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Author: Bob Zeidman
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ISBN: 9780970227621
Size: 34.16 MB
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Release Date: 2012
Category: Political correctness
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Download PDF Good Intentions eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Good intentions is about a future United States where the government controls all businesses and controls our lives. Winston Jones, is chosen by the mysterious Fairness for EveryBody Society to be the next president. The book is his reluctant adventure to discover what America is about and the government's role in people's lives. This book is a social satire that is funny and thought-provoking and particularly relevant to today's major political and social issues"--Page 4 of cover.

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Author: Stephen M. Walt
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374280037
Size: 12.72 MB
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Release Date: 2018-10-16
Category: Political Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Hell Of Good Intentions eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. From the New York Times–bestselling author Stephen M. Walt, The Hell of Good Intentions dissects the faults and foibles of recent American foreign policy—explaining why it has been plagued by disasters like the “forever wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan and outlining what can be done to fix it. In 1992, the United States stood at the pinnacle of world power and Americans were confident that a new era of peace and prosperity was at hand. Twenty-five years later, those hopes have been dashed. Relations with Russia and China have soured, the European Union is wobbling, nationalism and populism are on the rise, and the United States is stuck in costly and pointless wars that have squandered trillions of dollars and undermined its influence around the world. The root of this dismal record, Walt argues, is the American foreign policy establishment’s stubborn commitment to a strategy of “liberal hegemony.” Since the end of the Cold War, Republicans and Democrats alike have tried to use U.S. power to spread democracy, open markets, and other liberal values into every nook and cranny of the planet. This strategy was doomed to fail, but its proponents in the foreign policy elite were never held accountable and kept repeating the same mistakes. Donald Trump won the presidency promising to end the misguided policies of the foreign policy “Blob” and to pursue a wiser approach. But his erratic and impulsive style of governing, combined with a deeply flawed understanding of world politics, are making a bad situation worse. The best alternative, Walt argues, is a return to the realist strategy of “offshore balancing,” which eschews regime change, nation-building, and other forms of global social engineering. The American people would surely welcome a more restrained foreign policy, one that allowed greater attention to problems here at home. This long-overdue shift will require abandoning the futile quest for liberal hegemony and building a foreign policy establishment with a more realistic view of American power. Clear-eyed, candid, and elegantly written, Stephen M. Walt’s The Hell of Good Intentions offers both a compelling diagnosis of America’s recent foreign policy follies and a proven formula for renewed success.

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Author: John F. Cogan
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 150360425X
Size: 69.40 MB
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Release Date: 2017-09-26
Category: Political Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The High Cost Of Good Intentions eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Federal entitlement programs are strewn throughout the pages of U.S. history, springing from the noble purpose of assisting people who are destitute through no fault of their own. Yet as federal entitlement programs have grown, so too have their inefficiency and their cost. Neither tax revenues nor revenues generated by the national economy have been able to keep pace with their rising growth, bringing the national debt to a record peacetime level. The High Cost of Good Intentions is the first comprehensive history of these federal entitlement programs. Combining economics, history, political science, and law, John F. Cogan reveals how the creation of entitlements brings forth a steady march of liberalizing forces that cause entitlement programs to expand. This process—as visible in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as in the present day—is repeated until benefits are extended to nearly all who could be considered eligible, and in turn establishes a new base for future expansions. His work provides a unifying explanation for the evolutionary path that nearly all federal entitlement programs have followed over the past two hundred years, tracing both their shared past and the financial risks they pose for future generations.

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Author: Kasim Ali
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1250809614
Size: 37.27 MB
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Release Date: 2022-03-08
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Good Intentions eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Absorbing, compelling, and beautifully written. Its ending brought me close to tears." —Beth O'Leary, bestselling author of The Flatshare For fans of The Big Sick and Nick Hornby—a magnetic debut novel about a young man who has hidden a romance from his parents, unable to choose between familial obligation and the future he truly wants. If love really is a choice, how do you decide where your loyalties lie? It’s the countdown to the New Year, and Nur is steeling himself to tell his parents that he’s seeing someone. A young British Pakistani man, Nur has spent years omitting details about his personal life to maintain his image as the golden child. And it’s come at a cost. Once, Nur was a restless college student, struggling to fit in. At a party, he meets Yasmina, a beautiful and self-possessed aspiring journalist. They start a conversation—first awkward, then absorbing. And as their relationship develops, so too does Nur’s self-destruction. He falls deeper into traps of his own making, attempting to please both Yasmina and his family until he must finally reveal the truth: Yasmina is Black, and he loves her. Deftly transporting readers between that first night and the years beyond, Kasim Ali's Good Intentions exposes with unblinking authenticity the complexities of immigrant families and racial prejudice. It is a crackling, wryly clever depiction of standing on the precipice of adulthood, piecing together who it is you’re meant to be.

