A Subtle Balance
A Subtle Balance

Author: Edward A. Parson

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2015-06-15

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 0773583874

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A Subtle Balance critically reflects on major trends and enduring challenges over the last four decades of public policy and governance. During this time, a tension has existed between two aims for public decisions: that they be based on the best available evidence and analysis, and that they be fully democratic. This period has seen a continuing drive for more direct citizen engagement in decision-making and governments trying to address major policy issues through novel consultative and collaborative processes. In essays that offer detailed and novel insights into the recent history of specific issues in social policy, environmental policy, and processes of policy advice and decision-making, contributors elaborate on how these trends have played out in diverse areas of practice, what their consequences have been, and how specific institutional reforms could reset the requisite balance between expertise, evidence, and democracy in Canadian public policy. Inspired by the wide-ranging contributions to scholarship and practice of A.R. (Rod) Dobell, A Subtle Balance draws on the influences of distinguished scholars and sophisticated practitioners of public policy to assess recent changes in governance. Contributors include Martin Bunton, Barry Carin, Ian Clark, Rachel Culley, Rod Dobell, Lia Ernst, Jill Horwitz, John Langford, Justin Longo, Michael Prince, Harry Swain, Charles Ungerleider, Josee van Eijndhoven, Michael Wolfson, and David Zussman.

Mind in the Balance
Mind in the Balance

Author: B. Alan Wallace

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2009-03-03

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0231519702

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By establishing a dialogue in which the meditative practices of Buddhism and Christianity speak to the theories of modern philosophy and science, B. Alan Wallace reveals the theoretical similarities underlying these disparate disciplines and their unified approach to making sense of the objective world. Wallace begins by exploring the relationship between Christian and Buddhist meditative practices. He outlines a sequence of meditations the reader can undertake, showing that, though Buddhism and Christianity differ in their belief systems, their methods of cognitive inquiry provide similar insight into the nature and origins of consciousness. From this convergence Wallace then connects the approaches of contemporary cognitive science, quantum mechanics, and the philosophy of the mind. He links Buddhist and Christian views to the provocative philosophical theories of Hilary Putnam, Charles Taylor, and Bas van Fraassen, and he seamlessly incorporates the work of such physicists as Anton Zeilinger, John Wheeler, and Stephen Hawking. Combining a concrete analysis of conceptions of consciousness with a guide to cultivating mindfulness and profound contemplative practice, Wallace takes the scientific and intellectual mapping of the mind in exciting new directions.

Balancing Green
Balancing Green

Author: Yossi Sheffi

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2018-03-30

Total Pages: 567

ISBN-13: 0262345765

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An expert on business strategy offers a pragmatic take on how businesses of all sizes balance the competing demands of profitability and employment with sustainability. The demands and stresses on companies only grow as executives face a multitude of competing business goals. Their stakeholders are interested in corporate profits, jobs, business growth, and environmental sustainability. In this book, business strategy expert Yossi Sheffi offers a pragmatic take on how businesses of all sizes—from Coca Cola and Siemens to Dr. Bronner's Magical Soaps and Patagonia—navigate these competing goals. Drawing on extensive interviews with more than 250 executives, Sheffi examines the challenges, solutions, and implications of balancing traditional business goals with sustainability. Sheffi, author of the widely read The Resilient Enterprise, argues that business executives' personal opinions on environmental sustainability are irrelevant. The business merits of environmental sustainability are based on the fact that even the most ardent climate change skeptics in the C-suite face natural resource costs, public relations problems, regulatory burdens, and a green consumer segment. Sheffi presents three basic business rationales for corporate sustainability efforts: cutting costs, reducing risk, and achieving growth. For companies, sustainability is not a simple case of “profits versus planet” but is instead a more subtle issue of (some) people versus (other) people—those looking for jobs and inexpensive goods versus others who seek a pristine environment. This book aims to help companies satisfy these conflicting motivations for both economic growth and environmental sustainability.

Off Balance
Off Balance

Author: Matthew Kelly

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2011-09-15

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1101544287

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The prescriptive follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Dream Manager. One of the major issues in our lives today is work-life balance. Everyone wants it; no one has it. But Matthew Kelly believes that work- life balance was a mistake from the start. Because we don't really want balance. We want satisfaction. Kelly lays out the system he uses with his clients, his team, and himself to find deep, long-term satisfaction both personally and professionally. He introduces us to the three philosophies of our age that are dragging us down. He shows us how to cultivate the energy that will give us enough battery power for everything we need and want to do. And finally, in five clear steps, he shows us how to use his Personal & Professional Satisfaction System to establish and honor our biggest priorities, even if we spend a lot more time on some of the lesser ones.

