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A decade ago, Thomas J. Tierney left Bain & Company to cofound
The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit focused on helping donors and
nonprofit leaders to develop and execute strategies to accelerate
social change. In Give Smart , Tierney pools his hands-on knowledge
with Duke professor Joel L. Fleishman's expertise to create a
much-needed primer for philanthropists and the nonprofit
organizations they support. Drawing from personal experiences,
research spanning twentieth- and twenty-first-century philanthropy,
contemporary interviews, and Bridgespan's extensive field work,
Give Smart presents the definitive guide to engaged philanthropy.
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In a time before recorded history, an oracle predicts a tragedy in
the land that had been their home for many years. The prophecy
foreshadows the American Civil War and how it devastates one
particular family, the Thornton's, and the town that loved them. As
predicted, a curse rains terror and sorrow on anyone who attempt to
live on the old Thornton family farm. The history of the town is
filled with evil and mysterious occurrences. After many years of
decay, the quaint little town that survived extinction now
struggles with all the dangers of out-of-control urban sprawl and
the farm is all but forgotten. A retired contractor, Tony O'Neill,
and his wife, Carol, attempt to live their retirement dream and
establish a vineyard on the old abandoned property. This dream
seems doomed to failure as the curse is exposed. Faced with a
greedy mayor, dishonest real estate developers, poor grape
harvests, and broken retirement dreams, the town and current
occupants are faced with what seems like a final attack on nature
itself. Tony and Carol, beloved leaders in the community, wish to
remain in their home but may have to sell the farm. But Tony is the
only person who can stand up to the mayor and stop the corporate
destruction of the quaint little town. Tony befriends a mysterious
wounded hunter who's lost his memory or is Tony just buckling under
the stress. Will the curse succeed once again or can the curse
finally be lifted?
This extended monograph examines the work of the radical journalist
Kotoku Shusui and Japan's anti-imperialist movement of the early
twentieth century. It includes the first English translation of
Imperialism (Teikokushugi), Kotoku's classic 1901 work. Kotoku
Shusui was a Japanese socialist, anarchist, and critic of Japan's
imperial expansionism who was executed in 1911 for his alleged
participation in a plot to kill the emperor. His Imperialism was
one of the first systematic criticisms of imperialism published
anywhere in the world. In this seminal text, Kotoku condemned
global imperialism as the commandeering of politics by national
elites and denounced patriotism and militarism as the principal
causes of imperialism. In addition to translating Imperialism,
Robert Tierney offers an in-depth study of Kotoku's text and of the
early anti-imperialist movement he led. Tierney places Kotoku's
book within the broader context of early twentieth-century debates
on the nature and causes of imperialism. He also presents a
detailed account of the different stages of the Japanese
anti-imperialist movement. Monster of the Twentieth Century
constitutes a major contribution to the intellectual history of
modern Japan and to the comparative study of critiques of
capitalism and colonialism.
"Tropics of Savagery" is an incisive and provocative study of the
figures and tropes of 'savagery' in Japanese colonial culture.
Through a rigorous analysis of literary works, ethnographic
studies, and a variety of other discourses, Robert Thomas Tierney
demonstrates how imperial Japan constructed its own identity in
relation both to the West and to the people it colonized. By
examining the representations of Taiwanese aborigines and
indigenous Micronesians in the works of prominent writers, he shows
that the trope of the savage underwent several metamorphoses over
the course of Japan's colonial period - violent headhunter to be
subjugated, ethnographic other to be studied, happy primitive to be
exoticized, and hybrid colonial subject to be assimilated.
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