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Author : Simone Troller
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Unwelcome Responsibilities written by Simone Troller and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 2007 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Jay Wallace
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674268210
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments written by R. Jay Wallace and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-08 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. Jay Wallace advances a powerful and sustained argument against the common view that accountability requires freedom of will. Instead, he maintains, the fairness of holding people responsible depends on their rational competence: the power to grasp moral reasons and to control their behavior accordingly. He shows how these forms of rational competence are compatible with determinism. At the same time, giving serious consideration to incompatibilist concerns, Wallace develops a compelling diagnosis of the common assumption that freedom is necessary for responsibility.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Graying of Nations, II written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1198 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book American Fruit Grower written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Atwell
Publisher : Paraclete Press
ISBN 13 : 1612613225
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Soul Unfinished written by Robert Atwell and published by Paraclete Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is a warm and confident practicality in Atwell's teaching. He is the grandparent one always wanted, and the fellow adventurer who understands." — Emilie Griffin, author of Turning, Clinging, and Doors into Prayer, from the foreword More and more people are living into old age—that's a fact. With our careers winding down and our children having left home, we are faced, sometimes for the first time in our lives, with the most basic questions about the meaning of life. This book is a spiritual guide for just such times, and an opportunity to make the most of the last quarter of a good life.
Author : Geoffrey Brewer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1595620532
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (956 download)
Download or read book Decade of Change written by Geoffrey Brewer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The momentousness of change during the past 10 years has inspired the Gallup Management Journal, an online business magazine that posts articles weekly for nearly 300,000 subscribers, to review how it covered and evaluated events during this period; how it tried to make sense of rapid change right as it was unfolding; and most importantly, how Gallup’s most visionary people, as well as the great minds with whom Gallup regularly associates, helped organizational leaders navigate the most tumultuous years in memory. In these pages, you’ll find insights and wisdom into how to manage, and make the most of, change. Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman probes the nature of decision-making. Lieutenant General Russel Honoré, of Hurricane Katrina fame, offers leadership lessons he applied in the crucible of crisis. Vinton Cerf, one of the creators of the Internet, tells how he’ll get six billion people online. Visionary executive Ray Anderson makes a powerful business case for environmental sustainability. Gallup Chairman and CEO Jim Clifton reveals what everyone in the globe most wants, And a host of other executives and thinkers tackle everything from mitigating the fear of layoffs, to promoting wellbeing in the workplace, to building customer engagement amid the post-crash “new normal.”
Author : Stephen H. Cutcliffe
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791448465
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (484 download)
Download or read book Visions of STS written by Stephen H. Cutcliffe and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps interconnections between science, technology, and society in order to understand both benefits and costs.
Author : Ken Booth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317670027
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Navies and Foreign Policy (Routledge Revivals) written by Ken Booth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1977, this study offers a comprehensive, systematic and integrated survey of the important relationship between navies and the making and execution of foreign policy. Ken Booth explains the functions navies can perform in both war and peace, the influence they have on particular situations, and how the relevant organisations can affect the character of naval actions. Ultimately, navies are regarded as indispensable instruments of the state by a number of countries, whilst all countries with a coast find some need to threaten a degree of force at sea. This book provides students and academics with the intellectual framework with which to assess the changing character of the navy.
Author : Deborah G. Johnson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262539969
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Technology and Society, second edition written by Deborah G. Johnson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writings by thinkers ranging from Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain to Bruno Latour that focus on the interconnections of technology, society, and values. Technological change does not happen in a vacuum; decisions about which technologies to develop, fund, market, and use engage ideas about values as well as calculations of costs and benefits. In order to influence the development of technology for the better, we must first understand how technology and society are inextricably bound together. These writings--by thinkers ranging from Bruno Latour to Francis Fukuyama--help us do just that, examining how people shape technology and how technology shapes people. This second edition updates the original significantly, offering twenty-one new essays along with fifteen from the first edition. The book first presents visions of the future that range from technological utopias to cautionary tales and then introduces several major STS theories. It examines human and social values and how they are embedded in technological choices and explores the interesting and subtle complexities of the technology-society relationship. Remedying a gap in earlier theorizing in the field, many of the texts illustrate how race and gender are intertwined with technology. Finally, the book offers a set of readings that focus on the sociotechnical challenges we face today, treating topics that include cybersecurity, geoengineering, and the myth of neutral technology.
