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From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya: A Biographical History of Christian Missions
ISBN: 9780310239376 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is history at its best. From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya is readable, informative, gripping, and above all honest. From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya helps readers understand the life and role of a missionary through real life examples of missionaries throughout history. We see these men and women as fallible and human in their failures as well as their successes. These great leaders of missions are presented as real people, and not super-saints. This second edition covers all 2,000 years of mission history with a special emphasis on the modern era, including chapters focused on the Muslim world,...
This is history at its best. From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya is readable, informative, gripping, and above all honest. From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya helps...
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195,10 zł |
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On the Margins of Japanese Society: Volunteers and the Welfare of the Urban Underclass
ISBN: 9780415146487 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Japan is regarded as a society that provides cradle to grave security to those who conform to its standards. This ethnographic study of social life in Kotobuki, an inner city district of Yokohama, documents the lives of those on a low income who have missed the Japanese economic miracle. Kotobuki is the toughest neighbourhood in Yokohama and a traditional home to day labourers. The author has spent a number of years in the district and has closely examined the lives of those who live there, mostly the unemployed, elderly and disabled. Also she has sought to understand the small number of...
Japan is regarded as a society that provides cradle to grave security to those who conform to its standards. This ethnographic study of social life in...
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756,45 zł |
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The Healing Power of Doing Good: The Health and Spiritual Benefits of Helping Others
ISBN: 9780595175918 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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82,17 zł |
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Adventures in Senior Living: Learning How to Make Retirement Meaningful and Enjoyable
ISBN: 9780789002549 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If retirement is approaching or you've recently retired, Adventures in Senior Living can help you prepare for the opportunities, needs, problems, and challenges that retirement often brings. Through 31 lively and interesting interviews, you learn how other people have found positive and rewarding ways to make their retirement years meaningful and enjoyable. Opening windows into their own lives, these inspiring retirees share with you a wide range of retirement ideas that pertain to volunteer work, travel, selecting your living arrangements, and getting involved in your...
If retirement is approaching or you've recently retired, Adventures in Senior Living can help you prepare for the opportunities, needs, problems, and ...
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166,89 zł |
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Processes of Community Change and Social Action
ISBN: 9780805843934 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume--an outgrowth of the annual meeting of the Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology--focuses on examples of social change and community action, and the processes at work in creating change. The presenters engaged each other and the audience in thinking about how best to create and sustain social change. This volume represents a product of their cumulative insight, research results, and perspectives, including chapters from each of the symposium presenters, as well as a few selected chapters from other noted scholars. Taken as a whole, the volume is highly accessible and...
This volume--an outgrowth of the annual meeting of the Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology--focuses on examples of social change and comm...
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678,21 zł |
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The Origins of Women's Activism: New York and Boston, 1797-1840
ISBN: 9780807854044 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tracing the deep roots of women's activism in America, Anne Boylan explores the flourishing of women's volunteer associations in the decades following the Revolution. She examines the entire spectrum of early nineteenth-century women's groups--Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish; African American and white; middle and working class--to illuminate the ways in which race, religion, and class could bring women together in pursuit of common goals or drive them apart.
Boylan interweaves analyses of more than seventy organizations in New York and Boston with the stories of the women who... Tracing the deep roots of women's activism in America, Anne Boylan explores the flourishing of women's volunteer associations in the decades following...
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232,22 zł |
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The Peace Corps Experience: Challenge and Change, 1969-1976
ISBN: 9780813120096 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than 35 years, the Peace Corps has pursued John F. Kennedy's vision of helping people of the Third World build a better life. Yet with the exception of a few celebrations of its early years, little effort has been made to document that organization's history. Now a former deputy director of the Peace Corps offers a first-hand look at life in the agency -- both in the field and at headquarters -- and a radical reinterpretation of its history during the Nixon and Ford administrations. By the end of the 1960s, the Peace Corps was in disarray. Debate raged over its... For more than 35 years, the Peace Corps has pursued John F. Kennedy's vision of helping people of the Third World build a better life. Yet with the... |
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201,86 zł |
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We Make Change: Community Organizers Talk about What They Do--And Why
ISBN: 9780826515544 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Community organizers work at their jobs because they are passionate, because they believe that change is possible, and because they enjoy working with people. Although it's not an occupation that leads to great wealth, community organizers can make a living at it. They get salaries, pensions and health insurance. They raise families. They do well by doing good. This book explores the world of community organizing through the voices of real people working in the field, in small towns and city neighborhoods--women and men of different races and economic backgrounds, ranging in age from those in...
Community organizers work at their jobs because they are passionate, because they believe that change is possible, and because they enjoy working with...
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491,68 zł |
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We Make Change: Community Organizers Talk about What They Do--And Why
ISBN: 9780826515551 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Community organizers work at their jobs because they are passionate, because they believe that change is possible, and because they enjoy working with people. Although it's not an occupation that leads to great wealth, community organizers can make a living at it. They get salaries, pensions and health insurance. They raise families. They do well by doing good. This book explores the world of community organizing through the voices of real people working in the field, in small towns and city neighborhoods--women and men of different races and economic backgrounds, ranging in age from those in...
Community organizers work at their jobs because they are passionate, because they believe that change is possible, and because they enjoy working with...
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248,84 zł |
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The New Federal Policy Agenda and the Voluntary Sector : On the Cutting Edge
ISBN: 9781553391326 / Angielski / Miękka / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Experts in Canadian policy examine the shifting relationship between federal government and the voluntary sector.
Experts in Canadian policy examine the shifting relationship between federal government and the voluntary sector.
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182,60 zł |
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Leadership Skills
ISBN: 9781555610661 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A complete handbook for building leadership skills within any type of volunteer organization.
