Corporate Ties That Bind

Author : Martin J. Walker
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781510711891

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Corporate Ties That Bind by Martin J. Walker Pdf

In the 21st century, corporations have worked their way into government and, as they become increasingly more powerful, arguments about their involvement with public health have become increasingly black and white. With corporations at the center of public health and environmental issues, everything chemical or technological is good, everything natural is bad; scientists who are funded by corporations are right and those who are independent are invariably wrong. There is diminishing common ground between the two opposed sides in these arguments. Corporate Ties that Bind is a collection of essays written by influential academic scholars, activists, and epidemiologists from around the world that scrutinize the corporate reasoning, false science and trickery involving those, like in-house epidemiologists, who mediate the scientific message of organizations who attack and censure independent voices. This book addresses how the growth of corporatism is destroying liberal democracy and personal choice. Whether addressing asbestos, radiation, PCBs, or vaccine regulation, the essays here address the dangers of trusting corporations and uncover the lengths to which corporations put profits before health.

Author : Sarah Schulman
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781595585349

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Ties That Bind by Sarah Schulman Pdf

Although acceptance of difference is on the rise in America, it’s the rare gay or lesbian person who has not been demeaned because of his or her sexual orientation, and this experience usually starts at home, among family members. Whether they are excluded from family love and approval, expected to accept second-class status for life, ignored by mainstream arts and entertainment, or abandoned when intervention would make all the difference, gay people are routinely subjected to forms of psychological and physical abuse unknown to many straight Americans. “Familial homophobia,” as prizewinning writer and professor Sarah Schulman calls it, is a phenomenon that until now has not had a name but that is very much a part of life for the LGBT community. In the same way that Susan Brownmiller’s Against Our Will transformed our understanding of rape by moving the stigma from the victim to the perpetrator, Schulman’s Ties That Bind calls on us to recognize familial homophobia. She invites us to understand it not as a personal problem but a widespread cultural crisis. She challenges us to take up our responsibilities to intervene without violating families, community, and the state. With devastating examples, Schulman clarifies how abusive treatment of homosexuals at home enables abusive treatment of homosexuals in other relationships as well as in society at large. Ambitious, original, and deeply important, Schulman’s book draws on her own experiences, her research, and her activism to probe this complex issue—still very much with us at the start of the twenty-first century—and to articulate a vision for a more accepting world.

Author : Katherine Pettipas
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887550317

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Severing the Ties that Bind by Katherine Pettipas Pdf

Religious ceremonies were an inseparable part of Aboriginal traditional life, reinforcing social, economic, and political values. However, missionaries and government officials with ethnocentric attitudes of cultural superiority decreed that Native dances and ceremonies were immoral or un-Christian and an impediment to the integration of the Native population into Canadian society. Beginning in 1885, the Department of Indian Affairs implemented a series of amendments to the Canadian Indian Act, designed to eliminate traditional forms of religious expression and customs, such as the Sun Dance, the Midewiwin, the Sweat Lodge, and giveaway ceremonies.However, the amendments were only partially effective. Aboriginal resistance to the laws took many forms; community leaders challenged the legitimacy of the terms and the manner in which the regulations were implemented, and they altered their ceremonies, the times and locations, the practices, in an attempt both to avoid detection and to placate the agents who enforced the law.Katherine Pettipas views the amendments as part of official support for the destruction of indigenous cultural systems. She presents a critical analysis of the administrative policies and considers the effects of government suppression of traditional religious activities on the whole spectrum of Aboriginal life, focussing on the experiences of the Plains Cree from the mid-1880s to 1951, when the regulations pertaining to religious practices were removed from the Act. She shows how the destructive effects of the legislation are still felt in Aboriginal communities today, and offers insight into current issues of Aboriginal spirituality, including access to and use of religious objects held in museum repositories, protection of sacred lands and sites, and the right to indigenous religious practices in prison.

Author : Phyllis Krystal
Publisher : Sheema Medien Verlag
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783948177522

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Cutting the Ties that Bind by Phyllis Krystal Pdf

In this book, Phyllis Krystal describes techniques, rituals and symbols which are capable of impressing positive messages on the subconscious mind in order to offset some of the negative conditioning that may have been received earlier in life. In this way, changes in life become possible much better than just working on a con¬scious, cognitive level. This method enables a person to liberate from the various sources of false security to become an independent and whole human being, relying only on the inner source of security ans wisdom which is available to everyone who seeks its aids. First revised edition.

