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"This book argues that social transformation is both necessary and possible if democracies are to respond effectively to the climate crisis without social collapse. Climate transformation and social transformation are intimately connected. Understanding how to address climate change requires a historical approach both to the climate and to our collective institutions of humanity. Drawing on the works of Karl Polanyi and Thomas Piketty, Nicholas Low traces the course of historic social transformations from Britain, Russia and Australia to highlight key commonalities: social crisis, the widespread sense by those in power that 'something has to change', the shift in ideology, and the political champions that drove the change. Within its international scope, the book delves deeper into specific instances of inequality and poverty from Britain, the USA, Australia and the Global South. It shows how these examples are connected with the current climate emergency. Finally, the author draws together all the evidence from past transformations to outline how a new social democratic transformation could generate a better future, creating the social solidarity necessary to cope with the climate crisis. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, environmental politics and policy, political ecology, environmental sociology and environmental studies more broadly. Its argument is also highly relevant for political actors working towards social and economic transformation"--

"Overfishing. For the world's oceans, it's long been a worrisome problem with few answers. Many of the global fish stocks are at a dangerous tipping point, some spiraling toward extinction. But as older fishing fleets retire and new technologies develop, a better, more sustainable way to farm this popular protein has emerged to profoundly shift the balance. The Blue Revolution tells the story of the recent transformation of commercial fishing: an encouraging change from maximizing volume through unrestrained wild hunting to maximizing value through controlled harvesting and farming. Entrepreneurs applying newer, smarter technologies are modernizing fisheries in unprecedented ways. In many parts of the world, the seafood on our plates is increasingly the product of smart decisions about ecosystems, waste, efficiency, transparency, and quality."

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Approaching the Indian in World Politics -- ONE. Maps of the Mind -- TWO. Enlightenment Legacies -- THREE. The Governmental State -- FOUR. Institutionalizing the Indian -- FIVE. Neoliberal Governmentality -- SIX. Visible Indians -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography and Interviews -- Index

Part I: Glory Days -- 1. 23 Wall Street -- 2. A Private Club -- 3. Preston in Charge -- 4. Market Shocks -- 5. Crisis Erupts -- 6. Time to Say Goodbye -- Part II: Formulating the Plan -- 7. Origins of Morgan's Transformation -- 8. Buy or Build? -- 9. Industry Shakeup -- 10. Should Morgan Rescue Citi? -- 11. Preston's Legacy -- 12. Preston Passes the Baton -- Part III: Executing the Plan -- 13. Taking Stock Plans for the Early 1990s -- 14. Risk Management and Derivatives -- 15. Strategic Challenges -- 16. A Chance Encounter -- Part IV: Playing Defense -- 17. 9W 57 -- 18. Technology and the New Economy -- 19. Three Ring Circus -- 20. Market Frenzy -- 21. The Managing Directors' 2000 Convocation -- 22. Why Morgan Matters.

Voting and holiness / Nicholas P. Cafardi -- Voting and living the common good / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Politics, morality, and original sin / Georges Cottier -- Catholic bishops and the electoral process in American politics / William V. D'Antonio -- Prudential judgment and Catholic teaching / Richard R. Gaillardetz -- Not a single-issue church: resurrecting the Catholic social justice tradition / John Gehring -- Conscience and citizenship: the primacy of conscience for Catholics in public life / Gregory A. Kalscheur -- Intrinsic evil and political responsibility: is the concept of intrinsic evil helpful to the Catholic voter? / M. Cathleen Kaveny -- A moral compass for cooperation with wrongdoing / Gerard Magill -- A parallel that limps: the rhetoric of slavery in the pro-life discourse of U.S. bishops / Bryan N. Massingale -- The disappearing common good as a challenge to Catholic participation in public life: the need for Catholicity and prudence / Vincent J. Miller -- Can you sin when you vote? / Maureen H. O'Connell -- Lessons from the U.S. bishops' economic pastoral letter: modeling the way of holiness / Anthony J. Pogorelc -- President Kennedy and Archbishop Chaput: religion and faith in American political life / Stephen F. Schneck -- How would Jesus vote?, or, The politics of God's reign / Terrence W. Tilley

Traditional understandings of the genesis of the separation of church and state rest on assumptions about 'Enlightenment' and the republican ethos of citizenship. Nicholas Miller does not seek to dislodge that interpretation but to augment and enrich it by recovering its cultural and discursive religious contexts - specifically the discourse of Protestant dissent. He argues that commitments by certain dissenting Protestants to the right of private judgment in matters of Biblical interpretation, an outgrowth of the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers, helped promote religious disestablishment in the early modern West.

