Download or read book Surviving Society written by and published by Abby Ayoola. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surviving Society is your mini guide to changing the way you think, loving yourself and setting goals for your life.
Download or read book Surviving Southampton written by Vanessa M. Holden and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The local community around the Nat Turner rebellion The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner involved an entire community. Vanessa M. Holden rediscovers the women and children, free and enslaved, who lived in Southampton County before, during, and after the revolt. Mapping the region's multilayered human geography, Holden draws a fuller picture of the inhabitants, revealing not only their interactions with physical locations but also their social relationships in space and time. Her analysis recasts the Southampton Rebellion as one event that reveals the continuum of practices that sustained resistance and survival among local Black people. Holden follows how African Americans continued those practices through the rebellion’s immediate aftermath and into the future, showing how Black women and communities raised children who remembered and heeded the lessons absorbed during the calamitous events of 1831. A bold challenge to traditional accounts, Surviving Southampton sheds new light on the places and people surrounding Americas most famous rebellion against slavery.
Download or read book Surviving Society written by Abby Ayoola and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surviving Society is your mini self help guide that empowers you to be confident in your self, dream big and accomplish your goals in life.
Download or read book Surviving Collapse written by Christina Ergas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As major environmental crises loom, Christina Ergas makes the argument in Surviving Collapse that one possible way forward is a radical sustainable development that turns the focus from monetary gain to social and ecological regeneration and transformation. Employing qualitative and cross-national comparative methods, Ergas examines two alternative, community-scale, socioecological models of development: the first is a grassroots urban ecovillage in the Pacific Northwest, United States, while the second is a government-subsidized, but cooperatively run, urban farm in Havana, Cuba. While neither are panaceas, they prioritize social and ecological efficiency and subsume economic rationality towards those ends. Featuring cases that not only allow us to synthesize their strengths but evaluate their weaknesses, Surviving Collapse reveals a multitude of varied paths toward reaching radical urban sustainability and empowers us all to imagine, and possibly build, more resilient futures.
Download or read book Surviving Dictatorship written by Jacqueline Adams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written as a book for undergraduate students as well as scholars, Surviving Dictatorship is a work of visual sociology and oral history, and a case study that communicates the lived experience of poverty, repression, and resistance in an authoritarian society: Pinochetâe(tm)s Chile. It focuses on shantytown women, examining how they join groups to cope with exacerbated impoverishment and targeted repression, and how this leads them into very varied forms of resistance aimed at self-protection, community-building, and mounting an offensive. Drawing on a visual database of shantytown photographs, art, posters, flyers, and bulletins, as well as on interviews, photo elicitation, and archival research, the book is an example of how multiple methods might be successfully employed to examine dictatorship from the perspective of some of the least powerful members of society. It is ideal for courses in social inequalities, poverty, race/class/gender, political sociology, global studies, urban studies, womenâe(tm)s studies, human rights, oral history, and qualitative methods.
Download or read book Surviving Society written by Heather Shelton-Turner and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us will spend our lives lost, confused and frustrated at this crazy modern world. But this is not acceptable in our society. It's not okay for a woman or anyone for that matter, to turn around and just throw their arms up and ask why we do some of the stupid things we do. Somehow we have developed a culture where it is not ok to be failing as an adult. We have identified the progression to adulthood as a marker of success and not a point of personal development.Why is it unacceptable to not know what you are doing? It's not as if we have a guide book that tells us exactly how to adult. We don't have a set of rules that tells us which part of life is next. Well I'm here for your dose of reality. My reality. A reality which goes Step 2, oops forgot Step 1 and When did my thighs get so big? Reality like this book, does not work chronologically. There is no set of rules and order. The world just doesn't read like a book. You just live your life as best you can and then you pass on. For so many of us we hit adulthood and suddenly life is as if we were Atlas holding the world upon our shoulders but not quite knowing what to do with it. If we keep holding it we will be crushed but if we put it down it might roll away out of control. I know my shoulders are killing me and I've come to learn that dropping the world (with all it's expectations) and kicking it down the nearest hill is the best way to deal with things. Come with me as we journey through the murky waters of our worlds expectations. Resurfacing in our own place of personal balance and acceptance.
