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Book Migrants Sharecroppers Mountaineers

Download or read book Migrants Sharecroppers Mountaineers written by Robert Coles and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Children of Crisis

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Coles
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 653 pages

Download or read book Children of Crisis written by Robert Coles and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Children of Crisis   Volume 2

Download or read book Children of Crisis Volume 2 written by Robert Coles and published by Boston : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1971 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Atlantic Monthly Press book.

Book Migrants  Sharecroppers  Mountaineers

Download or read book Migrants Sharecroppers Mountaineers written by Robert Coles and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Children of Crisis  Migrants  sharecroppers  mountaineers

Download or read book Children of Crisis Migrants sharecroppers mountaineers written by Robert Coles and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Migrants  Sharecroppers  Moutaineers

Download or read book Migrants Sharecroppers Moutaineers written by Robert Coles and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Worlds Apart

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  • Author : Cynthia M. Duncan
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2015-01-13
  • ISBN : 0300210515
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Worlds Apart written by Cynthia M. Duncan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, Worlds Apart examined the nature of poverty through the stories of real people in three remote rural areas of the United States: New England, Appalachia, and the Mississippi Delta. In this new edition, Duncan returns to her original research, interviewing some of the same people as well as some new key informants. Duncan provides powerful new insights into the dynamics of poverty, politics, and community change. "Duncan, through in-depth investigation and interviews, concludes that only a strong civic culture, a sense among citizens of community and the need to serve that community, can truly address poverty. . . . Moving and troubling. Duncan has created a remarkable study of the persistent patterns of poverty and power."—Kirkus Reviews "The descriptions of rural poverty in Worlds Apart are interesting and read almost like a novel."—Choice

Book Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers

Download or read book Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers written by David R. Hoyt and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Everything In Its Path

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  • Author : Kai T. Erikson
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2012-04-10
  • ISBN : 143912731X
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Everything In Its Path written by Kai T. Erikson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1977 Sorokin Award–winning story of Buffalo Creek in the aftermath of a devastating flood. On February 26, 1972, 132-million gallons of debris-filled muddy water burst through a makeshift mining-company dam and roared through Buffalo Creek, a narrow mountain hollow in West Virginia. Following the flood, survivors from a previously tightly knit community were crowded into trailer homes with no concern for former neighborhoods. The result was a collective trauma that lasted longer than the individual traumas caused by the original disaster. Making extensive use of the words of the people themselves, Erikson details the conflicting tensions of mountain life in general—the tensions between individualism and dependency, self-assertion and resignation, self-centeredness and group orientation—and examines the loss of connection, disorientation, declining morality, rise in crime, rise in out-migration, etc., that resulted from the sudden loss of neighborhood.

Book Soul Survivor

Download or read book Soul Survivor written by Philip Yancey and published by Image. This book was released on 2002-01-29 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's leading Christian thinkers interweaves the story of his own struggle to reclaim his beliefs with inspiring portraits of people who have succeeded in the pursuit of an authentic faith. In Soul Survivor, Philip Yancey charts his spiritual pilgrimage through the influence of key individuals: "These are the people who ushered me into the Kingdom. In many ways, they are why I remain a Christian today, and I want to introduce them to other spiritual seekers." Yancey interweaves his own journey with fascinating stories of those who modeled for him a life-enhancing rather than a life-constricting faith: Dr. Paul Brand, G. K. Chesterton, Annie Dillard, Frederick Buechner, C. Everett Koop, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Henri Nouwen, John Donne, Mahatma Gandi, Shusaku Endo, Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert COles. Readers will find these inspiring portraits both nurture and challenge for their own understanding of authentic faith. Yancey fans will devour these new glimpses of how he has held onto faith while acknowledging with utter honesty its inherent difficulties. New Yancey readers will be drawn in by the theme of faith versus religion and drawn along a compelling narrative of signposts on a spiritual journey. Soul Survivor offers illuminating and critically important insights into true Christianity, which will enrich the lives of veteran believers and cautious seekers alike.