The canonical crime of the sexual abuse of a minor by a cleric : an historical synopsis -- The New Testament -- The fathers -- The early councils -- The middle ages -- The corpus iuris canonici -- Following the corpus -- The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- The 1917 code -- Between the codes -- The 1983 code -- The scope of the problem : an historical synopsis -- The Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana, 1984 -- The Archdiocese of Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1991 -- The Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, 1992 -- The Diocese of Dallas, Texas, 1997 -- The Archdiocese of Boston, Massachusetts, 2002 -- The national picture -- The canonical landscape : the failure of the penal system -- A description of the canonical penal process -- The reasons why the canonical process was not used -- A penal process (whether judicial or administrative) was not favored in the law -- The penal process was not adequate to the problem -- American canonists lacked training and expertise in the canonical penal process -- The crimes were covered by prescription -- The canonical penal process would have been useless -- Since the priests mental defects made the ultimate -- Penalty of dismissal from the clerical state unavailable -- The rights of the accused priest, including his appeal rights, would trump the canonical penal process -- The cooperation of the victim could not be counted on and was not sought -- Civil lawyers strongly advised against a canonical -- Penal process because of the discoverability of the acts -- What did the bishops do? -- Early reactions and the manual -- A change in the law -- The prior law -- Suspension ex informata conscientia -- Nonpenal restrictions -- The administrative rescript of laicization -- Requests for changes in the law -- Proposals for a return to the prior law, in new garb -- Proposals for an administrative nonpenal procedure of removal -- The recommendation of the Joint Papal Commission -- Changes in the law proposed by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops -- Changes in the law approved by the Apostolic See -- Continued action by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops -- Statement of General Counsel, February 1988 -- Statement of the Administrative Committee, November 1989 -- Statement of the Office for Media Relations, February 1992 -- Early diocesan policies, 1986-91 -- The Chicago experience, 1991-92 -- The Canadian experience, 1989-92 -- Archbishop Pilarczyk's statement, June 1992 -- The National Conference of Catholic Bishops adoption -- Of the Pilarczyk statement, November 1992 -- The think tank, 1992-93 -- The National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse, June 1993 -- Proposed guidelines on the assessment of clergy and religious for assignment, November 1993 -- The Bernardin accusation and its aftermath -- The Ad Hoc Committee, 1994-96 -- The treatment option -- Canon 1722 and administrative leave -- Canon 1044 and psychic illness -- The treatment centers -- The treatment option -- The relationship between dioceses and treatment centers -- Reassignment after treatment -- Canonical lessons to be learned -- The bishops duty to investigate crimes -- A means to vindicate rights -- Tribunals for the penal process -- The bishops authority in the diocese -- The National Bishops Conferences -- The bishops duty to foster the common good -- Secrecy as a legal value -- The bishops duty to determine assignments -- A necessary change in the law

Do we really know what happiness is? Should happiness play such a dominant role in shaping and orienting our lives? And how can we deal with conflicts between the various things that make us happy? In this "Brief History of Happiness", philosopher Nicholas White reviews 2,500 years of attempts to answer such questions. White considers the ways in which major thinkers from antiquity to the present day have treated happiness: from Plato's notion of the harmony of the soul and Aristotle's account of well-being or flourishing as the aim of an ethical life, to Aquinas' idea of the vision of the divine essence, Bentham's hedonistic calculus, and the modern-day decision-theoretic notion of preference. We also encounter skepticism about the very idea of a complete and consistent concept of happiness in the writings of Nietzsche and Freud. Throughout, White relates questions about happiness to central concerns in ethics and practical philosophy