title: Empowerment on an Unstable Planet: From Seeds of Human Energy to a Scale of Global Change
author:  Daniel C. Taylor 
description: <br />"This remarkable book, written by three generations of accomplished and engaged members of an extraordinary family, is worth careful scrutiny. Despite half a century of well-meaning global plans and programs, supported by trillions of dollars in foreign assistance, far too many people still live under miserable circumstances, even as our common planet grows increasingly less hospitable. The Taylors provide an alternative path to development-one that they have practiced from China to Afghanistan for most of their lives-scaling up the power and impact of local communities to solve their own problems." -- Alfred Sommer, MD, MHS, Dean Emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health <br /> <br />
zlib_text: Change the World 
  Without Taking Power
  New Edition
  John Holloway
  Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades
  Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
  Pluto P Press
  LONDON • ANN ARBOR, MI
  
  First published 2002 and 2005 by Pluto Press
  345 Archway Road, London N6 5AA
  and 839 Greene Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48106
  www.plutobooks.com
  Copyright © John Holloway 2002, 2005
  The right of John Holloway to be identified as the author of this work has
  been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and
  Patents Act 1988.
  British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
  A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
  ISBN 0 7453 2466 5 paperback
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  Contents
  Acknowledgements
  vi
  Preface to the First Edition
  viii
  Preface to the New