Tag: Communities

Free Download Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship by Anne-Marie Ellithorpe
English | April 11, 2022 | ISBN: 1119756944 | 256 pages | PDF | 4.65 Mb
In Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship, distinguished theological researcher Anne-Marie Ellithorpe delivers a constructive and insightful exploration of the place and nature of friendship as innate to being human, to the human vocation, and to life within the broader community. Of particular interest to members and leaders of faith communities, this book responds to contemporary concerns regarding relationality and offers a comprehensive theology of friendship.

Free Download Stories of the Indian Immigrant Communities in Germany: Why Move?
by Amrita Datta
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031401468 | 121 Pages | True PDF | 1.83 MB

Free Download Michael Williams, "Schooling for Sustainable Development in Chinese Communities: Experience with Younger Children"
English | 2009 | pages: 291 | ISBN: 1402096852, 9048181828 | PDF | 3,0 mb
This book focuses on the academic foundations, trends and traditions of environmental education for sustainable development principally in Chinese contexts. It highlights contexts and case studies that illuminate recent Chinese initiatives. It includes case studies of green schools and reports on recent initiatives in school-based ESD curriculum development programmes in China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The book concludes with an overview chapter that points to likely future developments.

Free Download Ana Opačić, "Practicing Social Work in Deprived Communities: Competencies, Methods, and Techniques "
English | ISBN: 3030659860 | 2021 | 279 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This contributed volume offers a holistic understanding of social work practice in deprived communities through its thematization of understanding deprived communities globally, the development of competencies for social work practice in and with deprived communities, social work education as a community development tool, and the empowerment of social workers in deprived communities. Inequality as a globally recognized challenge is extensively elaborated within the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Global Agenda program for social work, making this a timely and important contribution to the literature.

Free Download Daniel Rothenburg, "Irrigation, Salinity, and Rural Communities in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin, 1945-2020 "
English | ISBN: 3031184505 | 2023 | 321 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book explores the issue of salinization in the context of contemporary conflicts about irrigation, water, and the environment in Australia, considering the Murray-Darling Basin in particular. It provides an environmental and social history charting the transformation of rural communities in the basin through the salinization of soils and water. Focusing on the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation district in the southwest of the Murray-Darling basin – the largest irrigation district in Australia – it explores the history of state-directed, large-scale engineering in the district, where the environment has been altered dramatically to facilitate white agricultural settlement inland. Changes to the landscape led to extensive salinization, however – a significant environmental threat in Australia. This book traces the impact of these changes on rural communities, taking a ‘bottom-up’ approach, highlighting the connections between environmental, social, and political change. It provides animportant reflection on the importance of environmental history for facing the challenges posed by anthropogenic climate change.

Free Download Julie M. Koch, "Identity as Resilience in Minoritized Communities: Strengths-Based Approaches to Research and Practice "
English | ISBN: 303138976X | 2023 | 152 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book examines strengths-based approaches to understanding and celebrating diverse populations. It centers on understanding the ways in which minoritized group identities and membership in such communities can serve as sources of strength. The volume explores the varied dimensions of minoritized identities and challenges traditional concepts of what it means to be resilient. It presents research-based and innovative strategies to understand more thoroughly the role of resilience and strengths in diverse populations and families. The book addresses the need to consider affirmative, liberation, and strengths-based models of resilience.

Free Download Valerie Stone, Bisola Ojikutu, "HIV/AIDS in U.S. Communities of Color"
English | 2009 | pages: 309 | ISBN: 1441931074, 0387981519 | PDF | 2,9 mb
More people in communities of color are contracting, living with, and being treated for HIV/AIDS than ever before. In 2005, 71% of new AIDS cases were diagnosed in people of color. The rate of HIV infection in the African-American community alone has increased from 25% of total cases diagnosed in 1985 to 50% in 2005. Latinos similarly comprise a disproportionate segment of the AIDS epidemic: though they make up only 14% of the U.S. population, 20% of AIDS cases diagnosed in 2004 were Latino/a.

Free Download Esports in the Asia-Pacific: Ecosystem, Communities, and Identities
by Filippo Gilardi and Paul Martin
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9819937957 | 281 Pages | True PDF | 5.2 MB

Free Download William David Hart, "Educating Humanists: The Challenge of Sustaining Communities in the Contemporary Era "
English | ISBN: 3030885267 | 2022 | 141 pages | PDF | 1324 KB
This volume explores the challenges that humanists face from hostile religious traditionalists on its right flank and from the political antihumanism, which is often postsecular, of critics on its left flank. Given this dual challenge, how can "secular" humanism educate, sustain, and reproduce itself?

Free Download Sten Gromark, "Architecture for Residential Care and Ageing Communities: Spaces for Dwelling and Healthcare"
English | ISBN: 0367358719 | 2020 | 290 pages | PDF | 23 MB
Architecture for Residential Care and Ageing Communities confronts urgent architectural design challenges within residential innovation, ageing communities and healthcare environments.