This book is one of the first which demonstrates the role of contemplative practice in progressive politics. Shows the real-world effects of adopting a death-affirming attitude toward life and how this benefits social movements engaged in contemporary race, class, gender, and ecological efforts. Engaging writing style allows the reader to engage with the work on an affective level.

This book is one of the first which demonstrates the role of contemplative practice in progressive politics. Shows the real-world effects of adopting a death-affirming attitude toward life and how this benefits social movements engaged in contemporary race, class, gender, and ecological efforts. Engaging writing style allows the reader to engage with the work on an affective level.

Globalization is moving fast, impacting on the life of nations with accelerating force. This book delivers a keen assessment of how it is being handled by specific groups seeking positive outcomes for the people and causes they represent.
Transnational social regulation is increasingly becoming the product of private interventions into the areas of global trade, corporate behavior and consumerism. The widespread failure of states and corporations to regulate the impact of increased globalization has given rise to non-governmental organizations and movements, seeking to influence corporations regarding social responsibilities and to address concerns about human rights, environmental destruction, unhealthy working conditions and child labor.
This study critically evaluates the effectiveness of private regulation, assessing both the issues and problems that have given rise to various movements and campaigns, and the movements themselves. Using three detailed case-studies on the clothing industry, sustainable forestry and corporate social responsibility more generally, he explores the consequent tension between politics and management in light of these actions and examines the theoretical implications of these forms of social regulation for politics, citizenship and the state. Finally, Lipschutz asks what we are to do and calls for a return to politics centered on the direct participation of the individual in the social choices that affect the conditions and making of their own lives, individually and collectively.
This book is essential for students, researcher and activists studying and concerned about globalization, civil society, citizenship and human rights.

Passion burns inside everyone... Are you willing to embrace it? To caress it? To experience it? To enjoy it? Inside this cover are twenty-three sensual short stories to rev up your passion. Part one contains encounters between a man and a woman. You'll role play, have lots of phone sex, experiment with food and sex, and meet in strange places to make love with "famous" people. Each of the eleven stories will tantalize, intrigue, and hopefully arouse you. Part two caters to the sexually diverse. This gender-bending section is for those who take their sex with a difference. Gay, lesbian, transgender, and multiple partners heat up twelve stories of orgies, porn stars, high-altitude sex, and good old-fashioned threesomes. You'll experience how a transgendered finds love; a young gay guy discovers his sexuality; and a horny cupid finally loses his virginity. So sit back, grab a glass of wine, and enjoy some Raunchy Writings

Book One of Dar's Adventures in Space. The Ontarrin Galaxy is a rough and tumble place. Young Dar Meltom knows this for fact. As the half breed offspring of an incredibly unlikely joining between an Earthling male and a Satiren female, he knows what fighting is all about. Having spent his childhood on Erotis 3 getting into fights because he was different, Dar's only solace comes from watching the stars. He's crazy about them. He dreams about them, and secretly wishes to be among them. His mother, Denrika, knows her son is at a disadvantage. Living in a purebred society, his chances for getting a job after he graduates school are slim. Until one day, a large alien strolls into the general store where she works. His name is Gwog, and he's captain of the space freighter Cunik. Little does he know, Denrika will convince him that he needs another crew member-a seventeen year old half breed with his head in the stars. Dar joins the crew of the Cunik and quickly learns that space life isn't all that it's cracked up to be. After being on board only a few days, he's stricken with Skrinnian fever and nearly dies. Gwog and Karnis nurse him back to health, and then he learns more important lessons about death, pirates, love, and the value of the friends he's made. Until such time as he's on his own, Dar absorbs everything Gwog teaches him. Then, one night, a game of Sirrixian poker changes his life forever...

The Dragonslayers face dangerous drug cartels, terrorists, human traffickers, and their own inner darkness. Their lives are a constant battle between good and evil. Sometimes evil triumphs. Major Cabbott Westmoreland and his B Team are sent to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, to rescue four American service personnel captured and held for ransom by a splinter faction of a cartel. Young Lieutenant Erik Sutton gets his first taste of how horrible men can be, and learns there's a fine line between controlling the evil beast, and letting it out. The team discovers one army specialist brutally murdered before they can intervene. Can the others be rescued? Back across the Mexican border, another drug cartel has kidnapped a dozen American tourists. Retired Air Force Major Fred Dutch Amsterdom receives a distress call from his friend taken hostage. The U.S. Government not only wants their hostages freed, but they want cartel leader, Hector Moreno, dead. Army Major General Lindsey Doyle is halfway around the world in Bali. Her plans for a restful vacation in are interrupted. She has to fight for her life as she faces the dangers of white slavery and an Islamic terrorist group, Jemaah Islamiyah, which is plotting more attacks on innocent civilians. In order to complete their missions, the Dragonslayers must cross the threshold into the darkest depths of humanity and rely on each other for strength. They face the most vicious kinds of evil, all while fighting to keep their own demons under control.

