Breaking Through Concrete

Author : David Hanson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520949714
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breaking Through Concrete written by David Hanson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People have always grown food in urban spaces—on windowsills and sidewalks, and in backyards and neighborhood parks—but today, urban farmers are leading an environmental and social movement that transforms our national food system. To explore this agricultural renaissance, brothers David and Michael Hanson and urban farmer Edwin Marty document twelve successful urban farm programs, from an alternative school for girls in Detroit, to a backyard food swap in New Orleans, to a restaurant supply garden on a rooftop in Brooklyn. Each beautifully illustrated essay offers practical advice for budding farmers, such as composting and keeping livestock in the city, decontaminating toxic soil, even changing zoning laws.

Author : David Hanson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520270541
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breaking Through Concrete written by David Hanson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There’s a conviction among many sustainable agriculture advocates that the best way to move agriculture forward is to look back. The hope is to return to an exalted era in agriculture, to the kind of rural scene fit for a Rockwell painting or a Shaker Village—to food grown the old fashioned way. Breaking Through Concrete is not that, which is exactly the point. This ode to urban farming is not nostalgic (those are skyscrapers in the background, not silos), but instructive. It's a beautiful, gritty and very real portrait of the possibilities for the future of food." — Dan Barber, Executive Chef & Co-owner of Blue Hill "A road map to the future of America. A blueprint of possibilities. A book full of remarkable stories of neighborhood visionaries, stories of people who grow community in their gardens. Where others see trouble, they see food and hope." —NPR's Kitchen Sisters "Finally, a book on the full continuum of urban agriculture in America, replete with inspiring images of the people and places behind today's city-grown food. Hanson and Marty tell these stories with such admiration for their subjects you'll want to bestow hero status to city farmers." —Darrin Nordahl, author of Public Produce: The New Urban Agriculture “Breaking Through Concrete will satisfy readers hungry for a broad perspective on urban agriculture. The beautiful stories and photographs of successful programs throughout North America, combined with practical ‘how to’ guides, provides a valued resource for practitioners, advocates, scholars, and gardeners.” —Laura Lawson, author of City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America

Author : Michael Granzen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725294591
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breaking Through the Plate Glass Window—Prophetic Fragments written by Michael Granzen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a selection of writings on themes of trauma and transformation, hope and anguish, in a time of reckoning. The first section offers biographical fragments about life after the "bulldozer" runs you over. How do you get up? How do you live with others who don't understand? How do you keep walking? They draw upon life experiences in Boston, Iona, and New Jersey. Faith is not so much about agreeing with doctrine, but a dynamic, active, seeking, questioning, trust in God. It includes both audacity and humility. The second section draws upon fragments of historical reflection, "On Violent Innocence, Mourning, and Metanoia in New Jersey." This is an exploration of the principality of white racism, state-based violence, and exploitation of the poor. It asks the question: How did the Confederate flag get in the front window of the Presbyterian church on Lincoln's birthday? Some of the white terrorism that happened at the Capitol is prefigured here. Yet there is grace hidden in judgment. We cannot heal from what we do not name. The third section contains fragments of prophetic wisdom from Lorna Goodison, Richard Fenn, Mike Gecan, Karen Hernandez-Granzen, and Archange Antoine. Along with Traci West and Chris Hedges, their voices are strong and true.

Author : S. Vandermerwe
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137395516
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breaking Through, 2nd Edition written by S. Vandermerwe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-12 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Customer centricity is fundamental to business growth and ongoing success. Most executives appreciate the importance of it yet don't know how to execute it or sell the processes internally. This thoroughly revised edition of Breaking Through guides readers systematically through the ten breakthrough points of implementation, to explain how to execute a transformation to customer centricity, so that a company can engage continuously with its customers, making them allies and advocates with all the rewards that it brings. With updates on digital opportunities, social media, emerging markets (including Africa), and the social as well as financial impacts of customer centricity , this book successfully blends strategy with implementation and also features a range of innovative new and traditional business examples from across the globe. Easy to read, in-depth and full of practical advice, this is the essential step-by-step guide to implementing customer centricity to endure in the long-term.

