Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 333.72
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Viking
Manufacturer: Viking
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: May 10, 2007
Publisher: Viking
Sales Rank: 12207
Studio: Viking

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
One of the world’s most influential environmentalists reveals a worldwide grassroots movement of hope and humanity

Blessed Unrest tells the story of a worldwide movement that is largely unseen by politicians or the media. Hawken, an environmentalist and author, has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person causes, these organizations collectively comprise the largest movement on earth. This is a movement that has no name, leader, or location, but is in every city, town, and culture. It is organizing from the bottom up and is emerging as an extraordinary and creative expression of people’s needs worldwide.

Blessed Unrest explores the diversity of this movement, its brilliant ideas, innovative strategies, and centuries-old history. The culmination of Hawken’s many years of leadership in these fields, it will inspire, surprise, and delight anyone who is worried about the direction the modern world is headed. Blessed Unrest is a description of humanity’s collective genius and the unstoppable movement to re-imagine our relationship to the environment and one another. Like Hawken’s previous books, Blessed Unrest will become a classic in its field— a touchstone for anyone concerned about our future.




Rating: - Speedy delivery for what will be a gift
Thanks for the excellent service; I'm sure the book will be appreciated by the person who will receive it.

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Rating: - Blessed Unrest

The book arrived in a very timely fashion and in very good condition. Thanks!

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Rating: - Humans good, companies bad? Hawken locks in his treatise
All that is good, all that is kind, all that brings about social progress: these are recounted in Paul Hawken's latest book. The stories of activists, alone, in groups, scattered over the world, are fascinating and well told. Who can argue with Hawken's view that "the world is a system, and it will soon be a very different world, driven by millions of communities who believe that democracy and restoration are grassroots movements that connect us to values we hold in common"? Hawken impressively ... Read More

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Rating: - A Prodigious Work...
Really a three minus... I have a good vocabulary but still found I required a dictionary close at hand to make it through this book. Although there is much good information here, it can be read in a number of other books that are more accessible and deliver the data in a more concise manner. I love exact words and have no problem with learning more, but when used more to impress than elucidate, as it seems here, I am underwhelmed.

And who said "no one saw it coming?" I find that underwhelming ... Read More

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Rating: - not deep and logical enough, more like a summary of thoughts and ideas instead of providing a coherent view or framework
First, the book promoted me to think about what the social change would have been in the past for different cultures if it was carried out in peace.

To help you understand what I mean, let me elaborate a little. With technology breakthrough, the whole planet is becoming smaller and thus different cultures come closer to each other. A lot of collision happened when different cultures "discovered" each other. In reality, it had been a very bloody history. In the past, you won if you were better at killing ... Read More

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