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NGOs set out to save lives, relieve suffering, and service basic human needs. They are committed to serving people across national borders and without regard to race, ethnicity, gender, or religion, and they offer crucial help during earthquakes, tsunamis, wars, and pandemics. But with so many ailing areas in need of assistance, how do these organizations decide where to go-and who gets the aid?
In The Good Project, Monika Krause dives into the...
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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,...
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En breve, con unas muy justas palabras del filósofo y psicosociólogo francés Georges Palante, el libro "Schopenhauer und Nietzsche" de Georg Simmel se desenvuelve en un marco de pensamiento más largo de lo que habitualmente se mueven los estudios histórico-críticos de este género. Por Simmel, no se trata simplemente de estudiar con detalle la obra de Schopenhauer y de Nietzsche, más bien de hacer el balance de la cultura moderna tomando como...
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In recent decades a growing number of middle-class parents have considered sending their children to-and often end up becoming active in-urban public schools. Their presence can bring long-needed material resources to such schools, but, as Linn Posey-Maddox shows in this study, it can also introduce new class and race tensions, and even exacerbate inequalities. Sensitively navigating the pros and cons of middle-class transformation, When Middle-Class...
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From the creators of National Geographic Kids' wildly successful Greeking Out podcast, this lively, tie-in book delivers a clever, tongue-in-cheek retelling of 20 classic Greek myths. This kid-friendly collection of tales from Greek mythology showcases familiar favorites from the well-loved Greeking Out podcast as well as brand-new, never-before-aired stories. Join Persephone on her journey through the mystifying depths of the Underworld. Venture...
66) La tribu vertical: Una historia de los ultras, hooligans y otros grupos radicales del fútbol español
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Fútbol, política, violencia, tribus urbanas, mitología. Borja Bauzá no escribe de oídas. Él mismo formó parte de un grupo ultra en su juventud, y para escribir este libro ha pasado años recorriendo España de norte a sur y de este a oeste entrevistándose con docenas de radicales de un sinfín de aficiones e ideologías. La tribu vertical es una radiografía sociológica, cultural y política de un fenómeno de masas transversal a nuestra...
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On ne compte plus les villes nord-américaines qui observent un sérieux déclin de leurs artères commerciales. Taxes élevées, concurrence de la banlieue, construction de mégacentres à ciel ouvert, vente en ligne... La compétition est féroce dans l'univers du commerce de détail, et les consommateurs sont de plus en plus exigeants. Les rues marchandes se voient donc forcées de se réinventer, notamment sur le plan urbanistique, pour maintenir...
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This brilliant and eye-opening look at the new phenomenon called the aerotropolis gives us a glimpse of the way we will live in the near future-and the way we will do business too.
Not so long ago, airports were built near cities, and roads connected the one to the other. This pattern-the city in the center, the airport on the periphery- shaped life in the twentieth century, from the central city to exurban sprawl. Today, the ubiquity of jet travel,...
69) Trazando el Camino hacia la Prosperidad: Explorando la Escuela Austriaca de Economía y sus Aplica
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1. Descubre la Riqueza del Pensamiento Económico Austriaco: Sumérgete en las ideas fundamentales de la Escuela Austriaca de Economía y amplía tu comprensión de los principios económicos que han resistido la prueba del tiempo.2. Aplicaciones Prácticas para la Realidad Latinoamericana: Obtén conocimientos específicos sobre cómo las teorías austriacas pueden aplicarse de manera efectiva en el contexto económico actual de Argentina y otros...
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A thought-provoking challenge to our ideas about philanthropy, marking it as a deeply political activity that allows the wealthy to dictate more than we think.
Philanthropy plays a huge role in supporting the provision of many public goods in contemporary societies. As a result, decisions that affect public outcomes and people's diverse interests are often dependent on the preferences and judgments of the rich. Political theorist Emma Saunders-Hastings...
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This collection invites us to think about how African-descended men are seen as both appealing and appalling, and exposed to eroticized hatred and violence and how some resist, accommodate, and capitalize on their eroticization. Drawing on James Baldwin and Frantz Fanon, the contributors examine the contradictions, paradoxes, and politico-psychosexual implications of Black men as objects of sexual desire, fear, and loathing. Kitossa and the contributing...
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Comment parler de nos peurs quand nombreux sont ceux qui vivent dans la terreur ou qui survivent dans d'extrêmes di cultés ? En parlant avec humilité et compassion, en partageant et en agissant. Surtout, ne pas se taire.
La peur existentielle, comme le nom l'indique, résulte du fait d'exister face à tous les événements auxquels on se confronte au cours de la vie, mais aussi face à leurs impacts sur le subconscient.
J'ai peur, je deviens...
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The Ultimate Blueprint To Dating & Understanding Men Is Finally Here! Learn All You Need To Know From One Of The BEST communication/social skill experts, conversationalists and dating gurus Jason Gale. You will gain insights to dating secretes, expert tips and much, much more! What You'll Learn.. What men really want What men look for How to find the perfect match Unique approach and strategies Psychology of men Relationship dynamics And much, much...
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A critical examination of the complex system of college pricing-how it works, how it fails, and how fixing it can help both students and universities.
How much does it cost to attend college in the United States today? The answer is more complex than many realize. College websites advertise a sticker price, but uncovering the actual price-the one after incorporating financial aid-can be difficult for students and families. This inherent uncertainty...
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"This book . . . examines the problem of police corruption . . . in such a way that the stereotype of the crude, greedy cop who is basically a grown-up delinquent, if not an out-and-out robber, yields to portraits of particular men, often of earnest good will and even more than ordinary compassion, contending with an enormously demanding and challenging job."-Robert Coles, New Yorker
"Other social scientists have observed policemen on patrol, or...
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The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. In Purging the Poorest, Lawrence J. Vale offers a new narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the "deserving poor."
In the 1930s, two iconic American cities, Atlanta and Chicago, demolished their slums and established some of this country's first public housing. Six decades later, these...
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The powers of political secrecy and social spectacle have been taken to surreal extremes recently. Witness the twin terrors of a president who refuses to disclose dealings with foreign powers while the private data of ordinary citizens is stolen and marketed in order to manipulate consumer preferences and voting outcomes. We have become accustomed to thinking about secrecy in political terms and personal privacy terms. In this bracing, new work, Hugh...
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Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. But they do not merely entertain, inform, or distress us-they show us what counts as right or wrong and teach us who we are and who we can imagine being. Stories connect people, but they can also disconnect, creating boundaries between people and justifying violence. In Letting Stories Breathe, Arthur W. Frank grapples with this fundamental aspect of our lives, offering both a theory of how stories...
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Democratizing Cleveland: The Rise and Fall of Community Organizing in Cleveland, Ohio, 1975-1985 is the result of almost fifteen years of research on a topic that has been missing from local works on Cleveland history: the community organizing movement that put neighborhood concerns and neighborhood voices front and center in the setting of public policies in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Originally published in 2007 by Arambala Press, this important...
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A part of Harper Perennial's special "Resistance Library" highlighting classic works that illuminate our times: A special edition reissue of Stanley Milgram's landmark examination of humanity's susceptibility to authoritarianism.
"The classic account of the human tendency to follow orders, no matter who they hurt or what their consequences." - Washington Post Book World
In the 1960s, Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram famously carried...