We have the right and the duty to defend ourselves from invasion or injustice, but we must do so intelligently, effectively and ethically. Wars are a Crime Against Humanity. Therefore, learning to defend ourselves, as the book explains, is a way forward for the survival of the human species. Pepe Beunza As the author says, if oppression and injustice are maintained, it is because we collaborate with them. For this reason, the book provides people with tools so that, in the event of conflict, they can maintain their dignity and work for Peace, so that waging war does favour those who have provoked it. Llúcia Oliva Information and proposals are presented, aimed at achieving the creation of a nonviolent force for self-defense, in a new security paradigm. An unheard-of utopia, but not impossible. Xavier Masllorens In adaptation to this world of social networks, the present publication breaks down in detail everything that lies behind a civilian system of nonviolent defense in 100 short messages. Thais Bonilla It is a highly valuable document to face the convulsive times we are living in, and it helps a lot, with tools and arguments, to create a base for a peaceful and democratic movement. The text that Martí Olivella proposes to us, points out a way that is as necessary, as it is useful. Raül Romeva

We have the right and the duty to defend ourselves from invasion or injustice, but we must do so intelligently, effectively and ethically. Wars are a Crime Against Humanity. Therefore, learning to defend ourselves, as the book explains, is a way forward for the survival of the human species. Pepe Beunza As the author says, if oppression and injustice are maintained, it is because we collaborate with them. For this reason, the book provides people with tools so that, in the event of conflict, they can maintain their dignity and work for Peace, so that waging war does favour those who have provoked it. Llúcia Oliva Information and proposals are presented, aimed at achieving the creation of a nonviolent force for self-defense, in a new security paradigm. An unheard-of utopia, but not impossible. Xavier Masllorens In adaptation to this world of social networks, the present publication breaks down in detail everything that lies behind a civilian system of nonviolent defense in 100 short messages. Thais Bonilla It is a highly valuable document to face the convulsive times we are living in, and it helps a lot, with tools and arguments, to create a base for a peaceful and democratic movement. The text that Martí Olivella proposes to us, points out a way that is as necessary, as it is useful. Raül Romeva

As one of the biggest stars to burst into U.S. theaters, Jackie Chan has wowed audiences with death-defying stunts. But who really is this lightning-fast Charlie Chaplin of martial arts moviemaking? Now, in I Am Jackie Chan, he tells the fascinating, harrowing, ultimately triumphant story of his life: How the rebellious son of refugees in tumultuous 1950s Hong Kong became the disciplined disciple of a Chinese Opera Master. How the dying art of Chinese opera led Jackie to the movie business. And how he broke into Hollywood big time by breaking almost every bone in his body.

Games for Actors and Non-Actors is the classic and best selling book by the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal. It sets out the principles and practice of Boal's revolutionary Method, showing how theatre can be used to transform and liberate everyone – actors and non-actors alike! This thoroughly updated and substantially revised second edition includes: two new essays by Boal on major recent projects in Brazil Boal's description of his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company a revised introduction and translator's preface a collection of photographs taken during Boal's workshops, commissioned for this edition new reflections on Forum Theatre.

The Style Guide, part one of this publication, provides guidance to Air University's community of writers. It offers a coherent, consistent stylistic base for writing and editing. The Author Guide part two of this publication, offers simple, concise instructions to writers who wish to submit a manuscript to AUPress for consideration.

M. C. Roco and W.S. Bainbridge In the early decades of the 21st century, concentrated efforts can unify science based on the unity of nature, thereby advancing the combination of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and new technologies based in cognitive science. With proper attention to ethical issues and societal needs, converging in human abilities, societal technologies could achieve a tremendous improvement outcomes, the nation's productivity, and the quality of life. This is a broad, cross cutting, emerging and timely opportunity of interest to individuals, society and humanity in the long term. The phrase "convergent technologies" refers to the synergistic combination of four major "NBIC" (nano-bio-info-cogno) provinces of science and technology, each of which is currently progressing at a rapid rate: (a) nanoscience and nanotechnology; (b) biotechnology and biomedicine, including genetic engineering; (c) information technology, including advanced computing and communications; (d) cognitive science, including cognitive neuroscience. Timely and Broad Opportunity. Convergence of diverse technologies is based on material unity at the nanoscale and on technology integration from that scale.

The Violence of Modernity turns to Charles Baudelaire, one of the most canonical figures of literary modernism, in order to reclaim an aesthetic legacy for ethical inquiry and historical critique. Works of modern literature are commonly theorized as symptomatic responses to the trauma of history. In a climate that tends to privilege crisis over critique, Debarati Sanyal argues that it is urgent to rethink literary experience in terms that recall its contestatory potential. Examining Baudelaire's poems afresh, she shifts the focus of critical attention toward an account of modernism as an active engagement with violence, specifically the violence of history in nineteenth-century France. Sanyal analyzes a literary current that uses the traditional hallmarks of modernism—irony, intertextuality, self-reflexivity, and formalism—to challenge the historical violence of modernity. Baudelaire and the committed ironists writing in his wake teach us how to read and resist the violence of history, and thereby to challenge the melancholy tenor of our contemporary "wound culture." In a series of provocative readings, Sanyal presents Baudelaire's poetry as an aesthetic form that contests historical violence through rhetorical strategies of complicity, counterviolence, and critique. The book develops a new account of Baudelaire's significance as a modernist by dislodging him both from his traditional status as a practitioner of "art for art's sake" and from his more recent incarnation as the poet of trauma. Following her extended analysis of Baudelaire's poetry, Sanyal in later chapters considers a number of authors influenced by his strategies—including Rachilde, Virginie Despentes, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre—to examine the relevance of their interventions for our current climate of trauma and terror. The result is a study that underscores how Baudelaire's legacy continues to energize literary engagements with the violence of modernity.