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Partial Truths and the Politics of Community

Author : Mary Ann Tetreault
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570034862
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Partial Truths and the Politics of Community written by Mary Ann Tetreault and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partial Truths and the Politics of Community considers what happens after feminists succeed in achieving social change or in founding organizations dedicated to accomplishing their personal and social goals. This collection of eighteen essays by scholars from the fields of international relations and feminist studies explores the theoretical dilemmas and practical politics of living with raised consciousnesses in worlds of our own making. The contributors explore feminisms as dreams of human rights, as a cluster of ideologies, and as a bounty of social practices set within frameworks for tackling problems in nation-building and global governance. In essays that illustrate the impact of feminist concerns with the quality of education, the contributors offer studies of homeschooling, of the education of impoverished girls in rural Mexico, of sororities and their relation to female autonomy, and of the teaching of prisoners by volunteers in county jails. Other contributors call for a greater attention to the ecology of social life, viewing society as a complex of individuals bound to one another through webs of transactions and obligations. These contributors recount examples from N

Partial Truths

Author : James C. Zimring
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231554079
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Partial Truths written by James C. Zimring and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-food chain once tried to compete with McDonald’s quarter-pounder by introducing a third-pound hamburger—only for it to flop when consumers thought a third pound was less than a quarter pound because three is less than four. Separately, a rash of suicides by teenagers who played Dungeons and Dragons caused a panic in parents and the media. They thought D&D was causing teenage suicides—when in fact teenage D&D players died by suicide at a much lower rate than the national average. Errors of this type can be found from antiquity to the present, from the Peloponnesian War to the COVID-19 pandemic. How and why do we keep falling into these traps? James C. Zimring argues that many of the mistakes that the human mind consistently makes boil down to misperceiving fractions. We see slews of statistics that are essentially fractions, such as percentages, probabilities, frequencies, and rates, and we tend to misinterpret them. Sometimes bad actors manipulate us by cherry-picking data or distorting how information is presented; other times, sloppy communicators inadvertently mislead us. In many cases, we fool ourselves and have only our own minds to blame. Zimring also explores the counterintuitive reason that these flaws might benefit us, demonstrating that individual error can be highly advantageous to problem solving by groups. Blending key scientific research in cognitive psychology with accessible real-life examples, Partial Truths helps readers spot the fallacies lurking in everyday information, from politics to the criminal justice system, from religion to science, from business strategies to New Age culture.

Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense

Author : Jeffrey Pfeffer
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1422154580
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense written by Jeffrey Pfeffer and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2006-02-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best organizations have the best talent. . . Financial incentives drive company performance. . . Firms must change or die. Popular axioms like these drive business decisions every day. Yet too much common management “wisdom” isn’t wise at all—but, instead, flawed knowledge based on “best practices” that are actually poor, incomplete, or outright obsolete. Worse, legions of managers use this dubious knowledge to make decisions that are hazardous to organizational health. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton show how companies can bolster performance and trump the competition through evidence-based management, an approach to decision-making and action that is driven by hard facts rather than half-truths or hype. This book guides managers in using this approach to dismantle six widely held—but ultimately flawed—management beliefs in core areas including leadership, strategy, change, talent, financial incentives, and work-life balance. The authors show managers how to find and apply the best practices for their companies, rather than blindly copy what seems to have worked elsewhere. This practical and candid book challenges leaders to commit to evidence-based management as a way of organizational life—and shows how to finally turn this common sense into common practice.

Character, Community, and Politics

Author : Clarke E. Cochran
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817300864
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Character, Community, and Politics written by Clarke E. Cochran and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1982-03-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic political philosophy text, available again The revival of political philosophy has frequently assumed that a theory of human well-being and fulfillment is necessary, preoccupied with questions of epistemology and technical conceptual analysis. In instances where the nature of the human good is considered, the paradigm of autonomous individualism customarily dominates. In Character, Community, and Politics, Cochran moves away from these prevailing ideas to develop a communal theory of political order, helping to redefine a number of fundamental, but often neglected, ideas. Chief among them are commitment, community, responsibility, and character—concepts Cochran develops through discussions of authority, freedom, pluralism, and the common good. Drawing on a wide variety of fields, such as philosophy, ethics, literature, moral theology, and sociology, the author renews these concepts to outline a theory of human life and political order distinct from sclerotic categories such as conservatism, socialism, radicalism, or Marxism.

