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Jumpstart
by Allen Grossman Arthur MccaffreyMany in the nonprofit sector doubt whether organizational performance can be measured. Jumpstart, a 10-year-old nonprofit, developed performance measurement and management systems from its inception. The organization has experienced explosive growth and attributes a great deal of its success to creating a performance culture.
Jumpstart to Digital Procurement: Pushing the Value Envelope in a New Age
by Wolfgang Schnellbächer Daniel WeiseThis book shows how digital transformation has the power to revolutionize the way procurement operates, and discusses how especially buyer decisions are empowered through artificial intelligence. Depending on a company’s strategy all desired outcomes are possible, including doubling savings, innovation, sustainability, quality, speed, and halve the risk. Jumpstart to Digital Procurement is a hands-on guide on how companies can grasp the opportunities offered by digital transformation.
Junctures in Women's Leadership: Business
by Dana M. Britton Laura Lovin Carolina Alonso Bejarano Rosemary Ndubuizu Stina Soderling Amanda Roberti Professor Lisa Hetfield Katie Mccollough Crystal Bedley Grace HowardHow have women managed to break through the glass ceiling of the business world, and what management techniques do they employ once they ascend to the upper echelons of power? What difficult situations have these female business leaders faced, and what strategies have they used to resolve those challenges? Junctures in Women's Leadership: Business answers these questions by highlighting the professional accomplishments of twelve remarkable women and examining how they responded to critical leadership challenges. Some of the figures profiled in the book are household names, including lifestyle maven Martha Stewart, influential chef Alice Waters, and trailblazing African-American entrepreneur Madame C.J. Walker. Others have spent less time in the public eye, such as Johnson & Johnson executive JoAnn Heffernan Heisen, Verizon Senior Vice President Diane McCarthy, Wells Fargo technology leader Avid Modjtabai, Xerox CEO Ursula Burns, Spanx founder Sara Blakely, inventor Jane ni Dhulchaointigh, engineering firm President Roseline Marston, Calvert Investments President and CEO Barbara Krumsiek, and Merrill Lynch executive Subha Barry. These women, from diverse backgrounds, have played important roles in their respective corporations and many have worked to improve the climate for women in male-dominated industries. This is a book about women who are leading change in business. Their stories illuminate the ways women are using their power and positions--whether from the middle ranks or the top, whether from within companies or by creating their own companies. Each case study in Junctures in Women's Leadership: Business includes a compelling and instructive story of how a woman business leader handled a critical juncture or crisis in her career. Not only does the book offer an inspiring composite portrait of women succeeding in the business world, it also provides leadership lessons that will benefit readers regardless of gender.
Junctures in Women's Leadership: Health Care and Public Health (Junctures: Case Studies in Women's Leadership)
by Elizabeth Ryan Elizabeth Hoover Mary E. O'Dowd Dawn Thomas Denise Rodgers Mary Wachter Ann Marie Hill Raquel Mazon Jeffers Christina Tan Heather Howard Patricia Findley Colleen Blake Alexander Bartke Christina Chesnakov Grace Ibitamuno Erica Reed Akanksha Arya Carson Clay Suzanne Willard Jacqueline Hunterdon-AndersonJunctures in Women’s Leadership: Health Care and Public Health offers an eclectic compilation of case studies telling the stories of women leaders in public health and health care, from Katsi Cook, Mohawk midwife, to Virginia Apgar, Katharine Dexter McCormick and Florence Schorske Wald, to Marilyn Tavenner, Suerie Moon, and more. The impact of their work is extraordinarily relevant to the current public discourse including subjects such as the global COVID-19 pandemic, disparities in health outcomes, prevention of disease and the impact of the Affordable Care Act. The leadership lessons gleaned from these chapters can be applied to a broad array of disciplines within government, private business, media, philanthropy, pharmaceutical, environmental and health sectors. Each chapter is authored by a well versed and accomplished woman, demonstrating the book’s theme that there are many paths within health care and public health. The case study format provides an introductory section providing biographical and historical background, setting the stage for a juncture, or decision point, and the resolution. The women are compelling characters and worth knowing.
