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"The Research Handbook on International Law and Environmental Peacebuilding" edited by Daniëlla Dam-de Jong and Britta Sjöstedt explores the intersection of international law and environmental peacebuilding. The book emphasizes the importance of addressing armed conflicts related to environmental threats and offers innovative ideas for achieving sustainable peace. It covers various topics such as the theories behind environment and armed conflict, the role of equity in peacebuilding, fair benefit-sharing, and the tension between environmental protection and peacebuilding. The authors highlight the value of international law in environmental peacebuilding and call for further research to measure the effectiveness of related policies and programs. The text also discusses the role of different actors and institutions in environmental peacebuilding, particularly in conflict-affected countries, and emphasizes the importance of international cooperation, enforcement, and accountability measures in controlling the extraction and trade of conflict resources. It also analyzes the role of corruption, non-state actors, the UN, Multilateral Environmental Agreements, human rights actors, investment law, land inequality, access to water, gender, and indigenous peoples' land rights in environmental peacebuilding. The text concludes by advocating for the adoption of environmental peacebuilding as a core aim of the international legal system. [Extracted from the article]

In the article "A Phenomenological Analysis of Envy" by Michael Robert Kelly, the author explores the concept of envy from a phenomenological perspective. Kelly argues that envy is a competitive and comparative emotion characterized by the envying person's painful response to perceiving a disparity between themselves and someone who possesses something they desire. The first part of the book focuses on the intentional structure of envy, highlighting the bidirectional nature of the emotion. Kelly also examines the relationship between envy and other emotions such as indignation, emulation, and jealousy. While the book may repeat certain points and the emphasis on the subjective dimension of envy may not be entirely original, it offers a nuanced understanding of this complex emotion and is recommended for those interested in philosophical perspectives on envy. [Extracted from the article]

The issues addressed by Atkinson and Colenutt should be central to debates around future housing and urban policy, particularly in the context of coronavirus. Cities consumed by greed: Alpha city: how London was captured by the super-rich, Rowland Atkinson. Colenutt has been following the workings of "the property machine" since the publication of his book of that title in 1975 (Ambrose and Colenutt [1]). Atkinson makes it clear that the super-rich have been allowed to capture London by deliberate, ideologically driven, policies. [Extracted from the article]

To this end, the authors argue that they offer new and internationally applicable ideas on the importance of friction within the elite in sparking and steering wider social change; the shifting relationship between power and money within elites; the alternative ways in which elite fractions enrol "middle"- and "working"-class elements in their power struggles; and the typical developmental consequences of elites alternately forming and breaking up distributional class coalitions. Class coalitions play a hugely important role here, especially under the conditions of internal competition - as is evident in the case of Trump who on the one hand embodies "the elite" and on the other is fought by other elite fractions. The consequences at a fundamental level are dealt with in Chapters 6 and 7 under the headings "Inequality: Causes and Consequences" and "Elites and Democracy". [Extracted from the article]

KEY POINTS: Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty‐Year Battle Against Dupont — Glenn SuterDark Waters — Glenn SuterThe Book of Why — Richard WenningStrategic Corporate Conservation Planning: A Guide to Meaningful Engagement — Richard WenningThe Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019 — Glenn SuterThe Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth — Glenn Suter [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the central questions about the design of John Gower's Confessio Amantis is the purpose of his inclusion of a history of idolatry and a commentary on virginity in a book on avarice. This article attempts to resolve this critical debate by demonstrating that these "digressions" are not only appropriate but also essential to Gower's expansion of the sin and the dangers it poses to medieval readers. I argue that in book 5 Gower articulates the conceptual link between avarice, sexual violence, idolatry, and fornication found in medieval law and the Pauline epistles. Through its expanded scope and politicized scheme, Gower's analysis of avarice reveals the manifold ways in which the vice may corrupt positive and natural law and the severe consequences that corruption may have on every level of society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ICSID verdict and the mining ban triggered celebrations throughout El Salvador and those parts of the world that had been inspired by the never-say-never stance of La Mesa's feisty fighters. Robin Broad and John Cavanagh have done precisely that in the case of El Salvador's historic ban of the mining of I all i metals in I The Water Defenders i . [Extracted from the article]

The article describes the 14th century poem "Piers Plowman," by William Langland. Particular focus is given to the dream described in the work, and to the class divisions noted among those working in the dream. Additional topics discussed include greed, waste and excess, and the practice of self-moderation.

The book "Humanity in Danger: A Manifesto" by Fred Vargas is a call to action in the face of the environmental threat our species is facing. The author, a renowned French crime novelist, argues that we are not doing enough to confront this crisis and criticizes politicians for their incompetence and greed. The book includes data and numbers that support her thesis and seeks to awaken readers' awareness of the immediate problems we face, such as climate change, freshwater scarcity, air and ocean pollution, and ozone layer degradation. It concludes with a call to action and personal involvement to achieve a sustainable life. [Extracted from the article]

Duggan does explore the connection between the entrepreneurial self that neoliberalism encourages and Rand's own work, but more could have been done to highlight how Rand connected with and was used by, and even unified, right-wing forces, before and after her death in 1982. Duggan characterizes Rand as a writer who used her fiction and nonfiction work to express a profound hostility towards collective action, and to argue that collectivism enables popular forms of control that lead to societal decline as superior individuals are prevented from creating and ruling. [Extracted from the article]

This book paints a rather bleak picture of modern Western society, as one that has been corrupted by a "half-century of extreme individualism" at the expense of community values. The authors use the juxtaposition of two US presidential speeches to demonstrate the shift from communitarian values to individualism. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa," by Adam Hochschild.

The article offers poetry criticism of the poem "The Church Porch" by George Herbert. It explores the use of rhythm, complex artistry and the aesthetics of stanzas. The way of explanation of author allows reader to only perceive the function of the first movement but even to celebrate rather than be embarrassed by its existence.

This article examines the motion picture, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, directed by John Huston. Allegedly, critics have praised the film and debated the meaning of the compelling story of three prospectors and their search for gold in the mountains of eastern Mexico. Filmed mostly on location from a script by Huston and adapted form the 1935 novel by B. Traven, the film opens in Tampico, on Mexico's eastern shore, where the three central characters come together in a prospecting venture. Howard, played by Walter Huston, the experienced old-timer, Curtin, played by Tim Holt, the earnest, agreeable tenderfoot, and Fred C. Dobbs, played by Humphrey Bogart, neurotic and needy, his prosaic name a sign of his status as everyman. The story of the film briefly traverses the valleys of the Sierra Madre Oriental, where machetes are required in the dense, jungle-like underbrush, moves on to the dusty upper reaches of the Oriental range, where gold is abundant and water scare, and where the film's most important events take place or are initiated. Running parallel to the film's changing geographies and the characters' journey through them is the tragic, interior story of Dobb's descent from need to greed.

The article reviews the book "The Early History of Greed: The Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature," by Richard Newhauser.

Reviews the book 'Thy Father's House,' by Monique Raphel High.

By Shani Robinson and Anna Simonton, Beacon Press, Boston, Mass., 2019, 219 pp. with index, $16.95 softcover None of the Above is the story of the 2009 Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal, as told from an insider's perspective. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book 'The Early History of Greed: The Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature,' by Richard Newhauser.

Reviews the book 'The Early History of Greed: The Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature,' by Richard Newhauser.

Reviews the non-fiction book, 'Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets,' by Frank Partnoy.