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Latin America 2022-2023 / by Beezley, William H.editor.(CARDINAL)141904;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-466).The World Today Series: Latin America offers the latest available economic, demographic, political, and cultural information. Including solid statistical data expressing freedom, violence, and governmental orientation. Consideration is given to the evolving relationships with the United States and other Latin American nations. Revisions have also addressed new historical interpretations, for example, of the history of Mexico and latest political changes, for example, in Venezuela and Cuba. Maps, charts, and photographs provide extensive visual expressions of the region, its geography, peoples, and cultures, in particular public architecture, agricultural technology, specular geology, and striking diversity. The images offer a narrative of the multiplicity of peoples as demonstrated in their clothing, economic and everyday activities, their physical surroundings. Consequently, the narrative combines global economics, national politics, and daily social life throughout the region. The chapters can be read as individual histories for each of the countries, within the context created by contrasts and similarities with the other nations of Latin America.
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Latin America / by Beezley, William H.,author.(CARDINAL)141904;
Includes bibliographical references.The World Today Series: Latin America offers the latest available economic, demographic, political, and cultural information. Including solid statistical data expressing freedom, violence, and governmental orientation. Consideration is given to the evolving relationships with the United States and other Latin American nations. Revisions have also addressed new historical interpretations, for example, of the history of Mexico and latest political changes, for example, in Venezuela and Cuba. Maps, charts, and photographs provide extensive visual expressions of the region, its geography, peoples, and cultures, in particular public architecture, agricultural technology, specular geology, and striking diversity. The images offer a narrative of the multiplicity of peoples as demonstrated in their clothing, economic and everyday activities, their physical surroundings. Consequently, the narrative combines global economics, national politics, and daily social life throughout the region. The chapters can be read as individual histories for each of the countries, within the context created by contrasts and similarities with the other nations of Latin America.
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Naomi's guide to aging gratefully : facts, myths, and good news for boomers / by Judd, Naomi.(CARDINAL)370119;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-247) and index."At 78 million strong, baby-boomers have become America's largest demographic. Here, Judd debunks society's harmful myths about aging and finds more meaningful ways we can define ourselves so we can enjoy (rather than dread) getting older. She offers tips on finding simplicity, streamlining possessions, disengaging from "energy vampires, " and discovering the most effective ways to support your life force and boost your energy. Naomi has a solution-oriented approach to everything from beauty tips to getting in sync hormonally with bioidentical HRT. She also offers wisdom on dealing with grief as well as enlightening ideas on how to recognize and enjoy your own uniqueness no matter how old you are.--From publisher description."--From source other than the Library of Congress
Subjects: Older people; Older people; Middle-aged persons; Middle-aged persons; Baby boom generation.; Aging; Self-actualization (Psychology); Self-perception.;
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The bright continent : breaking rules and making change in modern Africa / by Olopade, Dayo,author.(CARDINAL)610830;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-256) and index.
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The halfway house movement; a search for sanity / by Raush, Harold L.(CARDINAL)132854; Raush, Charlotte L.(CARDINAL)347561;
Bibliography: pages 227-237.Look at the past -- Forces toward innovation -- Developments in social psychiatry -- Impact of psychoanalysis -- Residential work with children -- Studies by social scientists -- Changing conceptions of mental illness -- Toward a definition of the halfway house -- Defining the sample -- Sample -- Questionnaire -- Development and initiation of halfway houses -- Growth of the movement -- How they get started -- Initial relations with the community -- How to approach the community -- Attitudes of the professional community -- Structual aspects of the halfway house -- Ecological and physical features -- Location of halfway houses -- Architectural aspects -- Legal and financial structure -- Demographic structure: Who lives in a halfway house -- Where residents come from -- Diagnostic issues -- Age and sex in relation to structure -- Normals in halfway houses -- Administrative structures: models for halfway houses -- Nonprofessionally verus professionally managed houses -- Traditional versus innovative styles -- Administrative boards -- Tasks of halfway houses; the new resident -- Selecting the new resident -- Orientation and introduction -- Living in the house: codes for the resident -- Mental hospital and halfway house -- Written and unwritten rules -- Rules, proscriptions, requirements -- Enforcement of rules -- Work -- Work and the mental hospital -- Halfway house and work -- Volunteer work -- Work in the house -- Therapy -- Therapy and the halfway house -- Psychotherapy -- Where and by whom -- Problems of therapy -- Drugs -- Social environment -- Social structure of the halfway house -- Value system of the halfway house -- Rules and rituals -- Space, time, and props -- Interactions and the life space interview -- Resiliency potential of the halfway house -- Leaving the halfway house -- Time of stay -- Where residents go on leaving -- Post-departure relationships -- Problems of separation: premature leaver and the permanent resident -- Summary, implications, and prospects
Subjects: Mentally ill; Community mental health services.;
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Unsettled visions : contemporary Asian American artists and the social imaginary / by Machida, Margo,author.(CARDINAL)279815; Duke University Press,publisher.(CARDINAL)290492;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-351) and index."In Unsettled Visions the activist, curator, and scholar Margo Machida presents a pioneering, in-depth exploration of contemporary Asian American visual art. Machida focuses on works produced during the watershed 1990s, when surging Asian immigration had significantly altered the demographic, cultural, and political contours of Asian America, and a renaissance in Asian American art and visual culture was well underway. Machida conducted extensive interviews with ten artists working during this transformative period: women and men of Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese descent, most of whom migrated to the United States. In dialogue with the artists, Machida illuminates and contextualizes the origins and intent behind bodies of their work. Analyses of the work of individual artists are grouped around three of the major themes that Asian American artists engaged with during the 1990s: representations of the other; social memory and trauma; and migration, diaspora, and a sense of place."--Jacket.
