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Author: Jason Brennan Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691211507 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 286
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The economist Albert O. Hirschman famously argued that citizens of democracies have only three possible responses to injustice or wrongdoing by their government: we may leave, complain, or comply. But in When All Else Fails, Jason Brennan argues that there is fourth option. When governments violate our rights, we may resist. We may even have a moral duty to do so. For centuries, almost everyone has believed that we must allow the government and its representatives to act without interference, no matter how they behave. We may complain, protest, sue, or vote officials out, but we can't fight back. But Brennan makes the case that we have no duty to allow the state or its agents to commit injustice. We have every right to react with acts of "uncivil disobedience." We may resist arrest for violation of unjust laws. We may disobey orders, sabotage government property, or reveal classified information. We may deceive ignorant, irrational, or malicious voters. We may even use force in self-defense or to defend others. The result is a provocative challenge to long-held beliefs about how citizens may respond when government officials behave unjustly or abuse their power
Author: Jason Brennan Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691211507 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 286
Book Description
The economist Albert O. Hirschman famously argued that citizens of democracies have only three possible responses to injustice or wrongdoing by their government: we may leave, complain, or comply. But in When All Else Fails, Jason Brennan argues that there is fourth option. When governments violate our rights, we may resist. We may even have a moral duty to do so. For centuries, almost everyone has believed that we must allow the government and its representatives to act without interference, no matter how they behave. We may complain, protest, sue, or vote officials out, but we can't fight back. But Brennan makes the case that we have no duty to allow the state or its agents to commit injustice. We have every right to react with acts of "uncivil disobedience." We may resist arrest for violation of unjust laws. We may disobey orders, sabotage government property, or reveal classified information. We may deceive ignorant, irrational, or malicious voters. We may even use force in self-defense or to defend others. The result is a provocative challenge to long-held beliefs about how citizens may respond when government officials behave unjustly or abuse their power
Author: David A. Moss Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674016095 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 472
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One of the most important functions of government—risk management—is one of the least well understood. Moving beyond familiar public functions—spending, taxation, and regulation—Moss spotlights government's pivotal role as a risk manager, revealing the nature and extent of this function, which touches almost every aspect of economic life.
Author: David Oliphant Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1606524372 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 152
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U.S. Marine Lieutenant Mark Whitby was escorting a top secret caravan through a dangerous area of Afghanistan when his convoy was attacked by insurgents. By springing into action, Whitby manages to save his men and more importantly the top-secret passenger, but not without getting severely wounded himself. Regaining consciousness in a hospital, Whitby learns that his fighting days are over. Reluctantly, he tries to chart a new future for himself but keeps coming up empty-handed. Then a strange package arrives. He opens it to find an old, dog-eared Gideon's Bible with hundreds of passages underlined and highlighted. Inside is an envelope with a cryptic handwritten note: "When all else fails..." it reads. Mark and his new young bride are then led on a treasure hunt of sorts by Mark's estranged grandfather, an ex-Marine war hero himself, who is also one of the greatest salesmen who has ever lived. Rather than give his grandson a large inheritance, he will teach him the 12 secrets to salesmanship and open his eyes to the joy of practicing the art of selling in order to equip him for a fulfilling and prosperous life.
Author: Rayyan Al-Shawaf Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1623710928 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 278
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A darkly humorous saga set in post-9/11 America and the Middle East When All Else Fails begins on September 12th, 2001. It is the story of Hunayn, a luckless and lovelorn Iraqi college student living in Orlando, Florida, after having graduated from high school in Beirut. Hunayn’s life is upended by 9/11—but not immediately, and not in the way that he, fearful in the aftermath of the attacks, initially expects. As America settles into its post-9/11, open-ended “Septemberland” phase (vigilant but also overly suspicious and even paranoid), many Arab and Muslim Americans are made to feel it’s no longer their home. With Hunayn, who muddles through a series of surreal episodes in Orlando and nearby Indiantown, the situation proves almost the opposite: Septemberland—so many of whose citizens think they have Hunayn figured out just because of his name or origins—comes to remind him of his most recent unhappy home, Lebanon, which he assumed he’d left behind. Now, having had his fill of disconcerting experiences, Hunayn returns to Beirut. At least he knows how to navigate life back there—or so he thinks. It turns out that Lebanon is about to undergo political upheaval of its own: a former prime minister opposed to neighboring Syria’s control of the country is assassinated; subsequent popular protests compel the Syrian regime to withdraw its army; a spate of mysterious bombings terrorizes everyone; and Israel, another neighbor, launches a war on Lebanon in retaliation for an attack by a Lebanese militant group. Hunayn finds himself aswirl in the maelstrom. And all the while, he watches from afar as Iraq, his fabled homeland and the owner of his heart, unravels in the wake of the US-led invasion.
