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Barrio Gangs: Street Life and Identity in Southern California
by James Diego VigilWithin the Mexican American barrios of Los Angeles, gang activity, including crime and violent acts, has grown and flourished. In the past, community leaders and law enforcement officials have approached the problem, not as something that needs to be understood, but only as something to be gotten rid of. Rejecting that approach, James D. Vigil asserts that only by understanding the complex factors that give birth and persistence to gangs can gang violence be ended. Drawing on many years of experience in the barrios as a youth worker, high school teacher, and researcher, Vigil identifies the elements from which gangs spring: isolation from the dominant culture, poverty, family stress and crowded households, peer pressure, and the adolescent struggle for self-identity. Using interviews with actual gang members, he reveals how the gang often functions as parent, school, and law enforcement in the absence of other role models in the gang members' lives. And he accounts for the longevity of gangs, sometimes over decades, by showing how they offer barrio youth a sense of identity and belonging nowhere else available.
Barrio Urbanism: Chicanos, Planning and American Cities
by David R. DiazThis, the first book on Latinos in America from an urban planning/policy perspective, covers the last century, and includes a substantial historical overview the subject. The authors trace the movement of Latinos (primarily Chicanos) into American cities from Mexico and then describe the problems facing them in those cities. They then show how the planning profession and developers consistently failed to meet their needs due to both poverty and racism. Attention is also paid to the most pressing concerns in Latino barrios during recent times, including environmental degradation and justice, land use policy, and others. The book closes with a consideration of the issues that will face Latinos as they become the nation's largest minority in the 21st century.
Barrios to Burbs: The Making of the Mexican American Middle Class
by Jody Agius VallejoToo frequently, the media and politicians cast Mexican immigrants as a threat to American society. Given America's increasing ethnic diversity and the large size of the Mexican-origin population, an investigation of how Mexican immigrants and their descendants achieve upward mobility and enter the middle class is long overdue. Barrios to Burbsoffers a new understanding of the Mexican-American experience. Vallejo explores the challenges that accompany rapid social mobility and examines a new indicator of incorporation, a familial obligation to "give back" in social and financial support. She investigates the salience of middle-class Mexican Americans' ethnic identification and details how relationships with poorer coethnics and affluent whites evolve as immigrants and their descendants move into traditionally white middle-class occupations. Disputing the argument that Mexican communities lack high quality resources and social capital that can help Mexican Americans incorporate into the middle class, Vallejo also examines civic participation in ethnic professional associations embedded in ethnic communities.
Barry Farm-Hillsdale in Anacostia: A Historic African American Community (American Heritage)
by Alcione M. AmosBarry Farm-Hillsdale was created under the auspices of the Freedmen's Bureau in 1867 in what was then the outskirts of the nation's capital. Residents built churches and schools, and the community became successful. In the 1940s, youth from the community courageously desegregated the Anacostia Pool, and Barry Farm Dwellings was built to house war workers. In the 1950s, community parents joined the fight to desegregate schools in Washington, D.C., as local leaders fought off plans to redevelop the area. Both the women and the youth of Barry Farm Dwellings, then public housing, were at the forefront of the fight to improve their lives and those of their neighbors in the 1960s, but community identity was being subsumed into the larger Anacostia neighborhood. Curator and historian Alcione M. Amos tells these little-remembered stories.
