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Covenant boasts the first collection of Allen's personal drawings
and paintings. Each of his fantastical characters is accompanied by
a line of text, a poem or a brief story that captures their
essence. These visual narratives are pulled to the surface through
Allen's renowned mastery of storytelling and his use of graphite,
pencil and oils. The result is a fascinating journey into the mind
of this intriguing artist. Allen's strength comes from his mystical
connection to his work. He views himself as a guardian and creates
artistic personas that serve the well-being of others. At first
sight, his mythological characters may look odd, monstrous or
grotesque. Yet they represent the good that can be found when you
look below the surface of an individual. Allen has always liked the
underside of things. He embraces the bits of mortality that poke
out from under the skin. The artwork collected here addresses
Allen's need to face the challenges that surround him while
projecting himself into the art. He is driven by creating images
based on the strength of an individual's actions, regardless of how
they may be perceived for not conforming to society's semblance of
beauty.
An incisive collection of essays that reveals the past, present,
and future strength of black America as the best hope for a nation
that has lost faith in itself. "A much-needed antidote to the
madness-inducing contradiction of woke orthodoxy." -The Honorable
Judge Janice Rogers Brown In a nation that is tearing itself apart
over race, trying to speak honestly about the state of black
America is a perilous task. Candor and thoughtfulness are often
drowned by hysteria, expediency, and sentimentalism. The State of
Black America seeks to restore these sorely needed virtues to the
present discourse, assembling a company of scholars who confront
our nation's troubled racial history even as they bear witness to
the promise the American heritage contains for blacks. The essays
in this volume bring clarity to the murky darkness of America's
race debates, reviewing and building upon the latest scholarship on
the character, shape, and tendencies of life for black Americans.
Together, they tell a story of black America's astounding success
in integrating into mainstream American culture and propose that
black patriotism is the key to overcoming what problems remain.
Featuring scholarship from a variety of disciplines, including
history, economics, social science, and political philosophy, The
State of Black America offers to the world a "toolbox" of
intellectual resources to aid careful and sound thinking on one of
the most fraught issues of our time. Featuring contributions from
W. B. Allen, Mikael Rose Good, Edward J. Erler, Robert D. Bland,
Glenn C. Loury, Ian V. Rowe, Precious D. Hall, Daphne Cooper, Star
Parker, and Robert Borens.
Building on the success of Dr. Williams's widely influential first
book Eleminating Healthcare Disparities in America: Beyond the IOM
Report, this new volume takes a fresh and timely look at the
current state of healthcare reform and the progress and problems we
face in the pursuit of healthcare equity. This book focuses on how
the elimination of disparities can be accomplished through targeted
efforts made within the context of reform. Comprising the combined
efforts of the nation's best health policy analysts, researchers,
key opinion and thought leaders, and clinicians, this book
addresses both current and impending legislation and future
movements in healthcare. With the knowledge that the problem of
disparities extends beyond the present political arena into the
larger scope of all aspects of delivery, the authors provide
critical analysis of the causation of the disparities, a striking
call to action with implementable strategies for advancing equity,
and provide insightful examples of what has worked.
In Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America, Dr. Richard Allen
Williams assembles the very best scholars on healthcare disparities
to raise the public consciousness of this issue. These experts
provide the benefits of their experience and expertise as a
resource for helping others to make judicious determinations about
how to proceed in efforts to improve the disparities in American
healthcare. Arranged into discrete categories, this volume contains
comprehensive coverage, both historical and current, of the
healthcare disparity crisis currently plaguing our country in hopes
of leading us all to a brighter future. The volume includes
chapters of examples that are currently working and concludes with
recommendations on how to move forward. The text is not intended to
be one in which all of the answers are given to the multitude of
problems. Instead, Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America is
intended to raise the reader's level of consciousness and concern
and to increase the knowledge base about the issues. This
groundbreaking text will be an initial spark that ignites the fire
that may one day eliminate healthcare disparities in communities
around the country.
