Elizabeth Kneebone's Books

Confronting Suburban Poverty in America

By: Elizabeth Kneebone,Alan Berube

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Confronting Suburban Poverty in America

By: Elizabeth Kneebone,Alan Berube

It has been nearly a half century since President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty. Back in the 1960s tackling poverty “in place” meant focusing resources in the inner city and in rural areas. The suburbs were seen as home to middle- and upper-class families—affluent commuters and homeowners looking for good schools and safe communities in which to raise their kids. But today’s America is a very different place. Poverty is no longer just an urban or rural problem, but increasingly a suburban one as well. In Confronting Suburban Poverty in America, Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube take on the new reality of metropolitan poverty and opportunity in America. After decades in which suburbs added poor residents at a faster pace than cities, the 2000s marked a tipping point. Suburbia is now home to the largest and fastest-growing poor population in the country and more than half of the metropolitan poor. However, the antipoverty infrastructure built over the past several decades does not fit this rapidly changing geography. As Kneebone and Berube cogently demonstrate, the solution no longer fits the problem. The spread of suburban poverty has many causes, including shifts in affordable housing and jobs, population dynamics, immigration, and a struggling economy. The phenomenon raises several daunting challenges, such as the need for more (and better) transportation options, services, and financial resources. But necessity also produces opportunity—in this case, the opportunity to rethink and modernize services, structures, and procedures so that they work in more scaled, cross-cutting, and resource-efficient ways to address widespread need. This book embraces that opportunity. Kneebone and Berube paint a new picture of poverty in America as well as the best ways to combat it. Confronting Suburban Poverty in America offers a series of workable recommendations for public, private, and nonprofit leaders seeking to modernize poverty alleviation and community development strategies and connect residents with economic opportunity. The authors highlight efforts in metro areas where local leaders are learning how to do more with less and adjusting their approaches to address the metropolitan scale of poverty—for example, integrating services and service delivery, collaborating across sectors and jurisdictions, and using data-driven and flexible funding strategies. “We believe the goal of public policy must be to provide all families with access to communities, whether in cities or suburbs, that offer a high quality of life and solid platform for upward mobility over time. Understanding the new reality of poverty in metropolitan America is a critical step toward realizing that goal.”—from Chapter One

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

189

Publisher

Brookings Institution Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0815725809

ISBN 13

9780815725800

Understanding Poverty

A Relational Approach

By: Elizabeth Seale

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Understanding Poverty

A Relational Approach

By: Elizabeth Seale

People in poverty suffer daily under misconceptions about economic hardship and its causes. Providing the most comprehensive consideration to date of poverty in the United States, Elizabeth Seale tackles how we think about issues of culture, behavior, and poverty, cutting straight to the heart of debates about social class. The book addresses tough questions, including how being poor affects individual behavior, and how we can make sense of that in a larger social and political context. The central premise is that to understand the behavior and lives of people in poverty, one must consider their relational context, especially relations of vulnerability and the human need for dignity. Poverty is a social problem we should address as a society by changing social relations that, as a matter of course, cause unnecessary and immense suffering. To do so, we must directly confront our lack of regard for people in poverty by recognizing that they are in fact worthy of an effort to induce major social change. This critical introduction to poverty will be an important read for undergraduate students and above in sociology wanting to learn more about the growing social problems of poverty, inequality, and stratification.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

178

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

1509553347

ISBN 13

9781509553341

Defining Excellence in Simulation Programs

By: Juli C Maxworthy,Janice C Palaganas,Chad A Epps,Mary Elizabeth (Beth) Mancini

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Defining Excellence in Simulation Programs

By: Juli C Maxworthy,Janice C Palaganas,Chad A Epps,Mary Elizabeth (Beth) Mancini

Raise your simulation programs to new heights with the fully updated Defining Excellence in Simulation Programs, 2nd edition. An official publication of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, this fully illustrated guide speaks to the needs of all healthcare professionals using simulation for education, assessment, and research. Offering best practices for a wide variety of programs, it addresses all areas of program management, from staffing, funding, and equipment, to education models. Whether you are new to running a simulation program, developing a program, or studying simulation, this is your key to creating cost-effective, research-based programs.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