Barça oblidat
by Frederic Porta Manuel TomásDesprés de la publicació de Barça inèdit i Barça insòlit, arriba Barça oblidat, amb les més recents pinzellades extretes d'aquest immens tapís, d'aquest tresor que l’aficionat a l'esport, en general, i el barcelonista, en particular, coneixeran de bon grat. Barça oblidat és el llibre que tanca la trilogia realitzada per Manuel Tomàs i Frederic Porta sobre la història del F.C. Barcelona. Després de Barça inèdit i Barça insòlit, convertits ja en llibres de referència i consulta per als interessats en la matèria, aquest últim volum torna a submergir-se en la prolífica i centenària trajectòria del club blaugrana, situant tots els fets en el seu context polític, econòmic i social a partir del rigor i d'una lectura tan amena com didàctica. Així, els autors completen 2.400 píndoles d'aproximació al ric passat de l'entitat que qualsevol culer, i per extensió aficionat curiós al futbol, hauria de conèixer sobre l'ambaixador més destacat que hagi tingut mai Catalunya.Reprenent la celebrada fórmula del trencadís, els autors formen un relat basat en la investigació d'actes oficials, documents fins ara desconeguts i l'hemeroteca periodística de temps pretèrits. Onze capítols on es rescaten tota mena d'episodis, anècdotes, personatges i circumstàncies que no mereixen caure en l'oblit. Vuit-centes anècdotes noves que retraten una visió panoràmica del Barça a través dels seus 121 anys de trajectòria singular. En definitiva, el tercer lliurament d'una obra que homenatja la memòria històrica del barcelonisme, tantscops, dissortadament, marginada. Fins i tot per aquells que estimen el club i el consideren part bàsica del seu sentiment personal. La crítica ha dit...«Completa encara més les històries sobre el F.C. Barcelona que ens van relatar en els seus dos llibres anteriors. Un altre encert de Córner.»Tardes de Domecq «Píndoles de barcelonisme per aproximar-se de manera amena i de vegades punyent a la rica història blaugrana.»Xavier G. Luque, La Vanguardia«Una feina de documentació a l’hemeroteca i als arxius que barregen dades històriques amb detalls de la vida diària.»La Razón «Un llibre amè i àgil que convida a despumar la opulència dels grans clubs i a reconèixer la importància de tantes persones, llocs isuccessos que, des de la quotidianitat, han passat a formar part de la manera de ser dels equips. Tot i que de vegades semblin oblidades.»Pedro Zuazua, El País
Base of the Pyramid 3.0: Sustainable Development through Innovation and Entrepreneurship
by Stuart L. Hart Fernando Casado CanequeFor well over 4 billion people – approximately 60% of all humanity – annual income is less than $1,500. The term "Base of the Pyramid" was first coined by Stuart L. Hart and C.K. Prahalad in 2002 and has become synonymous with both the method by which we can more effectively address poverty and the opportunity that exists in a multi-trillion-dollar market. A whole new lexicon has emerged to describe this phenomenon, including new buzzwords and catch phrases like "inclusive business", "opportunities for the majority", "sustainable livelihoods", "pro-poor business" and “social business”, and thousands of new businesses, institutions and investment funds have been set up.In this ground-breaking new book, Stuart L. Hart and Fernando Casado Cañeque have worked with members of the BoP Global Network to shake the tree, look objectively at what has happened since 2002, highlight why earlier applications of BoP haven’t worked and propose new objectives and ways of working to formulate more sustainable solutions. The book challenges the reader and organizations to think about the mindset and purpose across whole organizations, open innovation rather than simply co-creation, and a complete review of the innovation ecosystem. Through this book, practitioners will gain a clearer insight into which business models can work within different communities to ensure a sustainable transition to improved local economies. Equally, the book is a must-read for researchers and students in the fields of entrepreneurship, innovation, sustainable development and environmental management.
Baseball Italian Style: Great Stories Told by Italian American Major Leaguers from Crosetti to Piazza
by Lawrence BaldassaroBaseball Italian Style brings together the memories of major leaguers of Italian heritage whose collective careers span almost a century, from the 1930s up to today. In these first-person accounts, baseball fans will meet at an intimate level the players they cheered as heroes or jeered as adversaries, as well as coaches, managers, front-office executives, and umpires. The men who speak in this collection, which includes eight Hall of Famers (Yogi Berra, Phil Rizzuto, Ron Santo, Craig Biggio, Mike Piazza, Tom Lasorda, Tony La Russa, and Joe Torre) go beyond facts and figures to provide an inside look at life in the big leagues. Their stories provide a time capsule that documents not only the evolution of Italian American participation in the national pastime, but also the continuity of the game and the many changes that have taken place, on and off the field. At a time when statistical analysis plays an increasingly prominent role in the sport, the monologues in this book are a reminder that the history of baseball is passed on to future generations more eloquently, and with much greater passion, through the words of those who lived it than it is by numerical data.
Baseball and Philosophy: Thinking Outside the Batter's Box
by Eric Bronson18 professors, some from the new field devoted to the philosophy of sport, others unapologetic baseball fans, explore the sport's deeper aspects.
Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
by Jules TygielIn this gripping account of one of the most important steps in the history of American desegregation, Jules Tygiel tells the story of Jackie Robinson's crossing of baseball's color line. Examining the social and historical context of Robinson's introduction into white organized baseball, both on and off the field, Tygiel also tells the often neglected stories of other African-American players--such as Satchel Paige, Roy Campanella, Willie Mays, and Hank Aaron—who helped transform our national pastime into an integrated game. <p><p>Drawing on dozens of interviews with players and front office executives, contemporary newspaper accounts, and personal papers, Tygiel provides the most telling and insightful account of Jackie Robinson's influence on American baseball and society. The anniversary issue features a new foreword by the author.
Bashing Back: Wayne Besen on GLBT People, Politics, and Culture
by Wayne Besen RThe Best of Besen!Bashing Back: Wayne Besen on GLBT People, Politics & Culture is a compilation of 72 columns from the outspoken GLBT activist and author of Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth. Funny, provocative, and informative, this unique book puts a progressive spin on hot-button topics in the political, cultural, and social arenas, covering everything from AIDS and African-Americans to Zach Stark.Bashing Back presents an A-to-Z look at Besen's worldview on a wide range of topics, including Bill O'Reilly, Brokeback Mountain, Ellen DeGeneres, gay pride parades, marriage rights, Mary Cheney, overhauling the gay movement, religion and politics, sports and homophobia, The Passion of the Christ, the pitiful state of TV news, the Vatican's war on gays, the World Trade Center, and New Orleans. Smart and funny, Besen delivers a knockout punch to the notion that liberalism stands for nothing and progressive means passive.From the author:"The columns I have chosen for this book touch on politics and people, comedy and culture. But most of all, they are a strong defense of the liberal values that have made this nation strong. It is time we proudly stand up for what we believe in. If we don't defend our values, our opponents will define them. . . . Bashing Back is the first punch in a fight to take back our culture and restore progressive values for the good of the nation."An excerpt from "Bill O'Reilly:"Once upon a time I actually enjoyed The O'Reilly Factor. While I almost always disagreed with him, he was at least entertaining. Lately, however, he has morphed into just another Bush mouthpiece. The master of the "No Spin Zone" is suddenly spinning so hard he is in the Twilight Zone, dizzy in his own deception. He even had the audacity on CNBC to suggest that Fox isn't a conservative news outlet. That's beyond spin. If it were closer to Hanukah I'd think O'Reilly was a dreidel. My other problem with his show is that it's unnaturally obsessed with gay issues. More gay people appear on The O'Reilly Factor than on Showtime's Queer as Folk. I know that sounds strange coming from a gay columnist who has twice appeared on his show. But it seems like he's had on every gay person in America to use as his personal political piñata. When even gay activists are tired of watching gay segments, it's time to find a new culture war issue.Bashing Back is an invaluable compilation of Besen's best columns from Planet Out, Gay.com, and the Washington Blade. It's an essential resource for longtime Besen readers and an entertaining introduction for newcomers.
Basic Benefits And Clinical Guidelines
by Richard D. Lamm David C. HadornThis book explains how clinical guidelines might be used to define health care needs and basic benefits. It discusses certain technical issues of the model proposal, including the importance of considering both health outcome evidence and patient and public preferences.
Basic Computational Techniques For Data Analysis: An Exploration in MS-Excel
by D. Narayana Sharad RanjanThis book will help readers acquire knowledge and equip them in handling various statistical and financial computations using MS Excel. The book is designed to equip students to navigate through MS Excel spreadsheets to compute various statistical and financial measures for use in data analysis. Basic Computational Techniques for Data Analysis illustrates the concepts used in economic and financial decision-making in business as well as in day-to-day life, thus enhancing a deeper understanding of the concepts from both theoretical and practical perspectives. After going through the textbook, readers will be able to ascertain the inbuilt capabilities in MS Excel and comprehend basic computations in statistics and finance. This book is essential as a supportive companion for students of economics, commerce, management and social science subjects in general. Key Features: • Provides an in-depth and clear understanding of various data analysis techniques • Systemic and stepwise explanation of financial and statistical concepts using MS Excel functions • Prior knowledge of statistics, finance and MS-Excel functions not required to understand the concepts • Simplistic clarification of topics such as Future Value of Money, Loan Amortization and Investment Decision Criteria
Basic Concepts of Probability and Statistics in the Law
by Michael O. FinkelsteinThis book sets out basic statistical tools as they have been applied in actual legal disputes. Examples range over diverse fields of law, such as identification evidence, mass torts, securities law, environmental regulation, and capital punishment, among many others. In some notable cases, such as the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore, the book explores aspects of the statistical evidence that were unrecognized or misconceived by the parties or the court. For the statistics student, the book will give a deeper appreciation of foundation concepts and provide a wealth of real life applications. For the lawyer, or law student, the book will introduce a subject that has become increasingly important both in litigation and in studies of the legal system. The book is self-contained and may be read without background in probability or statistics.
