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Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings, Third Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
Henry David Thoreau

W. W. Norton, 2007

This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition reprints the texts of Walden, Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts, Walking , and Wild Apples . All are annotated for student readers. Also included are related selections from Thoreau's Journal . "Reviews and Posthumous Assessments" includes reactions to Thoreau and his writing by Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Russell Lowell, and James Burroughs, among others. "Recent Criticism" ...

Civil Disobedience

4 reviews
Henry David Thoreau

BookSurge Classics, 2002

A masterpiece of individualism and the fight for justice.
Civil Disobedience is one of the most importance works of philosophy ever written. Like all great works of philosophy, it is as relevant today as it has ever been, as it transcends space and time. Don't let the abolitionist nature mislead you: this book is not merely about abolition and slavery. Rather, it is about Man Against the State, individuality, and Thoreau's philosophy of how one man can ...

A State of Disobedience

52 reviews
Tom Kratman

Baen, 2005

Texas Secedes from the Union . . . Again
A State of Disobedience (2003) is a standalone near future SF novel. The USA had become steadily more polarized between the two national parties until a balance of sorts was reached. Yet this equilibrium was very unstable, threatening to collapse at any time. Then a Democratic Presidential candidate won the election. In this novel, Wilhelmina Rottemeyer, President-Elect of the United States ...

The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True Form

4 reviews

North Atlantic Books, 2005

Of Time and Water - an Ecology of Spirit
We in the West have at least a nodding acquaintance with the coded language of various mythic traditions - the Greco-Roman, the Norse, the Celtic - but here is something unique. It is a centuries-old story to live by - an ecology of the spirit - told by an ancient people, recorded and interpreted by Martin Prechtel. Prechtel gathered the Story over years of living among the Tzutujil Maya in ...

Blame It on the Brain?: Distinguishing Chemical Imbalances, Brain Disorders, and Disobedience (Resources for ...

8 reviews
Edward T. Welch

P & R Publishing, 1998

Does the brain get too much credit?
Dr. Welch has a Ph.D. in psychology as well as theology degrees, and has been a counselor for years. His doctoral work was on brain physiology, so Blame it on the Brain is the fruit of 20 years of reflection on the subject. Welch wonders if the brain "has been given too much credit" (p. 12). Many have held the brain responsible for some bad behavior: "My disease did it!" (p. 13). While the ...

Disobedience: A Novel

12 reviews
Naomi Alderman

Touchstone, 2007

Interesting
I enjoyed this book and read it in one sitting. It discusses lesbianism and Orthodox judaism. How can one be true to oneself and to ones faith? Is it possible to do both? How can we live with our choices? What about parents with different beliefs? How can an Orthodox father relate to a non-Orthodox lesbian child? It is an interesting book about the choices we make and religious faith. I ...

Disobedience: A Novel

91 reviews
Jane Hamilton

Anchor, 2001

First third is great.
I loved the set up of this novel but about 2/3s of the way through the story, Hamilton loses site of her characters. Henry's narrative becomes less and less believable as coming from a 20 something male, and sounds instead like Hamilton is speaking in her own voice; this is especially true in the scenes where he is thinking about his girl friend. These scenes of teen angsty love get in the way of ...

Walden and Civil Disobedience (Barnes & Noble Classics)

12 reviews
Henry David Thoreau

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004

He heard a different drummer- The sun is but a morning star
Thoreau is more than simply a writer who produced a great American classic. He exemplified the idea which perhaps as much as any other has come to be at the heart of the American creed. "If a man does not keep pace to his companion, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." Throreau when he went into the woods of ...

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions)

17 reviews
Henry David Thoreau

Dover Publications, 1993

The Persistance Of The Philosophers ...
"Because they could not seize my thoughts, they decided, to punish my body...": this sentence was the first,which remaind in my memory, consolidated in my soul, reason enough, to explore more about this Henry David Thoreau (12.7.1817-2.5.1862). He moved in the same circles of society-critical network as Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), in the middle of the 19th century at the American east coast. ...

Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and ...

1 review
Hannah Arendt

Harvest Books, 1972

An Honest View vs. Political Lying
This reviewer considers Hannah Arendt as a "Renaissance Woman." She was learned individual who wrote profoundly on philosophy, history, political thought, etc. Her book CRISES OF THE REPUBLIC again demonstrates her knowledge, profound thought, and ability to write. THE CRISES OF THE REPUBLIC is a book that clearly diagnoses political problems in the United States which she states undermine ...

Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance during the Vietnam War

2 reviews
Michael S. Foley

The University of North Carolina Press, 2003

Wonderful Overview Of Vietnam War Draft Resistance Movement
Nothing inspires so much enduring controversy and strongly held opinions as the subject of active draft resistance during the Vietnam War. The draft resisters were composed of a relatively small segment of the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of young American men of draft age who avoided serving in the Army in one fashion or another. While most avoided active service in one or another ...

The Spirit of Disobedience: Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of ...

4 reviews
Curtis White

Polipoint Press, 2008

Turn off the tube, come read this!
If you get very tired of what passes for debate in this country, try this book on for size. White calls it like it is -- Democrats and Republicans claim to be so different, but they are basically both about keeping society this way it is, "good for business"; capitalism is bankrupt spiritually, leading to an unsustainable work/life balance for families, and a lousy car-centric suburbia landscape ...

The Higher Law: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)
Henry David Thoreau

Princeton University Press, 2004

These thirteen selections from the polemical writings of Henry D. Thoreau represent every stage in his twenty-two years of active writing. This edition, introduced by writer and historian Howard Zinn, is a microcosm of Thoreau's literary career. It allows the reader to achieve a full sense of Thoreau's evolution as a writer and thinker. Most famous of these essays is "Resistance to Civil Government," better known as "Civil Disobedience." Still a ...

Walden and Resistance to Civil Government (Norton Critical Editions)

3 reviews
Henry David Thoreau

W. W. Norton, 1992

One of the greatest American prose stylists.
Mind you, this isn't idle worship - this book is a masterpiece of American Literature, and along with 'Civil Disobedience', represents one of the greatest literary minds America has ever known. Thoreau stands with Dickinson, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman as one of the greats of his era. Indeed, in the 1850's when 'Walden' was originally published, it occasionally sat beside ...

Disobedience and Democracy: Nine Fallacies on Law and Order (Radical 60s)

4 reviews
Howard Zinn

South End Press, 2002

The Reality of "Democracy"
put aside the warm, fuzzy portraits of Office Friendly and harken back to a not too distant past, Chicago 1968, Kent State, 1970, the union strikes of the 1930s, the Bonus Army, the Poor People's March on Washington, World Bank protestors in Seattle and Washington, DC and a more realistic image of red faced and angry cops swinging night sticks, spraying pepper spray, chasing protestors, and ...

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - Thoreau's Classic Essay
Henry David Thoreau

Arc Manor, 2007

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience is one of Thoreau's most famous essays. This edition includes a special section for the reader to take notes at the end of the book.

Obligations: Essays on Disobedience, War, and Citizenship
Michael Walzer

Harvard University Press, 2005

In this collection of essays, Michael Walzer discusses how obligations are incurred, sustained, and (sometimes) abandoned by citizens of the modern state and members of political parties and movements as they respond to and participate in the most crucial and controversial aspects of citizenship: resistance, dissent, civil disobedience, war, and revolution. Walzer approaches these issues with insight and historical perspective, exhibiting an ...

Civil Disobedience, Solitude and Life Without Principle (Literary Classics (Prometheus Books))

2 reviews
Henry David Thoreau

Prometheus Books, 1998

Walden Woods...True Nature Worth Preserving!
Aho! Hello-Cherokee Language These books and literature are just the kind that should be mandatory in educational classrooms. They seem second to a bible. The writer is very direct and strong spirited. As well as many of the other titles that I have explored, I have a very good bookshelf collection that I would suggest to any person in hopes of expanding their horizon... In fact, I have made a ...

Uncivil Disobedience: Studies in Violence and Democratic Politics
Jennet Kirkpatrick

Princeton University Press, 2008

Uncivil Disobedience examines the roles violence and terrorism have played in the exercise of democratic ideals in America. Jennet Kirkpatrick explores how crowds, rallying behind the principle of popular sovereignty and desiring to make law conform to justice, can disdain law and engage in violence. She exposes the hazards of democracy that arise when citizens seek to control government directly, and demonstrates the importance of laws and ...

The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

11 reviews
Howard Zinn

Seven Stories Press, 2003

A wonderful anthology of our greatest historian.
Howard Zinn is an eloquent but plain spoken writer. His essays are a joy to read, something that cannot be said of so many historians. This is in part because, Zinn is not afraid to admit that he is an interpreter of events, he colors his writings with his own ideals, interprets the past in light of what he has lived through, illuminating events and the lives of people who may have otherwise ...

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