by Frances Moore Lappe – $19.95

Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad

This book invites readers to see how assumptions and beliefs can disempower others, whether it is an assumption about a ruler’s ‘Divine Right’ or an assumption about the inferiority of a lower class or caste.

Lappe then invites readers to look at democracy as a problem solving device and suggests that it only works if we all play an active part. She describes what she calls ‘thin democracy’ where power is controlled by corporations and a warped system of politics.

Then she explores what she calls ‘living democracy’, which is infused with the power of citizens’ voices and values and which removes the power of money from governance.

In conclusion, Lappe reminds everyone that each person can make their own choices and that those choices can make a difference for the good of all. She encourages readers to become personally empowered and work for change.

The next book is The Fifth Agreement by Ruiz