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How do we cooperate – in social, local, business, and state
communities? This book proposes an Outcome-Based Cooperative Model,
in which all stakeholders work together on the basis of trust and
respect to achieve shared aims and outcomes. The Outcome-Based
Cooperative Model is built up from an extensive analysis of
behavioural and social psychology, genetic anthropology, research
into behaviour and culture in societies, organisations, regulation,
and enforcement. The starting point is acceptance that humanity is
facing ever larger risks, which are now systemic and even
existential. To overcome the challenges, humans need to cooperate
more, rather than compete, alienate, or draw apart. Answering how
we do that requires basing ourselves, our institutions, and systems
on relationships that are built on trust. Trust is based on
evidence that we can be trusted to behave well (ethically), built
up over time. We should aim to agree common goals and outcomes,
moderating those that conflict, produce evidence that we can be
trusted, and examine our performance in achieving the right
outcomes, rather than harmful ones. The implications are that we
need to do more in rebasing our relationships in local groupings,
business organisations, regulation, and dispute resolution. The
book examines recent systems and developments in all these areas,
and makes proposals of profound importance for reform. This is a
new blueprint for liberty, solidarity, performance, and
achievement.
The book examines the Law of Adverse Possession in both the UK and
Nigeria, and gives a critique of the ways in which it is regarded
by both the State and the judicial system in these jurisdictions.
Although much has been written about adverse possession from an
Anglo-American perspective, the Nigerian aspect of this book is
unique and brings an important point of difference when thinking
about the right to settle, work and own land in an international
arena. This book will be of interest to students of law (especially
comparative and property law); to scholars and activists with an
interest in land settlement by indigenous and dispossessed peoples;
a useful guide for the court in the dispensation of justice; and a
pilot for the State in managing property relations.
Born in 1917 in Bizana in the Eastern Cape, Oliver Reginald Tambo became Nelson Mandela's legal partner and a prominent member of the ANC's Youth League.
Following the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, Tambo left South Africa to set up the ANC's international mission. As President of the ANC in exile, he led the fight against apartheid on both the diplomatic and military fronts. He died in 1993 on the eve of liberation. Tambo had a profound influence on the ANC during the difficult years of uncertainty, loneliness and homesickness in exile. His simplicity, his nurturing style, his genuine respect for all people seemed to bring out the best in them.
This is the story of one of South Africa's great sons - 'the most loved leader', the Moses who led his people to the promised land but did not live to enter it.
The way a society punishes demonstrates its commitment to standards
of judgment and justice, its distinctive views of blame and
responsibility, and its particular way of responding to evil.
Punishment in Popular Culture examines the cultural presuppositions
that undergird America’s distinctive approach to punishment and
analyzes punishment as a set of images, a spectacle of
condemnation. It recognizes that the semiotics of punishment is all
around us, not just in the architecture of the prison, or the
speech made by a judge as she sends someone to the penal colony,
but in both “high” and “popular” culture iconography, in
novels, television, and film. This book brings together
distinguished scholars of punishment and experts in media studies
in an unusual juxtaposition of disciplines and perspectives.
Americans continue to lock up more people for longer periods of
time than most other nations, to use the death penalty, and to
racialize punishment in remarkable ways. How are these facts of
American penal life reflected in the portraits of punishment that
Americans regularly encounter on television and in film? What are
the conventions of genre which help to familiarize those portraits
and connect them to broader political and cultural themes? Do
television and film help to undermine punishment's moral claims?
And how are developments in the boarder political economy reflected
in the ways punishment appears in mass culture? Finally, how are
images of punishment received by their audiences? It is to these
questions that Punishment in Popular Culture is addressed.
Die plaag is tegelykertyd reisverhaal, avontuurverhaal,
speurverhaal, natuurkundige artikel, letterkundige studie en
historiese ondersoek. Die skrywer – 'n Belgiese joernalis – reis na
Suid-Afrika op soek na die "dowwe spoor" van Eugene Marais, en word
uiteindelik met veel meer as dooie historiese gegewens beloon. Die
Nederlandse uitgawe van Die Plaag het die Debuutprijs vir 2002
verower en was op die kortlys van die Gouden Uil-literatuurprys vir
2002. Die vertaling van Van Reybrouck se Nederlandse teks in
Afrikaans deur die bekende digter en omroeper doktor Daniel Hugo is
’n onmisbare toevoeging tot Afrikaanse lesers se kennis van die
merkwaardige Eugene Marais se lewe. Hiermee word kultuurgoedere wat
deur ’n Vlaming nagespoor en opgeteken is as ’t ware huis toe
gebring.
