Worlds Apart

Download or read book Worlds Apart written by Cynthia M. Duncan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, Worlds Apart examined the nature of poverty through the stories of real people in three remote rural areas of the United States: New England, Appalachia, and the Mississippi Delta. In this new edition, Duncan returns to her original research, interviewing some of the same people as well as some new key informants. Duncan provides powerful new insights into the dynamics of poverty, politics, and community change. "Duncan, through in-depth investigation and interviews, concludes that only a strong civic culture, a sense among citizens of community and the need to serve that community, can truly address poverty. . . . Moving and troubling. Duncan has created a remarkable study of the persistent patterns of poverty and power."—Kirkus Reviews "The descriptions of rural poverty in Worlds Apart are interesting and read almost like a novel."—Choice

Download or read book Worlds Apart written by Chuck Bomar and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of college students today are vastly different than previous generations. For older generations, twenty-somethings' values, goals, and ethics can seem impossible to understand. Chuck Bomar has built ministries around these differences to help parents and ministry leaders understand this new generation and bridge the two worlds together.

Download or read book Worlds Apart written by Swanee Hunt and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells of a well-meaning foreign policy establishment often deaf to the voices of everyday people

Download or read book Worlds Apart written by Branko Milanovic and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are used to thinking about inequality within countries--about rich Americans versus poor Americans, for instance. But what about inequality between all citizens of the world? Worlds Apart addresses just how to measure global inequality among individuals, and shows that inequality is shaped by complex forces often working in different directions. Branko Milanovic, a top World Bank economist, analyzes income distribution worldwide using, for the first time, household survey data from more than 100 countries. He evenhandedly explains the main approaches to the problem, offers a more accurate way of measuring inequality among individuals, and discusses the relevant policies of first-world countries and nongovernmental organizations. Inequality has increased between nations over the last half century (richer countries have generally grown faster than poorer countries). And yet the two most populous nations, China and India, have also grown fast. But over the past two decades inequality within countries has increased. As complex as reconciling these three data trends may be, it is clear: the inequality between the world's individuals is staggering. At the turn of the twenty-first century, the richest 5 percent of people receive one-third of total global income, as much as the poorest 80 percent. While a few poor countries are catching up with the rich world, the differences between the richest and poorest individuals around the globe are huge and likely growing.

Download or read book Worlds Apart written by James Riley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owen and Bethany try to find their way back to each other after the fictional and nonfictional worlds are torn apart in the finale of this "New York Times"-bestselling series.

Download or read book Worlds Apart: Modernity Through the Prism of the Local written by Daniel Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worlds Apart is concerned with one of the new futures of anthropology, namely the advances in technologies which r eate an imagination of new global and local forms. It also analyses studies of the consumption of these forms and attempts to go beyond the assumptions that consumption either localises or fails to effect global forms and images. Several of the chapters are written by anthropologists who have specialised in material culture studies and who examine the new forms, especially television and mass commodities, as well as some new uses of older forms, such as the body. The book also considers the ways in which people are increasingly not the primary creators of these images but have become secondary consumers.

Download or read book X-Men written by and published by Marvel. This book was released on 2009-12-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of previously published comics in which Storm, a member of the X-Men and queen of the African nation of Wakanda, travels home when one of her former students is charged with murder, and comes across evidence that the devious telepath known as the Shadow King--Storm's greatest enemy--is back.