Download or read book Paradox of Plenty written by Harvey Levenstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-05-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended for those interested in US food habits and diets during the 20th century, American history, American social life and customs.

Download or read book In the Midst of Plenty written by Marybeth Shinn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Nan Roman, President and CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness This book explains how to end the U.S. homelessness crisis by bringing together the best scholarship on the subject and sharing solutions that both local communities and national policy-makers can apply now. In the Midst of Plenty shifts understanding of homelessness away from individual disability to larger contexts of poverty, income inequality, housing affordability, and social exclusion. Homelessness experts Shinn and Khadduri provide guidance on how to end homelessness for people who experience it and how to prevent so many people from reaching the point where they have no alternative to sleeping on the street or in emergency shelters. The authors show that we know how to end homelessness—if we devote the necessary resources to doing so. In the Midst of Plenty: Homelessness and What to Do About It is an excellent resource for policy-makers, professionals in the homeless services system, and anyone else who wants to end homelessness. It also can serve as a text in undergraduate or masters courses in public policy, sociology, psychology, social work, urban studies, or housing policy. "The knowledgeable and thoughtful authors of this book—two brilliant women who know as much as anyone in the country about the nature of homelessness and its solutions—have done a great service by taking us on a journey through the history of homelessness, how our responses have changed, and how we can end it." —Nan Roman, President and CEO National Alliance to End Homelessness. "Shinn and Khadduri's new book is a thorough yet concise examination of what we know about the nature and causes of homelessness, and the crucial lessons learned. This critically important work provides a roadmap to restoring basic housing and income security as viable policy options, in the face of our daunting inequality divide that otherwise threatens millions with destitution and homelessness." —Dennis Culhane, Dana and Andrew Stone Professor of Social Policy, University of Pennsylvania "Marybeth Shinn and Jill Khadduri have combined their significant expertise to create an essential guide about the history of modern homelessness and to offer a clear path forward to end this American tragedy. Their policy recommendations on ending homelessness are culled from the best about what we know works." —Barbara Poppe, Executive Director US Interagency Council on Homeless, 2009-2014

Download or read book Closing the Food Gap written by Mark Winne and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful call to arms offers a realistic vision for getting locally produced, healthy food onto everyone’s table, “[blending] a passion for sustainable living with compassion for the poor” (Dr. Jane Goodall) In Closing the Food Gap, food activist and journalist Mark Winne poses questions too often overlooked in our current conversations around food: What about those people who are not financially able to make conscientious choices about where and how to get food? And in a time of rising rates of both diabetes and obesity, what can we do to make healthier foods available for everyone? To address these questions, Winne tells the story of how America’s food gap has widened since the 1960s, when domestic poverty was “rediscovered,” and how communities have responded with a slew of strategies and methods to narrow the gap, including community gardens, food banks, and farmers’ markets. The story, however, is not only about hunger in the land of plenty and the organized efforts to reduce it; it is also about doing that work against a backdrop of ever-growing American food affluence and gastronomical expectations. With the popularity of Whole Foods and increasingly common community-supported agriculture (CSA), wherein subscribers pay a farm so they can have fresh produce regularly, the demand for fresh food is rising in one population as fast as rates of obesity and diabetes are rising in another. Over the last three decades, Winne has found a way to connect impoverished communities experiencing these health problems with the benefits of CSAs and farmers’ markets; in Closing the Food Gap, he explains how he came to his conclusions. With tragically comic stories from his many years running a model food organization, the Hartford Food System in Connecticut, alongside fascinating profiles of activists and organizations in communities across the country, Winne addresses head-on the struggles to improve food access for all of us, regardless of income level.

Download or read book Fields of Plenty written by and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2005-10-13 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fields of Plenty is the memoir of respected farmer, writer, and photographer Michael Ableman as he and his son travel from his own farm in British Columbia across the United States in search of innovative and passionate farmers who are making a difference in what we eat and how we experience food. From California to New York, this story captures the essence of each farmer's vision, the spirit of the land that they work, and the beauty and flavors of the foods that they lovingly produce. Ableman's odyssey takes him to a melon grower who is "militant about flavor," sheep-cheese producers who have built their own culturing caves, an urban farmer growing heirloom tomatoes for market on abandoned lots, and others who are trying to answer the complex questions of sustenance philosophically and, most important, practically." "Fields of Plenty is a hopeful memoir that reveals the larger issues of food in a modern world. Illustrated with Ableman's photographs and flavored with recipes that feature each farmer's bounty, Fields of Plenty is an intimate portrait of food and agriculture at a critical crossroads."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Leader to Leader LTL Volume 76 Spring 2015 written by Bruce Rosenstein and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get insightful articles on leadership, management, and strategy written by today's leaders with this award-winning journal. Brought to you by the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute, Leader to Leader brings together a peerless selection of world-class executives, best-selling management authors, top consultants, and respected social thinkers. Leader to Leader poses provocative questions that challenge your leadership assumptions and provides compelling evidence powerful enough to change your leadership thinking while offering thoughtful analysis of complex leadership issues.

Download or read book Red Plenty written by Francis Spufford and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous." —The Times (London) Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the twentieth-century magic called "the planned economy," which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. Red Plenty is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away; about the brief era when, under the rash leadership of Khrushchev, the Soviet Union looked forward to a future of rich communists and envious capitalists, when Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan and every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche. It's about the scientists who did their genuinely brilliant best to make the dream come true, to give the tyranny its happy ending. Red Plenty is history, it's fiction, it's as ambitious as Sputnik, as uncompromising as an Aeroflot flight attendant, and as different from what you were expecting as a glass of Soviet champagne.

Download or read book The Present Testament Volume Two written by Barbara Ann Mary Mack and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE PRESENT TESTAMENT VOLUME TWO CONSISTS OF THIRTY-ONE GOD DICTATED BOOKS OF MINE. THE PRESENT TESTAMENT CONVEYS THE SUFFERING THAT ACCOMPANY BARBARA, AS SHE DELIVERS GOD'S MESSAGES TO HIS NEEDY CHILDREN.

Download or read book Leading from the Table written by Paul Galbreath and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The communion table stands as an intersection between Word and Sacrament, between memory and hope, between pastor and congregation, between receiving and serving, and between community and individual. Leading from the table, says Paul Galbreath, professor of preaching and worship, is a way of thinking, speaking, acting, and living that grows out of learning to recognize and embody these connections in our lives as a congregation and as individuals. Developing leadership skills that connect the congregation's eucharistic practice to the life and work of the church is essential to moving toward unity within congregations, denominations, and throughout the church. This book is not a how-to manual on presiding techniques, however. Rather, this book is a series of reflections about the way the prayer at the communion table provides a pattern for our lives. The goal is to shift our understanding of table prayer from a formula led by the pastor to a road map that highlights intersections between the practices at the table and the daily practices in the life of the community that gathers around the table.

Download or read book The Present Testament written by Barbara Ann Mary Mack and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Present Testament is a Continuance of the Old and New Testament, in regards to God's Presence in the lives of human beings, Today! God's Presence is expressed through the writings in this book, which consist of a Compilation of Twenty-eight God inspired books, that were composed by Barbara Ann Mary Mack, within the past year. The Present Testament consists of Words and Messages that were given to Barbara, through Divine Communication, to convey to God's children, Today. These Words and Messages were given to Barbara, as the Prophets of the Old and New Testament received from Almighty God. The Present Testament Reveals God's Presence in a Tangible Way, Today! The Present Testament Enlightens its Readers, in regards to the Affirmation of The Christian Faith and Doctrine. The Present Testament, is to be Enjoyed and Respected, as one Enjoys and Respects, The Old and New Testaments.

Download or read book The Present Testament Volume Ten Words of a Messanger written by Barbara Ann Mary Mack and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have been sent by Almighty God to enlighten the sinners. My brothers and sisters, I have been sent by Almighty God, the Blessed and Holy Trinity, to enlighten those who believe that they are saved. My brothers and sisters, your salvation is confirmed by your lifestyles today. Are you living according to Almighty Gods, the Unchangeable Ones, holy words, which flow so eloquently through the Bible? My brothers and sisters, do not be deceived or fooled by Satan, the deceiving realm. In order for one to enjoy the gift of salvation, one must, at all times, exhibit the acts and works of Jesuss version of a Christian. Out of divine mercy for his loved ones on earth today, our Perfect, Unchanging Lord has sent his messenger (Barbara) to recite his holy words in your worthy presence. Because of his great generosity, he has deemed this generation worthy to hear his holy words pertaining to salvation, through his modern-day messenger (Barbara). In the midst of this very tragic period, Almighty God has graced this generation with his holy presence in a tangible form (Barbara) so that those whom he has called and chosen will see his glorious light in the midst of Satans, the worlds, realm of darkness. Behold, my brothers and sisters! Behold the generosity of our caring and merciful God! For he is truly in our midst today. Hallelujah! March 1, 2016, at 5:28 p.m., by Barbara Ann Mary MackUndo

Download or read book Ancient Egypt Light Of The World 2 Vol set written by Gerald Massey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005. This expansive and fascinating treatment of ancient Egyptian mythology and its influence on the traditions that followed from it includes explorations of sign-language in mythological representation, totemism, fetishism, spirits and Gods, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, and Egyptian wisdom in the Hebrew Genesis. Readers will enjoy the wealth of information offered by Massey, as well as his clear and readable style.

