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This is a pathbreaking book, essential reading for students of interwar political and social history. Previous histories of the period have underestimated the crucial role which Communists played in trade union organisation from top to bottom. Despite its relatively small size the Communist Party occupied a strategic place in the trade union movement: the leaders of the movement, notably Ernest Bevin, refused to acknowledge this at the time. Thanks to her extensive research and numerous interviews, and to the 'opening of the books' of the Communist Part, Nina Fishman has been able to uncover a fascinating story, one which official Communist historians have never told, and which other historians could only recount in fragments. The main protagonists are the Communist Party General Seretary, Harry Pollitt, and the Editor of the Daily Worker, Johnny Campbell. The book brings to vivid life the work of activists on the shop floor and in the coalmines during the Depression and the Second World War. The book includes the first comprehensive analysis of Communist activity in key sectors of the British economy, notably in engineering shop stewards' movements and among London busmen. It concludes with an authoritative review of Communists' part in the British war economy and a vigorous challenge to the conventional wisdom about the effect of Communist Party changes of line on the war on activists' abilities to incite and lead strikes.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I Public Religion and Community Revitalization -- Talking About Homelessness: Shifting Discourses and the Appeal to Religion in Amer i ca's Seventh- Largest City -- Becoming More Effective Community Problem Solvers: Faith- Based Organizations, Civic Capacity, and the Homelessness Crisis in Puget Sound -- Disenfranchising the Unhoused: Urban Redevelopment, the Criminalization of Homelessness, and the Peril of Prosperity Theology in Dallas and Beyond -- Religious Responses to Homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area: Addressing White Supremacy and Racism -- Homelessness and Health in Seattle: Challenges and Opportunities of Faith- Based Services -- PART II Religious Worldviews and the Common Good Re imagined -- Homelessness and Coast Salish Spiritual Traditions: Cultural Resources for Programmatic Responses in British Columbia -- In These United States, Homelessness Is Who You Are: Examining a Socially Constructed Category through the Lens of an Interfaith Encounter in Downtown Boston -- Religion and Civic Activism Reconsidered: Situating Faith- Based Responses to Homelessness -- On the Passionality of Exile in Medieval Kabbalah: An Invitation to Historicize Con temporary Religious and Public Discourses on Homelessness -- PART III Theological Insights for Homeless Ministries -- Wounds of Love: Spiritual Care and Homelessness in the Streets of Seattle -- Making Spirits Whole: Homeless Ministries as a Tool for Integral Development -- "And I Saw Googleville Descend from Heaven": Reading the New Jerusalem in Gentrified Latinx Communities of Silicon Valley -- Offensive Wisdom: Homeless Neighbors, Bible Interpretation, and the Abode of God in Washington, D.C. -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. 'East is East and West is West?' -- The Atavistic East, the Mystic East and the Scientific East -- From the noble savage to the Mystic East -- The conquering Mystic East -- The World Parliament of Religions - the 'Scientific East' and the dawning of psychologisation -- The idealised 'East' -- The beginnings of buddhist psychology -- 2. Counterculture and the return to the East -- The way of Watts -- Encountering the 'counterculture' -- The 'counterfeit infinity' of the Kali Yuga -- 3. The Buddha as a psychologist, the Dharma as a psychotherapy -- The Buddhist wheel of life -- Beyond psychology -- Buddhism on the couch -- Buddhism as cognitive psychology -- Buddhism and neuroscience - within the machine -- 4. The Dao of psychologisation -- Jung and Daoism -- Humanistic Daoism -- Maslow's 'Taoistic' science and psychology -- Daoism, Ecopsychology and the Ecological Unconscious -- Idealising and denaturing Daoism - The Dao of cognition -- 5. The commodification of 'the East' -- The mystery of the Crouching Buddha -- The East in popular culture -- The Holy Man effect - orientalist ventriloquism -- Marketing and mechanising mindfulness -- Meditation and machines -- 6. Resistance -- Clapping for our NHS -- Idealising Eastern resistance -- Between woke and awakened -- Between woke and awakened - a middle way -- 7. Transpersonal psychology -- Psychology and religion - the return of the repressed -- The many meanings of critical -- Wisdom and warnings from Ladakh -- Transpersonal and Critical Psychology -- Transpersonal psychology as Critical Psychology -- References -- Index.

