Hard Heads, Soft Hearts

Hard Heads, Soft Hearts
Author: Paul Kelly Peter J. Dawkins
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Total Pages: 254
Release:
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781741153903

It was time to end the disconnect in Australian politics: the disconnect between our political dialogue and our real needs. Too much of the public debate was about gesture rather than answers. The challenge was to identify broadly agreed principles for a new and different reform agenda. In April 2002 the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, at the University of Melbourne, and The Australian rose to this challenge. The upshot was a national conversation, Towards Opportunity and Prosperity, between leading thinkers from academia, politics, public service, business, unions and community groups. Topics covered included: * Unemployment, Joblessness and Welfare Reform * Education and Innovation * Population Policy * Work and Family * Ageing and Retirement * Health Policy * The Environment and the Kyoto Protocol * Are We Becoming a Branch Office Economy? * Microeconomic Reform Peter Dawkins and Paul Kelly, two of Australia s leading policy analysts and commentators, draw out the main threads of the policy debates in these areas, and plot the outlines of the new reform agenda which emerged from this fascinating and wide-ranging conversation. , but placing more emphasis on the human dimension-a 'hard heads, soft hearts' approach.

Fundamentals of the Faith

Fundamentals of the Faith
Author: Peter Kreeft
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2009-10-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1681491982

Kreeft considers all the fundamental elements of Christianity and Catholicism, explaining, defending and showing their relevance to our life and the world's yearnings. Here is a book to help you understand your faith more fully and to explain it to others more winningly. Like every religion, this faith has three aspects, corresponding to the three parts of the soul and filling the innate needs of all three parts. Kreeft uses these three divisions as the basic outline for his Christian apologetics. First, every religion has some beliefs, whether expressed in creeds or not, something for the intellect to know. Second, every religion has some duty or deed, some practice of program, some moral or ethical code, something for the will to choose. Finally, every religion has some liturgy, some worship, some "church", something for the body and the concrete imagination and the aesthetic sense to work at. Creed, Code and Cult; Words, Works and Worship, are a most useful way of outlining any religious faith, including the Catholic Faith of Christians. "These essays were written for Catholics by a Catholic. But I believe that nearly everything I say here will be found by the orthodox Biblical Protestant reader to be his faith as well: That solid and substantial core that C.S. Lewis called "mere Christianity" Peter Kreeft

Hard Heads, Soft Hearts

Hard Heads, Soft Hearts
Author: Alan S Blinder
Publisher: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1987-01-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Readers of Alan Blinder's regular Business Week column appreciate his concise, thought-provoking opinions and his eloquent prose. In Hard Heads, Soft Hearts he brings to life the inner workings of America's economy and in so doing explains what's wrong and how to fix it.

The Art of Fine Whining Or How Lori Lew Wrote Her Own Fortune Cookie

The Art of Fine Whining Or How Lori Lew Wrote Her Own Fortune Cookie
Author: Neil Weiner; Lorraine L. Calbow
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2005-12-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1467070440

The heroine, Lori Lew, begins her journey as a doormat. This 5’12” Chinese woman, with flaming red hair, is oblivious to the hurtful antics of her family, job, and boyfriend. Her life does not work! Her life report card would have straight Ds with a few Fs. Lori like Rodney Dangerfield, gets no respect from her parents and siblings. She is accosted by street kids. She has a bait-and-switch, spy operative boyfriend. She has a racist boss. She is constantly stopped by a policeman at every turn. Being Lori is no fun. Running an errand her parents starts Lori’s epiphany. She notices a shop that seemingly sells fine wine. However, keeping with the quirky nature of this novel, the “h” has fallen from the sign. It is really a whine studio. Signing up for an Art of Fine Whining Workshop, Lori learns to punctuate her communication with effective shrill tones, commanding body postures, and plaintive words. In hilarious scenes, Lori transforms her life. She strikes back with whining vengeance at all who have mistreated her. Her life report card magically turns to As. School is finally out.

Peasants Negotiating a Global Policy Space

Peasants Negotiating a Global Policy Space
Author: Ingeborg Gaarde
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2017-02-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 131544495X

With members in more than 80 countries of the world, the global peasant movement La Vía Campesina has planted itself firmly on the international scene. With a focus on agency (the capacity to act), this book explores the opportunities and challenges for mobilised peasants to engage directly in the global policy processes within the Committee on World Food Security.