The Visible Poor

Author : Joel Blau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1993-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199938087

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The Visible Poor by Joel Blau Pdf

Taking an in-depth look at the causes of homelessness in the United States, Joel Blau disproves the convenient myths that most homeless are crazy, drug addicts, or lazy misfits who brought their suffering upon themselves. He shows that the current crisis was an inevitable result of economic and political changes in recent decades, systematically reviewing the explanations offered by researchers, politicians and pundits, from the deinstitutionalization of mental patients in the 1960s to the gentrification of urban neighborhoods in the 1970s to the evisceration of federal spending on social welfare in the 1980s. Blau argues that current government policies at every level are mired in pointless headcounting and quick-fix solutions that only push the homeless out of sight without touching the underlying causes. He advocates social reforms ranging form a national standard for welfare benefits, a higher minimum wage, and establishment of a social sector for non-profit, affordable housing. A powerful contribution to public debate on homelessness, The Visible Poor must be read by concerned citizens as well as by policy-makers and advocates.

Author : Joel Blau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:59978827

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Visible Poor by Joel Blau Pdf

Author : Jean-Luc Marion
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780823228850

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The Visible and the Revealed by Jean-Luc Marion Pdf

In The Visible and the Revealed, Jean-Luc Marion brings together his most significant papers dealing with the relationship between philosophy and theology. Covering the ground from some of his earliest writings on this topic to very recent reflections, they are particularly useful for understanding the progression of Marion's thought on such topics as the saturated phenomenon and the possibility of something like Christian Philosophy.The book contains his seminal pieces on the saturated phenomenon and on the gift, although the essays also explore more recent developments of his thought on these topics. Several chapters explicitly explore the boundary line between philosophy and theology or their mutual enrichment and influence. In one of the final pieces, The Banality of Saturation,Marion considers some of the most recent objections brought against his notion of the saturated phenomenon and responds to them in detail, suggesting that saturated phenomena are neither as rare nor as inflexible as often assumed. The work contains two chapters not previously available in English and brings together several other pieces previously translated but now difficult to find. For readers interested in the relation between the two disciplines,this is indispensable reading.

Author : Peter Szendy
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823283590

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The Supermarket of the Visible by Peter Szendy Pdf

Already in 1929, Walter Benjamin described “a one hundred per cent image-space.” Such an image space saturates our world now more than ever, constituting the visibility in which we live. The Supermarket of the Visible analyzes this space and the icons that populate it as the culmination of a history of the circulation and general commodification of images and gazes. From the first elevators and escalators (tracking shots avant la lettre) to cinema (the great conductor of gazes), all the way down to contemporary eye-tracking techniques that monitor the slightest saccades of our eyes, Peter Szendy offers an entirely novel theory of the intersection of the image and economics. The Supermarket of the Visible elaborates an economy proper to images, icons, in other words, an iconomy. Deleuze caught a glimpse of this when he wrote that “money is the back side of all the images that cinema shows and edits on the front.” Since “cinema,” for Deleuze, is synonymous with “universe,” Szendy argues that this sentence must be understood in its broadest dimension and that a reading of key works in the history of cinema allows us a unique vantage point upon the reverse of images, their monetary implications. Paying close attention to sequences in Hitchcock, Bresson, Antonioni, De Palma, and The Sopranos, Szendy shows how cinema is not a uniquely commercial art form among other, purer arts, but, more fundamentally, helps to elaborate what might be called, with Bataille, a general iconomy. Moving deftly and lightly between political economy, aesthetic theory, and popular movies and television, The Supermarket of the Visible will be a necessary book for anyone concerned with media, philosophy, politics, or visual culture.

Author : Jules A. Martinez-Olivieri
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506409054

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A Visible Witness by Jules A. Martinez-Olivieri Pdf

A Visible Witness presents a fresh, innovative perspective on a vital movement in twentieth-century theology. Protestant theology in Latin America emerged over fifty years ago, side-by-side with the initial development of Roman Catholic liberation theology. Both traditions have common theological interests: the praxical nature of theology, Christology, and soteriology. Protestants also share some of the fundamental intuitions of liberation theology: the centrality of praxis in Christian life and the priority of opting for the suffering masses. Key Protestant theologians like José Míguez Bonino, Nancy Bedford, and Guillermo Hansen challenged Protestant theology in Latin America to develop a Trinitarian hermeneutic for Christology in order to see the work of salvation as the work of the triune God, and to relate Christology and pneumatology in ways that fundamentally shape the praxis of the church. This dissertation takes on this challenge and proposes a theodramatic Christology that serves to ground the Christian notion of salvation as historical liberation and the church’s participation in the present experience of redemption in the Trinitarian and economic work of Jesus Christ. The ecclesia of believers participates in God’s communicative activity via union with Christ—the community of disciples becomes a theater of liberation.