Personal Ethics and Ordinary Heroes: The Social Context of Morality examines what it means to be an authentic hero and provides real-life narratives that underscore the ethical principles guiding decision-making in the justice system and beyond. This engaging work revolves around a collection of excerpts from students studying ethics and social justice. The essays were responses to an invitation to write about and discuss a hero in their liveswho motivated them to be more just, compassionate and morally responsible persons. These essays, collected over several years, portray shared meanings of heroism rooted in themes like sacrifice, perseverance and wisdom. The authors set student narratives in dialogues related to ethics and leadership that are both entertaining and useful for contemporary students and practitioners. This book illustrates the lessons of ethics in criminal and social justice practice and makes them tangible to students. Fostering the benefits of experiential learning, it brings real meaning to students of criminal justice as well as professionals in the criminal justice field and other areas of human and social service practice. Itis an essential accompaniment to primary texts used in ethics courses and training seminars. This book is intended for use in undergraduate classes in applied human sciences and services like criminal justice, criminology, social work and political science. It is particularly well-suited for classes in the areas of ethics, organizations and administration, and leadership. It is also worthwhile reading for the active justice practitioner.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Preliminaries: ground rules for grappling with the Global Ethic -- 1 Networking as equals? engaged Buddhists' egalitarian ideals and hierarchical habits -- Response: interrelation as if we really meant it -- 2 Women's religious authority in Shi'i tradition: a quest for justice -- Response: moral authority, epistemic authority, and gender justice -- 3 Gu Hongming and the religion of good citizenship: a Confucian vision beyond moral universalism and relativism -- Response -- 4 Avadim hayinu: an intersectional Jewish perspective on the Global Ethic of solidarity -- Response: solidarity and the sea of reeds -- 5 Are there principles in the Hindu tradition consonant with "freedom, dignity, and equality"? -- Response: human flourishing and the anti-human -- 6 Globalization, global ethics, and the common good: economic justice and Protestant prophetic proclamation -- Response: the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled -- 7 Sunni Islam and the estranged ideal: the displaced, the racially disenfranchised, and the Islamic prophetic -- Response -- 8 Decolonizing religion(s)-a new, Catholic direction for the Global Ethic -- Response: on political theology and the Global Ethic -- 9 Tapping the moral wisdom of Africa's Triple Plus heritage of religion and culture -- Response -- 10 Reflections on the relationship between human rights and global ethics -- Postscript: the Global Ethic's Directive to care for the Earth -- Appendix Towards a Global Ethic (An Initial Declaration) -- Index.

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- An integrated approach to Catholic peacebuilding and mining -- The structure of this book -- Aspirations of the book -- Notes -- References -- 1. Mining and peace: a scriptural reflection -- The wealth of creation and the goodness of the "land of promise -- Mining and the contrast between earthly treasure and divine wisdom (Job 28) -- The gift of gold, frankincense, and myrrh to baby Jesus -- Metals and stones in the new creation: the splendor of the new heaven and new earth (Rev. 21) -- The golden adornment of the tabernacle and the temple prefigures the holy city -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Section I: Catholic engagement on mining in conflict zones -- 2. Religion and extractive industries: ethics, practice, and engagement -- Religious engagement: framing patterns and legitimacy -- Evolving policy landscapes -- Corporate social responsibility and business practices -- Corruption and governance -- Principles of engagement with local communities and civil society organizations, including safeguarding policies applicable to multilateral financing organizations -- Indigenous peoples -- Environmental protection -- Fragility, conflict prevention, and peacebuilding -- Religious engagement -- Extractive industry strategies and approaches -- Religious and interreligious approaches -- Concluding reflections -- Notes -- References -- 3. The Church in Colombia and extractives: pastoral accompaniment using an eco-theology of peace -- The socio-political context for pastoral accompaniment on mining -- The legacy of mining in Colombia -- Surveying the church on extractives, governance, and peace.