Subjects: Asian American art; Asian American artists; Asian American arts;
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The end of secularism / by Baker, Hunter,1970-(CARDINAL)495283;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Beginning from my story -- Secularism as an academic subject -- Understanding secularism -- Previewing the path of the argument against secularism -- The early church and the empire -- The rise of Christianity and the challenge of power -- From persecuted minority to rule by the Lord's man -- The religion of the state, but not the state's religion -- Augustine's state : necessary evil or true justice -- By what right, by what power? -- The surprising return of the classical world -- New winds blowing : two reformers and a schemer -- Calvin -- Luther -- Machiavelli -- Reformation's wake : uneasy pluralism and social contracts -- The social contract -- Hobbes -- Locke -- Rousseau -- American story : religious expatriates, a new world, and awakening -- The Puritan community -- Roger Williams -- Jonathan Edwards, new lights, old lights -- American awakening -- France : a different kind of revolution -- To topple throne and altar -- Dividing loyalties -- Goddess reason and the Supreme Being -- Reconciliation and surging nationalism -- Analyzing the evolution of church, state, and secularism -- What is the state? -- What is the church? -- Whence comes the power? -- Secularism emerging through deism -- The American model, the American controversy -- What do you mean by Enlightenment? -- When it was harder to get on the church rolls -- Awakening to independence -- Politics and religion -- Against the Christian nation hypothesis -- A better understanding -- Robert Palmer's contribution -- Religion clause deconstruction and re-orientation -- What about the no religious test clause? -- More important, what about the Fourteenth Amendment? -- American Christianity : triumph and trial -- Powerful Protestantism -- And the fall ... -- The spiritual price of slavery -- The apparent denouement : the fundamentalist-modernist controversy and the public embarrassment of the Monkey Trial -- Comeback/re-engagement -- The old establishment : mainline fade-out -- Secularism : a failed strategy for social peace -- The rise and fall of secularization theory -- Secularization theory and politics -- A poor strategy for common ground -- Secularism and postmodernity -- The secular rawlsian defense -- Purpose-driven secularism -- Secularists and their revolution -- The under-acknowledged secularist demographic -- The non-uniqueness of theocratic danger -- System v. lifeworld -- The department of God -- Christian self-interest and lessons learned -- The cautionary tale of Sweden -- Separation of church and state versus secularism -- The legend of warfare between science and religion -- Presenting warfare between science and religion -- The success of a legend -- Science and the early church -- Science and religion in the dark ages -- Professionalizers of science in the victorian era -- Darwin in America -- The knowledge situation -- Appreciating science -- Limitations of science -- Science, ethics, being human -- Who owns science? -- Science, secularism, politics -- Secularists sit one out in the Bible belt -- Alabama, Jesus, and the tax code -- Hamill's argument -- The governor, the churches, and the Christian Coalition -- Aftermath -- Application.Argues that advocates of secularism misunderstand the borders between science, religion, and politics and cannot solve the problem of religious difference. --from publisher description
Subjects: Christianity and politics.; Christianity and politics; Church and state.; Church and state; Religion and politics.; Secularism.;
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The coming of neo-feudalism : a warning to the global middle class / by Kotkin, Joel,author.(CARDINAL)160524;
Includes bibliographical references and index.How feudalism came back -- The oligarchs -- The clerisy -- The embattled yeomanry -- The new serfs -- The new geography of feudalism -- A manifesto for the third estate"Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last seventy years saw a massive expansion of the middle class, not only in America but in much of the developed world, today that class is declining and a new, more hierarchical society is emerging. The new class structure resembles that of Medieval times. At the apex of the new order are two classes-a reborn clerical elite, the clerisy, which dominates the upper part of the professional ranks, universities, media and culture, and a new aristocracy led by tech oligarchs with unprecedented wealth and growing control of information. These two classes correspond to the old French First and Second Estates. Below these two classes lies what was once called the Third Estate. This includes the yeomanry, which is made up largely of small businesspeople, minor property owners, skilled workers and private-sector oriented professionals. Ascendant for much of modern history, this class is in decline while those below them, the new Serfs, grow in numbers-a vast, expanding property-less population. The trends are mounting, but we can still reverse them-if people understand what is actually occurring and have the capability to oppose them"--
Subjects: Social classes; Distribution (Economic theory); Social history;
