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Book Synopsis A Necessary Balance by : Lillian Alice Ackerman
Download or read book A Necessary Balance written by Lillian Alice Ackerman and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past, many Native American cultures have treated women and men as equals. In A Necessary Balance, Lillian A. Ackerman examines the balance of power and responsibility between men and women within each of the eleven Plateau Indian tribes who live today on the Colville Indian Reservation in north-central Washington State. Ackerman analyzes tribal cultures over three historical periods lasting more than a century--the traditional past, the farming phase when Indians were forced onto the reservation, and the twentieth-century industrial present. Ackerman examines gender equality in terms of power, authority, and autonomy in four social spheres: economic, domestic, political, and religious. Although early explorers and anthropologists noted isolated instances of gender equality among Plateau Indians, A Necessary Balance is the first book-length examination of a culture that has practiced such equality from its early days of hunting and gathering to the present day. Ackerman's findings also relate to an examination of European and American cultures, calling into question the current assumption that gender equality ceases to be possible with the advent of industrialization.
Download or read book The 2030 Spike written by Colin Mason and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clock is relentlessly ticking Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Depleted fuel supplies, massive population growth, poverty, global climate change, famine, growing water shortages and international lawlessness are on a crash course with potentially catastrophic consequences. In the face of both doomsaying and denial over the state of our world, Colin Mason cuts through the rhetoric and reams of conflicting data to muster the evidence to illustrate a broad picture of the world as it is, and our possible futures. Ultimately his message is clear; we must act decisively, collectively and immediately to alter the trajectory of humanity away from catastrophe. Offering over 100 priorities for immediate action, The 2030 Spike serves as a guidebook for humanity through the treacherous minefields and wastelands ahead to a bright, peaceful and prosperous future in which all humans have the opportunity to thrive and build a better civilization. This book is powerful and essential reading for all people concerned with the future of humanity and planet earth.
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Download or read book The Commercial & Financial Chronicle ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Royal Family by : William T. Vollmann
Download or read book The Royal Family written by William T. Vollmann and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich, haunting novel of street life in San Francisco’s Mission District, from the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central In The Royal Family, William T. Vollmann uses the story of two brothers to construct a haunting series of parallels between the lives of the dispossessed and the anxious middle class. Henry Tyler is a failing private detective in San Francisco. When the love of his life, Irene--who happens to be married to his brother John, an ambitious contract lawyer--commits suicide, he clings despairingly to her ghost. Struggling to turn his grief into something precious, Henry enters into a new life of nightmare beauty and degradation as he attempts to track down the legendary Queen of the Prostitutes. Crafted out of language by turns eloquent, humorous, sensual, and obscene, and full of vividly rendered depictions of low-life bars, office politics, and hobo camps, here are Vollmann's familiar but ever surprising characters--the seekers, the vigilantes, the hypocrites, the sex workers. He has woven their stories into a vivid and unforgettable novel about the eerie paradoxes of possession and loss.
Book Synopsis The Way in Divine Metaphysics by : J. D. Tarran
Download or read book The Way in Divine Metaphysics written by J. D. Tarran and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many religions, philosophies, and disciplines of spiritual growth, a Way is a path, a discipline, and a code of conduct. The goal of metaphysics is to understand and describe the Way things are in universal terms to bring meaning , purpose and value to human life. In his comprehensive study of worldwide metaphysics, author agnoi - J. D. Tarran introduces the World's most significant Wisdom traditions, religious and scientific metaphysical philosophies in order to help others understand how the crucial insights of science and the profoundity of religion have affected history. Tarran relies on his extensive studies of religion and metaphysics as he carefully examines the spiritual influences and history of Ideas that have shaped nations and influenced the past. Through this study of different cultures and language concepts, agnoi shares a comprehensive look at many cultures and traditions, beginning with the ancient Chinese Taoist Sages Way and its perception that we exist in unity with nature; The Shamans Way; The Way of the Brahmin; The Buddhist middle Way;The Way of the Magi; The Way of the Philosophers;The Egyptian Magical Way ; The Druids Preparation of the Way ; The Way of the Prophets The Way of the Essenes as a backdrop and expanded Old Testament to the Way of Christ Jesus. The Eternal Way progesses though Science and later Philosophy and Theology toward a Universal Divine Metaphysics of Equipoise The science of the angel Elohim. In Retrospect Aboriginal Law of the Eternal Dreaming Buggarigarra is considered last. Is there only one Truth and one Way? The enlightening reflections and perspectives shared in The Way in Divine Metaphysics encourage a greater and more universal awareness of metaphysical and spiritual thought.