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Author: Elliott Kay
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781490374758
Size: 57.53 MB
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Release Date: 2013-06-03
Category: American literature
Language: en
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Download PDF Good Intentions eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. He knew it was a dumb stunt from the start. A midnight run through a cemetery to impress a couple of girls is hardly the stuff of legend, but Alex Carlisle longs to escape the crushing mediocrity of life after high school.Then he stumbles upon the ritual, and the cultists, and two bound and bloodied women. Alex intervenes and the ritual blows up in his face, leaving him bound to them both: Rachel and Lorelei, an angel and a succubus. It's hardly the sort of challenge a guy can face with dignity when he still lives at home with his mom.Alex never imagined falling for an immortal demon seductress, or that he'd spend his nights dodging her co-workers, her old boss, and every other supernatural freak in Seattle. He never thought a woman like Lorelei could have a rival like Rachel, either. But then, nobody ever said adulthood would be easy. WARNING: "Good Intentions" contains explicit sexuality, violence, nudity, inappropriate use of church property, portrayals of beings divine and demonic bearing little or no resemblance to established religion or mythology, trespassing, bad language, sacrilege, blasphemy, attempted murder, arguable murder, divinely mandated murder, justifiable murder, filthy murder, sexual promiscuity, kidnapping, attempted rape, arson, dead animals, desecrated graves, gang activity, theft, assault and battery, panties, misuse of the 911 system, fantasy depictions of sorcery and witchcraft, multiple references to various matters of fandom, questionable interrogation tactics, cell phone abuse, reckless driving, consistent abuse of vampires (because they deserve it), even more explicit sexuality, illegal use of firearms within city limits, polyamory, abuse of authority, hit and run driving, destruction of private property, underage drinking, disturbances of the peace, disorderly conduct, internet harassment, bearers of false witness, mayhem, dismemberment, falsification of records, tax evasion, an uncomfortably sexy mother, bad study habits, and a very silly white guy inappropriately calling another white guy "nigga" (for which he will surely suffer).

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Author: Dean Karlan
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0452297567
Size: 53.16 MB
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Release Date: 2012-03-27
Category: Business & Economics
Language: en
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Download PDF More Than Good Intentions eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A revolutionary approach to poverty that takes human irrationality into account-and unlocks the mystery of making philanthropic spending really work. American individuals and institutions spent billions of dollars to ease global poverty and accomplished almost nothing. At last we have a realistic way forward. Presenting innovative and successful development interventions around the globe, Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel show how empirical analysis coupled with the latest thinking in behavioral economics can make a profound difference. From Kenya, where teenagers reduced their risk of contracting AIDS by having more unprotected sex with partners their own age, to Mexico, where giving kids a one-dollar deworming pill boosted school attendance better than paying their families to send them, More Than Good Intentions reveals how to invest those billions far more effectively and begin transforming the well-being of the world.

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Author: Paul Craig Roberts
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307396061
Size: 50.30 MB
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Release Date: 2008-03-25
Category: Political Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Tyranny Of Good Intentions eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In this updated and expanded edition of The Tyranny of Good Intentions, Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton renew their valiant campaign to reclaim that which is rightly ours–liberty protected by the rule of law. They show how crusading legislators and unfair prosecutors are remaking American law into a weapon wielded by the government and how the erosion of the legal principles we hold dear–such as habeas corpus and the prohibition against self-incrimination–is destroying the presumption of innocence. A new introduction and new chapters cover recent marquee cases and make this provocative book essential reading for anyone who cringes at the thought of unbridled state power and sees our civil liberties slowly slipping away in the name of the War on Drugs, the War on Crime, and the War on Terror.

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Author: Greg Lukianoff
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735224897
Size: 46.45 MB
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Release Date: 2018-09-04
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Coddling Of The American Mind eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction • A New York Times Notable Book • Bloomberg Best Book of 2018 “Their distinctive contribution to the higher-education debate is to meet safetyism on its own, psychological turf . . . Lukianoff and Haidt tell us that safetyism undermines the freedom of inquiry and speech that are indispensable to universities.” —Jonathan Marks, Commentary “The remedies the book outlines should be considered on college campuses, among parents of current and future students, and by anyone longing for a more sane society.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising—on campus as well as nationally. How did this happen? First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible ideas that have become increasingly woven into American childhood and education: What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker; always trust your feelings; and life is a battle between good people and evil people. These three Great Untruths contradict basic psychological principles about well-being and ancient wisdom from many cultures. Embracing these untruths—and the resulting culture of safetyism—interferes with young people’s social, emotional, and intellectual development. It makes it harder for them to become autonomous adults who are able to navigate the bumpy road of life. Lukianoff and Haidt investigate the many social trends that have intersected to promote the spread of these untruths. They explore changes in childhood such as the rise of fearful parenting, the decline of unsupervised, child-directed play, and the new world of social media that has engulfed teenagers in the last decade. They examine changes on campus, including the corporatization of universities and the emergence of new ideas about identity and justice. They situate the conflicts on campus within the context of America’s rapidly rising political polarization and dysfunction. This is a book for anyone who is confused by what is happening on college campuses today, or has children, or is concerned about the growing inability of Americans to live, work, and cooperate across party lines.