Author: Nicole Williams Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 290
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"Love is not two souls meeting to become one body it is one soul in two bodies meeting itself again."Sidney and Layla have been best friends for years. They've watched lovers come and go in each other's lives but their friendship has remained solid. Pandora's box opens wide when the friends find themselves being drawn toward one another in a very non-platonic way. To complicate things further, Layla is dating Sidney's brother Cole. Layla is distraught over her feelings for Sidney. Sidney refuses to acknowledge anything is happening between them. Despite their attempts to ignore the temptations of their present and the secrets of their past, the choices they've made are starting to catch up to them. They desperately fight against fate and the looming threat of seduction. But life has a way of putting us on the paths we avoid the most. In an effort to do what's right, Sidney makes a decision that forces her and everyone she loves down a road of passion and betrayal. Will she ever be free to be with the love of her life? Will Cole and Layla forgive her? How will she repair the damage she's caused? In order to put her broken life back together, the carefree and immature Sidney, has to grow up and stop running from her mistakes. What is left to do... When All Else Fails?
Author: Michael Soward Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1483695115 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 68
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This memoir gives you a brief but interesting look at my life. Being carried two months shy of two years old by grandmother Eva from my birthplace Milwaukee, WI to Blytheville, Arkansas where she would raise my brother and I, then 60 years later finding myself living and working in Americas greatest melting pot, New York City. May this work at the very least become a sort of spiritural flashlightas your life moves in the direction that it's suppose to.
Author: Wayne L. Menking Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1620324997 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 150
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The condition of stuck is a condition well known by pastoral caregivers and leaders. In When All Else Fails, Wayne Menking argues that the way out of stuckness is not through the acquisition of faddish techniques, but through a deep rethinking of our pastoral vocation and what our pastoral work is to be about. Pastoral care and leadership are not indistinguishable, just as priestly work can never be separated from prophetic work. They are always one and the same. Pastoral care and leadership, then, are not about helping people relieve their anxiety through the offering of palliative comfort, but rather helping people to engage the powers that have hold of their life so as to leave what is old for what is new. In this engagement, the caregiver will always encounter powers against which niceness and unconditional love will not work. Using biblical images and narratives that depict God as a deeply empathic and compassionate God, yet one who is never adaptively sympathetic, Menking asserts that pastoral caregivers and leaders must shed their niceness and adaptivity so as to employ their God-given power if they are to help people effectively leave what is old for what is new.
Author: Tom Malcolm Carr Publisher: Youthlight ISBN: 9781889636566 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 108
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FINALLY, it's here.....a realistic, practical, no non-sense book full of fresh, unique ideas to help "today's" teachers deal with disruptive students. Although the book has a "serious" tone, you will find it to be a very enjoyable read. The book ends with an in-depth description of the Back-Up unit which is a program based on a ten year study that helped one school decrease discipline problems by nearly 80%.
Author: David Khalil Publisher: ISBN: 9780987191502 Category : Self-actualization (Psychology) Languages : en Pages : 163
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More than luck or a sixth sense, more than a university qualification or even experience, sustained success comes from a focused life. The principles in this book are designed to focus one's blurred vision, allowing him or her to see clearly and sharply what needs to happen next.
Author: Alicia White Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781722969295 Category : Languages : en Pages : 228
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Born in Montgomery, Alabama things in my life were messed up from the start. Most of it, I blame on my Mother engaging in Abusive relationships and having men in and out of the house. Growing up with a Dad I never met and having a Mother that did not care, seemed very hopeless for a child my age... Life deals bad hands at us at different times and it is our destiny to find how to navigate through turbulent waters and come out victorious. "When All Else Fails" is the gritty and courageous personal story of Alicia White once a young girl struggling in her Southern Hometown to ensure her and her siblings had basic necessities. The Story shows that determination, hard work and love can save one from what seems to be certain failure. Speaking in a candid voice the author's words brings to life the struggles and obstacles she overcame in her life to go on to be a successful Entrepreneur owning several businesses and raising a Happy Family. "When All Else Fails" is a real testimony to the Awesome Power of "The Holy Spirit."
Author: Jason Brennan
Author: Jason Brennan
Author: David A. Moss
Author: David Oliphant
Author: Rayyan Al-Shawaf
Author: Nicole Williams
Author: Michael Soward
Author: Wayne L. Menking
Author: Tom Malcolm Carr
Author: David Khalil
Author: Alicia White