5 Politics, Sociology English eBooks (2)

State Violence and Moral Horror by Jeremy Arnold
Sufficiency Thinking: Thailand's Gift to an Unsustainable World by Harald Bergsteiner, Gayle C. Avery
Hunters of the Recent Past by Leslie B. Davis, Brian O.K. Reeves
On Suicide (Penguin Classics) by Émile Durkheim, translated by Robin Buss, edited by Alexander Riley
Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes Peer Reviews: Kenya 2016: Phase 2: Implementation of the Standard in Practice by Oecd Organisation For Economic Co-Operation And Development

State Violence and Moral Horror by Jeremy Arnold

English | November 1st, 2017) | ISBN: 1438466757 | 216 Pages | PDF | 1.48 MB
Explores the concept of "moral horror" as the experience of living amidst unjustifiable state violence. Can state violence ever be morally justified? In State Violence and Moral Horror, Jeremy Arnold critically engages a wide variety of arguments, both canonical and contemporary, arguing that there can be no justification.
Drawing on the concept of singularity found in the work of French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, Arnold demonstrates that any attempt to justify state violence will itself be violent and, therefore, must fail as a justification. On the basis of this argument, the book explores the concept of “moral horror” as the experience of living amidst and acquiescing to unjustifiable state violence.
The careful explanation of arguments from across the spectrum of political theory and exceptionally clear prose will enable both advanced undergraduates and more general readers interested in political thought to understand and engage the central argument. State Violence and Moral Horror is a unique contribution to the growing literature on violence and will be of interest to political theorists and philosophers in both the analytic and continental traditions, philosophers of law, international relations theorists, law and society scholars, and social scientists interested in normative aspects of state violence.

Sufficiency Thinking: Thailand's Gift to an Unsustainable World by Harald Bergsteiner, Gayle C. Avery

English | July 1, 2016 | ISBN: 1760292915 | PDF | 304 pages | 77.3 MB
Our world is under pressure, with growing inequalities in wealth and access to food and clean water. We depend too heavily on polluting fuels and diminishing natural resources. Traditional cultural practices are being swamped by global popular culture.
The Thai model of sufficiency thinking aims to transform the mindset of a whole population to achieve the seemingly impossible: enriching everyone's lives in a truly sustainable way.
Innovative management practices developed by King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand have been applied across Thailand in agriculture, education, business, government and community organisations for over two decades.
In this book, chapters written by eminent Thai scholars explain sufficiency thinking and review its implementation in different sectors including community development, business, agriculture, health care, schools, and even in prisons.
Is Thailand unique in having discovered the holy grail of a more responsible form of capitalism? No, it is not, but it is the first country whose government has adopted this kind of thinking as national policy.

Hunters of the Recent Past by Leslie B. Davis, Brian O.K. Reeves

English | October 27th, 2014 | ISBN: 1138816000 | 434 Pages | PDF | 16.72 MB
One of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986, which brought together archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, academics from contingent disciplines, and non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds.
This book considers prehistoric and more recent manifestations of human hunting behaviour, with a general emphasis on communal hunting. It demonstrates that the combination of archaeological, ethnographic and ethnohistorical approaches provides a researched basis for consideration of the topic on worldwide, regional, and local scales. It includes theoretical and methodological issues, within a context of enquiry, original data presentation, and discussion. It is of interest to archaeologists, anthropologists and ethnohistorians.

On Suicide (Penguin Classics) by Émile Durkheim, translated by Robin Buss, edited by Alexander Riley

English | June 26, 2007 | ISBN: 0140449671, ASIN: B002RI9XE2 | AZW3 | 480 pages | 2.8 MB
Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of sociology. Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely individual despair but Durkheim recognized that the phenomenon had a social dimension.
He believed that if anything can explain how individuals relate to society, then it is suicide: Why does it happen? What goes wrong? Why do certain social, religious or racial groups have higher incidences of suicide than others? As Durkheim explored these questions he became convinced that abnormally high or low levels of social integration lead to an increased likelihood of suicide. On Suicide was the result of his extensive research.
Divided into three parts - individual reasons for suicide, social forms of suicide and the relation of suicide to society as a whole - Durkheim's revelations have fascinated, challenged and informed readers for over a century.

Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes Peer Reviews: Kenya 2016: Phase 2: Implementation of the Standard in Practice by Oecd Organisation For Economic Co-Operation And Development

English | 2016 | ISBN: 9264250786 | 120 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB
This report contains the 2014 “Phase 2: Implementation of the Standards in Practice” Global Forum review of Kenya.
The Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes is the multilateral framework within which work in the area of tax transparency and exchange of information is carried out by over 130 jurisdictions which participate in the work of the Global Forum on an equal footing.
The Global Forum is charged with in-depth monitoring and peer review of the implementation of the standards of transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes. These standards are primarily reflected in the 2002 Oecd Model Agreement on Exchange of Information on Tax Matters and its commentary, and in Article 26 of the Oecd Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital and its commentary as updated in 2004, which has been incorporated in the Un Model Tax Convention.
The standards provide for international exchange on request of foreseeably relevant information for the administration or enforcement of the domestic tax laws of a requesting party. “Fishing expeditions” are not authorised, but all foreseeably relevant information must be provided, including bank information and information held by fiduciaries, regardless of the existence of a domestic tax interest or the application of a dual criminality standard.
All members of the Global Forum, as well as jurisdictions identified by the Global Forum as relevant to its work, are being reviewed. This process is undertaken in two phases. Phase 1 reviews assess the quality of a jurisdiction's legal and regulatory framework for the exchange of information, while Phase 2 reviews look at the practical implementation of that framework. Some Global Forum members are undergoing combined - Phase 1 plus Phase 2 - reviews. The ultimate goal is to help jurisdictions to effectively implement the international standards of transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes.