Tag: Unraveling

Free Download R. Balasubramaniam, "I, the citizen: unraveling the power of citizen engagement"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 8193097416 | EPUB | pages: 280 | 0.7 mb
The book, I, the Citizen is a milestone in a journey of reflection that began about seven years ago when the author, Dr. R Balasubramaniam (Balu) started writing about his experiences in the development sector. It is an experience where the author has donned the hat of a development activist, leadership trainer, policy advocate, civil society campaigner, anti-corruption investigator, academician and a researcher at various points in time. This volume strings together the author’s experiences and perspectives over a period of three decades and has at its core, his first-hand engagement with people at the grassroots, especially forest-based indigenous people from South India’s rural hinterland, among many others. Starting with an attempt to understand development and its various aspects, the book takes the reader through interpretations of development initiatives at the grassroots and what good governance means to ordinary people. The book unravels the power of citizen engagement through the author’s experiences of leading civil society campaigns against corruption and towards strengthening democratic participation of people. The author also deals with the philosophical underpinnings of public policies, drawing from his on-the-ground experience as well as engagement with those in the higher echelons of policy making and implementation. Throughout the book, the author throws questions at the reader, rather than providing solutions or answers, with obvious intention of fostering the discourse on perspectives of development and citizen engagement.

Free Download Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America’s Suburbs (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BR8K3R5L | 2024 | 13 hours and 30 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 394 MB
Author: Benjamin Herold
Narrator: Benjamin Herold, Bethany Smith
Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools. Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a conservative white family relocates to an affluent suburban enclave, but can’t escape the changes sweeping the country. On Chicago’s North Shore, a multiracial mom joins an ultraprogressive challenge to the town’s liberal status quo. In Compton, California, whose suburban roots are now barely recognizable, undocumented Hispanic parents place their gifted son’s future in the hands of educators at a remarkable elementary school. And outside Pittsburgh, a Black mother moves to the same street where author Benjamin Herold grew up, then confronts the destructive legacy left behind by white families like his.

Free Download The Amish Wife: Unraveling the Lies, Secrets, and Conspiracy That Let a Killer Go Free (Audiobook)
English | January 01, 2024 | ASIN: B0CC6M74HF | M4B@128 kbps | 10h 36m | 578 MB
Author: Gregg Olsen | Narrator: James Daniel Burkdoll
The #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen solves a murder among the Amish and reveals the conspiracy to keep it a secret in a heartbreaking and horrifying true-crime story.
In 1977, in an Ohio Amish community, pregnant wife and mother Ida Stutzman perished during a barn fire. The coroner’s report: natural causes. Ida’s husband, Eli, was never considered a suspect. But when he eventually rejected the faith and took his son, Danny, with him, murder followed.

Free Download Rosetta E. Ross, "Unraveling and Reweaving Sacred Canon in Africana Womanhood "
English | ISBN: 1498518214 | 2015 | 232 pages | EPUB | 749 KB

Free Download Technosophy – Philosophy of Technology: Unraveling the Philosophical Dimensions of Technology
by Aman Jain
English | 6 July 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CBBXRXZJ | 526 Pages | PDF | 131 MB

Free Download Sisters in Crisis Revisited: From Unraveling to Reform and Renewal By Ann Carey
2013 | 500 Pages | ISBN: 1586177893 | EPUB | 1 MB
Fifty years ago, nearly 200,000 religious sisters worked in Catholic schools, hospitals and other institutions throughout the United States. American Catholics honored these women of faith who founded and built these flourishing works of mercy.Then came the ideological shifts and moral upheavals of the 1960s, and ever since, most women’s orders in the United States have been in a state of crisis. Now the sisters are aging, with fewer and fewer younger women to take their place. Perhaps related to this demographic shift is the continuing doctrinal confusion that has come under the scrutiny of the Vatican.Using the archival records of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and other prominent groups of sisters, journalist and author Ann Carey shows how feminist activists unraveled American women’s religious communities from their leadership positions in national organizations and large congregations. She also explains the recent and necessary interventions by the Vatican.After examining the many forces that have contributed to the crisis, Carey reports on a promising sign of renewal in American religious life: the growing number of young women attracted to older communities that have retained their identity and newly formed, yet traditional, congregations.