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"Part sociology, part royal gossip, this glossy, readable book follows Victoria from her submissive childhood through her domineering reign. Auchincloss - a Wall Street lawyer and novelist (The Winthrop Covenant) - paints the Queen as less pompous than have previous biographers. But he is really more concerned with the courtly higher-ups around her and provides a non-Victorian, savvy lowdown. With its plentiful illustrations, this is a fascinating introduction to the era."--Amazon.com.
All actions and decisions have consequences. We make choices every day; some may be well thought through, and others may be more impulsive. Some decisions are easy, and others are complex. How we manage the challenging times matters greatly when rediscovering ourselves. In The Consequence, author Victor Akinyemi looks at how our decisions and actions—both past and present—can determine what our futures look like. The consequences of our actions and decisions can be positive or negative. Akinyemi shows how we can focus on the positive side of every person, despite their flaws, mistakes, and failures. He discusses how to turn our worlds around irrespective of who we used to be and how people see us, helping us work toward becoming better human beings. The Consequence focuses on positive consequences and assisting those who may be experiencing negative consequences become better and improve their environments for good.
A bibliographic dictionary of 111 people from around the world who have made a great impact on the history of the 1990s, including politicians, entrepreneurs, humanitarians, business people and media stars. Profiles are objective, written independently and not by the subject.
A foundational text of the modern conservative movement, this 1948 philosophical treatise argues the decline of Western civilization and offers a remedy. Originally published in 1948, at the height of post–World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses “words hard as cannonballs” to present an unsparing diagnosis of the ills of the modern age. Widely read and debated at the time of its first publication, the book is now seen as one of the foundational texts of the modern conservative movement. In its pages, Richard M. Weaver argues that the decline of Western civilization resulted from the rising acceptance of relativism over absolute reality. In spite of increased knowledge, this retreat from the realist intellectual tradition has weakened the Western capacity to reason, with catastrophic consequences for social order and individual rights. But Weaver also offers a realistic remedy. These difficulties are the product not of necessity, but of intelligent choice. And, today, as decades ago, the remedy lies in the renewed acceptance of absolute reality and the recognition that ideas—like actions—have consequences. This expanded edition of the classic work contains a foreword by New Criterion editor Roger Kimball that offers insight into the rich intellectual and historical contexts of Weaver and his work and an afterword by Ted J. Smith III that relates the remarkable story of the book’s writing and publication. Praise for Ideas Have Consequences “A profound diagnosis of the sickness of our culture.” —Reinhold Niebuhr “Brilliantly written, daring, and radical. . . . It will shock, and philosophical shock is the beginning of wisdom.” —Paul Tillich “This deeply prophetic book not only launched the renaissance of philosophical conservatism in this country, but in the process gave us an armory of insights into the diseases besetting the national community that is as timely today as when it first appeared. [This] is one of the few authentic classics in the American political tradition.” —Robert Nisbet
A revealing and surprising look at how classification systems can shape both worldviews and social interactions. What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of death include "fainted in a bath," "frighted," and "itch"); the identification of South Africans during apartheid as European, Asian, colored, or black; and the separation of machine- from hand-washables have in common? All are examples of classification—the scaffolding of information infrastructures. In Sorting Things Out, Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world. In a clear and lively style, they investigate a variety of classification systems, including the International Classification of Diseases, the Nursing Interventions Classification, race classification under apartheid in South Africa, and the classification of viruses and of tuberculosis. The authors emphasize the role of invisibility in the process by which classification orders human interaction. They examine how categories are made and kept invisible, and how people can change this invisibility when necessary. They also explore systems of classification as part of the built information environment. Much as an urban historian would review highway permits and zoning decisions to tell a city's story, the authors review archives of classification design to understand how decisions have been made. Sorting Things Out has a moral agenda, for each standard and category valorizes some point of view and silences another. Standards and classifications produce advantage or suffering. Jobs are made and lost; some regions benefit at the expense of others. How these choices are made and how we think about that process are at the moral and political core of this work. The book is an important empirical source for understanding the building of information infrastructures.
