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America's greatness comes from people working hard to fulfill their dreams. But today that greatness is being undermined by people using the government to steal other people's dreams (and money). Rather than participate and innovate in the marketplace, generating goods and services that benefit society, people are increasingly vying for political advantage to live at the expense of others. Something for Nothing reveals the social and personal threats...
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This book presents a thorough and critical account of the theories and concepts of community health education in an increasingly networked era. It examines basic concepts in education for community health; in-depth understanding of concepts such as learning space design, ICT, pedagogy and curriculum design and types of learning. It discusses professional development and development of teaching and learning centres in community health and implications...
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La pandemia por covid-19 ha alterado las dinámicas políticas económicas sociales ambientales y culturales a nivel mundial. Sus consecuencias en distintos órdenes obligan a repensar los mecanismos y escenarios de gobernabilidad y gobernanza en la tercera década del siglo XXI los cuales se rearticulan bajo nuevas formas poniendo en cuestión la acción política sus contenidos y propósitos. La irrupción de la pandemia y los desafíos de la pospandemia...
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I entered Goldenbridge orphanage in my Communion outfit. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing there.' At age seven, Bernadette Fahy was delivered with her three brothers to Goldenbridge Orphanage. She was to stay there until she was sixteen.
Goldenbridge has come to represent some of the worst aspects of childrearing practices in Ireland of the 1950s and 1960s. Seen as the offspring of people who had strayed from social respectability and religious...
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Résumé : Les discours qui circulent aujourd'hui sur la pauvreté et les personnes qui la subissent sont bien souvent erronés. Or, les derniers chiffres montrent que la pauvreté touche plus d'un Belge sur cinq. Pour améliorer le vivre ensemble, il s'agit de tenir compte de ces 20 % de la population, de connaître leurs vécus, et d'enrayer les discriminations qu'ils endurent. Car les idées reçues et les « fake news » sont à l'origine de bien...
6) Framework for Integrating Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in the Asian Development Bank's South
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This gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) framework the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) operations in South Asia serves as a guide for effectively fulfilling GESI-related mandates as outlined in ADB's Strategy 2030. Developed through an extensive 2-year consultative process from 2020 to 2022, the GESI framework highlights the various dimensions of exclusion and vulnerability, including their intersections with gender inequality and each another....
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In this extended essay, Nortin M. Hadler and Stephen P. Carter introduce a new approach to reforming the American health-care system--a plan they call the Universal Workers' Compensation Model (UWCM). Drawing on Hadler's expertise as a physician and Carter's as an attorney, the two have conceived the UWCM as a state-level alternative that would supersede current solutions debated at the national level. They begin by summarizing the history and present...
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The decade of the 1980's marked a triumph for market capitalism. As politicians of all stripes sought to reinvent government in the image of private enterprise, they looked to the voluntary sector for allies to assuage the human costs of reductions in public policies of social welfare. This book details the "savage side" of market capitalism in Appalachia and explains the social, political, and economic roles that mediating structures play in mitigating...
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Parental activism movements are strengthening around the world and often spark tense personal and political debate. With an emphasis on Russia and Central and Eastern Europe, this collection analyzes formal organizations as well as informal networks and online platforms which mobilize parents to advocate for change on a grassroots level. In doing so, the work collected here explores the interactions between the politics, everyday life, and social...
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In 1996, Democratic president Bill Clinton and the Republican-controlled Congress "ended welfare as we know it" and trumpeted "workfare" as a dramatic break from the past. But, in fact, workfare was not new. Jennifer Mittelstadt locates the roots of the 1996 welfare reform many decades in the past, arguing that women, work, and welfare were intertwined concerns of the liberal welfare state beginning just after World War II.Mittelstadt examines the...
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In the 1930s, buoyed by the potential of the New Deal, child welfare reformers hoped to formalize and modernize their methods, partly through professional casework but more importantly through the loving care of temporary, substitute families. Today, however, the foster care system is widely criticized for failing the children and families it is intended to help. How did a vision of dignified services become virtually synonymous with the breakup of...
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Adela Cortina is professor emerita of ethics and political philosophy at the University of Valencia in Spain, and the author of many books, including Cosmopolitan Ethics and For an Ethics of Consumption.
Why "aporophobia"-rejection of the poor-is one of the most serious problems facing the world today, and how we can fight it
In this revelatory book, acclaimed political philosopher Adela Cortina makes an unprecedented assertion: the biggest problem...
13) The Valley
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Eighteen-year-old Connor, an aspiring author whose fantastical stories foretell his growing struggle with depression, can't wait to be free of his adverb-wielding, solve-it-all mother, Sharon. But six weeks after leaving for university, he drops out and returns home. Dan Mulano is an infatuated new dad and well-meaning police officer whose selfishness is veiled by the lofty aspirations he holds for his family. His wife, Janie, a former addict and...
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DÉCEMBRE 2013, Guinée : un petit garçon succombe à une maladie non diagnostiquée. Ce décès mystérieux marque le début d'une épidémie d'Ebola de deux ans qui va faire trembler le monde et menacer nombre de pays, riches et pauvres confondus, en divers endroits de la planète. Le 31 mars 2014, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) lance un avertissement : cette épidémie, qui sévit désormais en Guinée, en Sierra Leone et au Liberia, est sans...
15) Letters to Gil
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Letters to Gil is Malik Al Nasir's profound coming of age memoir. Born in Liverpool, he was taken into care at the age of nine, after his seafaring father became paralysed and spent his adolescence in a system that would prove violent, neglectful, exploitative, traumatising and mired in abuse and racism. Aged eighteen, he emerged semi-literate, penniless with no connections or sense of where he was going — until a chance meeting with the great artist,...
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