The Children of the East is the story of how Islam can trace it's roots to the first chapter of the Bible and the story of Abraham's first born son, Ishmael. The Bible is mostly the story of the descendants of Abraham's second son, Isaac, but if you look carefully you will see a second thread that traces the story of the descendants of the other sons of Abraham and how they also were believers in Abraham's God and part of the Covenant between God and humanity. These Children of the East usually show up at critical junctures when the Children of Isaac have lost their way and abandoned God. The Children of the East work with the Children of Isaac to bring reform. This pattern continues up to the present day. This is the story of God being not an exclusive God, even in the Bible which many Christians see as exclusive. Here is the story of Hagar & Ishmael, Jacob & Esau, Joseph & the Ishmaelites, Jethro & Moses, Joshua & Caleb, Balaam, Job, Yael & Deborah, Elijah & the Arabs, Jehu & Jonadab, Jeremiah & the Rekabites, Jesus & the Magi, Saul & Petra and Muhammad & Revelation. This is the revised edition, updated in September 2019 with two new chapters (Jacob & Esau and Elijah & the Arabs), an expanded chapter on Muhammad & Revelation, and extensive footnotes documenting some exciting new discoveries that are woven into the story.
The Licit Life of Capitalism is both an account of a specific capitalist project-U.S. oil companies working off the shores of Equatorial Guinea-and a sweeping theorization of more general forms and processes that facilitate diverse capitalist projects around the world. Hannah Appel draws on extensive fieldwork with managers and rig workers, lawyers and bureaucrats, the expat wives of American oil executives and the Equatoguinean women who work in their homes, to turn conventional critiques of capitalism on their head, arguing that market practices do not merely exacerbate inequality; they are made by it. People and places differentially valued by gender, race, and colonial histories are the terrain on which the rules of capitalist economy are built. Appel shows how the corporate form and the contract, offshore rigs and economic theory are the assemblages of liberalism and race, expertise and gender, technology and domesticity that enable the licit life of capitalism-practices that are legally sanctioned, widely replicated, and ordinary, at the same time as they are messy, contested, and, arguably, indefensible.
The Licit Life of Capitalism is both an account of a specific capitalist project-U.S. oil companies working off the shores of Equatorial Guinea-and a sweeping theorization of more general forms and processes that facilitate diverse capitalist projects around the world. Hannah Appel draws on extensive fieldwork with managers and rig workers, lawyers and bureaucrats, the expat wives of American oil executives and the Equatoguinean women who work in their homes, to turn conventional critiques of capitalism on their head, arguing that market practices do not merely exacerbate inequality; they are made by it. People and places differentially valued by gender, race, and colonial histories are the terrain on which the rules of capitalist economy are built. Appel shows how the corporate form and the contract, offshore rigs and economic theory are the assemblages of liberalism and race, expertise and gender, technology and domesticity that enable the licit life of capitalism-practices that are legally sanctioned, widely replicated, and ordinary, at the same time as they are messy, contested, and, arguably, indefensible.
During the height of the Ebola epidemic one hospital refuses to shut its doors... In August 2014 Dr. James Appel is called to leave the Republic of Chad where he's been working for the last 10 years to go help out at the SDA Cooper Hospital in Liberia. James embarks on a four-day journey from Ab ch near the Sudanese border across the deserts of Chad to N'Djamena, then on to Addis Abiba, Accra and finally Monrovia where he begins working at one of the few hospitals still open in the Liberian capital. The fear of Ebola and the real fact that many health care workers have been dying of the hemorrhagic fever have left hospitals closed and people without anywhere to go when they're sick. Led by American surgeon Gillian Seton and staffed with a group of hard-core Liberians, the SDA Cooper Hospital has decided to stay open during the crisis and they are swamped. In vivid detail Dr. Appel describes the challenges of keeping a hospital open and running during one of the most fearsome plagues of our time...
