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Barbaric Civilization
Why have the largest mass murders in human history taken place in the past hundred years? Why have European colonizers so often denied the humanity of the colonized? InBarbaric CivilizationChristopher Powell advances a radical thesis to answer these questions: that civilization produces genocides. From its beginnings in the early twelfth century, the Western civilizing process has involved two interconnected transformations: the monopolization of military force by sovereign states and the cultivation in individuals of habits and dispositions of the kind that we call "civilized." The combined forward movement of these processes channels violent struggles for social dominance into symbolic per...
Conceptualizing Relational Sociology
Edited by François Depelteau and Christopher Powell, this volume and its companion, Applying Relational Sociology: Networks, Relations, addresses fundamental questions about what relational sociology is and how it works.
Applying Relational Sociology
From networks to fields to figurations to discourses, relational ideas have become common in social science, and a distinct relational sociology has emerged over the past decade and a half. But so far, this paradigm shift has raised as many questions as it answers. Just what are 'relations', precisely? How do we observe and measure them? How does relational thinking change what we already know about society? What new questions does it invite us to ask? This volume and its companion volume Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and Theoretical Issues bring together, for the first time, the leading experts and up-and-coming scholars in the field to address fundamental questions about what relational sociology is and how it works.
Bounce Back
In Bounce Back, veteran financial coach and bestselling author Lynnette Khalfani-Cox explains how she slayed six figures of consumer debt in a mere three years and went on to build a seven-figure personal net worth. The author shows you how to take on—and defeat—the most common and difficult challenges facing Americans today, from debt, disability, and job downsizing to disasters, discrimination, divorce, and more. She draws on her own extensive experience helping people with their most intractable financial problems, the wisdom of other money coaches, financial therapists, certified financial planners, and psychologists – as well as the inspiring stories of everyday people who have bo...
History Can Bite
The volume provides critical insights into approaches adopted by curricula, textbooks and teachers around the world when teaching about the past in the wake of civil war and mass violence, discerning some of the key challenges and opportunities involved in such endeavors. The contributors discuss ways in which history teaching has acted as a political tool that has, at times, been guilty of exacerbating inter-group conflicts. It also highlights history teaching as an important component of reconciliation attempts, showcasing examples of curricular reform and textbook revision after conflict, and discussing how the contestations and difficulties surrounding such processes were addressed in different post-conflict societies.
The Other Side of the Song
Ten-year-old Missy Brown is surviving poverty and abuse in a drug-infested, Nashville trailer park. Sunlight comes into her life when, on TV, she sees the famous, beautiful country music star, Marty Abby, who sings a song about a mother's love. Missy's mother is a drug-addicted prostitute. The little girl writes to Marty, hoping and praying deep in her hear that her idol will take note and come for her. Her mother is so far gone in her addiction that she pimps her child to get money for her drugs and nearly kills Missy when she doesn't "perform." Her mother goes to jail; and Missy recovers because, and only because, her idol comes to the hospital, at the doctor's request, and sings to her little fan who is in deep coma Missy is placed in a loving foster home but was miserable and terrified of these strangers. She still aches to meet her idol, whose song in the hospital was only a dream to Missy. Will her prayer ever be answered? Will the two worlds ever come together? The world of fame, fortune, and romance on Nashville's country music stage and that of children thrown away by society.
Truth Is the Song
The song continues as the country music duo of Marty Abby and Christopher Powell prepare for their upcoming tour. They make their four newly adopted daughters a part of the planning. Things change when their oldest daughter, born with serious birth defects, is pushed to the floor and called a freak by the school bully. The child is beyond consolation until the children's doctor tells the family of a new technique that will straighten the little girl's twisted bones and of new plastic surgery to remove her scars from a cleft palate. These surgeries create problems with the already heavily booked, out-of-state concerts. The duo's talented crew comes up with techniques to let Chris go on tour a...
