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Confronted by factors that other generations never considered in their search for love and commitment, the "unhooked generation" faces a potholed road to romance. Based on 100 in-depth interviews, Jillian Straus examines the obstacles facing unattached women and men in an age when all the choices we have somehow manage to decrease our chances of finding a mate. While cell phones, text messages, e-mail, speed dating, and internet dating create a sense...
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These interviews;with congressmen and cooks, union organizers and CEOs, students, immigrants, activists, veterans, priests and lawyers;constitute an alternative history of the American century. They form a legacy of the indefatigable spirit that Studs has always embodied, an inheritance for those who, by taking a stand, are making concrete the dreams of today.;From publisher description.
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"The Passionate Organization shows leaders and managers how to find and inspire passionate people, with a focus on deeply-held core values, mutual trust, and a common vision. Filled with lively, real-world examples and straightforward strategies, the book reveals the keys to bringing diverse, driven, and feisty people together and bringing out their best."--BOOK JACKET.
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"An invisible revolution is taking place in communities all across our country. The Quickening of America brings that revolution to light with the stories of everyday Americans tackling their toughest problems--in their communities, schools, workplaces, and lives. This deeply personal, inspiring, and interactive book is full of practical ideas on how to get involved in democracy. Going past the tired polemics of the past--left and right, liberal and...
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"In Photography as Activism, Michelle Bogre discusses the philosophy and history of photography's role in social reform. Beginning with the invention of the camera, she traces the earliest instances of photographic activism through to today's emerging practices, profiling the most prominent activists of their time and their legendary images. Also profiled are contemporary photographer activists, including Jonathan Torgovnik. A photograph from Torgovnik's...
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"Get ready to take a different perspective on your problems and your life-and the way you live it. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a new, scientifically based psychotherapy that takes a fresh look at why we suffer and even what it means to be mentally healthy. What if pain were a normal, unavoidable part of the human condition, but avoiding or trying to control painful experience were the cause of suffering and long-term problems that can...
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"This book is the first how-to guide to offer a detailed and practical application of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to the treatment of persons suffering from any of the broad class of anxiety disorders. In a lucid and readable style, the book brings to life the ACT approach to alleviating human suffering. The book provides clear and flexible, session-by-session guidelines for applying and integrating acceptance, mindfulness, and value-guided...
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This book confirms Alexis de Tocqueville's idea, dating back a century and a half, that American democracy is rooted in civil society. Citizens' involvement in family, school, work, voluntary associations, and religion has a significant impact on their participation as voters, campaigners, donors, community activists, and protesters. The authors focus on the central issues of involvement: how people come to be active and the issues they raise when...
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The international upheaval set off by workers struggling to return home from Kuwait at the outbreak of the Gulf War as well as the alarming violence that has erupted against foreign workers in Germany are recent examples of the growing political, social, and economic consequences of labor migration.
Immigrant workers - such as the Mexican "undocumented worker" in California or the Turkish "guest-worker" in Germany - are as crucial to the world and...
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For more than 300 years, Mennonites adhered to a strict two-kingdom theology, owing their supreme allegiance to the divine kingdom while serving as loyal, law-abiding subjects of the state in all matters that did not contradict their religious beliefs. Traditionally, Mennonites saw affairs of state as none of their business. In times of war, the Mennonite church counseled conscientious objection and spoke against military participation in either combatant...
20) Starting in our own backyards: how working families can build community and survive the new economy
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For more than five years, Bookman gained access to the lives of 100 employees at three high-pressure biotech firms in Boston. In the process, she discovered how they yearn to be part of community life; how their inflexible jobs and long commutes prevent them; and how they are forging new ways to stay connected to their communities.
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