Bacon's memorable insight is specially significant when applied to
the wide range of works by some of the world's most renowned
writers, poets, philosophers, and intellectuals - men and women
whose determination to espouse and defend the cause of humanism and
freethought, interpreted broadly, has given us a well-endowed
repository of the wisdom of the ages. In "A Celebration of Humanism
and Freethought", author David Allen Williams has mined this vast
body of literature. The result is this priceless treasury of poetry
and prose draped in art and rare steel engravings from more than a
century ago.Amid its beauty, readers will find a unified call to
reason, tolerance, and freedom of expression in opposition to the
forces of ignorance, supernaturalism, superstition, and dogmatism.
The words of over eighty of the world's most often read and
frequently quoted authors are included: among them Aristotle,
Matthew Arnold, Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, Cicero, Joseph
Conrad, Charles Darwin, Diogenes, John Donne, Will Durant, Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Epicurus, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Edith
Hamilton, Eric Hoffer, Homer, Robert Ingersoll, Thomas Jefferson,
Lucretius, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, George
Santayana, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Voltaire, H.G. Wells,
and many others. This is a remarkable collection of compelling
ideas and impressive art that deserves a place on every bookshelf.
"Festival and Special Event Management, 5th edition" continues the
comprehensive overview of the theory and procedures associated with
festivals and special events established in previous editions. The
new edition of this market-leading text introduces developments and
professional tools, and considers the globalisation and subsequent
internationalisation of event management.
The role of marketing and communication, environmental planning,
the increasing role of governments through the creation of event
strategies, and the different perspectives of event management are
all discussed. This edition aims to embrace and extend the growing
body of knowledge relating to event management by tracking many of
the recent changes and developments in the field. This offers
students a current, relevant textbook for their study and
professional reference.
This socially conscious, culturally relevant book explores the
little-known history and present climate of Black people in the
medical field. It reveals the deficiencies in the American
healthcare structure that have contributed to the mismanagement of
healthcare in the Black population, and examines cross-currents
that intersect with the major events in minority medical history.
Illustrated across 10 expertly written chapters, this text features
a longitudinal timeline with the presentation of evidence-based
information drawn from historical, political, and clinical sources.
The book begins with an analysis of diseases particularly prevalent
in the Black community due to socioeconomic inequalities in
available medical care. These diseases include sickle cell anemia,
hypertension, heart failure, drug addiction, and HIV/AIDS.
Bolstered by profiles of historically well-known Black physicians,
stories of success in medical education, and the remarkable impact
of Black medical organizations, subsequent chapters address the
triumphs and tribulations of the Black medical professional in
America. Concluding with an examination of the current health
status of Black people in the United States, the book makes a case
for future systemic improvements in healthcare delivery to minority
communities. A unique, noteworthy reference, Blacks in Medicine:
Clinical, Demographic, and Socioeconomic Correlations is written
for a broad range of physicians and health providers, as well as
professionals in the social sciences and public health.
This socially conscious, culturally relevant book explores the
little-known history and present climate of Black people in the
medical field. It reveals the deficiencies in the American
healthcare structure that have contributed to the mismanagement of
healthcare in the Black population, and examines cross-currents
that intersect with the major events in minority medical history.
Illustrated across 10 expertly written chapters, this text features
a longitudinal timeline with the presentation of evidence-based
information drawn from historical, political, and clinical sources.
The book begins with an analysis of diseases particularly prevalent
in the Black community due to socioeconomic inequalities in
available medical care. These diseases include sickle cell anemia,
hypertension, heart failure, drug addiction, and HIV/AIDS.
Bolstered by profiles of historically well-known Black physicians,
stories of success in medical education, and the remarkable impact
of Black medical organizations, subsequent chapters address the
triumphs and tribulations of the Black medical professional in
America. Concluding with an examination of the current health
status of Black people in the United States, the book makes a case
for future systemic improvements in healthcare delivery to minority
communities. A unique, noteworthy reference, Blacks in Medicine:
Clinical, Demographic, and Socioeconomic Correlations is written
for a broad range of physicians and health providers, as well as
professionals in the social sciences and public health.
Building upon the success of Dr. Williams's widely influential book
Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America: Beyond the IOM
Report, this new volume takes a fresh and timely look at the state
of healthcare reform and the progress and problems we face in the
pursuit of healthcare equality. This book focuses on how the
elimination of disparities can be accomplished through targeted
efforts made within the context of reform. Comprising the combined
efforts of the nation's best health policy analysts, researchers,
key opinion leaders and clinicians, this book addresses both
current and impending legislation and future movements in
healthcare. With the knowledge that the problem of disparities
extends beyond the present political arena into the larger scope of
all aspects of healthcare delivery, the authors provide critical
analysis of the causation of disparities, insightful examples of
what has worked, and a striking call to action with implementable
strategies for advancing equality.
