![]() ![]() ![]() In a work of critically engaged political theory, Glen Sean Coulthard challenges recognition as a method of organizing difference and identity in liberal politics, questioning the assumption that contemporary difference and past histories of destructive colonialism between the state and Indigenous peoples can be reconciled through a process of acknowledgment. The term “recognition” shapes debates over Indigenous cultural distinctiveness, Indigenous rights to land and self-government, and Indigenous peoples’ right to benefit from the development of their lands and resources. Over the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonization between the nation-state and Indigenous nations in North America. Studies in Political Economy Book Prize. ![]() Canadian Political Science Association’s C.B.Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Colin Mason cuts through the rhetoric and reams of conflicting data to muster the evidence to illustrate a broad picture of the world as it is, and our possible futures. ![]() Depleted fuel supplies, massive population growth, poverty, global climate change, famine, growing water shortages and international lawlessness are on a collision course with potentially catastrophic consequences. Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful `drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. ![]() ![]() ![]() Objectivism is benevolent, holding that the universe is open to human achievement and happiness and that each person has within him the ability to live a rich, fulfilling, independent life. The book’s female protagonist, Dagny Taggart, struggles to manage a transcontinental railroad amid the pressures and restrictions of massive bureaucracy. Politically, Objectivists advocate laissez-faire capitalism. Atlas Shrugged, novel by Ayn Rand, published in 1957. It requires living by objective principles, including moral integrity and respect for the rights of others. It requires rational respect for the facts of reality, including the facts about our human nature and needs. But one cannot achieve happiness by wish or whim. Objectivism holds that there is no greater moral goal than achieving one's happiness. She emigrated to America where she worked in Hollywood and became a bestselling author of novels, most famously The Fountainheadand Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden (Contributor) 3. The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism. Petersburg, Russia, Rand witnessed the Bolshevik revolution. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Objectivism is the philosophy of rational individualism founded by Ayn Rand (1905-1982). Answer: " My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute." - Ayn Rand, Appendix to Atlas Shrugged In 1957, Rand published her best-selling work, the novel Atlas Shrugged. ![]() ![]() ![]() The stories are rich in detail and inter-connecting back stories with a heavy cast of characters. This is not a series that you can follow without having read each book. While I loved all six books in the series, book 5, Queen of Swords, is my ultimate favourite. They were, of course, definitely worth the wait! There are six books in total and the series is now finished with all titles available in gorgeous matching covers. I was over-joyed to see the promo for the second instalment advertised in the back cover, less so when I realised I would have to wait two years for it, and for each one thereafter. To my utter delight, Into the Wilderness proved itself a most enjoyable read, containing all of the necessary ingredients required for a good historical fiction with romantic elements. But even back then I loved historical fiction, as my friend well knew, and thick books had never put me off either. I’d never heard of Sara Donati before, nor had I heard of Diana Gabaldon, whose high praise on the cover conveyed much about this mystery book’s contents. I received the first book in The Wilderness Series, Into the Wilderness, as a thank you gift from a friend. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Riley is ignored by her seniors and threatened by Dr. But her promising future is threatened when suspicious activities - bungled autopsies, concealed evidence, and unexplained wounds - incriminate her supervising pathologist at the Allegheny County Coroner's Office in Pittsburgh, Dr. Riley McKay has worked hard toward her career in pathology. Now she must confront her darkest fears to unearth a decade-long conspiracy that threatens to turn her entire world upside down. Kathryn Guilford has a pathological fear of insects. Polchak introduces her to a mysterious world of blood-seeking flies and flesh-eating beetles. Nick Polchak, the Bug Man, to help her learn the truth about the apparent suicide of her longtime friend and onetime suitor. Thirty-year-old Kathryn Guilford turns to Dr. Soon there are hundreds, then thousands, and each one knows the victim's story. Within minutes of a murder, the first fly arrives at the scene. ![]() And now for the first time: the first two Bug Man novels under one cover. So popular did Polchak become that author Tim Downs has now published five Bug Man novels. In 2003, the Shoofly Pie introduced an intriguing and unique detective: forensic entomologist Nick Polchak. ![]() ![]() As the Boxer Rebellion gains momentum, Vibiana must decide whether to abandon her Christian friends or to commit herself fully to Christianity.