![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Into his analysis Sen allows economics once again, as it did in the time of Adam Smith, to address the social basis of individual well-being and freedom. By asking 'What is the relation between our collective economic wealth and our individual ability to live as we would like?' and by incorporating individual freedom as a social commitment ![]() Values, institutions, development, and freedom are all closely interrelated, and Sen links them together in an elegant analytical framework. For Amartya Sen, the Nobel-winning economist and philosopher, development is freedom. Social institutions like markets, political parties, legislatures, the judiciary, and the media contribute to development by enhancing individual freedom and are in turn sustained by social values. The word development has many meaningseven within the development community. The main purpose of development is to spread freedom and its 'thousand charms' to the unfree citizens.įreedom, Sen persuasively argues, is at once the ultimate goal of social and economic arrangements and the most efficient means of realizing general welfare. Even if they are not technically slaves, they are denied elementary freedoms and remain imprisoned in one way or another by economic poverty, social deprivation, political tyranny or cultural authoritarianism. In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, a sudden outbreak of demonic attacks that leave more and more Shadowhunters felled by a mysterious slow poison plunges James and a cohort of allies into frantic searches for both a cause and an antidote. James Herondale, 17-year-old son of Will and Tessa, finds himself and his “perfectly lethal dimple” hung up between two stunning new arrivals: Cordelia Carstairs, red-haired Persian/British wielder of a fabled magic sword, and Grace Blackthorn, an emotionally damaged but (literally, as the author unsubtly telegraphs) spellbinding friend from childhood. ![]() Teenage offspring of the Herondales, Carstairs, Fairchilds, and other angel-descended Nephilim continue their families’ demon-fighting ways amid a round of elegant London balls, soirees, salons, picnics, and romantic intrigues. Clare’s ( Ghosts of the Shadow Market, 2019, etc.) latest is set in the Shadowhunter world in the 20th century’s first decade (with frequent flashbacks to the previous one). ![]() ![]() ![]() When Vanier speaks of ‘community’ he’s talking about “groupings of people who have left their own milieu to live with others under the same roof, and work from a new vision of human beings and their relationships with each other and with God.” L’Arche shapes his understanding of community. In 1964 he founded L’Arche, a community where those with disabilities and those who assist them live together and learn from each other. The author, Jean Vanier, was a French Catholic theologian who devoted his life to those with disabilities. Originally translated into English in 1979, Community and Growth proposes a timeless solution. A 2010 study at Brigham Young University reported that loneliness shortens a person’s life by 15 years. Loneliness has skyrocketed over the past 50 years. ![]() ![]() Genuine community is a rebellion against the isolation of today’s culture. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unlucky 13, Maxine Paetro,James Patterson (Mysteries & Thrillers) Sycamore Row, John Grisham (Mysteries & Thrillers) Personal, Lee Child (Mysteries & Thrillers) If I Stay, Gayle Forman (Children & Teens) The A Song of Ice and Fire Series, George R. The Husband’s Secret, Liane Moriarty (Fiction & Literature)įifty Shades of Grey, E L James (Romance) The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd (Fiction & Literature) The Target, David Baldacci (Mysteries & Thrillers) He Goldfinch, Donna Tartt (Fiction & Literature) Insurgent, Veronica Roth (Children & Teens)Īllegiant, Veronica Roth (Children & Teens)ĭivergent, Veronica Roth (Children & Teens) Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn (Mysteries & Thrillers) ![]() The Fault in Our Stars, John Green (Children & Teens) With the advent of iOS 8, the Apple bookstore is now preloaded on any new Apple device that is purchased or on older devices that have been automatically upgraded. This has relegrated these apps to basically be gloriified e-reading apps for books purchased on other devices or on their websites. ![]() A few years ago Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Kobo all pulled the ability to sell books through their apps, because they did not want to pay Apple a percentage of each book sold. When it comes to purchasing eBooks on the iPhone or iPad, Apple is one of the only retailers that actually sells them. ![]() The iBooksstore has just announced the top free, paid and audiobook titles of 2014. If you are looking for gift to by someone for the holiday season or want to catch up on some reading, Apple has you covered. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nita lives in a world where supernatural beings are prized for their parts but despised for their being, but also look exactly like other humans. I never knew what was coming next - all I knew was that I was desperate to find out.