Author : Glenys Lobban
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1868148033
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (681 download)
Download or read book Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in South Africa written by Glenys Lobban and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible text for practitioners, students, and non-specialists about the practice of psychotherapy in South Africa. Psychoanalysis as a long term modality is inaccessible to the average South African. In this book the authors describe how psychoanalytically orientated or psychodynamic psychotherapy can be practiced as a short-term endeavour and applied to contemporary issues facing the country. Psychodynamic work is currently undertaken by clinical psychologists, therapists, clinicians, trainers, teachers, clinical supervisors, consultants and researchers working in university settings, state hospitals, community projects, private practice and research. The debates, clinical issues, therapeutic practice and nature of research covered in the book are widely representative of the work being done in the country. The need for shorter term therapy models and evidence-based interventions is as acute in global practice as it is locally. The lessons learned in South Africa have broader implications for international practitioners, and the authors stress the potential inherent in psychoanalytic theory and technique to tackle the complex problems faced in all places and settings characterised by increasing globalisation and dislocation. The book is structured in three main sections. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in South Africa is aimed at local and international practitioners and students, while non-specialist readers will find the text informative and accessible.
Author : James Griffin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191623415
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book On Human Rights written by James Griffin and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-08-27 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a human right? How can we tell whether a proposed human right really is one? How do we establish the content of particular human rights, and how do we resolve conflicts between them? These are pressing questions for philosophers, political theorists, jurisprudents, international lawyers, and activists. James Griffin offers answers in his compelling new investigation of the foundations of human rights. First, On Human Rights traces the idea of a natural right from its origin in the late Middle Ages, when the rights were seen as deriving from natural laws, through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when the original theological background was progressively dropped and 'natural law' emptied of most of its original meaning. By the end of the Enlightenment, the term 'human rights' (droits de l'homme) appeared, marking the purge of the theological background. But the Enlightenment, in putting nothing in its place, left us with an unsatisfactory, incomplete idea of a human right. Griffin shows how the language of human rights has become debased. There are scarcely any accepted criteria, either in the academic or the public sphere, for correct use of the term. He takes on the task of showing the way towards a determinate concept of human rights, based on their relation to the human status that we all share. He works from certain paradigm cases, such as freedom of expression and freedom of worship, to more disputed cases such as welfare rights - for instance the idea of a human right to health. His goal is a substantive account of human rights - an account with enough content to tell us whether proposed rights really are rights. Griffin emphasizes the practical as well as theoretical urgency of this goal: as the United Nations recognized in 1948 with its Universal Declaration, the idea of human rights has considerable power to improve the lot of humanity around the world. We can't do without the idea of human rights, and we need to get clear about it. It is our job now - the job of this book - to influence and develop the unsettled discourse of human rights so as to complete the incomplete idea.
Author : Johannes Haubold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521770095
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Homer's People written by Johannes Haubold and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study to examine the role and character of Homer's people in Homeric story-telling.
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215036230
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Jobcentre Plus written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report follows on from a earlier NAO report (HCP 24, session 2006-07, ISBN 9780102943795). Personal Advisers assess needs of people looking for work and point them towards the right kind of assistance needed to find a job. In 2005-06, Jobcentre Plus had some 9,300 advisers at a salary cost of £238 million, conducting in total 10.8 million jobseeker interviews. They are also the gateway to various New Deal programmes, which has cost £5 billion since 1997. With the Government's aim of increasing the employment rate to 80%, personal advisers will have an important role. The Committee has set out a number of conclusions and recommendations, including: that the Department for Work and Pensions aim of assisting 1 million people on benefit into work, will require Jobcentre Plus to keep a good knowledge of employers' short and medium term skill needs as well as training opportunities; Jobcentre Plus should take care to protect advisers from unnecessary administrative work, interruptions of interviews to a minimum and allow more discretion and flexibility to advisers on individual cases; in 2005-06 customers failed to attend around 1.8 million scheduled interviews, whilst customers turned up late on average for around one in six interviews, Jobcentre Plus could do more to remind customers of their responsibilities, but also take account of local transport needs and use text messages and phone calls to remind customers of appointment times; improving the amount of time personal advisers spend with customers is a key element in helping Jobcentre Plus in achieving its efficiency targets and in helping it to be effective in achieving organisational objectives of helping people find work.
Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307807592
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now written by Maya Angelou and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this bestselling spiritual classic. This is Maya Angelou talking from the heart, down to earth and real, but also inspiring. This is a book to be treasured, a book about being in all ways a woman, about living well, about the power of the word, and about the power of spirituality to move and shape your life. Passionate, lively, and lyrical, Maya Angelou’s latest unforgettable work offers a gem of truth on every page. Maya Angelou speaks out . . . On Faith: “I'm taken aback when people walk up to me and tell me they are Christians. My first response is the question 'Already?' It seems to me a lifelong endeavor to try to live the life of a Christian. It is in the search itself that one finds ecstasy.” On Racism: “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter their color.” On Taking Time for Ourselves: “Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. A day away acts as a spring tonic. It can dispel rancor, transform indecision, and renew the spirit.” On Death and Grieving: “When I sense myself filling with rage at the absence of a beloved, I try as soon as possible to remember that my concerns should be focused on what I can learn from my departed love. What legacy was left which can help me in the art of living a good life?” On Style: “Style is as unique and nontransferable and perfectly personal as a fingerprint. It is wise to take the time to develop one's own way of being, increasing those things one does well and eliminating the elements in one's character which can hinder and diminish the good personality.”
Author : Virginia Heath
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0369711688
Total Pages : 777 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (697 download)
Download or read book Harlequin Historical March 2022 - Box Set 2 of 2 written by Virginia Heath and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you dream of wicked rakes, gorgeous Highlanders and muscled Viking warriors? Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection! This box set includes: THE EARL’S INCONVENIENT HOUSEGUEST By Virginia Heath A Very Village Scandal (Regency) Sophie Gilbert has thwarted the standoffish new earl’s plans to sell the village she calls home. Yet when disaster strikes and he offers her refuge, she must reconsider everything about him… INHERITED AS THE GENTLEMAN’S BRIDE By Carol Arens The Rivenhall Weddings (Victorian) When Elizabeth Morsely’s beloved farm is sold to William Grant’s genteel London family, she’s stunned to learn that she’s part and parcel…as his bride! Might their arranged marriage become more? THE MARQUESS OF YEW PARK HOUSE By Lotte R. James Gentlemen of Mystery (1830s) Haunted by nightmares, Henry Spencer, Marquess of Clairborne, seeks sanctuary at his Scottish estate. But his peace is disturbed by beautiful widow Genevieve de l’Omont, who has secrets of her own…
Author : Carol Stevens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317893301
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Russia's Wars of Emergence 1460-1730 written by Carol Stevens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia's emergence as a Great Power in the eighteenth century is usually attributed to Peter I's radical programme of 'Westernising' reforms. But the Russian military did not simply copy European armies. Adapting the tactics of its neighbours on both sides, Russia created a powerful strategy of its own, integrating steppe defence with European concerns. In Russia's Wars of Emergence, Carol Belkin Stevens examines the social and political factors underpinning Muscovite military history, the eventual success of the Russian Empire and the sacrifices made for power.
Author : Virginia Heath
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0369711629
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (697 download)
Download or read book The Earl's Inconvenient Houseguest written by Virginia Heath and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earl she loved to hate …until she stayed in his mansion! Sophie Gilbert has thwarted the standoffish new earl’s plans to sell his country estate and the quaint village that forms part of it. But when disaster strikes and he offers her refuge, she must reconsider everything about this vexing, determined man. After the heartbreak in her past, it’s a revelation to feel her pulse racing and her body yearning for his touch… From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past. A Very Village Scandal Where love can be found at every turn Book 1: The Earl's Inconvenient Houseguest
