In Boundless Faith, the first book to look systematically at American Christianity in relation to globalization, Robert Wuthnow shows that American Christianity is increasingly influenced by globalization and is, in turn, playing a larger role in other countries and in U.S. policies and programs abroad. These changes, he argues, can be seen in the growth of support at home for missionaries and churches in other countries and in the large number of Americans who participate in short-term volunteer efforts abroad. These outreaches include building orphanages, starting microbusinesses, and setting up computer networks. Drawing on a comprehensive survey that was conducted for this book, as well as several hundred in-depth interviews with church leaders, Wuthnow refutes several prevailing stereotypes: that U.S. churches have turned away from the global church and overseas missions, that congregations only look inward, and that the growing voice of religion in areas of foreign policy is primarily evangelical. This fresh and revealing book encourages Americans to pay attention to the grass-roots mechanisms by which global ties are created and sustained.
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Author: Robert Wuthnow Publisher: University of California Press ISBN: 9780520943063 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: May 2009 359 pages
Realize your dreams…and balance your checkbook
Most people are shaken by extreme events. But it’s not necessary to be struck down by illness, a layoff, the threat of divorce, or the loss of a loved one before we evaluate priorities and reshape life along more sane lines. Instead, the more we reshape our lives to achieve better balance now, the more immediately we can enjoy the riches life offers.
Balance 20/20 helps readers find the balance they need to have enough time for everything and everyone and to enjoy life. Author George Bartko recently quit his high-paying corporate job to devote himself completely to his burgeoning business. He used the system he describes in Balance 20/20 to successfully make the transition to living his dreams.
Bartko calls his system The Six Pillars of Life Balance. The six pillars are key areas that make up daily life:1. Connections (relationships)2. Mind (intellect, creative expression, and reflection)3. Motion (physical activity)4. Spirituality (a sense of connection to the universe)5. Fuel (nutrition)6. Business (personal and professional tasks)In order to balance these six pillars, Bartko recommends analyzing which of these key areas we spend too much time on–and which areas we neglect. To help, Bartko offers a quiz at the beginning of each chapter so that readers can begin to see which of the six pillars need development and which areas need less time spent on them. Bartko’s advice is clear and compelling–even for those pillars that are balanced, there’s room to fine-tune and improve to get the most out of our days, the most out of our lives.
Balance 20/20 offers recipes to help bring balance to the fuel pillar. And Bartko’s stunning photography throughout offers visual inspiration to building balance into every day..
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Author: George Bartko Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser ISBN: 9781609256456 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: July 2004 192 pages
As the first introductory statement of the ‘new psychology’, Motives and Mechanisms, originally published in 1985, aims to bring the study of human action to the forefront of the subject. Like any science, the practice of psychology is very much influenced by the hidden assumptions of its practitioners. The argument put forward in this important text shows how these assumptions can be brought out by comparing psychology with the natural sciences and with common-sense understanding.
In pursuing the integration of traditional research methods with a new style of investigation, the basic principle is that social structures and mental structures are in reciprocal relation with one another because each is involved in the creation of the other. By adopting this principle social structures become the basis for research into the cognitive and emotional organization of mind. The authors devote two key chapters to the central question that underlies this stance: are human actions and human actors’ products of internal processes, such as those described by Freud, or of external social forces, of the kind described by Mead?
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Author: Rom Harré; David Clarke; Nicola De Carlo Publisher: Taylor and Francis ISBN: 9781317364153 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: September 2015 174 pages
The term Facilities Management has become global but fraught with confusion as to what the term signifies. For some, notably in the USA, Facilities Management remains a discipline of human ecology. Elsewhere the term has become conflated with an alternative meaning: providing or outsourcing the provision of various services essential to the operation of particular buildings. This volume redresses that imbalance to remind Facilities Management of its roots, presenting evidence of Facilities Management success stories that engage the wider objectives of the organizations they serve, and engaging students, scholars and critical practitioners of general management with an appreciation of the power and influence of physical space and its place in the theory and practice of organizations.
This book includes management perspectives from outside the field to ensure that the issues raised are seen in an organizational and management context, informing debate within the Facilities Management fraternity. It draws on human ecology and the perspective of the firm as, itself, an intra-organizational ecology of social constructs. The ecology of a firm is not restricted to the firm’s boundaries. It extends to wider relationships between the firm and its stakeholders including, in an age of outsourced building services, the Facilities Management supply chain. This volume offers arguments and evidence that managing such constructs is a key role for Facilities Management and an important participant in the provision of truly usable spaces.
