Some urgent new thinking is needed if any lessons are to be learnt from the recent disasters. This book brings together the experience of a number of writers who have worked on, or studied, poverty alleviation programmes in Asia and Africa.
Some urgent new thinking is needed if any lessons are to be learnt from the recent disasters. This book brings together the experience of a number of ...
About the Contributor(s): Nicola Hoggard Creegan lectures in systematic theology at Laidlaw College. She is author of Animal Suffering and the Problem of Evil (OUP, 2013). Andrew Shepherd works as a free-lance researcher and teacher in theology and ethics. He is the author of The Gift of the Other (Pickwick, forthcoming). He is the Education Co-ordinator for A Rocha Aotearoa New Zealand--a Christian conservation movement.
About the Contributor(s): Nicola Hoggard Creegan lectures in systematic theology at Laidlaw College. She is author of Animal Suffering and the Problem...
Based on a decade of research by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, this volume includes material on inter-generational transmission, the importance of assets and vulnerability, and conflict, and new thinking about the close relationship between social exclusion and adverse incorporation.
Based on a decade of research by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, this volume includes material on inter-generational transmission, the importance...
Description: We live in an age of global capitalism and terror. In a climate of consumption and fear the unknown Other is regarded as a threat to our safety, a client to assist, or a competitor to be overcome in the struggle for scarce resources. And yet, the Christian Scriptures explicitly summon us to welcome strangers, to care for the widow and the orphan, and to build relationships with those distant from us. But how, in this world of hostility and commodification, do we practice hospitality? In The Gift of the Other, Andrew Shepherd engages deeply with the influential thought of French...
Description: We live in an age of global capitalism and terror. In a climate of consumption and fear the unknown Other is regarded as a threat to ...
Conon Bridge had been discarded by the Ministry of Defense after saving the lives of an elite US Navy SEALS team who were hunting for Osama bin Laden. He returned to his beloved Highlands to hide and lick his wounds, but when the Russian Navy came snooping around in the waters off the Isle of Skye during a NATO exercise, a series of events lead to some of the world's greatest secrets being uncovered by the Royal Marines Commandos elite Special Boat Squadron, who would go anywhere to unearth the truth.
Conon Bridge had been discarded by the Ministry of Defense after saving the lives of an elite US Navy SEALS team who were hunting for Osama bin Laden....
