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This important Handbook on international development policy and
management covers a broad spectrum of contemporary topics across
all the major areas of interest. With over 40 chapters, the book
comprehensively explores the many themes and issues of significance
for both policy and implementation, and provides easily accessible
reference material on current practice and research. The 42
contributors come from a diverse range of backgrounds, and enjoy
international reputations in their chosen fields. The Handbook is
organised in two parts, one dealing with policy issues and the
other with implementation and management issues. The first part, on
policy, covers a wide range of economic, social and environmental
topics. The second part explores the political context of
implementation and development practice and goes on to cover a
range of issues relating to management in the public and non-state
sectors and the management of development projects. Each individual
chapter provides background information on theory and practice,
describes the current 'state of play', examines prospects for the
future and includes an annotated guide to further reading. This
extensive handbook will become an essential reference on
international development policy and management. Although primarily
designed for postgraduate students and scholars of development
studies, it will also be welcomed by development practitioners,
NGOs and aid agencies.
This important Handbook on international development policy and
management covers a broad spectrum of contemporary topics across
all the major areas of interest. With over 40 chapters, the book
comprehensively explores the many themes and issues of significance
for both policy and implementation, and provides easily accessible
reference material on current practice and research. The 42
contributors come from a diverse range of backgrounds, and enjoy
international reputations in their chosen fields. The Handbook is
organised in two parts, one dealing with policy issues and the
other with implementation and management issues. The first part, on
policy, covers a wide range of economic, social and environmental
topics. The second part explores the political context of
implementation and development practice and goes on to cover a
range of issues relating to management in the public and non-state
sectors and the management of development projects. Each individual
chapter provides background information on theory and practice,
describes the current 'state of play', examines prospects for the
future and includes an annotated guide to further reading. This
extensive handbook will become an essential reference on
international development policy and management. Although primarily
designed for postgraduate students and scholars of development
studies, it will also be welcomed by development practitioners,
NGOs and aid agencies.
"New York Times" bestselling author and educator Ron Clark
challenges parents, teachers, and communities everywhere embrace a
difference in the classroom and uplift, educate, and empower our
children.
Read this book to find out why so many across the country have
embraced these powerful rules.
- Set the electric tone on day one
- Teach your children how to study--don't expect it to come
naturally
- Don't constantly stress about test scores
- Not every child deserves a cookie
- Lift up your teachers. No, really, lift them up
- If kids like you all the time, you're doing something wrong
- Don't be a penny parent
Be different. Be bold. Join in.
Ron Clark's The Essential 55 took the country by storm, selling
over over one million copies. Now he provides a new edition of the
companion workbook with fresh exercises for teachers and parents to
transform any child into a successful student. The Essential 55
Workbook is full of easy-to-do lessons to help you reinforce The
Essential 55 rules that every child should know. With a series of
self-tests, exercises, and questionnaires, The Essential 55
Workbook allows you to adapt Ron Clark's successful tools to your
own situation. With determination, discipline, and regular rewards,
the children you stick by will be the children you come to admire.
From the Disney Teacher of the Year and New York Times bestselling
author Ron Clark comes the classic guide to bringing out the best
in your students, revised and updated for today's teachers. Over 1
million copies sold! When Ron Clark walked into his fifth-grade
class in rural North Carolina, he was confronted with disinterested
children in desperate need of structure and compassion.
Brainstorming how best to reignite their love of learning, Ron
created 55 lessons. Soon his fifth graders were reading at a
sixth-grade level, engaging in class, and loving school. What's
more, they were gaining something crucial: self-respect. These
lessons evolved into The Essential 55 - guidelines for students on
how to live and interact with others. Ron lit a fire under parents
and teachers around the world to raise their standards and expect
the most from their students. The Essential 55 features a new
foreword from Ron and a fresh take on his classic rules. Ron's 55
ideas show that with determination, discipline, and regular
rewards, the children you stick by will be the children you
eventually admire.
If there were a code you could learn that would enable you to
become a wonderful teacher - of any young person in your life -
wouldn't you want to learn it? The Essential 55 collects together
the amazingly effective rules that Ron Clark used to become an
extraordinary - and award-winning - teacher. Through trial and
error, he has distilled fifty-five ideas that have helped him
transform apathetic students, in some of the most deprived and
challenging circumstances, into prize-winning scholars. Covering
all aspects of life - from the classroom to the world, from human
interactions to cafeteria manners - Ron Clark shows that with
determination, discipline and regular rewards, the children you
stick by will be the children you eventually admire.
About the Contributor(s): Ron Clark is the minister for the Agape
Church of Christ and faculty at George Fox Evangelical Seminary in
Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Freeing the Oppressed and The
God of Second Chances.
Description: When the people of Judah were taken captive by the
Babylonians, their world was drastically changed. While in exile
they experienced shame, guilt, fear, and displacement. However,
their God had been traumatized by their behavior and also grieved
with them. Yet, Yahweh gave them a second chance by forgiving them
and bringing them home. God offered them hope, mercy, and love. The
prophets were God's chosen messengers, not only to provide a new
vision of what could be, but to suffer with the people. These
servants were caught in the middle between a passionate God and
traumatized people. As the people returned to Jerusalem to rebuild
their city and their lives, the prophets were with them to remind
them that God had not abandoned them. The author suggests that the
prophets live on today through the church as those who engage their
community, fight for people's hearts, and remind others that God
gives second chances. Clark shares stories from his personal
ministry to the marginalized in Portland, Oregon, who seek relief
from shame, suffering, and hopelessness. In this hope our community
receives new vision through a loving God and persistent prophets.
Endorsements: ""Clark's probe of prophets is itself prophetic: this
book has the potential to move the church from despair to hope,
from somnolence to divine presence, from wake-up to dream again.""