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Author: Keith Alexander; Ilfryn Price Publisher: Taylor and Francis ISBN: 9781136302596 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: May 2013 284 pages
In the long aftermath of the acute global financial crisis of 2008/09, “rebalancing” the economy with new sources of growth and productivity remains a persistent necessity. This book addresses the resulting trade-offs and challenges. These needs, and the corresponding policy challenges, are especially prevalent in Europe, in particular Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. On this issue, this book contributes lessons learned from earlier balance sheet recessions. It also addresses the often overlooked link between macroeconomic imbalances and economic inequality. Further contributions focus on the interaction between monetary policy and financial stability, adding a regional perspective to these important issues.
Author: Ewald Nowotny; Doris Ritzberger-Grünwald; Helene Schuberth Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 9781784719807 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: November 2015 262 pages
3 extraordinary books show how to build “bottom of the pyramid” businesses that are sustainable, scalable, and profitable!
Three remarkable books help you overcome the pitfalls of “bottom of the pyramid” business, learn from the pioneers’ successes and failures, and build “BoP” businesses that are sustainable, scalable, and consistently profitable! In Entrepreneurial Solutions for Prosperity in BoP Markets: Strategies for Business and Economic Transformation, Eric Kacou shows how to escape the “survival trap” that keeps many BoP businesses small, inefficient, and unprofitable. Drawing on his unique on-the-ground experience in Africa’s most challenging business environments, Kacou identifies new business models, operational techniques, and leadership approaches that can help BoP businesses grow rapidly and successfully. In Next Generation Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid: New Approaches for Building Mutual Value, Ted London and Stuart L. Hart share proven, “on-the-ground” insights for building “Base of the Pyramid” businesses that really are sustainable and green, really will help alleviate social ills, and really can scale. Finally, in Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World, Third Edition, Hart offers an up-to-the-minute primer on sustainable business for today’s executives, practical insights into what’s working and what isn’t, and expert insights for crafting and executing your company’s optimal sustainability strategy.
From world-renowned leaders in successful bottom-of-the-pyramid business innovation, including Ted London, Stuart L. Hart, and Eric Kacou.
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Author: Ted London; Stuart L. Hart; Eric Kacou Publisher: Pearson Education ISBN: 9780132808545 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: August 2011 974 pages
Secrets of the Sacred Pompon
Pompons aren’t just for pep rallies anymore…
Who knows what evil lies beyond the oven door? Jendra MacKenzie knows — it’s a strangely powerful pompon that turns bright-eyed cheerleaders into gray-eyed monsters. But what she doesn’t know is how to explain the unusual events unfolding at Davy Crockett School ever since ultra-popular Tina Shepard handed her a coyote head and made her the cheerleading mascot. Who’s responsible for the sudden disappearance of the last mascot, and the principal’s pants…and the principal?
When Jendra searches for answers, she finds nothing but trouble. Propelled by powers she can’t control, she winds up disco dancing on top of her desk, flying to a faraway dentist’s office, and dodging falling eighth-graders in the second-story girls’ bathroom. If this trend toward the bizarre continues, she might even pass pre-algebra…unless the cheerleaders have something more sinister in mind…
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Author: Sarah Jett Publisher: Simon Pulse ISBN: 9780743431668 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release:
There are an hundred faults in this Thing, and an hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless. A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. The hero of this piece unites in himself the three greatest characters upon earth; he is a priest, an husbandman, and the father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach, and ready to obey, as simple in affluence, and majestic in adversity. In this age of opulence and refinement whom can such a character please? Such as are fond of high life, will turn with disdain from the simplicity of his country fire-side. Such as mistake ribaldry for humour, will find no wit in his harmless conversation; and such as have been taught to deride religion, will laugh at one whose chief stores of comfort are drawn from futurity.
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Author: Oliver Goldsmith Publisher: Start Classics ISBN: 9781627938952 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: December 2013 184 pages
Lissa Whitaker’s comfortable life in Philadelphia changes after a fire in 1865, and she reluctantly heads to Dakota Territory with her family. Lars Oleson, who helped fight the fire, gave her father the idea of settling there, and for that Lissa can barely be civil to him. Dangers on the trail quickly force her to draw on her inner strength to face the journey’s perils and hardships. The Whitakers rescue Lars, when he is injured, and Lissa and Lars realize they care for each other more than they should because his uncle is sending brides from Norway the following spring for him and his brother. With the adversity of the trail forcing them to travel together, they struggle to reach his brother’s cabin in the Dakota Territory before the deadly prairie winter sets in.
Author: Lois Carroll Publisher: Whiskey Creek Press ISBN: 9781603137959 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: May 2010 386 pages
