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| Author | : Lisbeth Schorr |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 513 |
| Release | : 2011-04-27 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0307788032 |
In her previous book, Within Our Reach, renowned Harvard social analyst Lisbeth Schorr examined pilot social programs that were successful in helping disadvantaged youth and families. But as those cutting-edge programs were expanded, the very qualities that had made them initially successful were jettisoned, and less than half of them ultimately survived. As a result, these groundbreaking programs never made a dent on the national or statewide level. Lisbeth Schorr has spent the past seven years researching and identifying large-scale programs across the country that are promising to reduce, on a community- or citywide level, child abuse, school failure, teenage pregnancy, and welfare dependence. From reformed social service agencies in Missouri, Michigan, and Los Angeles to "idiosyncratic" public schools in New York City, she shows how private and public bureaucracies are successfully nurturing programs that are flexible and responsive to the community, that have set clear, long-term goals, and that permit staff to exercise individual judgment in helping the disadvantaged. She shows how what works in small-scale pilot social programs can be adapted on a large scale to transform whole inner-city neighborhoods and reshape America. On the heels of the federal government's dismantling of welfare guarantees, Common Purpose offers a welcome antidote to our current sense of national despair, and concrete proof that America's social institutions can be made to work to assure that all the nation's children develop the tools to share in the American dream.
| Author | : Justin Whitmel Earley |
| Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2023-03-14 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1514006936 |
Habits form us more than we form them. Though we yearn for the freedom of the gospel, we remain anxious people shackled by our screens and exhausted by our routines. The answer is a rule of life that aligns our habits with our beliefs. Justin Earley provides doable, life-giving practices to find freedom and rest for your soul.
| Author | : Gill Robinson Hickman |
| Publisher | : SAGE Publications |
| Total Pages | : 121 |
| Release | : 2013-02-27 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1483314227 |
A powerful force draws people to leadership in countless businesses, nonprofits, government agencies, and social movements—we call it invisible leadership. Invisible leadership embodies situations in which dedication to a compelling and deeply held common purpose is the motivating force for leadership. Common purpose is more than a mission statement. It is a profound sense of common destiny, a life course or calling, aligned with a mission that resonates profoundly with our values and our sense of ourselves and others. This readable, research-based book shows readers how invisible leadership exists in the space between leaders and followers, artists and subjects, and purposes and people. Rather than reinforcing the idea that leadership is embodied in celebrity leaders or in gifted and charismatic individuals, the well known and highly admired authors of this insightful new book identify "charisma of purpose" as the motivating force for invisible leadership. A brief discussion of how invisible leadership impacts businesses, nonprofits, government agencies, and social movements guides the reader toward an understanding of the antecedents and possibilities of this way of thinking.
| Author | : Peter Levine |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2013-11 |
| Genre | : POLITICAL SCIENCE |
| ISBN | : 019993942X |
"In September 2011, two leading civic engagement advocacy organizations headed, respectively, by Robert Putnam and Peter Levine released a joint report showing that a region's level of civic engagement was a strong predictor of its ability to recover from the Great Recession. This finding confirms what advocates of civic engagement have long hypothesized: that strengthening the networks between government and civil society and increasing citizen participation results in better government and better community outcomes. However, citizens concerned about the economic crisis need more than just deliberation or community organizing alone to achieve these outcomes. What they need, according to Peter Levine, is a movement devoted to civic renewal. Deliberative democracy-the idea that true democratic legitimacy derives from open, inclusive discussion and dialogue rather than simple voting-has become an extremely influential concept in the last two decades. In We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For, Peter Levine contends that effective deliberative democracy depends upon effective community advocacy. Deliberation, he shows, is most valuable when talk and debate are integrated into a community's everyday life. To illustrate how it works, Levine draws lessons from both community organizing and developmental psychology, and uses examples of successful efforts from communities across America as well as fledgling democracies in Africa and Eastern Europe. By engaging in this type of civic work, American citizens can meaningfully contribute to civic renewal, which, in turn, will address serious social problems that cannot be fixed in any other way"--
| Author | : Al Gore |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2013-09-13 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1134038453 |
Al Gore leads the charge against climate change, the world's greatest threat, in an incendiary new foreword to this timeless classic that launched his environmental career. If you want to know Gore, you need this book!
| Author | : Simon Martin |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 543 |
| Release | : 2020-06-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108483887 |
With new readings of ancient texts, Ancient Maya Politics unlocks the long-enigmatic political system of the Classic Maya.
| Author | : James Fallows |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 2018-05-08 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 1101871857 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "James and Deborah Fallows have always moved to where history is being made.... They have an excellent sense of where world-shaping events are taking place at any moment" —The New York Times • The basis for the HBO documentary streaming on HBO Max For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems—from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge—but it is also crafting solutions, with a practical-minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics. At times of dysfunction on a national level, reform possibilities have often arisen from the local level. The Fallowses describe America in the middle of one of these creative waves. Their view of the country is as complex and contradictory as America itself, but it also reflects the energy, the generosity and compassion, the dreams, and the determination of many who are in the midst of making things better. Our Towns is the story of their journey—and an account of a country busy remaking itself.
| Author | : Andrea Durbach |
| Publisher | : Burns & Oates |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2002-10-16 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
It is the twenty-second year of Nelson Mandela's imprisonment and a country is gripped with civil unrest. In the small, conservative town of Upington, in South Africa's Northern Cape, a black policeman is beaten to death and his body burned during a riot. Twenty-five black citizens, from teenage boys to an elderly couple, are all accused of the same crime: the murder of Lucas Sethwala, with a common purpose. After a two-year trial, the 'Upington 25' are convicted of his murder; and a year later, fourteen of them are sentenced to death.Andrea Durbach and the other members of the legal team took on the case after the twenty-five were convicted of murder. Their challenge was to persuade the Upington Supreme Court not to impose mandatory death sentences - without having been lawyers to the accused during the initial trial. They had only a matter of weeks to sort through thousands of court documents, to get to know each of the accused and, after the death sentences had been handed down, to mount an effective appeal.'A Common Purpose' tells the remarkable story of the accused, and also the story of the young white woman who became their lawyer. It tells of a country undergoing vast change and the painful process of reconciliation with a savage past. It unravels a trial of personal and political complexity that ends in the assassination of one of the defense lawyers and the eventual exile of another to Australia. And it conveys the horror and inhumanity of life on Death Row.
| Author | : Daniel H. Pink |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2011-04-05 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1101524383 |
The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motivation from the author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does—and how that affects every aspect of life. He examines the three elements of true motivation—autonomy, mastery, and purpose-and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action in a unique book that will change how we think and transform how we live.
| Author | : Danielle Allen |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2014-06-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0871408139 |
“A tour de force.... No one has ever written a book on the Declaration quite like this one.” —Gordon Wood, New York Review of Books Winner of the Zócalo Book Prize Winner of the Society of American Historians’ Francis Parkman Prize Winner of the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize (Nonfiction) Finalist for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Hurston Wright Legacy Award Shortlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Award A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Selection Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. Combining a personal account of teaching the Declaration with a vivid evocation of the colonial world between 1774 and 1777, Allen, a political philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship reveals our nation’s founding text to be an animating force that not only changed the world more than two-hundred years ago, but also still can. Challenging conventional wisdom, she boldly makes the case that the Declaration is a document as much about political equality as about individual liberty. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Our Declaration is an “uncommonly elegant, incisive, and often poetic primer on America’s cardinal text” (David M. Kennedy).
