Author: Nicola Perugini File Type: pdf At the turn of the millennium, a new phenomenon emerged conservatives, who just decades before had rejected the expanding human rights culture, began to embrace human rights in order to advance their political goals. In this book, Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon account for how human rights--generally conceived as a counter-hegemonic instrument for righting historical injustices--are being deployed to further subjugate the weak and legitimize domination. Using IsraelPalestine as its main case study, The Human Right to Dominate describes the establishment of settler NGOs that appropriate human rights to dispossess indigenous Palestinians and military think-tanks that rationalize lethal violence by invoking human rights. The book underscores the increasing convergences between human rights NGOs, security agencies, settler organizations, and extreme right nationalists, showing how political actors of different stripes champion the dissemination of human rights and mirror each others political strategies. Indeed, Perugini and Gordon demonstrate the multifaceted role that this discourse is currently playing in the international arena on the one hand, human rights have become the lingua franca of global moral speak, while on the other, they have become reconstrued as a tool for enhancing domination. **

Author: Rhymer Rigby File Type: pdf 28 Business Thinkers Who Changed the World is a guide to the people who have shaped the way we do business today. Some are great intellectuals while others are gut instinct types. Some want to change the world while others want money and power.With energy and wit, Rhymer Rigby takes readers through the top business brains of our time to show the human behind the headlines, highlighting world industry leaders such as Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet, Sam Walton, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates. With discussions on the influential people behind successful companies such as McDonalds, Sony, Southwest Airlines and Starbucks, he describes the oversized impact of their businesses on the world today.This book offers profiles on the great minds of the modern capitalist world. From Oprah to Mark Zuckerberg, Rhymer Rigby describes how they made it, the risks they took and the legacy they leave behind.ReviewRhymer Rigby provides a delightful antidote to the empty hyperbole already filling the airwaves. Overall28 Business Thinkers Who Changed the World is a well executed introduction to the men and women who have left an indelible mark on society of late. Joseph Thompson, ForeWord Book Reviews...provides compelling reading on the key world players who fostered business innovations. A very likely writing style lends to biographies and business insights that even non-business readers will appreciate...Business and general collections will find this a top pick! - Midwest Book ReviewFrom the entrepreneurship of cosmetic giant Mary Kay Ash to the phenomenal success of Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg, Rigby offers an insightful, balanced account of the impact that these leaders have had on todays global businesses. The authors excellent writing style is enhanced with a touch of humor and a genuine sensitivity to the legacy of his subjects Summing Up Recommended. All levels of undergraduate students, practitioners, general readers. - CHOICE MagazineFrom Amazon reviewers a page-turner. Rhymer Rigby did a great job writing about the most innovative, influential and game-changing individuals who affected how we do thingsyou dont have to be a business mind to enjoy this reading. -Krzysztof CyganikAbout the AuthorRhymer Rigby is an independentjournalist.He writes a weeklyslot forThe Financial Timesand has written for dozens of publications, includingThe Sunday Telegraph, The Independent, GQ and Arena. He was previously the features editor for Business 2.0 and currently writes for Management Today and Human Resources.

Author: Nina Goga File Type: pdf This volume presents key contributions to the study of ecocriticism in Nordic childrens and YA literary and cultural texts, in dialogue with international classics. It investigates the extent to which texts for children and young adults reflect current environmental concerns. The chapters are grouped into five thematic areas Ethics and Aesthetics, Landscape, Vegetal, Animal, and Human, and together they explore Nordic representations and a Nordic conception, or feeling, of nature. The textual analyses are complemented with the lived experiences of outdoor learning practices in preschools and schools captured through childrens own statements. The volume highlights the growing influence of posthumanist theory and the continuing traces of anthropocentric concerns within contemporary childrens literature and culture, and a non-dualistic understanding of nature-culture interaction is reflected in the conceptual tool of the volume The Nature in Culture Matrix. **

Author: Robert J. Mayer File Type: epub Many restorationist-oriented associations like the Advent Christian Church often embrace two conflicting principles. First, they understand the Bibles inspiration and authority in a way that minimizes the importance and value of church tradition. Second, they give high value to individual autonomy both in biblical interpretation and in church governance. Adventism Confronts Modernity describes what can happen when these principles conflict and make it difficult to resolve theological conflict. This work begins by exploring the nineteenth-century historical and theological roots of early Adventism with special attention to William Miller and the theological impact of the Great Disappointment, the failed prediction of the early Adventists that Jesus Christ would return visibly in 1843 or 1844. Subsequent chapters explore the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversies of the early twentieth century and focus on the impact of those events on the two colleges that trained Advent Christian clergy--Aurora College (now Aurora University) and New England School of Theology (later Berkshire Christian College). After discussing theological reform efforts within the Protestant mainline and fundamentalist coalitions, this book describes the conflicting views regarding the Bibles inspiration that emerged in the early twentieth century and their impact on the Advent Christian Church during the 1950s and 1960s. It concludes that further reflection is needed on both the doctrine of Holy Scripture and how restorationist movements balance Christian theology with individual and congregational autonomy.