Urgent Times
Title | Urgent Times PDF eBook |
Author | Tracey L. Meares |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 150 |
Release | 1999-11-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780807006054 |
Tracey Meares and Dan Kahan have performed a great public service....[They have] opened up a major debate on a promising idea about how to keep streets safe without throwing out essential legal safeguards. If you live where I live, you know that's a life-and-death issue. --The Reverend Eugene F. Rivers, 3d, from the Foreword Through a searching examination of the constitutional and moral issues of community policing, Tracey Meares and Dan Kahan challenge us to reconsider our ideas about how to fight urban crime and about the role of rights in a democracy. Activists and legal scholars-including Alan Dershowitz and Jean Bethke Elshtain-offer spirited responses. "The New Democracy Forum series is a civic treasure....A truly good idea, carried out with intelligence and panache." --Robert Pinsky The New Democracy Forum is a series of short paperback originals exploring creative solutions to our most urgent national concerns.
What Is Necessary in These Urgent Times
Title | What Is Necessary in These Urgent Times PDF eBook |
Author | Rudolf Steiner |
Publisher | SteinerBooks |
Pages | 555 |
Release | 2010-08 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 1621510271 |
It is only in the age of technology that human beings have lost a sense of nature being alive. Throughout history, people spoke to nature, and nature communicated with them. During the Middle Ages, reading the "book of nature" was called the doctrine of signatures, which had always been an important part of interacting with nature for traditional healers and herbalists. "As a child, I just knew which plant to pick up and hold to my head for a headache to go away. Once I heard about the concept of a 'doctrine of signatures,' I would just stand silently, in awe of nature talking to me, talking and talking in her silent, direct speech. The book of nature seemed so obviously spelled out, and in oddest contrast to what I learned in medical school. My professors seemed never to have heard of nature being vibrant and alive and brimming with patterns of energy that are right there for us to understand and use.... This direct and primordial experience of being part of nature's omnipresent, cyclic course taught me more in the realm of no-words than any university ever could have." --Julia Graves The Language of Plants covers all aspects of the doctrine of signatures in an easily accessible format, so that everyone, whether nature lovers or healers, can learn to read the language of plants in connection with healing. More than 200 color and b/w images.
Digital Storytelling
Title | Digital Storytelling PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Lambert |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2020-03-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780972644037 |
6th and updated edition of textbook on Digital Storytelling
Mindfulness
Title | Mindfulness PDF eBook |
Author | Jamie Bristow |
Publisher | |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2020-11-09 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9781913353025 |
Humanity's future may depend upon strengthening our agency. Multiple interconnected crises call for skilful response on a global scale - but our capacity for intentional action in our collective best interest is underdeveloped and increasingly undermined. This paper opens a dialogue on the contribution of evidence-based mindfulness training to individual and collective agency. Beyond a 'nice to have' wellbeing benefit in the workplace or an alternative to prescription drugs, we'll discuss how cultivating the innate capacity of mindfulness and its essential qualities such as attention regulation, receptivity, meta-cognition, cognitive flexibility, embodiment, emotion regulation and kindness could be foundational in responding to the complex challenges of the 21st Century.
Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down
Title | Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down PDF eBook |
Author | Marva J. Dawn |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 1995-07-10 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780802841025 |
Working to bridge opposing sides in the various "worship wars", Marva Dawn here writes to help local parishes and denominations think more profoundly about both worship and culture.
Serious Times
Title | Serious Times PDF eBook |
Author | James Emery White |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2005-11-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0830833803 |
Does your life matter? How can you make a difference? James Emery White shows how you can live a life of significance at the front lines of what God is doing in the world today.
Cuentame
Title | Cuentame PDF eBook |
Author | Imperatori-Lee, Natalia |
Publisher | Orbis Books |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2018-04-24 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1608337332 |
From the common Spanish phrase "cuentame" (tell me a story), the author tells the story of the church, rooted in the experiences and lives of Latino/a Catholics in the United States.