1. Finns in the Colonial World; Raita Merivirta, Leila Koivunen & Timo Särkkä -- Part I: State, Nation and Colonialism in Finland -- 2. Wisdom of the Oppressed: Finnish Colonial Complicities in the Age of the Russian Empire; Pekka Rantanen, Petri Ruuska & Timo Särkkä -- 3. Finnish Parliamentarians' Conceptions of Imperialism and Colonialism, 1917-1995; Mika Suonpää & Matti Välimäki -- 4. Settler Colonial Eyes: Finnish Travel Writers and the Colonization of Petsamo; Janne Lahti -- 5. Nation-building and Colonialism: The Early Skolt Sami Research of Väinö Tanner; Jukka Nyyssönen -- Part II: Colonial Encounters in Finland -- 6. "Queensland Cannibals" Encountered in Finland (1886): Locally Rooted Visions of Exhibitions of Colonized People; Leila Koivunen -- 7. Colonialism, Race and White Innocence in Finnish Children's Literature: Anni Swan's 1920s' Serial "Uutisasukkaana Austraaliassa"; Raita Merivirta -- 8. Encountering Colonial Worlds through Missionary Maps in the Late Nineteenth-Century Grand Duchy of Finland; Johanna Skurnik -- Part III: Finns' Colonial Encounters Abroad -- 9. From the Eastern Front to the Western Frontier: The Transimperial Life of a Finnish Worker during the First World War; Aleksi Huhta -- 10. Photography and the Religious Encounter: Finnish Missionaries' Representations of the Owambo, Namibia; Napandulwe Shiweda -- 11. "Did you really have a place in the Boer War?": Colonial Conflict and the Contested Production of "Finnish" Nationality, 1899-1908; Wm. Matthew Kennedy & Chris Holdridge -- 12. The "Pioneer Men": Making of Finnish Settler Identity in Southern Africa pre-1914; Timo Särkkä.

Intro -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Abbreviations -- 1 Rebalancing Asia: Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS) -- Evolution of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS) -- Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS) in Foreign Policy -- References -- 2 Japan's Free and Open Indo-Pacific Vision: In Overcoming the Geostrategic Dilemma -- Introduction -- Foundation of Japan's FOIP Vision and Its Development -- Risks Associated with Japan's Ongoing Efforts in Pursuing Its FOIP -- Overcoming the Geostrategic Dilemma -- Take on Additional Security Roles as an Indispensable Ally of the U.S. -- Develop a Legitimate, Inclusive and Non-Security-Oriented Initiative -- Seek an Influential Role as a "Middle" Power -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 China's Geopolitical, Geoeconomic and Geostrategic Gameplay in the Indian Ocean Region -- Introduction -- Understanding the Link Between Geoeconomics and Geopolitics -- Background -- The Geoeconomic Gameplay -- The Geostrategic Gameplay -- The Geopolitical Gameplay -- Military Involvement -- The Future of Such Gameplays -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Connectivity, Cooperation and Collaboration: China-South Asia Partnerships Under the Scientific Belt & -- Road Initiative -- Introduction -- Conundrums for the "New-Commons" -- Ancient Silk Road: Origins of the Common Challenges -- To Be Connected: Innovation Key for Living -- S& -- T Cooperation: Invisible, but in Great Need -- Innovative Collaboration: Wisdom of Collective -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Spatial Conquest by Other Means: Assessing the Geopolitical Impact of China's Belt and Road Initiative -- World Politics at a Crossroads -- Deterritorialization and Transnationalization Under Globalization -- The Belt and Road Initiative: An Emerging New Order?.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Philosophical Foundations, Definitions, and Measures of Wellbeing -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Happiness Is Both a Philosophical and Psychological Concept -- 1.3 Happiness as a Strong and Universal Motive -- 1.4 Bentham Versus Aristotle -- 1.5 Three Philosophical Views of Happiness -- 1.5.1 Psychological Happiness (Hedonic Or Emotional Wellbeing) -- 1.5.2 Psychological Happiness as Positive and Negative Affect -- 1.5.2.1 Psychological Happiness as Hedonic Sensations of Momentary Pleasures -- 1.5.2.2 Psychological Happiness as Neuronal Chemical Release of Dopamine in the Brain -- 1.5.2.3 Psychological Happiness as Utility -- 1.5.2.4 Psychological Happiness as Emotional Wellbeing -- 1.5.3 Prudential Happiness (Life Satisfaction Or the Cognitive Component of Subjective Wellbeing) -- 1.5.3.1 Prudential Happiness as Life Satisfaction -- 1.5.3.2 Prudential Happiness as Domain Satisfaction -- 1.5.3.3 Prudential Happiness as Flow and Engagement -- 1.5.3.4 Prudential Happiness as Desire Satisfaction -- 1.5.3.5 Prudential Happiness as Attitudinal Pleasure -- 1.5.4 Perfectionist Happiness (Eudaimonia or Psychological Wellbeing) -- 1.5.4.1 Perfectionist Happiness as Eudaimonia -- 1.5.4.2 Perfectionist Happiness as Purpose and Meaning in Life -- 1.5.4.3 Perfectionist Happiness as Positive Mental Health Or Flourishing -- 1.5.4.4 Perfectionist Happiness as Satisfaction of the Full Spectrum of Human Needs (Basic and Growth Needs) -- 1.5.4.5 Perfectionist Happiness as Wisdom -- 1.5.4.6 Perfectionist Happiness as Resilience -- 1.5.4.7 Perfectionist Happiness as Functional Wellbeing -- 1.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Further Distinctions Among Major Concepts of Wellbeing -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Subjective Versus Objective Aspects of Quality of Life.

