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Author : Lester R. Brown
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393240061
An inspirational memoir tracing Lester Brown's life from a small-farm childhood to leadership as a global environmental activist.
Author : Robert J. Chadwick
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 45,60 MB
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : Conflict management
ISBN : 9781470175153
Conflict is at the heart of life. It impacts relationships of the heart, the home, the community, and at work. Most flee from it, some embrace it, but few learn how to master conflict and productively transform it into a consensus. Author Robert Chadwick is one of those few. For over forty years, he has been helping individuals and communities experience and learn how to best address their personal, interpersonal, and intergroup conflicts. In Finding New Ground, he shares his insights and a process from his storied career as a conflict resolution manager. He shows readers how to apply these insights and the process in their own life situations, finding new ground in their relationships, creating a path to a way of being that changes everyone around them. The author's purpose is to help you experience, learn, and understand a process for addressing and resolving conflicts and building consensus with 100 percent agreement. The book informs readers on how people define conflict, their feelings about it, what causes it, the arenas in which it occurs, and why conflict must always be confronted. It demonstrates why people avoid resolving their conflicts. It demonstrates what a true consensus is and why it is always possible. A central section of the book explores an intergroup conflict that erupts over the use of a fictional river basin in the American West. This fictional account is based on Chadwick's real-life experience, providing a context for learning about the process in a real way. You are part of the story as a co-facilitator with the author. Throughout this story the actual words and statements of previous workshop participants are used to create a sense of reality. Through this story, the reader will vicariously experience and understand the complexity of this simple consensus building process and learn how to apply the skills and tools for finding new ground. These include the use of the circle, listening with respect, empowering yourself and others, creating a sense of equity, and fostering a sense of community. This real life situation shows how a conflict-riddled group moved from divisiveness and animosity to consensus while they crafted a short term purpose, a long term vision, articulated shared beliefs, and developed a common strategic plan. His model of consensus building has worked across different cultures. It has been deployed in countries like India, Thailand, Canada, Hong Kong, Russia, and Belgium. His workshop participants cut a wide swath through contemporary society, ranging from loggers and librarians to police officers, educators, and professional managers. His methods have been used by people from a range of ages, from kindergarten students to senior citizens in their ninth decade of life. Chadwick's book presents a proven transformative model for addressing contemporary conflicts and building consensus. Individuals, families, community, churches, and businesses all stand to learn a lot from his unique approach to finding new ground. His method is grounded in reality, and through building consensus allows participants to move beyond the hostility of conflict to fostering the creation of civility and community.
Author : Andrea DeCapua
Publisher : University of Michigan Press ELT
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Education, Urban
ISBN : 9780472034529
Breaking New Ground offers a new understanding of the SLIFE population and teaches readers how to address the needs of their students using project-based learning infused with MALP.--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Author : Claude A. Clegg
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 26,59 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252090098
In Troubled Ground, Claude A. Clegg III revisits a violent episode in his hometown's history that made national headlines in the early twentieth century but disappeared from public consciousness over the decades. Moving swiftly between memory and history, between the personal and the political, Clegg offers insights into southern history, mob violence, and the formation of American race ideology while coming to terms on a personal level with the violence of the past. Three black men were killed in front of a crowd of thousands in Salisbury, North Carolina, in 1906, following the ax murder of a local white family for whom the men had worked. One of the lynchers was prosecuted for his role in the execution, the first conviction of its kind in North Carolina and one of the earliest in the country. Yet Clegg, an academic historian who grew up in Salisbury, had never heard of the case until 2002 and could not find anyone else familiar with the case. In this book, Clegg mines newspaper accounts and government records and links the victims of the 1906 case to a double-lynching in 1902, suggesting a complex history of lynching in the area while revealing the determination of the city to rid its history of a shameful and shocking chapter. The result is a multi-layered, deeply personal exploration of lynching and lynching prosecutions in the United States.
Author : Axel Carl Bredahl
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 34,75 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780807818541
New Ground: Western American Narrative and the Literary Canon
Author : Catherine Anne Cavanaugh
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 35,74 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780888642585
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Author : Peggy Tully
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781616890926
It is said that the history of modern architecture can be observed through the evolution of the single-family home. Over generations, each has hoped to improve on the last, rethinking and reinventing this seemingly simple building type. At certain historic moments in the discourse, new ideas about domesticity have given form to radically different configurations of home and community. Current emphasis on sustainability presents a unique opportunity to design affordable houses that respond to specific economic, social, and environmental challenges. In From the Ground Up editor Peggy Tully presents the results of an international competition to create new models for affordable high-performance green homes in urban residential neighborhoods. Developed for a vacant infill site in Syracuse's Near Westside, these ambitious projects offer an array of innovative designs that provide a new vision for once-vital urban residential neighborhoods and well-designed energy-efficient homes throughout the United States.
Author : Joyce Hansen
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 14,43 MB
Release : 1998-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780805050127
In September 1991, archaeologists began to turn up graves and bodies in lower Manhattan. Well-known maps had shown that this was the site of New York's first burial ground for slaves and free blacks. "Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence" uses the rediscovery of the burial grounds as a window on a fascinating side of colonial history and as an introduction to the careful science that is uncovering all of the secrets of the past.
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Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,69 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Drinking of alcoholic beverages
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Author : Partha Ghose
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 19,20 MB
Release : 1999-04-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521554632
Simple accounts of experiments which test the counterintuitive and bizarre consequences of quantum theory.