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Book Synopsis American Grace by : Robert D. Putnam
Download or read book American Grace written by Robert D. Putnam and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on three national surveys on religion, as well as research conducted by congregations across the United States, to examine the profound impact it has had on American life and how religious attitudes have changed in recent decades.
Download or read book The Call to Unite written by Tim Shriver and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From some of our most prominent spiritual and religious leaders, poets and thinkers, singers and writers, a book of wisdom to light our way in dark times. AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVER At the start of 2020, in what felt already like an age of disorder, our world faced one of the gravest global challenges in a century. Covid-19 raced around the earth, and chaos erupted. Yet in the midst of this crisis, billions of human beings responded with love. Across the globe, people sought to connect, whether in person from a socially distant six feet or via a screen from 10,000 miles away. In that moment, Tim Shriver saw an opportunity for those hungry for community to answer a call to heal, a call to hope, a call to unite. He asked monks and nuns, artists and activists, nurses and doctors, ex-presidents and ex-cons to come together to share messages of inspiration, transformation, and love. This book captures the spirit of that 24-hour event. Featuring stories and insights from Bishop TD Jakes, Elizabeth Gilbert, Van Jones, Amy Grant, Dr. Rheeda Walker, Pastor Rick Warren, Rev. Jacqui Lewis, Jewel, Deepak Chopra and many others, The Call to Unite offers readers a book of wisdom to turn to in hard times - filled with prayers, poems, spiritual insights and lessons to live by that will stand the test of time. Those seeking affirmation, solace, and inspiration need only look inside for guidance in finding the light in any crisis. Only in embracing each other can we amplify the love that creates our global community. Only in coming together can we be our happiest, and our best.
Book Synopsis How You Say It by : Katherine D. Kinzler
Download or read book How You Say It written by Katherine D. Kinzler and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2020 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We gravitate toward people like us; it's human nature. Race, class, and gender affect this social identity, but one overlooked factor can be even more powerful: the way we speak. As pioneering psychologist Katherine Kinzler reveals in How You Say It, that's because our speech largely reflects the voices we heard as children. We can change how we speak to some extent, whether by "code-switching" between dialects or learning a new language. But for the most part we are forever marked by our native tongue-and are hardwired to prejudge others by theirs, often with serious consequences. Your accent alone can determine the economic opportunity or discrimination you encounter in life, making speech one of the most urgent social-justice issues of our day. Ultimately, Kinzler shows, our linguistic differences can also be a force for good. For her research reveals that exposure to different languages is beneficial-a paradox that hints at the benefits we can reap from mastering this ancient source of tribalism"--
Book Synopsis Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents by :
Download or read book Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States by : United States. President
Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States written by United States. President and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.
Book Synopsis Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton by : United States. President (1993-2001 : Clinton)
Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton written by United States. President (1993-2001 : Clinton) and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Going to Extremes by : Cass R. Sunstein
Download or read book Going to Extremes written by Cass R. Sunstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Going to Extremes, renowned legal scholar and best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein offers startling insights into why and when people gravitate toward extremism."--Inside jacket.