Author : Andrea S. Kramer
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
ISBN 13 : 1529317320
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breaking Through Bias Second Edition written by Andrea S. Kramer and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully Revised Second Edition Since Breaking Through Bias was published in 2016, the #MeToo movement has exposed just how pervasive sexual harassment is in the workplace; the increase in public misogynistic comments has made clear that explicit gender bias is not a thing of the past; and stay-at-home orders and school closings due to Covid-19 have brought into even sharper focus the discriminatory impact of the unequal division of child care and household responsibilities between most couples. In this Second Edition of Breaking Through Bias, the authors, Kramer and Harris, explain how these recent developments fit into a larger pattern of implicit or unconscious gender bias that imposes serious obstacles to women's career advancement. They argue persuasively, however, that while this bias is the result of deeply rooted gender stereotypes, women can avoid or overcome its discriminatory consequences by the effective use of "attuned gender communication" to manage the impressions other people have of them. Kramer and Harris illustrate the use of attuned gender communication in each of the contexts in which gender bias manifests itself: negative bias (women are not as talented as men), benevolent bias (women need men's support), age bias (older women are not effective workers), motherhood bias (women with children are not committed to their careers), and self-limiting bias (women believing themselves not suited for particular roles). Drawing on decades of experience supervising, training, evaluating, mentoring, and sponsoring thousands of women as well as exhaustive social science research, Kramer and Harris present in this updated and fully revised Second Edition unique, practical, and highly effective advice women can use to break through bias and achieve the career success they desire and deserve.

Author : Dean Munro
Publisher : Dean Munro and Chris Hadj
ISBN 13 : 0987484915
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breaking the Chains written by Dean Munro and published by Dean Munro and Chris Hadj. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deemed the funniest Australian success story yet! “Uni Student Preston King started off with little chance in his favour. With only five hundred dollars in his back pocket and the odds heavily stacked against him, he worked like a slave-rat during his university life. By the time he graduated, he had seven scholarships to his name, a top graduate salary at a multinational corporation, a property portfolio with a combined worth of seven figures and memories to last a lifetime. Never underestimate the potential of a student with a burning desire to get rich.” A must read for anyone with a sense of humour!

Author : Allen Brett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concrete-cement Age written by Allen Brett and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concrete-cement Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. Renee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998230238
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breaking Through the Concrete written by M. Renee and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-17 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking Through the Concrete is a motivational book that reminds readers that although life can be tough at times, with the right attitude, tools, and strength, one can survive and live a great life. Giving up is NOT an option. M.Renee will speak life into the youth. Her favorite quote is "They shall lead and be great at it." Her long term goal is to be a motivational speaker, traveling all over the world encouraging youth.

Author : Juliane Fürst
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191092517
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flowers Through Concrete written by Juliane Fürst and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland takes the reader on a journey into the lives and thoughts of Soviet hippies. In the face of disapproval and repression, they created a version of Western counterculture, skillfully adapting to, manipulating, and shaping their late socialist environment. Flowers through Concrete takes its readers into the underground hippieland and beyond, situating the world of hippies firmly in late Soviet reality and offering both an unusual history of the last Soviet decades as well as a case study of transnational youth culture and East-West globalization. Flowers through Concrete is based on over a hundred interviews, declassified documents, and private archives hidden for many decades. It tells the almost forgotten story of how hippie communities sprang up across the Soviet Union in the late-60s, often under the tutelage of the rebellious offspring of privileged households at the heart of the Soviet establishment. It charts how these communities linked up to create an impressive network with elaborate customs and rituals, ensuring its survival for more than two decades. Flowers through Concrete recounts not only a compelling story of survival against the odds - hippies who were harassed by police, shorn of their hair by civilian guards, and confined in psychiatric hospitals by doctors who believed non-conformism was a symptom of schizophrenia - but also advances a surprising argument. It suggests that the land of Soviet hippies and the world of late socialism were not entirely incompatible, but in fact meshed surprisingly well. Ultimately, it was not the KGB but the arrival of capitalism in the 1990s that ended the Soviet hippie sistema.