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Now in paperback– the ten things we must do to ensure a safe and peaceful world, from legendary environmentalist Jane Goodall and brilliant animal behaviorist, Marc Bekoff.
Combining her life's work living among the chimpanzees with her spiritual perspective on the relationship between humans and animals, legendary behavioral scientist Jane Goodall sets forth ten trusts that we as humans have as custodians of the planet:
1. Respect all life
2. Live as part of the Animal Kingdom
3. Educate our children to respect animals
4. Treat animals as you would like to be treated
5. Be a steward
6. Value the sounds of nature and help preserve them
7. Do not harm life in order to learn about it
8. Have the courage of your convictions
9. Act knowing that your actions make a difference
10. Act knowing that you are not alone.
Filled with inspirational stories, The Ten Trusts provides lessons Jane Goodall has learned from a lifetime of experience, with the warmth and emotion her readers have come to expect from her. Marc Bekoff, cofounder of the Roots and Shoots program with Jane, also contributes his profound insights and research, which Jane has come to rely on. Together, they share their hope and vision for humanity and all the earth's creatures, distilled into ten eloquent spiritual lessons. Within these ten trusts, Goodall reveals how we can gain true enlightenment by living in harmony with the animal kingdom and honoring the interconnection between all species.
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Respect for all species.......2007-06-15
It's nice to see and qualify the feelings many of us have had since childhood about loving animals. It seems to get faded as we grow older and integrate in a society that has put a lesser value on them for some reason. But here is a book that helps us accept those good emotions of the past and perpetuates the feeling that one day all life will be regarded having equal value. What Jane has done in the world is amazing and rocked the boat of science and for that reason alone one should experience her writing. Animals certainly can teach us a lot about ourselves..and this can only make our lives better. If you are ready, read this light hearted, easy to read book.
Speaking Out For Those That Can't.......2007-05-27
One additional trust are the author's themselves; who better to speak for the animals than Jane Goodall and Marc Bekoff? The formatting of conversational style writing with each author's commentary separately noted, gives an insight and understanding of their personal experience, and individual dedication relating to their life passions. The stories, facts, and touching emotions that come through in the author's words, should make anyone stand up and want to do something, no matter how big or small, to make a difference in helping to save our natural environment. The world needs more great people like Goodall and Bekoff, to speak out for those that cannot, before it is too late.
A Global Essential.......2004-05-29
Of the many books I have read dealing with environmental issues, this has had a major impact. The authors have tremendous credibility and scientific knowledge. If ever there was a canary in the mine, it is this book. We have plundered our planet, ignored the quality of life for other sentient beings, and have failed to see the need for a balance in nature and our own lives.
There are messages here that all should heed. But, most of all, there is hope if we pay attention.
Our current U.S. and world leadership has failed our planet. Hopefully, there are those who can steer the world back on course.
Thank you Jane and Marc.
Jay Pierson
Georgetown, Texas
Together we can make a difference.......2004-03-02
This book lay for months on my bedside table before I found the strength to read it. I could not bear to touch it because I knew it would contain suffering. The book makes powerful painful reading. Once I started reading it I just could not put it down. In order to be able to make a difference I really needed to know what is going between humans and animals. How we abuse them. The book is not all gloom, it also tells about many persons who have come forward in their defence of animals. Sometimes even at great persnal loss.
The ten trusts are gives you a way to know!
Rebuilding Our Ethics Through Trust.......2002-11-09
Dr. Jane Goodall and Dr. Marc Bekoff have compiled ideas, stories, experience and much more about living a humane and ethical life into a book accessible to all. As the animal protection community has done for 50 years, this book shows that humans must respect the environment and all life if we, as a species, expect to survive. It is a very simple premise yet humanity has yet to catch on. The Ten Trusts not only gives us a path to follow, but it shows how others have acted before in trying to alter destructive patterns. Caring for others (animals, humans and nature) is not something radical, it is - humane! It is something everyone must do.
