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Can we abolish global poverty? Should we do away with foreign aid?
Is the United Nations redundant? Why should I bother? Can I
help?Mike Edwards offers timely answers to issues that have been
propelled to center stage. "Future Positive" is a comprehensive and
authoritative rethink of an international system facing a period of
unprecedented change. In a world of globalizing markets, eroding
state sovereignty, expanding citizen action and uncertainty about
fundamental truths, what is the best way to tackle problems of
global poverty and violence?Michael Edwards charts a "third way"
between heavy-handed intervention and complete laissez-faire.
Covering an enormous amount of ground in clear, lively and
non-technical terms, "Future Positive" explains how the
international system operates, the pressures it faces, and the
changes it must undergo, and offers concrete new ideas to re-frame
international relations and foreign aid.
As Western aid budgets are slashed and government involvement with
aid programmes reduced, NGOs in the voluntary sector are finding
themselves taking an ever-increasing share of development work
overseas. As they do so, they are forced to grow and to assume new
responsibilities, taking more important and wide-ranging decisions
- in many cases, without having had the chance to step back and
review the options before them and the best ways of maximizing the
impact they make. This collection of essays explores the strategies
available to NGOs to enhance their development work, reviewing the
ways that options can be understood, appropriate programmes and
likely problems.
This volume sets out to challenge and ultimately broaden the
category of the 'photobook'. It critiques the popular art-market
definition of the photobook as simply a photographer's book,
proposing instead to show how books and photos come together as
collective cultural productions. Focusing on North American,
British and French photobooks from 1920 to the present, the
chapters revisit canonical works - by Claudia Andujar and George
Love, Mohamed Bourouissa, Walker Evans, Susan Meiselas and Roland
Penrose - while also delving into institutional, digital and
unrealised projects, illegal practices, DIY communities and the
poetic impulse. They throw new light on the way that gendered,
racial or colonial assumptions are resisted. Taken as a whole, the
volume provides a better understanding of how the meaning of a
photobook is collectively produced both inside and outside the art
market. -- .
The theme of Short Life is the brevity of life developed through
several transparent stories from the life of Michael Edward
Nichols. Most people want to live a meaningful life, but many end
up living mundane, routine lives that seem to have no purpose. Many
want to live well but lack the motivation to get started. Short
Life aims to awaken every person to realize their time on earth is
short and give practical tips on how to redeem the time the Lord
has given those on earth. Michael Edward Nichols discovered the
truth that focusing on one's own death can teach them how to live.
Since, the quality of his life has been dramatically impacted by
the realization that life is very short. Michael's goal is to be a
catalyst for transformation in other people's lives from inside
out. Part one of Short Life focuses on inner thoughts and
attitudes. Part two concentrates more on outward behavior and
relationships. The counter-cultural premise of Short Life
challenges readers to actually think about his or her death as much
as possible. Surprisingly, rather than causing one to become morbid
or depressed, thinking about one's own death actually unleashes the
power to live an authentic, full life.
In The 21st-Century Voice: Contemporary and Traditional
Extra-Normal Voice, Michael Edward Edgerton considers contemporary
vocal techniques within an acoustic and anatomical framework.
Throughout, he proposes new directions for vocal exploration. Much
more than a historical treatise on 20th-century masterworks or
vocal science, The 21st-Century Voice explores experimental methods
of sound production, offering a systematic series of approaches and
methods for assessing, engaging, and, in some instances, overcoming
the assumed limits of vocal singing. Appearing a decade after the
publication of the first edition, this second edition draws on and
advances our current understandings of voice production. Divided
into four parts-air flow, source, resonance/articulation, and
heightened potentials-Edgerton considers crucial matters affecting
vocal production, such as 1.Registral challenges 2.Filtering
3.Airflow modification 4.Combinatorial, multiphonic principles
5.Extreme voice possibilities 6.Multidimensional vocal issues With
more than 250 illustrations, 150 associated audio tracks, an
extended appendix on voice science, a glossary of key terms, and
lists of representative compositions, The 21st-Century Voice will
appeal to composers and performers interested in exploring the
ever-broadening range of vocal possibilities. Its engagement with
the complexities of vocal production should also be relevant to
students and scholars of voice science, acoustics, linguistics,
computer modeling, and more.
