A comprehensive overview of the contribution of Catholic social thought to business ethicsCan a religion founded on loving one’s neighbor give moral approval to profit-seeking business firms in a global economy? What should characterize the relationship between faith and economic life? What can businesses, employees, and executives do to contribute to the common good and to make their practices and society more ethical?Business Ethics and Catholic Socia...

Global Women Leaders transports the reader into the fascinating lives of trailblazers in four very different countries. All were change-makers in their professions, and all of them confronted the challenges women everywhere will recognize as their own. How they succeeded, despite roadblocks, is both inspiring and instructive. Each gives us sound advice on a range of familiar hurdles from those associated with work and family to lack of confidence and sexism. If you want to know how to ...

Poverty is an unnecessary form of human degradation and badly conceived economics. Our thesis is that poverty can be reduced, if not eradicated, both locally and globally. But this will occur only if we change our shared narratives about global free enterprise, remind ourselves that poverty is a system, and conceive of poverty alleviation as a "bottom-up" project. There is no "one size fits all" for poverty reduction. Rather, poverty is a system and must be addressed locally. It i...

What if you could go to a writing event and leave knowing your work could be published? Or go home with pieces to craft later? These are not rhetorical questions. This collection of work is unique. The theme was a shared and unifying experience, and the dream was for the people who attended to publish after the hui. The dream became a reality. You are about to read it. The Anthology opens and closes with excerpts from two of Witi Ihimaera's upcoming books, Plume of Pareārau a sci-fi offeri...

It's been seven years since Marama's people fled their Pacific island home and built a new life in Kāingatipu, Aotearoa (NZ). Starman and Kai, her man and son, will return to fulfil a prophecy. Marama is pregnant. She can't risk the baby or abandon her daughter and duties to travel with them.While foraging, the women encounter unknown warriors seeking a foreign woman to give their chief a son. Marama's village is undefended. She lures the invaders away to save her people and allows...

This collection focuses on the revolutionary philosophy of Archeworks: ethics is embedded in all architecture and design and all architecture and design should serve a social good. Stanley Tigerman and Eva Maddox, the cofounders of Archeworks and its postgraduate educational program, embodied this philosophy in their teaching and work. Through action learning, students further developed this philosophy, which is found in their descriptions of the topics they perused at Archeworks. Although...

This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Milton's Paradise Lost addresses Milton in the light of the digital age, new critical approaches to his poem, and his continued presence in contemporary culture. It aims to help instructors enliven the teaching of Paradise Lost and address the challenges presented to students by the poemâ€"the early modern syntax and vocabulary, the political and theological contexts, and the abounding classical references.The first pa...

Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics. Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of literature provide a valuable resource for readers, writers, philosophers, and everyday people to imagine and confront the ultimate questions of life? Do the human activities of storytelling and complex...

Fifteen short, accessible essays exploring the most important topics and themes in John Milton's masterpiece, Paradise Lost. The essays invite readers to begin their own independent exploration of the poem by equipping them with useful background knowledge, introducing them to key passages, and acquainting them with the current state of critical debates. Chapters are arranged to mirror the way the poem itself unfolds, offering exactly what readers need as they approach each movement of its...

After a decade designing technologies meant to address education, health, and global poverty, award-winning computer scientist Kentaro Toyama came to a difficult conclusion: Even in an age of amazing technology, social progress depends on human changes that gadgets can't deliver.Computers in Bangalore are locked away in dusty cabinets because teachers don't know what to do with them. Mobile phone apps meant to spread hygiene practices in Africa fail to improve health. Executives in...

Victorian poetry was read and enjoyed by a much larger audience than is sometimes thought. Publication in widely-circulating periodicals, reprinting in book reviews, and excerpting in novels and essays ensured that major poets such as Tennyson, Browning, Hardy and Rossetti were household names, and they remain popular today. The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry provides an accessible overview of British poetry from 1830 to 1901, paying particular attention to its role in mass med...

Millions of words have been spent in our quest to explain men's seemingly never-ending dominance in boardrooms, in parliaments, in the bureaucracy and in almost every workplace. So why is gender inequality still such a pressing issue?Wage inequality between men and women seems one of the intractables of our age. Women are told they need to back themselves more, stop marginalising themselves, negotiate better, speak up, support each other, strike a balance between work and home. Thi...