Goodall and Bekoff share their experiences from living a life of compassion and a boundless ethic. Few people are as well known and respected as Jane Goodall, but she has never rested on her fame. Instead, she stepped away from her field research and beloved friends in Gombe National Park, not to build monetary wealth, but to share her wealth of knowledge with young and old alike through lectures and programs such as Roots and Shoots. While Bekoff has spent years educating a more humane youth at the University of Colorado, all while helping us to better understand and appreciate animal behavior.
Over the last two years the Bush administration has systematically deconstructed even basic protections for the environment in order to please corporate greed. The Ten Trusts talks about many issues, one of which will certainly reappear following recent elections, is the drilling for oil in Alaska's ANWR. Even though the American public is opposed to destroying the last pristine environment, the Administration hopes to lull us into a belief that it is needed.
This does not have to be. Goodall, who revolutionized how humans think about other species through her work with chimpanzees and Bekoff, who is a leader in showing us that the minds of animals are as unique and complex as ours, have concisely gathered a wonderful set of ethics into an easily readable book. A book that everyone should read because it shows how we really can and MUST be compassionate.
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Corporate Retirement Security: Social and Ethical Issues (Leeds School Series on Business & Society)
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"Don't talk to strangers" is the advice long given to children by parents of all classes and races. Today it has blossomed into a fundamental precept of civic education, reflecting interracial distrust, personal and political alienation, and a profound suspicion of others. In this powerful and eloquent essay, Danielle Allen, a 2002 MacArthur Fellow, takes this maxim back to Little Rock, rooting out the seeds of distrust to replace them with "a citizenship of political friendship."
Returning to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954 and to the famous photograph of Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, being cursed by fellow "citizen" Hazel Bryan, Allen argues that we have yet to complete the transition to political friendship that this moment offered. By combining brief readings of philosophers and political theorists with personal reflections on race politics in Chicago, Allen proposes strikingly practical techniques of citizenship. These tools of political friendship, Allen contends, can help us become more trustworthy to others and overcome the fossilized distrust among us.
Sacrifice is the key concept that bridges citizenship and trust, according to Allen. She uncovers the ordinary, daily sacrifices citizens make to keep democracy working—and offers methods for recognizing and reciprocating those sacrifices. Trenchant, incisive, and ultimately hopeful, Talking to Strangers is nothing less than a manifesto for a revitalized democratic citizenry.
“Allen understands that democracy originates in the subjective dimension of everyday life, and she focuses on what she calls our ‘habit of citizenship’—the ways we often unconsciously regard and interact with fellow citizens. . . . [Her] focus on race is entirely appropriate.”—Nick Bromell, Boston Review
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Towards a Politics of Friendship.......2005-01-18
Danielle Allen seems to be everywhere these days. From writing in academic journals such as POLITICAL THEORY to composing magazine pieces for THE NATION and THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR to various media appearances to reading personal works of poetry, Allen has rapidly become one of the leading young scholars in North America. Though young in age, her wisdom transcends any youthful categorizations. I resist labeling Allen a public intellectual as that phrase carries with it the aura of elite narcissism. Against the narcissistic tendency unfortunately prevalent among prominent academics, Allen represents what I call a "people's intellectual." A people's intellectual is an individual determined to take political theory, thought, and engaging ideas to the streets. This commitment to exposing theorists in academia as well as citizens in general to original thought-work is why I and many others are excited about Allen's current endeavors. Toni Morrison, Bonnie Honig, and Earl Shorris correctly point out that Allen is a worldly Rawls who meditates on our most pressing domestic and global questions by composing works that are part how-to-manuals, part political theory, and wholeheartedly possessing the goal of achieving Copernican insight by shifting our gaze regarding how we conceive of issues such as citizenship, race, trust, sacrifice, recognition, cosmopolitanism, and the future of democracy in these dark times.