In The 21st-Century Voice: Contemporary and Traditional
Extra-Normal Voice, Michael Edward Edgerton considers contemporary
vocal techniques within an acoustic and anatomical framework.
Throughout, he proposes new directions for vocal exploration. Much
more than a historical treatise on 20th-century masterworks or
vocal science, The 21st-Century Voice explores experimental methods
of sound production, offering a systematic series of approaches and
methods for assessing, engaging, and, in some instances, overcoming
the assumed limits of vocal singing. Appearing a decade after the
publication of the first edition, this second edition draws on and
advances our current understandings of voice production. Divided
into four parts-air flow, source, resonance/articulation, and
heightened potentials-Edgerton considers crucial matters affecting
vocal production, such as 1.Registral challenges 2.Filtering
3.Airflow modification 4.Combinatorial, multiphonic principles
5.Extreme voice possibilities 6.Multidimensional vocal issues With
more than 250 illustrations, 150 associated audio tracks, an
extended appendix on voice science, a glossary of key terms, and
lists of representative compositions, The 21st-Century Voice will
appeal to composers and performers interested in exploring the
ever-broadening range of vocal possibilities. Its engagement with
the complexities of vocal production should also be relevant to
students and scholars of voice science, acoustics, linguistics,
computer modeling, and more.
The fundamental and very important property of inertia has never
been well understood. This book shows how inertia has puzzled many
scientists such as Galileo and Mach, and then presents a new theory
that explains inertia for the first time, and also predicts galaxy
rotation without dark matter, cosmic acceleration and some other
anomalies. Further evidence for, and tests of, the theory are
presented and exciting applications such as new inertial launch
methods and the theoretical possibility of faster than light travel
will be discussed. To allow readers to use the theory themselves,
some simple maths is included, and to help explain the points made,
there are numerous cartoons by the author.
In the last ten years, NGOs have become a force for transformation
in global politics and economics. Their numbers and size have grown
dramatically and they have assumed far more extensive
responsibilities as intermediaries between governments, businesses
and other institutions, and local communities and citizens. With
this growth has come an ever-more pressing requirement for
effective management among NGOs and their operations.Focusing on
development organizations working on issues of poverty and
injustice, but relevant to NGOs in all sectors, this volume brings
together a selection of key writings on how NGOs can position and
organize themselves to achieve maximum impact and effectiveness.
The editors set out the management challenges facing NGOs in a
stimulating Introduction followed by a range of contributions
divided into ten sets of issues.
Civil society, or citizen's groups, have taken centre stage in
international policy debates and global problem solving. They hold
out the promise of a global community and global governance. This
volume, by leading scholars and participants, shows how to
understand the changes that are occurring, particularly in relation
to the international institutions involved. It includes case
studies from all the major social movements of the 1990s.
The last decade has seen some significant changes in international
development and in the status of non-governmental organisations
operating in the field. Not only has the number of NGOs virtually
doubled; many of them have seen a considerable growth in their
budgets, and have grown closer to governments and official aid
agencies. NGOs are acknowledged by many to be more effective agents
of development than governments or commercial interests ? even as a
?magic bullet? for development problems. Despite these positive
trends, the real impact of the NGO sector is not well documented.
This is partly because NGO performance-assessment and
accountability methods are weak, and partly because NGOs are caught
up increasingly in the world of official aid, which pushes them
towards certain forms of evaluation at the expense of others. This
unique book takes a hard and critical look at these issues, and
describes how NGOs can, and must, improve the way they measure and
account for their performance if they are to be truly effective.
