The Compelling Ideal

Author : Jan Kiely
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300185942

Get Book

The Compelling Ideal by Jan Kiely Pdf

In this groundbreaking volume, based on extensive research in Chinese archives and libraries, Jan Kiely explores the pre-Communist origins of the process of systematic thought reform or reformation (ganhua) that evolved into a key component of Mao Zedong’s revolutionary restructuring of Chinese society. Focusing on ganhua as it was employed in China’s prison system, Kiely’s thought-provoking work brings the history of this critical phenomenon to life through the stories of individuals who conceptualized, implemented, and experienced it, and he details how these techniques were subsequently adapted for broader social and political use.

Author : Xiaoqun Xu
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : China
ISBN : 9780190060046

Get Book

Heaven Has Eyes by Xiaoqun Xu Pdf

"A history of Chinese law and justice from the imperial era to the post-Mao era, the book addresses the evolution and function of law codes and judicial practices in China's long history, and examines the transition from traditional laws and practices to their modern counterparts in the twentieth century and beyond. From the ancient times to the twenty-first century, there has been an enduring expectation or hope among the Chinese people that justice should and will be done in society, which is expressed in a popular Chinese saying, "Heaven has eyes." To the Chinese mind in the imperial era, justice was, and was to be achieved as, an alignment of Heavenly reason, state law, and human relations. Such a conception did not change until the turn of the twentieth century when Western-derived notions--natural rights, legal equality, the rule of law, judicial independence, and due process--came to replace the Confucian moral code of right and wrong, which was a fundamental shift in philosophical and moral principles that informed law and justice. The legal-judicial reform agendas since the beginning of the twentieth century (still ongoing today) stemmed from this change in the Chinese moral and legal thinking, but to materialize the said principles in everyday practices is a very different order of things that is much more difficult to accomplish, hence all the legal dramas including tragedies in the past one century or so. The book will lay out how and why that is the case"--

Author : Euan W. MacKie
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784918347

Get Book

Professor Challenger and his Lost Neolithic World: The Compelling Story of Alexander Thom and British Archaeoastronomy by Euan W. MacKie Pdf

This book combines the two great passions of the author’s life: reconstructing the Neolithic mind and constructively challenging consensus in his professional domain. Semi-autobiographical, it charts his investigation of Alexander Thom’s theories regarding the alignment of prehistoric monuments in the landscape across several key Neolithic sites.

Author : Dr. Princely Ebwe
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781982202729

Get Book

Real Power Through Success and Failure by Dr. Princely Ebwe Pdf

Most of us want happiness, riches, and significance, but those can only become a reality when we use the real power within us. We all have this power, but some achieve success and others become mired in failureall while facing the exact same circumstances. What explains the difference in outcomes? Dr. Princely Ebwe, who has devoted his career to empowering others, seeks to answer that question. In the process, he reveals how to: clarify challenges, redefine failures, and transform your life for the better; receive inspired insights, manifest your dreams, and live a more fulfilling life; unlock your real power and connect with your true mission. You can harness the power within you as long as you know how to transform your desires from a wish into a realityand youll have a much easier time with it by absorbing the lessons in this guide to success. Whether youre struggling with adversity, looking for ways to create success with personal integrity, or seeking an inspiring and useful resource, youll be empowered by the insights in Real Power through Success and Failure.

Author : Otfried Höffe
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789047444800

Get Book

Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics” by Otfried Höffe Pdf

Anyone interested in theories of moral or human practice will find in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics one of the few basic models relevant through to today. At the centre of his analysis, both sober and cautious, are such concepts as happiness, virtue, choice, prudence, incontinence, pleasure and friendship. Aristotle’s arguments are by no means of merely historical interest, but continue to exert a key influence on present-day ethical debate.

