISBN: 9783770549283 9783846749289 Year: 2011 Publisher: München Fink


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Veterans of Future Wars
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ISBN: 1282921940 9786612921940 0739148311 9780739148310 9780739148297 073914829X Year: 2011 Publisher: Lanham, Md. Lexington Books

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This book tells the story of The Veterans of Future Wars (VFW), a student movement that attracted widespread support in a short few months in 1936. Despite its short life, it was a successful movement that attracted wide support and caused serious discussion about the role of the federal government in providing bonuses to veterans. It focused American attention on the bonus issue, which had been a political issue for many years.


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Transforming Terror : Remembering the Soul of the World
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ISBN: 1283278111 9786613278111 0520949455 9780520949454 9781283278119 9780520251021 0520251024 9780520269286 0520269284 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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This inspired collection offers a new paradigm for moving the world beyond violence as the first, and often only, response to violence. Through essays and poetry, prayers and meditations, Transforming Terror powerfully demonstrates that terrorist violence-defined here as any attack on unarmed civilians-can never be stopped by a return to the thinking that created it. A diverse array of contributors-writers, healers, spiritual and political leaders, scientists, and activists, including Desmond Tutu, Huston Smith, Riane Eisler, Daniel Ellsberg, Amos Oz, Fatema Mernissi, Fritjof Capra, George Lakoff, Mahmoud Darwish, Terry Tempest Williams, and Jack Kornfield-considers how we might transform the conditions that produce terrorist acts and bring true healing to the victims of these acts. Broadly encompassing both the Islamic and Western worlds, the book explores the nature of consciousness and offers a blueprint for change that makes peace possible. From unforgettable firsthand accounts of terrorism, the book draws us into awareness of our ecological and economic interdependence, the need for connectedness, and the innate human capacity for compassion.


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Violence, nonviolence, and the Palestinian national movement
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ISBN: 9781107007024 9781139013239 9781107632493 9781139128360 1139128361 9781139115537 1139115537 110700702X 1107632498 1107227631 1139124927 1283342057 1139123459 9786613342058 1139113348 113911770X 1139013238 9781107227637 9781139124928 9781283342056 9781139123457 661334205X 9781139113342 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Why do some national movements use violent protest and others nonviolent protest? Wendy Pearlman shows that much of the answer lies inside movements themselves. Nonviolent protest requires coordination and restraint, which only a cohesive movement can provide. When, by contrast, a movement is fragmented, factional competition generates new incentives for violence and authority structures are too weak to constrain escalation. Pearlman reveals these patterns across one hundred years in the Palestinian national movement, with comparisons to South Africa and Northern Ireland. To those who ask why there is no Palestinian Gandhi, Pearlman demonstrates that nonviolence is not simply a matter of leadership. Nor is violence attributable only to religion, emotions or stark instrumentality. Instead, a movement's organizational structure mediates the strategies that it employs. By taking readers on a journey from civil disobedience to suicide bombings, this book offers fresh insight into the dynamics of conflict and mobilization.


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Gandhi in the West : the Mahatma and the Rise of Radical Protest
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ISBN: 9780521139588 9780511974168 9780521760911 0511974167 9780511860973 0511860978 0521760917 0521139589 0511861710 9780511861710 1107216591 9781107216594 1283006081 9781283006088 9786613006080 6613006084 0511860102 9780511860102 0511859236 9780511859236 0511858361 9780511858369 0511857497 9780511857492 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The non-violent protests of civil rights activists and anti-nuclear campaigners during the 1960s helped to redefine Western politics. But where did they come from? Sean Scalmer uncovers their history in an earlier generation's intense struggles to understand and emulate the activities of Mahatma Gandhi. He shows how Gandhi's non-violent protests were the subject of widespread discussion and debate in the USA and UK for several decades. Though at first misrepresented by Western newspapers, they were patiently described and clarified by a devoted group of cosmopolitan advocates. Small groups of Westerners experimented with Gandhian techniques in virtual anonymity and then, on the cusp of the 1960s, brought these methods to a wider audience. The swelling protests of later years increasingly abandoned the spirit of non-violence, and the central significance of Gandhi and his supporters has therefore been forgotten. This book recovers this tradition, charts its transformation, and ponders its abiding significance.


