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Nonviolence

Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea

Nonviolence( )
Author: Kurlansky, Mark
Foreword by: Dalai Lama XIV,
Series title:Modern Library Chronicles Ser.
ISBN:978-0-679-64335-7
Publication Date:Sep 2006
Publisher:Random House Publishing Group
Imprint:Modern Library
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $21.95
Book Description:

In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity, a course of action, rather than a mere state of mind. Nonviolence can and should be a technique for overcoming social injustice and ending wars, he asserts, which is why it is the preferred method of those who speak truth to power. Nonviolence is a sweeping yet concise history that moves from ancient...
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Book Details
Pages:224
Detailed Subjects: History / World
Political Science / Political Ideologies / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.86 x 8.48 x 0.82 Inches
Book Weight:0.761 Pounds
Author Biography
Kurlansky, Mark (Author)
Mark Kurlansky is the author of The Basque History of the World, the New York Times bestseller Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (among the New York Public Library's Best Books of the Year in 1998), as well as A Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry; A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Destiny, and several acclaimed works of short fiction and journalism about the Caribbean. He spent seven years as the Caribbean correspondent for the Chicago Tribune.

He lives in New York City.

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