Visionaries
Subtitle: the 20th century's 100 most important inspirational leaders
By: edited by Satish Kumar and Freddie Whitefield.
Contributors: Satish Kumar, 1936-; Whitefield, Freddie.
Publisher: Chelsea Gree Publishing
Published: 2007
Place of publication: White River Junction, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781933392530
Subjects: Biography -- 20th century.
Description: "Visionaries brings together the lives and works of a hundred great men and women who offer inspiration, hope, and healing." "The twentieth century was marked by wars, dictatorships, and environmental destruction, yet many individuals kept alive the hope of a sane and sustainable future through their example, ideas, and vision. Their influence helped bring to an end colonialism and imperialism, apartheid, and authoritarian regimes, and they also helped foster the resurgence of an ecological, holistic, and spiritual vision that increasingly resonates in the world today. Many struggled for years in obscurity; at times their leadership has been recognized with the highest honors. Among those profiled, ten have been awarded the Nobel Prize and nine the Right Livelihood Award."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: ECOLOGICAL VISIONARIES: Rachel Carson; title: James Lovelock; title: Arne Naess; title: Jonathon Porritt; title: Vandana Shiva; title: David Abram; title: Robert Hart; title: Donella Meadows; title: Paul Shepard; title: Terry Tempest Williams; title: Jacques Cousteau; title: David Bohm; title: Bill Mollison; title: Lawrence D. Hills; title: Julia Butterfly Hill; title: Peter Kropotkin; title: Wendell berry; title: Scott and Helen Nearing; title: Richard St. Barbe Baker; title: Viktor Schauberger; title: Albert Howard; title: Ted Hughes; title: Peter Matthiessen; title: Caroline Lucas; title: Petra Kelly; title: John & Nancy Todd; title: Mary Midgley; title: Aldo Leopold; title: Lady Eve Balfour; title: Edward Goldsmith; title: José Lutzenberger; title: Jane Goodall; title: Masanobu Fukuoka; title: Karl-Henrik Robèrt; title: Rupert Sheldrake; title: Thomas Berry; title: The Prince of Wales; title: Wangari Maathai; title: SOCIAL VISIONARIES: Mahatma Gandhi; title: Martin Luther King; title: E.F. Schumacher; title: Anita Roddick; title: Aung San Suu Kyi; title: Bob Dylan; title: Frances Moore Lappé; title: R.D. Laing; title: Muhammad Yunus; title: Arundhati Roy; title: Ilya Prigogine; title: Maude Barlow; title: Maurice Ash; title: H.J. Massingham; title: Jerr Mander; title: Buckminster Fuller; title: Erich Fromm; title: Leopold Kohr; title: John Maynard Keynes; title: Carlo Petrini; title: Sulak Sivaraksa; title: Gregory Bateson; title: A.T. Ariyaratne; title: Riane Eisler; title: Aruna Roy; title: Ivan Illich; title: Patrick Geddes; title: Mary Harris ('Mother Jones'); title: J.C. Kumarappa; title: Theodore Roszak; title: Vinoba Bhave; title: Albert Schweitzer; title: Oscar Arias Sanchez; title: Winona LaDuke; title: Manfred Max-Neef; title: Peter Brook; title: D.H. Lawrence; title: Oren Lyons; title: Frank Lloyd Wright; title: SPIRITUAL VISIONARIES. The Dalai Lama; title: Jiddu Krishnamurti; title: Deepak Chopra; title: Kathleen Raine; title: Rabindranath Tagore; title: Thich Nhat Hanh; title: Desmond Tutu; title: Sri Anandamayi; title: Peter Redgrove; title: Thomas Moore; title: Bede Griffiths; title: Chogyam Trungpa; title: Thomas Merton; title: Matthew Fox; title: Raimon Panikkar; title: Starhawk; title: Joseph Campbell; title: Carl Gustav Jung; title: G.K. Chesterton; title: Seyyed Hossein Nasr; title: Kahlil Gibran; title: Joanna Macy.