Recommended by the American Community Gardening Association Community gardening enhances the fabric of towns and cities through social interactions and accessibility to fresh food, creating an enormously positive effect in the lives of everyone it touches. LaManda Joy, the founder of Chicago's Peterson Garden Project and a board member of the American Community Gardening Association, has worked in the community gardening trenches for years and...

Al trabajar en comunidades rurales muy aisladas, incluida una reserva mapuche, el autor pudo comprender que existían otras formas de ver la vida, otras cosmovisiones, que le permitieron salir de sí y descubrir mundos muy distintos al que concebía. En función de esto, se puede observar una constante actitud crítica hacia el sistema educativo del que formó parte, fundamentada en lo que permite que un proceso educativo sea eficaz, partiendo del...

Some rather remarkable changes took place in North American business schools between 1945 and 1970, altering the character of these institutions, the possibilities for their future, and the terms of discourse about them. This period represents a minor revolution, during which business school are reported to have become more academic, more analytic, and more quantitative. The Roots, Rituals, and Rhetorics of Change considers these changes and explores...

In this third volume of the Once and Future Church Series Loren Mead focuses on what he sees as the age-old call of the church - living and breathing the good news promise of spiritual transformation for all to see. He explores how we as the church may need to change as institutions and as individuals within institutions. Anyone who has read The Once and Future Church will want to explore the next step as Mead challenges us to examine the transformations...

Ted Haggard presents a successful and tested model for a small group ministry here that can be implemented by a church of any size. By enabling members to embrace and capitalize on their own unique abilities, the diverse groups create an environment where people meet mentors that can disciple and guide them. This need-and interest based approach redefines the model for powerful church growth.

Este texto presenta elementos para quienes estén interesados en tomarse en serio el mejorar la convivencia en la institución educativa, pero, sobre todo, poner en marcha estrategias que hagan posible la prevención y el manejo del bullying, con el fin de elaborar una propuesta que, de manera consistente, permita la transformación de las condiciones institucionales que hacen posible dicho fenómeno en las instituciones educativas. En la primera...

A congregation communicates its heart and soul through words, photos, actions, programs, architecture, decor, the arts, and countless other aspects of congregational life. In Reaching Out in a Networked World, communications expert and pastor Lynne Baab examines technologies such as websites, blogs, online communities, and desktop publishing. She demonstrates how a congregation can evaluate these tools and appropriately use them to communicate its...

How is your school data performing for you? Examine the ways your school can better use student achievement data, nonacademic student data, staff data, and parent/community data to identify areas for improvement. This book will help administrators and leaders with school-improvement planning and implementation, and teachers will find that good data can be used to plan instruction, and monitor and motivate students.

A pesar de las diversas aproximaciones al trabajo social crítico —desde el feminismo, poscolonialismo y perspectivas anti opresivas— una nueva agenda política debe estar impulsada por un conjunto de principios comunes. Así, el trabajo social crítico refleja una "zona de compromiso político" para estudiantes, investigadores y profesionales en primera línea, permitiéndoles tomar posiciones de resistencia frente al orden hegemónico. Esto...

"When insurance companies can wield and abuse their power to alter prescriptions and dictate treatment decisions, this abuse erodes doctors' autonomy and undermines the mutual trust that is the foundation of the doctor-patient relationship. Doctors should be the primary voices for the course of action taken for their patients." Todd Novak, author "Health Insurance Denials: A Common American Death Story Exposed" shares the following: • Denials...