Īnd better yet, this book features some seriously cool worldbuilding. It's almost a thriller and almost an urban fantasy book and either way, it's so fun to read. So first of all, this book is impossible to put down and so addicting. ![]() Not Even Bones follows Nita, a girl who dissects other supernatural beings for the black market - until she’s sold into the black market herself. You know how sometimes, you read YA fantasy and you just feel like it could have gone darker and it doesn’t? Not Even Bones just keeps Going There. This is a deeply fucked up book, in a good way. the "Dexter meets This Savage Song" comparison really encapsulates this? This was not the most well-written thing I have ever read but I really really enjoyed my time reading it. ![]() ![]() ![]() 21, were the subject of a Thursday hearing in Los Angeles where McBride tried – but failed – to get her October indictment set aside with claims she never “sought or requested” the $500,000 reward offered by Lady Gaga and had “innocent intent” in returning the precious pets. In new court documents obtained by Rolling Stone, prosecutors describe exactly how investigators painstakingly linked McBride to her co-defendants and cracked the high-profile attempted murder and robbery case in which dog walker Ryan Fischer was shot in the chest and left for dead, resulting “in the partial loss of his right lung.” ![]() Two months later, that same woman, Jennifer McBride, was arrested and charged in the case alongside three alleged dognappers and the father of one of the suspects. When Lady Gaga’s French bulldogs were recovered two days after armed assailants stole them and nearly killed the pop star’s dogwalker last February, Los Angeles police said the woman who returned the dogs appeared to be an “uninvolved” good Samaritan. ![]() ![]() ![]() See the speech he gave at the 2012 San Francisco Humanity+ conference for an example of how reasonable he can be. He is an eminently reasonable man, who, through his calm, assured manner, gives English PhDs a good name. I went into Red Mars trusting in Kim Stanley Robinson. Essentially hard Sci-Fi is an author’s prediction, which means the book is only good insofar as the reader trusts the author to be incredibly intelligent and well-informed about all things scientific. That means no aliens, no time travel, no intergalactic planet-hopping. Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars is probably the book that most science fiction aficionados think of when they think of hard Sci-Fi-that branch of science fiction that concerns itself only with the plausible. ![]() ![]() ![]() She couldn’t, so she doodled on the blue-lined page of her history notebook. Kait was listening, pretending not to listen, and fiercely wishing she could get away. Flynn’s gentle, apologetic voice was no competition for their excited whispers. She was sitting in history class, listening to Marcy Huang and Pam Sasseen plan a party for that weekend. You don’t invite the local witch to parties. And Kaitlyn must decide whom to trust.and whom to love. A link that threatens their sanity and their lives. Then one of the experiments traps the five teens in a psychic link. Together, Rob and Gabriel's opposing forces threaten the group's stability. Gabriel is aggressive and mysterious, a telepath concealing his true nature as a psychic vampire, feeding off of others' life energy. Rob is kind and athletic, and heals people with his good energy. But those friendships quickly become complicated when Kait finds herself torn between two irresistible guys. ![]() Learning to hone her abilities with four other gifted students, Kait discovers the intensity of her power - and the joy of having true friends. ![]() Tired of being shunned, Kait accepts an invitation to attend the Zetes Institute, where she can have a fresh start and study with other psychic teens. Her haunting eyes and prophetic drawings have earned her a reputation as a witch. ![]() Kaitlyn Fairchild has always felt like an outsider in her small hometown. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the current unrest in Hong Kong having now been going on for many months and with no resolution yet in sight, the first book to cover the 2014 Umbrella Movement in a storytelling format is a welcome read. If newspapers are the first draft of history, literature aspires to be eternal, and so stories of major events can come to greatly shape the public’s knowledge, or understanding, of what occurred. There is therefore a first-mover advantage to getting a work out which captures recent political drama or strife, converting news reports into something a bit more lasting. It usually takes time for fiction to handle current events the wheels of publishing turn but slowly. ![]() This is a provided review of Tom Carter's American Bum in China published by Camphor Press and reviewed by former the Beijinger editor Mike Cormack. ![]() ![]() ![]() Vincent maintains suspense with fights against demonic degenerates and near-miss encounters with the demonstrably evil Church. Jammed with dramatic tension, this post-apocalyptic paranormal thriller will keep readers flipping pages. In no time, Nina becomes public enemy number one on the national news. This makes her a target of the Church, and her new friend Finn, one of a group of young exorcists and other freedom fighters, steps in to help her escape. The Church, however, discovers another secret, something Nina did not know about herself: Nina is a natural exorcist, able to dispatch demons to hell with only the fire that glows from her hand. She might have succeeded, but Melanie turns up with a secret that will destroy any real future the girls have. Soon to be 17, Nina struggles to keep herself and her 15-year old sister, Melanie, out of the hands of the Church, which has become the new, tyrannical government a century after the war between humans and demons wiped out most of America-and the rest of the world. A girl learns that she has the ability to fight the demons that threaten the world in this series opener. ![]() |