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Strength Through Peace, The Ideas and People of Nonviolence
A collection of essays about the nonviolence movement and the ideas of people who struggled for peace.
333 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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April 11, 2023
One of my favorite professors and books ever! He’s truly a life-changing educator, and I feel so lucky and grateful to have gotten the opportunity to learn from such a compassionate and insightful activist. His knowledge and classes have been vital to my career pursuit 🫶
November 10, 2017
terrific essays organized into topics, and great animal rights chapter, including a wonderful interview of Paul Shapiro in which he explains speciesism very well.
October 14, 2016
This book changed my whole outlook on topics like the education system, impoverished neighborhoods and the people living in them, the political system, animal violence and overproduction of meat products, marital issues, feminist issues, the teaching of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Junior, and so many more. This book written by Colman McCarthy, Strength Through Peace: The Ideas and People of Nonviolence is an outstanding book that everyone must read.
Everyone in GoodReads who has read this book has said it is absolutely amazing, and once comment stuck with me and that is the book is, "Absolute gem!" This comment is encompasses this book in every sense. This book is not a rant about McCarthy's problems with the world and the United States, but it's a book that is informative and educational in the sense that it opens one's eyes to reality they live in, and how our nation's has warped people into having a set outlook and mindset on life that is not necessarily good and true. That comment is exactly what I think of this book. This book is eye opening and life changing.
Strength Through Peace: The Ideas and People of Nonviolence one weakness is it needing to be proofread again since throughout the book had many grammatical and spelling mistakes. This shocked me since a college professor and humanitarian published this book who has multiple degrees and works at some of the greatest universities in the world. I know title doesn't mean that one is prone to mistakes, but if one is going to publish a book they should not have made these mistakes.
This book, as you can tell, does not have a certain group it is meant for. I would though, not recommend to have a person below a high school education read this book since some of the topics might go over their head, but every other age group needs to reads this book. This piece of literature in one word can be summed up as educational. The type of person who would want to read this book is someone who wants to learn, and not just settle on what they know about the world. A person who wants to expand their knowledge about certain matters, like the workings of Gandhi, are meant to read to this book because Strength Through Peace: The Ideas and People of Nonviolence is all about progressing one’s mind. This book is not a typical book where it has a rising action, climax, and falling action. This is a book that wants to inform and educate readers about the world and society they live in.
Everyone in GoodReads who has read this book has said it is absolutely amazing, and once comment stuck with me and that is the book is, "Absolute gem!" This comment is encompasses this book in every sense. This book is not a rant about McCarthy's problems with the world and the United States, but it's a book that is informative and educational in the sense that it opens one's eyes to reality they live in, and how our nation's has warped people into having a set outlook and mindset on life that is not necessarily good and true. That comment is exactly what I think of this book. This book is eye opening and life changing.
Strength Through Peace: The Ideas and People of Nonviolence one weakness is it needing to be proofread again since throughout the book had many grammatical and spelling mistakes. This shocked me since a college professor and humanitarian published this book who has multiple degrees and works at some of the greatest universities in the world. I know title doesn't mean that one is prone to mistakes, but if one is going to publish a book they should not have made these mistakes.
This book, as you can tell, does not have a certain group it is meant for. I would though, not recommend to have a person below a high school education read this book since some of the topics might go over their head, but every other age group needs to reads this book. This piece of literature in one word can be summed up as educational. The type of person who would want to read this book is someone who wants to learn, and not just settle on what they know about the world. A person who wants to expand their knowledge about certain matters, like the workings of Gandhi, are meant to read to this book because Strength Through Peace: The Ideas and People of Nonviolence is all about progressing one’s mind. This book is not a typical book where it has a rising action, climax, and falling action. This is a book that wants to inform and educate readers about the world and society they live in.
February 9, 2014
This is an absolute gem.
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