2151

Publisher

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published Date

ISBN 10

1975146492

ISBN 13

9781975146498

Designing Disability

Symbols, Space, and Society

By: Elizabeth Guffey

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Designing Disability

Symbols, Space, and Society

By: Elizabeth Guffey

Designing Disability traces the emergence of an idea and an ideal – physical access for the disabled – through the evolution of the iconic International Symbol of Access (ISA). The book draws on design history, material culture and recent critical disability studies to examine not only the development of a design icon, but also the cultural history surrounding it. Infirmity and illness may be seen as part of human experience, but 'disability' is a social construct, a way of thinking about and responding to a natural human condition. Elizabeth Guffey's highly original and wide-ranging study considers the period both before and after the introduction of the ISA, tracing the design history of the wheelchair, a product which revolutionised the mobility needs of many disabled people from the 1930s onwards. She also examines the rise of 'barrier-free architecture' in the reception of the ISA, and explores how the symbol became widely adopted and even a mark of identity for some, especially within the Disability Rights Movement. Yet despite the social progress which is inextricably linked to the ISA, a growing debate has unfurled around the symbol and its meanings. The most vigorous critiques today have involved guerrilla art, graffiti and studio practice, reflecting new challenges to the relationship between design and disability in the twenty-first century.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

315

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

135000426X

ISBN 13

9781350004269

Learning and Teaching in Clinical Contexts

A Practical Guide

By: Clare Delany,Elizabeth Molloy

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Learning and Teaching in Clinical Contexts

A Practical Guide

By: Clare Delany,Elizabeth Molloy

Featuring the perspectives of more than 40 leading international researchers, theorists and practitioners in clinical education, Learning and Teaching in Clinical Contexts: A Practical Guide provides a bridge between the theoretical aspects of clinical education and the delivery of practical teaching strategies. Written by Clare Delany and Elizabeth Molloy, each chapter weaves together education theory, education strategies and illustrative learning and teaching case scenarios drawn from multidisciplinary clinical contexts. The text supports clinicians and educators responsible for designing and delivering health professional education in clinical workplaces and clinicians undertaking continuing education in workplace teaching. The book is divided into four sections, each addressing a key aspect of the learner and educator experience. Section 1 considers the learner's needs as they make key transitions from classroom to workplace, or recent graduate to competent clinician Section 2 focuses on the influence of workplace contexts and how they can be used as positive catalysts to enhance learning Section 3 highlights the role of workplace assessments as embedded processes to positively influence learning Section 4 provides an overview of the changing roles of the clinical educator and processes and models of professional development to build educational expertise - Demonstrates the integrated nature of three key threads within the field of clinical education: theory, method and context - Highlights theoretical frameworks: cognitive, psychological, sociocultural, experiential and ethical traditions and how they inform teaching decisions - Incorporates case studies throughout to provide a context to learning and teaching in clinical education - Includes practical tips from expert practitioners across different topics - Includes an eBook with print purchase on evolve

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

416

Publisher

Elsevier Health Sciences

Published Date

ISBN 10

0729586626

ISBN 13

9780729586627

Straddling the Razor Wire Ii

Reassessing and Restructuring Public Agencies Ii

By: Elizabeth Wiley

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Straddling the Razor Wire Ii

Reassessing and Restructuring Public Agencies Ii

By: Elizabeth Wiley

Straddling the Barbed Wire, and then one day during a really heavy racial tension project decided it was more like straddling electrified razor wire to be multi racial.........multi-cultural, multi-modality educated, seeing men AND women, NOT fights, seeing FAMILIES, not generational disputes. Seeing starvation, war, genocide, rather than what we, as humans could do on this earth each day, to help others, to maintain and restore nature, to create a better world for the next seven generations and pass that duty on.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

