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Book Just Prayer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alison Mearns Benders
  • Publisher : Liturgical Press
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 0814649661
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Just Prayer written by Alison Mearns Benders and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four-week cycle of morning and evening prayer.

Book If You Want Peace  Cultivate Justice

Download or read book If You Want Peace Cultivate Justice written by International Labour Office and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the ILO's story in over 100 evocative and compelling photographs, many from the ILO archives. The accompanying narrative offers insights and revelations about the origins of the ILO and its creation in 1919, followed by a decade by decade account of the years leading up to its Centenary in 2019. A must-have for anyone with ties to the ILO or attracted by its history

Book The Ends of Justice

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan Greeley Misenheimer
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2023-10-27
  • ISBN : 1666753947
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book The Ends of Justice written by Alan Greeley Misenheimer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: US forces have been engaged around the globe since World War II, and "endless" war has become the backdrop of American life. This militarized status quo is rife with contradiction. The Constitution requires a congressional declaration of war, yet the executive branch routinely acts alone to dispatch forces and launch attacks. The norms of republican self-governance stipulate alignment between popular will and public policy, yet our post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere have proceeded without public support and often despite public opposition. These wars became endless precisely because they lacked declared ends. Like the mythical Cyclops, the United States has embraced perpetual conflict as an end in itself. This is unacceptable, and un-American. Our history and our values demand a national security policy that recognizes the hard-wired human longing for justice as the key to decisions of peace and war. As citizens of a self-governing republic, we must ensure that US wars are fought with discrimination and proportionality, undertaken for legitimate, significant, transparent, and achievable goals, and entered as a last resort in the pursuit of justice.

Book IQuation Quiz Book

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  • Author : Krishnendu Banik
  • Publisher : Notion Press
  • Release : 2020-03-31
  • ISBN : 1648506534
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book IQuation Quiz Book written by Krishnendu Banik and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over two decades, executive teams from India Inc. have contested in IQuation Quiz Tour for their company's honour, great gratifications as well as for the specially curated learning experience. Now, on popular demand, the best of that question bank is presented as a quiz book, which can be used both for easy reading, as well as to prepare for G.K examinations & quiz contents. Or to conduct your own Sunday morning quiz at family breakfast or company offsites. Here then is a one of a kind knowledge trove. A collection of quiz questions-ranging from teasingly workable to wickedly twisted ,that tested the finest quiz brains & now waits for you. A fine weapon in the hands of a sharpshooter.

Book Democratize Work

Download or read book Democratize Work written by Isabelle Ferreras and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : for a fairer, more democratic, greener society /Julie Battilana --Manifesto : work. democratize, decommodify, remediate --From the politically impossible to the politically inevitable : taking action /Isabelle Ferreras --Democratize firms ... why, and how? /Hélène Landemore --Equal dignity for all citizens means equal voice at work : the importance of epistemic justice /Lisa Herzog --Democratizing work to reverse increasing inequalities /Imge Kaya-Sabanci --Work in dignity /Adelle Blackett --Double majorities for firm governments /Sara Lafuente --Rescuing journalism by decommodifying the media /Julia Cagé --Decommodifying all work : the power of a job guarantee /Pavlina R. Tcherneva --All workers produce value /Neera Chandhoke --The subaltern worker-body speaks; will the privileged listen? /Flavia Maximo --Sustaining life on this planet /Alyssa Battistoni --Working against an end : shifting gears for a new beginning /Dominique Méda.

Book Building a Just World Order

Download or read book Building a Just World Order written by Alfred de Zayas and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2011, the UN Human Rights Council created the mandate of the Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order. This book, based on the reports by Dr. Alfred de Zayas, the first mandate-holder (2012-2018), offers a brilliant and comprehensive critique of the UN system, addressing the changes that must be made in order to further the emergence of a democratic and equitable international order. De Zayas proposes concrete reforms of the UN system, notably the Security Council. He advocates recognition of peace as a human right, slashing military budgets, and establishing the right of self-determination as a conflict-prevention measure. As it concerns the global economy, he calls for reversing the adverse impacts of World Bank and International Monetary Fund policies, rendering free-trade agreements compatible with human rights, abolishing tax havens and ISDS, alleviating the foreign debt crisis, and criminalizing war-profiteers and pandemic vultures. He denounces unilateral coercive measures, economic sanctions and financial blockades, because they demonstrably have led to hundreds of thousands of deaths. "Alfred de Zayas is a gifted human rights lawyer who, alongside Jakob Moller, pioneered the development of UN human rights jurisprudence. He was a dynamic Special Rapporteur, as is evidenced by his Principles for a Democratic and Equitable International Order." --BERTRAND RAMCHARAN, Acting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 2002-2004 "The 25 Zayas Principles of International Order are a modern Magna Carta. If implemented by the international community, they would help ensure peace with social justice in the 21st century. Pursuant to the UN Charter member States bear responsibility for future generations. Hence, they should take concrete measures to achieve this rules-based order in international solidarity." --Maria Fernanda Espinosa, President of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, 2018-19 "Zayas proposes a new functional paradigm of human rights for all. His elaboration on principles and on how to apply international law uniformly is a welcome contribution to a necessary debate on the foundations of a just international order." --Professor Dr. Carlos Correa, University of Buenos Aires, Executive Director of South Centre