Junctures in Women's Leadership: Higher Education (Junctures: Case Studies in Women's Leadership)
by Patricia Pelfrey Carol T. Christ Elizabeth Kiss Karen Lawrence Leslee Ann Fisher Carmen Twillie Ambar Michele Ozumba Susan Bourque Marilyn Schuster Karen Stubaus Jacquelyn Sue Litt Maureen MahoneyJunctures in Women's Leadership: Higher Education illuminates the careers of twelve women leaders whose experiences reveal the complexities of contemporary academic leadership through the intersection of gender, race, and institutional culture. The chapters combine interviews and research to create distinct case studies that identify the obstacles that challenged each woman's leadership, and the strategies deployed to bring about resolution. The research presented in this volume reveals not only theoretical factors of academic leadership, but also real time dynamics that give the reader deeper insights into the multiple stakeholders and situations that require nimble, relationship-based leadership, in addition to intellectual competency. With chapters written by many of today's leading women in higher education, this book brings into sharp focus the unique attributes of women leaders in the academy and adds a new dimension of analysis to the field of women’s leadership studies. Women leaders interviewed in this volume include Bernice Sandler, Juliet Villarreal García, and Johnnetta Betsch Cole.
Junctures in Women's Leadership: Social Movements
by Blanche Wiesen Cook Beverly Guy-Sheftall Bridget Gurtler Kathe Sandler Laura Lovin Mary K. Trigg Kim Lemoon Carolina Alonso Bejarano Alison R. Bernstein Miriam Tola Rosemary Ndubuizu Jeremy Lamaster Jo E. Butterfield Taida Wolfe Stina SoderlingFrom Eleanor Roosevelt to feminist icon Gloria Steinem to HIV/AIDS activist Dazon Dixon Diallo, women have assumed leadership roles in struggles for social justice. How did these remarkable women ascend to positions of influence? And once in power, what leadership strategies did they use to deal with various challenges? Junctures in Women's Leadership: Social Movements explores these questions by introducing twelve women who have spearheaded a wide array of social movements that span the 1940s to the present, working for indigenous peoples' rights, gender equality, reproductive rights, labor advocacy, environmental justice, and other causes. The women profiled here work in a variety of arenas across the globe: Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards, New York City labor organizer Bhairavi Desai, women's rights leader Charlotte Bunch, feminist poet Audre Lorde, civil rights activists Daisy Bates and Aileen Clarke Hernandez, Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai, Nicaraguan revolutionary Mirna Cunningham, and South African public prosecutor Thuli Madonsela. What unites them all is the way these women made sacrifices, asked critical questions, challenged injustice, and exhibited the will to act in the face of often-harsh criticism and violence. The case studies in Junctures in Women's Leadership: Social Movements demonstrate the diversity of ways that women around the world have practiced leadership, in many instances overcoming rigid cultural expectations about gender. Moreover, the cases provide a unique window into the ways that women leaders make decisions at moments of struggle and historical change.
Junctures in Women's Leadership: The Arts (Junctures: Case Studies in Women's Leade #3)
by Judith K. Brodsky Ferris OlinIn this third volume of the series Junctures: Case Studies in Women’s Leadership, Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin profile female leaders in music, theater, dance, and visual art. The diverse women included in Junctures in Women's Leadership: The Arts have made their mark by serving as executives or founders of art organizations, by working as activists to support the arts, or by challenging stereotypes about women in the arts. The contributors explore several important themes, such as the role of feminist leadership in changing cultural values regarding inclusivity and gender parity, as well as the feminization of the arts and the power of the arts as cultural institutions. Amongst the women discussed are Bertha Honoré Palmer, Louise Noun, Samella Lewis, Julia Miles, Miriam Colón, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Bernice Steinbaum, Anne d’Harnoncourt, Martha Wilson, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Kim Berman, Gilane Tawadros, Joanna Smith, and Veomanee Douangdala.
Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Media and Journalism (Junctures: Case Studies in Women's Leadership)
by Elizabeth L. Toth Linda Steiner Nahed Eltantawy Tracy Everbach Michelle Duster Stine Eckert Amy Jordan Paromita Pain Sadie Couture Constance Mitchell Ford Kevin Blackistone Shannon Scovel Chloe TeraniThe news industry is still dominated by men. Yet women have exercised leadership in journalism and related media professions in a variety of ways, from moral leadership to experimenting with structural and technological innovations and pioneering new formats to serve new audiences. This book offers a robust account of women’s leadership in journalism, looking at what motivated women to become media leaders, the obstacles they overcame, and the strategies they used to solve problems and handle crises. This book offers profiles of inspiring women in prominent media positions from the nineteenth century to today, beginning with trailblazers like abolitionist publisher Mary Ann Shadd and Memphis Free Speech anti-lynching editor Ida B. Wells. The book takes an in-depth look at the leadership styles of well-known media moguls like Oprah Winfrey and Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham. Other chapters highlight women now emerging as media leaders, such as digital media executive S. Mitra Kalita and Iman Zawahry, a Muslim hijabi filmmaker. Bringing together cases from print, broadcast, public relations, film, and digital media, this book offers useful insights into how to be an effective leader in an ever-changing industry.
Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill
by Gabriela Soto LaveagaIn the 1940s chemists discovered that barbasco, a wild yam indigenous to Mexico, could be used to mass-produce synthetic steroid hormones. Barbasco spurred the development of new drugs, including cortisone and the first viable oral contraceptives, and positioned Mexico as a major player in the global pharmaceutical industry. Yet few people today are aware of Mexico's role in achieving these advances in modern medicine. In Jungle Laboratories, Gabriela Soto Laveaga reconstructs the story of how rural yam pickers, international pharmaceutical companies, and the Mexican state collaborated and collided over the barbasco. By so doing, she sheds important light on a crucial period in Mexican history and challenges us to reconsider who can produce science. Soto Laveaga traces the political, economic, and scientific development of the global barbasco industry from its emergence in the 1940s, through its appropriation by a populist Mexican state in 1970, to its obsolescence in the mid-1990s. She focuses primarily on the rural southern region of Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, where the yam grew most freely and where scientists relied on local, indigenous knowledge to cultivate and harvest the plant. Rural Mexicans, at first unaware of the pharmaceutical and financial value of barbasco, later acquired and deployed scientific knowledge to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies, lobby the Mexican government, and ultimately transform how urban Mexicans perceived them. By illuminating how the yam made its way from the jungles of Mexico, to domestic and foreign scientific laboratories where it was transformed into pills, to the medicine cabinets of millions of women across the globe, Jungle Laboratories urges us to recognize the ways that Mexican peasants attained social and political legitimacy in the twentieth century, and positions Latin America as a major producer of scientific knowledge.
Jungle Warfare: A Basic Field Manual for Christians in Sales
by Christopher A. Cunningham"Paul admonished all of us to 'fight the good fight.' In Jungle Warfare, Christopher Cunningham tells us how to not only fight but how to actually win. This book is recommended reading for Christians in the arena of sales." --Tim Lee, Evangelist, Marine Sergeant from the jungles of Vietnam, www.timlee.org "Athletes, salespeople, and Christians, we are called to persevere regardless of what is thrown our way. As a Dallas Cowboy, I learned to tackle that lesson first hand. Chris's book reminds us there's no quit in a winner. Read this and you'll remember you really can 'do all things through Christ who gives you strength.'" --Bill Bates, NFL All-Pro and Pro-Bowl Player, Safety, Dallas Cowboys NFL Champions (Superbowls XXVII, XXVIII, XXX) ARE YOU READY TO FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT? Every other sales book promises you great riches, cute techniques, and "amazing" questions to get your customer to buy from you. This is not every other sales book. Commerce and combat join forces in Jungle Warfare. Your enlistment asks for a 22-day tour of duty to explore battle-tested principles that Christopher Cunningham mined from his grandfather's World War II field manual (stay fit . . . keep your wits . . . know your enemy . . . trust your commander) and culminates with a field-support Q&A addressing thorny questions that all professionals face. Every day, you walk through a jungle. Pick up this book and you'll never walk through it alone, again.
Jung’s Personality Theory Quantified
by Douglass J. WildeJung's Personality Theory Quantified fills an urgent need for professionals using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) to map it on to the cognitive modes of Jung's personality theory, avoiding potential logical errors in the traditional "type dynamics" method. It furthers Jung's original concepts while placing them on a solid axiomatic basis not possessed by other personality theories. Bringing these quantitative findings to the millions of MBTI users - managers, consultants, counsellors, teachers, psychoanalysts and human resource professionals - will require further education of those already certified to administer the instrument according to type dynamics. For this reason numerical exercises follow most chapters to make the book a source reference for briefer workbooks usable in enhanced certification programs. Backed by quantitative theory and new graphical methods, the pioneering qualitative typology work of Myers and Briggs is thus extended to yield deeper understanding of the vital topics of human personality, creativity and human relations. Jungian psychoanalysts may find Jung's Personality Theory Quantified helpful in organizing complicated clinical information and it can also enhance the work of MBTI practitioners worldwide.
