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2221) Voice and Vocation
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For many people steeped in homelessness and poverty, the worst day is every day; and so, before we do the heavy lifting of getting back to work, we may first need to find a way to get back to hope.
For 30 years, Cara Collective has been in the business of creating hope, jobs, and opportunity so that the world can see what they see: the limitless talent pool in our communities most affected by poverty. Their unique approach to workforce development,...
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The book "Maxon Cinema 4D 2023: A Detailed Guide to MoGraph" offers a step-by-step explanation of the entire process of creating MoGraph animations in Cinema 4D, providing comprehensive coverage of each stage. For beginners and intermediate users of the software, this book serves as a valuable resource, offering valuable insights into essential concepts and techniques for developing MoGraph animations. Prior to commencing the core MoGraph module,...
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Welcome to Numbers, the spreadsheet application for Mac. This book is intended to anyone who wants to discover its possibilities and advantages. While learning how to perform simple calculations, you'll discover elaborate functions to work out complex results.
You will be able to format tables and cells thanks to the property panels. You will appreciate the filters to group information with categories. Numbers proposes lots of powerful features to...
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A brisk chronicle of Vancouver, BC, from early days to its emergence as a global metropolis, refracted through the events, characters and communities that have shaped the city. In Becoming Vancouver award-winning historian Daniel Francis follows the evolution of the city from early habitation by the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, to the area's settlement as a mill town, to the flourishing era speakeasies and brothels during the...
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Since the late 1970s, China has undergone perhaps the most sweeping process of urbanization ever witnessed. This is typically understood as a story of growth, encompassing rapid development and economic dynamism alongside environmental degradation and social dislocation. However, over the past decade, China's leaders have claimed that the country's urbanization has entered a new stage that prioritizes "quality." What does China's new urban vision...
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Hackers, cyber-criminals, Dark Web users, and techno-terrorists beware! This book should make you think twice about attempting to do your dirty work in the smart cities of tomorrow.
Scores of cities around the world have begun planning what are known as "smart cities." These new or revamped urban areas use the latest technology to make the lives of residents easier and more enjoyable.
They will have automated infrastructures such as the Internet...
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Beginning in the 1890s, the social gospel movement and its secular counterpart, the Progressive movement, set the stage for powerful church and city governance connections. What followed during the next 100 years was the emergence of religious bodies as an important instrument for influencing City Hall on moral and social issues. Churches and Urban Government compares the governing styles of Detroit and New York City from 1895 to 1994 and looks at...
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The PropTech Guide is designed to help real estate professionals face current and upcoming, challenges in the industry through the use of, real estate-focused technology, or PropTech. It provides hands-on and applicable solutions in the form of information about 222 companies providing PropTech to solve the everyday problems of market players.
• Real Estate Owners will learn how they might better manage and improve properties through new solutions...
2229) Galveston: A History
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A colorful history of the island city on Texas's Gulf Coast and its survival through times of piracy, plague, civil war, and devastating natural disaster.
On the Gulf edge of Texas between land and sea stands Galveston Island. Shaped continually by wind and water, it is one of earth's ongoing creations, where time is forever new. Here, on the shoreline, embraced by the waves, a person can still feel the heartbeat of nature. And yet, for all the idyllic...
2230) Resurgence: Engaging With Indigenous Narratives and Cultural Expressions In and Beyond the Classroom
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★ Starred selection for CCBC's Best Books Ideal for Teachers 2023!
Resurgence is an inspiring collection of contemporary Indigenous poetry, art, and narratives that guides K–12 educators in bridging existing curricula with Indigenous voices and pedagogies. In this first book in the Footbridge Series, we invite you to walk with us as we seek to:
• connect peoples and places
• link truth and reconciliation as ongoing processes
• symbolize...
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This book presents a researcher's work on reflective practice with a group of high school teachers of English in Japan. Beginning with a series of uncomfortable teacher training sessions delivered to unwilling participants, the book charts the author's development of new methods of engaging her participants and making use of their own experiences and knowledge. Both an in-depth examination of reflective practice in the context of Japanese cultural...
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This book includes game design and implementation chapters using either Phaser JavaScript Gaming Frameworks v2.6.2, CE, v3.16+, AND any other JS Gaming Frameworks for the front- and back-end development. It is a Book of 5 Rings Game Design - "HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and SQL". It further analyzes several freely available back-end servers and supporting middleware (such as PHP, Python, and several CMS). This game design workbook takes you step-by-step...
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Only a tree grows on one spot. You are not a tree. You are human. You were designed to move. From one stage to the other. One phase to another. From time, humans have gone through various stages. Making exploits and reaching new heights. All driven by an opportunity. Opportunity to fill a need.
Amida delves into the lifecycle of opportunities to take the reader on a journey of how they can maximize whatever opportunity they find themselves. Through...
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Transport is key to our daily lives. The transport system is essential to ensure the movement of people and goods, and most of us will use the roads or public transport every day. Vast sums are tied up in it, and are spent on trying to resolve the problems of congestion and delays. And, yet it is a most neglected field of politics. Britain has never had a coherent transport policy. Transport ministers are regarded, as minnows compared with their 'big...
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New Labour would like to portray 1997 as a new beginning for public policy, but Peter King argues that we now have, in housing and in other areas of public policy, a consensus based on Thatcherite reforms. He explores the particularly conservative understanding of housing that transformed public attitudes in the 1980s and 1990s, and the impact it still has on policy. This book is written with non-housing specialists in mind, and will be of interest...
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Boston's economy has become defined by a disconcerting trend, which has intensified throughout much of the United States since the 2008 recession. Economic growth now delivers remarkably few benefits to large sectors of the working class, a phenomenon that is particularly severe for immigrants, people of color, and women. Labor in 21st-Century Boston explores this nation-wide phenomenon of "unshared growth" by focusing on Boston, a city that is famously...
2237) Good Places for All
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This short book invites readers into a deeper understanding of cities and suburbs and the challenges they face. Because places play such an important role in human well-being, loving our neighbors includes caring for and cultivating good places for all. Despite their great prosperity, North American communities are, beset with challenges: fiscal crises, concentrated poverty, fragmentation and division, failing schools, unaffordable housing, and lack...
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Sara Lorenzini is associate professor of international history in the School of International Studies at the University of Trento in Italy.
In the Cold War, "development" was a catchphrase that came to signify progress, modernity, and economic growth. Development aid was closely aligned with the security concerns of the great powers, for whom infrastructure and development projects were ideological tools for conquering hearts and minds around the...
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Teaching can be a highly satisfying profession, but it can also be overwhelming. Stress management. Self-care. Mental well-being. Mindfulness. These words have become all too familiar, but what do they actually mean for you? And how can they help without adding to your to-do list?
All teachers have different experiences and different needs. Through stories by diverse educators, this professional resource invites you to try different wellness strategies,...
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There are three truths of leaving a job, relationship, home, religion, or identity:
• Things will not go exactly as planned.
• It will utterly and completely be worth it.
• It will change your life in amazing ways.
This first-of-its-kind book describes how we are beginning to understand the concept of leaving as an essential component of living. Clinical psychologist Jennifer P. Wisdom asserts that leaving is not the same as quitting, and moving...
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