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Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community (Civil Society Series)
Thomas A. Lyson
Tufts
, 2004
While the American agricultural and food systems follow a decades-old path of industrialization and globalization, a counter trend has appeared toward localizing some agricultural and food production. Thomas A. Lyson, a scholar-practitioner in the field of community-based food systems, calls this rebirth of locally based agriculture and food ...
Reconnecting God's Story to Ministry: Crosscultural Storytelling at Home and Abroad
Tom A. Steffen
Authentic
, 2005
Trust the power of "story"
Dr. Steffen revisits the message of the Bible through the framework of "story." His perspectives are missiological, anthropological, and andragogical. He integrates the concepts of storybook, storyline, and storyteller, drawing from key narrativists, including ...
Money is Love: Reconnecting to the Sacred Origins of Money
Barbara Wilder
Wild Ox Pr
, 1999
Slim Book Heavy on Helpful Material
I was attracted to this book because it tied together the words "Sacred" "Money" and "Love". So much of what I observe in the world is so contrary to these words (especially together!) that I was intrigued and simply had to see what Wilder had to say. I was not ...
Urban Place: Reconnecting with the Natural World (Urban and Industrial Environments)
The MIT Press
, 2005
Amidst city concrete and suburban sprawl, Americans are discovering new ways to reconnect with the natural world. From community gardens in New York's Lower East Side to homeless shelters in California, the search for a more sustainable future has led grassroots groups to a profound reconnection to place and to the natural world. Studies of ...
The Fruitful Darkness: Reconnecting With the Body of the Earth
Joan Halifax
HarperCollins Publishers
, 1994
Amazing
It is amazing that this book has never been reviewed (2006). I bought the hardback in 1993 and I still consider it one of my most favorite books ever. It is thoughtful and very well written. It gave me a very good introduction to deep ecology and shamanism. I ...
My Boyfriend's Back: Fifty True Stories of Reconnecting with a Long-Lost Love
Donna Hanover
Plume
, 2005
Well .... If You Insist on Being a Hopeless Romantic ... Read On and Dream On
Hmmmm .... I'm all for first loves finally getting it right the second time around after time apart provided both are free to be together in every which way. It was a happy ending for Donna Hanover ... I mean after all ... her second husband "saw her first" as ...
Relationship Rescue: A Seven-Step Strategy for Reconnecting with Your Partner
Ph.d., Phillip C. Mcgraw
Hyperion
, 2007
Relationship Rescue
From what my husband and I have read so far, there is a lot to learn from Dr. Phil's Relationship Rescue. We also bought the workbook to go along with it and would highly suggest that people do that as well. The two resources put together are wonderfully productive. ...
You Can Go Home Again: Reconnecting With Your Family
Monica McGoldrick
W. W. Norton & Company
, 1997
Phenomenal
This is an incredible book, and a must have for anyone who is planning on researching their family history. The book demonstrates several family trees of famous people, and they are accompanied by their stories of loss, emotional abuse, and relationship patterns and ...
Everyday Politics: Reconnecting Citizens and Public Life
Harry C. Boyte
University of Pennsylvania Press
, 2005
"As Mark Twain said about the weather, everybody talks about the need for a new politics of participation and deliberation, but nobody does anything about it. Harry Boyte has. Through a combination of experience, political analysis, and philosophy, he sho
The God of Intimacy and Action: Reconnecting Ancient Spiritual Practices, Evangelism, and Justice
Tony Campolo
,
Mary Darling
Jossey-Bass
, 2007
A Small Book That Is Shaping Up as a Classic In Reconnecting Evangelicals with Forgotten Spiritual Treasures
I have been an admirer of this book since its release -- but I'm writing this Amazon review now as a sign of how much this book has grown on me over the months. I think that, in 25 years, when we look back as journalists chronicling this era of religious reawakening -- ...
Reconnecting Disadvantaged Young Men
Peter Edelman
,
Harry J. Holzer
, ...
Urban Institute Press
, 2006
Thoughtful
Civil rights expert Lani Guinier, mostly in the book "The Miner's Canary," stated that Blacks may advance causes better by promoting things that are not "race-first" or "race-only." An example of this is the anti-death penalty movement. While one of the arguments ...
Reconnecting With Nature
Michael J. Cohen
Ecopress, An Imprint of Finney Company
, 2007
Most of us have been conditioned to ignore more than fifty natural sensitivities that connect us with nature's beauty, health, and regenerative ways. This ommission underlies our unhealthy stress and disorders. The Organic Psychology chapters and activities in this book help our fifty-three senses embrace natural systems. The systems, in turn, ...
Reconnecting With Nature: Finding Wellness Through Restoring Your Bond With the Earth
Michael J. Cohen
Ecopress
, 1997
Produces the most important results since Earth Day 1970
Earth and its people are at risk. Most of our personal and global problems don't readily improve because we are emotionally bonded to the destructive way of thinking that produces them. Our dilemmas are psychological addictions. They must be treated as such if they ...
Kush - The Jewel of Nubia: Reconnecting the Root System of African Civilization
Miriam Ma'At-Ka-Re Monges
Africa World Press
, 1997
Objective Afrocentricity vs Biased Eurocentricity!
Any objecive, unbiased and well argued book on African civilizations or history deserves a 5 star for me: the reason being simple, there are not many of such books in the world! Ms Monges has presented both sides of the argument (an art of arguing) and has logically ...
Black Fatherhood: Reconnecting with Our Legacy
Dana Ross
Pure Quality Publishing
, 2005
Very necessary...should be in every library
This volume is a collectible account of what black men have had to suffer through and a showcasing of the inner strength that it took for black men to still even be in existence in America. There are a lot of stereotypes that this volume exposes as myths; such as black ...
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