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Einstein before Israel : Zionist icon or iconoclast?
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ISBN: 1400838371 Year: 2011 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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"A vivid sense of strangeness": Einstein's path to the Zionist movement -- A different kind of nationalism: Einstein's induction and mobilization into the Zionist movement -- The "prize-winning ox" in "Dollaria": Einstein's fundraising trip to the United States in 1921 -- Secular pilgrim or Zionist tourist?: Einstein's tour of Palestine in 1923 -- The "botched university": Einstein's involvement in the Hebrew University, 1924-1929 -- "A genuine symbiosis": Einstein on the 1929 clashes in Palestine -- The "bug-infested house": Einstein's involvement in the Hebrew University, 1930-1933.

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Zionisme. --- Kwantummechanica. --- Zionism. --- Einstein, Albert, --- Palestina. --- Israël (staat) --- Jews --- Zionist movement --- Jewish nationalism --- Zionism --- Politics and government --- Restoration --- Israel --- Eretz Israel --- Erets Israel --- Erets Yiśraʼel --- Filasṭīn --- Palesṭin --- Erez Jisrael --- Paleśtinah --- Memshelet Paleśtinah --- Palestina --- Palästina --- Falastīn --- Political and social views. --- Einstein, Albert --- Aiyinsitan, Abote, --- Aĭnshtaĭn, Albert, --- Ainshutain, A, --- Ain̲sṭain̲, Ālparṭ, --- Ainsṭāina, Albarṭa, --- Ajnštajn, Albert, --- Āynishtayn, --- Aynshtayn, Albert, --- Eĭnshteĭn, Alʹbert, --- אינשטין, אלברט, --- איינשטיין --- איינשטיין, אלבערט, --- איינשטיין, אלברט --- איינשטיין, אלברט, --- Aynştayn, Elbêrt, --- Īnshtīn, --- Aynîştayn, --- Aiyinsitan, --- 愛因斯坦, --- 爱因斯坦, --- Abraham Flexner. --- Abraham Fraenkel. --- Ahad Ha'am. --- Albert Einstein Archives. --- Albert Einstein. --- Alfred Dreyfus. --- Aliyah. --- American Schools of Oriental Research. --- Anti-Zionism. --- Arab–Israeli conflict. --- Arthur Ruppin. --- Axis powers. --- Balfour Declaration. --- Berliner Tageblatt. --- Blood libel. --- Chaim Weizmann. --- Chief Rabbi. --- Churchill White Paper. --- Cultural Zionism. --- Culture and Society. --- Cyrus Adler. --- Disenchantment. --- Dora Diamant. --- Einstein Papers Project. --- Einstein family. --- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. --- Emil Grunzweig. --- Ernest Rutherford. --- Ernest Solvay. --- Felix Ehrenhaft. --- First Intifada. --- Franz Kafka. --- Fritz Haber. --- George Mosse. --- German model. --- Gustav Landauer. --- Habilitation. --- Haredi Judaism. --- Harvard University. --- Hebrew University of Jerusalem. --- Hebrew labor. --- His Family. --- Hugo Haase. --- Independent People. --- Jehuda Reinharz. --- Jewish Underground. --- Jewish culture. --- Jewish diaspora. --- Jewish identity. --- Jews. --- Jingoism. --- Judaism. --- Kapp Putsch. --- Kurt Blumenfeld. --- Kurt Hiller. --- Leon Simon (Zionist). --- Leon Uris. --- Martin Buber. --- Maurice Solovine. --- Max Brod. --- Max Planck. --- Middle East. --- Moshe Zimmermann. --- Mount Scopus. --- Nahum Sokolow. --- Nobel Prize. --- Norman Bentwich. --- On the Eve. --- Orientalism. --- Orthodox Judaism. --- Pacifism. --- Pasteur Institute. --- Paul Ehrenfest. --- Paul Warburg. --- Peace Now. --- Peaceful coexistence. --- Police action. --- Political machine. --- Post-Zionism. --- Protectionism. --- Prussian Academy of Sciences. --- Religious antisemitism. --- Revisionist Zionism. --- Safed. --- Secularism. --- Social Darwinism. --- Solvay Conference. --- The Other Hand. --- The Rothschilds (musical). --- United Jewish Appeal. --- Walter Benjamin. --- Walther Nernst. --- Warfare. --- Weimar Republic. --- Weizmann. --- West Jerusalem. --- Wilhelm Ostwald. --- Wissenschaft des Judentums. --- Zionist Organization of America.

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