Book Justice and Peace

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thompson, Milburn J.
  • Publisher : Orbis Books
  • Release : 2019-06-26
  • ISBN : 1608337898
  • Pages : 533 pages

Download or read book Justice and Peace written by Thompson, Milburn J. and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The third edition of this popular classroom text provides thoroughly revised and updated discussions of key topics including ethno-nationalist conflict, terrorism, and poverty and development, as J. Milburn Thompson masterfully brings a Christian perspective to bear on the world situation. With this book, he provides an introduction to current obstacles to justice and peace across the globe, and encourages Christians to draw upon an informed faith to transform themselves and the world"--

Book Los Angeles School Journal

Download or read book Los Angeles School Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Three Ages of Water

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  • Author : Peter Gleick
  • Publisher : PublicAffairs
  • Release : 2023-06-13
  • ISBN : 1541702298
  • Pages : 363 pages

Download or read book The Three Ages of Water written by Peter Gleick and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory account of how water has shaped the course of human life and history, and a positive vision of what the future can hold—if we act now From the very creation of the planet billions of years ago to the present day, water has always been central to existence on Earth. And since long before the legendary Great Flood, it has been a defining force in the story of humanity. In The Three Ages of Water, Peter Gleick guides us through the long, fraught history of our relationship to this precious resource. Water has shaped civilizations and empires, and driven centuries of advances in science and technology—from agriculture to aqueducts, steam power to space exploration—and progress in health and medicine. But the achievements that have propelled humanity forward also brought consequences, including unsustainable water use, ecological destruction, and global climate change, that now threaten to send us into a new dark age. We must change our ways, and quickly, to usher in a new age of water for the benefit of everyone. Drawing from the lessons of our past, Gleick charts a visionary path toward a sustainable future for water and the planet.

Book Labour Rights and the Catholic Church

Download or read book Labour Rights and the Catholic Church written by Paul Beckett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the extent of parallelism and cross-influence between Catholic Social Teaching and the work of the world’s oldest human rights institution, the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Sometimes there is a mutual attraction between seeming opposites who in fact share a common goal. This book is about just such an attraction between a secular organisation born of the political desire for peace and justice, and a metaphysical institution much older founded to bring peace and justice on earth. It examines the principles evident in the teachings of the Catholic Church and in the secular philosophy of the ILO; together with the theological basis of the relevant provisions of Catholic Social Teaching and of the socio-political origins and basis of the ILO. The spectrum of labour rights covered in the book extends from the right to press for rights, i.e., collective bargaining, to rights themselves – conditions in work – and on to post-employment rights in the form of social security and pensions. The extent of the parallelism and cross-influence is reviewed from the issue of the Papal Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII Rerum Novarum (1891) and from the founding of the ILO in 1919. This book is intended to appeal to lay, professional and academic alike, and will be of interest to researchers and academics working in the areas of international human rights, theology, comparative philosophy, history and social and political studies. On 4 January 2021 it was granted an Imprimatur by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool, Malcolm P. McMahon O.P., meaning that the Catholic Church is satisfied that the book is free of doctrinal or moral error.

Book Environmental Justice and Climate Change

Download or read book Environmental Justice and Climate Change written by Jame Schaefer and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his papacy, Pope Benedict XVI was called ‘the green pope’ because of his ecological commitments in his writings, statements, and practical initiatives. Containing twelve essays by lay, ordained, and religious Catholic theologians and scholars, along with a presentation and a homily by bishops, Environmental Justice and Climate Change: Assessing Pope Benedict XVI's Ecological Vision for the Catholic Church in the United States explores four key areas in connection with Benedict XVI’s teachings: human and natural ecology/human life and dignity; solidarity, justice, poverty and the common good; sacramentality of creation; and our Catholic faith in action. The product of mutual collaboration by bishops, scholars and staff, this anthology provides the most thorough treatment of Benedict XVI’s contributions to ecological teaching and offers fruitful directions for advancing concern among Catholics in the United States about ongoing threats to the integrity of Earth.

