The book will be of interest to academics and students interested in the intersection between superhero comics, culture and politics.

He believes many of the world's most complicated and challenging problems could be resolved if men dedicated themselves to becoming more capable husbands, fathers, businessmen, and community leaders. If you are interested in how to be a good man or ,as the author quotes Jack Donovan, “how to be good at being a man”, then this is for you!Although a man may never be caught in his indiscretion, the consequences of a guilty conscience and a heavy heart are equally, if not more, damaging to a man’s freedom and liberty. There are no citations to back up claims, like the suicide stat that is mentioned, the crime stat that is mentioned, etc. Take one sobering statistic - the rate of suicide in men - and you begin to see how damaging the effects of the voluntary subjugation of men to their families, their businesses, and their governments can be.

In quest of answers to these vitally important questions, Bertrand de Jouvenel examines successively the nature and history of authority, the political good, the sovereign, and liberty. Talks about the Dichotomy of Ownership (Dichotomy of Leadership and Extreme Ownership) and the last section of the book is a summary of The 12 Week Year by Brian Moran. From the incisive new notions of manatheism and mana-facturing to a dazzling new reading of Genet’s The Balcony as a clue to the shifts of sovereignty, the book provides a panoply of conceptual tools to think about the absurdity of the present. He lost me when he started talking about his unit praying three times a day together and that what was one of the reasons they came out with no casualties.By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. There are a lot of things shared in this book that some would say is exaggerated and hyperbolic, but the author points these things out and explains why he uses the words he does.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.The book is well laid out and each chapter gives you the MINDSET and SKILLSET needed to apply the principles to your life. This book and our reading of it, our sharing it’s wisdoms, points, counterpoints and shortcomings brought us together in a way I can only begin to describe as powerful. Resolving sovereignty and responsibility isn’t my aim so much as showing how the Bible teaches us to hold this tension. Using a comparative, multi-disciplinary approach, this book uncovers what went wrong after the Pan-African approaches that defined the early stages of independence, and how most African economies fell into the firm grip of the IMF, World Bank, and the EU's strict neoliberal policies. By embodying the thirteen Sovereign Virtues we detail inside, every man will be more capable of fulfilling his masculine duties and responsibilities.

Men have always been expected to protect, provide, and preside over themselves, their families, their businesses, and their communities. Yes, men provide other ways than financially, but if he does not provide financially, not only he, but his entire household is vitiated, and whether that is felt in the short term is irrelevant as in the long term the consequences will be dreadful. Economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa is essential reading for anyone interested in the African quest for self-determination in a turbulent world of recurring economic and financial crisis.Michler is certainly sincere and obviously put a lot of time and thought into the book, and typos and poor grammar were very rare.