Author: Jo J. Freeman
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: activist, making, sixties, berkeley
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2003-12-24
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0253216222
ISBN-13: 9780253216229
This book is a memoir and a history of Berkeley in the early Sixties. As a young undergraduate, Jo Freeman was a key participant in the growth of social activism at the University of California, Berkeley. The story is told with the "you are there" immediacy of Freeman the undergraduate but is put into historical and political context by Freeman the scholar, 35 years later. It draws heavily on documents created at the time -- letters, reports, interviews, memos, newspaper stories, FBI files --
Author: Biographiq
Publisher: Biographiq
Keywords: biography, activist, actor, brando, marlon
Number of Pages: 56
Published: 2008-04-13
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 159986049X
ISBN-13: 9781599860497
Marlon Brando - Actor and Activist is the biography of Marlon Brando, an Academy Award-winning American actor whose body of work spanned over half a century. Brando is widely regarded as one of the most influential actors of all time. He is best known for his roles as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire and Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront, both directed by Elia Kazan in the early 1950s, as well as his Academy-Award winning performance as Vito Corleone in The Godfather and as Colonel Walter E. Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, the latter two directed by Francis Ford Coppola in the 1970s. Bran
Author: Ronald J. Sider
Publisher: Herald Pr
Keywords: agenda, jesus, making, activist, social
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 2008-02-11
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0836193962
ISBN-13: 9780836193961
How can Christians today truly live like Jesus and be more faithful disciples? Ronald J. Sider takes a fervent look at this and other foundational questions, many of which have been the passion of his life. As founder and president of Evangelicals for Social Action, Sider for more than three decades has worked toward a meeting of the minds between two branches of the church vine. In the essays in this book, Sider calls on those in the evangelical stream to become more aware and concerned about poverty, injustice, and peacemaking, while he urges socially active Christians to embrace the great c
Author: Denise Romano
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: activist, credible, resource, indispensible, toolkit
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2010-03-19
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0071700811
ISBN-13: 9780071700818
Resolve any HR issue in a snap! Solving office problems before they escalate marks the difference between success and failure for any HR professional. The HR Toolkit provides what you need to resolve every imaginable challenge saving your company time and money. With a handy indexed listing of the most common workplace conflicts and solutions, The HR Toolkit offers simple, actionable techniques you can start using right away. In no time, youll be an expert on every issue and situation you face, including: Conflict resolution Performance management Job design Employee selection Workplace cult
Author: William Ayers
Publisher: Beacon Press
Keywords: war, activist, anti, memoirs, days, fugitive
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-11-05
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0807032778
ISBN-13: 9780807032770
A gripping memoir of America in the ’60s, of idealists turned radicals, and of a life lived on the run In February 2008, in the heat of the Democratic primary elections, speculations began circulating in the media about a connection between presidential hopeful Barack Obama and Bill Ayers, a former member of the radical 1960s group the Weather Underground. In Fugitive Days, Ayers tells the real story of the defining events of the radical ’60s. The book is an eyewitness account of a young pacifist who helped found one of the most radical political organizations in U.S. history, and
Author: Dorothy Day
Publisher: HarperOne
Keywords: social, activist, catholic, legendary, autobiography, loneliness
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1997-01-15
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0060617519
ISBN-13: 9780060617516
A compelling autobiographical testament to the spiritual pilgrimage of a woman who, in her own words, dedicated herself "to bring[ing] about the kind of society where it is easier to be good.’
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Publisher: University Press of Florida
Keywords: death, peruvian, activist, life, moyano, maria, elena, autobiography
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2000-10-08
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0813027462
ISBN-13: 9780813027463
Using Maria Elena Moyano’s own words, the editor of this story recreates the voice of the martyred Peruvian activist. In 1992, aged 33, Moyano was assassinated by guerrillas of the revolutionary movement Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path). Her murder galvanized the Peruvian people against the group.