Basic Groupwork
by Tom DouglasBasic Groupwork is a simple, practical guide to the processes of groupwork. This new edition has been extensively updated and revised to reflect the changes which have taken place in society and social behaviour since it was first published in 1978, but in essence it remains an accessible and friendly text for the novice practitioner.In logical sequence the book follows the progress of one group from inception to close and exposes how groups work. Basic group processes explained include: how individuals bring their personal habitual responses to situations into a group how group constraints enhance or restrain group behaviour and achievement how a group is affected by the way in which it has originated how leadership and membership roles interact. Basic Groupwork provides students with a sound and solid basis for any kind of groupwork, in any context.
Basic Guide to Cultural Tourism Marketing: Practice Cultural Management (essentials)
by Andrea Hausmann Sarah SchuhbauerThis essential knowledgeably explains the key decisions to be made in the practice of cultural tourism marketing. After an introduction to the term and the central characteristics, the main activities in the planning process of cultural tourism marketing are presented. Building on this, Andrea Hausmann describes marketing strategies that are particularly relevant in practice, dealing with the different types of cultural tourism demand (segmentation), brand management (branding), the realization of innovations (digitalization) and entering into cooperations or forming networks. Finally, typical focal points in the marketing mix of cultural tourism service providers are highlighted and the importance of personnel for the quality experience of demand is elaborated.The author:Prof. Dr. Andrea Hausmann is a professor at the Institute for Cultural Management at the Ludwigsburg University of Education. She advises cultural enterprises and tourism organisations on the topics of cultural tourism, marketing and personnel.
Basic Income - From Vision to Creeping Transformation of the Welfare State
by Jürgen Schupp Rolf G. HeinzeThe present publication constitutively expands the field of discourse on the topic of basic income and explores the possibilities of its introduction as well as the opportunities and risks. Although all visionary proposals for an unconditional basic income (BGE) have so far not been implemented politically, at least in democratically constituted welfare states, the question of implementation or the conditions for success and the identification of possible blockades have only been dealt with marginally. Recent publications on a BGE also show this political-institutional "blindness" and do not address enough the reasons for the failure so far. Without a transfer strategy, however, the idea will fail in Germany due to such implementation naivety. In this book, therefore, the state of the debate on basic income is developed further to the extent that it is integrated into welfare-state development processes and current challenges for the "safeguarding of social security". In addition, a social-scientific classification of hitherto visionary guarantee elements of a basic income model is undertaken, linking up with the "silent" change to a socially investing state.
Basic Income Guarantee
by Allan SheahenThis book, an updated version of Sheahen's original 1983 work, is a comprehensive look at a Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) and what it would mean for the United States today.
Basic Income Guarantee and Politics: International Experiences And Perspectives On The Viability Of Income Guarantee (Exploring The Basic Income Guarantee Ser.)
by Richard K. CaputoThis exciting and timely collection brings together international and national scholars and advocates to provide historical overviews of efforts to pass basic income guarantee legislation in their respective countries and/or across regions of the globe.
Basic Income Reconsidered
by Simon BirnbaumBasic income is one the most innovative, powerful and controversial proposals for addressing poverty and growing inequalities. This book examines the arguments for and against basic income from the point of view of economic and social justice.