Author : John Ellard Gore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : UOM:39015065675509

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Author : John Almarode,Douglas Fisher,Joseph Assof,Sara Delano Moore,John Hattie,Nancy Frey
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781544333205

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Teaching Mathematics in the Visible Learning Classroom, Grades 6-8 by John Almarode,Douglas Fisher,Joseph Assof,Sara Delano Moore,John Hattie,Nancy Frey Pdf

Select the right task, at the right time, for the right phase of learning How do you generate that lightbulb “aha” moment of understanding for your students? This book helps to answer that question by showing Visible Learning strategies in action in high-impact mathematics classrooms. Walk in the shoes of teachers as they engage in the countless micro-decisions required to balance strategies, tasks, and assessments, demonstrating that it’s not only what works, but when. A decision-making matrix and grade-leveled examples help you leverage the most effective teaching practices at the most effective time to meet the surface, deep, and transfer learning needs of every student.

Author : Ashok Chakravarti
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781001417

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Institutions, Economic Performance and the Visible Hand by Ashok Chakravarti Pdf

'This book represents an important next step in the new institutional economics. Using this perspective, it undertakes a thorough re-examination of the problems of development.' – Barry R. Weingast, Stanford University, US 'Institutions, Economic Performance and the Visible Hand is a wide ranging, well-written, and provocative contribution to the study of political and economic organization. Ashok Chakravarti advances arguments and interpretations that are both interesting and, often, controversial. Although I find myself "arguing" with many of them, this is one of the many virtues of the book. I recommend the book to others who have an interest in institutional economics – why it is important, where it has been, and where it is going.' – Oliver E. Williamson, Nobel Laureate in Economics, University of California, Berkeley, US 'This is an ambitious and wide-ranging book, which seeks to overthrow the minimalist view of the role of institutions in economic systems contained in the standard economic model, and instead advocates a more active institution-building effort to promote the development of poor countries. This important contribution is to review and consolidate the themes and issues that emerge from a very large literature on the subject of institutions and economic development, and to coherently formulate hypotheses relating institutions to economic performance. This should be useful to a wide range of scholars.' – John Toye, University of Oxford, UK This timely study convincingly argues that it is not resources but the institutions which govern the interaction and decision-making of economic and political agents, that are the key factor in determining the economic performance of nations. The book challenges the conventional wisdom on the determinants of economic performance and provides an alternative vision of the functioning of an economic system. The author provides a structured survey which critically evaluates the theory and evidence of neoclassical approaches to growth and development. He then skillfully integrates insights from the old and new institutional economics into an original and comprehensive vision of the relationship between institutions, growth and economic development. Institutions, Economic Performance and the Visible Hand will be of special interest to academics, financial analysts and commentators, staff of international development agencies and NGOs, researchers and post-graduate students.

Author : John Almarode,Douglas Fisher,Kateri Thunder,Sara Delano Moore,John Hattie,Nancy Frey
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781544333236

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Teaching Mathematics in the Visible Learning Classroom, Grades 3-5 by John Almarode,Douglas Fisher,Kateri Thunder,Sara Delano Moore,John Hattie,Nancy Frey Pdf

It could happen in the morning during homework review. Or perhaps it happens when listening to students as they struggle through a challenging problem. Or maybe even after class, when planning a lesson. At some point, the question arises: How do I influence students′ learning—what’s going to generate that light bulb "aha" moment of understanding? In this sequel to the megawatt best seller Visible Learning for Mathematics, John Almarode, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, John Hattie, and Kateri Thunder help you answer that question by showing how Visible Learning strategies look in action in the mathematics classroom. Walk in the shoes of elementary school teachers as they engage in the 200 micro-decisions-per-minute needed to balance the strategies, tasks, and assessments seminal to high-impact mathematics instruction. Using grade-leveled examples and a decision-making matrix, you’ll learn to Articulate clear learning intentions and success criteria at surface, deep, and transfer levels Employ evidence to guide students along the path of becoming metacognitive and self-directed mathematics achievers Use formative assessments to track what students understand, what they don’t, and why Select the right task for the conceptual, procedural, or application emphasis you want, ensuring the task is for the right phase of learning Adjust the difficulty and complexity of any task to meet the needs of all learners It’s not only what works, but when. Exemplary lessons, video clips, and online resources help you leverage the most effective teaching practices at the most effective time to meet the surface, deep, and transfer learning needs of every student.

