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East Beach Press publishes books and movies about people making a difference. We live in a potent time that offers boundless opportunities for positive change. Our goal is to leave the world better than we found it. Read our interviews of world leaders describing some of the challenges ahead — Mikhail Gorbachev, Ted Turner, Jane Goodall, Huston Smith, and Thabo Mbeki. And check out Douglas Gillies' blog — Quest for Hope.

The need for synthesis is the dominant issue of our time.  —Huston Smith

PASSION
Robert Muller
 
The Meaning of Life
The Meaning of Death
 
Audiotape: 52 min.

Robert Muller sums up the life lessons he learned during forty years at the UN, where he was Assistant Secretary General. In this brilliant discussion, Muller addresses the ultimate question facing the human race—one which no one dared to ask at the UN, even though it troubled renowned Secretaries General Dag Hammarskjöld and U Thant as they wrestled with 12,000 simultaneous world problems and conflicts.

Hear the lessons learned by Robert Muller during his 40 years at the United Nations

Mikhail Gorbachev invited top world leaders to San Francisco to discuss major world environmental problems. Douglas Gillies produced this compelling documentary to report what they decided.
ON THE EDGE
a wake-up call
 
...before it's too late
 
DVD or VHS 52 min.
 

Mikhail Gorbachev invited hundreds of the world's leading thinkers to confront the most daunting challenge of all time. In this award-winning documentary, they chart a course for a safe passage into the future.

Watch it with friends or family and you may find yourselves talking about how each of us can make a difference.

Learn more about cutting edge solutions to global environmental problems
Robert Muller was a fighter in the French Resistance during World War II when he dedicated his life to be a peacemaker and then joined the United Nations
PROPHET
The Hatmaker's Son

The Life of Robert Muller
by Douglas Gillies

Hardcover: 288 pages

This biography takes off with the brisk pace of a page-turning novel. After Robert Muller fights in the French Resistance and survives the battles of World War II, he embarks on an epic journey to be a peacemaker. Eventually he reaches the highest appointed office in the United Nations: Assistant Secretary General.

Muller's story is a portrait of Europe's transition from recurring wars to enduring peace. As he changes his thinking and creates new programs, he changes the world.

Read about how the United Nations emerged out of the chaos of World War II

 

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