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While the notion of young people as individuals worthy or capable
of having rights is of relatively recent origin, over the past
several decades there has been a substantial increase in both
social and political commitment to children's rights as well as a
tendency to grant young people some of the rights that were
typically accorded only to adults. In addition, there has been a
noticeable shift in orientation from a focus on children's
protection and provision to an emphasis on children's participation
and self-determination. With contributions from a wide range of
international scholars, the Handbook of Children's Rights brings
together research, theory, and practice from diverse perspectives
on children's rights. This volume constitutes a comprehensive
treatment of critical perspectives concerning children's rights in
their various forms. Its contributions address some of the major
scholarly tensions and policy debates comprising the current
discourse on children's rights, including the best interests of the
child, evolving capacities of the child, states' rights versus
children's rights, rights of children versus parental or family
rights, children as citizens, children's rights versus children's
responsibilities, and balancing protection and participation. In
addition to its multidisciplinary focus, the handbook includes
perspectives from social science domains in which children's rights
scholarship has evolved largely independently due to distinct and
seemingly competing assumptions and disciplinary approaches (e.g.,
childhood studies, developmental psychology, sociology of
childhood, anthropology, and political science). The handbook also
brings together diverse methodological approaches to the study of
children's rights, including both quantitative and qualitative
perspectives, and policy analysis. This comprehensive,
cosmopolitan, and timely volume serves as an important reference
for both scholarly and policy-driven interest in the voices and
perspectives of children and youth.
While the notion of young people as individuals worthy or capable
of having rights is of relatively recent origin, over the past
several decades there has been a substantial increase in both
social and political commitment to children's rights as well as a
tendency to grant young people some of the rights that were
typically accorded only to adults. In addition, there has been a
noticeable shift in orientation from a focus on children's
protection and provision to an emphasis on children's participation
and self-determination. With contributions from a wide range of
international scholars, the Handbook of Children's Rights brings
together research, theory, and practice from diverse perspectives
on children's rights. This volume constitutes a comprehensive
treatment of critical perspectives concerning children's rights in
their various forms. Its contributions address some of the major
scholarly tensions and policy debates comprising the current
discourse on children's rights, including the best interests of the
child, evolving capacities of the child, states' rights versus
children's rights, rights of children versus parental or family
rights, children as citizens, children's rights versus children's
responsibilities, and balancing protection and participation. In
addition to its multidisciplinary focus, the handbook includes
perspectives from social science domains in which children's rights
scholarship has evolved largely independently due to distinct and
seemingly competing assumptions and disciplinary approaches (e.g.,
childhood studies, developmental psychology, sociology of
childhood, anthropology, and political science). The handbook also
brings together diverse methodological approaches to the study of
children's rights, including both quantitative and qualitative
perspectives, and policy analysis. This comprehensive,
cosmopolitan, and timely volume serves as an important reference
for both scholarly and policy-driven interest in the voices and
perspectives of children and youth.
Reason and Religious Belief, now in its fifth edition, explores
perennial questions in the philosophy of religion. Drawing from the
best in both classical and contemporary discussions, the authors
examine religious experience, faith and reason, the divine
attributes, arguments for and against the existence of God, divine
action (in various forms of theism), Reformed epistemology,
religious language, religious diversity, and religion and science.
Revised and updated to reflect current philosophical discourse, the
fifth edition offers new material on neuro-theology, the "new
Atheism," the intelligent design movement, theistic evolution, and
skeptical theism. It also provides more coverage of non-Western
religions-particularly Buddhism-and updated discussions of
evidentialism, free will, life after death, apophatic theology, and
more. A sophisticated yet accessible introduction, Reason and
Religious Belief, Fifth Edition, is ideally suited for use with the
authors' companion anthology, Philosophy of Religion: Selected
Readings, Fourth Edition (OUP, 2009).
The realities of a futile campaign are portrayed in this novel of
the Vietnam War. The action ranges from the White House to the
jungle, from the American Embassy in Saigon to the front lines.
Michael Peterson has also written "The Immortal Dragon". If you're
looking for a Vietnam War novel, but you don't want to wade in too
deep, this is perfect lightweight fare. Think of it as a cross
between Tom Clancy and Graham Greene (see Orrin's review of The
Quiet American)with the civil servant as superhero trying to
navigate a moral cesspool. Bradley Lawrence Marshall is the blue
blood, war hero, diplomat who is sent to Vietnam as the personal
emissary of President Johnson, to find a way out. In country, he
meets with real figures like General Westmoreland, who tries to
convince him everything is copacetic. But he also meets folks like:
his driver, Corporal Mead, a decent though violent American lad of
ambiguous sexuality, who is sick of the war; Lacouture, a
flamboyant, Guy Burgess-like, Frenchman who sells information to
all sides and loves Mead; and the insidious CIA station chief,
Wilson Abbot Lord, who lives to fight the Communists and, fearing
that Marshall will end the war, plots to kill him. And it's all set
against the backdrop of the Tet Offensive. The whole premise, of
Johnson and a bureaucrat secretly planning an exit strategy,
doesn't withstand much scrutiny and the stereotypes and cliches run
rampant. But taken on its own terms, as a sort of politico-military
potboiler with only mild pretensions of addressing issues in any
serious way, it succeeds pretty well. It's certainly a more
diverting read than many of the more critically acclaimed novels of
the war.
Michael Peterson identifiziert Erfolgsfaktoren und
Rahmenbedingungen fur erfolgreichen Wissenstransfer,
Wissensgenerierung und Wissensanwendung im Rahmen der Projekt- und
Teamarbeit strategischer Unternehmensberatungen.
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"This is a valuable book for pregnant women, doulas,
grandmothers-to-be, and anyone working with mothers and babies and
their families. I recommend it be given to any pregnant women you
know, early in her pregnancy." -Suzanne Arms, Author, Director,
Birthing The Future. Many women plan extensively for their birth,
and for their baby, but few plan for their self-care in the
postpartum period and beyond. Seven Sisters for Seven Days is a
comprehensive guide book for mothers that illuminates why it is
important to receive postpartum care, and how to set yourself up to
receive it. This book is an invaluable resource that walks mothers
and families through the steps of customizing their postpartum care
and teaches them how to call upon a postpartum community care team.
ESPRESSO QUEEROLOGY is a collection of essays, poems and short
stories about experiencing love, romance and horrific breakups, the
love for coffee and surroundings in the Pacific Northwest, and
dealing with loss of family and loved ones. In a time where
acceptance is merely an added bonus, this book documents what life
is like for one gay man: Brian Michael Peterson.
Untucked and Unzipped: Interviews and Recaps of RuPaul's Drag Race
contains 24 interviews and recaps of Season Four and the ALLSTARS
season one, with a look into the behind-the-scenes for Northwest
writer, Brian Michael Peterson.
Project manager by day and artist by night, Keridan Patrick's
simple world ended with the death of her mother. The father she
never knew showed up after twenty-five years and introduced her to
a new world cloaked in secrecy and myth. While fighting to keep
some semblance of normalcy to her suddenly unpredictable world, she
chanced to meet the mysterious Sahaj. Sahaj had ran for hundreds of
years from the one soul he was destined to be with but was
transfixed by the one he could not live without. Would old flames
and new enemies stand in the way of love?
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