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People Profile - HOME People Profile Courage is Contagious: Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things to Change the Face of America by John Kasich, A modern-day Profiles in Courage about twenty people who are doing heroic things to improve the lives of their fellow Americans. Now available in trade paperback, Courage Is Contagious is a remarkable document about everyday people helping to reshape America. Written by Congressman John Kasich, the book profiles twenty men and women from across the country who have, through their own courage, determination, and generous hearts, attempted to improve the lot of ...

Woman Culture and Society - HOME Woman Culture and Society Selling Suffrage: Consumer Culture and Votes for Women by Margaret Finnegan, Margaret Finnegan's pathbreaking study of woman suffrage from the 1850s to the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 reveals how activists came to identify with consumer culture and employ its methods of publicity to win popular support through carefully crafted images of enfranchised women as "personable, likable, and modern." Drawing on organization records, suffragists' papers and memoirs, and newspapers and magazines, Finnegan shows how women found it in their political interest to ally themselves with the rise of ...

Religion Shintoism Society Spirituality - HOME Religion Shintoism Society Spirituality History of Japanese Religion by Kazuo Kasahara, Seventeen distinguished experts on Japanese religion provide a fascinating overview of its history and development. Beginning with the origins of religion in primitive Japanese society, they chart the growth of each of Japan's major religious organizations and doctrinal systems. They follow Buddhism, Shintoism, Christianity, and popular religious belief through major periods of change to show how history and religion affected each other -- and discuss the interactions between the different religious traditions. A History of Japanese Religion closes with discussions of ...

Anachronism Creative History Living Society - HOME Anachronism Creative History Living Society The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life by Gene D. Cohen, In a single generation, the view of life after fifty has changed dramatically.Today's society is shaped by unprecedented growth in the number of people living in their "golden years," shifting patterns of work and home life, and advances in health care that offer the promise of longer, more active lives. In this fascinating, life-affirming book, Dr. Gene Cohen debunks harmful myths about aging and illuminates the biological and ...

Living History - HOME Living History Women in African Colonial Histories: An Introduction by Susan Geiger, How did African women negotiate the complex political, economic, and social forces of colonialism in their daily lives? How did they make meaningful lives for themselves in a world that challenged fundamental notions of work, sexuality, marriage, motherhood, and family? By considering the lives of ordinary African women -- farmers, queen mothers, midwives, urban dwellers, migrants, and political leaders -- in the context of particular colonial conditions at specific places and times, Women in African Colonial Histories challenges the notion of a ...

Health Informatics Medicine - ... to provider communication; privacy and confidentiality; ethical issues; evaluation methods, and more. Who Will Keep the Public Healthy? by Kristine M. Gebbie, X Bioterrorism, drug-resistant disease, transmission of disease by global travel...there's no shortage of challenges facing America's public health officials. Men and women preparing to enter the field require state-of-the-art training to meet these increasing threats to the public health. But are the programs they rely on prepared to provide the high caliber professional training they require? Who Will Keep the Public Healthy? provides an overview of the past, present, and future of public health education, assessing its readiness to provide the training and education needed to prepare men and women to face 21st century challenges. Advocating an ecological approach to public health, the Institute of Medicine examines the role of public health schools and degree-granting programs, medical schools, nursing schools, and government agencies, as well as other institutions that foster public health education and ...

Society for Public Health Education - HOME Society for Public Health Education African American Women and Poverty: Can Education Alone Change the Status Quo? by Catherine M. Casserly, Health care policy and proposals for national health care reform have become some of the most contentious political issues of the decade. Garland Publishing announces a new series addressing the most significant issues in the area of health care policy and the business of health care in the United States. books in this multidisciplinary series will include studies of health care practice, the health care business, the implications of multicultural perspectives ...

People Village - HOME People Village Civility in an English Village by William Stephens, This English village has "solved" most of our American social problems. The village is not perfect, and some problems remain. But in many ways it stands as a lesson to us all. The village is safe. Women can walk at night. People are trusting. Conflict is kept down. The people are so tolerant that troublemakers, eccentrics, shy and awkward persons, are taken in and included in the social life. Children are well-behaved. The school trains them to be this way. Since ...

Homeless People - HOME Homeless People Young Homeless People by Suzanne Fitzpatrick, "Young Homeless People takes a broad approach to the distressing phenomenon of youth homelessness. While politicians, researchers and the media focus on the more visibly homeless--those sleeping in city streets and shelters--this book also considers the young homeless hidden in local communities. It places young people's experiences of homelessness in the context of their biographies as a whole and makes policy and practice recommendations based on the views and preferences of young homeless people themselves. Tell Them Who I Am: The ...

Social Justice Organization - HOME Social Justice Organization Identity, Place, Knowledge: Social Movements Contesting Globalization Coalition formation, broad-based campaign organizing, and activist education are among the methods discussed in this practical text for grassroots organizations attempting to advance their goals. The execution of social movements on a day-to-day basis is explained with attention to how social justice organizations struggle because many of the groups are disparate and poorly organized. The specific experiences of a leader of the Metro Network for Social Justice in Toronto are analyzed in detail to provide a practical discusssion of ...

