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“janet bauer”

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  • Not by Faith Alone

    Social Services, Social Justice, and Faith-Based Organizations in the United States

    by Janet Bauer, Janet G. Brashler, Andrea Chivakos, Scott T. Fitzgerald, William Garriott, Lance D. Laird, Katherine Lambert-Pennington, Isaac Morrison, Leah Mundell, Julie Pfromm, Laura Polk, Timoteo Rodriguez, Jo Anne Schneider, Ethan P. Sharp, Wendy Cadge ...
    This edited collection provides an in-depth ethnographic study of faith-based development organizations in the United States, shining a much needed critical light onto these organizations and their role in the United States by exploring the varied ways that faith-based organizations attempt to mend the fissures and mitigate the effects of neoliberal capitalism, poverty, and the social service ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Confronting Urban Legacy

    Rediscovering Hartford and New England's Forgotten Cities

    by James R. Gomes, Ezra Moser, Michael Sacks, Jack Dougherty, Lyle Wray, Louise Simmons, Tom Condon, John Shemo, Andrew Walsh, Janet Bauer, Clyde McKee, Llana Barber, Jason Rojas ...
    Confronting Urban Legacy fills a critical lacuna in urban scholarship. As almost all of the literature focuses on global cities and megacities, smaller, secondary cities, which actually hold the majority of the world’s population, are either critically misunderstood or unexamined in their entirety. This neglect not only biases scholars’ understanding of social and spatial dynamics toward very ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Q & Eh

    Questions and Answers On Language With a Kiwi Twist

    by Dianne Bardsley, Janet Holmes, Laurie Bauer, Paul Warren ...
    Fascinating answers to quirky questions about language Why is it not wrong to be doubly negative? Where do you place the stress in such words as 'dissect'? Where do 'wowser', 'craw thumper' and the 'f-word' come from? Do New Zealanders mangle the English language? Should we say different 'from' or 'to' or 'than'? We use it every day, but what is this thing called language, and are there rights ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • New Directions in Museum Ethics

    Edited by Janet Marstine, Alexander Bauer, Chelsea Haines ...
    This book considers key ethical questions in museum policy and practice, particularly those related to issues of collection and display. What does a collection signify in the twenty-first century museum? How does an engagement with immateriality challenge museums’ concept of ownership, and how does that immateriality translate into the design of exhibitions and museum space? Are museums still ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

    by Lawrence Wright ...
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  • Detroit

    An American Autopsy

    by Charlie LeDuff ...
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  • Museums Matter

    In Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum

    by James Cuno ...
    Series series Campbell Lectures
    The concept of an encyclopedic museum was born of the Enlightenment, a manifestation of society’s growing belief that the spread of knowledge and the promotion of intellectual inquiry were crucial to human development and the future of a rational society. But in recent years, museums have been under attack, with critics arguing that they are little more than relics and promoters of imperialism. ... Read more

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  • Museums in a Troubled World

    Renewal, Irrelevance or Collapse?

    by Robert R. Janes ...
    Series series Museum Meanings
    Are Museums Irrelevant?Museums are rarely acknowledged in the global discussion of climate change, environmental degradation, the inevitability of depleted fossil fuels, and the myriad local issues concerning the well-being of particular communities – suggesting the irrelevance of museums as social institutions. At the same time, there is a growing preoccupation among museums with the marketplace, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • London

    A History

    by A.N. Wilson ...
    Series Book 18 - Modern Library Chronicles
    In its two thousand years of history, London has ruled a rainy island and a globe-spanning empire, it has endured plague and fire and bombing, it has nurtured and destroyed poets and kings, revolutionaries and financiers, geniuses and visionaries of every stripe. To distill the magic and the majesty of this infinitely enthralling city into a single brief volume would seem an impossible task–yet ... Read more

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  • Introducing Second Language Acquisition

    by Muriel Saville-Troike, Karen Barto ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Language and Linguistics
    Providing a solid foundation in second language acquisition, this book has become the leading introduction to the subject for students of linguistics, psychology and education, and trainee language teachers. Now in its third edition, the textbook offers comprehensive coverage of fundamental concepts, including second language acquisition (SLA) in adults and children, in formal and informal ... Read more

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  • Civilizing Rituals

    Inside Public Art Museums

    by Carol Duncan ...
    Illustrated with over fifty photos, Civilizing Rituals merges contemporary debates with lively discussion and explores central issues involved in the making and displaying of art as industry and how it is presented to the community.Carol Duncan looks at how nations, institutions and private individuals present art , and how art museums are shaped by cultural, social and political determinants ... Read more

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  • Faith No More

    Why People Reject Religion

    by Phil Zuckerman ...
    During his 2009 inaugural speech, President Obama described the United States as a nation of "Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus--and nonbelievers." It was the first time an American president had acknowledged the existence of this rapidly growing segment of the population in such a public forum. And yet the reasons why more and more people are turning away from religion are still poorly ... Read more

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