Author: Telluride AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Telluride Association and Deepsprings
Author: Telluride AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Telluride Association and Deep Springs
Author: Telluride AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Telluride Association and Deep Springs Work
Author: Telluride AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
Telluride Association and Deep Springs Pamphlets
Author: Deep Springs SchoolDsc100
Author: David J. B. WellePublisher:
ISBN: 9780998955711
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Commemorating the centennial of the smallest and most unusual college in the United States, this collection of essays, oral histories, archival documents and lavish photos spans 100 years of education history in the California desert. Book is a boxed set of six themed folios (Academics, Community, Dialectic, Labor, Self-Government, Voice of the Desert) with a separate Timeline poster, and includes a detailed map of Deep Springs Valley. Editors: James Gibbs, David Welle, Kevin West. 310 pages.
Battling the Buddha of Love
Author: Jessica Marie FalconePublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501723499
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
Battling the Buddha of Love is a work of advocacy anthropology that explores the controversial plans and practices of the Maitreya Project, a transnational Buddhist organization, as it sought to build the "world's tallest statue" as a multi-million-dollar "gift" to India. Hoping to forcibly acquire 750 acres of occupied land for the statue park in the Kushinagar area of Uttar Pradesh, the Buddhist statue planners ran into obstacle after obstacle, including a full-scale grassroots resistance movement of Indian farmers working to "Save the Land." Falcone sheds light on the aspirations, values, and practices of both the Buddhists who worked to construct the statue, as well as the Indian farmer-activists who tirelessly protested against the Maitreya Project. Because the majority of the supporters of the Maitreya Project statue are converts to Tibetan Buddhism, individuals Falcone terms "non-heritage" practitioners, she focuses on the spectacular collision of cultural values between small agriculturalists in rural India and transnational Buddhists hailing from Portland to Pretoria. She asks how could a transnational Buddhist organization committed to compassionate practice blithely create so much suffering for impoverished rural Indians. Falcone depicts the cultural logics at work on both sides of the controversy, and through her examination of these logics she reveals the divergent, competing visions of Kushinagar's potential futures. Battling the Buddha of Love traces power, faith, and hope through the axes of globalization, transnational religion, and rural grassroots activism in South Asia, showing the unintended local consequences of an international spiritual development project.
Out of Crisis
Author: David A. WestbrookPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317254910
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Former Federal Reserve chair Greenspan recently said that the risk management paradigm is broken; thus our understanding of financial regulation no longer makes sense. More generally, the current financial crisis obliges us to rethink the relationships among "financial markets" and "governments." In Out of Crisis financial analyst David Westbrook illuminates the intellectual, business, and policy errors that have led us into the present morass. Through a vivid legal and political analysis he shows how the ideologies of the right and left have distorted financial thinking and policy. Learning from these errors, the book sketches the emergence of a new understanding of risk management and bureaucratic regulation. Out of Crisis begins the tasks of rethinking the structures that constitute financial markets and exploring how such structures may be strengthened. Taking responsibility for the markets we build to do so much of our society's work, we may yet become mature capitalists.
The Electric Edge of Academe
Author: L. Jackson NewellPublisher:
ISBN: 9781607814061
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The life story of a daring innovator, entrepreneur, and educational reformer
Telluride Association
Author: Telluride AssociationThe Students of Deep Springs College
Author: L. Jackson NewellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : College students
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Deep Springs College is the most unusual college in America. Arguably, it is also the best. It is located in such a remote place in the high desert in eastern California that its mailing address is in Nevada -- and the nearest gas pump is thirty miles away over a mountain pass. There are up to twenty-six students who hire and fire the faculty, design the curriculum, select the incoming students, do all of the work on the college's organic farm and ranch, cook the meals, work in the office, and generally maintain the school. Tuition is free. Does this sound like a 1960s college run by ex-hippies? Far from it. Deep Springs has been in existence since 1917.