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John Perkins

    28 janvier 1945

    John Perkins est un auteur et activiste dont les expériences personnelles en tant qu'ancien "hit man économique" pour des entreprises et des agences de renseignement forment le cœur de son œuvre influente. Il raconte comment il a utilisé la coercition économique pour manipuler des dirigeants étrangers afin qu'ils servent la politique étrangère américaine et assurent des contrats à des entreprises américaines. Après avoir quitté cette carrière, Perkins s'est consacré à la création d'entreprises énergétiques indépendantes, puis à l'activisme mondial et au travail associatif axé sur la vie durable et les changements de conscience. Ses écrits offrent une perspective critique sur l'économie mondiale et les structures de pouvoir, en s'appuyant sur sa connaissance interne pour plaider en faveur d'un changement systémique.

    John Perkins
    Spirit of the Shuar
    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
    Confessions d'un assassin économique - Nouvelles révélations d'initiés sur la manipulation des économies du monde
    • 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

      • 80pages
      • 3 heures de lecture
      4,5(7)Évaluer

      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

      • 208pages
      • 8 heures de lecture
      4,3(69)Évaluer

      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

      • 60pages
      • 3 heures de lecture
      4,2(39)Évaluer

      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

      • 36pages
      • 2 heures de lecture
      4,2(610)Évaluer

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

      Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb
    • The expanded edition includes 15 new chapters that update the narrative of economic hit men (EHMs) and their impact, particularly in the U.S. John Perkins reveals how EHMs exploit nations for wealth, detailing a network of corporations and governments that perpetuate economic inequality. The book outlines the tools used by EHMs, such as deception and coercion, and highlights their global reach. Despite the grim realities, Perkins offers a hopeful perspective, suggesting actionable steps for individuals to shift from a "Death Economy" to a sustainable "Life Economy."

      The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (16pt Large Print Edition)