A complete handbook for building leadership skills within any type of volunteer organization.
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86,69 zł |
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The Doer of Good Becomes Good: A Primer on Volunteerism
ISBN: 9781578860821 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is everything you ever wanted to know about community service. Ronald W. Poplau explores the major shortcomings of today's education and introduces community service as a viable means to correct them. The book is based on 11 years of a program that the State of Kansas enacted into law. The U.S. State Department later sent Poplau to Russia to share this program with Russian schools, and at any one time, one-fourth of the author's school, Shawnee Mission Northwest High School, is enrolled in the program. There is a waiting list to get in the class, and this book can show you how to create...
Here is everything you ever wanted to know about community service. Ronald W. Poplau explores the major shortcomings of today's education and introduc...
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208,68 zł |
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Advancing Knowledge in Service-Learning: Research to Transform the Field (PB)
ISBN: 9781593115685 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The chapters in this book all demonstrate just how far service-learningresearch has come. Researchers, practitioners, and students alike havebenefited from its dissemination and use the research to improve practice.The research does not simply inform educators how to create a better pedagogy. Rather, it informs a service-learning practice that can transformboth individuals and institutions.
The chapters in this book all demonstrate just how far service-learningresearch has come. Researchers, practitioners, and students alike havebenefited...
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320,90 zł |
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Advancing Knowledge in Service-Learning: Research to Transform the Field (Hc)
ISBN: 9781593115692 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The chapters in this book all demonstrate just how far service-learningresearch has come. Researchers, practitioners, and students alike havebenefited from its dissemination and use the research to improve practice.The research does not simply inform educators how to create a better pedagogy. Rather, it informs a service-learning practice that can transformboth individuals and institutions.
The chapters in this book all demonstrate just how far service-learningresearch has come. Researchers, practitioners, and students alike havebenefited...
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575,25 zł |
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Equipping The Saints
ISBN: 9781932031881 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For any individual donor or foundation giving money to a faith-based organization, this guide is indispensable. Equipping the Saints offers sage advice on recognizing the qualities of good leaders, effective programs, and the methods of evaluating outcomes. Based on hundreds of interviews with donors and civic leaders, this guide provides a candid look at the unique strengths and weaknesses of these groups. Equipping the Saints is packed with useful tools like a donor's interest inventory, a checklist for making a site visit, tips on reading nonprofit financial statements,... For any individual donor or foundation giving money to a faith-based organization, this guide is indispensable. Equipping the Saints offers ... |
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83,42 zł |
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A Textbook of Social Work
ISBN: 9780415347204 / Angielski / Twarda / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Where did professional social work originate from? How effective are social work interpretations in the lives of vulnerable people? A Textbook of Social Work provides a comprehensive discussion of social work practice and its evidence-base. It strikes a balance between the need for social workers to understand the social, economic, cultural, psychological and interpersonal factors which give rise to clients' problems, and the need for them to know how best to respond with practical measures. Divided into three parts: the text covers the history and... Where did professional social work originate from? How effective are social work interpretations in the lives of vulnerable people? |
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860,79 zł |
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Challenges in Volunteer Management (PB)
ISBN: 9781593119249 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A volume in Research in Public Management Series Editors: Lawrence R. Jones and Nancy C. Roberts, Naval Postgraduate School Volunteer management has many challenges, not the least of which is how we study it and view it. Academics examine it from a variety of disciplines and practitioners experience it in a variety of contexts. However both approaches have limitations. In academia we go to public administration schools to learn about public and nonprofit management, to business schools to apply the principles of private enterprise to nonprofit management, to sociology departments to study the...
A volume in Research in Public Management Series Editors: Lawrence R. Jones and Nancy C. Roberts, Naval Postgraduate School Volunteer management has m...
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320,90 zł |
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Charity, Law and Politics: Radicals, Conservatives or Subversives
ISBN: 9781841134161 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This monograph examines the content, development, application, rationale and reform of the legal prohibition that prevents charities from undertaking or pursuing political activities which are more than subsidiary to their charitable purpose.
This monograph examines the content, development, application, rationale and reform of the legal prohibition that prevents charities from undertaking ...
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260,85 zł |
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Challenges in Volunteer Management (Hc)
ISBN: 9781593119256 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A volume in Research in Public Management Series Editors: Lawrence R. Jones and Nancy C. Roberts, Naval Postgraduate School Volunteer management has many challenges, not the least of which is how we study it and view it. Academics examine it from a variety of disciplines and practitioners experience it in a variety of contexts. However both approaches have limitations. In academia we go to public administration schools to learn about public and nonprofit management, to business schools to apply the principles of private enterprise to nonprofit management, to sociology departments to study the...
A volume in Research in Public Management Series Editors: Lawrence R. Jones and Nancy C. Roberts, Naval Postgraduate School Volunteer management has m...
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575,25 zł |
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Creating Vibrant Communities: How Individuals and Organizations from Diverse Sectors of Society Are Coming Together to Reduce Poverty in Canada
ISBN: 9780980923162 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Equal parts inspiration, perspiration, and information -- a book that is sure to take the Vibrant Communities story to new heights as it begins its next exciting phase.
In Canada, -poverty reduction- is no longer a -wouldn't it be nice- dream discussed after yet another failure to make a dent in an age-old problem. It's a living, breathing, exhilarating reality. Why? Because all across the country people are approaching poverty in a positive, creative, and energetic way. They are doing so courtesy of a new social phenomenon called Vibrant Communities: a network of people who are... Equal parts inspiration, perspiration, and information -- a book that is sure to take the Vibrant Communities story to new heights as it begins its...
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86,51 zł |
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