Islamic Society of North America - HOME Islamic Society of North America Portrait of Islam: A Journey Through the Muslim World by Robin Laurance, From Africa's Atlantic shore, through North Africa, the Middle East, Central, South, and Southeast Asia, to the far-flung Pacific islands of Indonesia, the Islamic world extends over a vast portion of the globe, embracing approximately one-fifth of the planet's population. Yet, despite the presence of substantial Muslim communities in North America and Europe, the Islamic peoples -- their lands, history, culture, art, and faith -- remain largely unknown, ignored, or misunderstood by much of the Western world. The wonderful photographs taken by Robin Laurance on his journey through the heart of Islam will do much to dispel such ignorance of the realities of ...

American Lung Cancer Society - HOME American Lung Cancer Society American Cancer Society's Complete Guide to Prostate Cancer American Cancer Society's Complete Guide to Prostate Cancer American Cancer Society's Complete Guide to Complementary and Alternative Cancer Methods, 2nd Edition American Cancer Society's Complete Guide to Complementary and Alternative Cancer Methods, 2nd Edition American Cancer Society - The American Cancer Society (ACS) is a medical organization in the United States. Its mission statement says that the organization is a "nationwide community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing ...

Society Lifestyle Choice - HOME Society Lifestyle Choice Successful Aging by John Wallis Rowe, Here at last is a compelling and inspiring presentation of what determines how well we age--the results of the MacArthur Foundation Study of Aging in America, which show how to maintain optimum physical and mental strength throughout later life. Research into aging has been revolutionized in the past ten years largely due to the MacArthur Study, which under the leadership of Drs. John W. Rowe and Robert L. Kahn created a network of leading research scientists from key fields to determine what aging actually involves. Rejecting the established approach of studying aging in terms of anticipated decline, these scientists set out to identify the factors that were enabling vast numbers of people to preserve and even enhance their mental and physical vitality in later life. "Successful Aging brings together the remarkable results of the study for the first time. They explode the myths about aging that have long shaped individual and institutional attitudes toward growing older, including ...

Background Free Information People - HOME Background Free Information People Beauty Without the Beasts: How to Look and Feel Great and Be Cruelty-Free by Heather Chase, Today's consumers are growing increasingly animal-conscious. In recent polls, sixty percent of women said they preferred products that were not tested on animals, while seventy-two percent of Americans said they preferred synthetic fur instead of animal fur. Yet, caring, compassionate people still wonder how they can look and feel great without wearing or consuming animal products. Heather Chase has the answer. In her groundbreaking book, Chase provides information ...

Poland People - HOME Poland People The Red and the White: The Cinema of People's Poland "The Red and the White: The Cinema of People's Poland" takes a fascinating look at the history of Polish cinema from 1945 to 1989. Exploring how Poland was affected by the political, social and cultural upheavals throughout those eras. Poland has produced a number of successful and highly regarded directors. Paul Coates pays particular attention to the work of Krzysztof Kieslowski and Andrzej Wajda while placing them within the wider context of Polish cinema. This volume includes unique ...

Black Justice Social - HOME Black Justice Social Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice by Patricia Hill Collins, When Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins was published in 1990, reviewers called it "remarkable", "rich and valuable", and proclaimed, "with the publication of this book, Black feminism has moved to a new level". Now, in Fighting Words, Collins expands and extends the discussion of the "outsider within" presented in her earlier work, investigating how effectively Black feminist thought confronts the injustices African American women currently face. Collins takes on a broad range of issues -- poverty, mothering, white supremacy and Afrocentrism, the resegregation of American society by race and class, the ideas of Sojourner Truth and how they can serve as a springboard for more liberating social theory. Contrasting social ...

Health Movement - HOME Health Movement Into Our Own Hands: The Women's Health Movement in the United States, 1969-1990 by Sandra Morgen, Recent history has witnessed a revolution in women's health care. Beginning in the late 1960s, women in communities across the United States challenged medical and male control over women's health. Few people today realize the extent to which these grassroots efforts shifted power and responsibility from the medical establishment into women's hands as health care consumers, providers, and advocates. Into Our Own Hands traces this history of women's ...

Womens Health Fitness Magazine - HOME Womens Health Fitness Magazine Pregnancy Fitness by Fitness Magazine, Pregnancy Fitness, by the experts at Fitness Magazine, provides expectant mothers with all the information they need to exercise safely and effectively throughout their pregnancy. Whether you're a hard-core triathlete or just starting a fitness program for the first time, proper exercise can ensure a healthier pregnancy, an easier delivery, and a faster recovery. Pregnancy Fitness guides you carefully through every trimester, covering the physical changes and common complaints for each one, from shortness of breath to dizziness to morning sickness. In ... book cover specific concerns: Can I continue running in the second trimester? Can I lift more than ten pounds? And How to Cope sidebars address common conditions from swollen joints and sleep problems to cravings and gestational diabetes. Based on the latest medical research and designed for women of every fitness level, Pregnancy Fitness is the ideal and essential exercise resource for every mother-to-be. Endometriosis: The Complete Reference for Taking Charge of Your Health by Mary Lou Ballweg, The definitive guide to living with endometriosis Some eighty-nine million women worldwide ...

The Exercise-Health Connection : SHIPPING INCLUDED Most people realize that physical activity can help them look and feel good. But with so m...

The Millionth Circle: How To Change Ourselves And The World: The Essential Guide To Women S Circles (Hardcover) : Argues that women s circles can influence people s thinking and thereby change society, and tells how to org...

Case Studies in Sport Marketing (Book) : Enterprising, Aggressive, and Demanding. This is the business of sports as we know it today. And although th...