Seeking A Better Future

Author : Lucille H. Campey
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781459703537

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Seeking a Better Future by Lucille H. Campey Pdf

Most emigration from England was voluntary, self-financed, and pursued by people who, while expecting to improve their economic prospects, were also critical of the areas in which they first settled. The exodus from England that gathered pace during the 19th century accounted for the greatest part of the total emigration from Britain to Canada. And yet, while copious emigration studies have been undertaken on the Scots and the Irish, very little has been written about the English in Canada. Drawing on wide-ranging data collected from English record offices and Canadian archives, Lucille Campey considers why people left England and traces their destinations in Ontario and Quebec. A mass of detailed information relating to pioneer settlements and ship crossings has been distilled to provide new insights on how, why, and when Ontario and Quebec acquired their English settlers. Challenging the widely held assumption that emigration was primarily a flight from poverty, Campey reveals how the ambitious and resourceful English were strongly attracted by the greater freedoms and better livelihoods that could be achieved by relocating to Canada’s central provinces.

Author : Kim Alexis
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781401678715

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A Model for a Better Future by Kim Alexis Pdf

Supermodel, spokeswoman, athlete, and mom Kim Alexis shares her story and the convictions she's developed.

Author : Koon Hean Cheong
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789813279414

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Seeking A Better Urban Future by Koon Hean Cheong Pdf

Dr Cheong Koon Hean, CEO of the Housing and Development Board (2010-2020) was the Institute of Policy Studies' 5th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book contains edited versions of the three IPS-Nathan Lectures she gave between March and April 2018, and highlights of her dialogue with the audience.Climate change, an ageing population, anti-globalisation sentiments the world over, technological disruption, and social media all pose unique problems and opportunities to cities. Dr Cheong examines how cities deal with their urban challenges to create a better life for their citizens. In particular, what are the considerations needed to plan and develop Singapore in the face of rapid change and uncertainty, given our constraints as a small city-state with an open economy?The IPS-Nathan Lectures series was launched in 2014 as part of the S R Nathan Fellowship for the Study of Singapore. The S R Nathan Fellow delivers a series of lectures during their term to advance public understanding and discussion of issues of critical national interest.

Author : Tricia D. Olsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009293266

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Seeking Justice by Tricia D. Olsen Pdf

Seeking Justice: Access to Remedy for Corporate Human Rights Abuse explores victims' varying experiences in seeking remedy mechanisms for corporate human rights abuse. It puts forward a novel theory about the possibility of productive contestation and explores governance outcomes for victims of corporate human rights abuse across Latin America. This foundation informs three pathways that victims can use to press for their rights: working within the institutional environment, capitalizing on corporate characteristics, and elevating voices. Seeking Justice challenges the common assumptions in the governance gap literature and argues, instead, that greater democratic practices can emerge from productive contestation. This book brings to bear tough questions about the trade-offs associated with economic growth and conflicting values around human dignity-questions that are very salient today, as citizens around the globe contemplate the type of democratic and economic systems that might better prepare us for tomorrow.

Author : John Miller
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781642145564

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Approximately Dead by John Miller Pdf

Oftentimes, the intentions of honest and law-abiding people are subjugated by the elements of the occupations that they pursue. Why would a skilled precision machinist want to give up on that life track to pursue a career of violence and danger in the slimy and violent world of the criminal underbelly of a large metropolitan city? Seeking out the answers to questions that many would rather leave unanswered is a skill learned the hard way for a new private eye. Without the tools of a skilled assassin, the strength of a professional leg breaker, or the general pugilistic abilities of a common street thug, Rex Bonner charts his way through the streets and alleys of his town to locate the center of the crux of his case and bring it to a client's approval, dodging hurdles and parrying threats along the way as others get the chance to pay the piper for the life they chose and the horror that fills it.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264842731

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Embedding Values and Attitudes in Curriculum Shaping a Better Future by OECD Pdf

This report highlights how clearly articulated and experienced values and attitudes can support students’ positive lifelong learning outcomes and promote a more equitable and just society. Despite the variety of values espoused in national curricula, there is an emerging trend in prioritising values that enhance well-being and learning across different countries.

Author : Swati Narayan
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781848149786

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Nourish South Asia: Growing a better future for regional food justice by Swati Narayan Pdf

Author : David Atkinson
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781648896873

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Reimagining Capitalism: Applying Negative Dialectics for a Better Future by David Atkinson Pdf

The Covid-19 pandemic reinforced the perception that capitalism is in crisis, that the future is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous, and that, increasingly, our thinking about it and ability to manage and organize ourselves within it, are challenges we are ill-equipped for. Despite the efforts of many writers, and a surfeit of manuscripts concerning the need to rethink capitalism, questions concerning the struggle for social and economic justice remain unanswered. While some suggest that with corrective action, businesses can save the world, there is an acceptance that they cannot do so alone. However, while governments might strengthen their institutions, enacting more effective policies, the challenge is simply laid bare at the feet of industry and commerce. Is the challenge to confront the establishment just too big to face? Government institutions and the barons of industry and commerce are but interrelated, interconnected, interplaying components in one socio-economic system. This book offers readers a progressive, radical and academic provocation of that system; it also proposes a field of Applied Negative Dialectics. In 'Reimagining Capitalism', Atkinson confronts the need to rethink capitalism and presents an integrated range of thinking through a lens of applied negative dialectics, questioning how and why things might have occurred, and where and how we might begin to improve them.