Download or read book The Present Testament Volume Three Behold My Manifestation Barbara on Earth Today Says the Lord written by Barbara Ann Mary Back and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 991 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara and her daughter La Toya, share and spread The Goodness of The Lord. MY LORD: AS A CHILD YOU REVEALED TO ME BARBARA SPEAKING TO THE LORD Your wonders: Your Majesty: Your Sovereignty: Your Holiness: Your Faithfulness: Your Truth: Your Continuous Love: Your Continuous Mercy: Your due Reverence: Your Grace: Your Kindness: Your Omnipotence: Your Omnipresence: Your Holy Words: Your Fulfilled Promises: My Divine assignment: the depth of Your Sanctity and Love: My Lord, when I was a child, You revealed Your Holy Essence to me...

Download or read book Struggling in the Land of Plenty written by Anne R. Roschelle and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the conclusion of the twentieth century, the US economy was booming, but the gap between the rich and poor widened significantly in the 1990s, poverty rates among women and children skyrocketed, and there was an unprecedented rise in familial homelessness. Based on a four-year ethnographic study, Anne R. Roschelle examines how socially structured race, class, and gender inequality contributed to the rise in family homelessness and the devastating consequences for parents and their children. Struggling in the Land of Plenty analyzes the appalling conditions under which homeless women and children live, the violence endemic to their lives, the role of the welfare state in perpetrating poverty, and their never-ending struggle for survival.

Download or read book The Present Testament Volume Eleven written by Barbara Ann Mary Mack and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Present Testament Volume Eleven is one of a series of my God-dictated published books. My books reveal the presence of Almighty God during this generation as his presence was revealed within the Hly Bible. The Present Testament Volume Eleven reveals my position as Gods sent modern-day messenger and prophetess. The passages within my books are messages from the Lord God today. Because Almighty God is unchanging, some of the contents of this book may be familiar to the Christian readers. Oh, what a blessed period of time that we live in! For Almighty God has shown his holy presence and visibility through me, one of his humbled servants and bride. Let us give him continuous praise, glory, and acknowledgment!

Download or read book Fallow Lands of Plenty written by Eric Klein and published by IAP. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can public schools feed themselves? That deceptively simple question is like a fingernail picking at a fray in the fabric of 21st century public education. Fallow Lands of Plenty chronicles one high school’s attempt to feed itself and, in doing so, unravels the fabric of neoliberal education, exposes its logics of dependence and control, and begins to weave a new tapestry of education for community cooperation and resilience. Set during the ongoing transition between post-industrial globalization and the community structures that are to come, this rich narrative moves from furrows of Appalachian red clay soil, to the mountaintop homesteads of elder seed savers, to the conveyor belts of sterilized food sorting machines, and, finally, to a school’s cafeteria on the day that 250 portions of student-grown sweet potatoes were served. Along the way, Fallow Lands centers knowledges of place as well as the literal and metaphorical seeds of relocalized food and education systems. Critical and theoretically informed, the text disobeys the values, purpose and canon of public education and proposes a fledgling pedagogy to address the challenges of the coming age. ENDORSEMENTS: "Eric Klein’s Fallow Lands of Plenty is a stirring manifesto for transforming public schools into centers of learning about community resilience and for transitioning to a “pedagogy of relocalization” that prepares students for the unstructuring of the hegemonic corporate food regime set in motion by climate collapse. What sets Fallow Lands of Plenty apart is the ethic of relational care that informs Klein’s deeply personal style of writing. Incisive, radical, and accessible, the writing uplifts students, teachers, elders, cafeteria women, and extension agents as co-producers of new modes of public schooling in rural Appalachia that foster collective ownership of learning and intergenerational transfers of knowledge cast out by official state curricula." — Anatoli Ignatov, Appalachian State University "A must read for today and tomorrow’s generations. Fallow Lands of Plenty reminds us that our ancestors did things a certain way, for certain reasons, and the survival of this knowledge may very well mean our own." — Heath Robertson, Cherokee Central Schools

Download or read book In the Shadow of Plenty written by George Parkin Grant and published by Christian Liberty Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will provide teenagers with biblical answers for the tough problems posed by poverty and the modern welfare state.The author, Dr. George Grant, has written over twenty books on theology, history, and poverty."

Download or read book The Origin and Evolution of Religion Routledge Revivals written by Albert Churchward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Churchward’s The Origin and Evolution of Religion, first published in 1924, explores the history and development of different religions worldwide, from the religious cults of magic and fetishism to contemporary religions such as Christianity and Islam. This text is ideal for students of theology.