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National history has once again become a battlefield. In internal
political conflicts, which are fought on the terrain of popular
culture, museums, schoolbooks, and memorial politics, it has taken
on a newly important and contested role. Irrespective of national
specifics, the narratives of new nationalism are quite similar
everywhere. National history is said to stretch back many
centuries, expressesing the historical continuity of a homogeneous
people and its timeless character. This people struggles for
independence, guided by towering leaders and inspired by the
sacrifice of martyrs. Unlike earlier forms of nationalism, the main
enemies are no longer neighbouring states, but international and
supranational institutions. To use national history as an
integrative tool, new nationalists claim that the media and school
history curricula should not contest or question the nation and its
great historical deeds, as doubts threaten to weaken and dishonour
the nation. This book offers a broad international overview of the
rhetoric, contents, and contexts of the rise of these renewed
national historical narratives, and of how professional historians
have reacted to these phenomena. The contributions focus on a wide
range of representative nations from around all over the globe.
Since the end of World War II, runaway fears of Soviet
imperialism, global terrorism, and anarchy have tended to drive
American foreign policy toward an imperial agenda. At the same
time, uncurbed appetites have wasted the environment and driven the
country's market economy into the ditch. How can we best sustain
our identity as a people and resist the distortions of our current
anxieties and appetites?
Ethicist William F. May draws on America's religious and
political history and examines two concepts at play in the founding
of the country -- contractual and covenantal. He contends that the
biblical idea of a covenant offers a more promising way than the
language of contract, grounded in self-interest alone, to contain
our runaway anxieties and appetites. A covenantal sensibility
affirms, "We the people (not simply, We, the individuals, or We,
the interest groups) of the United States." It presupposes a
history of mutual giving and receiving and of bearing with one
another that undergirds all the traffic in buying and selling,
arguing and negotiating, that obtain in the rough terrain of
politics. May closes with an account of the covenantal agenda
ahead, and concludes with the vexing issue of immigrants and
undocumented workers that has singularly tested the covenant of
this immigrant nation.
National history has once again become a battlefield. In internal
political conflicts, which are fought on the terrain of popular
culture, museums, schoolbooks, and memorial politics, it has taken
on a newly important and contested role. Irrespective of national
specifics, the narratives of new nationalism are quite similar
everywhere. National history is said to stretch back many
centuries, expressesing the historical continuity of a homogeneous
people and its timeless character. This people struggles for
independence, guided by towering leaders and inspired by the
sacrifice of martyrs. Unlike earlier forms of nationalism, the main
enemies are no longer neighbouring states, but international and
supranational institutions. To use national history as an
integrative tool, new nationalists claim that the media and school
history curricula should not contest or question the nation and its
great historical deeds, as doubts threaten to weaken and dishonour
the nation. This book offers a broad international overview of the
rhetoric, contents, and contexts of the rise of these renewed
national historical narratives, and of how professional historians
have reacted to these phenomena. The contributions focus on a wide
range of representative nations from around all over the globe.
This Handbook offers an array of internationally recognized
experts’ essays that provide a current and comprehensive
examination of all dimensions of international population policies.
The book examines the theoretical foundations, the historical and
empirical evidence for policy formation, the policy levers and
modelling, as well as the new policy challenges. The section
Theoretical Foundations reviews population issues today, population
theories, the population policies’ framework as well as the
linkages between population, development, health, food systems, and
the environment. The next section Empirical Evidence discusses
international approaches to design and implement population
policies on a regional level. The section Policy Levers and
Modelling reviews the tools and the policy levers that are
available to design, implement, monitor, and measure the impact of
population policies. Finally, the section New Policy Challenges
examines the recurrent and emerging issues in population policies.
This section also discusses prospects for demographic
sustainability as well as future considerations for population
policies. As such this Handbook provides an important and
structured examination of contemporary population policies, their
evolution, and their prospects.
This book examines the history behind the formulation,
implementation, and evaluation of population policies in the more
developed, the less developed, and the least developed countries
from 1950 until today, as well as their future prospects. It links
population policies with the theories of the demographic,
epidemiological, and migratory transitions. It begins by
summarizing the demographic situation around the world, with an
emphasis on population policies and their underlying theories.
Then, it reviews the early efforts to reduce mortality and
fertility in the developing countries. This is followed by a
description of the internationalization of the debate on population
issues and the transformation of these programs into more formal
population policies, particularly in the developing countries. The
book reviews also the situation of the developed countries and
their specific challenges - sub-replacement fertility, population
aging, and immigration - and examines the effectiveness of
population policies. It also explores the way forward and future
prospects for population policies over the next decades. The book
provides numerous concrete examples from all over the world, and
show how population policies are actually implemented and what have
been their successes as well as their constraints. Above all, the
book highlights the importance of understanding underlying
demographic trends when assessing the development prospects of any
country.
