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John Perkins

    28. január 1945

    John Perkins je autor a aktivista, ktorého osobné skúsenosti ako bývalého "ekonomického nájomného vraha" pre korporácie a spravodajské agentúry tvoria jadro jeho vplyvnej práce. Opisuje, ako využíval ekonomické donucovanie na manipuláciu zahraničných lídrov, aby slúžili zahraničnej politike USA a zabezpečovali kontrakty pre americké firmy. Po odchode z tejto kariéry sa Perkins venoval budovaniu nezávislých energetických spoločností a následne globálnemu aktivizmu a neziskovej práci zameranej na udržateľný život a zmeny vedomia. Jeho spisy ponúkajú kritickú perspektívu na globálnu ekonomiku a mocenské štruktúry, čerpajúc zo svojich vnútorných poznatkov s cieľom obhajovať systémové zmeny.

    John Perkins
    Britain's Forgotten Traitor
    The World Is as You Dream It
    Haffertee goes to school
    He Calls Me Friend: The Healing Power of Friendship in a Lonely World
    Svět proměn: šamanské techniky směřující ke globální a personální transformaci
    Spoveď ekonomického zabijaka
    • Spoveď ekonomického zabijaka

      • 294 stránok
      • 11 hodin čítania
      3,9(26790)Ohodnotiť

      „Ekonomickí zabijaci,“ píše John Perkins, „sú vysoko platení profesionáli, ktorí podvodom oberajú krajiny po celom svete o bilióny dolárov. Medzi ich nástroje patria falošné finančné správy, zmanipulované voľby, špinavé peniaze, vydieranie, sex a vražda. Hrajú hru starú ako impérium, ale takú, ktorá dosiahla nové a desivé dimenzie počas tejto doby globalizácie.“ John Perkins by mal o tom niečo vedieť – ako ekonomický zabijak pre medzinárodnú konzultačnú firmu presviedčal rozvojové krajiny, aby prijímali obrovské pôžičky a nalievali tieto peniaze do amerických korporácií. Americká vláda a medzinárodné rozvojové agentúry si potom vyžadovali svoju „libru mäsa“, vrátane prístupu k prírodným zdrojom, vojenskej spolupráce a politickej podpory. Spovede ekonomického zabijaka sú príbehom skúseností jedného muža zo sveta intríg, hrabivosti, korupcie, tieňovej vlády a korporátnych aktivít, do ktorých boli Spojené štáty zapletené od Druhej svetovej vojny, a ktoré majú hrozné dôsledky pre budúcnosť demokracie a sveta.

      Spoveď ekonomického zabijaka
    • Vyprávění o šamansko-mystických technikách změny forem, které odrážejí spjatost člověka s životním prostředím. Autor se snaží nalézt alternativní holistické pojetí světa podle učení andských šamanů. Tito šamané, potomci dávných Mayů a Inků, stejně jako i další přírodní národy praktikují speciální techniky umožňující měnit se ve zvířata, rostliny, věci. V tomto pojetí je celý svět představován různými formami energie. A veškeré změny - to je pouze přechod energie z jedné formy do druhé. Jedná se o publikaci ve stylu "castanedovské" literatury - autor hledá únik z moderní společnosti a nachází ho v učení přírodních národů.

      Svět proměn: šamanské techniky směřující ke globální a personální transformaci
    • What if friendship is the key to changing the world? As a follow-up to One Blood, Dr. John Perkins helps readers take the next step to make justice and love a reality. Sometimes people ask Dr. Perkins how to make a difference in the world, his simple answer is this, "Be friends. First with God. Then with others—every kind of other you can think of. Because the simple, powerful, messy, explosive truth is: the world is changed one friendship at a time." In He Calls Me Friend, Dr. Perkins argues that God is not distant and disconnected. He is the Friend who woos us, died for us, and lives within us. This Friend fills our empty places and shows us how to be friends with others. Along the way, Dr. Perkins shares his life experiences, explores biblical stories, and features profiles from several of his own personal friendships.

      He Calls Me Friend: The Healing Power of Friendship in a Lonely World
    • Haffertee goes to school

      • 80 stránok
      • 3 hodiny čítania

      Part of the Haffertee series, this is another story about a lovable soft-toy hamster and his friends. As children read the books, they will also learn more about Haffertee's best friend - God - and his care and interest in all aspects of everyone's lives.

