Many of the best and brightest citizens of developing countries choose to emigrate to wealthier societies, taking their skills and educations with them. What do these people owe to their societies of origin? May developing societies legitimately demand that their citizens use their skills to improve life for their fellow citizens? Are these societies ever permitted to prevent their own citizens from emigrating? These questions are increasingly important, as the gap between rich and poor societies widens, and as the global migration of skilled professionals intensifies. This volume addresses the ethical rights and responsibilities of such professionals, and of the societies in which they live. Gillian Brock and Michael Blake agree that the phenomenon of the brain drain is troubling, but offer distinct arguments about what might be permissibly done in response to this phenomenon.

Political controversy about migration is becoming more frequent, more heated, and for certain groups, decidedly more urgent. This raises pressing questions not only in the realms of policy-making and public discourse, but also for philosophical accounts of migration. Do liberal states have the right to exclude unwanted outsiders, or should all borders be open? How should we begin to theorize the morality of refugee and asylum policy? If states can exclude unwanted outsiders, what ethical principles govern the determination of who gets in? Justice, Migration, and Mercy offers a way in which these questions might be answered by providing a vision of how we can understand the political morality of migration. Michael Blake offers a novel, and plausible, account of the right to exclude on which that right is grounded on a more fundamental right to avoid unwanted forms of political relationship. Far from simply justifying exclusion, however, Blake examines the best justifications for exclusion in an effort to determine its limits. In doing so, he challenges the current global realities of migration which ensure open borders for a select few and closed borders for the majority, most often the most marginalized in society. His account sheds light on more specific questions of justice in migration, such as the permissibility of travel bans and carrier sanctions. He also offers a particular vision about how to go beyond questions of right and liberal justice, towards a declaration of the sort of community we wish to be. Blake then identifies the moral notion of mercy as a central one for the moral analysis of migration, a move which leads to the conclusion that we ought to show mercy and justice in constructing migration policy as well as in public debate.

Leif Wenar's 2016 book Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World argues that much of the conflict, suffering, and injustice in the world is driven by an archaic rule in global trade that forces consumers to fund oppression and corruption. This oil curse is a major threat to global peace and stability. Wenar sets out Clean Trade policies to lift the oil curse through national legislation that affirms democratic principles. In Beyond Blood Oil, Wenar summarizes and extends his views, setting the stage for five essays from first-class critics from the fields of political theory, philosophy, and energy politics. Wenar replies vigorously and frankly to the critics, making the volume the scene of a highly energetic debate that will benefit all scholars, students, and global citizens interested in global justice, international security, oil politics, fair trade, climate change, and progressive reforms.

The book that inspired the epic movie, Dances With Wolves, and its sequel, The Holy Road, together in one volume for the first time. 1863. The last occupant of Fort Sedgewick, Lieutenant John Dunbar watches over the American frontier. A thousand miles back east, his comrades are locked in battle with the Confederates, but out here he is alone. His desolate posting will bring him into contact with the lords of the southern plains - the Comanche. He has no knowledge of their customs but Dunbar is intrigued by these people and begins a transformation from which he emerges a different man. A man called Dances With Wolves. The story continues, 11 years later in The Holy Road. Times are hard for the Comanche. The white man is closing in from all directions, claiming land, driving the tribes on to reservations. Should the Comanche fight or make peace? Misunderstanding and duplicity lead to raids and atrocities on both sides that can have only one conclusion. The man that was John Dunbar must go to war again.

Political controversy about migration is becoming more frequent, more heated, and for certain groups, decidedly more urgent. This raises pressing questions not only in the realms of policy-making and public discourse, but also for philosophical accounts of migration. Do liberal states have the right to exclude unwanted outsiders, or should all borders be open? How should we begin to theorize the morality of refugee and asylum policy? If states can exclude unwanted outsiders, what ethical principles govern the determination of who gets in? Justice, Migration, and Mercy offers a way in which these questions might be answered by providing a vision of how we can understand the political morality of migration. Michael Blake offers a novel, and plausible, account of the right to exclude on which that right is grounded on a more fundamental right to avoid unwanted forms of political relationship. Far from simply justifying exclusion, however, Blake examines the best justifications for exclusion in an effort to determine its limits. In doing so, he challenges the current global realities of migration which ensure open borders for a select few and closed borders for the majority, most often the most marginalized in society. His account sheds light on more specific questions of justice in migration, such as the permissibility of travel bans and carrier sanctions. He also offers a particular vision about how to go beyond questions of right and liberal justice, towards a declaration of the sort of community we wish to be. Blake then identifies the moral notion of mercy as a central one for the moral analysis of migration, a move which leads to the conclusion that we ought to show mercy and justice in constructing migration policy as well as in public debate.