Author : Marie Bostwick
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780758279828

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Ties That Bind by Marie Bostwick Pdf

“A truly wonderful tale of spirit, faith and true friendship” in the quilting series from the New York Times bestselling author of Threading the Needle (Fresh Fiction). Christmas is fast approaching, and New Bern, Connecticut, is about to receive the gift of a new pastor, hired sight unseen to fill in while Reverend Tucker is on sabbatical. Meanwhile, Margot Matthews’ friend, Abigail, is trying to match-make even though Margot has all but given up on romance. She loves her job at the Cobbled Court Quilt Shop and the life and friendships she’s made in New Bern; she just never thought she’d still be single on her fortieth birthday. It’s a shock to the entire town when Phillip A. Clarkson turns out to be Philippa. Truth be told, not everyone is happy about having a female pastor. Yet despite a rocky start, Philippa begins to settle in—finding ways to ease the townspeople’s burdens, joining the quilting circle, and forging a fast friendship with Margot. When tragedy threatens to tear Margot’s family apart, that bond—and the help of her quilting sisterhood—will prove a saving grace. And as she untangles her feelings for another new arrival in town, Margot begins to realize that it is the surprising detours woven into life’s fabric that provide its richest hues and deepest meaning . . . Praise for the Cobbled Court Quilts series “A big-hearted novel filled with wit and wisdom.” —Susan Wiggs, New York Times bestselling author “Bostwick’s warmly nourishing, emotionally compelling novel is quiet yet powerful.” —Chicago Tribune “Heartwarming . . . an unbreakable thread of friendship and faith.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Francesca Polletta
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226734347

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Inventing the Ties That Bind by Francesca Polletta Pdf

At a time of deep political divisions, leaders have called on ordinary Americans to talk to one another: to share their stories, listen empathetically, and focus on what they have in common, not what makes them different. In Inventing the Ties that Bind, Francesca Polletta questions this popular solution for healing our rifts. Talking the way that friends do is not the same as equality, she points out. And initiatives that bring strangers together for friendly dialogue may provide fleeting experiences of intimacy, but do not supply the enduring ties that solidarity requires. But Polletta also studies how Americans cooperate outside such initiatives, in social movements, churches, unions, government, and in their everyday lives. She shows that they often act on behalf of people they see as neighbors, not friends, as allies, not intimates, and people with whom they have an imagined relationship, not a real one. To repair our fractured civic landscape, she argues, we should draw on the rich language of solidarity that Americans already have.

Author : Eden Rose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798986020310

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The Ties That Bind Us by Eden Rose Pdf

Author : Lensey Namioka
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780307434067

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Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by Lensey Namioka Pdf

Third Sister in the Tao family, Ailin has watched her two older sisters go through the painful process of having their feet bound. In China in 1911, all the women of good families follow this ancient tradition. But Ailin loves to run away from her governess and play games with her male cousins. Knowing she will never run again once her feet are bound, Ailin rebels and refuses to follow this torturous tradition. As a result, however, the family of her intended husband breaks their marriage agreement. And as she enters adolescence, Ailin finds that her family is no longer willing to support her. Chinese society leaves few options for a single woman of good family, but with a bold conviction and an indomitable spirit, Ailin is determined to forge her own destiny. Her story is a tribute to all those women whose courage created new options for the generations who came after them.

Author : Kathryn Shay
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0425210537

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Ties that Bind by Kathryn Shay Pdf

To clear their names, a divorced pair of lawyers must delve into a painful past--uncovering not only the crime that could end their careers, but an enduring passion that seems to have survived their divorce. Original.

Author : Martin J. Walker
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 779 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781510711891

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Corporate Ties That Bind by Martin J. Walker Pdf

In the 21st century, corporations have worked their way into government and, as they become increasingly more powerful, arguments about their involvement with public health have become increasingly black and white. With corporations at the center of public health and environmental issues, everything chemical or technological is good, everything natural is bad; scientists who are funded by corporations are right and those who are independent are invariably wrong. There is diminishing common ground between the two opposed sides in these arguments. Corporate Ties that Bind is a collection of essays written by influential academic scholars, activists, and epidemiologists from around the world that scrutinize the corporate reasoning, false science and trickery involving those, like in-house epidemiologists, who mediate the scientific message of organizations who attack and censure independent voices. This book addresses how the growth of corporatism is destroying liberal democracy and personal choice. Whether addressing asbestos, radiation, PCBs, or vaccine regulation, the essays here address the dangers of trusting corporations and uncover the lengths to which corporations put profits before health.

