Beyond Providence
Beyond Providence

Author: Rose Daniels

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-07-19

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13: 1483658112

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Migrating to Australia seemed a great idea to change her life and see another part of the world. And so, Barbara Walters, young, single and vivacious embarked on a journey into the unknown. She arrives in Melbourne on a wet, wintry day. Not the sunny and warm Australia she had expected to find. Even more disappointing are the first weeks in her new job and strange surroundings. But then her present situation changes; she meets sleek Bernhard Gahlen, who initiates her into the laid-back way of Australian life. He even proposes marriage. They spend their Christmas vacation together, exploring the outback. However, when they return from their trip, the relationship becomes less intense. Eventually Barbara faces heartbreak and dire consequences. Devastated and alone, Barbara makes an ill-conceived decision, but it does not solve her problem. At some stage, Richard Ashton crosses her path. Though simple minded with odd habits, she cautiously accepts his friendship. But when he offers to marry her, she declines his kind gesture. Then, grim circumstances eventually force her to change her mind She marries Richard for all the wrong reasons. He has secrets of his own. The marriage is doomed to fail. A chance meeting brings Bruce Evans into Barbaras life. He convinces her that his love and support could provide a better life for her. It takes a long time for Barbara to commit herself to another relationship and when she does, she realises that nothing lasts forever. She had left Germany in search of love and a deeper meaning of life, but only found disappointment and more loneliness. Would she ever find love and a sense of belonging? Adrian Jones finally makes her dreams come true. Their love for each other is rare and intense. At last, life seems worthwhile and plans for their future are made. Though going by past experiences, she wonders if she can hold on to her only ever true love. Rose Daniels Author.

By More Than Providence
By More Than Providence

Author: Michael J. Green

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2017-03-21

Total Pages: 760

ISBN-13: 0231542720

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Soon after the American Revolution, ?certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast material and cultural resources at stake there. Over the coming generations, the United States continued to ask how best to expand trade with the region and whether to partner with China, at the center of the continent, or Japan, looking toward the Pacific. Where should the United States draw its defensive line, and how should it export democratic principles? In a history that spans the eighteenth century to the present, Michael J. Green follows the development of U.S. strategic thinking toward East Asia, identifying recurring themes in American statecraft that reflect the nation's political philosophy and material realities. Drawing on archives, interviews, and his own experience in the Pentagon and White House, Green finds one overarching concern driving U.S. policy toward East Asia: a fear that a rival power might use the Pacific to isolate and threaten the United States and prevent the ocean from becoming a conduit for the westward free flow of trade, values, and forward defense. By More Than Providence works through these problems from the perspective of history's major strategists and statesmen, from Thomas Jefferson to Alfred Thayer Mahan and Henry Kissinger. It records the fate of their ideas as they collided with the realities of the Far East and adds clarity to America's stakes in the region, especially when compared with those of Europe and the Middle East.

Beyond Prime Time Activism
Beyond Prime Time Activism

Author: Charlotte Ryan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-13

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1351721658

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In this accessible introduction to communication activism, organizer Karen Jeffreys and sociologist Charlotte Ryan draw on more than two decades of ongoing collaboration, using the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless (RICH) as a case study. The book examines a community with shared values, decision-making, and conflict resolution procedures, tracking its organizing strategy and matched communication plan. The authors first describe a communication campaign during the welfare reform battles (1990–1995) in which they began to practice communication activism. In ongoing work with two organizations over the next two decades, they distil a model of communication activism that draws directly from vibrant traditions of empowerment communication in U.S. social movements and movements from the Global South. Beyond Prime Time Activism provides students and researchers with an invaluable look at contemporary activism practices and with practical tools tried and tested in two decades of social movement engagement. This book is ideal for anyone participating in social change movements or studying how they navigate communication and media inequalities.

Beyond the Firmament
Beyond the Firmament

Author: Gordon J. Glover

Publisher: Watertree Press LLC

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0978718615

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As debates within the Church over the scientific details of creation become more frequent, the experts seem to grow more entrenched while the rest of us only become more confused. Somewhere between the endless arguments over distant starlight and Carbon-14 dating, calculating the mathematical improbabilities of things that already exist, and parsing ancient Hebrew and Greek, somebody needs to ask the simple question, If 3,500 years of scientific progress can't help modern Christians figure out Genesis, then how could the ancient Israelities possibly have understood it so well? What secret did this newly liberated gaggle of Hebrew nomads take with them out of Egypt that holds the key to understanding God's telling of His own creation story? Beyond the Firmament challenges all creationist camps --whether Young-Earth, Old-Earth, or Theistic Evolutionist -- to step outside of traditional paradigms and recognize how our modern, Western, post-Enlightenment scientific worldview actually blinds us from seeing the simple truth of Creation as it was originally intended, and how our failure to grasp the theological significance of the Biblical creation model puts science and faith on a collision course.