Junior: Writing Your Way Ahead In Advertising
by Thomas KemenyThere are a lot of great advertising books, but none that get down in the dirt with you quite like this one. Thomas Kemeny made a career at some of the best ad agencies in America. In this book he shows how he got in, how he&’s stayed in, and how you can do it too. He breaks apart how to write fun, smart, and effective copy–everything from headlines to scripts to experiential activations–giving readers a lesson on a language we all thought we already knew. This book is not a retrospective from some ad legend. It's a book that should be instantly useful for people starting out. A guide for the first few years at a place you'd actually want to work. Traditionally, advertising books have been written by people with established careers, big offices and letters like VP in their titles. They have stories from the old days when people could start in the mailroom. They are talented. That's been done. Who wants another book filled with seasoned wisdom? This is a book written by somebody still getting his bearings. Someone who has made an extraordinary number of errors in a still short career. Someone who has managed to hang onto his job despite these shortcomings.
Junk Food Politics: How Beverage and Fast Food Industries Are Reshaping Emerging Economies
by Eduardo J. GómezWhy do sugary beverage and fast food industries thrive in the emerging world?An interesting public health paradox has emerged in some developing nations. Despite government commitment to eradicating noncommunicable diseases and innovative prevention programs aimed at reducing obesity and type 2 diabetes, sugary beverage and fast food industries are thriving. But political leaders in countries such as Mexico, Brazil, India, China, and Indonesia are reluctant to introduce policies regulating the marketing and sale of their products, particularly among vulnerable groups like children and the poor. Why?In Junk Food Politics, Eduardo J. Gómez argues that the challenge lies with the strategic politics of junk food industries in these countries. Industry leaders have succeeded in creating supportive political coalitions by, ironically, partnering with governments to promote soda taxes, food labeling, and initiatives focused on public awareness and exercise while garnering presidential support (and social popularity) through contributions to government anti-hunger and anti-poverty campaigns. These industries have also manipulated scientific research by working with academic allies while creating their own support bases among the poor through employment programs and community services. Taken together, these tactics have hampered people's ability to mobilize in support of stricter regulation for the marketing and sale of unhealthy products made by companies such as Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Nestlé.Drawing on detailed historical case studies, Junk Food Politics proposes an alternative political science framework that emphasizes how junk food corporations restructure politics and society before agenda-setting ever takes place. This pathbreaking book also reveals how these global corporations further their policy influence through the creation of transnational nongovernmental organizations that support industry views.
Junkspiritum
by Belén Eslava Urío Stanislas KazalUna misión: descubrir el genius loci de nuestro territorio. Un método: dar a conocer lo local, pero también lo global y universal, desde una perspectiva interdisciplinar que pone en comunicación las diferentes culturas. Esta sucesión de textos revela además una relación de confianza entre una redactora jefe y un cronista que conocen sus respectivas maneras de pensar. Con el tiempo, lanzarse sobre un nuevo tema, buscar un nuevo desafío intelectual, resulta casi un juego. Hoy día puedo confesar que jamás le he confiado a Stanislas ningún tema al azar; sabía que cada propuesta sería sometida a una metodología analítica, a una manera de examinar el pensamiento, a una curiosidad infalible y a un espíritu crítico. Así es como siempre se muestran de la mejor manera posible las potencialidades de un tema. Clémence Blochet, redactora jefe.
Junkspiritum by Stanislas Kazal
by Iperbole10 Rita Stanislas KazalLa missione: rivelare il "genius loci", lo spirito del nostro territorio, Bordeaux, la sua effervescenza che, seppur inscritta in un contesto secolare, ha un presente in moto perenne verso un futuro che rende tutte le cose senza tempo. Un metodo: rivelare il locale ma anche il globale e l'universale tramite un approccio interdisciplinare che lascia dialogare le culture. La missione: rivelare il "genius loci", lo spirito del nostro territorio, Bordeaux, la sua effervescenza che, seppur inscritta in un contesto secolare, ha un presente in moto perenne verso un futuro che rende tutte le cose senza tempo. Un metodo: rivelare il locale ma anche il globale e l'universale tramite un approccio interdisciplinare che lascia dialogare le culture.