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Author: Charles North
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 0802479677
Size: 25.22 MB
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Release Date: 2008-09-01
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Good Intentions eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. We often struggle to answer the question: What is the right thing to do here? Good Intentions suggests that it is possible to do good in economic matters if we begin with the right assumptions (and begins to ask the right questions): —Is greed ever good? —How can we give poor kids a million bucks? —How did Ben and Jerry get so rich? —Is capitalism ruining the environment? —Do immigrants take American jobs? Our actions can produce outcomes that reflect what we value.

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Author: Nancy Maloney Grimm
Publisher: Boynton/Cook
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Size: 70.84 MB
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Release Date: 1999
Category: Education
Language: en
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Download PDF Good Intentions eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Writing centers cannot resolve the national confusion about literacy, but over time they can contribute to a better understanding and more democratic approaches to literacy education. But to do this, writing centers need to be more fully engaged with the paradox of literacy - the way that literacy both dominates and liberates, both demands submission and offers the promise of agency. Nancy Grimm believes that postmodern theory, which emphasizes the diversity of our society, offers the best opportunities for this engagement. Her book offers a fundamental reconsideration of writing center work - work, she maintains, that must be informed by an understanding of the cultural role of literacy education. Because so many educational practices are based on tacit assumptions about the "normal" way to do things, Grimm argues that both the teaching and tutoring of literacy must be informed by a radical reconsideration of academic fairness. Change will depend on the willingness of comfortably situated people to open themselves to authentic listening and the possibilities of having their world views transformed by writing center students. "Good intentions alone, particularly good intentions grounded in a missionary narrative, are not enough to overcome the potentially oppressive nature of literacy education." Grimm begins by positioning the debate about the function of the writing center in the larger cultural conflict created by postmodern conditions. She locates writing center work within the historical contradictions of literacy, then analyzes the way composition teaching regulates an academic identity. She goes on to show how postmodern theories of subjectivity offer ways to intervene in that regulation. After reconceptualizing the politics of writing center administration, Grimm ultimately argues for a conception of fairness that holds writing center workers responsible for not only granting students membership to the academic literacy club but also for changing the gates of that club when change is necessary. Good Intentions is essential reading for educators involved with writing centers in any capacity - whether they be directors, researchers, professional and undergraduate staff, or simply teachers of students who use writing centers.

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Author: Brenda K. Davies
Publisher: Brenda K. Davies
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Release Date: 2016-07-17
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Good Intentions The Road To Hell Series Book 1 eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. River Thirteen years have passed since the war started, bombs fell, and the central states became a thing of the past. When the war ended, the government erected a wall to divide the surviving states from the destroyed ones. I never expected to leave my town, but unlike those who volunteered to go, I wasn’t given a choice. With a dim knowledge of my strange abilities, the soldiers came for me. They took me beyond the wall, where I learned the truth is far more terrifying than I imagined. Alone, with humans and demons eager to see what I can do, I find myself irresistibly drawn to the one man I should avoid most—a man who isn’t even really a man. Kobal I’ve spent my entire life with one mission… reclaim my throne from Lucifer and fix what the angels tore apart when they cast him from Heaven. Not even when the humans tore open the gates, and unleashed Hell on Earth, did I waver from my goal. I’ve never been closer to my throne, yet I find myself risking everything because I can’t stay away from her… the woman who might be the key to destroying Lucifer. *** Due to sexual content, violence, and language, this book is recommended for readers 18+ years of age.*** Keywords: Contemporary fantasy fiction secret heritage dystopian novels strong heroine angels and demons romance read and listen for less dystopian love story mystical creatures series apocalyptic fiction strong male lead folklore fiction mythical creatures enemies to lovers post apocalyptic romance books mythical creatures steamy romance supernatural romance twists strong heroine psychic power romance.

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Author: David Runciman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400827124
Size: 79.50 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2009-02-09
Category: Political Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Politics Of Good Intentions eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Tony Blair has often said that he wishes history to judge the great political controversies of the early twenty-first century--above all, the actions he has undertaken in alliance with George W. Bush. This book is the first attempt to fulfill that wish, using the long history of the modern state to put the events of recent years--the war on terror, the war in Iraq, the falling out between Europe and the United States--in their proper perspective. It also dissects the way that politicians like Blair and Bush have used and abused history to justify the new world order they are creating. Many books about international politics since 9/11 contend that either everything changed or nothing changed on that fateful day. This book identifies what is new about contemporary politics but also how what is new has been exploited in ways that are all too familiar. It compares recent political events with other crises in the history of modern politics--political and intellectual, ranging from seventeenth-century England to Weimar Germany--to argue that the risks of the present crisis have been exaggerated, manipulated, and misunderstood. David Runciman argues that there are three kinds of time at work in contemporary politics: news time, election time, and historical time. It is all too easy to get caught up in news time and election time, he writes. This book is about viewing the threats and challenges we face in real historical time.