In this book, Dr. Richard Allen Williams has assembled the very
best scholars on healthcare disparities to raise the public
consciousness of this issue. Arranged into discrete categories,
this volume contains comprehensive coverage, both historical and
current, of the healthcare disparity crisis currently plaguing our
country in hopes of leading us all to a brighter future.
What happens when math nerds, band and theater geeks, goths, sci-fi
fanatics, Young Republican debate poindexters, techies, Trekkies,
D&D players, wallflowers, bookworms, and RPG players grow up?
And what can they tell us about the life of the mind in the
contemporary United States? With #GamerGate in the national news,
shows like The Big Bang Theory on ever-increasing numbers of
screens, and Peter Orzsag and Paul Ryan on magazine covers, it is
clear that nerds, policy wonks, and neoconservatives play a major
role in today's popular culture in America. The Year's Work in
Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons delves into subcultures of intellectual
history to explore their influence on contemporary American
intellectual life. Not limiting themselves to describing how
individuals are depicted, the authors consider the intellectual
endeavors these depictions have come to represent, exploring many
models and practices of learnedness, reflection, knowledge
production, and opinion in the contemporary world. As teachers,
researchers, and university scholars continue to struggle for
mainstream visibility, this book illuminates the other forms of
intellectual excitement that have emerged alongside them and found
ways to survive and even thrive in the face of dismissal or
contempt.
Man s recent colonization of New Zealand has dramatically
altered the resident biota and resulted in the introduction of
numerous alien organisms to these once remote islands. In reverse,
there is increasing evidence of a lesser known export of species to
other regions of the world. This volume presents an in-depth review
of the level and rate of such invasions, and investigates what
controls the success of invaders and the consequences for
ecosystems both on land and offshore. It provides invasion
biologists everywhere with tests of current theories about those
factors leading to the success of invaders as well as evaluating
principles for understanding the nature of their impacts that form
a solid basis for the effective management of biological invasions
worldwide."
Most anyone interested in such topics as creation mythology,
Jungian theory, or the idea of "secret teachings" in ancient
Judaism and Christianity has found "gnosticism" compelling. Yet the
term "gnosticism," which often connotes a single rebellious
movement against the prevailing religions of late antiquity, gives
the false impression of a monolithic religious phenomenon. Here
Michael Williams challenges the validity of the widely invoked
category of ancient "gnosticism" and the ways it has been
described. Presenting such famous writings and movements as the
"Apocryphon of John" and Valentinian Christianity, Williams
uncovers the similarities and differences among some major
traditions widely categorized as gnostic. He provides an eloquent,
systematic argument for a more accurate way to discuss these
interpretive approaches.
The modern construct "gnosticism" is not justified by any
ancient self-definition, and many of the most commonly cited
religious features that supposedly define gnosticism
phenomenologically turn out to be questionable. Exploring the
sample sets of "gnostic" teachings, Williams refutes
generalizations concerning asceticism and libertinism, attitudes
toward the body and the created world, and alleged features of
protest, parasitism, and elitism. He sketches a fresh model for
understanding ancient innovations on more "mainstream" Judaism and
Christianity, a model that is informed by modern research on
dynamics in new religious movements and is freed from the false
stereotypes from which the category "gnosticism" has been
constructed.
This book provides recent ideas, insights, facts, evidence,
frameworks, and perspectives on how and why entrepreneurial
families are successful over generations. The book focuses on how
families successfully implement entrepreneurship across
generations. That success, it argues, requires entrepreneurship at
the level of the family, not only in the businesses the family owns
and manages. Written by noted academics and consultants who are
authorities on family entrepreneurship, the chapters provide a
comprehensive exploration of the characteristics of successful
entrepreneurial families, their motivations, how they behave over
time, and, suggestions for how business families can encourage and
sustain entrepreneurship. This comprehensive look at family
entrepreneurship will serve as a fundamental reference text for
family business consultants, owners, and scholars.
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