Allen's first book dealt with the politics of punishing in democratic Athens. In TALKING TO STRANGERS, Allen bridges her expertise in ancient political thought with modern and contemporary political theory in order to address the role and anxieties of citizenship in the wake of the 1954 US Brown v. Board of Education decision. Specters of the late Ralph Waldo Ellison hover around the text as does the thought of thinkers such as Aristotle, Alexis de Tocqueville, Jürgen Habermas, Hannah Arendt, and James Baldwin. Interestingly, like Ellison in INVISIBLE MAN, Allen begins her work with a "Prologue." Unlike Ellison's unnamed narrator who reflects from the underground on the question of one's invisibility in society while physically being hyper-visible, Allen writes from above the ground and goes into the messy recent past of America to think about why people who see one another day to day simultaneously distrust one another and refuse to talk to one another in the mode of friends.
Drawing upon the prominent 1957 case of Elizabeth Eckford and school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas, the author argues the US was reconstituted at that moment. That moment of reconstitution serves as the foundation upon which the ensuing discussions about distrust, trust, and political friendship occur. For Allen, the dilemmas of race and citizenship should be viewed as issues of distrust and trust. By calling for a "politics of friendship," the author thinks those in the American polity and elsewhere can overcome perennial states of distrust. By building up states of trust, the fabric underneath which democracy rests will be strengthened. We must talk to strangers if we desire truly to work through our most pressing problems. Rejecting the call for talking to strangers as mere utopianism is simply not good enough. Talking to strangers is hard work, and it ironically goes against the advice of "Don't talk to strangers!" given to children by their parents and other adult figures. But the hard work of talking to strangers holds the promise of societal transformation.
So what does this book provide the reader with? I believe Allen's book offers seven major contributions to political theory, critical race theory, and democratic politics: (1) a theory of political friendship; (2) a novel concept of sacrifice; (3) rethinking of the meaning of constitutionalism; (4) original analysis of the benefits and limitations of Habermas's theory of communicative action in terms of trust; (5) brilliant critique of Thomas Hobbes; (6) critique of the police state; and (7) resuscitation of the art of Rhetoric. I do not have the space to explain each of these points. However, I do want to address briefly a selection of them. Sacrifice occupies a central place in the text and in Allen's current theorizing. She contends loss and sacrifice are fundamental to democratic life. Understanding what we must sacrifice to achieve political and social transformation allows us insight into understanding to what extent we must fight to preserve democracy. In Chapter 3, Allen turns to the important debate between political theorist Hannah Arendt and the novelist Ralph Ellison. By describing Ellison's critique of Arendt's position on Little Rock desegregation, Allen highlights the vital role of sacrifice and why one should not separate political and social issues. That chapter is a gem. Allen's discussion of Hobbes in Chapter 6 provides a very unique reading of the English social contract theorist. Hobbes supported the idealization of unanimity and the repudiation of rhetoric in his theory of the Leviathan. Sovereignty for Hobbes rests in the figure of an all powerful Sovereign as opposed to the People. The Sovereign for him settled issues of distrust, not the masses. Allen questions Hobbes's way of imagining the People, yet she recognizes that Hobbes does put forth the question of how to overcome distrust.
This leads me to my last point on the topic of rhetoric. Chapter 10 as well as the Epilogue advance Allen's claim that we must return to the use of the art of rhetoric, an art form repudiated for centuries. Allen's reading of Aristotle's highly neglected text, THE ART OF RHETORIC, delineation of how to use rhetoric to garner heightened trust, and Epilogue discussion in which the reader witnesses the author composing a letter to members of the Faculty Senate of the University she resides in now compel even the skeptic of rhetoric to consider its possible benefits. For those interested in how I have utilized Allen's theorizing on rhetoric for Caribbean political thought, see the end of my 2003 lecture entitled, "Walter Rodney's Heresy" (...)
I shall leave it to you the reader to judge the text for itself. In closing, if you are committed to transforming democracy, then I urge you to pick up this book.