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Author: Angelina E. Castagno
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781517905675
Size: 42.45 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2019
Category: Education
Language: en
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Download PDF The Price Of Nice eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "This collection extends a line of critique from Castagno's book, Educated in Whiteness: white teachers' default position of 'being nice' and its problematic relationship with larger inequities in education and society. Castagno and her contributors explore how the frame of niceness is the primary one through which teachers problematically engage diversity and maintain ideological commitments to colorblindness, equality, and politeness"--

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Book Detail:
Author: Joy Fielding
Publisher: Seal Books
ISBN: 038567211X
Size: 47.61 MB
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Release Date: 2010-12-10
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Good Intentions eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. New York Times bestselling author returns with a powerful novel about marriage, friendship, betrayal and good intentions. Lynn Schuster didn’t expect the phone call from Marc Cameron, the other woman’s spouse. And she never expected to feel a strong attraction to him when they met and he offered her the perfect way to get even with her cheating husband. Savvy divorce lawyer Renee Bower warned Lynn to be careful. But Renee had a troubled marriage of her own; chilling suspicions about her stepdaughter’s hidden agenda and her handsome psychiatrist husband’s after-hours consultations were chipping away at her cool exterior. And now, as their lives unravel in counterpoint during this hot, explosive summer, Lynn and Renee are learning more than they ever wanted to know about love and betrayal.

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Author: Wendy Francis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 145166642X
Size: 29.12 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2015-07-07
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Summer Of Good Intentions eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Three sisters and their families come together for their annual summer vacation on Cape Cod, where beloved traditions and long-held assumptions are jeopardized by the secrets each brings from home"--

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Author: Allen M. Parkman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847698691
Size: 41.66 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2000
Category: Family & Relationships
Language: en
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Download PDF Good Intentions Gone Awry eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Based on sociological and economic analysis, Good Intentions Gone Awry presents valuable new insights into the impact of divorce on American society. Rather than blaming the deterioration in the quality of family life on the decline in so-called family values, lawyer and economist Parkman argues that adults are responding to the incentives created by new opportunities and legal rules. Allen M. Parkman discusses the issues surrounding this sociological phenomena, proposes a reform program in response, and suggests steps that adults can take to create a durable and constructive family until such reforms occur.

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Book Detail:
Author: Tori Hogan
Publisher: Seal Press
ISBN: 158005434X
Size: 24.58 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2012-09-25
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF Beyond Good Intentions eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The author describes her internship in Kenya for an international aid organization and its impact on her life, leading her to other African countries as she investigates the effectiveness of international aid and the reason why it does not always work.

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Author: Robin Low
Publisher: Ws Professional
ISBN: 9789813200579
Size: 60.38 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2016-10
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Good Intentions Are Not Enough eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Disaster strikes, transforming cities and towns into graveyards and wastelands in a matter of minutes. But help is on its way: news channels and social media relay the information to all corners of the globe in real-time, mobilising hundreds of people and organisations to aid. Yet, with standard relief packages regardless of the location, and a lack of effort taken to match volunteers' skills with tasks, just how effective are we at helping others? Many people want to do good, but they like to do it at their convenience. These attempts at helping often fail, and the blame invariably falls on the disaster victims, rather than looking at the suitability of aid provided. Such help, offered without a thorough understanding of the context or the impact of actions, can create situations that leave the victims worse off than before. So how can we create real sustainable impact? Most communities have a lot of unused human capacity. When offering help, many aid providers fail to engage the local communities, thus excluding a critical group of people with the knowledge of local ways and needs. This book elaborates on a simple principle essential to effective aid -- Never Help: Engage, Enable, Empower and Connect. It is important that we fully understand the problem before we try to solve it, and who better to help us with solutions than the local community?

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Book Detail:
Author: John Fredrick
Publisher: Verse Chorus Press
ISBN: 1891241109
Size: 46.76 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2013-05-07
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The King Of Good Intentions eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This is the chronicle of an indie band in Los Angeles in the early 1990s as they meet, rehearse, make their first recordings and get their first big gig. It's also the story of a love affair between John and Jenny, the band's charming but troubled guitarists/singers. Along the way, they and their bandmates make all manner of discoveries about themselves and the Hollywood milieu in which they're struggling to succeed: a world of narcissistic actors, wannabe screenwriters, pretentious musicians, weirdo fans, crazy neighbours and an emu called Heidi.

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