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Highland Park (Paperback)
Charles J. Fisher, Highland Park Heritage Trust
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Founded during the 1886 land boom in Southern California midway
between the cities of Los Angeles and Pasadena, the original
Highland Park Tract was part of the Rancho San Rafael. Highland
Park was the first town to be annexed by Los Angeles, but it
nonetheless retains a strong sense of its own identity and has
taken a fiercely independent path. The community prides itself on
its unique history, architecture, and diversity, and it has always
been the home of artists and writers. One such resident was Charles
Fletcher Lummis, who helped to preserve the history and culture of
the land he dubbed "the Southwest."
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Garvanza (Hardcover)
Charles J. Fisher, Highland Park Heritage Trust
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R702
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Recreating the diplomatic career of Jack Garnett, from 1902-1919,
John Fisher reveals a fascinating individual as well as
contextualizing his story with regard to British policy in the
countries to which he was posted in Europe, Asia, Africa and South
America, during a period of rapid change in international politics
and in Britain's world role.
- Unique focus on bias and diversity within forensic settings, with
the goal of tackling inequalities. - Chapters address challenging
bias from a range of perspectives, including discussion of
technology and social media, and how these can affect and be used
to address bias. - Written by a team of pioneering international
researchers and experts. - Includes cutting-edge research and
discusses tangible solutions and best practice within different
settings.
This edited volume presents selected papers focusing on Ronald
Fisher's cumulative contributions to understanding destructive
intergroup conflicts from a social-psychological perspective, and
to the development and assessment of small group, interactive
methods for resolving them. Highlights include schematic models of
third party consultations, intergroup conflicts, and a contingency
approach to third party intervention. Overall, the selected texts
offer a comprehensive description and clear rationale for
interactive conflict resolution and its unique contributions to
peacemaking.
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Highland Park (Hardcover)
Charles J. Fisher; Created by Highland Park Heritage Trust
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R702
Discovery Miles 7 020
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This critical study illuminates the neglected intersection of war,
disease, and gender as represented in an important subgenre of
World War I literature. Novels by Virginia Woolf, Katherine Anne
Porter and Alice Munro interpret the traumatic after effects of
World War I and the influenza pandemic of 1918-20.
This edited volume presents selected papers capturing Herbert
Kelman's unique and seminal contributions to the social psychology
of conflict analysis and resolution, with a special emphasis on the
utility of concepts for understanding and constructively addressing
violent and intractable conflicts. Central concepts covered include
perceptual processes, basic human needs, group and normative
processes, social identity, and intergroup trust, which form the
basis for developing interactive methods of conflict resolution.
- Unique focus on bias and diversity within forensic settings, with
the goal of tackling inequalities. - Chapters address challenging
bias from a range of perspectives, including discussion of
technology and social media, and how these can affect and be used
to address bias. - Written by a team of pioneering international
researchers and experts. - Includes cutting-edge research and
discusses tangible solutions and best practice within different
settings.
This book explores the challenge that the commons present to the
private-public dichotomy in a wide variety of national legal
systems representing the West European legal tradition as well as
post-socialist and post-colonial experiences. It presents national
reports from 13 jurisdictions, ranging from Belgium and the South
Africa to the US. Constituting the outcome of the 20th General
Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, held in
Fukuoka, Japan in July 2018, it offers a valuable and unique
resource for the study of comparative law.
The Next-Generation Women Leadership Playbook In To the Top: How
Women in Corporate Leadership Are Rewriting the Rules for Success,
accomplished leadership advisor Jenna Fisher reveals how the world
faces a once-in-a-generation opportunity to close the gender gap at
the top of organizations today. You'll discover how traits often
held by women--including compassion, empathy, communication,
mentorship, and collaboration--are now in high demand. And why, in
this time of volatility and disruption, women are standing on the
most solid foundation for success than ever before. Drawing on
scientific research and the powerful stories of women business
leaders who have already made it to the top, the book sets out how
we can seize this opportunity in front of us. You'll learn: Why
corporate progress for women has historically been stubbornly slow
and strategies for breaking through systemic biases to take a seat
at the top table Why women are particularly well-suited to lead
companies through the complex challenges facing our world The
specific leadership skills that are in high demand and how to
develop a compassionate and commanding leadership presence The
stories of women business leaders at the top of organizations
today--their success, their missteps, and their lessons for success
An essential and insightful treatment of women leadership in a
world that desperately needs more of it, To the Top is the first
book since Lean In that promises to energize and accelerate the
potential of woman leaders everywhere.
Reverend Albert Cleage Jr. and the Black Prophetic Tradition: A
Reintroduction of The Black Messiah considers how Albert Cleage
Jr., in his groundbreaking book of sermons, The Black Messiah
(1969), reconfigures the rules of the game as it relates to
Christianity and the social political realities of Black people in
Detroit and across the country. Taking a rhetorical approach, this
book explores how and what The Black Messiah (1969) has contributed
to the broader scope of Black Liberation Theology and Black
religious rhetoric. Scholars of rhetoric, communication, religious
studies, and African American history will find this book
particularly useful.
Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of
Counter-Reformation Bavaria explores the nature of sound as a
powerful yet ambivalent force in the religious struggles that
permeated Germany during the Counter-Reformation. Author Alexander
J. Fisher goes beyond a musicological treatment of composers,
styles, and genres to examine how music, and more broadly sound
itself, shaped the aural landscape of Bavaria as the duchy emerged
as a militant Catholic bulwark. Fisher focuses particularly on the
ways in which sound-including bell-ringing, gunfire, and popular
song, as well as cultivated polyphony-not only was deployed by
Catholic secular and clerical elites to shape the religious
identities of Bavarian subjects, but also carried the potential to
challenge and undermine confessional boundaries. Surviving
literature, archival documents, and music illustrate the ways in
which Bavarian authorities and their allies in the Catholic clergy
and orders deployed sound to underline crucial theological
differences with their Protestant antagonists, notably the cults of
the Virgin Mary, the Eucharist, and the saints. Official and
popular rituals like divine worship, processions, and pilgrimages
all featured distinctive sounds and music that shaped and reflected
an emerging Catholic identity. Although officials imposed a severe
regime of religious surveillance, the Catholic state's dominance of
the soundscape was hardly assured. Fisher traces archival sources
that show the resilience of Protestant vernacular song in Bavaria,
the dissemination and performance of forbidden, anti-Catholic
songs, the presence of Lutheran chorales in nominally Catholic
church services into the late 16th century, and the persistence of
popular "noise" more generally. Music, Piety, and Propaganda thus
reveals historical, theological, and cultural issues of the period
through the piercing dimension of its sounds, bringing into focus
the import of sound as a strategic cultural tool with significant
impact on the flow of history.
For America's children, for students, growing up urban has become a
tainted label. By acquiring one simple label, the urban student has
become the other, illegitimate, different from the norm. The urban
student has indeed been bastardized in America. The constructs of
race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and social capital combine to
oppress the urban student. This text takes the suggestion that
urban has become inextricably linked to race one step further and
proposes that it has become a socially constructed category in its
own right that serves to disempower all those who self-identify or
are labeled as such. The structure of this book seeks to give the
reader a series of rich contexts in which to understand how the
American urban student and urban school came to fruition. Through
the use of historical and quantitative data, interviews and
observations, Fisher provides a comprehensive view of the many
factors at play that merge to create the urban high school.
For America's children, for students, growing up urban has become a
tainted label. By acquiring one simple label, the urban student has
become the other, illegitimate, different from the norm. The urban
student has indeed been bastardized in America. The constructs of
race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and social capital combine to
oppress the urban student. This text takes the suggestion that
urban has become inextricably linked to race one step further and
proposes that it has become a socially constructed category in its
own right that serves to disempower all those who self-identify or
are labeled as such. The structure of this book seeks to give the
reader a series of rich contexts in which to understand how the
American urban student and urban school came to fruition. Through
the use of historical and quantitative data, interviews and
observations, Fisher provides a comprehensive view of the many
factors at play that merge to create the urban high school.
This volume reviews the evolution of ten years' learning and
discovery about water scarcity, livelihoods, and food security
within the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food. It draws on
the experiences of over 100 projects conducted in ten river basins
in the developing world. The book describes how the program's
design evolved from an emphasis on water scarcity, water
productivity, and water access to an emphasis on using water
innovations to improve livelihoods and address development
challenges in specific river basins. It shows how the research was
used to foster change in stakeholder behavior, linking it to
improved knowledge, attitudes, and skills, which were fostered by
stakeholder participation, innovation, dialogue, and negotiation.
The authors describe development challenges, their drivers and
their political context, how to address them through technical,
institutional, and policy innovations; and the consequences of
change at different scales, time frames on equity, resilience, and
ecosystem services. Overall, the work represents a major synthesis
and landmark publication for all concerned with water resource
management and sustainable development.
In September 2002, twenty-one prominent Catholic and Protestant
scholars released the groundbreaking document 'A Sacred
Obligation,' which includes ten statements about Jewish-Christian
dialogue focused around a guiding claim: 'Revising Christian
teaching about Judaism and the Jewish people is a central and
indispensable obligation of theology in our time.' Following the
worldwide reception of their document, the authors have expanded
their themes into Seeing Judaism Anew. The essays in this volume
offer a conceptual framework by which Christians can rethink their
understanding of the church's relationship to Judaism and show how
essential it is that Christians represent Judaism accurately, not
only as a matter of justice for the Jewish people, but also for the
integrity of Christian faith. By linking New Testament scholarship
to the Shoah, Christian liturgical life, and developments in the
church, this volume addresses the important questions at the heart
of Christian identity, such as: Are only Christians saved? Why did
Jesus die? Why is Israel so important to Jews, and what should we
think about the conflict in the Middle East? How is Christianity
complicit in the Holocaust? What is important about Jesus being a
Jew?
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