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Recent controversies around ESG investing and “woke” capital
evoke an old idea: the Progressive-era vision of a socially
responsible corporation. By midcentury, in fact, the notion that
business leaders could benefit society had become a consensus view.
But as Kyle Edward Williams’s brilliant history shows, New Deal
liberalism realized a kind of big business supervision narrowly
focused on the financial interests of shareholders. This
inadvertently laid the groundwork for a set of fringe views to
become orthodoxy: that market forces should rule every facet of
society. Along the way American capitalism itself was reshaped,
stripping businesses to their profit-making core. As a rising tide
of activists pushed corporations to account for societal harms from
napalm to seatbelts to inequitable hiring, a new idea emerged: that
managers could maximize value for society while still turning a
maximal profit. This elusive ideal, “stakeholder capitalism,”
still dominates our headlines today. Williams’s necessary history
equips us to reconsider democracy’s tangled relationship with
capitalism.
Today, hell is a front-burner topic, thanks to media attention
stirred by megapastors Rob Bell, Francis Chan, and others. But,
between the extremes of universal salvation and everlasting
torment, there shines a third view, known as annihilationism or
conditional immortality, claiming the most biblical support of all.
Now the man whose 500-page book, The Fire That Consumes, helped
ignite the scholarly debate thirty years ago brings this exciting
alternative viewpoint to the everyday reader in simple form. And
the story behind the book is now the subject of a feature film,
"Hell and Mr. Fudge," due to release
in theaters in 2012 (and starring Mackenzie Astin and Keri Lynn
Pratt; see www.hellandmrfudge.com).
This in-depth study offers all serious Bible students a detailed
and readable consideration of the book of Hebrews.
Intended for preachers, university and seminary students, and
adult Bible class teachers, Hebrews: Ancient Encouragement for
Believers Today is a "bridge" commentarydelivering the best
insights of contemporary scholarship in understandable,
non-technical language. The author of Hebrews used four Psalms as a
framework to re-tell the story of Jesus to a disheartened audience
that was tempted to walk away. The same structure and intense focus
on Jesus permeates and empowers this narrative commentary, bringing
fresh encouragement to believers today.
An international spectrum of Bible scholars and church leaders
commend the meticulous scholarship and sound exposition in this
book and note its tremendous clarity and simplicity, its wise
application and elegant prose. Reviewers call it "brilliant" and "a
momentous accomplishment."
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This book explores the curriculum theorizing of Black women, as
well as their historical and contemporary contributions to the
always-evolving complicated conversation that is Curriculum
Studies. It serves as an opportunity to begin a dialogue of
revision and reconciliation and offers a vision for the
transformation of academia's relationship with black women as
students, teachers, and theorizers. Taking the perennial silencing
of Black women's voices in academia as its impetus, the book
explains how even fields like Curriculum Studies - where scholars
have worked to challenge hegemony, injustice, and silence within
the larger discipline of education - have struggled to identify an
intellectual tradition marked by the Black, female subjectivity.
This epistemic amnesia is an ongoing reminder of the strength of
what bell hooks calls "imperialist white supremacist capitalist
patriarchy", and the ways in which even the most critical spaces
fail to recognize the contributions and even the very existence of
Black women. Seeking to redress this balance, this book engages the
curricular lives of Black women and girls epistemologically,
bodily, experientially, and publicly. Providing a clarion call for
fellow educators to remain reflexive and committed to emancipatory
aims, this book will be of interest to researchers seeking an
exploration of critical voices from nondominant identities,
perspectives, and concerns. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Gender and Education.
First Published in 1995. Published a few years after the author's
death this text offers explanatory notes for his translation of The
Thousand and One Nights. The editor Lane had utilized as the main
basis for this the Arabic text printed at the press of Biilaq in
the suburbs of Cairo established by the Pasha Muhammad 'Ali, but
had enriched it by a copious commentary. Since the stories making
up the Nights illustrate almost the whole gamut of public and
settled domestic life in the Arab Middle Ages, from the opulent
surroundings of Caliphs and Sultans to the humblest dwellings of
petty tradesmen and bazaar artisans, Lane was able to construct on
these foundations a remarkably detailed picture of society as it
functioned in the urban centres of Mediaeval Islam.