Maize is the world's most productive food and industrial crop, grown in more than 160 countries and on every continent except Antarctica. If by some catastrophe maize were to disappear from our food supply chain, vast numbers of people would starve and global economies would rapidly collapse. How did we come to be so dependent on this one plant? Maize for the Gods brings together new research by archaeologists, archaeobotanists, plant geneticists, and a host of other specialists to explore the complex ways that this single plant and the peoples who domesticated it came to be inextricably entangled with one another over the past nine millennia. Tracing maize from its first appearance and domestication in ancient campsites and settlements in Mexico to its intercontinental journey through most of North and South America, this history also tells the story of the artistic creativity, technological prowess, and social, political, and economic resilience of America's first peoples.

Leif Wenar's 2016 book Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World argues that much of the conflict, suffering, and injustice in the world is driven by an archaic rule in global trade that forces consumers to fund oppression and corruption. This oil curse is a major threat to global peace and stability. Wenar sets out Clean Trade policies to lift the oil curse through national legislation that affirms democratic principles. In Beyond Blood Oil, Wenar summarizes and extends his views, setting the stage for five essays from first-class critics from the fields of political theory, philosophy, and energy politics. Wenar replies vigorously and frankly to the critics, making the volume the scene of a highly energetic debate that will benefit all scholars, students, and global citizens interested in global justice, international security, oil politics, fair trade, climate change, and progressive reforms.

This book is an argument about the moral foundations of foreign policy. It argues that a liberal state can insist upon the universal reach of liberal ideas, while still distinguishing between what is owed to citizens and what is owed to foreign citizens. This liberalism includes a concern for liberal toleration, which is intended to defend the proposition that a liberal state can work for democratization and liberalism abroad, without being intolerant or illiberal in doing so. What constraints there are on foreign policy emerge not from the need to tolerate undemocratic regimes, but from the prudential reason that there are few effective and proportional means by which such regimes might be liberalized. It also argues that international inequality is wrong only when and to the extent this inequality can be shown to undermine the democratic self-rule of a society. Global poverty and underdevelopment is wrong for reasons quite unlike the reasons given to condemn domestic inequality. These facts are combined to give an attractive and coherent picture of how the foreign policy of a liberal state might be morally evaluated.

Many of the best and brightest citizens of developing countries choose to emigrate to wealthier societies, taking their skills and educations with them. What do these people owe to their societies of origin? May developing societies legitimately demand that their citizens use their skills to improve life for their fellow citizens? Are these societies ever permitted to prevent their own citizens from emigrating? These questions are increasingly important, as the gap between rich and poor societies widens, and as the global migration of skilled professionals intensifies. This volume addresses the ethical rights and responsibilities of such professionals, and of the societies in which they live. Gillian Brock and Michael Blake agree that the phenomenon of the brain drain is troubling, but offer distinct arguments about what might be permissibly done in response to this phenomenon.

EDGE, an innovative, story based business graphic novel, speaks to CEOs, community leaders, parents, coaches, teachers anyone in a leadership role. This dynamic story gives readers permission to lead creatively!

ROBERT RENTERIA'S book "From the Barrio to the Board Room" and his graphic novel "Mi Barrio from Smartercomics" have both resonated with audiences worldwide. The graphic novel, which has won numerous awards, was created when principals and teachers told Robert that he needed to reach kids at a younger age. Now, these same principals and teachers have asked Robert to help engage children in this conversation when they are even younger. And so Little Barrio has been born. All of Robert's books are his way of reaching out to the people he can't meet personally. Little Barrio stays true to Robert's experiences and the lessons he teaches young people about hard work, persistence, education and family. For more information about Robert and the From the Barrio Foundation, please visit www.fromthebarrio.com or Google "Robert Renteria."