Author : Paula A. Treichler,Lisa Cartwright,Constance Penley
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780814715567

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The Visible Woman by Paula A. Treichler,Lisa Cartwright,Constance Penley Pdf

Professional, academic, activists, and patients provide 13 views of gender and the role of visual and textual representation of the human body in general and of women in particular in contemporary health and science. Among their topics are fetal photography, mammography, mental retardation, chronic fatigue syndrome, venereal diseases, abortion, living on disability in the wake of the ADA, and the immune system and the global economics of food. Lightly illustrated in black and white. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674417687

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The Visible Hand by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Pdf

The role of large-scale business enterprise—big business and its managers—during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian, sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communications, and the central sectors of production and distribution.

Author : Bruce Worthington
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532675171

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The Visible Shape of Christ's Life in Us by Bruce Worthington Pdf

How can we live in the world without falling either to the dangerous pitfalls of Christian legalism or the lure of unbridled hedonism, especially in a generation that rejects most formal expressions of Christianity? Saint Paul suggests that there is only one way--to walk in step with the Spirit, while bearing the fruit of the Spirit in our daily lives. Because this is a daily process, one fraught with success and failure, the following volume of essays seek to articulate how the Christian can prepare themselves for life in the Spirit, following Paul's admonition to "keep in step with the Spirit" (Gal 5:25) as we move closer and closer to meeting our Lord. The Visible Shape of Christ Life in Us: Meditations on the Fruit of the Spirit is a collection of essays originally preached in the Founders Chapel of Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, in the fall semester of 2018. Originally intended for a diverse audience of students, faculty, and professional clergy, these essays represent the best of Anglican theological insight in the context of the greater Christian community. They are intended for personal reflection, and daily devotion--a welcoming, accessible addition to any theological collection.

Author : Samuel van Hoogstraten
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606066676

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Samuel van Hoogstraten's Introduction to the Academy of Painting; or, The Visible World by Samuel van Hoogstraten Pdf

A unique seventeenth-century account of painting as it was practiced, taught, and discussed during a period of extraordinary artistic and intellectual ferment in the Netherlands. The only comprehensive work on painting written by a Dutch artist in the later seventeenth century, Samuel van Hoogstraten’s Inleyding tot de hooge schoole der schilderkonst, anders de zichtbaere werelt (Introduction to the Academy of Painting; or, The Visible World, 1678) has long served as a source of valuable insights on a range of topics, from firsthand reports of training in Rembrandt’s studio to contemporary engagements with perspective, optics, experimental philosophy, the economics of art, and more. Van Hoogstraten’s magnum opus—here available in an English print edition for the first time—brings textual sources into dialogue with the author’s own experience garnered during a multifaceted career. Presenting novel twists on traditional topics, he makes a distinctive case for the status of painting as a universal discipline basic to all the liberal arts. Van Hoogstraten’s arguments for the authority of what painters know about nature and art speak to contemporary notions of expertise and to the unsettled relations between theory and practice, making this book a valuable document of the intertwined histories of art and knowledge in the seventeenth century.

Author : Stephany Griffith-Jones,José Antonio Ocampo,Joseph E. Stiglitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199578801

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Time for a Visible Hand by Stephany Griffith-Jones,José Antonio Ocampo,Joseph E. Stiglitz Pdf

The book addresses the 2008 financial crisis originating in developed countries that will have a major impact on developing countries, as it spreads globally. It discusses the underlying reasons behind the crisis and suggests solutions that can help prevent such a crisis in the future.

Author : Pensacola H. Jefferson,Robert L.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-12
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781452046648

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Seeing Beyond the Visible by Pensacola H. Jefferson,Robert L. Pdf

Are you having difficulty reaching your goals and dreams? Do you find yourself making excuses for not doing the things you believe you have been called to do? Would you like to see the supernatural manifested in the natural – in YOUR life? This book is for you! Seeing Beyond the Visible will inspire you to look beyond your personal limitations and move forward in faith to accomplish your goals and dreams and fulfill God’s purpose for your life. God Speaks to each of us through our spirit, especially during our personal, intimate times with Him. When you spend time with God, He will show and reveal deep things about Himself, His Word, and life. It is our hope that this journal will motivate you to spend time with God and arouse your faith by encouraging you to see beyond the visible.