We are witnessing a crisis of liberal democracy. A widespread fear of social decline, rapid globalization and uncontrolled immigration have culminated in a prevailing mood of hostility towards the established order. Confidence in democratic institutions and mainstream political parties is fast eroding, with people increasingly drawn towards the rhetoric of populist demagogues and authoritarian leaders. What are the roots of this revolt against liberalism and how can it be countered? In this new book, the leading Green politician and thinker Ralf Fücks argues that the threat to liberal democracy lies within democracy itself. Democracy is the fundamental guarantor of freedom and it is our own failure to defend it that has led to the encroachment of an illiberal and divisive politics. In a powerful counter, Fücks outlines the foundations for an ambitious democratic renewal: greater investment in the public institutions to create a sense of belonging and political community, a focus on education as the key instrument for social advancement, the promotion of a democratic patriotism based on common political values, a better understanding of how to increase participation in the emerging digital economy, and sustainable innovation that will unleash the creative potential of liberal societies. This robust defense of liberal democracy will be essential reading for anyone concerned about the very real threat faced by our democratic freedoms today and wondering what we can do about it.
Fromm sees right to the heart of our contradictory needs for community and for freedom like no other writer before or since. In Fear of Freedom, Fromm warns that the price of community is indeed high, and it is the individual who pays.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.4 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)Weight: .6 PoundsSuggested Age: 22 Years and UpNumber of Pages: 224Genre: Religion + BeliefsSub-Genre: ChristianityPublisher: Chosen BooksFormat: PaperbackAuthor: Jennifer EivazLanguage: EnglishStreet Date: February 8, 2022TCIN: 84908860UPC: 9780800799229Item Number (DPCI): 247-33-2533Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
* Facing a difficult situation or lifelong fear? Or are you a chronic worrier? Whatever your circumstances, God wants to set you free! These Scriptures are specially chosen to help you dwell in his love and peace. Each entry includes a verse, explains its context, provides commentary on its meaning, and offers suggestions for application. 208 pages, softcover from Bethany.
A fiercehearted woman looks life in the face and says, \"You can't beat me.\" She knows love is a risk but reaches out anyway. She chases Jesus with a tender, world-changing wildness. She never gives in, never gives up, and never lets go. Best of all, the potential to be a fiercehearted woman is inside each and every woman on earth. In her most powerful book yet, beloved bestselling author Holley Gerth inspires her readers to become the stronger, braver, truer women they long to be by sharing personal stories of her own struggles and victories. As readers join Holley on this journey, they'll discover a freedom they never imagined could be theirs: the freedom to experience life, love, and faith to the fullest because fear can no longer hold them back. For the woman who is restless or longing for more, Fiercehearted is an invitation to the life God has always meant for her to embrace.
Contingent Citizens examines the ambiguous state of South Africa’s public sector workers and the implications for contemporary understandings of citizenship. It takes us inside an ethnography of the professional ethic of nurses in a rural hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, shaped by a deep history of mission medicine and changing forms of new public management. Liberal democratic principles of ‘transparency’, ‘decentralization’ and ‘rights’, though promising freedom from control, often generate fear and insecurity instead. But despite the pressures they face, Elizabeth Hull shows that nurses draw on a range of practices from international migration to new religious movements, to assert new forms of citizenship. Focusing an anthropological lens on ‘professionalism’, Hull explores the major fault lines of South Africa’s fragmented social landscape – class, gender, race, and religion – to make an important contribution to the study of class formation and citizenship. This prize-winning monograph will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, development studies, sociology and global public health.