īoxers & Saints is one of the most ambitious graphic novels First Second has ever published. Against all odds, their grass-roots rebellion is successful.īut in the second volume, Yang lays out the opposite side of the conflict. A girl whose village has no place for her is taken in by Christian missionaries and finds, for the first time, a home with them. Little Bao, inspired by visions of the Chinese gods, joins a violent uprising against the Western interlopers. ![]() The first is of Little Bao, a Chinese peasant boy whose village is abused and plundered by Westerners claiming the role of missionaries. In two volumes, Boxers & Saints tells two parallel stories. ![]() ![]() It was picked up and disseminated in the West by the British war-time press as the Allies sought to explain their continued inability to defeat the Axis forces in North Africa: the genius of Rommel was used by dissenters to protest against social inequality within the British army and by leaders like Churchill to reduce class tensions. The description of Rommel as a brilliant commander started in 1941, with Rommel's participation, as a component of Nazi propaganda to praise the Wehrmacht and instill optimism in the German public. According to these historians, who take a critical view of Rommel, such depictions are not accurate. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Rommel myth, or the Rommel legend, is a phrase used by a number of historians for the common depictions of German field marshal Erwin Rommel as an apolitical, brilliant commander and a victim of Nazi Germany due to his presumed participation in the 20 July plot against Adolf Hitler, which led to Rommel's forced suicide in 1944. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the early 1980’s, my colleagues and I ( Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, and myself) read Ernest Becker’s The Birth and Death of Meaning (1971) and The Denial of Death (1973), which inspired the development of terror management theory. Annie Dillard, For the Time Being (1999) There never was a more holy age than ours, and never a less.” In fact, the absolute is available to everyone in every age. It is a weakening and discoloring idea, that rustic people knew God personally once upon a time-or even knew selflessness or courage or literature-but that it is too late for us. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been: a people busy and powerful, knowledgeable, ambivalent, important, fearful, and self-aware a people who scheme, promote, deceive, and conquer who pray for their loved ones, and long to flee misery and skip death. ![]() “There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Brightley - The King's Sword: A disillusioned soldier. ![]() ![]() Ten noblebright fantasy novels of beauty and wonder!Noblebright fantasy characters have the courage to risk kindness, honesty, integrity, and love to fight against their own flaws and the darkness of the world around them and to find hope in a grim world.This boxed set includes novels by:C. ![]() ![]() Sara has always been fiercely independent but in order to survive now she must open herself to others, to reveal her deepest secrets. On the same fateful night she meets Nikolas, a warrior who turns Sara’s world upside down and is determined to protect her even if it’s the last thing she wants.Sara’s life starts to spin out of control as she is hunted by an obsessed vampire, learns that her friends have secrets of their own and reels from the truth about her own ancestry. She lives a life full of secrets and her family and friends have no idea of the supernatural world she is immersed in or of Sara’s own very powerful gift.In her quest for answers about her father’s death, Sara takes risks that expose her and her friends to danger and puts herself into the sights of a sadistic vampire. Now at seventeen, she is still haunted by memories of that day and driven by the need to understand why it happened. ![]() Will she risk everything, including her friends and family, to finally get the answers she seeks? And is she prepared for the new man who enters her life and the truths he reveals about her?Sara Grey’s world shattered ten years ago when her father was brutally murdered. ![]() ![]() But while she is looking for monsters, they are also hunting her. ![]() Seventeen year old Sara Grey lives a life full of secrets and she is driven by the need to uncover the truth about her tragic past. ![]() |