Download or read book Surviving Genocide written by Jeffrey Ostler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Intense and well-researched, . . . ambitious, . . . magisterial. . . . Surviving Genocide sets a bar from which subsequent scholarship and teaching cannot retreat."--Peter Nabokov, New York Review of Books In this book, the first part of a sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally sanctioned use of force to remove or slaughter Indians in the way of U.S. expansion. He charts the losses that Indians suffered from relentless violence and upheaval and the attendant effects of disease, deprivation, and exposure. This volume centers on the eastern United States from the 1750s to the start of the Civil War. An authoritative contribution to the history of the United States' violent path toward building a continental empire, this ambitious and well-researched book deepens our understanding of the seizure of Indigenous lands, including the use of treaties to create the appearance of Native consent to dispossession. Ostler also documents the resilience of Native people, showing how they survived genocide by creating alliances, defending their towns, and rebuilding their communities.
Download or read book Mastering Community written by Christine Porath and published by Balance. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Mastering Civility, a thoroughly researched exploration of the impact and importance of building thriving communities, with actionable steps on how to create them in your work and broader life. In her powerful new book, Christine Porath explores how the rise of technology and modern workplace practices have fractured our communications yet left us always “on” digitally. Through now common practices like hot-desking and remote work (even without the added isolation of social distancing we experienced during the pandemic), our human interactions have decreased, and so too have our happiness levels. This lack of a “human factor” is sparking a crisis in mental health that will have repercussions for years to come, leaving people lonelier and making the bottom line suffer, too. What Christine has discovered in her research is that leaders, organizations, and managers of all stripes may recognize there is a cost, but have no idea as to implement the cure: Community. With her signature depth and grasp of research across myriad industries including business, healthcare, hospitality, and sports, Christine extrapolates from the statistics on the experiences of hundreds of thousands of people across six continents to show us the potential for change. Through sharing information about the community, empowering decision-making discretion and autonomy, creating a respectful environment, offering feedback, providing a sense of meaning, and boosting member well-being, anyone can help a community truly flourish. The applications are endless, the stories are positive and uplifting, and will inspire the reader to establish and grow their community—be it in the workplace or the PTA—and make it thrive.
Download or read book Surviving Savannah written by Patti Callahan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An atmospheric, compelling story of survival, tragedy, the enduring power of myth and memory, and the moments that change one's life." --Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Four Winds "[An] enthralling and emotional tale...A story about strength and fate."--Woman's World “An epic novel that explores the metal of human spirit in crisis. It is an expertly told, fascinating story that runs fathoms deep on multiple levels.”—New York Journal of Books It was called "The Titanic of the South." The luxury steamship sank in 1838 with Savannah's elite on board; through time, their fates were forgotten--until the wreck was found, and now their story is finally being told in this breathtaking novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis. When Savannah history professor Everly Winthrop is asked to guest-curate a new museum collection focusing on artifacts recovered from the steamship Pulaski, she's shocked. The ship sank after a boiler explosion in 1838, and the wreckage was just discovered, 180 years later. Everly can't resist the opportunity to try to solve some of the mysteries and myths surrounding the devastating night of its sinking. Everly's research leads her to the astounding history of a family of eleven who boarded the Pulaski together, and the extraordinary stories of two women from this family: a known survivor, Augusta Longstreet, and her niece, Lilly Forsyth, who was never found, along with her child. These aristocratic women were part of Savannah's society, but when the ship exploded, each was faced with difficult and heartbreaking decisions. This is a moving and powerful exploration of what women will do to endure in the face of tragedy, the role fate plays, and the myriad ways we survive the surviving.
