Practical Business Planning

CHANDLER, John

Reference

McGraw-Hill Book Co Ltd

Techniques of Scenario Planning

Business & Money

Cockie, P. W.

Management & Leadership

McGraw=Hill

Faith-Based Policy: A Litmus Test for Understanding Contemporary America

In 2001, George W. Bush created the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. The driving force behind the policy was to create a “level playing field” where faith-based organizations could compete on an equal footing with secular organizations for government funding of social aid programs. Given, on the one hand, the continuation of faith-based policy under Barack Obama and, on the other, the continued support by the vast majority of the American people for some form of such policy, the need has emerged to clearly understand what this policy is and the issues that it raises. Why? First, because the policy reveals new paradigms that explode traditional political and religious designations such as conservative–liberal or evangelical–progressive. Secondly, it is a policy which is setting precedents that with time will only become more entrenched in the institutional fabric of American government and the values of the culture. Finally, it does not seem to be a policy that is likely to just go away. And if it won’t go away, then, how should responsible policy be conducted? While John Chandler's Faith-Based Policy: A Litmus Test for Understanding Contemporary Americaresponds to this need to understand, it also acknowledges that there is already a substantial amount of documentation available, which, taken together, provides a comprehensive, though sometimes biased, picture of faith-based policy. This book contributes a relatively brief, impartial analysis that draws on and synthesizes the available information. More specifically, in order to dissipate the confusion surrounding the perceptions that many have had concerning the intention and meaning of the policy, this book provides insight into: 1) the theological visions of the faith-based actors behind the policy; 2) how these actors have tried to apply these visions as the program has evolved in the 2000s; 3) the divisiveness and debate that has characterized the faith-based experiment, and; 4) how all of the above may be held up for contemplation by the reader as a mirror of developing American culture.

History

World

Lexington Books

Wiltshire Churches: An Illustrated History

Arts & Photography

PARKER, Derek

Architecture

Sutton Pub Ltd

John Leland's Itinerary: Travels in Tudor England

Translates into modern English and compresses into a single volume the historical and topographical aspects of John Leland's accounts of his travels through England and Wales in the 1540s. Written at a time of great change for England, the volume draws a picture of the growth of English nationalism and the transition to Tudor city plans. The material presented here has been rearranged to reflect the county organization of the lands Leland traveled. Distributed by Books International. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Travel

Europe

The Christmas season was a highlight of the country house calendar. Social barriers between master and servant were loosened, family intrigues stalked the dinner table, romantic hopes were dashed or realized, and the multi-layered community which lived on and around the great estate drew together to reenact the annual cycle of custom and tradition. Including extracts from Dickens, Evelyn Waugh, Washington Irving and Henry James, as well as first hand accounts from diaries, letters and account books, this book recounts Christmas as it was celebrated in the stately homes of England and Wales.

A Country House Christmas

Literature & Fiction

John Taylor (1578-1653), usually referred to as 'the water poet', was a Gloucester-born, self-educated Thames wherryman turned pamphleteer and versifier, who published some 200 works in his lifetime. His output ranges from popular reference books and directories to 'penny-dreadful'-style reportage, political and religious tracts and poems, accounts in verse and prose of madcap journeys, and even a joke book.Between 1618 and 1653 Taylor undertook twelve journeys from London to most parts of England, Scotland and Wales. He travelled by river, sea and road, first seeking sponsorship from subscribers to the account that he would write on the way. The resulting pamphlets - among them Pennyles Pilgrimage (1618), an account of a journey from London to Edinburgh on foot, and The Praise of Hemp-Seed (1620), the story of a journey down the Thames from London to Queenborough in a brown paper boat - are full of vivid descriptions of people and places, and yet are little known or used by historians.This book presents the full text of the twelve British journeys, in chronological order, with a general introduction on Taylor and his antecedents, and brief introductions to each journey. There are also explanatory notes on obscure passages, allusions and references to people and places, and an index.

Travels Through Stuart Britain: The Adventures of John Taylor, the Water Poet

Biographies & Memoirs

TAYLOR, John

Arts & Literature

The widely quoted but barely accessible account of Leland's travels during the 1530s and 1540s, now in modern English, arranged by county in alphabetical order, and cheap enough for any student with a night job. After a substantial introduction and bibliography, the text speaks without annotation. Well illustrated and indexed in detail. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Politics & Social Sciences

LELAND, JOHN

Social Sciences

The second part of Chandler's county history of Wiltshire covers 42 parishes, from Bromham, Seend and Erlestoke in the west to Wootton Rivers in the north-east and Netheravon in the south, including Devizes, Pewsey and Pewsey Vale. Conceived as 'prelude perhaps to an afternoon's exploring, or a handy compendium on any Wiltshire bookshelf', Chandler's historical essays are accompanied by Ordnance survey maps from the 1890s and illustrations by Michael Charlton.

Devizes and Central Wiltshire (Wiltshire: A History of Its Landscape and People)

Hobnob Press

The Vale of Pewsey (West Country Landscapes)

Ex-Libris Press

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