Develop Your Intuition and Psychic Powers
Develop Your Intuition and Psychic Powers

Author: David Furlong

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 0955979501

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Comprehensive and authoritative, Develop Your Intuition and Psychic Powers uncovers the natural gifts we all possess yet often leave unused and underdeveloped. Shedding the mystique that has surrounded this field and supported by scientific evidence this book shows you how to unlock your creative, intuitive and perceptive skills, using simple exercises. In addition it will help you achieve effective decision making to find purpose and direction in life by understanding the patterns that weave through it.

The Happy Pear: Vegan Cooking for Everyone
The Happy Pear: Vegan Cooking for Everyone

Author: David Flynn

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2020-07-09

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0241987598

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The ultimate vegan cooking bible! From the plant-based newbie to the experienced vegan, this cookbook will inspire you to become the best plant-based cook you can possibly be. David and Stephen (a.k.a the No. 1 Bestselling Happy Pear twins) are here to teach you just how many different meat-free meals you can make using the same key ingredients and methods. Using their simple recipe grid method, you'll learn how to adapt each dish to your taste, to your budget or to whatever you have in the cupboard. You'll also discover over 200 versions of healthy and delicious recipes anyone can make, including: - Fluffy coconut granola for breakfast - Home-made vegan pizza for lunch - Creamy broccoli pie for dinner - Carrot cake with vegan cream cheese frosting for dessert Teaching you the fundamentals of taste and texture, soon you'll have the confidence to swap ingredients in and out and even come up with vegan recipes of your own. 'These lovely boys always create incredibly tasty food' Jamie Oliver 'Proper good food . . . hearty, decent and delicious' Russell Brand 'The poster boys for a healthy way of life!' Sunday Times 'Great people, unbelievable food' Joe Wick

My Way: The Way of the White Clouds
My Way: The Way of the White Clouds

Author: Osho

Publisher: Fivestar

Published: 2023-08-16

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13:

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Just before Buddha died somebody asked him: When a buddha dies where does he go? Does he survive or simply disappear into nothingness? This is not a new question, it is one of the oldest, many times repeated and asked. Buddha is reported to have said: Just like a white cloud disappearing.... This very morning there were white clouds in the sky. Now they are there no more. Where have they gone? From where do they come? How do they evolve, and how do they dissolve again? A white cloud is a mystery, the coming, the going, the very being of it. That’s the first reason why I call my way The Way of the White Clouds.

The Maghreb-Europe Paradigm
The Maghreb-Europe Paradigm

Author: Moha Ennaji

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2019-06-04

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 152753538X

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This book discusses the current socio-cultural situation of North African migrants in Europe, and analyzes migration, gender, and identity in their multiple dimensions, consequences and expressions, which range from sociological approaches to culture and literature. The chapters debate the topic of migration and culture from various angles, making this volume a forum where notions of dispossession, cultural identity, and otherness are debated. It comprises contributions that range in subject matter from sociological and anthropological studies of Maghrebi diaspora and migrants in Europe to reflections on transnational literature. It is an analysis of migration with all its complex aspects, and multiple expressions of ‘exile’, ‘otherness’, and ‘pain’.

The Mayan Factor
The Mayan Factor

Author: José Argüelles

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1987-04-01

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1591439027

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Visionary historian Arguelles unravels the harmonic code of the ancient Maya providing valuable keys to understanding the next twenty years of human evolution.

The Government of Risk
The Government of Risk

Author: Christopher Hood

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2001-08-23

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0191529435

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Why does regulation vary so dramatically from one area to another? Why are some risks regulated aggressively and others responded to only modestly? Is there any logic to the techniques we use in risk regulation? These key questions are explored in The Government of Risk. This book looks at a number of risk regulation regimes, considers the respects in which they differ, and examines how these differences can be justified. Analyzing regulation in terms of 'regimes' allows us to see the rich, multi-dimensional nature of risk regulation. It exposes the thinness of society-wide analyses of risk controls and it offers a perspective that single case studies cannot reach. Regimes analysis breaks down the components of risk regulation systems and shows how they interact. It also shows how different parts of the same regime may be shaped by different factors and have to be explained and understood in quite different ways. The Government of Risk shows how such an approach is of high policy relevance as well as of considerable theoretical importance.