David G: 660 books
Cultivating Food Justice
Race, Class, and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives.
Popularized by such best-selling authors as Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Eric Schlosser, a growing food movement...
by Jonathan David Mr. Ostry, Andrew Mr. Berg, Charalambos G. Mr. Tsangarides
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
The Fund has recognized in recent years that one cannot separate issues of economic growth and stability on one hand and equality on the other. Indeed, there is a strong case for considering inequality and an inability to sustain economic growth as two sides of the same coin. Central to the Funds...
Internal Displacement
Conceptualization and its Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This new volume traces the normative, legal, institutional, and political responses to the challenges of assisting and protecting internally displaced persons (IDPs).
The crisis of IDPs was first confronted in the 1980s, and the problems of those suffering from this type of forced migration...
by David S.G. Carter, Thomas E. Glass, Shirley M. Hord
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Growing discontent with the performance of educational institutions is common in the USA today and little is being done to address the real problem - that of the need to reform and restructure the entire educational system. A key issue in this reform is the training and development of leaders in educational...
by Elie G. Haddad, David Rifkind
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
1960, following as it did the last CIAM meeting, signalled a turning point for the Modern Movement. From then on, architecture was influenced by seminal texts by Aldo Rossi and Robert Venturi, and gave rise to the first revisionary movement following Modernism. Bringing together leading experts in...
Saying No to Say Yes
Everyday Boundaries and Pastoral Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
This book explores the difficulties clergy face when they attempt to say “no” by setting effective boundaries in order to say “yes” to the life-giving call of ministry. It illustrates the benefits of good boundaries, even as it traces the legacy of denominational boundary trainings in the...
Offending from Childhood to Young Adulthood
Recent Results from the Pittsburgh Youth Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
This Brief examines criminal careers by providing the most extensive and comprehensive investigation to date on the official offending, self-reported offending, and trajectories of offending of the Pittsburgh Youth Study (PYS) participants. The PYS is a longitudinal study, which was initiated in...
The Bullseye Principle
Mastering Intention-Based Communication to Collaborate, Execute, and Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Critical communication lessons for sustained corporate success
The Bullseye Principle is the definitive how-to guide for communicating, collaborating, and executing as a leader in the corporate arena. With these “soft skills” trending above technical knowledge in executive wish lists, this...
America's Healthcare Transformation
Strategies and Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
A revolution in American medicine is in full swing, with the race from fee-for-service to fee-for-value at the front line in an epic battle that will transform healthcare delivery for decades to come. In America’s Healthcare Transformation, eminent physician leader Robert A. Phillips brings together...
Rereading Women in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Political Economy of Gender
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2002
This indispensable text reader provides a broad-ranging and thoughtfully organized feminist introduction to the ongoing controversies of development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Designed for use in a variety of college courses, the volume collects an influential group of essays first published...
by Edward G. Rogoff, David L. Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
For those setting out on a postretirement career as well as those choosing self-employment after job loss, this guide provides targeted information for the legal, financial, administrative, technological, psychological, and family concerns specific to entrepreneurship after the age of 50. With an...
Taking Chances
The Coast after Hurricane Sandy
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Humanity is deeply committed to living along the world’s shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandy—which took hundreds of lives and caused many billions of dollars in damages—shines a bright light at how costly and vulnerable life on a shoreline can be. Taking Chances offers a wide-ranging...
by Kristin L. Norman, Timothy G. Huguenin, Clayton Webb
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Some pursue heroism, others are thrust into it.
Superheroes. They live among us, some hidden in plain sight, others as well-known celebrities. All carry a burden and a purpose: to destroy the evils of this world and keep the common man safe from harm.
But evil is a strong thread that...
Open Mic
Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Using humor as the common denominator, a multicultural cast of YA authors steps up to the mic to share stories touching on race.
Listen in as ten YA authors — some familiar, some new — use their own brand of humor to share their stories about growing up between cultures. Henry Choi Lee...