With headlines focused on human suffering-civil wars, refugee flows, the spread of disease due to hunger and poor sanitation, population growth, climate change-it is easy to dive into despair. What is needed, instead, is a radical rethinking of global policy to realize the potential for improving the human condition. This book provides hope by examining the basic needs for a fundamental shift in thinking about development and human security for both practical and ethical reasons. Kenneth A. Reinert calls for a basic goods approach that focuses on the provision of nutritious food, clean water, sanitation, health services, education services, housing, electricity, and human security services. This approach bridges two perspectives: that of standard growth, which emphasizes increasing GDP per capita, and that of capabilities/human development, which puts priority on the realization of human potential. Reinert argues that only when growth leads to an increase in the broad-based provision of basic goods and services will the hoped-for expansion of human capabilities and development be achieved. No Small Hope places the basic goods approach on the firm foundation of objective human needs and subsistence rights. It offers a practical agenda for making progress towards human development by focusing on the real determinants of human well-being in an ethical system of moral minimalism. In a world of climate change, increased risk of natural disasters and increased refugee flows, the basic goods approach promises to help alleviate ongoing suffering and address vast deprivations in basic needs fulfillment.

What happens to Chris and Ruthie comes naturally to teenagers: they fall in love, obsessively. But it isn’t natural that their love can only survive in secrecy, being against the wishes, even beyond the imagination, of their parents. And above all being illegal. At home Chris half loves, half fears his taciturn father, who never speaks of his important work for the Government. As Chris’s world opens up he learns about his father’s job as head of the province’s Race Classification Office, whose every decision can make or break somebody’s life in the 1970s South Africa. In this moving rites-of-passage story set in extraordinary circumstances, a coloured girl and white boy head for devastating consequences as their vulnerable lives hurtle down a collision course with the pitiless laws of society and the implacable resolve of his father.

An ordinary clerk fell in love with the beautiful female CEO. He thought that the two could only be together in a dream. However, he did not expect that the dream would come true one day. Zhang Tian is a clerk of the company. He has encountered all kinds of difficulties of the beautiful CEO immediately after he joined the company. The beautiful CEO is very harsh on Zhang Tian, but Zhang Tian has to admit that she is indeed capable, and the company's performance is booming under her management. Once Zhang Tian went on a business trip with the CEO, the customer had a lot of harassment to her, but she dared not to say anything. Zhang Tian stood out to protect her. Since then, the look of the beautiful CEO to Zhang Tian turned from disdain to admiration, the seeds of love are quietly sprouting ... ☆About the Author☆ Zigh, an outstanding online novelist, is good at creating modern romance novels. He has excellent creative ability. His novels have twists and turns, which are fascinating.

Stanley Cavell's most important writings on cinema, collected together for the first time in one volume.

This is a diary written for over five years. It presents Rosalie’s perspective of God with family connections. She gives her own thoughts freely over the days, and the reader can sense the joy she expresses in living life to the fullest while she prayerfully writes each entry.