Author : Albert Mamary
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 1578865778

Get Book

Creating the Ideal School by Albert Mamary Pdf

Creating the Ideal School is the only comprehensive guide available that provides all the tools necessary to create an ideal school. There are many education books out there but most are specific to one aspect of school improvement and do not provide a systemic framework or a total approach. This book does, and it is based on expertise that was developed and implemented in a real school district with impressive results by author Albert Mamary. Under the author's leadership, an under-achieving and troubled upstate New York school district was transformed into a nationally validated high-performing school system, and Dr. Mamary was credited with creating the first and only comprehensive systemic framework for quality learning and school improvement. This book will be of interest to teachers and administrators who are interested in making profound improvements in education.

Author : Ben Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781316517055

Get Book

Apocalypse without God by Ben Jones Pdf

Explains why apocalyptic thought, despite often being dismissed as bizarre, has persistent appeal in political life.

Author : Robert D. Gilbreath
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470088494

Get Book

Compel by Robert D. Gilbreath Pdf

Advance praise for Compel: "For over thirty years, Mr. Gilbreath has wowed audiences with his dynamic presentations and influential books. For the first time, he is pulling away the curtain and revealing the underlying dynamics that have made him one of the most compelling speakers and authors of our generation." —Howard Drutman, PhD, clinical psychologist "Spend time with Bob Gilbreath and you'll see what 'compelling' looks like in person. Read this book and you'll see what it looks like on paper. In years past, Bob and I have shared the podium, coauthored a handbook, laughed hard, and had great fun working together. I've never had a more powerful thinking partner, and you won't find a more authoritative voice on how you can become more compelling yourself." —Price Pritchett, PhD, coauthor of High-Velocity Culture Change "There are very few writers who can do what Bob Gilbreath does: take on this topic with proven experience and heartfelt, genuine intent. This book is compelling, offering literally hundreds of practical ideas to implement in everyday management situations." —Robin Jones, PhD, Global Business Strategy Leader, IBM Business Consulting Services "I have worked with Bob many times in my thirty-six-year professional consulting career. His presence and his ideas have always been compelling, and now I know why! If you need to get important things accomplished with and through others, this is the book for you. Be sure to have pen and paper ready from the start." —John D. Smith, former partner, Accenture

Author : United States. Office of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1300 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Education
ISBN : CORNELL:31924097879476

Get Book

Report of the Federal Security Agency by United States. Office of Education Pdf

Author : Patrick M. Lencioni
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119209614

Get Book

The Ideal Team Player by Patrick M. Lencioni Pdf

In his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking approach for tackling the perilous group behaviors that destroy teamwork. Here he turns his focus to the individual, revealing the three indispensable virtues of an ideal team player. In The Ideal Team Player, Lencioni tells the story of Jeff Shanley, a leader desperate to save his uncle’s company by restoring its cultural commitment to teamwork. Jeff must crack the code on the virtues that real team players possess, and then build a culture of hiring and development around those virtues. Beyond the fable, Lencioni presents a practical framework and actionable tools for identifying, hiring, and developing ideal team players. Whether you’re a leader trying to create a culture around teamwork, a staffing professional looking to hire real team players, or a team player wanting to improve yourself, this book will prove to be as useful as it is compelling.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Fast Track
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780954514105

Get Book

The Fast Track to Financial Independence by Anonim Pdf

Author : Claus Bernet
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Society of Friends
ISBN : 3631589301

