As a figure of thought, the concept of freedom tends to shuttle between abstraction and ideal – the first exemplified by Isaiah Berlin’s contrast between negative and positive liberty, and the second by Philip Pettit’s neo-republican conception of freedom as non-domination. Located within the realm of lived experience however, freedom is invariably forged from context-specific constraints and takes the form of cultural practices. In this contribution to the Síreacht series, the collaborati...

Inside the lives of homeless teens?moving stories of pain and hope from Covenant HouseAlmost Home tells the stories of six remarkable young people from across the United States and Canada as they confront life alone on the streets. Each eventually finds his or her way to Covenant House, the largest charity serving homeless and runaway youth in North America. From the son of a crack addict who fights his own descent into drug addiction to a teen mother reac...

A short story detailng one family's struggle and final discovery of a simple safe and inexpensive do-it-yourself solution. Need I say more?

In this market, the TILT Sell Process can be your edge over the competition. TILT was designed for the buyer-centric market. It works from the perspective of the consumer in a buying-partnership model. It is based on quickly creating the right relationship and then progressing it to a facilitated buying decision so it is suited to both one-off sales interactions and long-term business relationships. It allows novice salespeople to use quite high level skills quickly and it shows experience...

Discover global perspectives on happiness through this series of essays.Happiness and Virtue Beyond East and West presents an important series of essays from Japanese and American authors that examine essential virtues shared by both Eastern and Western cultures. Its ultimate goal is for happiness to be realized in a globally and socially responsible manner.Each chapter examines the importance of one of nine virtuesCourageJustice

Advances in software, auction-based media, analytics, and big data have made it possible for the average marketer to compete with marketers with 100 times the spending power. Taking Down Goliath profiles the ways in which digital marketing can level the playing field, if you know how to use it.

Over June Lane Miranda, As you move between the rocks, Gold as the sun your uncut locks, And turn in its light, The long night coming from over the sky, Oh I never, in all my days, Knew a gaze that rivalled yours. No I never, though I went so far, Met the girl that you are In any teeming town. Miranda, You and I in a tiny shop, On a corner in a street When England was sunny, And the morning late, And free from the gate of a child-filled school You waited that I take you Hand-led to the hil...

The USS Enterprise is on the brink of all-out war with the vicious Klingon Empire in this thrilling adventure from Star Trek: The Original Series.Following the harrowing events of the Errand of Vengeance trilogy, tensions between the Federation and the Klingon Empire are the highest they’ve been since the Battle of Donatu V twenty-five years earlier. Even as Federation Ambassador Robert Fox engages in tense negotiations with the Klingon ambassador...

Refiguring childhood stages a series of encounters with biosocial power, which is a specific zone of intensity within the more encompassing arena of biopower and biopolitics. Assembled at the intersection of thought and practice, biosocial power attempts to bring envisioned futures into the present, taking hold of life in the form of childhood, thereby bridging being and becoming while also shaping the power relations that encapsulate the social and cultural world(s) of adults and...

A thrilling Star Trek adventure novel featuring Captain Kirk and members of the original crew as they face an unknown phenomenon headed to destroy a planet and its possible origins of a past coming back to haunt them.Lt. Jon Anderson is the newest security officer aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. He joins the crew at a time of mounting tension between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. Previous battles have been inconclusive, but Starfleet Command fears t...

The official novelization of the thrilling Van Helsing movie starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale!A legendary monster hunter and a fearless woman join forces in Transylvania to stop Count Dracula’s sinister plan to plunge the world into darkness.Deep in the mountains of 19th-century Carpathia lies the mysterious land of Transylvania—a shadowed world where evil is ever-present, danger rises with the setting sun, and legendary m...

This book provides the first systematic examination of the relationship of hegemony and power. Nine essays delve into the diverse analytical aspects of the two concepts, and an introduction and conclusion by the editors, respectively, forge a synthesis of their theoretical coherence. Hegemony has long existed as a term in political science, international relations, and social theory, but its meaning varies across these fields. While each has developed its own 'local' language games for tre...