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Over the last 10 years, the concept of value has emerged in both
business and public life as part of an important process of
measuring, benchmarking, and assuring the resources we invest and
the outcomes we generate from our activities. In the context of
public life, value is an important measure on the contribution to
business and social good of activities for which strict financial
measures are either inappropriate or fundamentally unsound. A
systematic, interdisciplinary examination of public value is
necessary to establish an essential definition and up-to-date
picture of the field. In reflecting on the 'public value project',
this book points to how the field has broadened well beyond its
original focus on public sector management; has deepened in terms
of the development of the analytical concepts and frameworks that
linked the concepts together; and has been applied increasingly in
concrete circumstances by academics, consultants, and
practitioners. This book covers three main topics; deepening and
enriching the theory of creating public value, broadening the
theory and practice of creating public value to voluntary and
commercial organisations and collaborative networks, and the
challenge and opportunity that the concept of public value poses to
social science and universities. Collectively, it offers new ways
of looking at public and social assets against a backdrop of
increasing financial pressure; new insights into changing social
attitudes and perceptions of value; and new models for increasingly
complicated collaborative forms of service delivery, involving
public, private, and not-for-profit players.
The roster of Muslim superheroes in the comic book medium has grown
over the years, as has the complexity of their depictions. Muslim
Superheroes tracks the initial absence, reluctant inclusion,
tokenistic employment, and then nuanced scripting of Islamic
protagonists in the American superhero comic book market and
beyond. This scholarly anthology investigates the ways in which
Muslim superhero characters fulfill, counter, or complicate Western
stereotypes and navigate popular audience expectations globally,
under the looming threat of Islamophobia. The contributors consider
assumptions buried in the very notion of a character who is both a
superhero and a Muslim with an interdisciplinary and international
focus characteristic of both Islamic studies and comics studies
scholarship. Muslim Superheroes investigates both intranational
American racial formation and international American geopolitics,
juxtaposed with social developments outside U.S. borders. Providing
unprecedented depth to the study of Muslim superheroes, this
collection analyzes, through a series of close readings and
comparative studies, how Muslim and non-Muslim comics creators and
critics have produced, reproduced, and represented different
conceptions of Islam and Muslimness embodied in the genre
characters.
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Geographics (Hardcover)
Steven 1946- Lewis, Martin J Rosenblum
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R802
Discovery Miles 8 020
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International
Law, 1600-1926, brings together foreign, comparative, and
international titles in a single resource. Its International Law
component features works of some of the great legal theorists,
including Gentili, Grotius, Selden, Zouche, Pufendorf,
Bijnkershoek, Wolff, Vattel, Martens, Mackintosh, Wheaton, among
others. The materials in this archive are drawn from three
world-class American law libraries: the Yale Law Library, the
George Washington University Law Library, and the Columbia Law
Library.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.+++++++++++++++The below data was compiled
from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of
this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping
to insure edition identification: +++++++++++++++Yale Law
LibraryLP2Y002050018390101The Making of Modern Law: Primary
Sources, Part IIAlbany, N. Y.: Packard, Van Benthuysen & Co.,
1839iv p., 1 l., 457 p.; 24 cmUnited States
From the time author Lewis Martin was born, Satan wanted to sift
him as wheat for destruction. The seventh child, the first son
after six girls, Martin was born in Alabama in 1962. At a young
age, he was exposed to an inordinate amount of violence and was a
victim of a child predator. In Free from Shame, Martin shares his
life journey and shows how his faith and love of God carried him
through and helped him fight off Satan. In this memoir, he peels
off the layers and talks about finding his true life's purpose.
From serving in the Marines to marrying his high school sweetheart,
raising a family, and becoming a deacon, Martin narrates his story.
An honest and open look at his life, Free from Shame tells how
Martin let Jesus into his heart, repairing his cracked foundation
and pruning him so he could grow properly.
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