Author : Keith Hebden
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781780994871

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Seeking Justice by Keith Hebden Pdf

“Cause us trouble Keith, but not too much trouble,” these were final words of advice from a bishop to a new curate the day before his ordination. This book is the result of much reflection on that advice. Keith Hebden, parish priest and spiritual activist brings action and theory together with ideas that are as practical, accessible and exciting as the activism they underwrite. Beginning with the conviction that Jesus was an activist who was deeply committed to community, this book seeks to explore ways in which each of us can challenge the unjust structures that keep us from realising our full and common humanity. Seeking Justice is a timely reminder of our need to face up to our personal ability to change the world we live in and the urgency of the task ahead. ,

Author : Lucille H. Campey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1525263706

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Seeking a Better Future by Lucille H. Campey Pdf

Seeking a Better Future is the first major study of emigration from England to Ontario and Quebec. Extensively documented with previously unpublished passenger lists and details of more than 2,000 ship crossings, the book provides insights on how, why, and when Ontario and Quebec acquired their English settlers.

Author : Adam Roberts,Michael J. Willis,Rory McCarthy,Timothy Garton Ash
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191065866

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Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring by Adam Roberts,Michael J. Willis,Rory McCarthy,Timothy Garton Ash Pdf

Civil resistance, especially in the form of massive peaceful demonstrations, was at the heart of the Arab Spring-the chain of events in the Middle East and North Africa that erupted in December 2010. It won some notable victories: popular movements helped to bring about the fall of authoritarian governments in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen. Yet these apparent triumphs of non-violent action were followed by disasters—wars in Syria, anarchy in Libya and Yemen, reversion to authoritarian rule in Egypt, and counter-revolution backed by external intervention in Bahrain. Looming over these events was the enduring divide between the Sunni and Shi'a branches of Islam. Why did so much go wrong? Was the problem the methods, leadership and aims of the popular movements, or the conditions of their societies? In this book, experts on these countries, and on the techniques of civil resistance, set the events in their historical, social and political contexts. They describe how governments and outside powers—including the US and EU—responded, how Arab monarchies in Jordan and Morocco undertook to introduce reforms to avert revolution, and why the Arab Spring failed to spark a Palestinian one. They indicate how and why Tunisia remained, precariously, the country that experienced the most political change for the lowest cost in bloodshed. This book provides a vivid illustrated account and rigorous scholarly analysis of the course and fate, the strengths and the weaknesses, of the Arab Spring. The authors draw clear and challenging conclusions from these tumultuous events. Above all, they show how civil resistance aiming at regime change is not enough: building the institutions and the trust necessary for reforms to be implemented and democracy to develop is a more difficult but equally crucial task.

Author : James D. Bindenagel
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783847010517

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Germany from Peace to Power? by James D. Bindenagel Pdf

A surge of political trends and upheavals all over the world confronts German foreign policy with a world that is dramatically different from Berlin Republic unification in 1990. Brexit, American de-commitment to Europe and the rise of isolationist, populist forces within Germany as well as in other European countries and the U.S. have undermined the foundations of Germany's foreign policy. Germany is suddenly faced with another historical shift that is starting to shake the bedrock of its foreign policy. A council of experts for strategic foresight can address Germany's strategic cultural deficit, its civilian power fixation, its resorts principle of ministerial independence, and its coalition governance conflicts.

Author : Michelle Bastian,Owain Jones,Niamh Moore,Emma Roe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317340881

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Participatory Research in More-than-Human Worlds by Michelle Bastian,Owain Jones,Niamh Moore,Emma Roe Pdf

Socio-environmental crises are currently transforming the conditions for life on this planet, from climate change, to resource depletion, biodiversity loss and long-term pollutants. The vast scale of these changes, affecting land, sea and air have prompted calls for the ‘ecologicalisation’ of knowledge. This book adopts a much needed ‘more-than-human’ framework to grasp these complexities and challenges. It contains multidisciplinary insights and diverse methodological approaches to question how to revise, reshape and invent methods in order to work with non-humans in participatory ways. The book offers a framework for thinking critically about the promises and potentialities of participation from within a more-than-human paradigm, and opens up trajectories for its future development. It will be of interest to those working in the environmental humanities, animal studies, science and technology studies, ecology, and anthropology.

Author : John Body,Nina Terrey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351672573

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Design for a Better Future by John Body,Nina Terrey Pdf

The world we live in is increasingly complex. It throws up complex problems. This book is about tackling them. At ThinkPlace, we’ve pioneered the application of design thinking to complex challenges like climate change, family violence and global malnutrition. We work globally with governments, organisations and communities using a methodology – the Design SystemTM outlined in this book – that has been developed over more than a decade. We bring together different voices and help them to create better futures. If you’re one of those voices, or would like to be, this book is for you. It’s part roadmap, part instruction manual, but mostly it’s a clarion call for a new way of doing things: tackling the world’s biggest problems in a way that brings people together and produces positive, lasting change.

Author : Dr.R.Venkataraman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Ego (Psychology)
ISBN : 8190135120

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Power Thyself: Strive for Excellence and a better future by Dr.R.Venkataraman Pdf