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Most aspects of our private and social lives -- our safety, the integrity of the financial system, the functioning of utilities and other services, and national security -- now depend on computing. But how can we know that this computing is trustworthy? In Mechanizing Proof, Donald MacKenzie addresses this key issue by investigating the interrelations of computing, risk, and mathematical proof over the last half century from the perspectives of history and sociology. His discussion draws on the technical literature of computer science and artificial intelligence and on extensive interviews with participants.
MacKenzie argues that our culture now contains two ideals of proof: proof as traditionally conducted by human mathematicians, and formal, mechanized proof. He describes the systems constructed by those committed to the latter ideal and the many questions those systems raise about the nature of proof. He looks at the primary social influence on the development of automated proof -- the need to predict the behavior of the computer systems upon which human life and security depend -- and explores the involvement of powerful organizations such as the National Security Agency. He concludes that in mechanizing proof, and in pursuing dependable computer systems, we do not obviate the need for trust in our collective human judgment.
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An excellent proof.......2006-10-07
Professional mathematicians typically never argue about the methods of proof that they use, although they argue quite frequently whether a collection of statements does indeed constitute a proof. The development of a proof can take years in some cases, but the discovery of an error in a proof involves relatively short scales of time. The proofs that mathematicians subject to peer review are a mixture of natural language and mathematical symbolism, but the deductive nature of the steps in the proof are readily apparent, and the mathematical community has deemed this style of mathematical scholarship acceptable. This informal structuring of a mathematical proof is to be contrasted with that insisted upon by logicians, who insist that a proof should be a listing of formal statements, with each being a deduction from prior ones. If natural language appears it is only as metamathematical commentary and is set apart from the proof itself. These proofs are thus difficult for a human to read, unless they have in-depth knowledge and experience of the formalism that is used. This style of (formal) proof has been followed by those involved in research in automated theorem proving or in the very important field of formal verification. The discovery of a new proof of an old mathematical result or the discovery of new concepts in mathematics by a machine is the goal of this research, and it has had varying degrees of success in the last few decades.
If an error were discovered in one or more of the many mathematical results that exist in the literature, it would bring no risk to human society in general. These results are usually highly esoteric, and have no practical application, so any error discovered in them would probably only cause pain to the mathematician(s) responsible for them. However, computer scientists have realized that huge software programs that are critical to business, industry, and government are efficiently analyzed in the framework of certain mathematical structures. The flow of the program can be viewed as a deduction, in a manner very similar to what goes on in proofs of mathematical results. It is essential that these programs are without error (or "bugs"), and thus error-checking becomes proof-checking in this approach. This brings up of course the question as to whether these proof-checkers are themselves free of error. Who is to decide whether a sequence of statements, be they a software program or a series of formal deductions, do not contain errors?
This question, along with many other highly interesting topics, is discussed in this book. It could be read by anyone interested in automated theorem proving, formal verification, automated mathematical discovery, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence. The author has done an excellent job of articulating on the nature of proof, both formal and informal, and the risks involved in trusting machines to verify the reliability of both hardware and software. The latter is the main issue in the field of formal verification, and is one that is of immense importance in the modern world, whose technological complexity is increasing hyper-exponentially. It is because the machines and technology of today are so complex that one needs an effective methodology for checking their design and functioning to ensure that they are not flawed to a degree that may cause death or needless suffering to human beings. Can we trust a machine to check the design of medical equipment or do a verification of software? What if the machine makes a mistake or is itself the result of a faulty design? And for highly complex equipment or software, will the results of the machine check be comprehensible to a human?