Get Book

Rufus Jones (1863-1948) by Claus Bernet Pdf

Rufus Jones (1863-1948) helped organize the Quäkerspeisung (Quaker feeding effort), saving millions from starvation after the First World War. In Germany he is best known for having travelled to Berlin to seek a personal meeting with Hitler after the Kristallnacht in 1938. And, at the conclusion of a long life devoted to service, it was largely due to Jones that the American Friends Service Committee was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947. But Jones was also the quintessential «American scholar», seeking to harmonize theory and practice. He was a pivotal figure of the 20th century who stayed in close touch with authors and statesmen the world over. He earned a reputation as a modern mystic and an active pacifist, and was regarded as the moral conscience of his era. His scholarship encompassed education and pedagogy, philosophical questions, church and Quaker history, as well as the political issues of the day. Jones dealt with such issues as justice, democracy, and child-rearing. His ideas are still alive today and still arouse controversy. He was particularly anxious to avoid the cultivation of an elite, pleading instead for individual growth and personality development. Over the course of his life, he was awarded twelve academic titles, taught at numerous universities, delivered countless lectures, and was one of the first theologians to recognise the significance of radio and to make full use of it. To this day Rufus Jones is still honored as a «seer», «Protestant mystic», and even as a «Master Quaker» and «Quaker Giant». It is time also to take a critical look at these honors.

Author : W. Creighton Peden
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Evolution (Biology)
ISBN : 9781443886284

Get Book

From Evolution to Humanism in 19th and 20th Century America by W. Creighton Peden Pdf

This book provides a background to the development of Humanism. It considers a range of important figures in the movement in the 19th century, including R. W. Emerson, F. E. Abbot, William J. Potter, Robert Ingersoll, Mark Twain, and G. B. Foster.

Author : Haiyan Lee
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226825267

Get Book

A Certain Justice by Haiyan Lee Pdf

A much-needed account of the hierarchy of justice that defines China’s unique political-legal culture. To many outsiders, China has an image as a realm of Oriental despotism where law is at best window dressing and at worst an instrument of coercion and tyranny. In this highly original contribution to the interdisciplinary field of law and humanities, Haiyan Lee contends that this image arises from a skewed understanding of China’s political-legal culture, particularly the failure to distinguish what she calls high justice and low justice. In the Chinese legal imagination, Lee shows, justice is a vertical concept, with low justice between individuals firmly subordinated to the high justice of the state. China’s political-legal culture is marked by a mistrust of law’s powers, and as a result, it privileges substantive over procedural justice. Calling on a wide array of narratives—stories of crime and punishment, subterfuge and exposé, guilt and redemption—A Certain Justice helps us recognize the fight for justice outside the familiar arenas of liberal democracy and the rule of law.

Author : John Clifford Holt
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824833275

Get Book

Spirits of the Place by John Clifford Holt Pdf

Spirits of the Place is a rare and timely contribution to our understanding of religious culture in Laos and Southeast Asia. Most often studied as a part of Thai, Vietnamese, or Khmer history, Laos remains a terra incognita to most Westerners—and to many of the people living throughout Asia as well. John Holt’s new book brings this fascinating nation into focus. With its overview of Lao Buddhism and analysis of how shifting political power—from royalty to democracy to communism—has impacted Lao religious culture, the book offers an integrated account of the entwined political and religious history of Laos from the fourteenth century to the contemporary era. Holt advances the provocative argument that common Lao knowledge of important aspects of Theravada Buddhist thought and practice has been heavily conditioned by an indigenous religious culture dominated by the veneration of phi, spirits whose powers are thought to prevail over and within specific social and geographical domains. The enduring influence of traditional spirit cults in Lao culture and society has brought about major changes in how the figure of the Buddha and the powers associated with Buddhist temples and reliquaries—indeed how all ritual spaces and times—have been understood by the Lao. Despite vigorous attempts by Buddhist royalty, French rationalists, and most recently by communist ideologues to eliminate the worship of phi, spirit cults have not been displaced; they continue to persist and show no signs of abating. Not only have the spirits resisted eradication, but they have withstood synthesis, subordination, and transformation by Buddhist political and ecclesiastical powers. Rather than reduce Buddhist religious culture to a set of simple commonalities, Holt takes a comparative approach, using his nearly thirty years’ experience with Sri Lanka to elucidate what is unique about Lao Buddhism. This stimulating book invites students in the fields of the history of religion and Buddhist and Southeast Asian studies to take a fresh look at prevailing assumptions and perhaps reconsider the place of Buddhism in Laos and Southeast Asia.