The book is recommended for not only demographers, social
scientists, and policymakers but also economists and political
scientists who are interested in social and demographic change
around the world. Demography students and researchers who are
interested in applying knowledge on population trends and prospects
in designing and evaluating public policies will find this an
invaluable reference work.
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This book examines the history behind the formulation,
implementation, and evaluation of population policies in the more
developed, the less developed, and the least developed countries
from 1950 until today, as well as their future prospects. It links
population policies with the theories of the demographic,
epidemiological, and migratory transitions. It begins by
summarizing the demographic situation around the world, with an
emphasis on population policies and their underlying theories.
Then, it reviews the early efforts to reduce mortality and
fertility in the developing countries. This is followed by a
description of the internationalization of the debate on population
issues and the transformation of these programs into more formal
population policies, particularly in the developing countries. The
book reviews also the situation of the developed countries and
their specific challenges - sub-replacement fertility, population
aging, and immigration - and examines the effectiveness of
population policies. It also explores the way forward and future
prospects for population policies over the next decades. The book
provides numerous concrete examples from all over the world, and
show how population policies are actually implemented and what have
been their successes as well as their constraints. Above all, the
book highlights the importance of understanding underlying
demographic trends when assessing the development prospects of any
country.
The book is recommended for not only demographers, social
scientists, and policymakers but also economists and political
scientists who are interested in social and demographic change
around the world. Demography students and researchers who are
interested in applying knowledge on population trends and prospects
in designing and evaluating public policies will find this an
invaluable reference work.
"
This Handbook offers an array of internationally recognized
experts' essays that provide a current and comprehensive
examination of all dimensions of international population policies.
The book examines the theoretical foundations, the historical and
empirical evidence for policy formation, the policy levers and
modelling, as well as the new policy challenges. The section
Theoretical Foundations reviews population issues today, population
theories, the population policies' framework as well as the
linkages between population, development, health, food systems, and
the environment. The next section Empirical Evidence discusses
international approaches to design and implement population
policies on a regional level. The section Policy Levers and
Modelling reviews the tools and the policy levers that are
available to design, implement, monitor, and measure the impact of
population policies. Finally, the section New Policy Challenges
examines the recurrent and emerging issues in population policies.
This section also discusses prospects for demographic
sustainability as well as future considerations for population
policies. As such this Handbook provides an important and
structured examination of contemporary population policies, their
evolution, and their prospects.
This literally "refreshing" collection is based on the notion that
the future of bioethics is inseparable from its past. Seminal works
provide a unique and relatively unexplored vehicle for
investigating not only where bioethics began, but where it may be
going as well. In this volume, a number of the pioneers in
bioethics - Tom Beauchamp, Lisa Sowle Cahill, James Childress,
Charles E. Curran, Patricia King, H. Tristram Engelhardt, William
F. May, Edmund D. Pellegrino, Warren Reich, Robert Veatch and LeRoy
Walters - reflect on their early work and how they fit into the
past and future of bioethics. Coming from many disciplines,
generations, and perspectives, these trailblazing authors provide a
broad overview of the history and current state of the field.
Invaluable to anyone with a serious interest in the development and
future of bioethics, at a time when new paths into medical
questions are made almost daily, "The Story of Bioethics" is a
Baedeker beyond compare.
Offentliches Wirtschaftsrecht schnell erfasst behandelt in einem
Allgemeinen Teil zunachst die Dimensionen des Wirtschaftsrechts,
Grundbegriffe, System und Akteure, sodann Fragen der nationalen,
europaischen und internationalen Wirtschafts"verfassung,"
anschliessend die Organisation der Wirtschaftsverwaltung, deren
Aufgaben und Instrumente, ferner Probleme staatlicher
wirtschaftlicher Betatigung und als Querschnittsbereiche
Datenschutz und Sanktionen. Der Besondere Teil befasst sich mit
ausgewahlten materiell-rechtlichen Problemen, wie dem Gewerbe-, dem
Regulierungs- und dem Subventionsrecht. Falle mit Losungen dienen
der exemplarischen Vertiefung von Schwerpunkten. Das Werk verbindet
zudem das Sachverzeichnis mit einem Glossar und bereitet die
einzelnen Kapitel durch Fragen vor, die am jeweiligen Ende (den
Text erganzend) beantwortet werden. "
Internationales Wirtschaftsrecht - schnell erfasst behandelt in
einem Allgemeinen Teil zunachst die Rechtsquellen und -gebiete
einschliesslich des Verhaltnisses zu nationalen Rechtsordnungen,
sodann Grundlagen, namlich wichtige Akteure (vor allem Staaten,
Internationale Organisationen), die Einbindung in die allgemeine
internationale Ordnung, einen Uberblick uber wesentliche Sektoren
(Investitionen, geistiges Eigentum, Wettbewerb etc.), Fragen der
Implementierung, schliesslich der Streitbeilegung und des
Rechtsschutzes. Der Besondere Teil befasst sich mit ausgewahlten
materiell-rechtlichen Problemen, wie dem (Volker-)Recht des
Warenhandels, des internationalen Dienstleistungs-, Kapital- und
Zahlungsverkehrs sowie des wirtschaftsrelevanten Personenverkehrs
und abschliessend mit Aspekten offentlicher Auftrage. Das Werk
verbindet zudem das Sachverzeichnis mit einem Glossar und bereitet
die einzelnen Kapitel durch Fragen vor, die am jeweiligen Ende (den
Text erganzend) beantwortet werden. "
This is a new release of the original 1938 edition.