The author outlines the history of proof theory, proof checking, and formal deduction, and includes anecdotal discussion of some of the researchers in these areas. For this reviewer, the most interesting part of the book was the last two chapters, for it is here that the author discusses the societal impact of machine proof. One learns for example that some of the early implementations of machine proof allowed a substantial amount of "hints" from the human user. This is not really surprising, since early developments in artificial intelligence can be characterized by the need for inputs from a human tutor. The goal of course is to free the machine from the need for this tutoring, and become essentially independent, to "think for itself". The author clearly believes that this presents a danger, and he points to the need for continued interactions between the machine and society in order that decision-making is carried out safely and in a way that is productive to human society as a whole. He believes that treating proving machines as "oracles" is dangerous, but he realizes that these kinds of machines have become a "permanent part" of our culture.
The author's anxiety is somewhat unjustified if one takes cognizance of the fact that the use of these kinds of machines is due to the efforts of human researchers, who have a thorough understanding of their functioning and limitations. And these machines are not autonomous. Their skill and efforts in proof checking, theorem proving, or formal verification is due solely to the instigation of a human investigator. But his anxiety is justified if judged relative to future developments. With each passing day, we place more of our trust in these types of machines, among many others, who are now responsible for financial decision-making, drug discovery, network management, legal casework, and myriads of other socially beneficial functions. It is becoming more rare to discover that these machines have made a mistake, but it is also becoming rarer for humans to take the initiative to find any mistakes. As machines are designed to become more autonomous they will themselves take the initiative to engage in activities that may or may not be deemed useful to human societies. The degree of symbiosis between the human and machine communities will therefore be directly proportional to their mutual trust.
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Chapter 14 of the Code contains its own set of "special valuation rules" for transfer tax purposes that you must know in order to most effectively meet your clients' estate-planning needs. This in-depth resource guides you through the complex rules, regulations and exemptions of Chapter 14 provisions regarding transfers of interests in trusts, corporations, and partnerships. You'll find authoritative analyses of various provisions of Chapter 14, practice tips, step-by-step advice on valuation of family-held interests, the impact of landmark court rulings, relevant private letter rulings, legislative history and much more. Among the topics covered are the tax implications of transfer of interest in family-held business, GRITs, GRATs, GRUTs, QPRTs, buy-sell agreements, the tax treatment of lapsed voting or liquidation rights and certain restrictions on liquidation. The analyses include adjustments to avoid double taxation, indirect holding of interests and statute of limitations considerations. This complete guide also contains practical appendices illustrating the subtraction method of valuation, the impact of increasing age, term or interest rate on the value of different types of gifts in trust, and state-by-state analyses of partnership and LLC statutes to aid in the selection of an appropriate jurisdiction for the creation of a family business entity. Invaluable advice for all estate planners.
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Lionel Rothkrug made his name 25 years ago by theorizing that just as a human personality is defined by how an individual organizes his or her powers to behave, so a society acquires personality in the exercise of its organizational powers. Death, Trust and Society revisits and expands on this concept by focusing on how society's attitudes toward the dead—seen in funerary rites, mortuary practices, and pilgrimage patterns—shape the formation of social structures and contribute to the development of cultural traits. Death, Trust and Society is the debut title in North Atlantic's Death and Remembrance interdisciplinary series on cultural identity across nationalities and nations.
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Trust in Modern Societies: The Search for the Bases of Social Order
Barbara A. Misztal
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Trust in Cooperative Risk Management: Uncertainty and Scepticism in the Public Mind (Earthscan Risk and Society Series)
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In a world of growing complexity and dwindling resources, how we control and regulate technology and its impacts is an increasingly pressing issue of concern at the highest levels. This book examines the relationship between sustainability, technology and governance, and is the first to link innovation and technology studies research with governance research, applying them to the problem of sustainability. Included are contributions from internationally known environmental social scientists, with each chapter report on new research.
Drawing on examples such as wave and tidal power, community waste recycling and eco-housing, the book provides new and important insights into the governance of technology for sustainability. The editor provides a detailed introduction and conclusion in which he discusses existing research directions and identifies the contribution that the book makes to furthering the study of the technology-society interface and the governance of the technology itself.
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