This book is equal parts case study manual for how-to "be the change we wish to see in the world" and systems-based nonviolence manifesto. I see it as a supplementary, context-giving text for many issue-specific social/cultural and personal change classes and organizations. It is about creating sustainable relationships at all levels of human interaction. From the book: It is painfully obvious that when imbalance becomes too great a person, a mind, any system will falter unless we readjust, adapt, correct course, change conditions: minds “flip out,” marriages fail, abuses of power occur, human pollution overpowers the environment, and so on. In biology and communications theory we would say that unless we (meaning individuals, cultures, and life itself) constantly and positively readjust toward equilibrium and maintain that crucial harmony of entropy and redundancy, yin and yang, the system will fail. Nonviolent action is what we do to correct course and move toward healthy systems.