In Beyond Belief, John Button looks at what has gone wrong with the Labor Party.What has happened to the faith of the True Believers and why is the ALP so bad at recruiting new members? He offers a tough-minded analysis of what went wrong in the last election and asks why the Labor Party has turned its back on its destiny as a party of reform.Here is a very cool account of the factions which seem to stand for nothing but their own power bases, and the unions who ...

On average, a company will lose 25% of its revenue from an organizational disaster – and that’s the good news. The average cost to have prevented it? Less than one-tenth of 1%. But that’s not the worst of it; in virtually every case, the organization’s leadership will already know this… Cultural Calamity: presents Joseph W. Mayo's breakthrough theory on organizational risk culture. Exploring over a century of such disasters, Mayo introduces his groundbreaking Risk Hurricane model, which id...

First published in 1988. A Dictionary of Green Ideas collects together the concepts which go to make up a green view of the world. Ecology and the environment, conservation and appropriate technology, politics and philosophy, peace and health, spirituality and world development - all these areas and more are reflected in nearly 1500 entries.The entries range from the very short to full-length essays, reflecting the diversity of the subject matter. All give a clear definiti...

A consistent advocate of Green thinking long before it became fashionable, Resurgence has been an influential forum for the discussion of the root causes of our current industrial and materialistic crisis. The Best of Resurgence bring together sixty-four outstanding articles published between 1965 and 1990. They range over subjects as diverse as health, new economics, educations, peace, the arts of the imagination, mythology, native cultures, land use, Green politics, women's issues and tr...

A consistent advocate of Green thinking long before it became fashionable, Resurgence has been an influential forum for the discussion of the root causes of our current industrial and materialistic crisis. The Best of Resurgence bring together sixty-four outstanding articles published between 1965 and 1990. They range over subjects as diverse as health, new economics, educations, peace, the arts of the imagination, mythology, native cultures, land use, Green politics, women's issues and tr...

Romantic Riddles is a collection of poems that examines the essence of love and the questions, puzzles, and uncertainties that accompany each kiss, intimate encounter, and relationship we experience in our lives. Each poem is infused with some aspect of the heart’s greatest puzzle: Love. American Poet John Everett Button asks, "if the heart could speak, what would it say?" However, in asking that very question, an entire world overcame him. Scenes of unfathomable circumstances consumed him...

Reflexive Conversations by John Everett Button is a contemporary epic poem which tells the tragic tale of the Devil’s fall from grace and his resulting odyssey away from heaven. Reflexive Conversations challenges John Milton’s vision of the Devil in Paradise Lost, providing literature its first truly romantic depiction of Satan; a tragic character whose greatest love results in his greatest loss. Button portrays the Devil as an innocent wanderer who, standing at the end of this world, is a...

The Drone Age – A Primer for Individuals and the Enterprise is an insightful and comprehensive introduction to the drone industry for individuals, entrepreneurs, and enterprises looking to integrate drone technology, understand the current state of the industry, and get a sneak-peek into the future of the industry. Globally, the commercial drone industry is exploding, and governments are under great pressure to establish policies and regulations that allow commercial drones to occupy an al...

Scholarship on the role of religion in American public life has taken on a new urgency in the increasingly contentious wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001. This volume brings together an impressive group of scholars to build on past work and broaden the scope of this crucial inquiry in two respects: by exploring aspects of the religion-politics nexus in the United States that have been neglected in the past, and by examining traditional questions concerning the religious tincture of ...

The poems of David Hatfield Sparks resonate with the rise of the postmodern, multicultural, LGBTQ and feminist political and spiritual movements. Inspired by Walt Whitman, H.D., Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, and his close friend Gloria Anzalda, and drawing upon ancient and indigenous mythologies and spiritualities, together with magical practices, a passion for Nature, and a delight in Camp, Sparks seeks to trace the multilayered, multidimensional, at times nostal...

Escape into the cosmos of uncoiling perceptionsExplore the shape-shifting definitions of darkness and lightExpand your awareness in a flight of poetic fancy.Scattering dreams, just beyond reachLingering burning desiresFloat awayCaustic ashes drifting to heavenWeightless ghosts no longer adheringTo the gravity of reality turned upside-down

Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for the finest book of poetry published in 1983 by an American poet. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness—so steadfast and radiant in *American Primitive—*continue in Dream Work. She has turned her attention in these poems to the solitary and difficult labors of the spirit—to accepting the ...