About the Book A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation. Packer journeys through the lives of several Americans including a son of a tobacco farmer, a factory worker in the Rust Belt, a Washington insider, a Silicon Valley billionaire, and others. Book Synopsis NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKAN NPR BEST BOOKSelected by New York Times' critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite BookA Washington Post Best Political BookA New Republic Best BookA riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation. American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and losers, allowing unprecedented freedom while rending the social contract, driving the political system to the verge of breakdown, and setting citizens adrift to find new paths forward. In The Unwinding, George Packer, author of The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, tells the story of the United States over the past three decades in an utterly original way, with his characteristically sharp eye for detail and gift for weaving together complex narratives. The Unwinding journeys through the lives of several Americans, including Dean Price, the son of tobacco farmers, who becomes an evangelist for a new economy in the rural South; Tammy Thomas, a factory worker in the Rust Belt trying to survive the collapse of her city; Jeff Connaughton, a Washington insider oscillating between political idealism and the lure of organized money; and Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire who questions the Internet's significance and arrives at a radical vision of the future. Packer interweaves these intimate stories with biographical sketches of the era's leading public figures, from Newt Gingrich to Jay-Z, and collages made from newspaper headlines, advertising slogans, and song lyrics that capture the flow of events and their undercurrents. The Unwinding portrays a superpower in danger of coming apart at the seams, its elites no longer elite, its institutions no longer working, its ordinary people left to improvise their own schemes for success and salvation. Packer's novelistic and kaleidoscopic history of the new America is his most ambitious work to date. Review Quotes "[The Unwinding] hums--with sorrow, with outrage and with compassion...Packer's gifts are Steinbeckian in the best sense of that term...[Packer has] written something close to a nonfiction masterpiece."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Gripping...deeply affecting...beautifully reported."--David Brooks, The New York Times Book Review "Remarkable." --Joe Klein, Time "Packer's dark rendering of the state of the nation feels pained but true. He offers no false hopes, no Hollywood endings, but he finds power in...the dignity and heart of a people."--The Washington Post "[The Unwinding] has many of the qualities of an epic novel...[a] professional work of journalism that also happens to be more intimate and textured--and certainly more ambitious--than most contemporary works of U.S. fiction dare to be...What distinguishes The Unwinding is the fullness of Packer's portraits, his willingness to show his subjects' human desires and foibles, and to give each of his subjects a fully throated voice."--Héctor Tobar, The Los Angeles Times "A monumental work that is both intimate and sweeping...Packer's writing dazzles...[his] reporting excels...The cumulative effect is extraordinary."--Ken Armstrong, The Seattle Times "Brilliant. Harrowing. Gorgeously written...The Unwinding is a lyrical requiem for a lost time, for downsized dreams and surrendered hopes. It's beautiful...but also...heartbreaking, a lush work of art that hurts all the more for being about the loss of hope and promise in America."--The Daily Kos "This is a work not just of fact, but of wit, irony, and astounding imagination."--The Paris Review "A work of prodigious, highly original reporting...[Packer] demonstrates that the future of reporting out in world isn't in eclipse...Packer's arduous venture commands attention."--Joseph Lelyveld, The New York Review of Books "Wide ranging, deeply reported, historically grounded and ideologically restrained...Instead of compelling us to engage with his theory of the past 35 years of the American experience, Packer invites us to explore the experience itself, as lived by our fellow citizens. They're human beings, not evidence for an agenda or fodder for talking points. Understanding that is the first step toward reclaiming the nation we share with them."--Laura Miller, Salon "[Packer is] among the best non-fiction writers in America...[he] weaves an unforgettable tapestry...In its sensibility, The Unwinding is closer to a novel than a work of non-fiction. It is all the more powerful for it."--Edward Luce, The Financial Times "Fascinating...elegant...A richly complex narrative brew."--The Chicago Tribune "[An] awe-inspiring X-Ray of the modern American soul."--The Millions "A brilliant and innovative book that transcends journalism to become literature."--Bookforum "[S]uperbly written and consistently thought-provoking...The Unwinding is long-form journalism at its best."--Dallas News "Masterful...thoughtful, thorough, and persuasive...the payoff comes when Packer's various elements combine in powerful and startling ways...What will stay with you...are the book's people, people Packer never turns into ideological mascots, people who struggle to survive, to create, to improve, even as the systems of support erode around them."--The Christian Science Monitor "Packer writes...beautifully and precisely; respectfully and, when warranted, critically. There is a straightforward and generous humanity in his prose."--Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast "Packer's strength as a storyteller lies in his ability to marshal a diverse range of voices from across the class divide, in a nation deeply divided by social status."