--Leonard Sweet, Drew University ""Readers can] expect to find in
this book a deep, pastoral sensibility, a compelling narrative art,
and an awareness of systemic arrangements that continue to produce
hopelessness and displacement among us. Clark provides ready access
to the issues that concern us most now."" --Walter Brueggemann,
Columbia Theological Seminary ""Today's church often seems
disconnected from both the suffering world and from its own sacred
texts . . . With clarity, passion, pastoral sensibility, and an
accurate, though not technical, understanding of Scripture, Clark
invites readers into a world, not as it is, but as it should--and
could--be. Read this book. More importantly, live prophetically and
with imaginative joy."" --Mark W. Hamilton, Abilene Christian
University ""No doubt you will be changed by Clark's powerful
stories of personal ministry with the marginalized and his vision
of hope through our loving God."" --Kevin Palau, Luis Palau
Association ""Clark combines expertise in biblical literature with
page-turning accounts of life amidst the marginalized, creating a
rare and exquisite meshing of two worlds where hope is promised to
a crushed people. Essential reading for those who dare to
minister."" --David Fleer, Lipscomb University About the
Contributor(s): Ron Clark is the minister for the Agape Church of
Christ in Portland, Oregon. He is an adjunct instructor at George
Fox Evangelical Seminary and serves in local abuse- and
trafficking-prevention agencies in Portland. He is the author of Am
I Sleeping with the Enemy? (2009) and Freeing the Oppressed (2009),
both from Cascade Books.
At the center of a nearly insolvent Dubai, the 900-meter Falcon
Tower, the world's tallest building, is near completion, and the
unpaid indigent laborers who toiled on its construction will soon
have nowhere to go. Or will they? Their despair fueled and turned
into hatred by a mysterious mullah, they will become martyrs in the
name of Islam. Following a wave of horrific suicide bombings in the
U.S. and U.K., Navy Captain Bryan Craig heads up Pegasus, a London
based counter-terrorism posse tasked with hunting the vicious
faction responsible. Guided by an emboldened nemesis, the brazen
extremists are bent on the destruction of the West, and the goal of
creating a 21st century Islamic caliphate. Using financial
tracking, and the most advanced crime lab in the world, Bryan and
Shannon Parker, a brilliant terrorist profiler, and beautiful muse,
embark on a perilous journey from London to Dubai, and finally the
Hindu Kush mountains of Pakistan, a region tormented by the
Taliban, thugs vying for control of the world's only Islamic
nuclear arsenal. What will be the fate of the West as the new
Islamic expansion unfolds? Along the way, Bryan retraces footsteps
of the old British Empire, discovering clues to what new terror may
be planned, leading to a climatic, and very chilling ending. FALCON
ON THE TOWER is insightful and thought provoking, an eye opening
look at a conflict that has lasted 14 centuries.
An insider's view of the emergency medical system, a valuable
resource for patients and families, and a thorough guide preparing
readers for the labyrinth of functions, personnel, and treatments
within the emergency department.
Description: When a boy cries, his father trains him in the way of
the ancients. He is taught to ""man up,"" and rejects anything
feminine in his life. Thus he begins the process of becoming a man
in the image of his culture. This transformation comes at the
expense of his own calling to reflect the image of God. Men and
women, however, were both created in this divine image and were
meant to live in harmony rather than enmity. Recently, influential
Christian writers and leaders have suggested that men have become
too feminized and need to return to their calling to be ""real
men."" Clark believes that this ""new masculinity"" is in reality a
return to the way of the ancients. Drawing from his experiences as
a minister, domestic- and sexual- violence prevention advocate, and
community leader, Clark suggests that Jesus came to redefine
masculinity and resist the cultural view of manhood, power, and
oppression. Endorsements: ""Are men to be strong, tough, and
raging? Or compassionate, empathetic, and caring? Ron Clark takes
you through biblical and cultural history, providing a thought
provoking case for what real manhood is. This book will definitely
challenge you to think through whatever paradigms you may have
instead of simply accepting the status quo."" --Eric and Jennifer
Garcia Co-founders of the Association of Marriage and Family
Ministries ""Ron Clark makes a strong, religious case for the
strength in gentleness and humility, and adds an urgently needed
voice to the call for compassion in a world that too often feels
cold and distant."" --Patrick J. Lemmon Co-founder and former
Executive Director of Men Can Stop Rape ""Ron Clark is one of the
leading voices among male clergy in the struggle to end men's
violence against women and children. This book contains all of the
qualities of courageous honesty, wisdom, and humility that make him
such an effective educator and leader. Women and men---nside and
outside of Christian communities--will find great insight and
compassionate teaching in these pages."" --Jackson Katz author of
The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help
About the Contributor(s): Ron Clark is the lead church planter for
the Agape Church of Christ in Portland, Oregon where he is active
in community organizations in domestic and sexual abuse,
homelessness, and human trafficking. He is an adjunct faculty
member at George Fox Evangelical Seminary and author of Setting the
Captives Free, Freeing the Oppressed and The Better Way.
When Paul came to Corinth he found a culture emerging from the
ashes of Roman power. As Julius Caesar rebuilt the fallen city he
brought Roman culture to this Greek community. Likewise, Paul's
message of salvation in Jesus rebuilt the fallen lives of people
dominated by a culture of power. This power was displayed in
violence, discrimination, sexuality, and spirituality. As this city
emerged from the ashes of humiliation the church emerged, by God's
hand, from of the humiliation of Jesus and the cross.Today the
church emerges in a culture of power, humiliation, and fear. Paul's
challenge for the church is to be mature and practice unconditional
love. This love is permanent. This love develops and empowers
others. This love causes us to be in relationship with God and
others. Through this love God's people see face to face. The church
can emerge to radiate love, peace, and empowerment.
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