      Haffertee goes to school
    • After 'Hit Man' The New York Times bestseller Confessions of an Economic Hit Man documents John Perkins’ extraordinary career as a globe-trotting economic hit man. Perkins’ insider’s view leads him to crisis of conscience--to the realization that he must devote himself to work which will foster a world-wide awareness of the sanctity of indigenous peoples, their cultures, and their environments. Perkins’ books demonstrate how the age-old shamanic techniques of some of the world’s most primitive peoples have sparked a revolution in modern concepts about healing, the subconscious, and the powers each of us has to alter individual and communal reality. Deep in the rain forests and high in the Andes of Ecuador, native shamans teach the age-old technique of dream change, a tradition that has kept the cultures of the Otavalans, Salasacans, and Shuar alive despite centuries of conquest. Now these shamans are turning their wisdom and power to the problem of curing a new kind of illness--that created by the industrial world’s dream of dominating and exploiting nature. John Perkins tells the story of these remarkable shamans and of the U.S. medical doctors, psychologists, and scientists who have gone with him to learn the techniques of dream change. These shamanic teachings have sparked a revolution in modern concepts about healing, the subconscious, and the powers each of us has to alter individual and communal reality.

      The World Is as You Dream It
    • New in paperback - True story of Englishman allegedly freed from a French prison after meeting John Amery, the treacherous son of a Cabinet minister, and sent back to Britain to spy - only to be caught, prosecuted and hanged for being a traitor to his country. But this 'spy' always claimed to have simply lied to come home. Was he telling the truth?

      Britain's Forgotten Traitor
    • Spirit of the Shuar

      • 208 stránok
      • 8 hodin čítania
      4,3(69)Ohodnotiť

      Discover the thoughts, history, and customs of the Shuar of the Amazon, as told in their own words.* Tribe members explain their practices of shapeshifting and headhunting; the interdependence of humans and the environment; the role of ecstatic sex; their belief in war as a path to peace; and their faith in arutam, the life spirit.* By noted author and environmentalist John Perkins, Shuar member Mariano Chumpi, and author and publisher Ehud C. Sperling.Members of the Shuar of the Amazon -- a tribe reputed to be the only one in the Americas that has never been conquered -- have lived as warriors, hunters, and cultivators for generations. They are guided by their practice of shapeshifting, belief in dream change, and understanding that humans and nature are interdependent. They are not a people who have remained static, however; with each generation they have adapted and progressed, learning to use forest resources and delving deeper into the powers of healing herbs and hallucinogenic plants.More than three decades after first befriending members of the Shuar, author and environmentalist John Perkins and his publisher, Ehud Sperling, inspired Mariano Chumpi -- a Shuar who honored his warrior traditions by leading the elite Arutam Brigade in the 1995 jungle war between his country, Ecuador, and Peru -- to travel among his people and record their thoughts, history, and customs. The picture that develops from the first-person accounts in Spirit of the Shuar is that of a vital people determined to preserve their identity and belief systems in a world that not only contradicts these, but is in dire need of the wisdom and teachings that they can offer.

      Spirit of the Shuar
    • Haffertee Hamster Diamond

      • 60 stránok
      • 3 hodiny čítania
      4,2(39)Ohodnotiť

      Haffertee is a soft-toy hamster. Ma Diamond made him for her little girl, Yolanda (Diamond Yo), when her real pet hamster died.In this book - the first of the Haffertee stories - Haffertee meets his great friend Howl Owl, the Diamond family, and some of the strange and amusing characters who share their home. He learns how he was made - and why.

      Haffertee Hamster Diamond
    • Haffertee becomes a detective in this book, and unravels a number of clues that lead him to a Happy Christmas. Through stars, cards and carols, Haffertee discovers what Christmas is all about.

      Haffertee's First Christmas
    • Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb

      • 36 stránok
      • 2 hodiny čítania
      4,2(610)Ohodnotiť

      Illus. in full color. A madcap band of dancing, prancing monkeys explain hands, fingers, and thumbs to beginning readers.

      Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb