Lamet
Author : Karl Gustav Izikowitz
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 22,35 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Pedro Arrupe
Author : Brian Grogan
Publisher : Loyola Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 26,17 MB
Release : 2022-07-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0829455213
Book Description
2023 Illumination Book Awards Gold Medalist, Biography/Memoir, Inspiration 2023 Independent Press Awards Winner, Biography - General 2023 Association of Catholic Publishers Excellence in Publishing Awards, Second Place, Biography THE TERM “MODERN-DAY SAINT” is thrown around lightly these days, but rarely does it describe a person as well as it does Fr. Pedro Arrupe, SJ. Often referred to as “the second founder” of the Jesuits, Arrupe led the Society of Jesus beginning in 1965 during a time of profound transformation. He coined the phrase “men for others” and inspired educators at Jesuit Institutions to educate “men and women for others.” Born in Spain in 1907, Arrupe felt an irrepressible urge to help and serve others whenever possible, eventually joining the Jesuits at age twenty. But it was his extraordinary experiences responding to the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, that engraved on his heart his dedication to justice and service. And while the specific events that drove him to devote his life to service were unique and traumatic, the need for ordinary people to step forward and do the right thing—the compassionate thing—is as urgent as ever. This highly readable biography of Pedro Arrupe unpacks his life, times, and spirituality and helps readers answer the question: “What difference can I make?”
Broken Lives
Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 44,72 MB
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9292546988
Book Description
This study takes a hard look at human trafficking in the northern region of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) in the context of rapid economic and social change. The Lao PDR is made up of close to 49 main ethnic groups and up to 160 subgroups. Rapid economic growth and infrastructure development have differing effects on different ethnicities; increased out-migration and mobility for some, social disruption for others when the integrity of cultural roles and norms is compromised. Some ethnic groups adapt; others become more vulnerable to migration and human trafficking activities. Relocation, whether voluntary or involuntary, appears to increase the risk of cultural disruption and migration, often leading to trafficking. The study uses ethnicity and social conditions to understand what motivates migration and creates vulnerability, making a strong case for greater attention to culture and ethnicity when designing development policy and programs. It provides analysis and recommendations aimed at mitigating the increased vulnerability of ethnic groups to trafficking on account of loss of traditional livelihoods and cultural norms. It suggests that the key lies not only in providing an enabling environment for government agencies to trust local knowledge but also in getting the government to set good examples and earn the trust of villagers, especially members of ethnic minorities.
Courts and Lawyers of Illinois
Author : Frederic Beers Crossley
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Courts
ISBN :
Book Description
Feasting and Social Oscillation
Author : A. Thomas Kirsch
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 49,95 MB
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1501719327
Book Description
This work argues that anthropologists have observed and recorded religious rites and rituals but have largely ignored the role of religion when constructing an analytical framework. The author contends that religious phenomena are inextricably intertwined with issues of power, politics, and economics among the upland groups (such as the Kachin) of Southeast Asia.
Translations on South and East Asia
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 20,97 MB
Release :
Category : Southeast Asia
ISBN :
Book Description
Mon-Khmer: Peoples of the Mekong Region
Author : Ronald D.renard
Publisher : ศูนย์บริหารงานวิจัย สำนักงานมหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 41,63 MB
Release : 2015-03-01
Category :
ISBN : 9746729284
Book Description
The Mon-Khmer project took a long journey before it was turned into a final product--the first comprehensive collection of articles on Mon-Khmer peoples of the Mekong Region. The project was started in 2001 by the first editor of the book, Dr. Ronald D. Renard, who unfortunately did not see the final product of his valuable work. During 1995-1996, Dr. Ron Renard, as the manager of the UNDP Highland People project, and I travelled to Northeast Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos to explain to representatives of ethnic communities the aim of the project and how the ethnic minorities, many of whom are Mon-Khmer, could be involved and benefit from it. It may well be that this encounter with these ethnic groups made him expand his intellectual interest to study them in addition to the Karen in Thailand whose history of integration into the Siamese state he had studied for his dissertation completed in 1980. According to my last conversation with Ron, it was during the time when he worked for the Journal of Siam Society in the late 1990s that he decided to embark upon the Mon-Khmer project which preoccupied the last part of his academic life.
The Informant
Author : Kurt Eichenwald
Publisher : Portobello Books
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 21,90 MB
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1846274648
Book Description
The Informant is Mark Whitacre, a senior executive with America's most powerful food giant, who put his career and his family's safety at risk to become a confidential government witness. Using Whitacre's secret recordings and a team of agents, the FBI uncovered the corporation's scheme to steal millions of dollars from its own customers. But as the FBI closed in on their target, they suddenly realized that Whitacre wasn't quite playing the game they'd thought ... This is the gripping account of how a corporate golden boy became an FBI mole and went on to double-cross both the authorities and his employers in one of the most extraordinary cases of global corporate corruption of the last thirty years.
Fire in Relation to Primitive Agriculture and Grazing in the Tropics: A-G, Tropics in general; H-J, South Asia and Oceania
Author : Harley Harris Bartlett
Publisher :
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 50,78 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Agriculture, Primitive
ISBN :
Book Description
The Family in the New Millennium
Author : Thomas B. Holman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1345 pages
File Size : 34,22 MB
Release : 2006-12-30
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 031308470X
Book Description
A remarkable team of contributors based across 19 countries explores and explains events worldwide affecting the natural family—married father and mother with biological children —detailing concepts and benefits of natural family that have been taken for granted across centuries, but are now being challenged in many ways. These scholars—many admittedly taking stands that may be deemed politically incorrect—conclude that natural family is being threatened, and is vital to provide common ground among all societies, cultures and religious traditions. Psychologists, sociologists, economists, theologians, lawyers, health care professionals and award-winning journalists are among the chapter authors, as are Nobel Prize Laureate Gary Becker, U.S. Department of Health Assistant Secretary for Children and Families Wade Horn, and former Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Bin Mohamad. Whether or not you agree with their arguments, science and conclusions, you'll want to know what these influential figures are saying. Addressing many lightning-rod issues, from divorce and abortion to euthanasia and same-sex marriage, writers here span the world from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom to Australia, Turkey, India, and China. Intellectuals included are associated with institutions from Brigham Young University, Georgetown School of Medicine and the Boston College School of Law, to the University of Geneva, and the Maxim Institute in New Zealand.
