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  The Conquest of Bread

  Pyotr Kropotkin

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  Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (1842-1921) was the leading - and the most widely admired - anarchist Communist in the last decades of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th. He lived long enough to see the establishment of Communism in Russia under Lenin, who acknowledged Kropotkin's commitment to political change. However, Kropotkin was a very different kind of revolutionary figure, for he argued not only for Communism but anarchist Communism, distrusting and even despising central government control in favour of a more individual sense of responsibility and civic duty. In The Conquest of Bread, first published in 1892, Kropotkin set out his ideas on how his heightened idealism could work. It was all the more extraordinary because he was born into an aristocratic land-owning family - with some 1,200 male serfs - though from his student years his liberal views and his fixation on the need for social change saw him take a revolutionary path. This led rapidly to decades of exile. Even today, The Conquest of Bread is fascinating listening.  It is a passionate, even a fierce polemic for dramatic social change. Kropotkin looks at the European revolutions, from the French Revolution to the upheavals of 1848 and later 19th-century events, commenting on why they were ultimately unsuccessful. Like Karl Marx he was convinced that major social upheaval was inevitable, but he argued for a different social structure - one where innate human goodness would not only overcome individualist capitalist greed but obviate the necessity of overbearing government control. Kropotkin's faith in humanity and the reasonableness of man may seem naive, but his slogans are persuasive. ‘All belongs to all'; 'well-being for all'; ‘anarchist Communism, Communism without government - the Communism of the free: it is the synthesis of the two ideals pursued by humanity throughout the ages - economic and political liberty.' His views encompassed further ideals: wealth should not hoarded by the few but distributed to each according to his need; women must be released from traditional domestic drudgery (he predicted that new machines would lightening the domestic load); the working day could easily be reduced to five hours a day, allowing more leisure time. With these innovations, Kropotkin argues, the future would be very different. The Conquest of Bread is a classic political text of an idealistic vision that may never come to pass but which contains views which are difficult - theoretically - to dismiss.

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  VIP - How to Influence with...

  O. S. Hawkins

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  The Bible says that God has “assigned to you an area of influence” (2 Corinthians 10:13). The question is what will you do with it? 
  In his newest book VIP, O.S. Hawkins takes readers through what it takes to create a life of Influence--vision, integrity, and purpose. Through inspirational stories, biblical examples, and charged challenges towards greatness, O.S. Hawkins illuminates a path for you to uncover what it is going to take for you to become a VIP. 
  Following the great success of his books The Joshua Code and The James Code, VIP is the next step on your journey toward the life God has for you.   

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  Vision Plan Action - Where are...

  Jennifer Sedlock

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  Are your goals BIG enough? Clear enough? Compelling enough? Setting and Achieving Big Goals needs Vision, Plans and Action. Clarifying and deciding to create a Big Vision, clearly written goals with plans to achieve them, and solid strategies for obstacles, solutions and actions are the key. Are you getting stuck in one of these three steps? If so, focus on the tool for that section the most. 
   Success isn’t by accident; it comes from focus, effort, clear goals and well thought out plans to overcome all challenges along the path to achievement. Get unstuck to set and achieve Big Goals!

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  Calculating Race - Racial...

  Benjamin Wiggins

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  In Calculating Race, Benjamin Wiggins analyzes the historical relationship between statistical risk assessment and race in the United States. He illustrates how actuarial science transformed the nature of racism and helped usher racial disparities in wealth, incarceration, and housing from the nineteenth century into the twentieth.Wiggins begins by tracing how the life insurance industry utilized race in its calculations at the end of the nineteenth century, focusing particularly on Prudential and its aggressive battles with state regulators to discriminate against clients and adjust rates on the basis of race. He then turns his focus to the collection of racial statistics in the Illinois state penitentiary system in the late nineteenth century and the state's subsequent development of predictive sentencing and parole formulas in the 1920s that weighed race as a key factor.Next, he investigates the role of race in the state-sponsored mortgage insurance program of the Federal Housing Administration between the start of the New Deal and the beginning of the Cold War and its prolonged effects on mortgage lending. Wiggins concludes with an analysis of the use of race in the statistical risk assessments across financial institutions and government programs during the post–civil rights movement era.

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  Modern Economics

  Ben Bailey

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  This is an intement portrait of a future economic system that is geared to the everyday listener. It incorporates old economic principles established in a modern era. Some newer inclusions are the creating and deleting of money, inflation degradation, and supporting of a culture that can uphold and learn from the past inequities and problems that have plagued the prior attempts to create money. This economy works in the prevailing future in which an occupation is not a necessity but an option and freedom from a job is the commonplace. It is a system that would grant $3680 to a family of 4 without using taxation and can safely launch the United States and the world into the next generation of machines supplied by money creation and inflation negation.

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  The Spirit of Philanthropy -...

  Frank Pisch

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  In The Spirit of Philanthropy, Frank Pisch dissects fundraising, showing how it is both an art and a science. Pisch, the founder of The Compass Group, uses his knowledge in the field to give philanthropists an understanding of best practices for fundraising. Building a great team, finding the best volunteers, creating a Gifts Chart, and more are discussed in this easy-to-read guide. From the early stages of a fundraising campaign to the days after it’s done, The Spirit of Philanthropy will be your blueprint for raising money for your nonprofit and more.

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