Author : Thomas Donaldson,Thomas W. Dunfee
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0875847277

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Ties that Bind by Thomas Donaldson,Thomas W. Dunfee Pdf

Ties That Bind, written by two leading thinkers in the field of business ethics, offers a new approach to resolving today's most pressing debates about business behavior among diverse groups of people. Drawing from classic political philosophy and leading-edge social contract theory, Donaldson and Dunfee present a much-needed framework for making sensitive ethical judgments about economic and business behavior.

Author : Dave Isay
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143125969

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Ties That Bind by Dave Isay Pdf

“As good as we humans are at division, we’re better still at connection. Ties That Bind shows this again and again.” —The New York Times “A testimony to the power of narrative and vision. . . . The collection successfully fulfills its mission: to make readers feel 'more connected, awake, and alive.'" —Publishers Weekly A celebration of the relationships that bring us strength, purpose, and joy Ties That Bind honors the people who nourish and strengthen us. StoryCorps founder Dave Isay draws from ten years of the revolutionary oral history project’s rich archives, collecting conversations that celebrate the power of the human bond and capture the moment at which individuals become family. Between blood relations, friends, coworkers, and neighbors, in the most trying circumstances and in the unlikeliest of places, enduring connections are formed and lives are forever changed. The stories shared in Ties That Bind reveal our need to reach out, to support, and to share life’s burdens and joys. We meet two brothers, separately cast out by their parents, who reconnect and rebuild a new family around each other. We encounter unexpected joy: A gay woman reveals to her beloved granddaughter that she grew up believing that family was a happiness she would never be able to experience. We witness lifechanging friendship: An Iraq war veteran recalls his wartime bond with two local children and how his relationship with his wife helped him overcome the trauma of losing them. Against unspeakable odds, at their most desperate moments, the individuals we meet in Ties That Bind find their way to one another, discovering hope and healing. Commemorating ten years of StoryCorps, the conversations collected in Ties That Bind are a testament to the transformational power of listening. Dave Isay's latest book, Callings, published in 2016 from Penguin Press.

Author : Guy Finley
Publisher : Llewellyn Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Autonomy (Psychology)
ISBN : 0875422179

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Freedom from the Ties that Bind by Guy Finley Pdf

Offer advice on attaining a state of self-liberation, putting one's life in perfect order, and breaking free of self-punishing patterns.

Author : Ronald W Richardson,Manly W. Wellman
Publisher : Self-Counsel Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business
ISBN : 155180168X

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Ready-to-use Business Forms by Ronald W Richardson,Manly W. Wellman Pdf

How to deal with family relationships is a problem that most people never solve. This book uses Family of Origin therapy techniques as a basis for you to improve those relationships and your own sense of self-esteem. Written in lay language, the step-by-step exercises show how to make contact with "lost" family members, how to interview relatives to develop a clearer picture of how each member fits into the family tree, and how to find different and better ways of dealing with family relationships. Professionals will find this book equally useful as a companion to their Family of Origin therapy sessions with clients. "Very practical". Midwest Book Review

Author : David Slater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1790945852

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The Ties That Bind by David Slater Pdf

IntroductionIs blood really thicker than water? How far does your religious and cultural history define you as a person? Can a good person do bad things for good reasons and still be a good person?When everything you've thought to be true about yourself turns out to be false, do you burn your bridges and drift along through life, or do you blaze a different path?Some secrets are better left untold. Devastated by the dying revelations of the woman he had believed to be his mother Chan Tai keung felt his privileged world tear apart, he wanted to blow the world apart in retribution. His world was Hong Kong and China. Part of that world was Ben Varley, a jaded and disillusioned expat police officer who had stayed on after Hong Kong had been reunified with China. His world was far from perfect, his life full of human errors in his fight to be true to his own conscience.When despair meets hope, two worlds collide.