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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. -- .
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.
Hebrew is a very, very old language. It was spoken in ancient
Israel many thousands of years ago, and has been kept alive for
centuries by Jews and scholars. Modern Hebrew was the dream and
work of a man named Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. He made new words from
ancient words and gave Hebrew speakers a way to say modern words
such as ice cream, bicycle, and airplane. This book is a child's
introduction to modern Hebrew; but more than that, it is a joyous
portrait of a very special family. Its heroine, Gabi, shares in the
activities of five-year-olds everywhere; she dances, she pretends,
she dresses up, she helps with the baby. Her exuberance about her
own life bounces off every page, and the enthusiasm and warmth of
her family surround her, and the reader, with love.
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.
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Chen Yi (Paperback)
Leta E. Miller, J. Michele Edwards
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R697
Discovery Miles 6 970
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Winner of the Leila Webster Memorial Music Award for the
International Alliance for Women in Music of the 2022 Pauline
Alderman Awards for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in Music Chen
Yi is the most prominent woman among the renowned group of new wave
composers who came to the US from mainland China in the early
1980s. Known for her creative output and a distinctive merging of
Chinese and Western influences, Chen built a musical language that
references a breathtaking range of sources and crisscrosses
geographical and musical borders without eradicating them. Leta E.
Miller and J. Michele Edwards provide an accessible guide to the
composer's background and her more than 150 works. Extensive
interviews with Chen complement in-depth analyses of selected
pieces from Chen's solos for Western or Chinese instruments,
chamber works, choral and vocal pieces, and compositions scored for
wind ensemble, chamber orchestra, or full orchestra. The authors
highlight Chen's compositional strategies, her artistic
elaborations, and the voice that links her earliest and most recent
music. A concluding discussion addresses questions related to
Chen's music and issues such as gender, ethnicity and nationality,
transnationalism, border crossing, diaspora, exoticism, and
identity.
Michael Edwards returned to the English tongue for his last book of
poems, At the Brasserie Lipp (2019), after years as a
French-language author. English revived many nerves of memory, and
in Another Art of Poetry he explores them further, in ten chapters,
each consisting of continuously numbered sections. There are 194
sections, so we can read the book as a continuous sequence, as ten
discrete poems, or as single lyrics and epistles interspersed.
There is something Augustan about the approach, humorous, alert,
like a series of letters and reflections spoken to us. The formal
variety of the sections reminds us how well Edwards knows his
Eliot, Williams, Pound, his David Jones; he understands modernism
and the other resources that inform the grateful poets who value
our European and wider traditions. ('The godsend of influence.')
Originality has to do with origins. 'Everything has been said,' he
begins, 'and we come / just at the right moment.' His English
re-visions once familiar landscapes in Wivenhoe, in Paris and
elsewhere; it finds his antecedents, it restores access to belief
and transcendence. Doorstones, an additional full collection,
bridges the gap between At the Brasserie Lipp and this ars poetica.
The language of the Bible can be beautiful but profoundly elusive,
possessing a strangeness that only deepens the committed reader’s
sense of its impenetrability. Based on the 2022 Richard E. Myers
lectures given by renowned literary scholar Michael Edwards—the
first Englishman ever elected to the Académie française—this
book offers a close reading of the Bible itself, directing
attention to the text rather than to commentaries or to ostensible
lessons to be discovered by paraphrase. Edwards explores the
apparently simple instruction in Proverbs to eat honey and reveals
unexpected complexity. He sounds the unfathomable depths of St.
Paul’s revelation that the Christian has "died" and yet now lives
in Christ—and goes on to ask what it would mean to take the
awesome expression "the kingdom of heaven is at hand" seriously.
Three final meditations complete the movement by scrutinizing the
visionary world of Revelation: the riddle of the work’s
composition, of its images, and of the enigmatic time in which its
events occur.
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Hitman Assassin
Michael Edward Fulkerson
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R390
Discovery Miles 3 900
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