Half Truths

Author : Adam Hamilton
Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1501813889
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Half Truths written by Adam Hamilton and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are simple phrases. They sound Christian—like something you might find in the Bible. We’ve all heard these words. Maybe we’ve said them. They capture some element of truth, yet they miss the point in important ways. Join Adam Hamilton in this 5-week Bible study to search for the whole truth by comparing common Christian clichés with the wisdom found in Scripture. The clichés include: Everything happens for a reason. God helps those who help themselves. God won’t give you more than you can handle. God said it, I believe it, that settles it. Love the sinner, hate the sin.

Democracy, Dialogue, and Community Action

Author : Spoma Jovanovic
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1557289913
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Democracy, Dialogue, and Community Action written by Spoma Jovanovic and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the First Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the United States

Partial Truths and Our Common Future

Author : Donald A. Crosby
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438471335
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Partial Truths and Our Common Future written by Donald A. Crosby and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that a pluralistic understanding of truth can foster productive conversations about common concerns involving religion, science, ethics, politics, economics, and ecology without falling into relativism. In this book, Donald A. Crosby defends the idea that all claims to truth are at best partial. Recognizing this, he argues, is a necessary safeguard against arrogance, close-mindedness, and potentially violent reactions to differences of outlook and practice. Crosby demonstrates how partial truths are inevitably at work in conversations and debates about religion, science, morality, economics, ecology, and social and political progress. He then focuses on the concept in the discipline of philosophy, looking at a number of distinctions that are taken to be strictly binarythose between fact and value, continuity and novelty, rationalism and empiricism, mind and body, and good and eviland demonstrates how in all of these cases, each on its own can offer only an incomplete picture. Partial Truths and Our Common Future invites ongoing dialogue with others for the sake of mutual enlargements of understanding rather than mere civility, and provides incentive for continuing open-minded and shared inquiries into the important issues of life. This is a transdisciplinary philosophical work that moves with grace across traditions, time periods, and thinkers. It is a master class in the existential and public relevance of philosophy and a rare example of a book that is both timely and timeless. Michael S. Hogue, author of The Promise of Religious Naturalism

Half Truths

Author : Claire Contreras
Publisher : Claire Contreras
ISBN 13 : 9780998345581
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Half Truths written by Claire Contreras and published by Claire Contreras. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've heard of these groups - the secretive ones that only the crème de la crème are invited into, the ones outsiders speculate about for centuries - I'm the second in my family invited to attend, but to them, I'm fresh meat. New blood. New money, too. They think they'll elbow past me, that I'm here for their amusement, for them to walk all over, they'll find out soon enough that I'm not. I may look like one of them, with my designer bags and clothes straight from the Parisian runways, but I'm not. I'm here for answers, to take revenge for blood spilled on their centuries-old Persian rugs. I transferred here in search for answers about what happened to my older brother, who hightailed out of here, and my friend who seemingly disappeared into thin air. I certainly wasn't here for the attention of the star hockey player, regardless of how much he willed my eyes his way. I wasn't here for his scrutiny or his judgment or to read into his mysterious aura. I was here for the society, because only they held the answers I needed. That was, until I found out that in order to get those answers, I needed to go through him. He's saying if I want in, I have to play by their rules, follow their lead. It's a game I'm willing to play. I may be the second person I know of to be invited into their society, but I'll be the first to make it out intact. *This is a complete standalone novel*

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Heresy and the Politics of Community

