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Book Synopsis The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators by : William J. Bennett
Download or read book The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators written by William J. Bennett and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades Americans have turned to the Commerce Department's Index of Leading Economic Indicators to spot trends in the economy. The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators brings a similar kind of empirical analysis to the moral, social, and behavioral condition of American society from 1960 to the present--a vivid, clearly accessible portrait in numbers of who and where we are as a nation. First published in 1994 and now completely updated and considerably expanded, it draws from a wide array of government sources and academic studies to offer comprehensive chapters on crime, the family, youth behavior, education, popular culture, and religion, as well as new chapters on civic participation, international comparisons, and decade-by-decade comparisons. For each topic covered, there are statistical and numerical breakdowns; tables and graphs; ranking of states; and a "Factual Overview" interpreting the data. The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators should serve as the starting point of any discussion about America's moral and cultural condition. William J. Bennett's provocative introduction provides the essential context and perspective for the data he's collected, offering an assessment of the problems besetting modern America. Some have gotten better--most notably, crime and welfare rates--leading him to conclude that politics and public engagement in social issues can make more of a difference than he once thought. But there is much else of a worrying nature, and Bennett pulls no punches in identifying pathologies and laying out the challenges we face. No one who cares about American society and a whole range of social issues can afford to be without this essential volume--a statistical snapshot, an invaluable sourcebook, and a call to action.
Book Synopsis The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators by : William John Bennett
Download or read book The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators written by William John Bennett and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1994 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bennett's "report card" on America dramatically illustrates the factors and trends that have drastically affected America's moral, social, and behavioral conditions. The index provides statistical and numerical breakdowns, charts, tables, graphs, and a brief analysis of the data.
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Book Synopsis When God Interrupts by : M. Craig Barnes
Download or read book When God Interrupts written by M. Craig Barnes and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-09-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our lives are constantly changing. It's hard to keep up, to keep our balance. It's hard to keep trusting in God. And it's especially difficult when the changes we're faced with are unwanted: the death of a loved one, a child leaving home, an illness, a frustrated dream. Craig Barnes knows the dark side of change. As a pastor, he has counseled many Christians through tough times of transition. And he has been challenged by unwanted changes--interruptions--in his own life. At times it seems as though God has moved far, far away. But Barnes has discovered that just the opposite is true: during times of change and seeming abandonment, God is right at our side offering to lead us in a new direction, offering us new life. He writes, "A young widow can outlive her grief and decide her life may never be the same but is far from over. A lost job can become the beginning of a new vocation." Here is the book for all who have known disappointment, bereavement or the shattering of faith, a book all the more valuable because it promises hope without denying despair. In When God Interrupts a sensitive, insightful pastor shows us how we can be found by God in the middle of unwanted change.
Download or read book Black and Right written by J. G. Conti and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-04-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black conservatism is no oxymoron. Recent polls have indicated that an increasing number of black Americans identified themselves as conservatives, favoring smaller government, lower taxes, tougher crime laws, welfare reform, and personal initiative. While applauding the moral and legal victories of the Civil Rights Movement, the conservative spokespeople in this dynamic new collection reject the claims of inequities and what they consider to be the self-serving agenda of the present civil rights establishment. National leaders such as Justice Clarence Thomas and former Representative Gary Franks and writers such as Shelby Steele and Glenn Loury appear either as contributors or as subjects in this volume. They emphasize the grassroots aspects of black conservatism with a reliance on common sense and common humanity. The strength of the black conservative voice lies in the growth of its numbers and social influence. As more African-Americans shift to the right and embrace conservative ideology, they are signalling what may be one of the most politically significant trends in American public life as the 20th century draws to a close. This provocative collection of essays shatters the myth that black Americans are uniformly left of center and that conservatism is an ideology with a white face. Unique in its personal and political portrait of black conservatives in America, this book shows the remarkable diversity of ideas from one of the most talked-about political movements to emerge in recent years.
Book Synopsis The Impact of 9/11 on Religion and Philosophy by : M. Morgan
Download or read book The Impact of 9/11 on Religion and Philosophy written by M. Morgan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Impact of 9-11 on Religion and Philosophy is the sixth volume of the six-volume series The Day that Changed Everything? edited by Matthew J. Morgan. This volume features a foreword by John Esposito and contributors include Jean Bethke Elshtain, Philip Yancey, John Milbank, Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, John Cobb and Martin Cook.