323

Publisher

Trafford Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1698713088

ISBN 13

9781698713083

Mixed Methods Research for Nursing and the Health Sciences

By: Sharon Andrew,Elizabeth J. Halcomb

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Mixed Methods Research for Nursing and the Health Sciences

By: Sharon Andrew,Elizabeth J. Halcomb

Mixed methods research combines quantitative and qualitative research methods in a single study. The use of mixed methods research is increasingly popular in nursing and health sciences research. This growth in popularity has been driven by the increasing complexity of research problems relating to human health and wellbeing. Mixed Method Research for Nursing and the Health Sciences is an accessible, practical guide to the design, conduct and reporting of mixed method research in nursing or the health sciences. Each chapter stands alone, describing the various steps of the research process, but contains links to other chapters. Within the text, ‘real-life’ examples from the published literature, doctoral theses and the unpublished work of the authors, illustrate the concepts being discussed. Places mixed methods research within its contemporary context Includes international contributions from UK, Australia, NZ and USA Provides an accessible introduction to theoretical and philosophical underpinnings Demystifies strategies for analysing mixed methods data Examines strategies for publishing mixed methods research Includes learning objectives and exemplars in each chapter Final chapters provide ‘real-life’ examples of applied research About the Authors: Sharon Andrew is Head of Program (Postgraduate) and Elizabeth J. Halcomb is Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing & Midwifery, University of Western Sydney. Also of Interest: The Research Process in Nursing (Fifth Edition) Edited by Kate Gerrish and Anne Lacey 978-14051-3013-4 Research Handbook for Healthcare Professionals Mary Hickson 978-14051-7737-5 Real World Research: A Resource for Social Scientists and Practitioner-Researchers Second edition Colin Robson 978-0631-21305-5 Reviewing Research Evidence for Nursing Practice: Systematic Reviews Edited by Christine Webb and Brenda Roe 978-14051-4423-0

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

248

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

1444316508

ISBN 13

9781444316506

Before Jim Crow

The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia

By: Jane Elizabeth Dailey

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Before Jim Crow

The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia

By: Jane Elizabeth Dailey

Long before the Montgomery bus boycott ushered in the modern civil rights movement, black and white southerners struggled to forge interracial democracy in America. This innovative book examines the most successful interracial coalition in the nineteenth-century South, Virginia's Readjuster Party, and uncovers a surprising degree of fluidity in postemancipation southern politics. Melding social, cultural, and political history, Jane Dailey chronicles the Readjusters' efforts to foster political cooperation across the color line. She demonstrates that the power of racial rhetoric, and the divisiveness of racial politics, derived from the everyday experiences of individual Virginians_from their local encounters on the sidewalk, before the magistrate's bench, in the schoolroom. In the process, she reveals the power of black and white southerners to both create and resist new systems of racial discrimination. The story of the Readjusters shows how hard white southerners had to work to establish racial domination after emancipation, and how passionately black southerners fought each and every infringement of their rights as Americans.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

294

Publisher

Univ of North Carolina Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0807825875

ISBN 13

9780807825877

Products of the hive

By: Elizabeth Frost,Doug Somerville

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Products of the hive

By: Elizabeth Frost,Doug Somerville

This AgGuide, Products of the hive, is about more than honey production. The complex behaviour of bees results in other products such as wax, pollen, propolis, royal jelly and, for older bees, bee venom. There are a range of possibilities for beekeepers to consider when it comes to overall profitability of keeping honey bees. This book has been compiled for experienced beekeepers to give them ideas about how they might diversify their income from beekeeping activities. It has also been written for those who have a general interest and fascination with the art and pleasure of beekeeping. It includes an account of increased knowledge about the bioactivity of honey. TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Honey Chapter 3: Bioactive honey Chapter 4: Beeswax Chapter 5: Creamed and candied honey Chapter 6: Pollen Chapter 7: Propolis Chapter 8: Comb honey Chapter 9: Royal jelly Chapter 10: Bee venom Appendix 1: Exhibiting honey and beeswax Appendix 2: The peroxide-type and non-peroxide-type activity of honey Appendix 3: Special cases: Manuka and Leptospermum honeys Appendix 4: Codex for honey