Book Appalachian Land Ownership Study  Virginia

Download or read book Appalachian Land Ownership Study Virginia written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Human Cost of Food

Download or read book The Human Cost of Food written by Charles D. Thompson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding fresh fruits and vegetables is as easy as going to the grocery store for most Americans—which makes it all too easy to forget that our food is cultivated, harvested, and packaged by farmworkers who labor for less pay, fewer benefits, and under more dangerous conditions than workers in almost any other sector of the U.S. economy. Seeking to end the public's ignorance and improve workers' living and working conditions, this book addresses the major factors that affect farmworkers' lives while offering practical strategies for action on farmworker issues. The contributors to this book are all farmworker advocates—student and community activists and farmworkers themselves. Focusing on workers in the Southeast United States, a previously understudied region, they cover a range of issues, from labor organizing, to the rise of agribusiness, to current health, educational, and legal challenges faced by farmworkers. The authors blend coverage of each issue with practical suggestions for working with farmworkers and other advocates to achieve justice in our food system both regionally and nationally.

Book Scholarly Resources for Children and Childhood Studies

Download or read book Scholarly Resources for Children and Childhood Studies written by Vibiana Bowman and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2007-02-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editor Vibiana Bowman has drawn together contributions from some of the leading scholars in the interdisciplinary field of children and childhood studies (CCS) in this guided approach to literature searching in CCS. The contributors to this book are both faculty currently teaching in the area of CCS and academic librarians. The charge given to each contributor was to write a chapter that explained the process of scholarly research in his or her own particular area of expertise to a student unfamiliar with that discipline. Towards this end, the book provides background information about interdisciplinary study in general, and children and childhood studies in particular, as well as an outline of basic research practices. Each contributor serves as a mentor and suggests a search strategy, discusses significant concepts and vocabulary, and lists the major resources that scholars in that area would be expected to use. Not intended as en exhaustive list of in-print research resources, rather the emphasis throughout this guide is on useful resources and effective research methodologies. As the field of CCS continues to evolve in the upcoming years, Scholarly Resources for Children and Childhood Studies will serve as an excellent stepping stone for those just entering the area.

Book Rural Substance Abuse

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  • Author : Elizabeth B. Robertson
  • Publisher : DIANE Publishing
  • Release : 1999-04
  • ISBN : 0788177443
  • Pages : 549 pages

Download or read book Rural Substance Abuse written by Elizabeth B. Robertson and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews what is known about drug & alcohol abuse in rural settings, to identify gaps in this knowledge base, & to suggest areas for further study. The first 4 chapters establish the characteristics of rural settings & the interpersonal social contexts that shape drug & alcohol abuse patterns & services. There are chapters on the health, social, & economic consequences of the abuse of drugs & alcohol. Also, prevention & treatment services, access & delivery issues, & information dissemination to improve these services. Presents the special needs of rural Native American, African-American & Hispanic-American.

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Third Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1973 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Research in Education

Download or read book Research in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Families

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  • Author : Alex Liazos
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2015-12-03
  • ISBN : 1317259718
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Families written by Alex Liazos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike other family textbooks that mostly emphasize conflicts and problems, this book also features the joys and pleasures of family living and its mutually nourishing qualities. Its perspective reflects polls, surveys, and student essays indicating that most people value their families. Families everywhere provide love, support, and sustenance to their members, but they do so in many different arrangements.Understanding the wide variety of families historically and across cultures gives the student a better basis for understanding how families change and a better grasp of more controversial changes such as the gradual acceptance by Westerners of same-sex marriage and child-rearing by single people. Liazos offers two poignant chapters not found in other texts. Family Living (Chapter Six) focuses on the social value of caregiving and family meals. Kin and Community (Chapter Seven) focuses on relationships among kin and the larger community.