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Land of Stark Contrasts

Author : Manuel Mejido Costoya
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823293971
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Land of Stark Contrasts written by Manuel Mejido Costoya and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important new volume showcasing a wide range of faith-based responses to one of today’s most pressing social issues, challenging us to expand our ways of understanding. Land of Stark Contrasts brings together the work of social scientists, ethicists, and theologians exploring the profound role of religion in understanding and responding to homelessness and housing insecurity in all corners of the United States—from Seattle, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley to Dallas and San Antonio to Washington, D.C., and Boston. Together, the essays of Land of Stark Contrasts chart intriguing ways forward for future initiatives to address the root causes of homelessness. In this way they are essential reading for practical theologians, congregational leaders, and faith-based nonprofit organizers exploring how to combine spiritual and material care for homeless individuals and other vulnerable populations. Social workers, nonprofit managers, and policy specialists seeking to understand how to partner better with faith-based organizations will also find the chapters in this volume an invaluable resource. Contributors include James V. Spickard, Manuel Mejido Costoya and Margaret Breen, Michael R. Fisher Jr., Laura Stivers, Lauren Valk Lawson, Bruce Granville Miller, Nancy A. Khalil, John A. Coleman, S.J., Jeremy Phillip Brown, Paul Houston Blankenship, María Teresa Dávila, Roberto Mata, and Sathianathan Clarke. Co-published with Seattle University’s Center for Religious Wisdom and World Affairs

Contrasts in Religion, Community, and Structure at Three Homeless Shelters

Author : Ines W. Jindra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780367677114
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book Contrasts in Religion, Community, and Structure at Three Homeless Shelters written by Ines W. Jindra and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do people in poverty and homelessness change their lives and get back on their feet? Homeless shelters across the world play a huge role in this process. Many of them are religious, but there is a lot of diversity in faith-based non-profits that assist people affected by poverty and homelessness. In this timely book, the authors look at three homeless shelters that take more or less intensive approaches to faith, community, and programming. In one shelter, for instance, residents are required to do a program of classes that includes group Bible study, worship, and self-evaluation. The other two examined are significantly less faith-based, but in different ways and with different structures. The authors show how the three shelters tackle homelessness differently, drawing on narrative biographical interviews and case studies with residents, interviews with staff, and case study research of the three shelters. Entering into significant debates in social theory over religion, agency, cognitive action, and culture, this book is important reading for scholars and students in religious studies, sociology and social work.

Understanding Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309165865
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Understanding Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life by : National Research Council

Download or read book Understanding Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-09-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the population of older Americans grows, it is becoming more racially and ethnically diverse. Differences in health by racial and ethnic status could be increasingly consequential for health policy and programs. Such differences are not simply a matter of education or ability to pay for health care. For instance, Asian Americans and Hispanics appear to be in better health, on a number of indicators, than White Americans, despite, on average, lower socioeconomic status. The reasons are complex, including possible roles for such factors as selective migration, risk behaviors, exposure to various stressors, patient attitudes, and geographic variation in health care. This volume, produced by a multidisciplinary panel, considers such possible explanations for racial and ethnic health differentials within an integrated framework. It provides a concise summary of available research and lays out a research agenda to address the many uncertainties in current knowledge. It recommends, for instance, looking at health differentials across the life course and deciphering the links between factors presumably producing differentials and biopsychosocial mechanisms that lead to impaired health.

Phylogenies in Ecology

Author : Marc W. Cadotte
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400881196
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Phylogenies in Ecology written by Marc W. Cadotte and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phylogenies in Ecology is the first book to critically review the application of phylogenetic methods in ecology, and it serves as a primer to working ecologists and students of ecology wishing to understand these methods. This book demonstrates how phylogenetic information is transforming ecology by offering fresh ways to estimate the similarities and differences among species, and by providing deeper, evolutionary-based insights on species distributions, coexistence, and niche partitioning. Marc Cadotte and Jonathan Davies examine this emerging area's explosive growth, allowing for this new body of hypotheses testing. Cadotte and Davies systematically look at all the main areas of current ecophylogenetic methodology, testing, and inference. Each chapter of their book covers a unique topic, emphasizes key assumptions, and introduces the appropriate statistical methods and null models required for testing phylogenetically informed hypotheses. The applications presented throughout are supported and connected by examples relying on real-world data that have been analyzed using the open-source programming language, R. Showing how phylogenetic methods are shedding light on fundamental ecological questions related to species coexistence, conservation, and global change, Phylogenies in Ecology will interest anyone who thinks that evolution might be important in their data.

Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309092116
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-10-16 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their later years, Americans of different racial and ethnic backgrounds are not in equally good-or equally poor-health. There is wide variation, but on average older Whites are healthier than older Blacks and tend to outlive them. But Whites tend to be in poorer health than Hispanics and Asian Americans. This volume documents the differentials and considers possible explanations. Selection processes play a role: selective migration, for instance, or selective survival to advanced ages. Health differentials originate early in life, possibly even before birth, and are affected by events and experiences throughout the life course. Differences in socioeconomic status, risk behavior, social relations, and health care all play a role. Separate chapters consider the contribution of such factors and the biopsychosocial mechanisms that link them to health. This volume provides the empirical evidence for the research agenda provided in the separate report of the Panel on Race, Ethnicity, and Health in Later Life.

Feasibility Report and Environmental Impact Statement

Author : United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1692 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feasibility Report and Environmental Impact Statement written by United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 1692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contrasts and contests about philosophy

Author : Mogobe Ramose
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315404729
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Contrasts and contests about philosophy written by Mogobe Ramose and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sheer variety of socio-political events and technological advancements which affect modern society, and the speed and intensity at which these events occur around the world, delivers change known as epistemic and social transformation. Within this context, the question of justice for all is a poignant one. It is a cognitive revolution challenging humankind to consider whether or not the already contested meaning of philosophy can remain unchanged. The contributions to Contrasts and contests about philosophy address this challenge from a variety of different, and even contending, perspectives. This book was originally published as a special issue of the South African Journal of Philosophy.

Mexican Americans and the Environment

Author : Devon G. Peña
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816550824
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Mexican Americans and the Environment written by Devon G. Peña and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexican Americans have traditionally had a strong land ethic, believing that humans must respect la tierra because it is the source of la vida. As modern market forces exploit the earth, communities struggle to control their own ecological futures, and several studies have recorded that Mexican Americans are more impacted by environmental injustices than are other national-origin groups. In our countryside, agricultural workers are poisoned by pesticides, while farmers have lost ancestral lands to expropriation. And in our polluted inner cities, toxic wastes sicken children in their very playgrounds and homes. This book addresses the struggle for environmental justice, grassroots democracy, and a sustainable society from a variety of Mexican American perspectives. It draws on the ideas and experiences of people from all walks of life—activists, farmworkers, union organizers, land managers, educators, and many others—who provide a clear overview of the most critical ecological issues facing Mexican-origin people today. The text is organized to first provide a general introduction to ecology, from both scientific and political perspectives. It then presents an environmental history for Mexican-origin people on both sides of the border, showing that the ecologically sustainable Norteño land use practices were eroded by the conquest of El Norte by the United States. It finally offers a critique of the principal schools of American environmentalism and introduces the organizations and struggles of Mexican Americans in contemporary ecological politics. Devon Peña contrasts tenets of radical environmentalism with the ecological beliefs and grassroots struggles of Mexican-origin people, then shows how contemporary environmental justice struggles in Mexican American communities have challenged dominant concepts of environmentalism. Mexican Americans and the Environment is a didactically sound text that introduces students to the conceptual vocabularies of ecology, culture, history, and politics as it tells how competing ideas about nature have helped shape land use and environmental policies. By demonstrating that any consideration of environmental ethics is incomplete without taking into account the experiences of Mexican Americans, it clearly shows students that ecology is more than nature study but embraces social issues of critical importance to their own lives.

Contrasts in Criminal Justice: Getting from Here to There

Author : David Nelken
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351759086
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Book Synopsis Contrasts in Criminal Justice: Getting from Here to There by : David Nelken

Download or read book Contrasts in Criminal Justice: Getting from Here to There written by David Nelken and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000: This text tackles the issues raised by comparative research into criminal justice on other cultures. How far does criminal justice reflect general culture? Can collaborative research overcome the problem of translating incommensurable concepts? What are the possibilities for "virtual comparisons"? How do we tell difference? The authors, drawn from a range of countries, offer reflections on international differences in the process of trial and punishment.

The Ethic of Traditional Communities and the Spirit of Healing Justice

Author : Jarem Sawatsky
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1846428912
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book The Ethic of Traditional Communities and the Spirit of Healing Justice written by Jarem Sawatsky and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is healing justice? Who practices it? What does it look like? In this groundbreaking international comparative study on healing justice, Jarem Sawatsky examines traditional communities including Hollow Water - an Aboriginal and Métis community in Canada renowned for their holistic healing work in the face of 80 per cent sexual abuse rates; the Iona Community - a dispersed Christian ecumenical community in Scotland known for their work towards peace, healing and social justice, rebuilding of community and the renewal of worship; and Plum Village - a Vietnamese initiated Buddhist community in southern France, and home to Nobel Peace Prize nominated author, Thich Nhat Hanh. These case studies record a search for the kind of social, structural, and spiritual relationships necessary to sustain a healing view of justice. Through comparing cases, Sawatsky identifies the common patterns, themes, and imagination which these communities share. These commonalities among those that practice healing justice are then examined for their implications for wider society, particularly for restorative justice and criminal justice. This innovative book is accessible to those new to the topic, while at the same time being beneficial to experienced researchers, and will appeal internationally to practitioners, students, and anyone interested in restorative justice, law, peace building, and religious studies.