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

184

Publisher

NSW Agriculture

Published Date

ISBN 10

1760585297

ISBN 13

9781760585297

Constructing the Dynamo of Dixie

Race, Urban Planning, and Cosmopolitanism in Chattanooga, Tennessee

By: Courtney Elizabeth Knapp

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Constructing the Dynamo of Dixie

Race, Urban Planning, and Cosmopolitanism in Chattanooga, Tennessee

By: Courtney Elizabeth Knapp

What can local histories of interracial conflict and collaboration teach us about the potential for urban equity and social justice in the future? Courtney Elizabeth Knapp chronicles the politics of gentrification and culture-based development in Chattanooga, Tennessee, by tracing the roots of racism, spatial segregation, and mainstream "cosmopolitanism" back to the earliest encounters between the Cherokee, African Americans, and white settlers. For more than three centuries, Chattanooga has been a site for multiracial interaction and community building; yet today public leaders have simultaneously restricted and appropriated many contributions of working-class communities of color within the city, exacerbating inequality and distrust between neighbors and public officials. Knapp suggests that "diasporic placemaking"—defined as the everyday practices through which uprooted people create new communities of security and belonging—is a useful analytical frame for understanding how multiracial interactions drive planning and urban development in diverse cities over time. By weaving together archival, ethnographic, and participatory action research techniques, she reveals the political complexities of a city characterized by centuries of ordinary resistance to racial segregation and uneven geographic development.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

263

Publisher

UNC Press Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1469637286

ISBN 13

9781469637280

Oppression

A Social Determinant of Health, 2nd Edition

By: Elizabeth McGibbon

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Oppression

A Social Determinant of Health, 2nd Edition

By: Elizabeth McGibbon

In this current environment, it is urgent to understand how oppression and health are closely connected. Oppression: A Social Determinant of Health offers a thorough and accessible overview of the root or structural causes of ill health, such as capitalism, globalization, colonialism, medicalization and neoliberalism. The contributors to this volume insist that the key to tackling these structural forces is understanding and changing oppressive practices that cause ill health, thus reframing growing health inequities within the scope of moral responsibility and social change. This thoroughly updated second edition contains contributions from internationally recognized experts in the field of critical social science analyses in health systems and health sciences studies. New chapters provide timely discussions about oppression, Treaty Rights, Big Pharma, the Anthropocene and the COVID-19 pandemic. This book provides a comprehensive overview of core ideas for investigating how oppression “gets under the skin” to perpetuate health inequities.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

355

Publisher

Fernwood Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1773634445

ISBN 13

9781773634449

Who Says There Is No Treatment for Pancreatic Cancer?

Navigating the Maze . . . Japan and Back

By: Elizabeth Ann Crichton

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Who Says There Is No Treatment for Pancreatic Cancer?

Navigating the Maze . . . Japan and Back

By: Elizabeth Ann Crichton

A diagnosis of pancreatic cancer is generally seen to be a death sentence, and sadly for many, this is in fact so. The fear it engenders in the person and the confusion one feels is indescribable. It is also generally a fact that it is not an issue we have had to deal with, and so the options are confusing and limited in our minds, generally only confined to the medical model available and advised by beautiful and well-meaning doctors. It was soon after she moved north of Sydney to start a new life in an ecovillage that Elizabeth was shocked to find she had a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer stage 2B and, after a major operation, chemotherapy, and an almost immediate recurrence of the tumor, was advised that no further treatment was available apart from palliative radiotherapy. At this point, she consulted Grace Gawler, who has invaluable knowledge of worldwide treatment options for the various cancer types, and so began a journey of recovery that took her to Japan for three months for immunotherapy treatment and proton beam therapy. In the book, she shares a very detailed personal account of her Japan experience in the form of emails sent home as she traveled the healing journey.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Balboa Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1504311256

ISBN 13

9781504311250

The Plot Thickens

Illustrated Victorian Serial Fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier

