Who are women-of-faith in the context of politics and peacebuilding? What do they do and why do they do it? This book examines the challenges, achievements, and motivations of women peacebuilders who are driven by their faith to enhance gender equality, justice, and security. Women-of-faith peacebuilders make major contributions to attentive, relational, compassionate, and community-based peacebuilding, and promote the mandate of the UN Security resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Securit...

This book clarifies some key ideas and practices underlying peacebuilding; understood broadly as formal and informal peace processes that occur during pre-conflict, conflict and post-conflict transformation.Applicable to all peacebuilders, Elisabeth Porter highlights positive examples of women’s peacebuilding in comparative international contexts. She critically interrogates accepted and entrenched dualisms that prevent meaningful reconciliation, while also examining the harm of ot...

There is an increasing amount of literature on various aspects of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325. While appreciating this scholarship, this volume highlights some of the omissions and concerns to make a quality addition to the ongoing discourse on the intersection of gender with peace and security with a focus on 1325. It aims at a reality-check of the impressive to-dos list as the seventeen years since the Resolution passed provide an occasion to pause and ponder over the...

Seit Generationen sucht die wohlhabende Familie Porter Zuflucht in ihrem Sommerhaus auf der felsigen Halbinsel Ashaunt vor Massachusetts, wo die Tage endlos und unbeschwert sind. Als dort im Sommer 1942 ein Militärstützpunkt entsteht, hat die Idylle ein jähes Ende. Ein Sohn zieht in den Krieg, eine Tochter wird ihrer Unschuld beraubt, ein Kindermädchen muss sich zwischen ihrer Liebe zu einem Soldaten und ihren Schützlingen entscheiden. Erst in den kommenden Jahrzehnten, in denen die Kinder...

The U.S. health care system is in crisis. At stake are the quality of care for millions of Americans and the financial well-being of individuals and employers squeezed by skyrocketing premiums—not to mention the stability of state and federal government budgets.In Redefining Health Care, internationally renowned strategy expert Michael Porter and innovation expert Elizabeth Teisberg reveal the underlying—and largely overlooked—causes of the problem, and pr...

Search and rescue leads to forever love in these two inspirational romantic suspense novels featuring K-9 companions.Fugitive Trail by Elizabeth GoddardWhen a plane carrying dangerous convicts crashes in the Colorado Rockies, Deputy Sierra Young and her search-and-rescue K-9, Samson, race to help—and discover they're after her! Sierra's former coworker turned PI, Bryce Elliott, is determined to protect her. But can Bryce, Sierra and Samson track do...

Concoctions, treats, brews, and potions from another batch of feisty charactersWhether cooking for solace, scrounging for food, concocting medicine, or brewing poisons, the feisty women in these stories will keep you thirsting for more. Twenty-five tales will transport you far afield in time and place: third century Ireland, medieval Europe, twentieth-century Australia.Read your way from a hippie commune to a WW II internment camp in the Philippines; from a Renaissance pala...

從零和走向正和，創造醫病雙贏高費用、低品質，目前的醫療照護體系，沒有人感到滿意醫生與其他醫療提供者的收入被壓縮，專業判斷受到藐視失靈的醫療照護體系，每個人都要有新思維，才能有新作為！高費用、低品質，關於目前的療護體系，沒有人感到滿意。病患擔心保險的費用與醫療的品質；雇主要面對節節高漲的保費與不滿的員工；醫生與其他醫療提供者的收入被壓縮，專業判斷受到藐視，官僚制度與書面作業加重日常工作；健康照護計畫老是遭到抨擊；藥品與醫療設施的供應商推出許多救命的藥物與療法，卻因為費用昂貴備受譴責；政府也不高興，因為預算失去控制。幾十年來的醫療改革已經無法改善情況，反而更加惡化。對於健康照護體系，我們需要新的思考方式。在本書中，國際知名的策略專家麥可．波特，以及創新領域的專家伊莉莎白．泰絲柏格提出改變的解方。作者認為，目前的醫療照護體系都...

Before she died, Elizabeth Taylor claimed that previous biographers had revealed "only half of my story, but I can't tell the other half because I'd get sued." In response to that challenge, Blood Moon presents history’s most comprehensive compilation of the unpublished—until now—secrets of Dame Elizabeth. With photos, this meaty and startling book offers a juicy feast of till-now untold tales about the 20th century’s most deadlinegenerating actress, relayed with empathy and brutal candor....

Few scholarly constructs have proven as influential or as durable as the Johannine community. A product of the era in New Testament studies dominated by redaction criticism, the Johannine community construct as articulated first by J. Louis Martyn and later by Raymond E. Brown emerged with an explanatory power that proved persuasive to scholars deliberating on the provenance and emergence of the Johannine literature for the next 50 years. Recent years, however, have seen this once dominant...

This book examines how Christian teachings on love and enmity shape group identity and conflict, with scripture and theology used both to justify violence and call for reconciliation. It explores interdisciplinary perspectives that combine socio-scientific approaches with biblical criticism.By exploring historical, biblical, and contemporary examples, this volume illuminates how religious identity influences the construction of enemies and offers tools for critically engaging with ...

Essays by Christian G. Appy, Andrew J. Bacevich, John Prados, and others offer "history at its best, meaning, at its most useful." —Howard ZinnFrom the launch of the "Shock and Awe" invasion in March 2003 through President George W. Bush's declaration of "Mission Accomplished" two months later, the war in Iraq was meant to demonstrate definitively that the United States had learned the lessons of Vietnam. This new book makes clear that something closer to the oppos...