Introduction -- The attractor: Complex systems -- a definition -- Nonlinear dynamics -- The universality of complex phenomena -- Complicated is not necessarily complex -- The attractor: historical record and forecasting tool -- A spiritual attractor? -- Science and religion -- not science vs. religion -- Rituals to evoke the attractor -- Experiencing your own attractor - Endnotes --Bifurcation: The world will never be the same -- Why is it called bifurcation? -- The power of metaphor -- The wisdom of the mystics - Endnotes -- Self-organization: A chemical reaction that organizes itself -- Flocking, stampeding, and murmuration -- The origin of life -- The self-organizing slime mold -- The second law -- Degrees of integration -- Becoming a collective -- Self-organization in human society - Endnotes -- Cycles & Rythms: Rhythms in an obscure root vegetable -- Other oscillations in living things -- The 17-year brood -- Heart, brain, and calcium -- Predator-prey dynamics -- Round and round through life we go -- Trusting in the rhythms -- Table does not mean static - Endnotes -- Chaos: Chaos in the PO reaction -- Chaos in a weather model -- Drawing life lessons from nature -- Order in chaos: the strange attractor -- Walking the labyrinth -- Stability in the presence of instability - Endnotes -- Fractals: The fractal coastline -- The natural world is fractal -- Mysticism and the fractal insight -- The great fractal attractor - Endnotes -- Emergence: The whole is not just more -- it's different -- Traffic in a shared space -- Financial markets sometimes behave like sand piles -- When an outbreak becomes an epidemic -- Dynamical diseases and the brain -- Social emergence.

"A study of how film has continually intervened in our sense of perception, with far-ranging insights into the current state of lived experience How has cinema transformed our senses, and how does it continue to do so? Positing film as a stage in the long coevolution of human consciousness and visual technology, Postcinematic Vision offer a fresh perspective on the history of film while providing startling new insights into the so-called divide between cinematic and digital media. Starting with the argument that film viewing has long altered neural circuitry in our brains, Roger F. Cook proceeds to reevaluate film's origins, as well as its merger with digital imaging in the 1990s. His animating argument is that film has continually altered the relation between media and human perception, challenging the visual nature of modern culture in favor of a more unified, pan-sensual way of perceiving. Through this approach, he makes original contributions to our understanding of how mediation is altering lived experience. Along the way, Cook provides important reevaluations of well-known figures such as Franz Kafka, closely reading cinematic passages in the great author's work; he reassesses the conventional wisdom that Marshall McLuhan was a technological determinist; and he lodges an original new reading of The Matrix. Full of provocative and far-reaching ideas, Postcinematic Vision is a powerful work that helps us see old concepts anew while providing new ideas for future investigation"--Publisher's description