By: Mary Elizabeth Leighton,Lisa Surridge

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Plot Thickens

Illustrated Victorian Serial Fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier

By: Mary Elizabeth Leighton,Lisa Surridge

In the early 1800s, books were largely unillustrated. By the 1830s and 1840s, however, innovations in wood- and steel-engraving techniques changed how Victorian readers consumed and conceptualized fiction. A new type of novel was born, often published in serial form, one that melded text and image as partners in meaning-making. These illustrated serial novels offered Victorians a reading experience that was both verbal and visual, based on complex effects of flash-forward and flashback as the placement of illustrations revealed or recalled significant story elements. Victorians’ experience of what are now canonical novels thus differed markedly from that of modern readers, who are accustomed to reading single volumes with minimal illustration. Even if modern editions do reproduce illustrations, these do not appear as originally laid out. Modern readers therefore lose a crucial aspect of how Victorians understood plot—as a story delivered in both words and images, over time, and with illustrations playing a key role. In The Plot Thickens, Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge uncover this overlooked narrative role of illustrations within Victorian serial fiction. They reveal the intricacy and richness of the form and push us to reconsider our notions of illustration, visual culture, narration, and reading practices in nineteenth-century Britain.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

522

Publisher

Ohio University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0821446495

ISBN 13

9780821446492

Terror in Transition

Leadership and Succession in Terrorist Organizations

By: Tricia Bacon,Elizabeth Grimm

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Terror in Transition

Leadership and Succession in Terrorist Organizations

By: Tricia Bacon,Elizabeth Grimm

What is the role of founding leaders in shaping terrorist organizations? What follows the loss of this formative leader? These questions are especially important to religious terrorist groups, in which leaders are particularly revered. Tricia L. Bacon and Elizabeth Grimm provide a groundbreaking analysis of how religious terrorist groups manage and adapt to major shifts in leadership. They demonstrate that founders create the base from which their successors operate. Founders establish and explain the group’s mission, and they determine and justify how it seeks to achieve its objectives. Bacon and Grimm argue that how successors position themselves in terms of the founder shapes a terrorist group’s future course. They examine how and why different types of successors choose to pursue incremental or discontinuous change. Bacon and Grimm emphasize that the instability surrounding succession can place a group at its most vulnerable—the precise time to explore options to weaken or defeat it. Bacon and Grimm highlight similarities between Islamic terrorist groups abroad and Christian white nationalist groups such as the 1920s Ku Klux Klan in the United States. Drawing on extensive field research in Afghanistan, Somalia, and Pakistan, Terror in Transition features detailed analysis of groups such as al-Shabaab, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and al-Qaeda in Iraq / the Islamic State in Iraq, as well as the KKK. Offering a rigorous theoretical perspective on terrorist leadership transition, this policy-relevant book provides actionable recommendations for counterterrorism practitioners.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

454

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0231549733

ISBN 13

9780231549738

Mothers of Massive Resistance

White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy

By: Elizabeth Gillespie McRae

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Mothers of Massive Resistance

White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy

By: Elizabeth Gillespie McRae

Why do white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues that the answer lies with white women. Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance explores the grassroots workers who maintained the system of racial segregation and Jim Crow. For decades in rural communities, in university towns, and in New South cities, white women performed myriad duties that upheld white over black: censoring textbooks, denying marriage certificates, deciding on the racial identity of their neighbors, celebrating school choice, canvassing communities for votes, and lobbying elected officials. They instilled beliefs in racial hierarchies in their children, built national networks, and experimented with a color-blind political discourse. Without these mundane, everyday acts, white supremacist politics could not have shaped local, regional, and national politics the way it did or lasted as long as it has. With white women at the center of the story, the rise of postwar conservatism looks very different than the male-dominated narratives of the resistance to Civil Rights. Women like Nell Battle Lewis, Florence Sillers Ogden, Mary Dawson Cain, and Cornelia Dabney Tucker publicized threats to their Jim Crow world through political organizing, private correspondence, and journalism. Their efforts began before World War II and the Brown decision and persisted past the 1964 Civil Rights Act and anti-busing protests. White women's segregationist politics stretched across the nation, overlapping with and shaping the rise of the New Right. Mothers of Massive Resistance reveals the diverse ways white women sustained white supremacist politics and thought well beyond the federal legislation that overturned legal segregation.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

