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Equal parts inspiration, perspiration, and information – a book that is sure to take the Vibrant Communities story to new heights as it begins its next exciting phase.In Canada, «poverty reduction» is no longer a «wouldn't it be nice» dream discussed after yet another failure to make a dent in an age-old problem. It's a living, breathing, exhilarating reality.Why?Because all across the country people are approaching poverty in a positive, creative, and energetic way. They are doing so...
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Packed with 15 chapters of sound advice on everything from marketing strategies, health care quality and medical errors to health law, finance and conflict management, Essentials of Medical Management , 2nd edition should have a prime spot on every physician executive’s bookshelf. Updated chapters on “To Err is Human—Institute of Medicine Report Revisited” and “Health Law Overview” will keep you current. Written by nationally known physician executives, health care futurists and management...
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The Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon’s Sacred Vine , is a panorama of texts translated from nearly a dozen languages on the ayahuasca experience. These include indigenous mythic narratives, testimonies, and religious hymns, as well as stories related by Western travelers, scientists, and writers who have had contact with ayahuasca in different contexts. In addition to contributions from Wade Davis, Dennis McKenna, Gerardo Reichel-Dolmotoff and Richard Spruce, the new edition includes...
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More than ever, people are in pursuit of greater fulfillment in their lives, seeking a deeper spiritual truth and strategies for liberation from suffering. Both Buddhism and psychedelics are subjects that one encounters in such spiritual pursuit. Edited by Tricycle contributing editor Allan Badiner and art edited by renowned visionary artist Alex Grey, Zig Zag Zen features a foreword by Buddhist scholar Stephen Batchelor, a preface by historian of religion Huston Smith and numerous essays,...
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<P>This small, striking book commemorates the career of experimental music composer Alvin Lucier, and features an interview with Lucier and curator Andrea Miller-Keller, essays by Nicolas Collins, Ronald Kuivila, Michael Roth and Pamela Tatge, and details of a symposium, exhibit and special performances of Lucier's work held at Wesleyan University, November 4-6, 2011. Lucier has pioneered in many areas of music composition and performance, including the notation of...
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To honor the deanship of his predecessor, Martha J. Horne, Ian S. Markham, dean of Virginia Theological Seminary, challenged his faculty colleagues to reflect on living with a divided mind, where learning and living go hand in hand with diversity, division, protracted discussions, and lasting disagreements. Faculty members discuss God’s mission for the Church as it worships and finds its life in prayer; and as it opens the Bible and finds not one voice but many as it interprets and preaches the...
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This original collection of essays offers hope to those who believe that the cause of world peace requires a new American foreign policy and repairing our depleted military. The twelve contributors to this book show why America must take another look at our possible adversaries and real strategic partners. Present Dangers offers practical strategies for policymakers eager to disarm adversaries like North Korea and Iraq and head off the terrorist threat. Intellectuals, historians and...
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While investigating endangered languages, many researchers become interested in developing literacy for these languages. However, often their linguistic training has not provided practical guidance in this area. This book, with contributions by experienced practitioners, helps fill this gap. Both foundational theory and specific case studies are addressed in this work. Non-linguistic factors are described, particularly sociolinguistic issues that determine acceptability of orthographies. A...
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Contemporary American society, with its emphasis on mobility and economic progress, all too often loses sight of the importance of a sense of “place” and community. Appreciating place is essential for building the strong local communities that cultivate civic engagement, public leadership, and many of the other goods that contribute to a flourishing human life.Do we, in losing our places, lose the crucial basis for healthy and resilient individual identity, and for the...
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Water, Rhetoric, and Social Justice: A Critical Confluence examines how individuals and communities have responded on a global scale to present day water crises as matters of social justice, through oratory, mass demonstration, deliberation, testimony, and other rhetorical appeals. This book applies critical communication methods and perspectives to interrogate the pressing yet mind-boggling dilemma currently faced in environmental studies and policy: that clean water, the very stuff of life,...
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Sztuka, miłość, pasja i walka o ideały! Ildefonso Falcones, autor niezapomnianej „Katedry w Barcelonie”, wskrzesza ekscytujące czasy wielkich przemian społecznych i buntu wobec odwiecznych tradycji i zakurzonych konwenansów. Barcelona, rok 1901. Przez miasto przetacza się fala niepokojów społecznych. Ubóstwo najbiedniejszych dzielnic kontrastuje z bogactwem dużych eleganckich alei, wzdłuż których wyrosły już niezwykłe budynki, symbol nadejścia epoki modernizmu. Dalmau Sala, syn skazanych...
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This collection charts the key developments in the social work field from 1970 to the present day and shows how by fully understanding social work’s past, we can make better progress for practitioners and service users in the future. It brings together a broad collection of experts from across social work who trace how thinking and approaches to practice have changed over time, examine key legislative developments in the field, look at the impacts of major inquiries and consider the re-emergence...