--NPR Books "Packer's is an American voice of exceptional clarity and humanity in a tradition of reportage that renders the quotidian extraordinary. When our descendants survey the ruins of this modern imperium and sift its cultural detritus, American voices like this will be the tiny treasures that endure."--The Independent (UK) "This angry, wise and moving state-of-the-union address is too subtle and clever to be prescriptive. Packer offers no simplistic solutions. But here's the thing. The writing in this fine work showcases the very same qualities of democratic generosity and fair-mindedness whose supposed disappearance in America its author most laments."--The Telegraph (UK) "Exemplary journalism...A foundational document in the literature of the end of America."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A broad and compelling perspective on a nation in crisis...an illuminating, in-depth, sometimes frightening view of the complexities of decline and the enduring hope of recovery."--Booklist (starred review) "Trenchant...[the] brief biographies of seminal figures that shaped the current state of affairs offer the book's fiercest prose, such as in Packer's brutal takedown of Robert Rubin, secretary of the Treasury during some key 1990s financial deregulation that amplified the severity of the Great Recession of 2008. Packer has a keen eye for the big story in the small moment, writing about our fraying social fabric with talent that matches his dismay."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "The Unwinding...echoes the symphonic rage of the celebrated television series The Wire...a tremendous work of reporting that pushes past abstractions and recycled debates...Whatever one's views on American decline generally, it is difficult to put the book down without...a conviction that we can do better."--The Washington Monthly "[A] sprawling, trenchant narrative...Packer is a thorough, insightful journalist, and his in-depth profiles provide a window into American life as a whole...The Unwinding is a harrowing and bracing panoramic look at American society--things are bad everywhere, for everyone, but there's still a sense of optimism. Through hard work and dedication we can pull ourselves out of the financial, political, and social mess we've created and become stronger as individuals and ultimately as a society."--The Brooklyn Rail "George Packer has crafted a unique, irresistible contraption of a book. Not since John Dos Passos's celebrated U.S.A. trilogy, which The Unwinding recollects and rivals, has a writer so cunningly plumbed the seething undercurrents of American life. The result is a sad but delicious jazz-tempo requiem for the post-World War II American social contract. You will often laugh through your tears at these tales of lives of ever-less-quiet desperation in a land going ever-more-noisily berserk."--David M. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Freedom from Fear and Over Here "The Unwinding is the extraordinary story of what's happened to our country over the past thirty years. George Packer gives us an intimate look into American lives that have been transformed by the dissolution of all the things that used to hold us together. The result is an epic--wondrous, bracing, and true--that will stand as the defining book of our time."--Dexter Filkins, author of The Forever War "The Unwinding presents a big, gorgeous, sad, utterly absorbing panorama of the relentless breakdown of the American social compact over a generation. George Packer communicates the scope and the human experience of the enormous change that is his subject better than any writer has so far."--Nicholas Lemann, author of Redemption and The Promised Land "Original, incisive, courageous, and essential. One of the best works of nonfiction I've read in years."--Katherine Boo, National Book Award-winning author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers "George Packer serves us the history of our own life and times in a
'An invitation to embrace ourselves with all our pain, fear and anxieties, and to step lightly yet firmly on the path of understanding and compassion' Thich Nhat HanhFeelings of self-doubt and insecurity are what hold us back in life and cause true suffering. In the 20th anniversary edition of her landmark book Radical Acceptance, renowned meditation and mindfulness teacher Tara Brach offers us all a path to freedom.Drawing on personal stories, Buddhist teachings and guided meditations Tara leads us to trust our innate goodness. She reveals how we can develop the balance of clear-sightedness and compassion, heal fear and shame and build loving, authentic relationships.
A practical guide to moral self-improvement and living a good life. It tackles questions of freedom and imprisonment, stubbornness and fear, family, friendship and love, and leaves an intriguing document of daily life in the classical world.
In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarization, enmity, and terror as well as by a resurgence of racist, fascist, and nationalist forces determined to exclude and kill. He outlines how democracy has begun to embrace its dark side---what he calls its 'nocturnal body'---which is based on the desires, fears, affects, relations, and violence that drove colonialism. This shift has hollowed out democracy, thereby eroding the very values, rights, and freedoms liberal democracy routinely celebrates. As a result, war has become the sacrament of our times in a conception of sovereignty that operates by annihilating all those considered enemies of the state. Despite his dire diagnosis, Mbembe draws on post-Foucauldian debates on biopolitics, war, and race as well as Fanon's notion of care as a shared vulnerability to explore how new conceptions of the human that transcend humanism might come to pass. These new conceptions would allow us to encounter the Other not as a thing to exclude but as a person with whom to build a more just world.