This volume contains the full unabridged text of seventeen
previously long out of print articles written or co-written in
English and Afrikaans by A I Perold between 1903 and 1923. Abraham
Izak Perold (1880 -1941) has a good claim to being the father of
not only the modern South African wine industry but also those of
brandy and table grapes Dr Perold wrote more than eighty pamphlets
and articles published in English and Afrikaans between 1906 and
1940. These cover topics as varied as a history of grape growing
and wine in South Africa, making brandy and grape syrup, laying out
vineyards, manuring them, pruning vines, training farmers, the
suitability of various rootstocks, yeasts and volatile acidity.
Politics is an unnecessary evil. An intrusive and corrupt
institution that sharply opposes the natural civilizing processes
of a free society, politics has amazingly been lugged all the way
into the twenty-first century. This book, by displaying its
hypocrisy, astronomical cost, and obsolescence, finally finishes it
off, and drives the nails in its coffin. Packed full of hilarious,
thought-provoking cartoons by Rex May (Baloo), this book exposes
myth after political myth and lays the farce of politics bare for
all to see. But it doesn't stop there. It shows how a civil society
naturally emerges as politicians retreat, it shows how to make them
retreat, and it offers a glimpse of what the world will look like
once mankind finally lets go of politics. The politicians would
have us believe that we are all just helpless sheep if we don't
have them around as our big brother. While deep in our souls, we
want them off our backs, we are afraid to let go. But as long as we
keep feeding them, they will keep biting our hands - to put it
mildly. Is it possible for us mere mortals to survive on our own -
without politics? Indeed it is In fact, it is politics itself that
threatens our survival. This book demonstrates that the road from a
political society to a civil society is far less bumpy than the
pothole littered alternative of staying the course. It's as easy as
letting go. because the solutions present themselves as politicians
get out of the way. The laws of nature can not be legislated,
prohibited, or rewritten by politicians, no matter how
"humanitarian" they claim to be. Politics never fails to do far
more harm than good. There is life after politics. This book proves
it.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
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1925. In South Africa Professor Perold is crossing grape varieties,
striving for the perfect wine. Did he succeed? The quest to unravel
the truth of Pinotage's parentage spans decades and continents,
with myths and legends appearing at every turn. Wine explorer Peter
F May is a modern day Indiana Jones, tracking down long-lost
journals, turning dusty pages of long-forgotten books and analysing
high technology DNA results to unravel this mystery. Travel with
Peter from the dusty wine cellars of South Africa to the noise of
London's Tube, from ancient French vineyards to modern wineries in
Texas to unearth the ancestors of this award-winning wine. Along
the way you'll see whale pods kiss the coastline, savour the swirl
of wine on an African savannah, infiltrate the musty depths of a
restricted library, and take part in solving one of the most
fascinating mysteries to ever tantalise the wine world.
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Suffering (Paperback)
Arthur C. McGill; Foreword by Paul Ramsey, William F. May
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Description: Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Arthur McGill had
numerous opportunities to air his rich theological musings outside
of the classroom. We are now fortunate, some twenty-five years
after his death, to have seventeen sermons brought to us by the aid
of his wife Lucille McGill and editor David Cain (University of
Mary Washington). These homilies reveal the core themes that
distinguish his theological writings: relaxing in our neediness
before God, participating in the death-to-life pattern of
self-expenditure, and rooting our hope in the unique power of
Christ. The collection culminates with what Cain notes as McGill's
""signature"" sermon on The Good Samaritan, wherein we see that the
reception of grace always precedes the extension of grace. In
addressing day-to-day issues such as possessions, speech,
loneliness, and anger, McGill is both prophetic and pastoral. He
does not hesitate to say that ""the wickedness of Nineveh--alas
--is the wickedness of the United States."" At the same time, he
brings a refreshing word with theological depth about human
suffering and the God who models ultimate vulnerability.
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