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Danielle Williams, skydiver and founder of the online community
Melanin Base Camp, profiles dozens of adventurers pushing the
boundaries of inclusion and equity in the outdoors. These
compelling narratives include a mother whose love of hiking led her
to found a nonprofit to expose BIPOC children to the wonders of the
outdoors and a mountain biker who, despite at first dealing with
unwelcome glances and hostility on trails, went on to become a
blogger who writes about justice and diversity in natural spaces.
Also included is a guide to outdoor allyship that explores
sometimes challenging topics to help all of us create a more
inclusive community, whether you bike, climb, hike, or paddle. Join
us as we work together to increase representation and opportunities
for people of color in outdoor adventure sports.
New York City has the largest council-sponsored Participatory
Budgeting (PB) processes in North America. From its inception in
Brazil, PB was a process that empowered the least-advantaged
members of the community by providing a way to propose budget
allocations through voting. This book reports on a
multi-methodological study of New York City's participatory
budgeting (PB) process from the perspective of a city resident over
time. A participatory budgeting slogan purports that the initiative
offers "real power" and "real money" to constituents at a local
level. To critically examine such top-down assertions, and
different than much that has been written about PB, this book
researches and navigates its events the way a member of the
community would see it. The study reveals a lack of transparency,
manipulation by city agencies, the favorable treatment of insider
proposed projects, and a failure to reveal the basis of project
costs. It also finds that there is no singular participatory
budgeting project in New York City. Instead, there are numerous
participatory budget projects, as many as there are council members
who engage in the practice. This book provides a ground-level view
of these limitations and recommends substantial reform.
This Handbook is a comprehensive anthology of up-to-date chapters
contributed by current researchers in budget forecasting. Editors
Daniel Williams and Thad Calabrese had previously found substantial
deficiencies in public budgeting forecast literature with current
research failing to address such matters as practices related to
forecasting expenditure factors, the consequences of forecast bias,
or empirical examination of the effectiveness of many deterministic
methods actually used by many governments. This volume
comprehensively addresses the state of knowledge about budget
forecasting for practitioners, academics, and students and serves
as a comprehensive resource for instruction alongside serving as a
reference book for those engaged in budget forecasting practice.
This Handbook is a comprehensive anthology of up-to-date chapters
contributed by current researchers in budget forecasting. Editors
Daniel Williams and Thad Calabrese had previously found substantial
deficiencies in public budgeting forecast literature with current
research failing to address such matters as practices related to
forecasting expenditure factors, the consequences of forecast bias,
or empirical examination of the effectiveness of many deterministic
methods actually used by many governments. This volume
comprehensively addresses the state of knowledge about budget
forecasting for practitioners, academics, and students and serves
as a comprehensive resource for instruction alongside serving as a
reference book for those engaged in budget forecasting practice.
The first real look at the Canadian West "Harmon's Journal"--the
first published English-language journal written in B.C.-is a
lively, engaging story that, unlike other early journals, captures
the rough-and-tumble life of a fur trader and explorer in the
western Canada of 200 years ago. Harmon's descriptions of the
cultures and customs of the people he met provide important
observations of various First Nations almost before they were
touched by European culture. He also details activities of the
traders and explorers with whom he exchanged letters--such notable
personalities as David Thompson, Simon Fraser and John Stuart.
Harmon writes with honesty and often raw emotion in his accounts of
his travels and adventures, and his reflections are often profound.
"Harmon's Journal" is the authentic 1957 edition of the journal
edited by esteemed historian William Kaye Lamb.
Why do they still come? Fourteen hundred years after a handful of
Celtic monks withdrew to tiny islands in the sea, and almost a
thousand years after the last of them disappeared, a steady streams
of modern men and women make the difficult trek to these isolated
places. Why? What did the ancient monks know that we have
forgotten, or remember only dimly? What are we looking for when we
journey to such sacred places? We are looking, among other things,
for wisdom-for clues about how to live in a frantic, materialistic,
care-worn world that is, in many ways, hostile to life. And we
sense that those who lived here so long ago, though they have left
very little behind, have something to teach us. In Search of Sacred
Places: Looking for Wisdom on Celtic Holy Islands is the story of a
reluctant pilgrimage, taken by a man with no great faith in sacred
places. He is a man filled with modern questions and suspicions,
who nonetheless returns home from these thin places with a better
understanding of how to live. This book interweaves spiritual
quest, travel, memoir, history, theological reflection, cultural
analysis, and personal introspection-all conveyed in an engaging,
probing, and honest voice. It is a book for those on the hunt for
meaning who share the hope that God has sown it throughout this
world-perhaps more thickly in certain sacred places.
Employment, Labour and Industrial Law in Australia provides a
comprehensive, current and accessible resource for the
undergraduate and Juris Doctor student. With a social and political
background to the law, this text provides insightful legal analysis
underscored by practical business experience, while exploring key
principles through a close evaluation of laws and lively discussion
of prominent cases. Recognising the multi-faceted nature of the
subject, the authors have included content on employment, labour
and industrial law in the one text, while also presenting critical
topics not often dealt with, namely: * current and in-depth
analysis of trade union regulation * public work including the
public sector, the judiciary and academics * workplace health and
safety including worker's compensation, bullying,
anti-discrimination and taxation * emerging issues including topics
such as transnational and international employment law, migration
and employment, as well as volunteers and work experience. To
maintain currency within this rapidly changing area of law, the
text has a website which will include updates for any major
developments in the field as well as responses to end-of-chapter
questions. Written by respected academics and practicing lawyers in
the field, this book is a relevant and contemporary guide to this
fascinating area of law.
In Wales Unchained Daniel G. Williams explores how Welsh writers,
politicians and intellectuals have defined themselves - and have
been defined by others - since the early twentieth century. Whether
by exploring ideas of race in the 1930s or reflecting on the
metaphoric uses of boxing, asking what it means to inhabit the
'American century' or probing the linguistic bases of cultural
identity, Williams writes with a rare blend of theoretical
sophistication and accessible clarity. This book discusses Rhys
Davies in relation to D. H. Lawrence, explores the simultaneous
impact that Dylan Thomas and saxophonist Charlie Parker had on the
Beat Generation in 1950s America, and juxtaposes the uses made of
class and ethnicity in the thought of Aneurin Bevan and Paul
Robeson. Transatlantic in scope and comparative in method, this
book will engage readers interested in literature, politics,
history and contemporary cultural debate.
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