Beyond Catholicism
Beyond Catholicism

Author: Fabrizio De Donno

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-12-18

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 113734203X

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The essays within Beyond Catholicism trace the interconnections of belief, heresy, and mysticism in Italian culture from the Middle Ages to today. In particular, they explore how religious discourse has unfolded within Italian culture in the context of shifting paradigms of rationality, authority, time, good and evil, and human collectivities.

Latinos in the American Political System [2 volumes]
Latinos in the American Political System [2 volumes]

Author: Jessica L. Lavariega Monforti

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2019-03-14

Total Pages: 731

ISBN-13: 1440853479

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This encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of Hispanic Americans engaged in U.S. politics, from increased visibility as governors and other lawmakers at the local, state, and federal levels to their growing importance as a voting constituency. This encyclopedia comprehensively surveys the evolution of Latina/o engagement in US politics as voters, candidates, lawmakers, and public officials. It is an authoritative resource for public library patrons, high school students, and undergraduates in a variety of curricular studies, including political science, civics, American history, and Latino studies. The set's A–Z entries were carefully selected and crafted to ensure thorough coverage of all of the individuals, organizations, cultural forces, political issues, and legal decisions that have combined to elevate the role of Latinos at the polls, on the campaign trail, in Washington, and in mayors' offices, city councils, school boards, and statehouses all across the country. In-depth essays on the rising prominence of Latino Americans as voters, candidates, public officials, lawmakers, and opinion leaders will provide further context for understanding their impact on modern U.S. political processes and institutions from the perspective of liberals and conservatives alike.

Historic Taverns of Rhode Island
Historic Taverns of Rhode Island

Author: Robert A. Geake

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2012-05-22

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1614235198

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This book chronicles a number of Rhode Island's historic taverns and the stories contained within their walls. Some of the taverns include: The Mowry Tavern, which was the site of political gatherings, protests and religious observances under Roger Williams; The Benedict Arnold Tavern built in 1693; The White Horse Tavern, which soon became the meeting place for Rhode Island legislators; and the Ruff Stone Tavern in North Providence was an establishment with a long history, having served as a pub, a stop on the Underground Railroad and a speakeasy during prohibition.

Plotinus-Arg Philosophers
Plotinus-Arg Philosophers

Author: Lloyd P. Gerson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-08-21

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1134687788

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First published in 1999. We are fortunate in possessing a fascinating document, The Life of Plotinus, written by the philosopher Porphyry, a pupil and associate of Plotinus for the last eight years of his life. The basic facts contained in this Life can be quickly recounted. Plotinus was likely a Greek born in Egypt in AD 205. It is possible, though, that he came from a Hellenized Egyptian or Roman family. In his 28th year, Plotinus discovered in himself a thirst for philosophy. This is a collection of his works- Ennead I contains treatises on what Porphyry calls “ethical matters”; Enneads II–III contain treatises on natural philosophy or cosmology, with some rationalizations for the inclusion of III. 4, 5, 7, and 8. Ennead IV concerns the soul; V Intellect or and VI being, numbers, and the One. The thematic unity of Enneads I, IV, and V is somewhat greater than the rest.

Leadership in Practice
Leadership in Practice

Author: Gerard Seijts

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-19

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1315405601

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Recent financial crises and other high-profile mismanagement cases have brought a spotlight to the quality of leader character in the business sector. Leadership in Practice is the first book to provide an authoritative collection of cases to engage students interested in the importance of the character of business leaders. The authors have compiled a collection of cutting-edge cases and readings, situating them within a theoretical landscape, so students are familiarized with the concepts as they move through the text. The cases cover a wide range of successful businesses—from the NFL to Apple—and include notable controversies, such as those surrounding Enron and Volkswagen. Alongside exclusive interviews and insights into the value of leadership character at individual, team, organizational and societal levels, the book includes learning objectives and discussion questions to facilitate lively debate and interaction in the classroom. This volume will be a valuable supplement for students and instructors in any leadership class as well as researchers and practitioners interested in exploring case studies that illuminate the nature of leadership in a business setting.