Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> Social Activists

This book is a biography based on a qualitative ethnographic study of adaptation to climate by Mr Zephaniah Phiri Maseko, an award-winning smallholder farmer from Zvishavane, rural Zimbabwe. Ethnographic data provides insight and lessons of Mr Phiri Maseko and other farmers’ practices for rethinking existing strategies for adaptation to climate change. The concept of adaptation is probed in relationship to the closely related concepts of vulnerability, resilience and innovation. This study also explores the concept of conviviality and argues that Mr Phiri Maseko’s adaptation to...

In this poignant, powerful book, Deborah Ziegler makes good on the promise she made...

Now in her early 70's, the author looks back on her life: her family, the choices she made and the paths she took--with the last 60 years as a backdrop. She tells her very personal stories of the legacy she received, the impact of McCarthyism on her childhood, coming of age in the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960's, and how she found her voice in the second wave of the women's liberation movement of the mid-1970's. She describes her transformation from a self-hating and hiding fat child into a proud fat woman who joined the fat liberation and size acceptance movements and...

This book illustrates examples of successful community development on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and in the Bronx, using seven different methods of finance, only one of which is still available today. The buildings were developed between 1975 and 1997.

Part one of the book is the "West Bronx Story," which tells about the eighteen buildings that comprise New Settlement Apartments in the Bronx. The "Story" illustrates the dramatic transformation of a devastated neighborhood into a thriving community. The owner is a nonprofit affiliate of Settlement Housing Fund, a citywide...

"I had to learn to love blackness," Austin Channing Brown writes near the beginning of this searing, page-turning memoir. As a black woman whose parents gave her a white man's name, Austin grew up attending white, Christian schools and has spent most of her life navigating the choppy waters of racial inequality, gender, assimilation, and...

Illegal tells the true story of love and deception, revolutions and deportations as it chronicles the escapades and the trials of John Dennehy. NaIve New Yorker, Dennehy refuses to be part of the feverish nationalism of post 9/11 America. His search for hope in the midst of choicelessness takes him to Ecuador, where he falls in love with firebrand Lucia, who perfects his broken Spanish and they find solidarity in the brewing social revolution. Dennehy is deported but he has found something worth fighting for. This pulsating story of violent protests, illegal border crossings and...