age ~42
from Wilmette, IL
Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays conf...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
392
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
ISBN #
0820348430
EAN Code
9780820348438
ISBN #
9
Today's complex social and economic problems leave many people in the affluent world feeling either overwhelmed or ambivalent. Even the small percentage of us who have examined the ethics behind our financial decisions and overcome the often-deterring factors of self-interest rarely know what to do ...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
176
Publisher
Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN #
0664229557
EAN Code
9780664229559
ISBN #
7
Encouraging Christians to call for public policies that benefit those most vulnerable in our nation, To Do Justice offers tools for studying complex domestic social problems such as Social Security, immigration, the environment, and public education, and serves as a guidebook to becoming involved in...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
192
Publisher
Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN #
0664232825
EAN Code
9780664232825
ISBN #
6
Rebecca Todd Peters examines the phenomenon of globalization and debates about whether it is helpful or harmful to society. Peters identifies and explores four competing globalization theories that are essential to the issue: the neo-liberal, development, earthist, and post-colonial theories. Within...
Author
Rebecca Todd Peters
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
240
Publisher
Continuum
ISBN #
0826416209
EAN Code
9780826416209
ISBN #
5
Rebecca Todd Peters argues for an ethic of solidarity as a new model for how people of faith in the first world can live with integrity in the midst of global injustice and shape a more just future.Addressing the economic and social structures of our globalized context, Peters shows how a concrete e...
Author
Rebecca Todd Peters
Binding
Paperback
Pages
160
Publisher
Fortress Press
ISBN #
1451465580
EAN Code
9781451465587
ISBN #
4
Author
Rebecca Todd Peters
ISBN #
0664227740
Author
Rebecca Todd Peters
ISBN #
0664229557
Author
Rebecca Todd Peters
ISBN #
0826416209
Author
Rebecca Todd Peters
ISBN #
0826418589
Rebecca Peters " Rebecca Peters " is the former Director of the International Action Network on Small Arms ( IANSA ) She announced her resignation from IANSA during a United Nations Preparatory Committee in July 2010....
Director
One of the guns possessed by the perpetrator of The Port Arthur Massacre was a gun which had been handed in for destruction in a previous amnesty in the State of Victoria.