The Great Turning or Into the Kill Zone

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community

Author: David C Korten

* Sweeping survey of world history offering a new understanding of the key challenge of our time
* Offers a positive message of hope for a sustainable and just future and a practical strategy for getting there

In The Great Turning, David Korten argues that "Empire," the organization of society through hierarchy and violence has always resulted in misery for the many and fortune for the few, but now it threatens the very future of humanity as Empire has become unsustainable and destructive.

Korten traces the roots of Empire and charts the evolution of its instruments of control, from absolute monarchies to the multinational institutions of the global economy. He describes efforts to develop democratic alternatives to Empire, such as the founding of the United States and shows how elitists with an imperial agenda have undermined the "American experiment."

Empire is not inevitable, and we can turn away from it. Korten draws on evidence from evolutionary theory, developmental psychology, and religious teachings to show that a life-centered, egalitarian, sustainable, democratic "Earth Community" is possible.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments     ix
The Great Turning     3
Prologue: In Search of the Possible     5
Choosing Our Future     25
The Choice     27
The Possibility     41
The Imperative     57
The Opportunity     74
Sorrows of Empire     91
When God Was a Woman     93
Ancient Empire     109
Modern Empire     126
Athenian Experiment     142
America, the Unfinished Project     157
Inauspicious Beginning     159
People Power Rebellion     171
Empire's Victory     181
Struggle for Justice     201
Wake-Up Call     217
Prisons of the Mind     237
The Great Turning     251
Beyond Strict Father versus Aging Clock     253
Creation's Epic Journey     267
Joys of Earth Community     281
Stories for a New Era     302
Birthing Earth Community     313
Leading from Below     315
Building a Political Majority     327
Liberating Creative Potential     341
Change the Story, Change the Future     354
Notes     361
Index     380
About the Author     401

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Into the Kill Zone: A Cop's Eye View of Deadly Force

Author: David Klinger

What's it like to have the legal sanction to shoot and kill? This compelling and often startling book answers this, and many other questions about the oft-times violent world inhabited by our nation's police officers. Written by a cop-turned university professor who interviewed scores of officers who have shot people in the course of their duties, Into the Kill Zone presents firsthand accounts of the role that deadly force plays in American police work. This brilliantly written book tells how novice officers are trained to think about and use the power they have over life and death, explains how cops live with the awesome responsibility that comes from the barrels of their guns, reports how officers often hold their fire when they clearly could have shot, presents hair-raising accounts of what it's like to be involved in shoot-outs, and details how shooting someone affects officers who pull the trigger. From academy training to post-shooting reactions, this book tells the compelling story of the role that extreme violence plays in the lives of America's cops.