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Author : Francisco R. Sagasti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9280808354
Author : Francisco R. Sagasti,Jean Jacques Salomon,Céline Sachs-Jeantet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:49015002285113
"Science - "empirical knowledge" - and technology - "applied science" - have long played a key role in social development. In modern times they have come to be seen as absolutely essential factors in the achievement of economic growth and development. And though many dispute their ascendancy and legitimately point to their abuses, there is no escaping their presence and impact." "Taking as a main theme the central role of science and technology in economic progress, this first-of-a-kind sourcebook gathers together the perspectives and expertise of an international body of specialists in science and technology policy to examine the role of science and technology in development, and assess their social, economic, and political dimensions. The authors look at the key issues in relation to the exigencies of developing countries in the "new international context." They emphasize the complexity of the links between science, technology, and development and the important insights to be gained from the study of these links. The authors also point out that, despite science and technology's promise of social and economic progress, such progress is less than ever an inevitable result of their application - though there is no doubt about what can be achieved through science and technology, the quest is an uncertain one."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : St. Louis Thomas L. Brodie Professor of Theology Aquinas Institute
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1992-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195360479
This book presents a controversial thesis concerning the composition of the Gospel According to John. Most New Testament scholars believe that John was independent of the other three (Synoptic) Gospels, although some hold that he may have been familiar with Mark. This has led many to attempt to reconstruct the history of the community within which and for which John must have written. Brodie argues, however, that until the source question is settled, the historical question remains fruitless. What has been missing from Johannine scholarship, he says, is an accurate sense of the way in which writers of the ancient world set about composing their works. Given this literary context, it can be argued that John knew and used not only all of the Synoptic Gospels, but Acts, Ephesians, and the Pentateuch as well. Finally Brodie concludes that 'John' was the individual John and not the mouthpiece of a putative 'Johannine Community'. The Gospel should thus be read as a unified work, and not as the product of an aggregation of different sources or different dates of redaction.
Author : Richard A. Epstein
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 889 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674727809
American liberals and conservatives alike take for granted a progressive view of the Constitution that took root in the early twentieth century. Richard Epstein laments this complacency which, he believes, explains America’s current economic malaise and political gridlock. Steering clear of well-worn debates between defenders of originalism and proponents of a living Constitution, Epstein employs close textual reading, historical analysis, and political and economic theory to urge a return to the classical liberal theory of governance that animated the framers’ original text, and to the limited government this theory supports. “[An] important and learned book.” —Gary L. McDowell, Times Literary Supplement “Epstein has now produced a full-scale and full-throated defense of his unusual vision of the Constitution. This book is his magnum opus...Much of his book consists of comprehensive and exceptionally detailed accounts of how constitutional provisions ought to be understood...All of Epstein’s particular discussions are instructive, and most of them are provocative...Epstein has written a passionate, learned, and committed book.” —Cass R. Sunstein, New Republic
Author : Robert M. Torrance
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520920163
Robert Torrance's wide-ranging, innovative study argues that the spiritual quest is rooted in our biological, psychological, linguistic, and social nature. The quest is not, as most have believed, a rare mystical experience, but a frequent expression of our most basic human impulses. Shaman and scientist, medium and poet, prophet and philosopher, all venture forth in quest of visionary truths to transform and renew the world. Yet Torrance is not trying to reduce the quest to an "archetype" or "monomyth." Instead, he presents the full diversity of the quest in the myths and religious practices of tribal peoples throughout the world, from Oceania to India, Africa, Siberia, and especially the Americas. In theorizing about the quest, Torrance draws on thinkers as diverse as Bergson and Piaget, van Gennep and Turner, Pierce and Popper, Freud, Darwin, and Chomsky. This is a book that will expand our knowledge—and awareness—of a fundamental human activity in all its fascinating complexity.
Author : Hereward Tilton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110896572
The author presents with this intellectual biography of the Lutheran alchemist Count Michael Maier an academic study of western esotericism in general and to the study of alchemy and rosicrucianism in particular. The author charts the development of Maier's Hermetic worldview in the context of his service at the courts of Emperor Rudolf II and Moritz of Hessen-Kassel. The problem of the nature of early Rosicrucianism is addressed in detail with reference to Maier's role in the promotion of this "serious jest" in the years immediately prior to the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War. The work is set in the context of ongoing debates concerning the nature of early modern alchemy and its role in the history of Western esotericism.
Author : Jason Fox
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780730324713
Unlock progress through doubt and uncertainty The biggest threat facing modern business is the sheer complexity of an uncertain future. That, and the fact that everyone is busy. Too busy for progress. Workplace cultures have become cursed with efficiency. And so when it comes to developing strategy, we default to our defaults.We favour quick fixes, easy templates and familiar approaches, developing ‘robust plans' that do little to mitigate strategic risk or generate new value. The result? The future comes, and businesses die. But no longer! *cue trumpets* How to Lead a Quest is a book for pioneering leaders - folks who know that enterprise strategy is far too important to condemn to ‘smart goals', 'a clear vision for the future' and other such rubbish. Within this book, you'll discover how to: liberate enterprise leadership and workplace cultures from the curse of efficiency, default thinking and the delusion of progress explore complex and uncertain futures to find profound insights that mitigate strategic risks and ensure your business model remains viable create new value and enduring relevance by pioneering into unchartered and unprecedented territory embed new structures and rituals into your enterprise to build for the future, while still delivering operational excellence today. Not for the faint of heart or short-of-wit, this uniquely refreshing book bravely tackles the paradox that is pioneering leadership. You'll discover how to lead meaningful progress - even if you don't know what the goal or destination looks like.