The last decade has seen some significant changes in international
development and in the status of non-governmental organisations
operating in the field. Not only has the number of NGOs virtually
doubled; many of them have seen a considerable growth in their
budgets, and have grown closer to governments and official aid
agencies. NGOs are acknowledged by many to be more effective agents
of development than governments or commercial interests ? even as a
?magic bullet? for development problems. Despite these positive
trends, the real impact of the NGO sector is not well documented.
This is partly because NGO performance-assessment and
accountability methods are weak, and partly because NGOs are caught
up increasingly in the world of official aid, which pushes them
towards certain forms of evaluation at the expense of others. This
unique book takes a hard and critical look at these issues, and
describes how NGOs can, and must, improve the way they measure and
account for their performance if they are to be truly effective.
Originally published in 1985, Land Rent, Housing and Urban Planning
looks at the crucial social relationships associated with land
ownership, and how these have played a crucial role in the economic
development of many societies. The understanding of these
relationships within modern capitalist societies has proved
difficult. Land ownership relations emerge as requiring specific
historical analysis for specific periods and societies and as being
integral aspects of the capitalist mode of production as a whole -
not merely mechanisms which redistribute some
independently-determined surplus.
In the last decade the use of non-governmental agencies (NGOs) to
promote development and reduce poverty and hunger has become a
major feature of development policy. Donors have poured funds into
NGOs, governments have allocated them major responsibilities and
their number and size has grown. Has this popularity helped them to
solve the problems of poverty or has it changed them so that they
are now part of the 'development industry' that they used to
criticize?;This book provides the most detailed study available of
the ways in which NGO-State-Donor relationships have changed the
role that NGOs play in development. Its papers are introduced by
two international experts on the topic and the contributors are
leading academics and senior practitioners. The picture that
emerges from the general reviews and detailed case studies of
African, Asian and Latin American NGOs, is a complex one. However,
the authors conclude that there is much evidence that NGOs are
'losing their roots' - getting closer to donors and governments and
more distant to the poor and disempowered who they seek to assist.
Seated at a table in the celebrated Brasserie Lipp, the author
experiences 'this in- / fernal ticking in the ink' and finds memory
coming alive, recovering past moments as intensely present, spots
of time which vivify him and his past. Through memory and poetry he
experiences revelation of a Christian depth. England is a familiar
yet now a foreign country: the author having written for years in
French. 'English becomes / a strange tongue echoing readily with
names / gainrising with the new-born world they name.' Distinct
recollections open into one another, restored and changed in
language. Music and painting, too, are evoked as windows on this
world. The book includes ninety poems organised into thirty
sections, each with three poems which are free-standing yet
connected, speaking together. His English takes its bearings from
the stress patterns of Anglo Saxon prosody. Not only the poet but
his language itself returns to its beginnings.
Originally published in 1985, Land Rent, Housing and Urban Planning
looks at the crucial social relationships associated with land
ownership, and how these have played a crucial role in the economic
development of many societies. The understanding of these
relationships within modern capitalist societies has proved
difficult. Land ownership relations emerge as requiring specific
historical analysis for specific periods and societies and as being
integral aspects of the capitalist mode of production as a whole -
not merely mechanisms which redistribute some
independently-determined surplus.
In 1997 we investigated the ways in which NGO-State-Donor
relationships have changed the role that NGOs play in development,
asking whether their growing popularity had helped them to 'solve'
the problems of poverty or had changed them to become part of the
'development industry' that they used to criticize. Using case
studies of African, Asian and Latin American NGOs, we highlighted
that the evidence suggested that NGOs were 'losing their roots' -
getting close to donors and governments and more distant from the
poor beneficiaries they sought to assist. Since the book was first
published, NGOs have continued to rise in number, scale and
prominence, but our concerns have been little redressed and our
argument remains strong today. The new Preface and Afterword to
this IPE Classic provide an up to date review of the literature and
debates on NGOs and the development sector that consolidate on this
argument and look briefly at some of the reactions it has received.
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