369

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0190271728

ISBN 13

9780190271725

Clinical Education in the Health Professions

An Educator's Guide

By: Clare Delany,Elizabeth Molloy

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Clinical Education in the Health Professions

An Educator's Guide

By: Clare Delany,Elizabeth Molloy

Clinical settings are dynamic educational spaces that present both opportunities and barriers to learning and teaching. Designed to inform, challenge and educate health professionals about the evidence underpinning clinical education practices and outcomes, this multi-disciplinary book brings together important concepts in healthcare education and addresses context and processes of learning, professional identity and socialisation, feedback and assessment, ethics, and inter-professional education. The authors encourage teaching and learning practices based on research findings, expertise and innovation, and the development of individual teaching methods and styles from a theoretical base that provides relevant principles, direction and support. With clear links between theory, research and practice, collaboration from a broad range of clinical disciplines, and models for learning and teaching grounded in empirical research, Clinical Education in the Health Professions will become a standard reference for all health professionals and educators. - examines patterns of practice in clinical education in the health professions, using a qualitative research focus - identifies the roles of university and clinical educators, students, peers and patients in clinical education - highlights implicit tensions in clinical education practice and presents strategies to identify and address such tensions - challenges the reader to consider new approaches to clinical education that may optimise students' learning and enculturation into the health professions

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

213

Publisher

Elsevier Health Sciences

Published Date

ISBN 10

072957900X

ISBN 13

9780729579001

The Overlooked Americans

The Resilience of Our Rural Towns and What It Means for Our Country

By: Elizabeth Currid-Halkett

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Overlooked Americans

The Resilience of Our Rural Towns and What It Means for Our Country

By: Elizabeth Currid-Halkett

How small-town America’s surprising success reshapes our understanding of the nation’s urban-rural divide, offering “the most balanced and broadest-ranging look at the topic” (Tyler Cowen, George Mason University). The Next Big Idea Club 2023 Must Read Book We are frequently told rural America is in crisis. According to many journalists, academics, and politicians, our small towns have been hollowed out by lost jobs, and residents have turned to opioids and right-wing extremism to cope with their pain and resentment. In fact, many rural towns are thriving. Commentators have fixated on the steep decline of one region—Appalachia—and overlooked the millions of rural Americans who are succeeding in the heartland. In The Overlooked Americans, public policy expert Elizabeth Currid-Halkett reveals that rural America has not been left behind the rest of the nation but instead is surprisingly successful. Drawing on deep research, including data and in-depth interviews, she traces how small towns are doing as well as, or better than, cities by many measures, including homeownership, income, and employment. She also shows how rural and urban Americans share core values, from opposing racism and upholding environmentalism to believing in democracy. Looking everywhere from Missouri to Minnesota to her hometown of Danville, Pennsylvania, Currid-Halkett ultimately reveals that the nation is less fractured by geography than many believe. This is an urgent appeal for Americans to reconnect across a rural-urban divide that isn’t so wide after all.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

350

Publisher

Basic Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1541646711

ISBN 13

9781541646711

Transportation, Land Use, and Environmental Planning

By: Elizabeth Deakin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Transportation, Land Use, and Environmental Planning