Download or read book x y written by Eugenia Cheng and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant mathematician examines the complexity of gender and society and forges a path out of inequality. Why are men in charge? After years in the male-dominated field of mathematics and in the female-dominated field of art, Eugenia Cheng has heard the question many times. In x + y, Cheng argues that her mathematical specialty -- category theory -- reveals why. Category theory deals more with context, relationships, and nuanced versions of equality than with intrinsic characteristics. Category theory also emphasizes dimensionality: much as a cube can cast a square or diamond shadow, depending on your perspective, so too do gender politics appear to change with how we examine them. Because society often rewards traits that it associates with males, such as competitiveness, we treat the problems those traits can create as male. But putting competitive women in charge will leave many unjust relationships in place. If we want real change, we need to transform the contexts in which we all exist, and not simply who we think we are. Praise for Eugenia Cheng "[Eugenia Cheng's] tone is clear, clever and friendly . . . she is rigorous and insightful. . . . [She is] a lucid and nimble expositor." --- Alex Bellos, New York Times Book Review "Dr. Cheng . . . has a knack for brushing aside conventions and edicts, like so many pie crumbs from a cutting board." --- Natalie Angier, New York Times
Download or read book Surviving Autocracy written by Masha Gessen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen.” —The New York Times “A reckoning with what has been lost in the past few years and a map forward with our beliefs intact.” —Interview As seen on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and heard on NPR’s All Things Considered: the bestselling, National Book Award–winning journalist offers an essential guide to understanding, resisting, and recovering from the ravages of our tumultuous times. This incisive book provides an essential guide to understanding and recovering from the calamitous corrosion of American democracy over the past few years. Thanks to the special perspective that is the legacy of a Soviet childhood and two decades covering the resurgence of totalitarianism in Russia, Masha Gessen has a sixth sense for the manifestations of autocracy—and the unique cross-cultural fluency to delineate their emergence to Americans. Gessen not only anatomizes the corrosion of the institutions and cultural norms we hoped would save us but also tells us the story of how a short few years changed us from a people who saw ourselves as a nation of immigrants to a populace haggling over a border wall, heirs to a degraded sense of truth, meaning, and possibility. Surviving Autocracy is an inventory of ravages and a call to account but also a beacon to recovery—and to the hope of what comes next.
Download or read book International Politics written by Werner Levi and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saved Singles Surviving a Seductive Society written by Allen S. Turner and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally a book that addresses the real issues about being a single man or woman trying to live right for God. In Saved Singles Surviving a Seductive Society, Dr. Allen S. Turner provides a powerful real life message of how God is ready to bless His single children. No more messages about just being single-now a message about how to get what God has for you as being a single. Singles can find encouragement to grow spiritually, whether divorced, widowed, or never married. Saved Singles Surviving a Seductive Society touches on issues of single parenting, avoiding temptation, and praising God in expectation of His blessings. You'll never be the same again
Download or read book Coming to My Senses written by George Caspar Homans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those interested in the development of scientific theory and in the nature of academic life will appreciate this intellectual autobiography written by one of America's leading sociologists. Following his family tradition (The Education of Henry Adams was written by his great-uncle), George Caspar Homans describes how his ideas about the proper nature of theory in social science, both in form and content, have developed over time. The chief interest of the book lies in the description of this process.Homans' career has spanned many of the key periods of development in social research, and his own work has been central to the process. He was the first major sociologist to outline the sociological implications of psychologists' work on learning or behavior theory. His contributions to modern sociology have had a major impact on the study of small groups, the problem of theory and methods of theory construction, and the study of basic characteristics of social behavior. He is regarded as the father of social exchange theory.Homans considers academic and intellectual as well as nonacademic influences on his development: personalities of highly idiosyncratic individuals against whose views of culturalism, functionalism, and structuralism he reacted, discussions with colleagues, reading, as well as his ancestry, his childhood in Boston, his literary education and later social-life in Boston, and his experiences as a sea captain in the Navy in World War II. This is an absorbing book, both an autobiography and a history of the development of the social sciences in the post World War II era.