Book Synopsis The Lines that Divide Us Also Unite Us by : Estefania Castañeda Pérez
Download or read book The Lines that Divide Us Also Unite Us written by Estefania Castañeda Pérez and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ample research across the social sciences have unraveled the varying dimensions of state violence embedded in immigration enforcement policies, whether in the interior of the United States, detention centers, or at the U.S.-Mexico border wall. Political scientists have focused on the top-down politics of enforcement practices and the impacts on immigrant political behavior, health, and inclusion. Yet, often overlooked is the reality that borders are meant to be crossed. There are 50 land ports of entry along the Mexico-U.S. border through which thousands of individuals travel from Mexico to the U.S. on a regular, sometimes daily basis. At these ports of entry, the U.S. government amplifies the power of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, who are given discretionary power to subjectively determine admissibility of border entrants. Additionally, some civil liberties do not fully apply at the border and racial profiling is a legalized enforcement practice. While scholars across the social sciences have examined the detrimental effects of infrequent, yet highly violent contact with immigration enforcement officers, what happens when such violence is a mundane part of everyday life in the Mexico-U.S. borderlands? What are the effects of normalized border violence on the livelihoods of individuals that depend on crossing the southern border? This dissertation explores the impacts of routine state violence at land ports of entry along the Mexico-U.S. border on the livelihoods of transborder commuters, who are residents of Mexican border cities but have legal documentation to regularly cross the border for work, education, commerce, and other activities. Transborder commuters are not immigrants in the traditional sense; they are a highly mobile population that includes U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, and Mexican nationals with visas that depend on crossing the border for multiple reasons. Through three empirical papers, I analyze how routinized violence affects transborder commuters' mental health, their ability to file complaints after enduring mistreatment from CBP, and practices of citizenship. Although each paper focuses on a specific outcome, the findings reveal how the normalcy of violence at the border leads to minimization of suffering, stigma, and disenfranchisement from rights accessibility. Thus, the dissertation reveals that when violence is normalized through a carceral institution, there is an impossibility of democracy. The findings of the dissertation make contributions to migration and policing literatures by showing that the detrimental effects of border enforcement that go beyond targeted populations, such as undocumented immigrants and their families. Specifically, the consequences of state violence are also experienced by people that have documentation to enter the U.S. through land ports, including U.S. citizens. Additionally, the findings demonstrate the multi-dimensional ways violence is experienced and normalized by individuals who have regular contact with the state at the border. At the core, the dissertation strives to unravel how mundane policing leads to the silencing of suffering experienced by individuals who regularly cross the Mexico-U.S. border.
Book Synopsis Blueprint by : Nicholas A. Christakis
Download or read book Blueprint written by Nicholas A. Christakis and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more" (Frank Bruni, The New York Times), Blueprint shows why evolution has placed us on a humane path -- and how we are united by our common humanity. For too long, scientists have focused on the dark side of our biological heritage: our capacity for aggression, cruelty, prejudice, and self-interest. But natural selection has given us a suite of beneficial social features, including our capacity for love, friendship, cooperation, and learning. Beneath all of our inventions -- our tools, farms, machines, cities, nations -- we carry with us innate proclivities to make a good society. In Blueprint, Nicholas A. Christakis introduces the compelling idea that our genes affect not only our bodies and behaviors, but also the ways in which we make societies, ones that are surprisingly similar worldwide. With many vivid examples -- including diverse historical and contemporary cultures, communities formed in the wake of shipwrecks, commune dwellers seeking utopia, online groups thrown together by design or involving artificially intelligent bots, and even the tender and complex social arrangements of elephants and dolphins that so resemble our own -- Christakis shows that, despite a human history replete with violence, we cannot escape our social blueprint for goodness. In a world of increasing political and economic polarization, it's tempting to ignore the positive role of our evolutionary past. But by exploring the ancient roots of goodness in civilization, Blueprint shows that our genes have shaped societies for our welfare and that, in a feedback loop stretching back many thousands of years, societies are still shaping our genes today.
Book Synopsis Meatpacking America by : Kristy Nabhan-Warren
Download or read book Meatpacking America written by Kristy Nabhan-Warren and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether valorized as the heartland or derided as flyover country, the Midwest became instantly notorious when COVID-19 infections skyrocketed among workers in meatpacking plants—and Americans feared for their meat supply. But the Midwest is not simply the place where animals are fed corn and then butchered. Native midwesterner Kristy Nabhan-Warren spent years interviewing Iowans who work in the meatpacking industry, both native-born residents and recent migrants from Latin America, Africa, and Asia. In Meatpacking America, she digs deep below the stereotype and reveals the grit and grace of a heartland that is a major global hub of migration and food production—and also, it turns out, of religion. Across the flatlands, Protestants, Catholics, and Muslims share space every day as worshippers, employees, and employers. On the bloody floors of meatpacking plants, in bustling places of worship, and in modest family homes, longtime and newly arrived Iowans spoke to Nabhan-Warren about their passion for religious faith and desire to work hard for their families. Their stories expose how faith-based aspirations for mutual understanding blend uneasily with rampant economic exploitation and racial biases. Still, these new and old midwesterners say that a mutual language of faith and morals brings them together more than any of them would have ever expected.
