This chapter recounts and analyzes the teaching of John of the Cross and Thérèse of Lisieux on the relationship between love, detachment from creatures, and suffering. The chapter provides the spiritual underpinnings for the book’s central hypothesis about the sacrificial nature of human love.

Incorporating Indigenous perspectives into the curriculum is crucial for creating an inclusive and respectful educational environment. By integrating Aboriginal and Islander knowledge, histories, and cultural practices, educators can help all students develop a deeper appreciation for Indigenous cultures and contribute to a more equitable society.

This chapter focuses on the relationality that constitutes the Romantic Self, highlighting the ethical and political consequences that derive from it. The Romantics refuse the lexicon proper to modern political thought, centred on the concept of sovereignty and autonomy: they highlight the illusory essence of these concepts and the dangers they imply. Consistently, they also dismantle the possibility to write a political theory that pretends to offer universal principles. Relations are not extrinsic elements added to a fully formed subject and to be considered only after the identity of the subject has been defined. Relations are what we are. That is why in its political reflections, Romanticism’s primary polemical target is modern contractualism, founded on the tacit assumption that it is possible to study human beings in their individuality, skating over the interplay among them. This chapter shows how the idea of forces and the priority given to relationships influence the Romantic political concepts. These concepts in particular will be scrutinised: representative, constituent and constituted powers, democracy, individuality, equality, and justice.

This chapter explores how the Black cooperative movement unsettles critical narratives that describe the 1940s as an era of political retreat. Engaging George Schuyler, W. E. B. DuBois, Ann Petry, Margaret Walker, and Richard Wright, among others, across a range of literary texts (newspapers, pamphlets, popular fiction, poetry, essays, and the diary), this chapter argues that Black cooperatives were not zones of mere survival, but catalysts for a vernacular poetics of refusal and elusion. Illuminating vexing interludes in the careers of both canonical and almost forgotten figures, it excavates an aesthetics of evasion, one that critiqued and bypassed surveillance activities orchestrated by J. Edgar Hoover. This aesthetics of evasion revises our understanding not only of the Black literary imagination of the 1940s, but also of Black radicalism itself. Offering a new perspective on black cooperative life and the authors that helped to craft it, this chapter ultimately calls us to rethink the relationship among charismatic leadership, conspicuous protest, and social movements at large.

This chapter examines production in the short run using a vertically (hyper-)integrated analysis, building upon the concepts introduced in previous chapters. It starts by analyzing a simplified economy where production is carried out with labour alone. This simple yet illustrative case provides a foundation for comparing the Smithian pure labour theory of value with Keynes’s principle of effective demand.

The chapter then examines the overall conditions necessary for achieving full employment, transitioning to a more complex scenario where production involves both labour and capital goods. It delves into the physical stocks and flows of the economic system, as well as the structure of prices that emerges from these interactions.

The chapter concludes by outlining the equilibrium conditions and presenting a crucial step towards dynamic analysis, setting the stage for exploring production in a more flexible and evolving economic context.

The final chapter of the book argues for a reorientation of priorities between the rule of law and tempered power, better to serve their common purpose. It is its potential contribution to tempered power that makes the rule of law matter, for and to the extent that it is among the possible and variable means that might help us achieve that goal. Thinking this way might involve displacing the rule of law from the centrality it has come to assume in lawyers’ offices and international press releases. However, it might help us focus more clearly on what we value it for, and what it might need to do, and combine with, to deliver that valued end. With that end in mind from the start, we might proceed with more specificity, precision, and nuance to ask what – along with other things though perhaps in distinctive, often indispensable ways – it might be able to contribute, where, when, and how. It is in everyone’s interest that power be tempered (though intemperates are reluctant to admit it), and so it is in everyone’s interest to seek out every which way that can be done.