"The inspiring and hilarious true story of how a single mother found the strength to transform her life and become the person--and parent--she could admire, revealing the tips and advice that empowered her Kristina Kuzmic has made herself a household name, speaking directly to mothers from the trenches of parenthood via her viral videos and social media presence. She's now bringing her message of self-acceptance, resilience, and joy to book readers. What she has delivered is a refreshingly unpretentious, funny, and galvanizing book that goes behind the scenes on how Kristina Kuzmic went from broke and defeated to unshakably grounded and brimming with gratitude. Illuminating the hard-won wisdom from a life spent always one step behind, whether it was as a high school student new to America, a suddenly single mother to two kids, a newlywed juggling two teens and a newborn, or the unexpected recipient of Oprah's attention and investment, Hold On, But Don't Hold Still is the book every mother needs to reassure her that she's not only fine just as she is, but that she already has more tools and support than she can possibly imagine. Sparkling with wit, this heartfelt memoir is like a long coffee date with a best friend, or the eleventh hour text message that gives you just the boost you need to get through the day"--

"The Third Reich and Yugoslavia focuses on economic and political affairs between the Third Reich and Yugoslavia before Germany attacked in April 1941. It observes the relations between the two countries primarily from an economic perspective, with the political dimension forming a backdrop within which the economy operated. Perica Hadzi-Jovancic challenges the conventional scholarly wisdom which recognises economics as mainly being a tool of German foreign policy towards Yugoslavia. Instead, he successfully places economic dealings on both sides within the broader context of both the German economic and financial plans and policies of the 1930s, as well as the existing trading ties between the two countries as they had been developing since the 1920s. At the same time, through detailed analysis of unpublished archival material, Hadzi-Jovancic explores the shared political relations from a new perspective; one from which there is a much deeper understanding of Yugoslavia's motives and the resulting implications for the other great powers and the wider regional framework. The book concludes that, contrary to the traditional view in historiography and despite the dependency of Yugoslavia's foreign trade on the German market at the dawn of the Second World War, Yugoslavia maintained both its economic and political agency in the shadow of the Third Reich. It was only international political developments beyond Yugoslavia's control in the years ahead that lead to a more receptive stance towards German demands."--

"Conventional wisdom has it that the successful functioning of the UN Security Council almost completely depends on the role played by its five permanent members and the extent to which they can agree-or avoid to fundamentally disagree-on the many issues on the Council's agenda. But the Council also consists of ten non-permanent or elected members who represent five different regions of the world, and who, though not vested with the right of veto, play an indispensable role in Council decision-making. This book aims to take a closer look at that role. It considers what role is foreseen for the elected members in the UN Charter, how this evolved in practice, what "tools" they can deploy. It also considers whether there are particular "niches" for the elected members on the Security Council, such as engaging in conflict prevention, taking initiatives on rule of law issues and debating the potential effects of climate change on peace and security. Can elected members serve as agents of the international community and norm entrepreneurs? Should their position be strengthened, and if so, how? This collection was born out of a dynamic research seminar held at Leiden University, which also drew on the experiences of former elected members. This book thus offers unique insights from both practice and scholarship, and is an indispensable tool for politicians, diplomats, academics and students alike"

It is a widespread view that democracy and the advanced nation-state are in crisis, weakened by globalization and undermined by global capitalism, in turn explaining rising inequality and mounting populism. This book, written by two of the world's leading political economists, argues this view is wrong: advanced democracies are resilient, and their enduring historical relationship with capitalism has been mutually beneficial. For all the chaos and upheaval over the past century - major wars, economic crises, massive social change, and technological revolutions - Torben Iversen and David Soskice show how democratic states continuously reinvent their economies through massive public investment in research and education, by imposing competitive product markets and cooperation in the workplace, and by securing macroeconomic discipline as the preconditions for innovation and the promotion of the advanced sectors of the economy. Critically, this investment has generated vast numbers of well-paying jobs for the middle classes and their children, focusing the aims of aspirational families, and in turn providing electoral support for parties. Gains at the top have also been shared with the middle (though not the bottom) through a large welfare state. Contrary to the prevailing wisdom on globalization, advanced capitalism is neither footloose nor unconstrained: it thrives under democracy precisely because it cannot subvert it. Populism, inequality, and poverty are indeed great scourges of our time, but these are failures of democracy and must be solved by democracy.