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Yoga For Freedom

How twenty yoga students from America traveled to Nepal to raise awareness about child slavery and came home forever changed

by John Vourlis
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015

What happens when you take a group of yoga students and teachers from the US half-way around the world to Nepal to experience the beauty of that amazing country and to raise awareness about the awful practice of child slavery in that part of the world? Author John P. Vourlis answers this and...
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Meeting in the Margins

An Invitation to Encounter Society's Invisible People

by Cynthia Trenshaw
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015

Hired a publicist 2. Press kit that will be posted on author's website and sent out to media will be created. 3. Review copies and a press kit will be sent to Whidbey News Times. Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle, National Coalition for the Homeless, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Sacramento...
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by Robert J. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017

Can a single act of love have global impact? Robert Benson's answer is "yes." In 1968, his life was changed when an ordinary couple took him home from a children's shelter in California. Over the next fifty years, the reverberations reached around the world and changed hundreds more, as Robert sought...
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The Chinese Connection

South of the Clouds

by Peggy Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017

After being told, “You’re stupid and incapable of achieving anything,” by her ex-husband, Peggy decided she would do something different. “But what?” she asked herself and set off for the public library where she searched all the agencies and charities who were looking for volunteers....
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by Serge Proulx, Stéphane Couture
Language: French
Release Date: April 22, 2011

En situant les activités communautaires dans le contexte d'émergence des médias numériques, les auteurs proposent quatre analyses de collectifs communautaires concernés par ces transformations et examinent la possibilité d'un renouvellement des activités communautaires à l'aune du numérique....

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9000 Km e Hakuna Matata

by Silvia Corio
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 3, 2017

Un treno, un computer, una destinazione incerta, ma nella testa un sogno improvviso, la voglia di iniziare a scrivere e di visitare un paese sconosciuto. L'Africa. Il bisogno di partire, di cambiare, di conoscere, di scoprire, di mettersi alla prova, di sentire, di staccare la spina, di allontanarsi...
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A arte de pertencer

os invisíveis do nosso século

by Fernando Moraes
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: January 19, 2015

" O grande problema é que, quando transformamos esse próximo em um outro distante, em um estranho, substituímos a responsabilidade pelo ressentimento, e assim passamos a suportar a situação, sem nos sentirmos moralmente atingidos ou imorais." A luta contra a miséria e o discurso sobre...
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by Christopher McCreery
Language: French
Release Date: March 3, 2010

En tant que fondation de l’Ordre de Saint-Jean, Ambulance Saint-Jean assure la prestation de cours de secourisme au Canada depuis maintenant 125 ans. De l’aide apportée sur les chantiers ferroviaires de la Belle Époque et dans les hôpitaux militaires de la Première Guerre mondiale aux programmes...
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Per carità e per giustizia

Il welfare delle parrocchie

by Pierluigi Dovis
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 17, 2017

Il welfare ecclesiale tra delega e responsabilità. Questo è il tema che attraversa il libro di Pierluigi Dovis, una rassegna documentata sull’evoluzione della povertà che – a seguito della crisi, e più in generale della carenza di adeguate politiche di intervento – continua a interessare...
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by Benedetto Saraceno, Marzia Ravazzini
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 2, 2011

Metropoli: spazi in cui trovarsi, accogliere, proteggere, allargare lo sguardo; spazi che spesso finiscono per allontanare, sviluppare tensioni, emarginazione e paura.Nelle città sconfinate, sovraffollamenti e solitudini desertiche, promiscuità e isolamento rischiano di connotare negativamente il...
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