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At the Altar of the Bottom Line

Author : Tom Juravich
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1558497250

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Based on extensive interviews with workers in four different industries, this book takes us behind the statistics of the economic collapse and into the lives of Americans who are struggling to make ends meet and support their families. Tom Juravich combines oral history with social and economic analysis to provide a vivid account of the multiple challenges presented in today's workplaces. At a Verizon call center in Andover, Massachusetts, customer service reps find themselves overwhelmed by the pace of work and the constant monitoring. They describe a daily routine marked by regimentation, intense pressure to sell, and unrelenting stress. In New Bedford, undocumented Guatemalans in the fish-processing industry are fired if they don't work fast enough, cheated out of wages, and mistreated by supervisors. Juravich describes a brutal immigration raid by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that divided families and forced workers further underground. Juravich then takes us inside the operating rooms at the Boston Medical Center, where hospital consolidation has brought a new "bottom line" philosophy that has fundamentally altered the way patient care is delivered. Surgery takes place almost non-stop, driving some nurses from their chosen profession and leaving those who remain exhausted. The final case study looks at the shuttering of the Jones Beloit plant, an internationally known manufacturer of machinery for the paper industry. Despite the best efforts of highly skilled and productive workers to save their plant, it was abruptly closed and they were abandoned after their CEO recklessly became involved in a shaky foreign investment. Juravich argues that workers face a series of paradoxes in the contemporary American workplace. They can no longer assume that large established firms create good jobs. The new working conditions often resemble what was traditionally associated with marginal and low-wage employers. He concludes that we must bring a discussion about the quality of jobs back into the public discourse and that a "good jobs" strategy is a fundamental building block to economic recovery. Workers' voices are front and center in this highly readable book. It includes striking photographs by Paul Shoul and a CD that presents a series of audio documentaries with excerpts from the interviews, as well as four original songs written and performed by Juravich.

Tyranny of the Bottom Line

Author : Ralph W. Estes
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1881052753

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In a thought-provoking proposal which maintains that corporations be held responsible to their customers, employees, and society, as well as to their financial investors, Estes lays out a plan to reform the corporate system which could result in a savings to society of up to $2.5 trillion.

Transforming the Bottom Line

Author : Tony Hope,Jeremy Hope
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0875847463

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"Transforming the Bottom Line" shows how to achieve organizational transformation by cutting the workload not the work force, developing a horizontal team-based organization, aligning performance measures with strategy, and more. "This book is, in its quiet but authoritative way, revolutionary".

Frontline Christians in a Bottom-Line World

Author : Linda Rios Brook,Brook Lind Rios
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780768429664

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Frontline Christians in a Bottom Line World debunks the traditional notion that business and belief do not create a profitable partnership. Linda Rios Brook, with a 20-year career as a president of network TV affiliates, gives the inside track on how one can maintain Christian integrity amidst the cutthroat politics of corporate America. Taking cues from Old Testament rulers like Joseph, Daniel and David, Brooks plots a game plan on how to not only survive but also how to thrive the ups and downs of marketplace ministry while still glorifying God. Entrepreneurs and evangelists alike should heed these wise words on the apostolic anointing to take dominion over the working world.

Ecoepic & Other Poems

Author : Ken Ingham
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781847289599

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Ecoepic & other poems is a labor of love fifteen years in the making. Straight-forward lyrics about nature, ecology, politics, education, evolution, religion, Gaia ...with rhymes that surprise, stories that make you think, laugh and cry all at once. Poetry with punch is what one reader called it. Here is a book you could read in an hour but its message is likely to linger for years.

(Sacrifices) Left at the Altar

Author : Joshua A. Fogel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780761862130

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Following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E., Judaism faced a serious crossroads. The rabbis of late antiquity spent the next few centuries in extensive debates in an effort to create an ethical and practical basis for a Torah-based faith. Their extensive discussions constitute the bulk of what we now know as the Talmud. This collection is not only massive; it is forbiddingly difficult and has accumulated numerous commentaries over the centuries since it first appeared. Recent translations have made it somewhat more accessible to English-language readers, but textual difficulties remain. This volume looks at tractate Zevachim (Sacrifices), which is mostly concerned with meat offerings slaughtered and presented at the Temple (when it stood). Joshua A. Fogel approaches the text, page by page, commenting with doses of humor and comparisons in a manner meant to explain and humanize the text for contemporary readers.