Book Synopsis We Are Buyers. You Are Sellers. You're Busted. by : Dick Lee
Download or read book We Are Buyers. You Are Sellers. You're Busted. written by Dick Lee and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lee's often humorous but sometimes sad documentation of the long-term erosion of buyer-seller relations is a "must read" for corporate managers who want to know why customers suspect their motives and explanations-and for American citizens wanting to know what hit them. -David Mangen, Ph.D., President of Mangen Research and author of multiple books An amazingly insightful and extremely relevant book. The time has finally arrived when consumer power will force business to engage with humanity, authenticity and empathy. -Doug Leather, CEO of REAP Consulting (Pty) Ltd, author of The Customer-Centric Blueprint Recommended reading for customer-centric leaders with a genuine desire to understand customers' sentiment-no matter how much it hurts-and how to meet their expectations for fair and honest treatment. -Bob Thompson, Founder/CEO of CustomerThink Corp. and author of Hooked On Customers
Book Synopsis A Concise Companion to American Studies by : John Carlos Rowe
Download or read book A Concise Companion to American Studies written by John Carlos Rowe and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to American Studies is an essential volume that brings together voices and scholarship from across the spectrum of American experience. A collection of 22 original essays which provides an unprecedented introduction to the "new" American Studies: a comparative, transnational, postcolonial and polylingual discipline Addresses a variety of subjects, from foundations and backgrounds to the field, to different theories of the “new” American Studies, and issues from globalization and technology to transnationalism and post-colonialism Explores the relationship between American Studies and allied fields such as Ethnic Studies, Feminist, Queer and Latin American Studies Designed to provoke discussion and help students and scholars at all levels develop their own approaches to contemporary American Studies
Book Synopsis Immersion Bible Studies by : Craig S. Keener
Download or read book Immersion Bible Studies written by Craig S. Keener and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh new look at the Bible, from beginning to end, and what it means in believers' lives
Download or read book S.C. written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of reports of various Select Committees, each with a distinctive title.
Book Synopsis The Thirteen American Arguments by : Howard Fineman
Download or read book The Thirteen American Arguments written by Howard Fineman and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard Fineman, one of our most trusted political journalists, shows that every debate, from our nation’s founding to the present day, is rooted in one of thirteen arguments that–thankfully–defy resolution. It is the very process of never-ending argument, Fineman explains, that defines us, inspires us, and keeps us free. At a time when most public disagreement seems shrill and meaningless, Fineman makes a cogent case for nurturing the real American dialogue. The Thirteen American Arguments runs the gamut, including • Who Is a Person? The Declaration of Independence says “everyone,” but it took a Civil War, the Civil Rights Act, and other movements to make that a reality. Now, what about human embryos and prisoners in Guantanamo? • The Role of Faith No country is more legally secular yet more avowedly prayerful. From Thomas Jefferson to James Dobson, the issue persists: Where does God fit in government? • America in the World In Iraq and everywhere else, we ask ourselves whether we must change the world in order to survive and honor our values–or whether the best way to do both is to deal with the world as it is. Whether it’s the nomination of judges or the limits of free speech, presidential power or public debt, the issues that galvanized the Founding Fathers should still inspire our leaders, thinkers, and fellow citizens. If we cease to argue about these things, we cease to be. “Argument is strength, not weakness,” says Fineman. “As long as we argue, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, we will argue.”
Book Synopsis Military Cold War Education and Speech Review Policies by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Download or read book Military Cold War Education and Speech Review Policies written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1997, Book 1, January 1 to June 30, 1997 by :
Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1997, Book 1, January 1 to June 30, 1997 written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1999-02 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1997, Book 1: January 1 to June 30, 1997 Public Papers of the Presidents, William J. Clinton, 1997, by the Office of the Federal Register, contains official public messages, statements, speeches, and news conferences of the 42nd President of the United States, William J. Clinton, released by the White House from January 1 through June 30, 1997. The documents contained within this handsome hardbound edition of the Public Papers are arranged in chronological order. Included in this handsome edition is an index and appendices. Related items: Public Papers of the Presidents collection can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/public-papers-presidents
