Author: Ray Pritchard
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Keywords: struggles, deepest, midst, god, believing
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1997-01-07
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0802431992
ISBN-13: 9780802431998
The Bible tells us God is good, yet how can we still believe when our lives are falling apart? Dr. Pritchard helps us search the Scriptures for hope and encouragement and invokes the comfort of our heavenly Father during hard times.
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Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Keywords: global, commons, struggles, political, nature, privatizing
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1998-05-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0813525543
ISBN-13: 9780813525549
The concept of "the commons" as a device for controlling land and natural resources first entered the political realm during the enclosure movement in pre-industrial Britain. In the late 20th century, new forms of enclosures and notions of private property are emerging - from water rights, biodiversity, and "gene pools" of plants and humans to the demands of multinational corporations for free access, to more land for investment and exploitation. The power of the commons is still flourishing and the "global commons" now provides the central metaphor for ecological politics. This volume examine
Author: Winona LaDuke
Publisher: South End Press
Keywords: life, land, struggles, native, relations
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1999-10-15
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0896085996
ISBN-13: 9780896085992
This eagerly awaited non-fiction debut by acclaimed Native Environmental activist Winona LaDuke is a thoughtful and in-depth account of Native resistance to environmental and cultural degradation. LaDuke’s unique understanding of Native ideas and people is born from long years of experience, and her analysis is deepened with inspiring testimonies by local Native activists sharing the struggle for survival. On each page of this volume, LaDuke speaks forcefully for self-determination and community. Hers is a beautiful and daring vision of political, spiritual, and
Author: Judith Viorst
Publisher: Free Pre
Keywords: power, surrender, struggles, lifelong, control, imperfect
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1999-03-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0684848147
ISBN-13: 9780684848143
Whose life is not impacted, if not defined, by issues of control? Judith Viorst, author of bestselling Necessary Loses and the recipient of various awards for her journalism and psychological writings, cobbles an answer from a variety of sources--the works of biological and social scientists, psychoanalysts, philosophers, personal stories, and her own inimitably fresh point of view. Control--our lack of it, our desire to exercise it, our dread of it--is an omnipresent detail of humanity. Still, we cling to the belief in our freedom to get where we’re going: our personal control. And what
Author: Thomas Sowell
Publisher: Basic Book
Keywords: political, struggles, origins, ideological, visions, conflict
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-06-05
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0465002056
ISBN-13: 9780465002054
Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the "constrained" vision, which sees human nature as unchanging and selfish, and the "unconstrained" vision, in which human nature is malleable and perfectible. He describes how these two radically opposed views have manifested themselves in the political controversies of the past two centuries, inc
Author: Thomas Sowell
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: political, struggles, origins, ideological, visions, conflict
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2002-02-19
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0465081428
ISBN-13: 9780465081424
Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes this pattern. He describes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the "constrained" vision, which sees human nature as unchanging and selfish, and the "unconstrained" vision, in which human nature is malleable and perfectible. A Conflict of Visions offers a convincing case that ethical and policy disputes circle around the disparity betw
Author: Sanjeev Khagram
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: water, power, struggles, transnational, development, dams
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 2004-06
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0801489075
ISBN-13: 9780801489075
Big dams built for irrigation, power, water supply, and other purposes were among the most potent symbols of economic development for much of the twentieth century. Of late they have become a lightning rod for challenges to this vision of development as something planned by elites with scant regard for environmental and social consequencesespecially for the populations that are displaced as their homelands are flooded. In this book, Sanjeev Khagram traces changes in our ideas of what constitutes appropriate development through the shifting transnational dynamics of big dam construction. Kh
