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In this 90-day devotional, Walker helps readers keep pace with
"Costly Grace," the book that is challenging this generation to
renew their commitments to Jesus and his call.
A major challenge of our times is to understand and manage the
increasing complexity of socio-economic reality. This has immediate
relevance for sustainable development. The impact of recent
contributions from systems and complexity sciences in addressing
this issue has not filtered down into effective practice - notably,
there remain problems caused by the legacy of competing paradigms
and the application of their associated methodologies. This book
argues the urgency for the application of analytical tools that
embody the principles of complexity management. The authors
describe a theoretical framework based on complexity science with a
focus on organisational and second order cybernetics, one that
presents a powerful new insight into the concept of sustainability.
The book also describes actual applications of the ideas in the
area of organisational, societal and environmental management, and
reflects upon the impact of such an approach on current practice.
"Theolegal democracy defines a political system that allows public
officials to use theology in its democratic process to shape law
without instituting an official state religion. In Whose God
Rules?, preeminent scholars debate the theolegal theory, which
describes the gray area between a secular legal system, where
theology is dismissed as irrational and a threat to the separation
of religion and state, and a theocracy, where a single religion
determines all law. The United States is neither a secular nation
nor a theocracy, leading scholars to ask whether the United States
is a theolegal democracy. If so, whose God rules?"--
In a career that lasted little more than a decade, Kate Chopin became well-known for stories set in the Creole and Acadian regions of Louisiana, but her masterwork, The Awakening (1899), told the daring story of a woman who defied social and sexual conventions, eliciting negative reviews that denied Chopin prominence until the middle of the 20th Century. Kate Chopin: A Literary Life sets the author in the context of 19th Century American women writers to show how standards of literary propriety affected the career of a major American writer.
Business sustainability and sustainable development are of great
importance in modern-day socio-economic study. Despite this, the
impact of recent contributions from systems and complexity sciences
in addressing these issues has not yet filtered down into effective
practice. This book argues that there is a need for urgency in the
application of analytical tools which embody the principles of
complexity management in sustainability research, in particular in
the context of the global climate change. The approach presented is
based on the concept of clusters of whole systems coming together
through collaboration, in order to create larger wholes capable of
dealing with the issues facing our socio-economic environmental
systems.In this updated second edition, the authors further clarify
the viability and sustainability (V&S) approach, and the
criteria and framework needed for sustainable governance. It
includes a more detailed perspective on the implications of the
V&S approach to businesses and networks towards changes in
structure, strategy and processes, inspired by specific case
studies. Key additions include a criteria for designing more viable
and sustainable self-governed organizations, the methodologies and
tools to design and implement self-transformations towards
sustainability, and how these tools support sustainability
management individually and globally, for businesses and society.
In 1937, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote "The Cost of Discipleship."
Walker brings to a new generation the timeless message of
Bonhoeffer against the background of today's political upheaval and
societal change and what it means to those who claim to follow
Christ's teachings.
A major challenge of our times is to understand and manage the
increasing complexity of socio-economic reality. This has immediate
relevance for sustainable development. The impact of recent
contributions from systems and complexity sciences in addressing
this issue has not filtered down into effective practice - notably,
there remain problems caused by the legacy of competing paradigms
and the application of their associated methodologies. This book
argues the urgency for the application of analytical tools that
embody the principles of complexity management. The authors
describe a theoretical framework based on complexity science with a
focus on organisational and second order cybernetics, one that
presents a powerful new insight into the concept of sustainability.
The book also describes actual applications of the ideas in the
area of organisational, societal and environmental management, and
reflects upon the impact of such an approach on current practice.
This classic, widely used guide to the total Rorschach records of
adolescents, including developmental trends and sex differences, is
enriched with longitudinal data on the responses of thirty-five
girls and thirty boys who were each tested annually from 10 to 16
years old. Rarely does one have the opportunity to study detailed
records like these for the same subjects over such an unbroken
period of time. Also included are thirty-five tables providing
normative data, making this volume an essential tool for clinical
and developmental psychologists alike.
In a career that lasted little more than a decade, Kate Chopin became well-known for stories set in the Creole and Acadian regions of Louisiana, but her masterwork, The Awakening (1899), told the daring story of a woman who defied social and sexual conventions, eliciting negative reviews that denied Chopin prominence until the middle of the twentieth century. Kate Chopin: A Literary Life sets the author in the context of nineteenth-century American women writers to show how standards of literary propriety affected the career of a major American writer.
Making Black Girls Count in Math Education explores the experiences
of Black girls and women in mathematics from preschool to graduate
school, deftly probing race and gender inequity in STEM fields.
Nicole M. Joseph investigates factors that contribute to the
glaring underrepresentation of Black female students in the
mathematics pipeline. Joseph’s unflinching account calls
attention to educational structures and practices that contribute
to race- and gender-based stratification in science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics disciplines. The author also
disentangles a complex network of historical and sociopolitical
elements that influence the perception and experiences of Black
girls and women both inside and outside of mathematics education.
In her clear-eyed assessment of the intersectional difficulties
facing this marginalized group, Joseph offers a critical view of
the existing mathematics education research, practice, and policies
that have neglected Black girls and women; confronts the
problematic history of mathematics education policy; and considers
imbalances in the current teacher workforce in US mathematics
programs. She then provides practical, actionable suggestions for
reform. Joseph invites students, families, and educators, as well
as researchers, policy makers, and other relevant stakeholders to
disrupt systems, structures, and ideologies. She calls for an end
to racism and sexism in many areas of mathematics education,
including learning environments, curriculum design and
implementation, and testing and assessments. An essential read for
anyone concerned about supporting the mathematical learning and
development of Black girls and women, this work advocates for
coalition-building so that greater, more equitable opportunities
for learning and engagement may be offered to Black female
students.
This book demonstrates that the United States, whether we like it
or not, is a theolegal nation - a democracy that simultaneously
guarantees citizens the right to free expression of belief while
preventing the establishment of a state religion.
A comparative history of public and private sector unions from the
Wagner Act of 1935 until today The 2011 battle in Wisconsin over
public sector employees' collective bargaining rights occasioned
the largest protests in the state since the Vietnam War. Protestors
occupied the state capitol building for days and staged massive
rallies in downtown Madison, receiving international news coverage.
Despite an unprecedented effort to oppose Governor Scott Walker's
bill, Act 10 was signed into law on March 11, 2011, stripping
public sector employees of many of their collective bargaining
rights and hobbling government unions in Wisconsin. By situating
the events of 2011 within the larger history of public sector
unionism, Alexis N. Walker demonstrates how the passage of Act 10
in Wisconsin was not an exceptional moment, but rather the
culmination of events that began over eighty years ago with the
passage of the Wagner Act in 1935. Although explicitly about
government unions, Walker's book argues that the fates of public
and private sector unions are inextricably linked. She contends
that the exclusion of public sector employees from the foundation
of private sector labor law, the Wagner Act, firmly situated
private sector law at the national level, while relegating public
sector employees' efforts to gain collective bargaining rights to
the state and local levels. She shows how private sector unions
benefited tremendously from the national-level protections in the
law while, in contrast, public sector employees' efforts progressed
slowly, were limited to union-friendly states, and the collective
bargaining rights that they finally did obtain were highly unequal
and vulnerable to retrenchment. As a result, public and private
sector unions peaked at different times, preventing a large,
unified labor movement. The legacy of the Wagner Act, according to
Walker, is that labor remains geographically concentrated, divided
by sector, and hobbled in its efforts to represent working
Americans politically in today's era of rising economic inequality.
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