Common Ground

Common Ground
Title Common Ground PDF eBook
Author Rob Cowen
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 363
Release 2016-11-02
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 022642426X

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"Even in our parceled-out, paved-over urban environs, nature is all around us, it is in us. It is us. This is what Rob Cowen discovered after moving to a new home in northern England. After ten years in London, he was suddenly adrift, searching for a sense of connection. He found himself drawn to a square-mile patch of waste ground at the edge of town. Scrappy, weed-filled, this heart-shaped tangle of land was the very definition of overlooked - a thoroughly in-between place that capitalism had no further use for, leaving nature to take its course. Wandering in meadows, woods, hedges, and fields, Cowen found it was also a magical, mysterious place, haunted and haunting, abandoned but wildly alive - and he fell in fascinated love."--Book jacket.

Finding Common Ground

Finding Common Ground
Title Finding Common Ground PDF eBook
Author Tim Downs
Publisher Moody Publishers
Pages 207
Release 2009-03-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 0802480659

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When it comes to reaching the new generation for Christ, are believers truly sowing for the future-or just reaping the benefits of past evangelistic efforts? Tim Downs suggests practical ways for today's Christians to cultivate fruitful relationships in our communities, and bring our troubled culture the healing it needs so much.

Common Ground

Common Ground
Title Common Ground PDF eBook
Author Gary Y. Okihiro
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 174
Release 2020-10-06
Genre History
ISBN 1400844363

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In Common Ground, Gary Okihiro uses the experiences of Asian Americans to reconfigure the ways in which American history can be understood. He examines a set of binaries--East and West, black and white, man and woman, heterosexual and homosexual--that have structured the telling of our nation's history and shaped our ideas of citizenship since the late nineteenth century. Okihiro not only exposes the artifice of these binaries but also offers a less rigid and more embracing set of stories on which to ground a national history. Influenced by European hierarchical thinking in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Anglo Americans increasingly categorized other newcomers to the United States. Binaries formed in the American imagination, creating a sense of coherence among white citizens during times of rapid and far-reaching social change. Within each binary, however, Asian Americans have proven disruptive: they cannot be fully described as either Eastern or Western; they challenge the racial categories of black and white; and within the gender and sexual binaries of man and woman, straight and gay, they have been repeatedly positioned as neither nor. Okihiro analyzes how groups of people and numerous major events in American history have generally been depicted, and then offers alternative representations from an Asian-American viewpoint--one that reveals the ways in which binaries have contributed toward simplifying, excluding, and denying differences and convergences. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, from the Chicago Exposition of 1898 to The Wizard of Oz, this book is a provocative response to current debates over immigration and race, multiculturalism and globalization, and questions concerning the nature of America and its peoples. The ideal foil to conventional surveys of American history, Common Ground asks its readers to reimagine our past free of binaries and open to diversity and social justice.

Common Ground

Common Ground
Title Common Ground PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
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Release 2017-07
Genre
ISBN 9780998904801

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A young girl helps someone in need, setting out on an adventure and learning that what we share in common is more important than what makes us different.

Journey to Common Ground

Journey to Common Ground
Title Journey to Common Ground PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Journey Publishing LLC
Pages 268
Release
Genre
ISBN 9780972478823

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Common Ground in a Liquid City

Common Ground in a Liquid City
Title Common Ground in a Liquid City PDF eBook
Author Matt Hern
Publisher AK Press
Pages 240
Release 2010-03-01
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1849350310

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If we want to preserve what's still left of the natural world, we need to stop using so much of it. And, says veteran environmental activist Matt Hern, cities are the best chance we have left for a truly ecological future . . . but what does it take to make a truly sustainable city? Common Ground in a Liquid City is a fun and engaging look at the future of urban life. Hern takes us on a journey through over a dozen urban centers, from Vancouver to Istanbul, Las Vegas, and beyond, exploring the history and current composition of cities around the globe and highlighting the elements of each that make it livable. Each of Hern's ten chapters focuses on a central theme of city life: diversity, street life, crime, population density, water and natural life, gentrification, and globalism. What emerges in the end is an appealing portrait of what the urban future might look like—environmentally friendly, locally focused, and governed from below. Matt Hern is an inveterate city dweller and an environmental and education activist. The editor of Everywhere All the Time: A New Deschooling Reader and the author of Deschooling Our Lives and Field Day, he founded Vancouver's Car-Free Day and is the director of the Purple Thistle Center for alternative education. These days, he lives in Vancouver with his partner and daughters and lectures widely around the globe.

The Search for Common Ground

The Search for Common Ground
Title The Search for Common Ground PDF eBook
Author Howard Thurman
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 1986
Genre Identification (Religion)
ISBN 9780913408940

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Howard Thurman's book on community. In this book, Thurman calls us at once to affirm our own identity, but then to look behind that identity to that which we have in common with all life.