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Profiles of fifteen activists and movements whose work for social justice was in the spirit of Gandhi's nonviolent resistance.
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Our perception and, therefore, our experience of reality is determined by how we hold – or frame – what happens to us. “The trick is what one emphasizes,” Carlos Castaneda wrote. “We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
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A column by Anne Sibley O'Brien, published in the newsletter of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, describing how Hong Kil Dong was conceived and created.
"It was a great inspiration, but I knew nothing about graphic novels. I went home and got to work. The first experts I consulted were my 18-year-old daughter and my 22-year-old son."
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In all the physical art forms - dance, acting, singing - few artists would think of performing, even in practice, without warming up the related muscles... What if we were to imagine that warmups are also essential for producing the highest quality visual work? ... Visual work uses the body, too, and perhaps what needs warming up in order to reach the fullest possible expression is the eye-mind-hand connection. To that end, here are some visual warmups to get your flow going.
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What if both integrity and profitability were possible? What if I honored the work I was passionate about by thinking strategically enough to make sure I got paid well for it?
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What the reviewers are saying about After Gandhi:
It's been a century since a young lawyer named Mohandas Gandhi peacefully defied the British Empire in support of Indian laborers working in South Africa. In this book, a mother-son team of social activists trace the impact of that seminal event, highlighting the subsequent, worldwide history of nonviolent resistance through understandable text and rich portraits and illustrations.
The book does an admirable job of clarifying complex conflicts and conveying that the truth eventually prevails when persistently applied, even against the most malevolent regimes.
Coverage includes dozens of examples profiling the durable courage of leaders like Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, Václev Havel, and Wangari Maathai and ending with a chapter on the role of nonviolence in shaping the future
School Library Journal
March 1, 2009