A new roadmap in path of RWE

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Product Description

Breathtaking in scope, this winding memoir of a Cold Warrior chronicles a lifelong search for the Universal Human Values of the Natural Law. Values for a New Millenium provides an important, research-based guide for living a moral life in the twenty-first century.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #164690 in Books
• Published on: 1992-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Review
"...[A] strong values system is the most precious weapon of all. Nobody understood this more than Bob Humphrey...." -- General Charles C. Krulak, 31st Commandant of the United States Marine Corps

"Bob Humphrey's Life Values theory represents the clearest...explanation of human nature in the last three thousand years of philosophy." -- Colman Genn, Center for Educational Innovation and former Superintendant, New York City School System

"Professor Humphrey's fresh look at human nature gives us...methods to break down walls between groups in conflict...." -- William S. Sessions, former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

I first encountered Professor Robert L. Humphrey about fifteen years ago as a graduate student in San Diego, California. I was taking a Masters Degree in Business Administration, and I wondered how "Cross-Cultural Relations" could be justified as a bona-fide course requirement. I was an active duty Marine Officer at that time and had been, literally, around the world. I had heard about enough of the "touchy-feely" bromides that passed for enlightened liberalism. Frankly, I was a hostile audience.

Suddenly, however, as Bob Humphrey talked, I felt that prickly sensation on the back of my neck. It was powerful, and really quite physical. The things that he said, the stories he told, touched me in a way that has changed me forever. I was stunned to hear him explain, clearly and matter-of-factly, the meaning of life. He called his theory variously "The Life Value," or Life Values, Dual Life Value or Balanced Life Value. I sometimes think of them, now, simply as "Living Values."

As I came to know him and his personal history, I was amazed to hear that he had addressed, literally, hundreds of thousands of people over the years. His Life Value Theory and teaching methods had been used successfully to stop violence and promote cross-cultural harmony, world-wide.

Captain Jack E. Hoban, USMCR -- Captain Jack E. Hoban, USMCR

About the Author
Robert Humphrey was a child of the Great Depression. Those were the days when life's lessons were learned in the school of hard knocks. He earned money as a semi-professional boxer. He rode freight trains, worked in the Citizens Conservation Corps (the CCCs), and finally joined the Merchant Marines. Those experiences got him through his youth, worldly-wise but morally sound. He transferred into the US Marines during World War II. There, as a rifle-platoon leader on Iwo Jima, he passed the ultimate course in life-and-death values.

Near the war's end, a gunshot-wound ended his hopes for a professional boxing career. He was discharged from the Marines. For twelve years he passed through eight colleges and universities "searching, just searching." He was looking for answers to that eternal question: "Why?" Why that terrible Depression that devastated his peaceful little hometown? Why that insanity on Iwo Jima that killed most of his Marine friends?

He took a Harvard Law degree and settled into teaching Economics at MIT. Then came the Cold War with the predictions that the Communists would win. He went back overseas to see if his global experiences would guide him in solving America's self-defeating Ugly Americanism. All through the first crucial Cold-War decades, his contracts were financed--success after success--by the US Information Service, the Chrysler Missile Corporation, the Army Research Office, and the Marine Corps. He taught culture-transcendent, "win-the-people" values in the most vital overseas areas--those surrounding the Communist block. The approach did overcome the Ugly Americanism. It did win back the foreign peoples. And it kept the lid on sabotage and violence in his assigned areas. It opened up a new social-scientific pathway to human conflict-resolution.

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Customer Reviews

Very appropriately titled
This book and Ishmael are two of the best books I've read...and I think a combination of these two books could accomplish what all the world's religions have tried to do for ages if enough people read them and IMPLEMENTED them. That is the same problem the religions have encountered...eventually nobody understands the source but a few people and the ideas are institutionalized in an inappropriate fashion. Let's hope that doesn't happen with these incredible life-preserving ideas!!

Jugular and clarifying.
Finally a book that puts into words what people for so long have been searching for in their lives on natural laws, ethics and values.

A must read
This is a book that changes lives. If we were all to apply even a fraction of the lessons Robert Humphrey dishes out in this book we would certainly live in a much more peaceful world.
The teachings in this book changed the way I see the world in all aspects of my life including parenting, teaching, and as member of my community. As a former prison guard, law enforcement officer, and more recently a mentor for troubled youth, I have tested these methods and found them to be nothing but pure truth to their core.