Facing The Future Together

In 2003 the United Nations (U.N.) established the Task Force on Women, Girls and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa, which brought together men and women from diverse walks of life who had been making tireless efforts in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Similarly, the efforts of women and girls across southern Africa to keep families together and care for the sick cannot be ignored. This report documents their realities. Contents: Facing Realities; Keeping Girls in School, Keeping Schools Safe; ¿ABC-Plus¿ -- New Approaches to Prevention; Silence and Violence; ¿Women¿s Work: -- Caring for Those with HIV/AIDS; Property and Inheritance Rights; Access to Care and Treatment; Conclusion; References. Illustrations.

Here is a collection of vibrant essays, from a conference at St. Michael's College in Vermont, that reflects on the past, present, and future of Catholic theology. Contributors include the leading names in scripture and moral and systematic theology: -- Dermot Lane on the foundational roles of anthropology, imagination and memory in the performance of Christian theology. -- Alice Laffey on the past and present developments in biblical scholarship. -- Raymond Collins on the ecumenical progress over the last forty years in the study of the New Testament. -- Michael J. Fahey on trends in systematic theology since 1965. -- Philip S. Keane on the accomplishments and challenges facing moral theology. -- Kevin Irwin on the Christocentric character of liturgical and sacramental theology.

A Study of Social Change in a Northern Vietnamese Village is based on anthropological fieldwork between 1992 and 1996 in a small Red River delta village. It treats the history of the village since its foundation in the mid-seventeenth century, based on existing French and Vietnamese archival materials. At the same time, the book discusses the essentialist character of the Vietnamese village community. Special interest is devoted to internal politics within the village which enable powerful lineages and groups to (re)gain political and social power within the village. The recent revival of religious activities as a result of the renovation policy is taken into consideration. Since Vietnamese society is changing at a very fast pace, a longitudinal study of this nature provides the reader with a firsthand account of the interplay between the reform under a Marxist regime and local village society.

The interwoven futures of humanity and our planet are under threat. Urgent action, taken together, is needed to change course and reimagine our futures.

Here is an important new theory of human action, a theory that assumes actions are founded on choices made by agents who face an open future. It is a theory that makes indeterminism not only intelligible but illuminating. Tools from philosophy of language and philosophical logic help generate a full-scale account of agents "seeing to it that." The authors then proceed to clarify a variety of action-related topics such as determinism vs. indeterminism, imperatives, promises, strategies, joint agency, "could have done otherwise," deontic constructions, and assertions about a not yet settled future.

This report summarizes the results of the General Accounting Office's examination of the marketing and financing obstacles encountered by the sponsors of the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System. The report also examines five alternatives for transporting and using the abundant natural gas reserves of the Alaskan Arctic.

* Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes. By reading this summary, you will discover the crises facing society and how to invent the capitalism of tomorrow. You will also discover : what are the three major current crises and how to tackle them; that it is important to return to ethical notions in order to find a solution to the crises; a proposal for changing the current paternalistic model into a maternalist system; who are the winners of the growth of the metropolises and how to distribute these gains more equitably; how to put ethics back at the center of society to counter social collapse. Capitalism and an apology for free enterprise are part of the dominant ideology that has shaped today's world. It is indisputable, on a global scale, that such an ideology has reduced poverty and raised the global level of wealth. However, capitalism also causes serious fractures in populations and plunges societies into economic and social crises. It provokes political radicalization and ideological confrontation over the moral definition of society. From the analysis of this situation, it is possible to imagine a new form of society that will have to put forward ethics within its organization. To regain confidence in the future, it is urgent to abolish the current paternalistic model and replace it with another. What can the future of capitalism look like? *Buy now the summary of this book for the modest price of a cup of coffee!

In 1867, Canada’s federal government became responsible for the education of Indigenous peoples: Status Indians and some Métis would attend schools on reserves; non-Status Indians and some Métis would attend provincial schools. The chapters in this collection – some reflective, some piercing, all of them insightful – show that this system set the stage for decades of broken promises and misguided experiments that are only now being rectified in the spirit of truth and reconciliation. The contributors individually explore what must change in order to work toward reconciliation; collectively, they reveal the possibilities and challenges associated with incorporating Traditional Knowledge and Indigenous teaching and healing practices into school courses and programs.