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National Speaking of Women's Health Foundation. PAPERBACK. 1/1/2005. 001579 :Very Good with minor edge and cover wear . Used - Very Good., National Speaking of Women's Health Foundation, 1/1/2005, 3, Palo Alto, California, Houghtom Mifflin Company, U.S.A., 1991, 1994. Good/No Dust Jacket. Quarto, hardcover, cover rubbed at spine edge else good; Level 7 ex school social studies book. Standard based. Clean, tight, lightly used. 558 pp. Good for home study. Here the people of the past speak directly to you. Through their actual words and the objects they used. You'll walk inside their houses and look inside their cooking pots. You'll follow them as they go to school, build cities, fight wars, work out settlements for peace. Good for home study. About 6th grade level., Palo Alto, California, Houghtom Mifflin Company, U.S.A., 1991, 1994, 2.5, Before I became a rabbi, I was a social change activist and a psychotherapist. I had participated in sit-ins for civil rights, had organized teach-ins and demonstrations and nonviolent civil disobedience against the war in Vietnam, and had been involved in the early development of the environmental movement. Yet I felt uncomfortable with the way these movements at times seemed more interested in proving their own righteousness than in finding ways to attract and build an American majority that supports peace and social justice.In the early 1970s I tried to convince my compatriots to link our movements with a critique of the prevailing tax structure, which placed a huge burden on middle-income working people, and so I proposed a ballot initiative to shift that burden onto the rich. But many of my comrades in the movement felt that the Left shouldn't be pandering to the "white-skin privilege" of white American working people, a decision many came to regret a few years later when a tax revolt led by right-wingers did indeed reduce the tax burden but only by cutting social services for the poor. Then, in 1976, I joined with Jeremy Rifkin in an effort to design a celebration of the country's bicentennial that would focus on what was positive in America's history. But again, I encountered considerable resistance from liberals and progressives whose anger over the war in Vietnam had obscured for them all that deserved to be honored about our past -- the way the American people had successfully separated church and state and had fought against their own economic and political elites to expand democratic rights, to overthrow slavery, to eliminate property requirements for voting, and, more recently, to extend equal rights to women and minorities while empowering working people to organize for a living wage and for health-and-safety standards in the workplace.As a Jew, I have always been particularly grateful to America for providing my people a safe haven in a world that has too frequently murdered us. I felt blessed to be part of a generation of Jews that could look at this country not as a refuge but as a homeland. For that reason, I wanted the Left to let go of some of its angry rhetoric and its preoccupation with what had yet to be achieved in order to affirm more clearly all that had already been accomplished in America. Having experienced some of that anger myself, I understood the appeal of this dichotomizing between the good guys and the bad guys, but as I grew beyond my own simplistic thinking and began to recognize that we in the social change movements needed more humility and compassion for those with whom we disagreed, I hoped that a movement could emerge that would embrace what was best in America and build a progressive social change movement across class, race, and gender boundaries.I had hoped that making this case would be easier in post-Vietnam America. The war had been shown to be a disaster, the Nixon presidency had collapsed in disgrace, the Democratic Party had begun to listen to feminists and environmentalists. Surely, I thought, this would be a moment when liberal and progressive forces could consolidate power, end the cold war, and devote America's massive resources to promoting social and economic justice. Unfortunately, though, something different was happening beneath the surface, at least among middle-income Americans. I detected the first inkling of a major shift away from the Democratic Party and the Left on the part of white working males -- ironically, people whose economic interests were far better served by the Left than the Right.I was puzzled by this phenomenon. So, after completing my PhD in psychology in 1977, I helped found the Institute for Labor and Mental Health to study the psychodynamics of American society. The psychotherapists, union activists, and social theorists who were working at the institute had one question we particularly wanted to answer: why is it that people whose economic interests would lead them to identify with the Left often actually end up voting for the Right?The answer to that question lies at the heart of this book.In an effort to discover why working people have increasingly turned to the Right we have spent the past twenty-eight years interviewing middle-income working people in the United States, Canada, England, and Israel. We began by recruiting subjects from the labor movement and by advertising on buses, billboards, and posters. We were seeking people who, apart from the normal tensions everyone faces in the workplace, were not experiencing excessive stress in their lives. In fact, we used standard measures to screen out and refer elsewhere people in need of psychotherapy as well as candidates for marriage or family therapy. We were interested in speaking to people who did not have any particular presenting problem and who would not have agreed to participate had they thought they were going to a therapy session. As part of our program, we ran groups that taught communications skills, stress reduction, and leadership skills. Most of those groups met once a week for a period of eight to ten weeks.After that initial phase of research, institute researchers conducted follow-up studies using a wide variety of both quantitative and qualitative research instruments. Over two decades we've done phone interviews, one-time in-person interviews, and written questionnaires. In addition, as the political world has changed, we've continued to reassess the results of our observations.What we have discovered, fundamentally, is that many people need what anthropologist Clifford Geertz once termed a "politics of meaning" and what I now call a spiritual politics -- a spiritual framework that can lend meaning to their lives. They yearn for a purpose-driven life that will allow them to serve something beyond personal goals and economic self-interest. If they don't find this sense of purpose on the Left, they will look for it on the Right.Left Hand of God, TheTaking Back Our Country from the Religious Right. Copyright © by Michael Lerner. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold. Excerpted from The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right by Michael LernerAll rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher., HarperOne, 3, UsedGood. Ships Within 24 Hours M-F- Satisfaction Guaranteed! Has a publisher overstock mark. Item shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear / creases, and the pages are in good shape., 0, New York: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2013. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Second printing. Some pages dog eared, pencil underlining and marginalia. 2013 Trade Paperback. xiv, 205 pp. Never before have so many Americans been more frustrated with our economic system, more fearful that it is failing, or more open to fresh ideas about a new one. The seeds of a new movement demanding change are forming.But just what is this thing called a new economy, and how might it take shape in America? In What Then Must We Do? Gar Alperovitz speaks directly to the reader about where we find ourselves in history, why the time is right for a new-economy movement to coalesce, what it means to build a new system to replace the crumbling one, and how we might begin. He also suggests what the next system might look like―and where we can see its outlines, like an image slowly emerging in the developing trays of a photographer's darkroom, already taking shape. He proposes a possible next system that is not corporate capitalism, not state socialism, but something else entirely―and something entirely American. Alperovitz calls for an evolution, not a revolution, out of the old system and into the new. That new system would democratize the ownership of wealth, strengthen communities in diverse ways, and be governed by policies and institutions sophisticated enough to manage a large-scale, powerful economy. For the growing group of Americans pacing at the edge of confidence in the old system, or already among its detractors, What Then Must We Do? offers an elegant solution for moving from anger to strategy., Chelsea Green Publishing, 2013, 3, Cambridge University Press/Foundation Books. First edition. Softcover. New. Rapid globalization has opened up new channels of communication for one and all. English has gained the status of lingua franca in the world today. A good command over the English language is especially essential for technical professionals. Basic Technical Communication is a course specially designed for students of engineering. It aims to develop their proficiency in English and their communication skills with a view to preparing them to meet the challenges of the professional world. Key Features • Introduces students to the concept of communication, grammar and language skills • Develops accuracy, appropriacy and fluency in communication • Includes interesting texts by eminent authors to help improve reading and speaking abilities • Provides an index of technical jargon to help build vocabulary • Offers useful guidelines on important skills such as writing letters and taking notes • Uses a practical, participatory method to make the teaching-learning process more effective • Provides numerous exercises and practice questions in every unit to facilitate easy revision Contents Foreword Preface Part I: Professional Communication Part II: Reading Part III: Writing Part IV: Listening Part V: Speaking Printed Pages: 224., Cambridge University Press/Foundation Books, 6, Daw UE2494 -- No. 865, 1991 First Daw printing November 1991 in Very Good Minus condition. Cover art by Richard Hescox. Contents: Introduction by Marion Zimmer Bradley, "Building" by Lynn Michals, "The Ferment" by Janet Rhodes, "Wings" by Diana Gill, "The Rebels" by Deborah J. Mays, "A Dance for Darkover" by Diana Perry & Vera Nazarian, "There Is Always Someone" by Jacquie Groom, "Reunion" by Lawrence Schimel, "A Way Through the Fog" by Patricia Cirone, "The Gods' Gift" by Mary K. Frey, "The Speaking Touch" by Margaret Carter, "The Bargain" by Chel Avery, "The Witch of the Kilghard Hills" by Aimee Kratts, "The Gift" by Lynne Armstrong-Jones, "Invitation to Chaos" by Joan Marie Verba, "The Keeper's Peace" by Patricia Duffy Novak, "Food for the Worms" by Roxana Pierson, "Childish Pranks" by Diann Partridge, "Cherilly's Law" by Janni Lee Simner, "Avarra's Children" by Dorothy J. Heydt, "The Tower at New Skye" by Priscilla W. Armstrong, "Homecoming" by Lana Young, and "A Meeting of Minds" by Elisabeth Waters. A Paperback Original.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good Minus., Daw UE2494 -- No. 865, 1991, 3, New York, NY: Lark Books (NC), 2006. Trade paperback. Very good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 208 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade., Lark Books (NC), 2006, 3, Daw UE2494 -- No. 865, 1991 First Daw printing November 1991 in Very Good Plus condition. Cover art by Richard Hescox. Contents: Introduction by Marion Zimmer Bradley, "Building" by Lynn Michals, "The Ferment" by Janet Rhodes, "Wings" by Diana Gill, "The Rebels" by Deborah J. Mays, "A Dance for Darkover" by Diana Perry & Vera Nazarian, "There Is Always Someone" by Jacquie Groom, "Reunion" by Lawrence Schimel, "A Way Through the Fog" by Patricia Cirone, "The Gods' Gift" by Mary K. Frey, "The Speaking Touch" by Margaret Carter, "The Bargain" by Chel Avery, "The Witch of the Kilghard Hills" by Aimee Kratts, "The Gift" by Lynne Armstrong-Jones, "Invitation to Chaos" by Joan Marie Verba, "The Keeper's Peace" by Patricia Duffy Novak, "Food for the Worms" by Roxana Pierson, "Childish Pranks" by Diann Partridge, "Cherilly's Law" by Janni Lee Simner (SIGNED!), "Avarra's Children" by Dorothy J. Heydt, "The Tower at New Skye" by Priscilla W. Armstrong, "Homecoming" by Lana Young, and "A Meeting of Minds" by Elisabeth Waters. Signed on page 263 (signature only) at the author Janni Lee Simner at Tuscon 29, November 2002 in Tuscon, Az.. Signed by Author. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good Plus., Daw UE2494 -- No. 865, 1991, 3, Paperback. Like New., 5, Lark Books. Used - Good. Good condition., Lark Books, 2.5, London: Robert Hale, 1980. Strictly speaking not in the Hale's Portrait series but in style, size and format identical, 1st edition, 8vo, 205pp, photo illustrations, some general rubbing to edges and a couple of string bumps to top edges o/w VG Copy in VG DJ with some light edge-wear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Robert Hale, 1980, 3<