By: Elizabeth Deakin

Transportation, Land Use, and Environmental Planning examines the practices and policies linking transportation, land use and environmental planning needed to achieve a healthy environment, thriving economy, and more equitable and inclusive society. It assesses best practices for improving the performance of city and regional transportation systems, looking at such issues as public transit and non-motorized travel investments, mixed use and higher density urban development, radically transformed vehicles, and transportation systems. The book lays out the growing need for greater integration of transportation, land use, and environmental planning, looking closely at changing demographic needs, public health concerns, housing affordability, equity, and livability. In addition, strategies for achieving these desired outcomes are presented, including urban design and land use planning, regional and corridor-level transit plans, bike and pedestrian improvements, demand management strategies, and emerging technologies and services. The final part of the book examines implementation challenges, considering lessons from the US and around the globe at both local and regional levels. - Introduces never-before-published research - Offers best practices for transit, cycling, urban design and housing provision - Assesses emerging developments, such as smart cities, new vehicle technologies, automated highways and transportation sharing - Examines the institutional and political dimensions of sustainability planning at the urban and regional levels - Utilizes case studies from around the world that show alternative ways forward

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

653

Publisher

Elsevier

Published Date

ISBN 10

0128151684

ISBN 13

9780128151686

Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span - E-Book

By: Carole Edelman,Elizabeth C. Kudzma

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span - E-Book

By: Carole Edelman,Elizabeth C. Kudzma

Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span - E-Book

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

738

Publisher

Elsevier Health Sciences

Published Date

ISBN 10

0323837425

ISBN 13

9780323837422

Refugees, Migration and Global Governance

Negotiating the Global Compacts

By: Elizabeth G. Ferris,Katharine M. Donato

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Refugees, Migration and Global Governance

Negotiating the Global Compacts

By: Elizabeth G. Ferris,Katharine M. Donato

As debates about migrants and refugees reverberate around the world, this book offers an important first-hand account of how migration is being approached at the highest levels of international governance. Whereas refugees have long been protected by international law, migrants have been treated differently, with no international consensus definition and no one international migration system. This all changed in September 2016, when the 193 members of the United Nations unanimously adopted the New York Declaration on Refugees and Migrants, laying the groundwork for the creation of governance frameworks for migrants and refugees worldwide. This book provides a fly on the wall analysis of the opportunities and challenges of the two new Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration as governments, international NGOs, multilateral institutions and other actors develop and negotiate them. Looking beyond the compacts, the book considers migration governance over time, and asks the bigger questions of what the international community can do on the one hand to affirm and strengthen safe, orderly and regular migration to help drive economic growth and prosperity, whilst on the other hand responding to the problems caused by increasing numbers of refugees and irregular migrants. This highly engaging and informative account will be of interest to policy-makers, academics and students concerned with global migration and refugee governance.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

154

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351172786

ISBN 13

9781351172783

Greener Pastures

Decentralizing the Regulation of Agricultural Pollution

By: Elizabeth Brubaker

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Greener Pastures

Decentralizing the Regulation of Agricultural Pollution

By: Elizabeth Brubaker

As farms increase in size and become increasingly industrialized, the problem of agricultural pollution is gaining urgency across Canada. The response from most environmentalists and provincial governments is to push for more centralized regulation. In Greener Pastures, Elizabeth Brubaker exposes the detrimental effects of such regulatory changes, which tend to exacerbate, rather than curb, pollution. For centuries, Brubaker explains, conflicts about farming were resolved by the parties directly involved, aided by common-law courts. The rule, 'use your own property so as not to harm another's,' fairly and effectively resolved disputes between farmers and their neighbours and curbed environmental damage. Beginning in the 1970s, however, concerns about restraints on agriculture's growth prompted governments to replace the common law with more permissive provincial statutes. Greener Pastures chronicles the centralization of agricultural regulation and the resulting environmental harm. Brubaker focuses, specifically, on the right-to-farm laws (passed by every province in recent decades) that have freed farmers from common-law liability for the nuisances they create. She shows how these laws have made possible an unsustainable intensification of agriculture, and argues for a decentralized, rights-based decision-making regime. This thoroughly researched and impressively thought-out study challenges many common assumptions about environmental regulation, and proposes fresh answers to grave environmental and political questions.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

166

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0772786208

ISBN 13

9780772786203

Digestive Wellness: Strengthen the Immune System and Prevent Disease Through Healthy Digestion, Fourth Edition

By: Elizabeth Lipski

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Digestive Wellness: Strengthen the Immune System and Prevent Disease Through Healthy Digestion, Fourth Edition