Gleanings from the Caves

Author : Torleif Elgvin,Michael Langlois,Kipp Davis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567285713

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This special edition large format LSTS volume presents, over half of them for the first time, ten biblical and five non-biblical fragments from the Judean Desert. The text features 42 photographs of the fragments. The publication of seven new fragments from the Judean Desert will supplement the Discoveries in the Judean Desert series and bring new material to scholars regarding the full textual situation. Two of the new biblical fragments suggest the preservation of substantial textual variants. The new Aramaic fragment reveals the use of interesting linguistic forms. The book includes a 10 page essay by Martin Schoyen about how he has tracked down and acquired Judean Desert fragments and artifacts since 1994. The collection of images, photographs of the fragments, and scholarly commentary from some of the leading experts in the field gives the reader a comprehensive picture of the artifacts from Qumran. The fragments included are: 4QLeviticusi, 4QSamueld, 4QDeuteronomy, and 4Q Twelve prophets; New (additional) fragments of 4QPsalmsq and 4QExodusc; improved version of XJudges frg 3, 4QJoshuac, 1QDanielb, and 4QJoshuac; Apochryphal fragments - 4QTobita and 1QapocrGenesis; and, Other fragments - 1QSb (Rule of Blessings, reedition), 11QTemplea, and 4QAramaic frg.

When Death Falls Apart

Author : Hannah Gould
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780226829012

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Through an ethnographic study inside Japan's Buddhist goods industry, this book establishes a method for understanding change in death ritual through attention to the dynamic lifecourse of necromaterials. Deep in the Fukuyama mountainside, "the grave of the graves" (o-haka no haka) houses the material remains of Japan's discarded death rites. In the past, the Japanese dead would be transformed into ancestors through years of ritual offerings at graves and in the home at Buddhist altars called butsudan. But in 21st-century Japan, this intergenerational system of care is rapidly collapsing due to falling birth rates, secularization, and economic downturn. Through the lens of this domestic altar, Gould asks: What happens when religious technology becomes obsolete? In noisy carpentry studios, flashy funeral showrooms, the neglected houses of widowers, and the cramped kitchens where women prepare memorial feasts, Gould traces the butsudan alongside the Buddhist lifecycle, exploring how they are made, circulate within religious and funerary economies, come to mediate intimate exchanges between the living and the dead, fall into disuse, and, maybe, are remade. Gould suggests how this form might be reborn for the modern world, from miniature urns inspired by sleek Scandinavian design to new ritual practices that embrace impermanence, such as scattering or the making of "bone buddhas". Read against a long tradition of theorizing memorialization, Japan's contemporary deathscape offers a case study of a different kind of necrosociality, based on material exchanges that seek to both nurture the dead and disentangle them from the world of the living.

Inscriptions

Author : Daniel J. Geagan
Publisher : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781621390015

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This is the last of five volumes presenting inscriptions discovered in the Athenian Agora between 1931 and 1967. Published here are inscriptions on monuments commemorating events or victories, on statues or other representations erected to honor individuals and deities, and on votive offerings to divinities. Most are dated to between the 4th century B.C. and the 2nd century A.D., but a few survive from the Archaic and Late Roman periods. A final section contains monuments that are potentially, but not certainly, dedicatory in character, and a small number of grave markers omitted from Agora XVII. Each of the 773 catalogue entries includes a description of the object inscribed, bibliography, a transcription of the Greek text, and commentary. There are photographs of each piece of which no adequate illustration has yet been published, including newly joined fragments. The volume concludes with concordances and six indexes.

Simple Wicca

Author : Michele Morgan
Publisher : Conari Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781609250393

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Wicca, a positive, Earth-based spiritual practice, is both old and new, traditional and ever-changing- and Michele Morgan has captured its essence in this small book. She invites readers to follow their hearts into a spiritual practice that has sustained ancestors from time immemorial. In Simple Wicca, practitioner Michele Morgan dispels the many myths that surround this centuries-old tradition, explains its main tenets, and offers interested readers the basics of how to begin to practice. While other books have been written on Wicca, none are as straightforward and easy to follow. Simple Wicca offers not only practical guidance in the craft, but also an emotional and spiritual understanding of the practice.

More Reflections of a Dinosaur Priest

Author : Lloyd Csp
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781598587562