About the Book Black Love is an explosion of form-busting storytelling, an ode to Black music, and those real stories we rarely hear. Book Synopsis Love freely. Love freedom. Love. Meet Aurora and Orion: Sister and Brother. Constellations in time. More than blood. More than just fam. They look after each other in their small London flat, filled with the memories of their parents' Black Love. When that love is threatened, they have to find their way back to each other and to what it means to love whilst Black. Using real-life stories, imagined worlds and new songs inspired by an R&B heritage, they begin a journey to confronting their own worst fears. It is premiered by Paines Plough on a UK tour from July 2021. About the Author Chinonyerem Odimba is a playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include: Black Love (Paines Plough, 2021); Unknown Rivers (Hampstead Theatre, 2019); Princess and the Hustler (Eclipse Theatre Company, Bristol Old Vic and Hull Truck Theatre co-production, 2019); Amongst the Reeds (Clean Break, Edinburgh Fringe and Yard Theatre, London, 2016); A Blues for Nia (Eclipse Theatre/BBC); His name is Ishmael (Bristol Old Vic, 2013); The Birdwoman of Lewisham (Arcola, 2015) and Joanne (Clean Break, Soho Theatre, 2015). She is a winner of the Channel 4 Playwrights' Scheme 2016 (formerly the Pearson Playwrights' Scheme). Her screenplay Scotch Bonnet was filmed by the BBC for The Break, a series of short films.
Break Free from Fear Anxiety, stress, panic--trying to control these powerful emotions can leave us feeling hopeless and overwhelmed. This does not have to be your reality. There is a better way! God has given us a strategy to overcome the fear that erodes our energy and saps our joy. Drawing on practical and liberating steps from Scripture, Dawna De Silva, founder and co-leader of the International Bethel Sozo Ministry, shows you how to - identify the patterns and lies that block your connection with God - take control over the demonic schemes that bind you - find healing and liberation through the work of the Holy Spirit When you learn to walk in power, love and self-discipline, you will resist the enemy's attacks and be released from fear into abundant, healthy living. You can experience the lifelong healing God intends for you! 'In Dawna's book Overcoming Fear, you'll learn through her practical and biblical approach all the necessary ingredients you need to get and stay free.'--Havilah Cunnington, founder, Truth to Table, author, Stronger Than the Struggle Dawna De Silva is founder and co-leader of the International Bethel Sozo Ministry in Redding, California. Whether training in Sozo, preaching or ministering prophetically, Dawna releases people, churches and cities into new vision and freedom. Dawna and her husband, Stephen, have two sons and live in Redding. Learn more at www.dawnadesilva.com.
Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and find a greater sense of connection with others. Our fear of intimacy-both with others and with ourselves-creates feelings of pain and longing. But these feelings can also awaken in us the desire for freedom and the willingness to take up the spiritual path. In this inspiring book, longtime meditation practitioner and teacher Sharon Salzberg shows how the Buddhist path can help us discover the radiant, joyful heart within each one of us, drawing on Buddhist teachings, wisdom from various traditions, her personal experiences, and guided meditation exercises. With these tools, she teaches how the practice of lovingkindness can illuminate a path to cultivating love, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity-the four 'heavenly abodes' of traditional Buddhism.
Being different can make you a target for rejection, bullying, and even violence. In this breakthrough book, Stacee Reicherzer--a nationally known transgender psychotherapist and expert on trauma, otherness, and self-sabotage--teaches readers to identify the fears that developed as a result of childhood identity-based bullying, use mindfulness and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-based skills to find freedom from self-sabotaging behaviors, and discover power in their differences.
About the Book "In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men and women are both educated, and all property is communal. Through dialogue and correspondence between the protagonist Raphael Hythloday and his friends and contemporaries, More explores the theories behind war, political disagreements, social quarrels, and wealth distribution and imagines the day-to-day lives of those citizens enjoying freedom from fear, oppression, violence, and suffering. Originally written in Latin, this vision of an ideal world is also a scathing satire of Europe in the sixteenth century and has been hugely influential since publication, shaping utopian fiction even today."--Publisher's website. Book Synopsis A major new translation of Thomas More's popular work of philosophical fiction In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men and women are both educated, and all property is communal. Through dialogue and correspondence between the protagonist Raphael Hythloday and his friends and contemporaries, More explores the theories behind war, political disagreements, social quarrels, and wealth distribution and imagines the day-to-day lives of those citizens enjoying freedom from fear, oppression, violence, and suffering. Originally written in Latin, this vision of an ideal world is also a scathing satire of Europe in the sixteenth century and has been hugely influential since publication, shaping utopian fiction even today. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. About the Author Thomas More was born a Londoner in 1477 or 1478. He served as a page, then studied at Oxford, was called to the bar and subsequently had a highly successful career in the City. Sent on an embassy to Flanders in 1515, he began Utopia there and completed it back in London. From 1528 he actively resisted innovation in religious matters and clashed with Henry VIII over his break with the Church. In July 1535, after he refused to accept the royal supremacy over the church, he was tried as a traitor at Westminster Hall and beheaded on Tower Hill. He was canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1935. Dominic Baker-Smith has been a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge; Professor of English at University College, Cardiff; and is now Emeritus Professor at the University of Amsterdam. In addition to various publications on English and Neo-Latin literature he is the author of More's 'Utopia' (1991, 2000) and has edited three volumes in the Toronto Collected Works of Erasmus. He has served as Chairman of the Society for Renaissance Studies and was appointed OBE in 1999.
