We Are Power: How Nonviolent Activism Changes the World Todd Hasak-Lowy

We Are Power: How Nonviolent Activism Changes the World

Author: Todd Hasak-Lowy
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Book Title
We Are Power: How Nonviolent Activism Changes the World
Author
Todd Hasak-Lowy
ISBN
9781419741111
A stirring look at nonviolent activism, from American suffragists to Civil Rights to the Climate Change Movement We Are Power brings to light the incredible individuals who have used nonviolent activism to change the world. The book explores questions such as what is nonviolent resistance and how does it work? In an age when armies are stronger than ever before, when guns seem to be everywhere, how can people confront their adversaries without resorting to violence themselves? Through key international movements as well as people such as Gandhi, Alice Paul, Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez, and V clav Havel, this book discusses the components of nonviolent resistance. It answers the question "Why nonviolence?" by showing how nonviolent movements have succeeded again and again in a variety of ways, in all sorts of places, and always in the face of overwhelming odds. The book includes endnotes, a bibliography, and an index. Binding Type: HardcoverAuthor: Todd Hasak-LowyPublisher: Abrams Books for Young ReadersPublished: 04/07/2020ISBN: 9781419741111Pages: 320Weight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.20dReview Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/06/2020School Library Journal 02/01/2020 pg. 91Booklist 02/01/2020 pg. 35Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2020
A stirring look at nonviolent activism, from American suffragists to Civil Rights to the Climate Change Movement

We Are Power brings to light the incredible individuals who have used nonviolent activism to change the world. The book explores questions such as what is nonviolent resistance and how does it work? In an age when armies are stronger than ever before, when guns seem to be everywhere, how can people confront their adversaries without resorting to violence themselves? Through key international movements as well as people such as Gandhi, Alice Paul, Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez, and V clav Havel, this book discusses the components of nonviolent resistance. It answers the question "Why nonviolence?" by showing how nonviolent movements have succeeded again and again in a variety of ways, in all sorts of places, and always in the face of overwhelming odds. The book includes endnotes, a bibliography, and an index.


Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Todd Hasak-Lowy
Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers
Published: 04/07/2020
ISBN: 9781419741111
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.20d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/06/2020
School Library Journal 02/01/2020 pg. 91
Booklist 02/01/2020 pg. 35
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2020
A stirring look at nonviolent activism, from American suffragists to Civil Rights to the Climate Change Movement

We Are Power brings to light the incredible individuals who have used nonviolent activism to change the world. The book explores questions such as what is nonviolent resistance and how does it work? In an age when armies are stronger than ever before, when guns seem to be everywhere, how can people confront their adversaries without resorting to violence themselves? Through key international movements as well as people such as Gandhi, Alice Paul, Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez, and V clav Havel, this book discusses the components of nonviolent resistance. It answers the question "Why nonviolence?" by showing how nonviolent movements have succeeded again and again in a variety of ways, in all sorts of places, and always in the face of overwhelming odds. The book includes endnotes, a bibliography, and an index.


Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Todd Hasak-Lowy
Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers
Published: 04/07/2020
ISBN: 9781419741111
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.20d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/06/2020
School Library Journal 02/01/2020 pg. 91
Booklist 02/01/2020 pg. 35
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2020