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
'It was Kongur that dominated everything, and was the focus of our
gaze and aspirations.' So thought Chris Bonington upon the Chinese
Mountaineering Association's decision to open many of Tibet and
China's mountains to foreigners in the 1980s. Not only did this
mean that Kongur, China's 7,719-metre peak, was available to climb,
but that those choosing to do so would be among the first to set
foot there. It was an opportunity too good to miss. For the planned
alpine-style ascent of this daunting peak, Bonington assembled a
formidable team, including Peter Boardman, Joe Tasker, Al Rouse and
expedition leader Michael Ward. Their reconnaissance and 1981
expedition brought opportunity for discovery and obstacles in equal
measure: they were able to explore areas that had eluded westerners
since Eric Shipton's role as British Consul General in Kashgar in
the 1940s; but appalling weather, unplanned bivouacs and tensions
characterised their quest for the ever-elusive route to the summit.
Featuring diary extracts and recollections from each team member,
this account not only captures the gripping detail of the ascent
attempts, but also the ebb and flow of the relationships between
the remarkable mountaineers involved. Add to this the pioneering
medical work on high-altitude illnesses conducted by the four-man
medical team, and the result is a book which captures a unique
moment in mountaineering history. Written with the cheer and
eloquence typical of Chris Bonington, Kongur captures the essence
of adventure and exploration that brings readers back to his books
time and time again.
Fire That Consumes, while carefully examining the complete teaching
of Scripture on the subject of Final Punishment, defends the view
that the destiny of the unsaved will be final destruction, rather
than eternal conscious torment in hell as defended by the
traditional view. The 3rd edition of this meticulous and compelling
book takes a close look at the traditionalist critics, and brings
an overview of developments in the last thirty years.
An account of the golden trade of the Moors, and a source book on
Saharan trade routes, caravan organization and Sudanese history.
The author covers anthropology and economic geography as well as
history, as he examines and explores the hot little towns, sharp
traders and the brutal rulers. He seeks to encourage and inspire a
generation of scholars to discover more about parts of Africa still
surprisingly little known to the outside world.
The great nineteenth-century British traveler Edward William Lane
(1801-76) was the author of a number of highly influential works:
An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians
(1836), his translation of The Thousand and One Nights (1839-41),
Selections from the Kur-an (1843), and the Arabic-English Lexicon
(1863-93). Yet in 1831, publication of one of his greatest works,
Description of Egypt, was delayed, and eventually dropped, mainly
for financial reasons, by the publishing firm of John Murray. The
manuscript was sold to the British Library by Lane's widow in 1891,
and was salvaged for publication as a hardcover book, in 2000, by
Jason Thompson, nearly 170 years after its completion. Now
available in paperback, this book, which takes the form of a
journey through Egypt from north to south, with descriptions of all
the ancient monuments and contemporary life that Lane explored
along the way, will be of interest to both ancient and modern
historians of Egypt, and is an essential companion to his Manners
and Customs.
This book explores the curriculum theorizing of Black women, as
well as their historical and contemporary contributions to the
always-evolving complicated conversation that is Curriculum
Studies. It serves as an opportunity to begin a dialogue of
revision and reconciliation and offers a vision for the
transformation of academia's relationship with black women as
students, teachers, and theorizers. Taking the perennial silencing
of Black women's voices in academia as its impetus, the book
explains how even fields like Curriculum Studies - where scholars
have worked to challenge hegemony, injustice, and silence within
the larger discipline of education - have struggled to identify an
intellectual tradition marked by the Black, female subjectivity.
This epistemic amnesia is an ongoing reminder of the strength of
what bell hooks calls "imperialist white supremacist capitalist
patriarchy", and the ways in which even the most critical spaces
fail to recognize the contributions and even the very existence of
Black women. Seeking to redress this balance, this book engages the
curricular lives of Black women and girls epistemologically,
bodily, experientially, and publicly. Providing a clarion call for
fellow educators to remain reflexive and committed to emancipatory
aims, this book will be of interest to researchers seeking an
exploration of critical voices from nondominant identities,
perspectives, and concerns. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Gender and Education.
Few works about the Middle East have exerted such wide and
long-lasting influence as Edward William Lane's An Account of the
Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians. First published in
1836, this classic book has never gone out of print, continuously
providing material and inspiration for generations of scholars,
writers, and travelers, who have praised its comprehensiveness,
detail, and perception. Yet the editions in print during most of
the twentieth century would not have met Lane's approval. Lacking
parts of Lane's text and many of his original illustrations (while
adding many that were not his), they were based on what should have
been ephemeral editions, published long after the author's death.
Meanwhile, the definitive fifth edition of 1860, the result of a
quarter century of Lane's corrections, reconsiderations, and
additions, long ago disappeared from bookstore shelves. Now the
1860 edition of Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians is
available again, with a useful general introduction by Jason
Thompson. Lane's greatest work enters the twenty-first century in
precisely the form that he wanted.
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