In this thoroughly revised Fourth Edition, Glenn Wong provides a
comprehensive review of the various sports law issues facing
professional, intercollegiate, Olympic, high school, youth, and
adult recreational sports. Major topics include tort liability,
contracts/waivers, antitrust law, labor law, constitutional law,
gender discrimination, drug testing, intellectual property law,
broadcasting laws pertaining to sports agents, business and
employment law, Internet gambling, and athletes with disabilities.
Significant additions here include new court decisions, agreements
(contracts and collective bargaining agreements), and legislation
(federal, state, association, and institutional rules and
regulations). Discussions of legal concepts are supplemented with
summaries and excerpts from hundreds of actual sports cases. Wong
cites a variety of books, law review articles, newspaper articles,
and Web links for those requiring further information on particular
topics. This text-professional guide serves as an invaluable
resource to those involved, or studying to become involved, in the
vast industry of sports.
This text presents a conceptual framework with case studies in
dryland development and management. The option of a rational and
ethical discourse for development that is beneficial for both the
environment and society is emphasized, avoiding extreme
environmentalism and human destructionism. This book has been
compiled with the purpose of giving guidance to Geography teachers
in both primary and secondary schools.
Since the book contains chapters on both the philosophical
background to Geography teaching and on the practical situation, it
is hoped that it will be of use to both the student teacher and the
serving teacher. The ideas contained in this guide should also be
seen as starting points in Geography teaching, and it is hoped that
teachers will use them as a basis for developing ideas of their
own. It is also hoped that the book will generate discussion among
teachers on both the theory and the practice of Geography teaching.
Hierdie title gee 'n basiese inleiding tot die moderne dramateorie
asook praktiese riglyne oor hoe om 'n dramateks te analiseer, en is
'n gids vir dosente en studente. Die invloed van die
opvoeringsgerigtheid van 'n drama op aspekte soos die karakters,
die tyd en ruimte asook die drama se struktuur, word behandel. Die
teorie word deurgaans verduidelik en geillustreer aan die hand van
voorbeelde uit meer as 30 bekende Afrikaanse dramas.
If, as many allege, attacking the gap between rich and poor is a
form of class warfare, then the struggle against income inequality
is the longest running war in American history. To defenders of the
status quo, who argue that the accumulation of wealth free of
government intervention is an essential feature of the American
way, this book offers a forceful answer. While many of those who
oppose addressing economic inequality through public policy today
do so in the name of freedom, Clement Fatovic demonstrates that
concerns about freedom informed the Founding Fathers’ arguments
for public policy that tackled economic disparities. Where
contemporary arguments against such government efforts
conceptualize freedom in economic terms, however, those supporting
public policies conducive to greater economic equality invoked a
more participatory, republican, conception of freedom. As many of
the Founders understood it, economic independence, which requires a
wide if imperfect distribution of property, is a precondition of
the political independence they so profoundly valued. Fatovic
reveals a deep concern among the Founders—including Thomas
Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and Noah Webster—about the impact of
economic inequality on political freedom. America’s Founding and
the Struggle over Economic Inequality traces this concern through
many important political debates in Congress and the broader polity
that shaped the early Republic—debates over tax policies, public
works, public welfare, and the debt from the Revolution. We see how
Alexander Hamilton, so often characterized as a cold-hearted
apologist for plutocrats, actually favored a more progressive
system of taxation, along with various policies aimed at easing the
economic hardship of specific groups. In Thomas Paine, frequently
portrayed as an advocate of laissez-faire government, we find a
champion of a comprehensive welfare state that would provide
old-age pensions, public housing, and a host of other benefits as a
matter of “right, not charity.” Contrary to the picture drawn
by so many of today’s pundits and politicians, this book shows us
how, for the first American statesmen, preventing or minimizing
economic disparities was essential to the preservation of the new
nation’s freedom and practice of self-government.
A gripping exploration of the life, crimes, and chilling psychology of Ivan Milat, Australia's backpacker murderer, one of the most infamous serial killers of the twentieth century. Ivan Milat’s killing spree through the Australian outback left a trail of terror and cemented his legacy as one of the most ruthless serial killers in history. Targeting young backpackers seeking adventure, Milat turned the idyllic Belanglo State Forest into a nightmare, brutally murdering at least seven travellers. His horrifying crimes became the real-life inspiration for the hit horror film Wolf Creek, an iconic piece of Australian cinema. This book unravels the shocking details of Milat’s brutality, the relentless investigation that brought him to justice, and the cultural effects that turned his story into both a cautionary tale and a dark fascination for true crime fans. Discover the unsettling truths behind the man who terrorized a nation. Perfect for fans of Mindhunter, Making a Murderer, and anyone drawn to the real-life stories behind horror’s most haunting legends, this is the definitive account of a killer who terrorized the Australian Outback.
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