Man of Contrasts

Author : Hee Il Cho
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780865680395
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Man of Contrasts written by Hee Il Cho and published by . This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on the vast knowledge and skill of one of the foremost tae kwon do masters in the world. Hee Il Cho presents step-by-step instructions with illustrations of fighting techniques, counterattacks, bag and target training, hand-conditioning exercises and other exercises, including breaking techniques.

Understanding Community

Author : Peter Somerville
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1847423922
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Community written by Peter Somerville and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding community is a highly topical text offering a clear understanding of policy and theory in relation to community. By examining areas of government policy, such as economic development, education, health, housing, and community safety, this book explores the difficulties that communities face and discusses new concepts such as community cohesion, social capital and community capacity building. Somerville challenges our understanding of community, both social and conceptual, and assesses the strengths and limitations of this understanding. This book is essential for students studying social policy, social work and sociology, and an invaluable resource for policymakers in community development, urban regeneration and allied fields.

Christian Liberal Arts

Author : V. James Mannoia
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847699599
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Christian Liberal Arts written by V. James Mannoia and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Liberal Arts articulates the practical, pedagogical, and theological reasons why Christian liberal arts colleges are distinctive in the world of American higher education. Mannoia enumerates the intrinsic and instrumental values of Christian liberal arts, and how both should forcefully shape an institution's goals. He suggests that Christian colleges should strive to help their students go beyond the extremes of dogmatism and skepticism to achieve critical commitment. Colleges must also aid their students to adjust to real world problems without sacrificing academic quality. Mannoia believes that the solution to this challenge must inevitably integrate multiple disciplines, values and learning, and theory with practice, a process from which both faculty and graduates will acquire the capacity to resolve the thorniest dilemmas facing society and the Christian community.

Breaking the Boundaries

Author : Euan Reid
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 9781853591334
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book Breaking the Boundaries written by Euan Reid and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 1992 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a comparative analysis of 15 projects on the education of children of migrant workers in 10 European Community countries, this book provides descriptions of advanced practice, problems encountered and solutions found. The results are summarized under such headings as equality of opportunity, education for bilingualism, intercultural education and anti-racist approaches.

Adolescent Boys in High School

Author : James G. Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351865374
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Adolescent Boys in High School written by James G. Kelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1979, the research reported in this volume is based on investigations of how tenth-grade boys cope and adapt to the high-school environment in, specifically, two high schools in suburban Detroit in 1970. In addition to information about the ways that students relate to the high school environment, this volume presents examples of how multiple research methods can be used to investigate the expression of complex person and environment relationships. This volume has been prepared to illustrate the application of an ecological point of view for research on person-environment relationships. It was hoped that the community psychologist, social psychologist, and school psychologist interested in doing research with adolescents and the high school environment would find the presentation of research methods informative and encouraging. For those readers involved in teaching and administering in secondary education, the volume was an example of how research can illustrate the ongoing personal and social characteristics of students and the high school environment.

Mark

Author : Leonard Doohan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725237385
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Mark written by Leonard Doohan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark is one of the most daring figures of the early church, but at the same time he is not easily labeled. He is the first to assemble the oral traditions about Jesus, thereby showing his fidelity and devotion to the past. But he is equally forceful in challenging his own church's accumulated traditions, especially those he does not see as authentically representative of the events of Jesus's life and ministry. He respectfully documents the authority of church leaders, and still feels free to challenge them. At times, it is difficult to know what to make of Mark. One point is clear: no Christian of any time can read this gospel without being challenged by it.

A Community Reinforcement Approach to Addiction Treatment

Author : Robert J. Meyers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316583996
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book A Community Reinforcement Approach to Addiction Treatment written by Robert J. Meyers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-23 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The community reinforcement approach (CRA) to treating alcohol and other drug problems is designed to make changes in the client's daily environment, to reduce substance abuse and promote a healthier lifestyle. It is of proven effectiveness, and should be more widely used. This 2001 book presents research on the effectiveness of the CRA for a clinical readership. It includes the original study comparing CRA with traditional treatments of alcohol dependence, and summarizes other trials with alcohol, cocaine and heroin users. The CRA program provides basic guidelines for clinicians, focusing on communication skills, problem-solving and drink-refusal strategies, and addresses the needs of the client as part of a social community. Combining practical advice on such matters with a scientific survey of CRA in use, this book offers a treatment approach to all involved with the support and treatment of those with alcohol and drug problems.