Chapter 6: Celebrating and Collecting. Costly Greek dedications such as the Charioteer group in Delphi preceded Hellenistic and Roman processions and triumphs – showcases for antique Greek statuary in Rome. Public displays of Roman emperors, and the private collections of Verres, Cicero, and the Younger Pliny are known primarily from literary sources. Piso’s private collection of statuary, however, survived largely intact until its rediscovery in the eighteenth century. Technical features and analyses help us to categorize works that were purchased from local workshops. We also find sculptures in transit, in ships of unknown origin that were carrying art to Italy and North Africa but that went down before reaching their destinations. Single or multiple objects from their cargoes have been netted by fishermen in the present day and in antiquity. A Roman relief from Ostia foreshadows the discovery and contents of the Artemision shipwreck in the early twentieth century.

This chapter examines audit and quality improvement (QI) as essential processes for enhancing healthcare delivery. Clinical audit is defined as a systematic review of care against explicit standards, while QI encompasses broader strategies aimed at continuous, measurable improvement in outcomes and systems. The audit cycle is explained, including identifying standards, measuring performance, implementing changes, and re-auditing to assess impact. QI methodologies such as Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles, Lean, and Six Sigma are outlined, with discussion of their applicability in healthcare settings. Strengths of audit and QI include their direct impact on patient care, promotion of accountability, and encouragement of a culture of improvement. Challenges include variable engagement, limited resources, and ensuring that improvements are sustained. Practical examples illustrate successes in areas such as infection control, prescribing practices, and service delivery. The chapter highlights the importance of leadership, teamwork, and stakeholder involvement in driving meaningful change. It concludes by positioning audit and QI as complementary approaches, both integral to delivering safe, effective, and patient-centred care. This chapter maps to syllabus section 5.1, which covers audit, clinical governance, and quality improvement methodologies.

This chapter historicizes the African American undertaker in Baltimore, Maryland, a city where the Black-owned and operated Mount Auburn Cemetery created a ripe death industry for African American undertakers to enter and thrive in. As a death industry site that goes back to 1807, Mount Auburn Cemetery suggests the importance of Baltimore to the death trade. Apprenticed as carpenters and labored as hired drivers and sextons, early Black undertakers claimed an occupation within an expansive cooperative of laborers who all mutually benefited within the death trade. Nineteenth-century gendered norms shaped early Black undertaking, often omitting Black women from this history. By discussing the cultural, social, local, and gendered forces that started the trade – illustrating how undertaking was much more than a solitary, male endeavor – the chapter inserts Black women back into the narrative of undertaking that they helped to create and sustain. This chapter shows how it was the wives who helped to start these entrepreneurial undertaking efforts, and it was the wives, daughters, and sisters who sustained and furthered their legacy after the patriarchs passed away.

When we think about inclusion in early childhood education, our minds often turn immediately to children with disabilities. While supporting children with diverse abilities remains crucial, true inclusion extends far beyond this single lens. Inclusion is fundamentally about creating environments where every child, regardless of their cultural background, family circumstances, language or life experiences, can belong, participate and thrive.

This chapter introduces a general multi-sector dynamic model that incorporates non-uniform technical change and demand patterns, building upon the vertically (hyper-)integrated analysis developed in previous chapters. Departing from a situation of equilibrium, with full employment and full capacity utilization, postulates specific movements through time for key variables: population, sectoral labour productivity, and per-capita demand coefficients. It highlights that demand coefficients for new investments are not exogenous but determined by the equilibrium conditions of the system.

The chapter then derives the capital accumulation conditions and the effective demand condition for maintaining full employment over time. It shows the impossibility of automatically maintaining full employment in the face of non-uniform technical change and demand evolution. As a consequence, full employment must become an actively pursued target of macroeconomic policy, requiring continuous adjustments to counterbalance the effects of technical progress.

Finally, the chapter explores the structural dynamics of physical quantities, relative prices, employment, capital/output ratios and capital/labour ratios. It underscores the asymmetry between physical quantities and prices, highlighting the need for a numéraire for the price system and the implications of different choices. It introduces the concept of a “dynamic standard commodity,” analogous to Ricardo’s “invariable standard of value”.