" GENDER VALUES a proposal of marriage in a bottle
We are all little pieces of God, without a memory of who we were before Earthly birth, as we all are given a chance to live in our Earthly bodies, to discover the individuals God has allowed us to become of our own choosing. What a wonderful gift of love we all have to receive, if we but just have the faith to inquire of our gender, to experience the value of being human, to love beyond ourselves and illuminate our divine origin with character and trust as our answer to life.
With the clarity of my passion, I live to remove doubt within and for whom I am with. This is the heart of AGOPA Affection Gains Omnipotence Purifying Awareness. The affection begins with Gender Values.
My own experience with honesty has revealed to me, that the biggest journey of all-that we are all on, is the exploration of ourselves for happiness sake, against our own individual hypocrisies. I have found hypocrisy to be like a bacteria or virus that claims our ignorance with arrogance through living, when we lack the discipline of self vigilance . By arrogance, I mean a lack of honor for truth over pride-assumption-rumor-indifference-or pretense. By vigilance I mean not allowing ones arrogance to overrule ones conscience, or not allowing impotent beliefs our ignorance to overrule truth when it is to ones self, evident. "
Regular As a discipline, self vigilance is a learning experience, which makes forgiveness so important. Not from others so much as from ourselves. As a learning experience, we must believe in ourselves independent of our peers, that we have the courage to change against beliefs that have been rendered impotent by truth evident, if only to ones self. To do otherwise, is to be sanctimonious arrogance choosing hypocrisy. Sanctimony is a danger to all by ones habit of pain, because there is nothing anyone can do to render the choice of arrogance a verdict of conscience over pride, or a virtue of love over indifference. Such is the kind of person to whom truth matters not, a liar at heart who will find malice for all in their path who do not worship that same pride and indifference that marks ego as their only means for respect.
CHARACTER IS THE COURAGE TO ACT WITH SELF VIGILANCE
"Trust recognizes sex as the expression of joy by intimacy and orgasm, that validates with affection the power of meaning to give, not an enforcer of love on a budget between two in marriage."
That validation doesn t question marriage with the value of others, because self worth does not accommodate sex as a source of affection from which to love.
The value you inherit for the worth of your own joy to answer your needs, is the product of the affection, given what family-friendship-marriage-and faith accepts as the price of honor for what you are to them, to pay you with love . That love is either placated upon idealism for the inevitability of betrayal-or-met with honor upon liberty for the fulfillment of a Trust, depending on what family-friendship-marriage-and faith accepts as the price of honor for its meaning. That price of honor is defined by what affection is allowed to provide, given the individual as a worth to answer our needs with the value of our lives. It all comes down to what we believe in. Growth is the worth in the broadening of awareness inherent of Gender Values, and not by its confinement when detained with the bias of gender differences. Without Gender Values to address the foundation of self worth for the joy of our affection in family-friendship-marriage-and faith, our worth by God s design will not survive against the decadence in the human condition, defining Man s inhumanity to Man.

Why do so many CEO's of top Fortune 100 companies get on Marshall Goldsmith's waiting list for individual coaching? Because his streamlined methods of getting to the point in human relations work ... not only for the individual being coached, but also for the team around the person being coached This short COMIC of Feedforward will eliminate your usage of feedback which rehashes a past that cannot be changed, and will encourage you to spend your time giving Feedforward to create the future. Marshall Goldsmith has been recognized as the most influential leadership thinker in the world by Thinkers50 2011/HBR He's also been recognized as one of the top ten most influential business thinkers in the global bi-annual study Marshall is the million-selling author and/or editor of 32 books, including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, MOJO and What Got You Here Won't Get You There - a WSJ #1 business book and winner of the Harold Longman Award for Business Book of the Year. His books have been translated into 28 languages and become bestsellers in ten countries. His book What Got You Here Won't Get You There has also been published as a comic book through Round Table Comics. www.marshallgoldsmith.com

#Jump: Creativity Lessons from 9000 Feet is Corey Michael Blake's "business memoir"; the personal stories of his creative life that have led to the development of Round Table Companies and their unique and life changing business model. It's the chapter by chapter story of how Corey was compelled to become a better businessman so that he could use art and entertainment as a tool to inform, educate and inspire people. #Jump is Corey's gift to those who have leapt with him and his plea to those who are scared of the edge of the cliff. You don't have to leap into life alone. Come jump.

Haunting historical adventure drama relays harrowing accounts of rescue, survival, bravery and tragic loss. Nov.15,1958. An arctic-like blizzard roars out of nowhere across the mild desert terrain of southern Arizona. Boy scouts are feared caught out in the open, perhaps buried under the three to seven feet of snowfall in the mountains. Cowboys urge their horses through the chest high snow, hikers push through monster snowdrifts, and helicopters hover at dangerous altitudes in their struggle to find the boys before they die. Re-live the courage, true-grit and anguish on the trail.

Maize is the world's most productive food and industrial crop, grown in more than 160 countries and on every continent except Antarctica. If by some catastrophe maize were to disappear from our food supply chain, vast numbers of people would starve and global economies would rapidly collapse. How did we come to be so dependent on this one plant? Maize for the Gods brings together new research by archaeologists, archaeobotanists, plant geneticists, and a host of other specialists to explore the complex ways that this single plant and the peoples who domesticated it came to be inextricably entangled with one another over the past nine millennia. Tracing maize from its first appearance and domestication in ancient campsites and settlements in Mexico to its intercontinental journey through most of North and South America, this history also tells the story of the artistic creativity, technological prowess, and social, political, and economic resilience of America's first peoples.