Author : Barbara Fuchs,Mercedes García-Arenal
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487535490
This interdisciplinary collection explores how the early modern pursuit of knowledge in very different spheres – from Inquisitional investigations to biblical polemics to popular healing – was conditioned by a shared desire for certainty, and how epistemological crises produced by the religious upheavals of early modern Europe were also linked to the development of new scientific methods. Questions of representation became newly fraught as the production of knowledge increasingly challenged established orthodoxies. The volume focuses on the social and institutional dimensions of inquiry in light of political and cultural challenges, while also foregrounding the Hispanic world, which has often been left out of histories of scepticism and modernity. Featuring essays by historians and literary scholars from Europe and the United States, The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe reconstructs the complexity of early modern epistemological debates across the disciplines, in a variety of cultural, social, and intellectual locales.
Author : Sakiko Fukuda-Parr,Carlos Lopes,Khalid Malik
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 9781853839245
If capacity development initiatives are to have a pivotal role in helping developing countries meet the challenges of the 21st century, it is necessary to take a closer look at the underlying assumptions about the nature of development as a process of societal transformation, of capacity and capacity development, of knowledge and of aid-donor-recipient relationship. This book contains a range of views from practitioners, academics and policy-makers about what has gone right with technical cooperation, what has gone wrong, and how to do it better.
Author : Ernest J. Yanarella,Robert W. Lancaster
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781627345804
Getting from Here to There? seeks to take the study of sustainable cities into a realm of analysis and critique that has not been seriously investigated in any explicit and systematic manner: the sphere of power and politics. Using detailed case studies of selected urban sustainability programs-some stillborn or short-lived, others celebrated, still others most promising-it focuses on the political agencies shaping them and the structural elements either impeding or facilitating efforts to build sustainable cities. To accomplish this task, the authors utilize three theories or models of urban power-growth coalition, urban regime, and neo-Gramscian hegemonic-to explore the dynamics of power and politics to better understand these cases and to derive important lessons about getting from here to there. These models offer valuable lessons for ongoing or future sustainable city programs, community or business groups, key policy makers, grassroots organizations, mayors, and urban planners involved in or contemplating moving urban sustainability projects forward, as well as students of urban politics and environmental and sustainability researchers.
Author : Suzanne Lance,Paul Grondahl
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781438473314
A celebration of the Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist who put Albany on the worlds literary map. Award-winning novelist William Kennedy is perhaps best known for his Albany Cycle, a series of novels that put Albany on the worlds literary map alongside James Joyces Dublin, Gabriel García Márquezs Macondo, and William Faulkners Yoknapatawpha County. Bootlegger of the Soul offers a fresh and authoritative overview of Kennedys long literary career and his astonishing trajectory from journalist to struggling novelist to Pulitzer Prize winner. Included here are reviews, interviews, and scholarly essays on Kennedys work, as well as essays, speeches, a play, and a short story by the author himself, together with more than fifty historical and personal photographs. Lively, readable, and brimming with the infectious wit and lyrical prose that animates Kennedys novels, Bootlegger of the Soul is a celebration of a writer still working hard at his craft at age ninety. There are no dead sentences in [Kennedys] work. His language is vigorous, full of energy Hes just a pure writer. Saul Bellow William Kennedys cycle of Albany novels may be one of the most exuberant literary feats of the past half-century. Colum McCann Kennedys art is an eccentric triumph, a quirky, risk-taking imagination at play upon the solid paving stones, the breweries, the politicos, and pool sharks of an all-too-actual city. Thomas Flanagan
Author : N. Anand,Jean-Louis Barsoux
Publisher : IMD
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9782940485079
This book identi fies and addresses the seven transformation journeys that are reshaping corporations today. It integrates and builds on the collective experience and learning of IMD’s professors, who work directly with many organizations around the world and observe their transformation struggles at close range. By taking a holistic and interdisciplinary view of how organizations are transforming themselves, IMD’s faculty accompany global executives - as individuals and as leaders of global corporations - on their transformation journeys.
Author : Bharathi Krishnan
Publisher : University Publishers
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : 1894-1963
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122760064
Author : Ronald N. Harpelle,Bruce Muirhead
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781554583539
Long-Term Solutions for a Short-Term World demonstrates the complexity of the challenges that poor countries face and introduces the readers to the concept and impact of participatory research for development. Participatory research requires researchers to work with communities, governments, and other relevant actors to deal with common problems. Finding solutions requires participants to reflect critically on the cultural, economic, historical, political, and social contexts within which the issue under investigation exists. The book contains a collection of essays from development researchers and professionals, each of whom is an activist who has made significant contributions to the struggles of the poor in their own societies. Essays are presented as case studies and, in each, the contributor explains the specific development problem, the paths followed to solve the problem, lessons learned as a result of the research, and the development challenges on the horizon in his field of research. Together, these essays present a fascinating picture of how some of today’s most pressing development issues are being dealt with through research, demonstrating how interdisciplinary and alternative approaches can be implemented in new and innovative ways.
Author : Mark Beyer
Publisher : Siren & Muse Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
A band of lusty archaeologists get onto the trail of ancient treasure from the year-410 sacking of Rome. Using ancient maps, fast ships, slow donkeys, and cryptic flags, their bracing adventure brings "The Faculty" to the brink of success and disaster. Along with an albino magician and a side-show lycanthrope straight out of a traveling circus, their story comes from the annals of history lived large. Follow Dr. Felix Flahaven, Hazel "Purple" O'Haze, Priya Sata, Caligula Clauswicz, and the other Faculty on the first of many exploits to come.