Book Synopsis Corporate Governance and Accountability by : Jill Solomon
Download or read book Corporate Governance and Accountability written by Jill Solomon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-03-16 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courses in corporate governance and corporate social responsibility are growing in number at universities in many countries. This textbook covers corporate governance for the UK market.
Book Synopsis Routledge Library Editions: Education Management by : Various
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Education Management written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 5601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissuing works originally published between 1975 and 1997, this collection includes books covering all aspect of managing schools, from primary to further education. With an international selection of authors, some volumes present case studies while others address wider areas of concern in the management of educational institutions. Individual volumes concern special schools and specific types such as the grant-maintained system in the UK. Topics cross over from finance to staff development to politics and governance to innovation. This is an excellent varied set for any education management bookshelf.
Book Synopsis A Short History of the Future by : Colin Mason
Download or read book A Short History of the Future written by Colin Mason and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has the future a future? Are we bringing history to an end? Observing any one of several individual but critical trends suggests that, without rapid and positive action, history may have only a very short way to run. Whether it is the growth of world population, of greenhouse gas concentrations and the accelerating rate of climate change, the running down of oil and natural gas reserves, growing shortages of fresh water for agriculture, industry and domestic use, or the increasing difficulty in controlling epidemic diseases we are facing a mounting global crisis that will peak in less than a generation, around the year 2030. Taken together, these trends point to a potentially apocalyptic period, if not for the planet itself then certainly for human societies and for humankind. In this compelling book, and update to The 2030 Spike, Colin Mason explains in clear and irrefutable terms what is going on largely below the surface of our daily or weekly news bulletins. The picture he paints is stark, and yet it is not bleak. Being forewarned, we are forearmed, and he draws on his own extensive political experience to describe how much we can do as individuals, and above all collectively, not merely to avert crisis but to engineer thoroughgoing change that can usher in genuinely sustainable and valuable alternatives to the way we live now.
Book Synopsis White House Studies Compendium by : Glenn P. Hastedt
Download or read book White House Studies Compendium written by Glenn P. Hastedt and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Presidency has become one of the most powerful offices in the world with the ascendency of American power in the 20th century.'White House Studies Compendium' brings together piercing analyses of the American presidency -- dealing with both currect issues and historical events.The compendia are the bound issues of 'White House Studies' with the addition of a comprehensive subject index.
Book Synopsis Mechanism and Mysticism by : Louis J. Zanine
Download or read book Mechanism and Mysticism written by Louis J. Zanine and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mechanism and Mysticism, Louis J. Zanine provides the first full-length study of Theodore Dreiser's interest in modern scientific research and of the impact of scientific ideas on the thought and work of a writer who would gain fame as a deterministic naturalist, but who would end his life as a mystic pantheist. Dreiser was raised in a household dominated by the fanatical Catholic faith of his father and the superstitious beliefs of his mother. In 1894, having rejected the orthodox Christianity of his upbringing, he underwent a significant intellectual and spiritual revolution, precipitated by his discover y of the evolutionary writings of Darwin, Huxley, and Spencer. The concept of an evolutionary universe provided Dreiser with the philosophical framework for the pessimistic naturalism of his early novels (Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, The Financier). In the next decades, his discovery of scientific mechanism would reveal a universe that was a well-ordered machine, and it is in the context of Dreiser's reading of the mechanistic philosophy of Jacques Loeb and others that Zanine examines An American Tragedy and The Hand of the Potter. The philosophy of mechanism, combined with his under standing of evolutionary thought, provided Dreiser with a scientific world view that gave him a coherent system of beliefs about human beings' place in the universe, their origins, and the bases of their behavior. Yet Zanine demonstrates that Dreiser never fully adopted the stark materialism or atheism of the mechanists. He continued to have a deeply superstitious side, and a number of experiences with fortune tellers, séances, Ouija boards, and spirit apparitions convinced him of the existence of some controlling supernatural force in the universe. During the same years that he was