Juno (B): Leveraging Student Power
by Kathleen L. McGinn Joshua R. Schwartzstein Amy KlopfensteinIn March 2020, Juno co-founders Chris Abkarians and Nikhil Agarwal decided to pitch banks in anticipation of their annual auction while negotiating directly with private lender Eager. Responses from the majority of private lenders-including Juno's 2019 partner-were not encouraging, yet Eager remained keenly interested in an exclusive partnership. The co-founders faced additional pressure following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the uncertainties of the pandemic and its economic impact, the co-founders gravitated towards the Eager partnership. However, they must decide whether to cancel the auction, and whether Eager has the stability to withstand the pandemic.
Juno (C): Leveraging Student Power
by Kathleen L. McGinn Joshua R. Schwartzstein Amy KlopfensteinIn May 2020, Juno co-founders Chris Abkarians and Nikhil Agarwal decided to hold the annual auction for their student loan assistance startup. Five lenders submitted bids, and the co-founders ultimately opted to select Eager Bank as their partner for the 2020-2021 academic year for fixed-rate loans. However, a significant portion of Juno's membership expressed interest in variable-rate loans, prompting them to seek out another partner for the variable-rate product. They secured a deal with a major private lender through an intermediary, but are forced to quickly adapt their strategy when the lender refuses to pay for Juno's loan volume. The case concludes with the co-founders considering whether Eager Bank might be a potential long-term partner, and once again wondering whether they should make changes to their auction-based strategy for the coming year.
Junson Capital: Building an Institutionalized Family Office
by Dawn Lau Lauren H. Cohen Hao Gao Christopher J. MalloyCase
Junta directiva del Banco de la Republica: Grandes episodios en 30 años de historia
by Gloria Valencia"Este libro de Gloria Valencia constituye una referencia imprescindible para entender la historia del Banco de la República desde que la Constitución de 1991 le confirió su autonomía. Tiene, además, el inmenso mérito de ser un libro lleno de anécdotas y consideraciones de economía política que hacen particularmente amena su lectura". LEONARDO VILLAR, GERENTE GENERAL DEL BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA La sala de reuniones de la Junta Directiva del Banco de la República guarda grandes secretos sobre decisiones cruciales e importantes momentos de la historia económica del país en los últimos 30 años. Las anécdotas y sucesos de lo allí acontecido son develados por Gloria Valencia, quien ha cubierto durante décadas los eventos micro y macroeconómicos de Colombia. Un apasionante relato escrito para todo aquel que quiere llegar hasta las entrañas de una de las instituciones más importantes del país. Este libro -publicado originalmente por el Banco de la República en una edición de 600 ejemplares y que ahora el sello Aguilar retoma, dada su importancia histórica- es una investigación periodística sin precedentes, en la cual la autora analiza 54 episodios centrales, con base en las actas de la Junta Directiva y en múltiples documentos del Banco, así como en más de 50 entrevistas a presidentes, dirigentes gremiales, gerentes y casi todos los codirectores y ministros de Hacienda de las últimas tres décadas.
Jurgen Klaric. Pobre, rico, millonario
by Jorge CanoPobre rico millonario La biografía autorizada de Jürgen Klaric, el líder de ventas más importante de habla hispana. En este libro imprescindible para cualquier persona interesada en el mundo de los negocios y las ventas, Jorge Cano retrata la trayectoria que ha seguido Jürgen Klaric para convertirse en un empresario exitoso y en uno de los líderes de ventas más importantes de Latinoamérica. Lleno de historias personales, aprendizajes y consejos, en Pobre rico millonario aprenderás cómo superar obstáculos en tu negocio, cómo perfilar tu producto para llegar al público meta, por qué el fracaso es algo positivo para seguir aprendiendo, cómo aplicar las neuroventas en tu empresa, por qué es importante tener una mentalidad de liderazgo, entre muchas otras cosas. El trabajo de Jürgen Klaric y su conocimiento en neurociencias, antropología, psicología y marketing han transformado diversas empresas trasnacionales como Amway, IKEA, Kimberly Clark, Big Cola, Telefónica Movistar, Telmex, Claro, Sony, Samsung, Nestlé, Bayer y General Motors.