What if fear is the new brave? That's the question you need answered if you are living afraid. Finding courage begins with fear itself--fear of the Lord. In I Choose Brave, Katie Westenberg reveals a countercultural plan to help you where you are--knee-deep in fears regarding parenting, the future, your marriage, and a world that feels unstable. When you're feeling fearful, the last thing you need is someone on social media telling you to simply 'power through' your fears. You need something far more potent. Katie shows you the way. By digging deep into Scripture and sharing her own compelling story of facing her worst fear, Katie helps you: - Discover a fresh take on an old truth that displaces fears once and for all - Understand why the culture's idea of 'fearlessness' is a farce - Access the holy courage you were made for With this new wisdom comes tremendous freedom. Hidden in the cleft of the Rock, the One truly worthy of our fear, you will begin to see the only path to real courage. 'I Choose Brave combines riveting storytelling with theological depth. Every Christian struggling to understand what the Bible says about fear should read this book.' --PHYLICIA MASONHEIMER, bestselling author of Stop Calling Me Beautiful Katie Westenberg is first a follower of Christ, a wife, and a mom growing faithfully alongside her four children. She believes boldly in the transformative power of faith in Jesus Christ. As an author and speaker, she teaches women to grow a robust theology of who God is, become students of Scripture, and learn to live that truth out with courage. She serves a thriving community of women at www.IChooseBrave.com and makes her home in the lovely Pacific Northwest.
'Perhaps the best introduction yet to the roots of Thailand's present political impasse. A brilliant book.' Simon Long, The Economist Struggling to emerge from a despotic past, and convulsed by an intractable conflict that will determine its future, Thailand stands at a defining moment in its history. Scores have been killed on the streets of Bangkok. Freedom of speech is routinely denied. Democracy appears increasingly distant. And many Thais fear that the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej is expected to unleash even greater instability. Yet in spite of the impact of the crisis, and the extraordinary importance of the royal succession, they have never been comprehensively analysed - until now. Breaking Thailand's draconian lèse majesté law, Andrew MacGregor Marshall is one of the only journalists covering contemporary Thailand to tell the whole story. Marshall provides a comprehensive explanation that for the first time makes sense of the crisis, revealing the unacknowledged succession conflict that has become entangled with the struggle for democracy in Thailand.
For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn't take much--just hearing of someone else's accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work--to make us feel that we are not okay. Beginning to understand how our lives have become ensnared in this trance of unworthiness is our first step toward reconnecting with who we really are and what it means to live fully. -from Radical Acceptance 'Believing that something is wrong with us is a deep and tenacious suffering,' says Tara Brach at the start of this illuminating book. This suffering emerges in crippling self-judgments and conflicts in our relationships, in addictions and perfectionism, in loneliness and overwork-all the forces that keep our lives constricted and unfulfilled. Radical Acceptance offers a path to freedom, including the day-to-day practical guidance developed over Dr. Brach's twenty years of work with therapy clients and Buddhist students. Writing with great warmth and clarity, Tara Brach brings her teachings alive through personal stories and case histories, fresh interpretations of Buddhist tales, and guided meditations. Step by step, she leads us to trust our innate goodness, showing how we can develop the balance of clear-sightedness and compassion that is the essence of Radical Acceptance. Radical Acceptance does not mean self-indulgence or passivity. Instead it empowers genuine change: healing fear and shame and helping to build loving, authentic relationships. When we stop being at war with ourselves, we are free to live fully every precious moment of our lives.