espousing the principles of mechanistic philosophy in correspondence and conversation with Jacques Loeb, Zanine shows Dreiser was also drawn into speculations about the supernatural through his friendship with the eccentric investigator and author, Charles Fort. In an effort to further his understanding of mechanistic philosophy and to reconcile his faith in the supernatural with the facts of modern science, Dreiser began an intensive period of scientific study in 1927. For the next ten years, he befriended many of America's most eminent scientists, and read numerous works on biology, chemistry, physics, and astronomy. In 1937, at the Carnegie Biological Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, he experienced a spiritual epiphany in which he was suddenly able to intuit a Divine Being's presence in all of nature. Dreiser's scientific quest had culminated in a mystical conversion that would dominate the remaining eight years of his life. Mechanism and Mysticism offers substantial insight into the character of one of America's leading literary figures. With its unique brand of interdisciplinary research data, it will be of interest to students and scholars of American studies and literature, twentieth-century history, and history of science and religion.
Book Synopsis Wiley CPA Examination Review, Outlines and Study Guides by : Patrick R. Delaney
Download or read book Wiley CPA Examination Review, Outlines and Study Guides written by Patrick R. Delaney and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 1465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews each section of the CPA examination through study guides, outlines, and examples; and provides sample multiple-choice questions and simulations with detailed answers for practice.
Book Synopsis Phosphate Availability and Supply by : Richard J. Fantel
Download or read book Phosphate Availability and Supply written by Richard J. Fantel and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement by : Robert P. Crease
Download or read book World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement written by Robert P. Crease and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Shows that the story of metrology . . . can in the right hands make for a riveting read.”—The Economist Millions of transactions each day depend on a reliable network of weights and measures. But achieving such a network was anything but easy, as Robert P. Crease, physicist and philosopher, demonstrates in this endlessly fascinating, always entertaining look at just how this international system evolved. From the link between musical pitch and distance in the dynasties of ancient China and the use of figurines to measure gold in West Africa to the creation of the French metric and British imperial systems, Crease takes readers along on one of history’s greatest philosophical and scientific adventures.
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Book Synopsis Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1981 by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies
Download or read book Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1981 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis National Environmental Research Center--Las Vegas by : United States. Environmental Protection Agency
Download or read book National Environmental Research Center--Las Vegas written by United States. Environmental Protection Agency and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of John Henry Newman by : Frederick D. Aquino
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of John Henry Newman written by Frederick D. Aquino and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Henry Newman (1801-1890) has always inspired devotion. Newman has made disciples as leader of the Catholic revival in the Church of England, an inspiration to fellow converts to Roman Catholicism, a nationally admired preacher and prose-writer, and an internationally recognized saint of the Catholic Church. Nevertheless, he has also provoked criticism. The church authorities, both Anglican and Catholic, were often troubled by his words and deeds, and scholars have disputed his arguments and his honesty. Written by a range of international experts, The Oxford Handbook of John Henry Newman shows how Newman remains important to the fields of education, history, literature, philosophy, and theology. Divided into four parts, part one grounds Newman's works in the places, cultures, and networks of relationships in which he lived. Part two looks at the thinkers who shaped his own thought, while the third part engages critically and appreciatively with themes in his writings. Part four examines how those themes have shaped conversations in the churches and the academy. This Handbook will serve as an important resource to critical and appreciative exploration of the person, writings, controversies, and legacy of Newman.
Book Synopsis The Path to Attainment by : Mark L. Prophet
Download or read book The Path to Attainment written by Mark L. Prophet and published by Summit University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attainment is the goal of the spiritual path. It is not the power to perform miracles or to control others, but the ability to give and receive energy in harmony. This volume explains important keys to attainment, including how to connect with the masters; and, how to chart cycles of positive and negative karma.
