Honoring their duty for generations, the Starmarked have brought a long-lasting peace to the land of Issale but their people are fading.After years of wondering if they might be the last, the Starmarked rejoice as their king and queen welcome newborn twins into the shining city of Sidrial. Unique from the start, Prince Aten and Princess Aleral offer renewed hope for the future.As the twins swear to uphold their ancient duty, they must learn the ways of their people and come t...

Using Josef Pieper's Leisure as a point of departure, the contributors to this volume share a mutual concern for the diminishing role of the liberal arts in Catholic higher education. The overwhelming impression they share is that U.S. Catholic universities, with notable exceptions, have forgotten the very goal of university education, and especially Catholic university education: to aid in forming young men and women to pursue the truth and helping them to become freer persons.

A concise history of labor and work in America from the birth of the Republic to the Industrial Age and beyondFrom the days of Thomas Jefferson, Americans believed that they could sustain a capitalist industrial economy without the class conflict or negative socioeconomic consequences experienced in Europe. This dream came crashing down in 1877 when the Great Strike, one of the most militant labor disputes in US history, convulsed the nation’s railroads. In The...

Some social movements bring in quick, radical political and social changes while others get incorporated into existing systems or subjected to harsh repression. This book examines why social movements elicit different policy responses and their varying impact on the societies in which they occur. It also seeks to understand why seemingly inconsequential movements can nonetheless have enduring effects.These issues are explored through the comparative historical analysis of four labo...

Unions are Dying a Slow DeathOrganized labor, once a powerful force for social and economic justice in America, is rapidly fading into obscurity, with unions bleeding members from their rosters even in the most labor-friendly regions of the country.Nobody knows this better than Brian Ahakuelo, co-founder of the Global Institute for Interest-Based Solutions and former Business Manager of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1260. A second-generation memb...

La Conversacin Enfocada es uno de los mtodos de facilitacin de grupos del Instituto de Asuntos Culturales, IAC (The Institute of Cultural Affairs, ICA); a quien nos referiremos a lo largo del libro como el Instituto. Transcribimos aqu algunos testimonios de reconocimiento de clientes que han hecho uso del mtodo en sus centros de trabajo y que perciben una diferencia luego de su aplicacin:Creo que el mtodo TOP de informa y te da las claves de lo que el grupo desea lograr. Algunas de...

Blending cutting-edge legal strategies for winning justice at work with a theory of dramatic, bottom-up social change, this practical audio guide to workers’ rights aims to make work better while reinvigorating the labor movement. A powerful organization model called "solidarity unionism" is explained, showing how the labor force can avoid the pitfalls of the legal system and utilize direct action to win fair rights. The audio edition includes new cases governing fundamental labor rights a...

When a Civil War substitute broker told business associates that “Men is cheep here to Day,” he exposed an unsettling contradiction at the heart of the Union’s war effort. Despite Northerners' devotion to the principles of free labor, the war produced rampant speculation and coercive labor arrangements that many Americans labeled fraudulent. Debates about this contradiction focused on employment agencies called “intelligence offices,” institutions of dubious character that nevertheless ser...

Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty: Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities seeks to develop a counterculture that eschews the neoliberal ideology and interloping market values in higher education. More than merely lamenting the disruptive effects of these marketplace values in higher education institutions, it develops both theoretical insights and practical organizing strategies pertinent to challenging new academic-capitalist values and behaviors. Contributors, local an...

This book explores the Jewish Left’s innovative strategies in maintaining newspapers, radio stations, and educational activities during a moment of crisis in global democracy. In the wake of the First World War, as immigrant workers and radical organizations came under attack, leaders within largely Jewish unions and political parties determined to keep their tradition of social unionism alive. By adapting to an emerging media environment dependent on advertising, turn-of-the-century Yiddi...

Snakes, sharks, and dinosaurs can be scary but they don't have to be. This book tells how one young boy gets past his fear of these amazing creatures!