By: Elizabeth Lipski

The definitive guide to healthy digestion! Digestive Wellness explains how your digestive system works and what to do when it doesn’t. You’ll find practical solutions to all the common gastrointestinal disorders (and many other conditions) and expert guidance on the newest advances in testing and diagnosis, nutrition, and natural therapies. Plus, you’ll learn how faulty digestion can affect the human body systemically, from migraines and skin issues to fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. “Dr. Lipski offers a practical toolkit to support each of us—clinicians and patients—to return to wellness by bringing our gastrointestinal system back into balance and harmony. I believe that you will deeply benefit from joining Dr. Lipski on this journey toward digestive wellness.” —Patrick Hanaway, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Genova Diagnostics; President, American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine “For anyone who has an interest in truly understanding how the gut works or is just interested in finding ways to optimize quality of life during the aging process, Digestive Wellness, 4th Edition is a must read.” —Jeffrey Moss, D.D.S., CNS, DACBN, Moss Nutrition “Liz Lipski explains digestion in a most appetizing and personal way. Even better than the last edition, Liz updates her understanding and ours. Everyone with a digestive tract has a need to know what Dr. Lipski synthesizes so well.” —Russell M. Jaffe, M.D., Ph.D., CCN, founder, ELISA/ACT Biotechnologies, LLC, and Perque, LLC “Dr. Lipski has written an easy-to-read and highly informative book that will help the general population and practitioners alike understand what the problem is and how to treat it. It is a must-read for anyone who wants to learn more about the intimate relationship between our digestion and our health.” —Marcelle Pick, RNC, M.S.N., OB/GYN NP

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

464

Publisher

McGraw Hill Professional

Published Date

ISBN 10

0071701613

ISBN 13

9780071701617

Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950

By: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950

By: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

Remarkable…an eye-opening book [on] the freedom struggle that changed the South, the nation, and the world." —Washington Post The civil rights movement that looms over the 1950s and 1960s was the tip of an iceberg, the legal and political remnant of a broad, raucous, deeply American movement for social justice that flourished from the 1920s through the 1940s. This rich history of that early movement introduces us to a contentious mix of home-grown radicals, labor activists, newspaper editors, black workers, and intellectuals who employed every strategy imaginable to take Dixie down. In a dramatic narrative Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore deftly shows how the movement unfolded against national and global developments, gaining focus and finally arriving at a narrow but effective legal strategy for securing desegregation and political rights.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

689

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Published Date

ISBN 10

0393348180

ISBN 13

9780393348187

Digestive Wellness: Strengthen the Immune System and Prevent Disease Through Healthy Digestion, Fifth Edition

By: Elizabeth Lipski

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Digestive Wellness: Strengthen the Immune System and Prevent Disease Through Healthy Digestion, Fifth Edition

By: Elizabeth Lipski

Optimize your overall health through digestive wellness! Fewer antacids and less bloating aren’t the only benefits of good digestion. When your digestive system is healthy and balanced, you sleep better, have more energy, think more clearly, experience less pain, and combat disease more effectively. Digestive Health shows how everything from migraines to skin disease to arthritis are connected to your digestive system. And now, this go-to guide has been updated with critical new research and developments, including late-breaking information on: • Probiotics and Prebiotics • Celiac Disease • The Gut-Brain Connection • Carbohydrates • Leaky Gut Syndrome • Auto-Immune Conditions • Kidney and Bone Health • Cancer Prevention • Alzheimer’s Disease You’ll find practical solutions to numerous conditions and disorders, along with expert guidance on the newest advances in testing and diagnosis, nutrition, and natural therapies. A perfect balance of science and practical advice, Digestive Health explains how your digestive system works and what to do when it doesn’t function properly. It provides everything you need to take control of your overall health through close, careful attention to your digestive system.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

464

Publisher

McGraw Hill Professional

Published Date

ISBN 10

1260019403

ISBN 13

9781260019407

Book's by Elizabeth Kneebone

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email