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Escape rooms and other immersive experiences in the library / by Kroski, Ellyssa,author.(CARDINAL)285708;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-182) and index.Escape rooms and immersive experiences explained -- The escape room opportunity -- Escape room activity in libraries -- How to host a pre-designed escape room event -- How to design an escape room from scratch -- How to create a pop-up escape room -- How to create an escape room enthusiasts club -- How to host an immersive experience -- How to host a kid-friendly escape room event -- How to design a digital breakout -- All about escape room board games -- How to host an escape room event for team building and staff training -- How to add a hi-tech twist to your escape room -- Start-to-finish model: The search for Alexander Hamilton and the missing librarian -- Appendixes: A. Escape room set-up document template -- B. Escape room puzzle document template."Escape rooms are live, interactive, adventure games in which participants must team up to solve a series of riddles, puzzles, and challenges in order to win. "Immersive experiences" are a sort of Escape-Room Lite, more casual, no timers or lockdowns. Escape Rooms worldwide have quadrupled in the past three years, and libraries are getting in the act. Scavenger hunts have been a library orientation staple, puzzles, clues, and team competitions add to the fun. When it comes to STEM or curriculum support, what better way to learn chemistry than the immersive play of a wizardry potion class. Author Ellyssa Kroski, an escape room enthusiast and potions class graduate, shows a full range of options with how-to guidance, on such topics as: Hosting a pre-designed game from leading educational supplier, BreakoutEDU.com. Start-to-finish, replicable model Kroski developed for her library--Search for Alexander Hamilton and the Missing Librarian. How to design your own escape room from scratch. Descriptive listing of 16 library projects with audience demographics, run-time, required staff, and budget. Resources for making crossword, sudoku, or jigsaw puzzles. Escape room board games or a digital breakout with Google tools. Pop-up escape rooms to take on the road for outreach. Bring LARP to your library, live-action role-playing, the most popular immersive experience. How to create an escape room flow-chart for planning. Designing a kid-friendly escape room. Vendor listings of the all the supplies you'll need. Planning template for an escape room project"--
Subjects: Libraries; Group problem solving.; Escapes (Amusements);
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Deadly force : police shootings in urban America / by Clark, Thomas S.,1980-author; Glynn, Adam,author; Owens, Michael Leo,author;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Chutes and ladders : collecting records of police shootings -- Good records? -- How many people do the police shoot? -- Where do the police shoot? -- Who do the police shoot? -- When police shootings kill."A deep exploration of police shootings in America, informed by the most comprehensive data yet assembled on notoriously non-transparent topic. As much attention as police violence has garnered in recent years, one central frustration has stymied attempts to understand exactly what is happening, why, and to whom: the lack of data on use of force. This project pulls together the results of a massive data-gathering project on police shootings from all US cities with over 100,000 people. The authors use this information to answer pressing questions-and reveal much needed insight-around police shootings in America today. The authors explore first why it is so difficult to get good data on police shootings and provide fascinating and troubling details on the difficulty-and sometimes, impossibility-of getting records from police departments, and what strategies are needed to put together nation-wide numbers that are complete as possible. They then turn to central questions and their answers, pointing out surprising insights as they go. In exploring how many officer-involved shootings happen in a city, for instance, they find that oversight boards and the political orientation of city leadership have little impact, but that the size of the police force does. And, intriguingly, as one considers movements to defund the police, they find police shootings are highest in cities with under-resourced officers-indicating that some efforts to "defang" forces may have the opposite effect. Later chapters look at where within cities shootings happen, the demographics of victims, and the fatality rate of shootings. The authors end the book by considering what these new data tell us about how to decrease the frequency and deadliness of armed actions by American police"--"A groundbreaking study of when, where, and whom police shoot in America's largest cities Police shootings in America spark outrage and protest and raise questions about police use of lethal force. Yet despite the attention given to high-profile shootings, it is extremely difficult to draw wider conclusions about the frequency and outcomes of police gunfire because there is no systematic and centralized source of information on these incidents. This pioneering book draws on original data, compiled by the authors, to examine police shootings, both fatal and non-fatal, in hundreds of American cities. It documents racial disparities in shooting incidents and shows that the media spotlight on the most shocking fatal shootings tell only part of the story of police gunfire in our cities.The authors find that there are patterns in when, where, and whom the police shoot, and they present strong evidence of unjustifiable disparities. It's not just that young, unarmed Black men are disproportionately subjected to gunfire during encounters with police officers; there is also a disproportionate concentration of shootings in the places where most Black and Hispanic urbanites live, even accounting for violent crime rates and other factors. As a consequence, Black and Hispanic residents of large cities are disproportionately exposed to police gunfire, even when they are not themselves the targets of it. The authors offer other insights as well, exploring the connection between department funding and rates of shootings, and considering the influence of a city's political leadership on police use of gunfire. It is only through a deeper understanding of police shootings, the authors argue, that we can reduce their incidence and make effective reform possible"--
Subjects: Police shootings; Law enforcement;
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