Download or read book Certainties and Doubts written by George Caspar Homans and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Caspar Homans, one of America's leading intellectual figures, presents here his collected papers, covering twenty-three years of work, on the nature of sound theory in social science. Subjects addressed include social structure, power, distributive justice, ethnomethodology, and behaviorism, all issues of concerns as well as continuing professional controversy. Homans also offers social histories that deal with social organization, political design, and the behavior of men and women in a time of fierce ideological conflict. He concludes by developing his viewpoint on the rightful place of general theory within social science. Homans' career has spanned many of the key periods in the development of twentieth century social science. His own work has been central to this process. He was the first and major sociologist to appreciate the sociologist implications of psychologists' work on learning and behavior theory. His contributions to modern sociology have had a major impact on the study of small groups, the problem of theory and methods of theory construction, and the study of basic characteristics of social behavior. George Casper Homans is a professor of sociology emeritus, Harvard University. He has taught at the Universities of Manchester, Cambridge, and Kent. He is the author of Coming to My Senses: The Autobiography of a Sociologist, (Transaction, 1984); The Human Group; Social Behavior; along with numerous other works on social behavior and social theory.
Download or read book Markets Distribution and Exchange After Societal Cataclysm written by Robin Cantor and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report identifies constraints and opportunities for the restoration of economic exchange after nuclear war. Four survival scenarios are postulated based on high or low levels of damage to (1) institutions that signal trading opportunities, reduce transaction costs, and regulate and enforce contracts, and (2) resources that are used to create and define wealth. The four scenarios are Best case, Worst Case, Resource Abundance, and an Institution Intensive case. Discussed in depth are such items as property rights, barter, currency, trust, credit, supply and demand, and trust as related to authority.
Download or read book Surviving the Undead written by Barrett Williams and published by Barrett Williams. This book was released on 2024-08-17 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Surviving the Undead Your Ultimate Guide to Thriving in a Zombie Apocalypse** Step into a world where survival is the only option and every decision could mean the difference between life and death. "Surviving the Undead" is your indispensable guide to navigating the treacherous landscape of a zombie apocalypse. This comprehensive eBook breaks down every aspect of survival, from initial threat assessment to long-term community building, ensuring you’re prepared for whatever comes your way. **Unlock the Secrets of Tactical Combat** Begin with an in-depth understanding of the many types of zombies and the psychological fortitude required to engage in combat. Develop critical self-defense strategies, including situational awareness, evasion techniques, and hand-to-hand combat skills to keep you one step ahead of the undead. **Mastering Weaponry and Close-Quarters Combat** Learn to select and handle a variety of weapons—from melee tools to firearms and improvised devices. Our detailed sections on grappling, striking techniques, and defensive maneuvers will equip you with the skills needed for intense, close-quarters encounters. **Building a Fortress** Discover foolproof methods for securing your home and establishing a safe zone. Dive into tactics for creating effective barricades, setting traps, and maintaining a fortified perimeter. Don't just survive—turn your haven into an impenetrable fortress. **Navigating and Reconnaissance Tactics** Master the art of stealth and reconnaissance to move undetected and scout for vital resources. Detailed guidance on navigating urban and rural settings will help you mitigate risks and optimize your movements in various environments. **Forming a Combat-Ready Team** The fight against the undead is not a solo endeavor. Learn essential leadership skills, team communication techniques, and how to build a cohesive combat squad that can face any threat head-on. Develop strategies for dealing with both human and zombie adversaries, ensuring your group's survival. **Resilience and Long-Term Survival** "Surviving the Undead" isn't just about immediate combat. Learn to manage injuries, control infections, and provide basic first aid. Delve into strategies for sustainable living, including food and water procurement, non-combat skills, and establishing trade and alliances. Prepare for the ultimate test of survival with a guide that covers everything from legal considerations to community defense. Ensure your preparedness for evolving threats, exploring innovations in survival gear, and advanced combat tactics. Are you ready to lead, adapt, and conquer in the face of an undead uprising? Secure your copy of "Surviving the Undead" today and turn the apocalypse into your personal battleground.