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"Ich bin Gott begegnet – und war danach nicht mehr derselbe!" Es sind keine außergewöhnlichen Typen, die so etwas sagen, sondern ganz normale Menschen. In diesem Buch zur Sendereihe ERF MenschGott erzählen sie ehrlich von ihren Lebenskrisen und wie Gott scheinbar ausweglose Situationen verändert hat. Sie erzählen von Heilung, einem neuen Selbstwert, von übernatürlichen Erlebnissen und einem kompletten Neubeginn. Es sind Geschichten, die Mut machen, Gott ganz neu oder vielleicht auch zum...
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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies navigates our understanding of the historical, political, social and cultural dimensions of childhood. Transdisciplinary and transnational in content and scope, the Encyclopedia both reflects and enables the wide range of approaches, fields and understandings that have been brought to bear on the ever-transforming problem of the “child” over the last four decades This four-volume encyclopedia covers a wide range of...
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<P>In this brilliant collection, path-breaking figures of American experimental music discuss the meaning of their work at the turn of the twenty-first century. Presented between 1989 and 2002 at Wesleyan University, these captivating lectures provide rare insights by composers whose work has shaped our understanding of what it means to be experimental: Maryanne Amacher, Robert Ashley, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Steve Reich, James Tenney, Christian Wolff, and La Monte Young....
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<P>Joanna Russ, a feminist writer best known for The Female Man (1975), has produced a fierce, intense body of fiction and essays whose influence has been wide-ranging and complex. Her many publications include How to Suppress Women's Writing (1983), and she has won both of science fiction's most prestigious awards, the Nebula and the Hugo. The essays in this volume examine every aspect of Russ's body of work and provide a critical assessment that is long overdue....
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<P>Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century is an exciting sequel to its predecessors in the American Poets in the 21st Century series. Like the earlier anthologies, this volume includes generous selections of poetry by some of the best poets of our time as well as illuminating poetics statements and incisive essays on their work. This unique organization makes these books invaluable teaching tools. Broadening the lens through which we look at contemporary poetry, this...
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Uno de los rasgos más característicos del presente es el triunfo del discurso hegemónico sobre la economía y, especialmente, la economía financiera. Tal como afirma Doreen Massey (2012), «en el marco del neoliberalismo la economía se ha convertido en una forma de ideología». Enaltecida al carácter de ciencia total, se le atribuye la capacidad de explicar y justificar todo y, como tal, se le rinde ciega servidumbre, a pesar de que sus elucubraciones y soluciones fallan reiterada y...
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The global water and sanitation community is currently wrestling with the policy implications of two important realizations. The first is that it is quite possible for cities to actually run out of water–for the piped network to run dry. The second is that in many locations, basic water and sanitation interventions do not result in the large public health improvements that many water and sanitation professionals had hoped. As water and sanitation professionals work out the implications of these...
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Das offizielle bdia Handbuch Innenarchitektur 2020/21 präsentiert die aktuellen Trends und das herausragende Gestaltungsniveau der Innenarchitektur in Deutschland. Von privaten Wohnhäusern, Szene-Gastronomie, Hotel-Design, Gewerbekonzepten, bis hin zu öffentlichen Bauaufgaben und Bildungsstätten, werden alle Branchen abgebildet. Jedes Projekt wird ausführlich und nachvollziehbar vorgestellt. Zukunftsthemen der Innenarchitektur werden in drei Fachbeiträgen von namhaften Experten beleuchtet. Der...
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Despite its immense significance and ubiquity in our everyday lives, the complex workings of trust are poorly understood and theorized. This volume explores trust and mistrust amidst locally situated scenes of sociality and intimacy. Because intimacy has often been taken for granted as the foundation of trust relations, the ethnographies presented here challenge us to think about dangerous intimacies, marked by mistrust, as well as forms of trust that cohere through non-intimate forms of...
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If piety, faith, and conviction constitute one side of the religious coin, then imperfection, uncertainty, and ambivalence constitute the other. Yet, scholars tend to separate these two domains and place experiences of inadequacy in everyday religious life – such as a wavering commitment, religious negligence or weakness in faith – outside the domain of religion ‘proper.’ Straying from the Straight Path breaks with this tendency by examining how self-perceived failure is, in many cases, part...
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In what ways did Europeans interact with the diversity of people they encountered on other continents in the context of colonial expansion, and with the peasant or ethnic ‘Other’ at home? How did anthropologists and ethnologists make sense of the mosaic of people and societies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when their disciplines were progressively being established in academia? By assessing the diversity of European intellectual histories within sociocultural anthropology, this...
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Von den vielen Konzepten und Methoden heilpädagogischer Tätigkeit fußen nur wenige auf einem heilpädagogischen Bildungsverständnis. Angesichts dieses pluralen Methodenspektrums ist eine zentrale Herausforderung der Disziplin, die Einheit von Praxis, Profession und Wissenschaft immer wieder neu auszuweisen. Der erste Teil des Buches liefert eine theoretische und ethische Grundlegung heilpädagogischer Praxiskonzepte. Diese werden im zweiten Teil konkretisiert: Die Spannbreite reicht dabei von den...
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