Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Urban
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Center Forum
Author: Forum
Author: The Social Welfare Forum
Author: National Conference on Social WelfarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The Community of the Book
Author: John Young ColePublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412820035
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
This is a selective listing of organizations that promote books and reading! administer literacy projects, and encourage the study of books. Compiled byf Carren O. Kaston, The Community of the Book focuses on national programs of special interest to the Center for the Bookin The Library of Congress, but should be of use to the entire book community. The Emphasis is on organizations in the United States, where recently there has been renewed interest in educational reform, in literacy, and in the future of publishing. The assumption underlining this unusual directory is that a "com-munity of the book" does exist and that it can be mobilized to keep books and reading central in the life of Democratic societies. The listings provide a richly detailed account of 89 major resource centers, providing names of directors, addresses, telephone numbers, and founding dates. In addition, each listing discusses the purposes of the organization, exam-ples of its activities, publications sponsored, and sources of fiscal support. In short, the volume is intended to serve as a national catalyst for stimulating public interest in books in particular and reading in general. Cole provides a pellucid opening essay on the subject: "Is There a Community of the Book?" What is surprising is not his clear affirmative answer, so much as the closely argued historical and analytical study of how this community has been deepened through the conscious activities of The Library of Congress. The work concludes with a brief but valuable guide to other resources, ranging from publishing, broadcasting, bookselling, libraries, and book collecting and culture.
The Church As Partner in Community Economic Development
Author: Theatrice WilliamsPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788107526
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Presents insights about how churches can become successfully involved in community-based economic development in the Black community. Two case studies examines the role that two institutions have played in improving the social and economic conditions in their neighborhoods, and providing self-reliance through job creation and providing additional tax base.
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies
Author: Kevin Leo Yabut NadalPublisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 1071828975
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 1145
Book Description
Filipino Americans are one of the three largest Asian American groups in the United States and the second largest immigrant population in the country. Yet within the field of Asian American Studies, Filipino American history and culture have received comparatively less attention than have other ethnic groups. Over the past twenty years, however, Filipino American scholars across various disciplines have published numerous books and research articles, as a way of addressing their unique concerns and experiences as an ethnic group. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies, the first on the topic of Filipino American Studies, offers a comprehensive survey of an emerging field, focusing on the Filipino diaspora in the United States as well as highlighting issues facing immigrant groups in general. It covers a broad range of topics and disciplines including activism and education, arts and humanities, health, history and historical figures, immigration, psychology, regional trends, and sociology and social issues.
A Community Center
Author: Henry Ezekiel JacksonPublisher:
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Category : Community centers
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Community Development Approaches to Improving Public Health
Author: Robert S OgilviePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135711046
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
As the rates of chronic diseases, like diabetes, asthma and obesity skyrocket, research is showing that the built environment – the way our cities and towns are developed – contributes to the epidemic rates of these diseases. It is unlikely that those who planned and developed these places envisioned these situations. Public health, community development planning, and other fields influencing the built environment have operated in isolation for much of recent history, with the result being places that public health advocates have labelled, ‘designed for disease’. The sad irony of this is that planning and public health arose together, in response to the need to create health standards, zoning and building codes to combat the infectious diseases that were prevalent in the industrializing cities of late nineteenth and early twentieth century America. In recent years, the dramatic rise in chronic disease rates in cities and towns has begun to bring public health and planning back together to promote development pattern and policies facilitating physical activity and neighbourly interactions as antidotes. In this book, a number of such community development efforts are highlighted, bringing attention to the need to coordinate planning, community development and health policy. This book was originally published as a special issue of Community Development.
Corinth, the First City of Greece
Author: Richard M. RothausPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004109223
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This book addresses cult and religion in the city of Corinth from the 4th to 7th centuries of our era. The work incorporates and synthesizes all available evidence, literary, archaeological and other. The interaction and conflict between Christian and non-Christian activity is placed into its urban context and seen as simultaneously existing and overlapping cultural activity. Late antique religion is defined as cult-based rather than doctrinally-based, and thus this volume focuses not on what people believed, but rather what they did. An emphasis on cult activity reveals a variety of types of interaction between groups, ranging from confrontational events at dilapidated polytheist cult sites, to full polysemous and shared cult activity at the so-called "Fountain of the Lamps." Non-Christian traditions are shown to have been recognized and viable through the sixth century. The tentative conclusion is drawn that a clear definition of "pagan" and "Christian" begins at an urban level with the Christian re-monumentalization of Corinth with basilicas. The disappearance of "pagan" cult is best attributed to the development of a new city socially and physically based in Christianity, rather than any purely "religious" development.
Mental Health and Learning
Author: United States. Office of Education. Office for Nutrition and Health ProgramsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Affective disorders in children
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description