This book is written with a dream and a hope that the world can have women and men dedicated to the good life of one another and themselves. What meaning can the numbers in the Bible have for my life? What significance can these numbers have as I live my life each day? What is the real purpose of these numbers for my concerns, for my family, and for my neighbors? What does God want me to do with these numbers? Why did Jesus pray for forty days? Why are these ten laws of love? When can I take time to search the messages for my life with regard to numbers in the Bible?
The Right Man is the story of a young man's quixotic quest to unseat the legendary Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, a powerful and cunning Georgia Politician who has never lost an election, but whose age has finally become a real liability. Doug Crane represents the most serious challenge he has ever faced. The young Republican is blessed with a beautiful wife and a wealthy father-in-law more than willing to provide financial support. Sam Brinker, the gregarious "Furniture King of Atlanta", is another of Crane's big supporters who soon finds himself caught up in a tempestuous controversy orchestrated by The Chairman. But this story is about more than political machinations. It is about temptation and lust personified by a beautiful fashion model who comes into the candidate's life with the purpose of destroying Doug Crane because of something that happened to her long ago. It is also about a petty swindler who is bold enough to confront The Chairman in a scheme that will result in a disastrous conclusion.
Bestselling author John C. Maxwell shows you how the Golden Rule works everywhere, and how, especially in business, it brings amazing dividends. There's no such thing as business ethics. How can that be? Because a single standard applies to both your business and personal life-and it's one we all know and trust: the Golden Rule. Now bestselling author John C. Maxwell shows you how this revered ideal works everywhere, and how, especially in business, it brings amazing dividends. This book offers: * Stories from history, business, government, and sports that illustrate how talented leaders invoked this timeless principle * Examples of difficult business decisions-layoffs, evaluations, billing clients, expansion-and how the Golden Rule applies to each * The five most common reasons people compromise their ethics-and how you can prevail over such moral obstacles * How applying the Golden Rule to business builds morale, increases productivity, encourages teamwork, lowers employee turnover, and keeps clients coming back. John C. Maxwell not only reveals the many ways the Golden Rule creates the perfect environment for business success, but does it with great wisdom, warmth, and humor. Backed by flawless research and the ideas of history's best thinkers, this engaging book brilliantly demonstrates how doing the right thing fosters a winning situation for all, with positive results for employees, clients, investors, and even your own state of mind. Business runs much more smoothly, profits increase, and you know that you've set the groundwork for years of future prosperity...and it's all thanks to the tried-and-true Golden Rule.
Kant's Critique of Judgment accounts for the sharing of a common world, experienced affectively, by a diverse human plurality. In order to appreciate Kant's project, Judging Appearances retrieves the connection between appearance and judgment in the Critique of Judgment. Kleist emphasizes the important but neglected idea of a sensus communis, which provides the indeterminate criterion for judgments regarding appearance. Judging Appearances examines the themes of appearance and judgment against the background of Kant's debt to Leibniz and Shaftesbury. Drawing upon treatments by Husserl, Sartre, Ricoeur and Arendt, Kleist delineates the proto-phenomenological method through which Kant uncovers the idea of a sensus communis. Kleist shows that taste is a discipline of opening oneself to appearance, requiring a subject who dwells in a common world of appearances among a diverse human plurality. This volume will prove valuable for anyone interested in a fresh approach to themes at the heart of Kant's aesthetics.
Concern with the white male body - with exhibiting it and with the perils to it - suffused American culture in the years before World War I, he suggests, and continues with us today."--BOOK JACKET.
Featuring contributions from Jody Lynn Nye, Laura Resnick, Jean Rabe, and Scott William Carter, among others, this not-so-happily-ever-after collection of seventeen original stories, centering around the trials and tribulations of blind dates, follows a strange cast of characters as they all flirt with the unknown. Original.
The creation of Turkish nationhood, citizenship, economic transformation, the forceful removal of minorities and national homogenisation, gender rights, the position of armed forces in politics, and the political and economic integration of Kurdish minority in Turkish polity have all received major interest in academic and policy debates. The relationship between politics and religion in Turkey, originating from the early years of the Republicanism, has been central to many – if not all – of these issues. This book looks at how centralized religion has turned into a means of controlling and organizing the Turkish polity under the AKP (Justice and Development Party) governments by presenting the results from a study on Turkish hutbes (mosque sermons), analysing how their content relates to gender roles and identities. The book argues that the political domination of a secular state as an agency over religion has not suppressed, but transformed, religion into a political tool for the same agency to organise the polity and the society along its own ideological tenets. It looks at how this domination organises gender roles and identities to engender human capital to serve for a neoliberal economic developmentalism. The book then discusses the limits of this domination, reflecting on how its subjects position themselves between the politico-religious authority and their secular lives. Written in an accessible format, this book provides a fresh perspective on the relationship between religion and politics in the Middle East. More broadly, it also sheds light on global moral politics and illiberalism and why it relates to gender, religion and economics.