US Air Force Lt. Col. Eagle Tryggvesson got more than she bargained for when she tangled with Navy Rear Admiral Richard Westland over a proposal for an elite Special Forces unit. Eventually losing the battle, Westland swore that she would fail- he would make certain of that. Eagle must fight against discrimination and corruption to put her highly unorthodox team together. She arrives at China Lake Naval Weapons Station to find the beginnings of Westland's sabotage. It would be up to her and the members of her team to beat the deck that had been stacked against them. Her second in command is the handsome and brilliant Maj. D.M. Elliott who falls in love with her despite their difference in rank and the prohibitive chain of command. They must work together to keep their team and their love alive. The team battles terrorists, violent gang members, and their own personal demons along with the frightening bouts of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that haunt many warriors.

Al-Qaeda has a brand new weapon in their war of terror: a deadly unconventional explosive. The US government can't figure out what it is or where al-Qaeda is getting it until two men try to solve the mystery. Newly recruited Dragonslayer Captain Cabbott Westmoreland is the number one sniper in the world. Years of hunting have sharpened his senses to amazing proportions. He must use his skills to unravel a major plot by al-Qaeda. Can he do it? Or will some personal blunders cost the lives of thousands across the globe? Time is of the essence if they are going to stop the attacks. Lieutenant Jake Collins finds the other piece of the puzzle. His jaded past helps uncover the source of the explosives. Now it's time to take the fight back to the terrorists. Their commander, Lieutenant Colonel Eagle Tryggvesson will have to coordinate with other Special Forces units and government agencies to strike a blow to the heart of al-Qaeda. The thrilling sequel to PROJECT: DRAGONSLAYERS, it continues the saga of the unlikely Special Forces team thrown head first into the world of counter-terrorism. Battling forces seen and unseen, they use technological advances to gain the upper hand against their foes.

Blood is thicker than water... and when it's the blood of a Dragonslayer, there will be hell to pay. The Dragonslayers return with a vengeance to fight terrorism with in another installment of the exciting Dragonslayers Saga. The unorthodox team comes under fire from the most unlikely source, so they must stick together, or be destroyed. They find out that state-of-the-art body armor isn't the only thing that will save them when bullets are flying. Not all of their battles happen on the battlefield. For many, there's a battle raging within, as they grapple with their own demons and a society that doesn't accept them. In Australia, Captain Tige St. Ivor is faced with his own dilemma: an assignment that involves killing one of his best friends. Captain Cabbott Westmoreland fights to be accepted by his own family. And terrorism hits too close to home for Major D.M. Elliott, as he must find a way to protect his father from extremists. Through it all, they live by the code of honor, valor, and sacrifice. Be sure to read: Project: Dragonslayers, the book that started it all, which was nominated for the Military Writer's Society of America Fiction-Thriller Award for 2011.

Globalization is moving fast, impacting on the life of nations with accelerating force. This book delivers a keen assessment of how it is being handled by specific groups seeking positive outcomes for the people and causes they represent.
Transnational social regulation is increasingly becoming the product of private interventions into the areas of global trade, corporate behavior and consumerism. The widespread failure of states and corporations to regulate the impact of increased globalization has given rise to non-governmental organizations and movements, seeking to influence corporations regarding social responsibilities and to address concerns about human rights, environmental destruction, unhealthy working conditions and child labor.
This study critically evaluates the effectiveness of private regulation, assessing both the issues and problems that have given rise to various movements and campaigns, and the movements themselves. Using three detailed case-studies on the clothing industry, sustainable forestry and corporate social responsibility more generally, he explores the consequent tension between politics and management in light of these actions and examines the theoretical implications of these forms of social regulation for politics, citizenship and the state. Finally, Lipschutz asks what we are to do and calls for a return to politics centered on the direct participation of the individual in the social choices that affect the conditions and making of their own lives, individually and collectively.
This book is essential for students, researcher and activists studying and concerned about globalization, civil society, citizenship and human rights.

One liner: Examines the range of arts programming partnerships in the Los Angeles Unified School District and provides feedback from principals, teachers, arts organizations, and district arts advisors on the challenges and obstacles in these partnerships 450-character abstract: The Los Angeles Unified School District in 1999 approved a ten-year program to implement a substantive, sequential curriculum in arts education. A central goal of the plan calls for schools to build partnerships with the Los Angeles arts community to provide educational programming, beginning with elementary schools in the Arts Prototype Schools (APS) program. This study examined the range of partnerships in operation and identified partnership challenges and facilitators through interviews with APS principals and teachers, local district arts advisors, and directors of arts organizations.