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Kategorier: Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Högre utbildning och vidareutbildning Karriär och framgång Lärarutbildning Pedagogik Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Självhjälp och praktiska råd Studievägledning och yrkesorientering
From the esteemed President of Hampton University, an insider account that reveals the secret to HBCU graduates’ remarkable success—a distinguished honor roll which includes Vice President Kamala Harris, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Oprah Winfrey, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Ruth…
COMMUNITY är en stor dikt eller kollagetext med flera inblandade genrer, till övervägande delen dock POESI och LYRISK DRAMATIK. Somliga diktdelar är sedan tidigare publicerade i annan form och somliga pjäser har för länge sedan satts upp, och nyligen omarbetats för läsning. Nu har tjugofem års skrivarbete resulterat i…
Current church planting, growth, and development strategies cannot be sustained.We need to work smarter in our rapidly changing world.We must become disruptive.
And yet we typically hesitate to embrace change. We like our traditions. We prefer our familiar patterns and comfortable ruts.
Still, America has dramatically…
The study of religion, traditionally sponsored by sectarian institutions, has within recent decades come to claim an increasingly larger share of attention in colleges and universities generally, and in the process the constituent intellectual disciplines have undergone significant changes. In this volume, twelve…
In recent years, a sense of community has declined throughout the United States. This trend is especially evident among younger generations, whether measured by civic participation, political involvement, or religious affiliation. Central Community Church—an intercultural congregation located in Tampa Bay’s urban…
Kategorier: Etnicitet Etniska minoriteter och mångkultur Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria Ursprungsbefolkningar
Shamanism is a spiritual path that emphasizes close connections with the immediate environment. As environments change, so too must shamanism change, but how can one distinguish between healthy innovation and corruptions of tradition? Coyote’s Council Fire focuses on these and other controversial issues that have…
Prisoners of war (POWs) are an extraordinary group of wartime
migrants, in the sense that they are defined as enemies of the
community. Even so, archival evidence from the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries includes striking accounts of POWs who settled
permanently in communities where they were held captive.
I Want…
With obesity at an – all time high pavements are vanishing from our towns and cities pedestrians and cyclists are at risk along many thoroughfares and a fuel crisis is looming on the horizon we need to re-evaluate personal and social walking values. This thought-provoking book calls for the restoration of a…
In 1847, Mother St. John Fournier, a nun who had been trained to teach the deaf, was given a position in a Philadelphia parish. Thus began well over a century and a half of ministry to the deaf.
Written by Father Anthony Russo, who has devoted himself to the deaf community for over forty years, IN SILENT PRAYER traces…
Kategorier: Arbetsmarknadsekonomi Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Ekonomiska system och strukturer Nationalekonomi Politisk ekonomi
Today’s flexible Western labour markets place new demands on the workforce. Whereas industrial society fostered individuals who found dignity in performing long-term, manual labour, few people can now expect to go through working life without engaging in continuous updating of knowledges and skills. However,…
The never-before-told story of the friendship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh-icons who changed each other and the world
The day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, Thich Nhat Hanh wrote a heartbroken letter to their mutual friend Raphael Gould. He said: ”I did not sleep…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Socialt arbete Socialtjänst och social omsorg Socialtjänst, välfärd och kriminologi
Allan Creighton and Paul Kivel, veteran youth educators and community activists, have revised their classic book on violence prevention for today’s youth. Updating the tools and discussions in the book, the authors maintain the positive message of their successful first edition. They also include detailed suggestions…
College ghosts are a little like college mascots – just about every school has one and they add a dash of spice to the college experience. Drawn from across North America, coast to coast, here’s a directory of ghosts, spirits, specters, and apparitions who haunt educational institutions from small community colleges to…
Kategorier: Åldersgrupper och generationer Åldersgrupper: ungdomar Kulturvetenskap och medievetenskap Medievetenskap Medievetenskap: internet, digitala medier och samhälle Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper
During the 2010s, a myriad of safe spaces has emerged across social media platform, particularly in a Sweden context. Due to their explicit focus on social injustices and marginalized identities, these spaces have occupied a contentious position in political debates about anti-racism and identity politics. This…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
What does the implementation of sustainability standards and CSR practices do to power relationships at the local level?
In this study I take an autoethnographic approach and focus on my previous employer, the oil company Bankers Petroleum Ltd (Bankers) and their operations in Patos-Marinza, an area in south-central…
This historical ecological research provides a detailed insight into the risk avoidance and resilience building strategies in the Lake Baringo basin in Kenya through the lens of archaeology. It explores how changes in subsistence, habitation, and landscape shaped each other and how that affected the available…
Kategorier: Antropologi Kulturantropologi och socialantropologi Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociologi och antropologi
Föreliggande avhandling är en etnografisk studie av Erasmusprogrammet, den Europeiska
unionens studentutbytesprogram. Det här programmet har de senaste tre decennierna resulterat
i ett sort utbyte av idéer och människor inom den Europeiska unionen och radikalt förändrat
både förutsättningarna för och utseendet på…
This is a dissertation about emotions in Social Science teaching. As such it offers a perspective on Social Science didactics that until now has been largely neglected. Some of the most pressing concerns of our time, not least crises related to migration, the welfare state, international law and terrorism, are…
Kategorier: Geovetenskap, geografi, miljö och samhällsplanering Internationella relationer Miljön Miljöpolitik och miljöpolicy Normer och attityder Politik och statsskick Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala och etiska frågor
Why do some proposed norms become accepted by the international community while others do not? This thesis investigates this central question using two normatively charged international issues – disaster risk reduction and climate-induced migration – as vehicles for
explanation.
While climate-induced migration…
Kategorier: Fotografi Genusvetenskap Genusvetenskap: transpersoner, transsexuella och intersexuella Konst Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper
This book constitutes a series of entrances into an artistic research project exploring how queer community may emerge through photographic acts. Conducted through two artworks depicting queer lives in Russia State of Mind and At the Time of the Third Reading the research looks at possibilities to acknowledge…
Kategorier: Etnicitet Etniska minoriteter och mångkultur Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper
In 1976 there were approximately 1,000 Iranian citizens in Sweden. Today over 80,000 individuals in Sweden are first or second generation Iranians – the second largest non-European community in the country, The anthology presents a number of indepth studies on the relations between the Iranian community and the…
A community at the frontiers, Iron Age and Medieval
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
This book is a part of SFQs ongoing work towards intersectionality and inclusiveness. It is even a protest against the growing right-wing extremism and racism in Sweden. This research used in-depth qualitative interviews with students to present a deeper intersectional understanding of how homophobia, transphobia,…
Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Diktsamlingar (poesi) Modern och samtida skönlitteratur Poesi Skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur: allmänt
COMMUNITY är ett lapptäcke av svårsammanfogade röster redovisade i verser, kortprosa och dramatik. Det stötande och det fina går hand i hand med kollektivitet och självhävdelse. Det vackra är målet. Olika sorters sociala forum får låna form och metod till detta projekt, allt för att hitta nya sätt att leva med sorg,…
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Kategorier: Brottslighet och kriminologi Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Socialtjänst, välfärd och kriminologi
This thesis explores the connection between neighborhoods and crime from a perspective of both opportunity theories and social disorganization theory. It consists of four papers primarily connected to two research questions with corresponding methods- and results sections.
First, it considers how a neighborhood should…
Deals with the EC rules on the free movement of capital and economic and monetary union (EMU). Performs a critical analysis supported by caselaw of the problems connected with the abolition of capital controls within the European Community. Behandlar EU-lagstiftningen kring fria kapitalrörelser och EMU.