Why are some places successful in moving from war to consolidated peace while others continue to be troubled by violence? And why does postconflict violence take different forms and have different intensities? By developing a new theory of postconflict violence Patrick Barron's When Violence Works makes a significant contribution to our understanding.Barron picks out three postconflict regions in Indonesia in which to analyze what happens once the "officia...

The short poems in Bosk grow out of close encounters with trees, shrubs, and understory plants observed throughout a sprawling Boston arboretum built on glacial drumlins, with valleys and meadows threading between them. These poems emerged from slow, aimless wandering—moments when a shape, texture, or pattern tugged at the senses and asked to be noticed. From those encounters came a series of questions: How does careful attention to nonhum...

The overlapping crises of COVID-19, climate change, and rising levels of conflict are exacerbating global inequalities. This report offers a definition and framework for social sustainability as well as examples and guidance on how development can foster progress toward it.

All development is about people: the transformative process to equip, link, and enable groups of people to drive change and create something new to benefit society. Development can promote societies where all people can thrive, but the change process can be complex, challenging, and socially contentious. Continued progress toward sustainable development is not guaranteed. The current overlapping crises of COVID-19, climate change, rising levels of conflict, and a global economic slowdown a...

Secret Lakeshia Bell is a young, beautiful, outspoken registered nurse. She knows exactly what she wants out of her life, her career, and her marriage. When her husband, of ten years, is violently murdered, Secret locates the red toolbox filled with his last wishes. Although she doesn’t know where his wishes will take her, she is determined to fulfill them at all costs. Armed with the toolbox and five different colored instructional envelopes, the young widow is suddenly set on a journey o...

Secret Lakeshia Bell. She introduces her handsome new fiancée, Royce Storm, to the most important person in her life, her sassy and outspoken grandmother, Hattie Bell Ruffins. Hattie shares her heart-breaking news with her granddaughter then asks her to help carry out her impossible bucket list. With not much time to spare and a magnificent wedding to plan, an entire new and tumultuous journey begins for the couple. In all the chaos, Secret’s old enemy returns to demand what she feels is r...

Efficient energy management and effective conservation procedures have been very important considerations for our society for many years. An oil embargo in the 1970s and early 1980s brought about a new awareness of energy conservation. Because of various factors like loss of tax credits and efficiency standards imposed by the government, public interest dropped considerably in regard to energy conservation. A revival in energy conservation among the general public occurred following the Pe...

A sweeping saga in the vein of Ask Again, Yes following a foster family through almost a decade of dazzling triumph and wrenching heartbreak—from the author of The Orphans at Race Point.Set in the late 1950s through 1960s in a small town in Massachusetts, All the Children Are Home follows the Moscatelli family—Dahlia and Louie, foster parents, and their long-term foster children Jimmy, Zaidie, and Jon—and the irrevocable changes in their ...

This is the true story of a song.Don Feagin wrote the words and Barron Ryan wrote the music. But this wasn't your average partnership. That's because Don died in 1981-six years before Barron was even born.As a young songwriter and composer, Don Feagin wrote music that would be heard around the world. But his favorite person to write for was his wife, Linda. The two were building a beautiful life together, but Don was living on borrowed time. They both knew that his disease,...

Help students to build their subject knowledge and understanding with this accessible and engaging Student's Book, created for the 2016 WJEC Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Religious Studies Route B specification by subject specialists with examining experience.- Feel confident teaching the Catholic and Judaism content with expert guidance written by faith experts and Diocesan advisors.- Develop understanding through clear, accessible explanations of the specification cont...

As planners and designers have turned their attentions to the blighted, vacant areas of the city, the concept of "terrain vague," has become increasingly important. Terrain Vague seeks to explore the ambiguous spaces of the city -- the places that exist outside the cultural, social, and economic circuits of urban life. From vacant lots and railroad tracks, to more diverse interstitial spaces, this collection of original essays and cases presents innovative ways of looking at margi...

Italian writer and filmmaker Gianni Celati’s 1989 philosophical travelogue Towards the River’s Mouth explores perception, memory, place and space as it recounts a series of journeys across the Po River Valley in northern Italy. The book seeks to document the “new Italian landscape” where divisions between the urban and rural were being blurred into what Celati terms “a new variety of countryside where one breathes an air of urban solitude.” Celati traveled by train, by bus, and on foot, at...