Jurisdiction and Arbitration Agreements in International Commercial Law: Jurisdiction And Arbitration Agreements In International Commercial Law (Routledge Research in International Commercial Law)
by Zheng Sophia TangArbitration and jurisdiction agreements are frequently used in transnational commercial contracts to reduce risk, gain efficacy and acquire certainty and predictability. Because of the similarities between these two types of procedural autonomy agreements, they are often treated in a similar way by courts and practitioners. This book offers a comprehensive study of the prerequisites, effectiveness, and enforcement of exclusive jurisdiction and arbitration agreements in international dispute resolution. It examines whether jurisdiction and arbitration clauses have identical effects in private international law and whether they have been or should be given the same treatment by most countries in the world. By comparing the treatment of these clauses in the US, China, UK and EU, Zheng Sophia Tang demonstrates how, in practice, exclusive jurisdiction and arbitration agreements are enforced. The book considers whether the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements could be treated as a litigating counterpart to the New York Convention, and whether it could work successfully to facilitate judicial cooperation and party autonomy in international commerce. This book breaks new ground in combining updated materials in EU, US and UK law with unique resources on Chinese law and practice. It will be valuable for academics and practitioners working in the field of private international law and international arbitration.
Juristische Personen des öffentlichen Rechts und die Umsatzsteuer: Arbeitshilfen zum § 2b UStG
by Michael HorstDas Buch enthält eine Auswahl an Themen, welche für umsatzsteuerliche Würdigung im Alltag von jPdöR - besonders für die Gebietskörperschaften - von Bedeutung sind. §2b UStG wird aus Sicht einer Gebietskörperschaft dargestellt. Dabei orientiert sich das Buch an einem städtischen Haushalt. Praktische Arbeitshilfen und Beispiele ermöglichen den Transfer auf die individuellen kommunalen Umsätze.
Jurlique: Globalizing Beauty from Nature and Science
by Geoffrey G. Jones Andrew SpadaforaConsiders the marketing and strategic challenges faced by natural beauty brands using the case of Australian-based Jurlique, which was acquired by Pola of Japan in 2011. The case opens two years later in July 2013 when Sam McKay, the chief executive officer, on a visit to Pola's head office in Tokyo, heard news of critical comments about the company and animal testing in a Facebook post from a group in South Australia, where the brand had been founded as a small biodynamic farm in 1985. The discussion of Jurlique's involvement with animal testing was a sensitive issue as it contradicted the brand's strong environmentally-friendly and ethical positioning. The matter had already arisen during the Pola acquisition as Pola, like all Japanese cosmetics companies, traditionally tested products on animals. The animal testing issue is put in context by a discussion of how during Jurlique's growth as a successful premium brand there had been substantial changes in market position, in part associated with shifts of ownership. At times the brand had been focused on core green consumers, but McKay had sought to broaden the consumer base by repositioning it as making "the most effective products as natural as possible." The company lost few existing customers, and found that Jurlique's image was an asset in attracting Chinese consumers who liked the story of the Australian farm which produced most ingredients. However, Chinese regulations refusing to allow the firm's stores to use recycled wood, and mandating of animal testing, were challenging to the brand's global natural brand position. The case can be taught both in marketing classes concerned with green business and in strategy classes exploring the challenges faced by global brands.
Jus Post Bellum and Transitional Justice
by Larry May Elizabeth EdenbergThis collection of essays brings together jus post bellum and transitional justice theorists to explore the legal and moral questions that arise at the end of war and in the transition to less oppressive regimes. Transitional justice and jus post bellum share in common many concepts that will be explored in this volume. In both transitional justice and jus post bellum, retribution is crucial. In some contexts criminal trials will need to be held, and in others truth commissions and other hybrid trials will be considered more appropriate means for securing some form of retribution. But there is a difference between how jus post bellum is conceptualized, where the key is securing peace, and transitional justice, where the key is often greater democratization. This collection of essays highlights both the overlap and the differences between these emerging bodies of scholarship and incipient law.
Just A Little Bit More: The Culture of Excess and the Fate of the Common Good
by T. Carlos AndersonIs America a Christian Nation? According to author T. Carlos Andersen, the true religion of the land is the confluence of commerce, materialism, and consumerism. Andersen, defining religion as "ultimate concern," claims our true devotion is found in material pursuits. It's been a good religion; it has fed, clothed, sheltered, and employed millions of Americans. It can go too far, however. When these pursuits become excessive, the religion breaks bad and the common good suffers.