Book Globality  Democracy and Civil Society

Download or read book Globality Democracy and Civil Society written by Terrell Carver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globality, Democracy and Civil Society explores the relationship between the concepts of democracy and civil society through a comparison of their meaning and function in different historical and cultural contexts. This volume presents detailed contextual studies in Europe, North America, Japan, Russia and Turkey. The contributors explore different ways of understanding and developing democratic practices and institutions. Rather than projecting the conditions of modern representative, state-centric democracy onto the global realm, they propose ways of rethinking these very conditions in terms of human diversity and difference. This is done by exploring conceptions of democracy that reconcile cultural plurality with democratic practices, and by using a number of examples and perspectives framed by a global context, rather than by geographical divides between East and West. The contributors are not trying to define the concept of civil society, but rather demonstrating the different ways it is deployed in political practice and disseminated through on-going processes of globalisation. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of global democracy and governance, cosmopolitan democracy, the future of civil society in a globalising world, comparative politics and political thought.

Book Routledge History of International Organizations

Download or read book Routledge History of International Organizations written by Bob Reinalda and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a definitive and comprehensive history of international organizations from their very beginning at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 up to the present day, and provides the reader with nearly two centuries of world history seen from the perspective of international organizations. It covers the three main fields of international relations: security, economics and the humanitarian domain which often overlap in international organizations. As well as global and intercontinental organizations, the book also covers regional international organizations and international non-governmental organizations in all continents. The book progresses chronologically but also provides a thematic and geographical coherence so that related developments can be discussed together. A series of detailed tables, figures, charts and information boxes explain the chronologies, structures and relationships of international organizations. There are biographies, histories and analysis of hundreds of international organizations. This is an essential reference work with direct relevance to scholars in international relations, international political economy, international economics and business and security studies.

Book Living the Justice of the Triune God

Download or read book Living the Justice of the Triune God written by David Noel Power and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book is distinctive for the explicit attention it gives to the communal, intersubjective, cultural, and linguistic embodiment of the workings of God in the world. It emphasizes not simply acting justly but living with, in, and from the justice of the triune God by which we are justified. Finally, it offers an important sacramental and liturgical grounding to the Christian understanding of both justice and the triune God. David N. Power and Michael Downey make clear to contemporary believers why a spiritual and sacramental life that is ordered by its trinitarian orientation must include the desire for justice. In short, it is an ethic of social justice that springs from contemplation of the Divine Trinity in the world.

Book Living Justice

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Massaro, SJ
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2015-11-05
  • ISBN : 1442230932
  • Pages : 229 pages

Download or read book Living Justice written by Thomas Massaro, SJ and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its third edition, Living Justice is an ideal introduction to Catholic social teaching. Thomas Massaro introduces readers to the history and basics of Catholic social teaching while highlighting new developments and helping readers understand how to apply this teaching to life today. Living Justice leads readers step-by-step through the building blocks of Catholic social thought, including its central themes, sources, and methods. Along the way readers encounter great heroes of social change and prophets of peace and justice. The third edition features significant updates throughout, including extensive coverage of Pope Francis and his two major social teaching documents: Evangelii Gaudium on gospel-grounded justice and Laudato Si’ on the environment. It also looks at the Pope’s contributions to peace and justice efforts around the world, including his advocacy for diplomacy, simplicity of lifestyle, and healthy family life. The third edition includes two new case studies in the dynamics of globalization—the global migration crisis and the scourge of human trafficking. It also contains expanded sections on globalization, the environment, and issues of peace and war. With its accessible and reader-friendly style, the third edition of Living Justice includes new discussion questions, revised topics for further study, and an updated list of resources that make the book an excellent resource for students or parishes.

Book Law and Policy for a New Economy

Download or read book Law and Policy for a New Economy written by Melissa K. Scanlan and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes the case for a New Environmentalism, and using a systems change approach, takes the reader through ideas for reorienting the economy. It addresses the laws and policies needed to support the emergence of a new economy across a variety of major areas – from energy to food, across common pool resources, and shifting investments to capitalize locally-connected and mission-driven businesses. The authors take the approach that the challenges are much broader than setting parameters around pollution, and go to the heart of the dominant global political economy. It explores the values needed to transform our current economic system into a new economy supportive of ecological integrity, social justice, and vibrant democracy.

Book Catholic Bioethics and Social Justice

Download or read book Catholic Bioethics and Social Justice written by M. Therese Lysaught and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catholic health care is one of the key places where the church lives Catholic social teaching (CST). Yet the individualistic methodology of Catholic bioethics inherited from the manualist tradition has yet to incorporate this critical component of the Catholic moral tradition. Informed by the places where Catholic health care intersects with the diverse societal injustices embodied in the patients it encounters, this book brings the lens of CST to bear on Catholic health care, illuminating a new spectrum of ethical issues and practical recommendations from social determinants of health, immigration, diversity and disparities, behavioral health, gender-questioning patients, and environmental and global health issues.