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"Some dinosaurs are landlocked - the best fly. Father James Lloyd takes to the skies as he describes the beauty of the Catholic Church's magnificent traditions and the courage it take to be truly Catholic." - Dr. E. Mark Stern - Psychoanalyst Professor Emeritus of Psychology - Iona College "An honest and provocative book which challenges contemporary political correctness...well worth reading." - Bishop Thomas V.Dailey Retired Bishop of Brooklyn, New York and West Palm Beach, Florida This book is the culmination of a lifetime of experiences. Father James Lloyd has been a New York state licensed psychologist for 30 years with a PhD in psychology from NYU. He likes to say "I am half Russian Jew and half Irish but ALL Catholic. My parents were Vaudevillians and I was a classic 'dirty neck kid' from San Juan Hill in West Side Manhattan." As an adult, Lloyd spent time as a missionary in southern Africa, taught theology, was the rector of a seminary, and hosted an interview show on WNBC for 15 years. On his show, he interviewed a tremendous variety of celebrities, including Bill Buckley Jr., Mother Teresa, David Susskind and Jackie Gleason. He worked with divorced and separated Catholics, with widows and widowers. He preached missions in parishes, gave retreats to clergy, taught psychology on the undergraduate level and was the Director of the Graduate Division of Pastoral Counseling at Iona College for 20 years. Since retirement, he runs a weekly group for the Archdiocese of New York to help males who seek inner chastity in the face of their strong same sex attractions. He has seen miracles of God's grace in all aspects of life. This book presents a series of convictions about life and its meaning through the eyes of what he has seen of life. Each writing articulates his beliefs and a deeply personal view of the world as it stands today.

In the Morning, When I Rise

Author : R. G. Shelton
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781449700799

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For I consider that the sufferings of this present time (this present life) are not worth being compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us and for us and conferred on us! Romans 8:18 The impact of Jesus resurrection on the first day of the week was revealed most overpoweringly by the resurrection that took place and was witnessed by others in his disciples. R. G. Shelton shares, through scripture and testimony, her experience of hope, loss of a child, darkness, being drained and emotionally buried under and the resulting impact of Resurrection in A MUST READ book In the Morning When I Rise. Rev. Rayford J. Grady, MD Pastor of Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit If you've always wondered why you never seemed to fit in; if you wondered why your life was so very different from everybody else's; if you've always wondered why it seemed God was always on your mind, even when you didn't want Him to be; if you've always wondered why it felt you were on a path, traveling a road from which there appeared to be no permanent detours, read In the Morning When I Rise and discover why. Travel with the author as she journals her way from loss to anointing - from counting the cost to counting all things as loss for the excellency of Jesus Christ. CM Taylor - Publisher, TIMothy Magazine I strongly support this sincere, heartfelt, spirited directed work of Christ. It is a must read for every Christian who is serious about walking with the Lord through the valley and beside the still waters. It is a must read. Faye W. Brown - Missionary, Public Speaker and Educator of CPS

A Book of Women's Altars

Author : Nancy Brady Cunningham
Publisher : Red Wheel
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781590030110

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Any surface can become an altar. Geddes and Cunningham, with beautiful, inspirational photos and text that's both instructive and poetic, show us how. For women, they say, an altar can become a sacred space upon which to place symbols of her true self. Whether indoors or out, permanent or fleeting, an altar helps you to quickly focus on the spirituality inherent in common things -- the flicker of a candle flame, the heady scent of freshly picked lilacs. Part One of A Book of Women's Altars explains the cultural and historical background of the altar and why to create one. Making and using an altar literally clears a path for a woman through the clutter of her world. She creates a place where she is free to make her inner journey, where healing is abundant. Cunningham describes the process of selecting a theme, choosing a place, finding the right objects, and knowing when to change the altar. Part Two focuses on what to do with altars on special occasions. The author and photographer have created and illustrated -- with photographs and stories -- sixteen special altars. There are altars for the seasons of the year and the seasons of our lives -- including loss, remembrance, celebration of new life, and many more. Each has its own purpose, story, and ritual. Nancy Cunningham is an accomplished poet, author of A Book of Women's Altars, and workshop leader in yoga, meditation and ritual for more than 30 years.

Pray!

Author : Carl Jackson,Anna Jackson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781514473153

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There is an urgent need for prayer in our world today. Prayer is more than asking for things. Prayer is communion with the Father through Jesus by the Holy Spirit. This book is meant to help the reader develop a closer relationship with God and thus affect the world. We are admonished by the Lord to ask, seek and knock. He wants us to keep on asking, keep on seeking and keep on knocking. By doing this we learn how to overcome obstacles and roadblocks the enemy may attempt to put in our way. Prayer is an exciting adventure for those who are willing to step into the prayer arena. We invite all to join us through the means God has given to pull down strongholds that come against us. In this way the hand of God will be able to move in our homes, schools, churches, cities, states, in this country and around the world.

Tikal Reports, Numbers 1-11

Author : William R. Coe,Robert F. Carr
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780934718745

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Any consideration of ancient Mesoamerica, and more particularly the lowland Maya region, must include the great site of Tikal, Guatemala. Excavation and research were conducted at Tikal under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the government of Guatemala from 1956 through 1969. The painstaking analysis of the results of those years of fieldwork continues, and the results will be published in a projected total of 39 final reports. This volume includes facsimile editions of the first 11 numbers of the final reports, on various topics relevant to the early excavations at Tikal, carried out by the University Museum. University Museum Monograph 64