Long out of print, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s novel The Crux is an important early feminist work that brings to the fore complicated issues of gender, citizenship, eugenics, and frontier nationalism. First published serially in the feminist journal The Forerunner in 1910, The Crux tells the story of a group of New England women who move west to start a boardinghouse for men in Colorado. The innocent central character, Vivian Lane, falls in love with Morton Elder, who has both gonorrhea and syphilis. The concern of the novel is not so much that Vivian will catch syphilis, but that, if she were to marry and have children with Morton, she would harm the "national stock." The novel was written, in Gilman’s words, as a "story . . . for young women to read . . . in order that they may protect themselves and their children to come." What was to be protected was the civic imperative to produce "pureblooded" citizens for a utopian ideal. Dana Seitler’s introduction provides historical context, revealing The Crux as an allegory for social and political anxieties—including the rampant insecurities over contagion and disease—in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century. Seitler highlights the importance of The Crux to understandings of Gilman’s body of work specifically and early feminism more generally. She shows how the novel complicates critical history by illustrating the biological argument undergirding Gilman’s feminism. Indeed, The Crux demonstrates how popular conceptions of eugenic science were attractive to feminist authors and intellectuals because they suggested that ideologies of national progress and U.S. expansionism depended as much on women and motherhood as on masculine contest.

A FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A straight-talking guide to corporate strategy and how to frame and pursue it' Financial Times The most important part of a leader's job is to set in motion the actions today that will build a better future tomorrow - in other words, strategy. But how do leaders become strategists? In this ground-breaking book, Richard Rumelt, the world's leading authority on strategy, shows how finding the crux of a challenge is the essence of the strategist's skill. The crux is the key issue where action will best pay off, and Rumelt reveals how to pinpoint it so you can focus energy on what really matters. Drawing on decades of professional and academic experience, and through vivid storytelling of some of the most important business decisions of recent times, Rumelt illuminates how leaders can overcome obstacles, navigate uncertainty and determine the best path forward. Strategy is not about setting financial targets, statements of desired outcomes, or performance goals, it is about finding the crux and taking decisive, coherent action.

A group of women from New England head westward to Colorado, where they struggle to establish a more forward-thinking community.

How can Christian theology confess God as both other than the world and also related to it in a way that compromises neither of these? Most modern thought has offered a simple reply: it cannot. Christ at the Crux analyzes one element of the roots of this denial and charts a route toward rapprochement. The Christologies of eight theologians offer various attempts to relate the Creator and the creature in Christ: Irenaeus of Lyon, Cyril of Alexandria, John Philoponus, Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Zizioulas, Robert Jenson, and Colin Gunton. Within the patristic era the question is grounded in theology about the incarnation; with the Reformers the focus is on the mediation between creation and Creator; and with the three modern theologians the breadth of the issue is completed with theology proper. Together, these eight offer a grand-scale perspective on much of the christological possibilities for conceiving the relation between God and everything else. In the end Paul Cumin shows how the doctrine of the Trinity appears to open new possibilities for Christology and in particular for the way theology about the Spirit enables a reimagining of those items of Christian thought most likely at the roots of our modern rejection of God-as-other.

While the world’s refugee population reaches record high numbers, countries offering third-country resettlement are increasingly shifting toward policies of exclusion and austerity. This edited volume envisions a more humane future for refugee resettlement. Combining anthropology with a variety of professional perspectives (education, health care, theology, administration, politics, and social work) ethnography is used to demonstrate the efficacy of programs and interventions that create and nurture social capital in culturally specific and accessible ways. The contributors present case studies of resettlement in the United States, England, Australia, and Canada and contend that social networks have an essential role—are the crux—in the reconfigurations of refugee well-being, belonging, and place-making vis-à-vis the bureaucratic limitations of state and institutional factors. This book includes short contributions from refugees, representatives of resettlement organizations, and government officials, including Jhuma N. Acharya, Bimala Bastola, Khada Bhandari, Kiri Hata, Govin Magar, Madhu Neupane, Natacha Nikokeza, Angela K. Plummer, Lance Rasbridge, Chris Sunderlin, David Thatcher, and John Tluang.

The Crux of the Love is a fiction about college, hostel life and romance. It prevails sophisticated behaviour that evolves in your surroundings. It also narrates to encounter the challenge undergoing in love. Narayan, a nonchalant guy, enrolls in BHU, Varanasi, a renowned resident university in UP. He experiences the best of hostel life when he meets four odd fellows. Narayan is entrapped in his attraction to Shivi. They enjoy varsity romance with full gusto. Their separation leads him to trauma. He struggles to overcome his negativity and illness. Narayan recovers from the deep darkness on his own. He engages with another girl Prerna during his profession. His prior love returns again but he has to choose one of them.

Buy now to get the main key ideas from Richard P. Rumelt's The Crux According to strategy expert Richard P. Rumelt, leaders become effective strategists when they focus on immediate, addressable challenges that promise the greatest progress. In The Crux (2022), Rumelt draws on his experience as a consultant, contrasting the breakthrough success of businesses that identify and address core issues with those that focus mainly on goals and financial targets. He advocates for adopting a challenge-based approach to strategy development and taking decisive, coherent action to tackle complex situations.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 A strategy is a mixture of policy and action designed to surmount a high-stakes challenge. It is not a goal or wished-for end state. It is a form of problem solving, and you cannot solve a problem you do not understand or comprehend. #2 The great missing piece in the foundation of almost all writings and teachings about strategy is a weakness well captured more than a decade ago by strategy authority Gary Hamel: Of course, everyone knows a strategy once they see one—be it Microsoft’s, Nucor’s, or Virgin Atlantic’s. #3 The key steps in dealing with a strategic challenge are a diagnosis of the situation, finding the crux, and then creating reasonable action responses. To take a closer look at these steps, I am going to look at the situation Netflix faced in early 2018. #4 In 2011, Netflix faced a significant upset. It had been paying $30 million per year to Starz for access to its shows. At contract renewal, Starz asked for an increase to $300 million per year. Netflix had to raise subscription fees by 60 percent.

Two and a half years have passed since Kensington confronted his son Alex in Saint PeterÍs Cathedral, Wellington, New Zealand. Alex has been studying at Victoria University, while the Prime Minister James Connor continues to lead the nation from the Beehive. Rachel Connor has been training to become a Physician, while her husband, John Robertson, remains in the Cathedral with Bishop Mark Blake. Tristan Blake has been watching Alex. Tristan sees the legacy of AlexÍs past: a past Alex seems to be trying to hide. What might become of him? Rau Petera remains on the shores of Oriental Bay, offering good news: but Tristan is watching. The nation has suffered an upheaval, and has settled in a kind of peace _ but Tristan is uneasy. Trouble is brewing overseas; trouble within. Kensington is taking a greater hold. Powers are rising: the world is at risk of war. What fate will beset the nation? What forces, in the midst of the growing darkness, will win?

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