A man questions everything--his faith, his morality, his country--as he recounts his experience as an interrogator in Iraq; an unprecedented memoir and "an act of incredible bravery" (Phil Klay) "Remarkable... Both an agonized confession and a chilling expose of one of the darkest interludes of the War on Terror. Only this kind of courage and honesty can bring America back to the democratic values that we are so rightfully proud of." --Sebastian Junger Consequence is the story of Eric Fair, a kid who grew up in the shadows of crumbling Bethlehem Steel plants nurturing a strong faith and a belief that he was called to serve his country. It is a story of a man who chases his own demons from Egypt, where he served as an Army translator, to a detention center in Iraq, to seminary at Princeton, and eventually, to a heart transplant ward at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2004, after several months as an interrogator with a private contractor in Iraq, Eric Fair's nightmares take new forms: first, there had been the shrinking dreams; now the liquid dreams begin. By the time he leaves Iraq after that first deployment (he will return), Fair will have participated in or witnessed a variety of aggressive interrogation techniques including sleep deprivation, stress positions, diet manipulation, exposure, and isolation. Years later, his health and marriage crumbling, haunted by the role he played in what we now know as "enhanced interrogation," it is Fair's desire to speak out that becomes a key to his survival. Spare and haunting, Eric Fair's memoir is both a brave, unrelenting confession and a book that questions the very depths of who he, and we as a country, have become.
Thomas Schelling is a political economist “conspicuous for wandering”—an errant economist. In Choice and Consequence, he ventures into the area where rationality is ambiguous in order to look at the tricks people use to try to quit smoking or lose weight. He explores topics as awesome as nuclear terrorism, as sordid as blackmail, as ineffable as daydreaming, as intimidating as euthanasia. He examines ethical issues wrapped up in economics, unwrapping the economics to disclose ethical issues that are misplaced or misidentified. With an ingenious, often startling approach, Schelling brings new perspectives to problems ranging from drug abuse, abortion, and the value people put on their lives to organized crime, airplane hijacking, and automobile safety. One chapter is a clear and elegant exposition of game theory as a framework for analyzing social problems. Another plays with the hypothesis that our minds are not only our problem-solving equipment but also the organ in which much of our consumption takes place. What binds together the different subjects is the author’s belief in the possibility of simultaneously being humane and analytical, of dealing with both the momentous and the familiar. Choice and Consequence was written for the curious, the puzzled, the worried, and all those who appreciate intellectual adventure.
Reverend Emmanuel Tamba Fayiah was born in 1958 to Moslem and African traditional worshipping parents. He is a member of the Kissi/Gissi tribe on the west coast of Africa. He started in the capital city, Freetown, and completed his high school in Liberia. It was in the city of Freetown where he studied Arabic up to the seventh grade and became a Moslem. In 1984, he got saved, got baptized, studied the Christian faith in several Bible institutions and later began to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ after he got his calling. During the civil war in Liberia in the 90s, he was shot in the arm and later had the opportunity to travel to the United States, where he got a political asylum benefit. He is currently with his wife and four children, leaving one who was missing in action as they were fleeing the war. This book is written based on a series of experiences he had about the consequence of conflict. It expresses and warns the dangers that follow. The evil that men do lives after them has been his emphasis. He had also written his first book, Teachings on the Turbulence of Time in Human Lives, besides two other books that will soon follow.
Why do many businesses fail to achieve any real or lasting success?Why do large companies, which have operated successfully for years, seem to suddenly fail, close or go into bankruptcy?What does good leadership look like?Is the ability to lead successfully a gift to a select few, or can anyone develop it?The failures of businesses, companies and organizations start long before it is evident to the public in general.Based upon real life experiences in an organization, “Consequence of Leadership†illustrates principles of leadership and their outcomes, both positive and negative, in a practical and easy to understand manner. By dissecting into the leadership, guidance and vision of a prominent Canadian retail company, the problems with leadership that drive organizations to failure, are discovered. The lessons and principles contained within will be of benefit for leaders in any organization, government or business sector, including managers and supervisors at any level.