Author : Marina Rustow
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801455294
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Heresy and the Politics of Community written by Marina Rustow and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book with a bold new view of medieval Jewish history, written in a style accessible to nonspecialists and students as well as to scholars in the field, Marina Rustow changes our understanding of the origins and nature of heresy itself. Scholars have long believed that the Rabbanites and Qaraites, the two major Jewish groups under Islamic rule, split decisively in the tenth century and from that time forward the minority Qaraites were deemed a heretical sect. Qaraites affirmed a right to decide matters of Jewish law free from centuries of rabbinic interpretation; the Rabbanites, in turn, claimed an unbroken chain of scholarly tradition.Rustow draws heavily on the Cairo Geniza, a repository of papers found in a Rabbanite synagogue, to show that despite the often fierce arguments between the groups, they depended on each other for political and financial support and cooperated in both public and private life. This evidence of remarkable interchange leads Rustow to the conclusion that the accusation of heresy appeared sporadically, in specific contexts, and that the history of permanent schism was the invention of polemicists on both sides. Power shifted back and forth fluidly across what later commentators, particularly those invested in the rabbinic claim to exclusive authority, deemed to have been sharply drawn boundaries.Heresy and the Politics of Community paints a portrait of a more flexible medieval Eastern Mediterranean world than has previously been imagined and demonstrates a new understanding of the historical meanings of charges of heresy against communities of faith. Historians of premodern societies will find that, in her fresh approach to medieval Jewish and Islamic culture, Rustow illuminates a major issue in the history of religions.

The Jesus Christ Code

Author : Caesar J. B. Squitti
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059543424X
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book The Jesus Christ Code written by Caesar J. B. Squitti and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While doing research in 1987 Caesar Squitti noticed that many social programs dealing with the traditional family unit had been corrupted. Programs were based on deceptive half-truths; problem was that the definition of half-truth was incorrect. Observations, research and logic suggested that the world definitions of three important concepts, "truth", "half-truth" and "lie" were incorrect. There appeared to be a correlation between the new proposed definition of Truth and the scientific properties of Light. This relationship was labelled, The Jesus Christ Code: The LIGHT: The Rainbow of Truths. It is being proposed that this may indeed be the "original sin" from the Garden of Eden that has remained with us. The Light: The Rainbow of Truths, explores how we can be deceived by truth, and how this is a challenge to critical thinking in our society. Observations in a wide spectrum of related subjects include politics, social programs, health care and religion. This truth about Truth, that truth may lie, will hopefully set us free from this negative dimension to Truth and allow us to think in colors. The Truth can be stranger than fiction. The Jesus Christ Code builds "a bridge" between science and religion. This discovery may be "the key" to unlock the "gates" to the Garden of Eden. This book examines the quote posed by Pontius Pilate, "What is Truth?"

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Author : American Academy of Political and Social Science
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science written by American Academy of Political and Social Science and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On Civil Liberty and Self-government

Author : Francis Lieber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book On Civil Liberty and Self-government written by Francis Lieber and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Congressional Record

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 1434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bloomsbury Companion to Anarchism

Author : Ruth Kinna
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441148213
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Companion to Anarchism written by Ruth Kinna and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bloomsbury Companion to Anarchism is a comprehensive reference work to support research in anarchism. The book considers the different approaches to anarchism as an ideology and explains the development of anarchist studies from the early twentieth century to the present day. It is unique in that it highlights the relationship between theory and practice, pays special attention to methodology, presents non-English works, key terms and concepts, and discusses new directions for the field. Focusing on the contemporary movement, the work outlines significant shifts in the study of anarchist ideas and explores recent debates. The Companion will appeal to scholars in this growing field, whether they are interested in the general study of anarchism or in more specific areas. Featuring the work of key scholars, The Bloomsbury Companion to Anarchism will be an essential tool for both the scholar and the activist.

Princeton Alumni Weekly

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Publisher : princeton alumni weekly
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1090 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Princeton Alumni Weekly written by and published by princeton alumni weekly. This book was released on 1969 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Common Good of Constitutional Democracy

Author : Martin Rhonheimer
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813220092
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book The Common Good of Constitutional Democracy written by Martin Rhonheimer and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Common Good of Constitutional Democracy offers a rich collection of essays in political philosophy by Swiss philosopher Martin Rhonheimer. Like his other books in both ethical theory and applied ethics, which have recently been published in English, the essays included are distinguished by the philosophical rigor and meticulous attention to the primary and secondary literature of the various topics discussed