Basic Income for Disasters and Climate Change in Africa: Agrarian Risk Reduction and Adaptation (Routledge Studies in African Development)
by Sara BernardoThis book considers how basic income could be used as a mechanism for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in African agrarian societies.African agrarian societies are among those most severely impacted by disasters due to insufficient financial and technological resources to prepare for and respond to crises. This book argues that hazards and environmental disasters are increasingly not isolated occurrences, and the vulnerability of communities is cumulative event after event, with capacities to cope and adapt weakened progressively. With pre- and post-disaster operating as a single continuous process, basic income could provide communities with a stable flow of money, leaving them better able to adapt and respond to crises. To illustrate the theoretical framework, the book uses Mozambique, and more specifically the district of Búzi, as an instrumental case study.This innovative book will be of interest to readers across the fields of global development, African studies and humanitarian and disaster studies.
Basic Income in Japan
by Yannick Vanderborght Toru YamamoriBasic Income in Japan discusses the potential of an unconditional basic income (UBI) in the context of a transforming Japanese welfare state.
Basic Income: The Policy That Changes Everything
by Kate Pickett Daniel Nettle Elliott Johnson Ian Robson Howard Reed Matthew JohnsonBasic income can no longer be dismissed as a utopian idea — it’s being tested worldwide. But can it truly transform economies and societies? This book dives into real-world examples, revealing how basic income reshapes lives. It explores the ripple effects of financial security—better health, stronger communities, more education, meaningful work, and engaged citizenship. By breaking the cycle of poverty, basic income unlocks access to essentials like food and housing, empowers people, and fuels long-term thinking and entrepreneurship Tying together theory with groundbreaking evidence from real-world trials, this book shows why basic income isn’t just possible—it’s the vital solution to our age of crisis, paving the way for a fairer society.
Basic Interests: The Importance of Groups in Politics and in Political Science
by Frank R. Baumgartner Beth L. LeechA generation ago, scholars saw interest groups as the single most important element in the American political system. Today, political scientists are more likely to see groups as a marginal influence compared to institutions such as Congress, the presidency, and the judiciary. Frank Baumgartner and Beth Leech show that scholars have veered from one extreme to another not because of changes in the political system, but because of changes in political science. They review hundreds of books and articles about interest groups from the 1940s to today; examine the methodological and conceptual problems that have beset the field; and suggest research strategies to return interest-group studies to a position of greater relevance. <p><p> The authors begin by explaining how the group approach to politics became dominant forty years ago in reaction to the constitutional-legal approach that preceded it. They show how it fell into decline in the 1970s as scholars ignored the impact of groups on government to focus on more quantifiable but narrower subjects, such as collective-action dilemmas and the dynamics of recruitment. As a result, despite intense research activity, we still know very little about how groups influence day-to-day governing. Baumgartner and Leech argue that scholars need to develop a more coherent set of research questions, focus on large-scale studies, and pay more attention to the context of group behavior. Their book will give new impetus and direction to a field that has been in the academic wilderness too long.
Basic Metaverse: How Virtual Worlds Will Change Our Reality and What You Can Do to Unlock Their Potential
by David ShrierWhat is the metaverse? Quite simply, it's a digital platform to help people collaborate, work and play in new ways, in an immersive 3D environment. In Basic Metaverse, leading futurist David L. Shrier explains how the technology works, unpacks its potential uses - including its relationship to the development of Web3 - and its impact on everyday life and work. He explores some of the legal and moral quandaries that could accompany widespread adoption of this transformational technology, from issues of wealth disparity and access to what happens if your virtual avatar commits a crime in the metaverse.The metaverse future is full of possibility. One thing we can be certain of is that it will be stranger than we can imagine. Join Shrier as he journeys across virtual worlds in search of understanding.
Basic Needs and the Urban Poor: The Provision of Communal Services (Routledge Library Editions: Urban Studies)
by P. J. Richards and A. M. ThomsonOriginally published in 1984. The diverse problems suffered by the urban poor in Asia and the means by which their welfare levels can be raised are investigated comprehensively in this study. All chapters, written by specialists, deal with a particular subject but the general theme remains that the factors causing urban poverty and low income levels are interconnected and transmitted from one generation to another. It is intended that this study will lead to discussion of the problems involved in providing services for the urban poor and result in the increased responsiveness of urban management. This title will be of interest to students of urban and development studies.