Book Synopsis The Bush administration, sex and the moral agenda by : Edward Ashbee
Download or read book The Bush administration, sex and the moral agenda written by Edward Ashbee and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bush Administration, sex and the moral agenda considers White House policy towards issues such as abortion, sex education, obscenity and same-sex marriage. The book suggests that although accounts have often emphasised the ties between George W. Bush and the Christian right, the administration's strategy was, at least until early 2005, also directed towards the courting of middle ground opinion. This study offers a detailed and comprehensive survey of policy-making; assesses the political significance of moral concerns; evaluates the role of the Christian right, and throws new light on George W. Bush's years in office and the character of his thinking. The book will prove invaluable for those taking social science courses as well as as well as anyone with a general interest in the Bush presidency.
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Book Synopsis Hearings on "parents, Schools and Values" by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Download or read book Hearings on "parents, Schools and Values" written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These hearings transcripts present testimony regarding parents' and schools' roles in teaching values to school age children, the federal funds involved in values education, and the remedies available to parents who may object to or be offended by some of the topics taught and the vehicles used to teach these topics. Witnesses included: (1) representatives from Delaware, California, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio; (2) William Bennett, former Secretary of Education; and (3) several parents, teachers, and school administrators. Testimony presented noted that parental involvement is the most important factor in helping children succeed in school. Parents want their children to be taught the basics, but trust in schools is broken when parents are shut out of the process. Schools need to reflect the values of the community. School choice improves schools and reinvolves parents. How people in school treat one another is more important than values programs. Children are moral agents who recognize right from wrong as defined by moral influences, whether from parents, teachers, friends, or television. Additional testimony conveyed parents' disagreement with the content of information conveyed in school programs for sex education and AIDS education, parents' concerns about treatment of homosexual students, and possible misuse of government funds for AIDS education. (KDFB)
Book Synopsis Annual Editions by : Kurt Finsterbusch
Download or read book Annual Editions written by Kurt Finsterbusch and published by Annual Editions: Social Proble. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader of public press articles examines parental and family issues; crime, terrorism and violence; health and health care issues; poverty and inequality; cultural pluralism and affirmative action; cities, urban growth and the quality of life; and global issues. The articles come from sources such as Fortune, Modern Maturity, The Economist and The Nation.
Book Synopsis Marriage in the Long Run by : Ellen Voie
Download or read book Marriage in the Long Run written by Ellen Voie and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-01-11 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of Ellen's columns which have appeared in a number of national trucking publications. Ellen is currently a contributing editor for Land Line Magazine, Driving Force Magazine, and PNV.com's Freeway web magazine, and has had numerous articles published in other transportation magazines and web sites. Through her insight as the wife of a professional driver and her research in the lifestyles of women married to truck drivers, Ellen brings an unparalleled perspective to this subject.
Book Synopsis Recovering Self-Evident Truths by : Michael A. Scaperlanda
Download or read book Recovering Self-Evident Truths written by Michael A. Scaperlanda and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an engaging collection of essays exploring "catholic" and "Catholic" perspectives on American law--catholic in their claims of universal truths, and Catholic in their grounding in the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church
Book Synopsis Public Policy in the United States by : Rushefsky
Download or read book Public Policy in the United States written by Rushefsky and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This widely respected book offers a unique dualistic view of the policy process. First, it introduces readers to the American approach to public policy making as it has been shaped by our political institutions, changing circumstances, and ideology. Second, it informs readers concisely and even-handedly about U.S. policies in eight major policy realms, with well selected illustrations, case studies, and study questions. In addition to providing analytical tools and empirical information, the book imparts an appreciation of the widely shared but often competing values that must be balanced and rebalanced in the ongoing policy-making process, affecting issues of the highest concern to the American public. For this new edition, all of the policy chapters, especially those on economic policy, foreign policy, the environment, and education, have been very substantially revised and updated.
Book Synopsis Foundation 1000 by : Foundation Center
Download or read book Foundation 1000 written by Foundation Center and published by . This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 2918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Quiet Power of Indicators by : Sally Engle Merry
Download or read book The Quiet Power of Indicators written by Sally Engle Merry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly accessible book investigates the rankings that increasingly influence perceptions of countries' governance and civil rights.
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Book Synopsis Environmental Protection Research Catalog: Indexes by : Smithsonian Science Information Exchange
Download or read book Environmental Protection Research Catalog: Indexes written by Smithsonian Science Information Exchange and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
