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Published Oct 2007
208 pages
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion
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Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity & Courage in a World Gone Mad is a little book with a big message. Frances Moore Lappe--author of fifteen books, including three-million-copy bestseller Diet for a Small Planet--distills her world-spanning experience and wisdom in a conversational yet hard-hitting style to creat a rare "aha" book. In nine short chapters, Lappe leaves readers feeling liberated and courageous. She flouts conventional right-versus-left divisions and affirms readers' basic sanity--their intuitive knowledge that it is possible to stop grasping at straws and grasp the real roots of today's crises, from hunger and poverty to climate change and terrorism. Because we are creatures of the mind, says Lappe, it is the power of "frame"--our core assumptions about how the world works--that determines outcomes. She pinpoints the dominant failing frame now driving out planet toward disaster. By interweaving fresh insights, startling facts, and stirring vignettes of ordinary people pursuing creative solutions to our most pressing global problems, Lappe uncovers a new, empowering "frame" through which real solutions are emerging worldwide.
"Unfortunately, Lappé's coverage of many of these inspiring stories is unintelligibly thin, too often referring readers to her Web site for backup." - PW
"Progressing from confronting fear to seizing power, Lappe's treatise on humanity's potential for growth is a comforting source of inspiration." - Booklist
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Frances Moore Lappé’s 1971,
three-million-copy bestseller, Diet for a Small Planet, awakened a whole
generation to the irrationality of feeding mountains of grain to livestock,
which return in meat only a tiny fraction of the nutrients fed. Today, with
concerns growing over genetically modified organisms and impact of corporate
globalization, she has teamed up with her daughter Anna to write a sequel.
Mother and daughter have just completed Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a
Small Planet. In it, the two Lappés pick up where the original book left
off. Together, they set out on a round-the-world journey to explore the greatest
challenges we face at the new millennium. Traveling to Asia, Africa, Latin
America and Europe, as well as here in the United States, they ...
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Link to Frances Moore Lappe's Website
Name Pronunciation
Frances Moore Lappe: luh-PAY (confirmed by the author)
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