Home and Community

Politics & Social Sciences

May, Vanessa

Hicks, Stephen

Bertolino, Nadia

Lewis, Camilla

Costa Santos, Sandra

Sociology

Routledge

(Lillenas Publications). When the cast of a church's living Nativity scene is hauled off to jail because of a herd of uncooperative livestock, a down-on-his-luck Santa becomes the unsuspecting target for "goodwill toward men." The fast-paced script is a collage of humor and heart tugs, as well as the answer for any actor's wish for a play that provides strong character roles. A need for a personal relationship with God is at the heart of this Christmas play. For the church or group that would like to have a non-musical production at Christmas, or have a special night of theatre during the holiday season this play fits either bill. 45 minutes.

'Tis the Season: A Christmas Play in Three Scenes

Cohagan, Jerry

Carpenter, Ken

Religion & Spirituality

Lillenas

Examining the relationships between architecture, home and community in the Claremont Court housing scheme in Edinburgh, Home and Community provides a novel perspective on the enabling potential of architecture that encompasses physical, spatial, relational and  temporal phenomena. Based on the AHRC funded project "Place and Belonging", the chapters draw on innovative spatial  layouts amid Scottish policymakers' concerns of social change in the 1960s, to develop theoretical understandings  between architecture, home, and community. By approaching the discourse on home, and by  positioning the home at the confluence of a network of sociocultural identities bound by spatial awareness and design, the writers draw on sociological interpretations of cultural negotiation as well as theoretical underpinnings in architectural design. In so doing, they suggest a reinterpretation of the facilitating role of architecture as sensitive to physical and socio-cultural reconstruction. Drawn from interviews with residents, architectural surveys, contextual mapping and other visual methods, Home and Community explores home as a construct that is enmeshed with the architectural affordances that the housing scheme represents, that is useful to both architecture and sociology students, as well as practitioners and urban planners.

Josh Ragizzo and his family are being hunted, having been accused of terrorism and heresy. The religious government known as Babylon has risen to power across the entire planet, and all the nations of the world have sworn allegiance to it. Strict economic restrictions and death decrees have been issued against those who choose not to conform to the worship practices of Babylon. The Ragizzos, because of their knowledge of God as revealed in the pages of Scripture, have refused to participate in the mandated false worship, and are now in hiding in fear of their lives on a daily basis. The very end times described in the prophetic writings of the Bible are upon the earth. Join the family for a story of survival and adventure as they live through the last Christmas the world will ever see. As they strive to endure in and make sense of a world which has turned upside-down, you might just come to see our world in a different light, and see more clearly the mysteries of God.

The Seventh Day of Christmas: A Story of the End Times

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

iUniverse

Contemporary views of business ethics often show businessmen and women in a bad light. Egoism, profits, and competition are branded as immoral, while social consciousness is praised. The Atlas Society’s Senior Scholar Stephen Hicks, Ph.D. disagrees with this point of view. “Most contemporary business ethics does business a disservice. Worse than that, its proposed cures are plagued with unintended consequences that are often much worse than the problems it is attempting to solve.”Hicks defends the egoism that drives successful business people and the morality of free-market capitalism.

Ayn Rand and Business Ethics

Philosophy

Atlas Society, The

Pocket Guide to Philosophies of Education

Education & Teaching

Colgan, Andrew

Schools & Teaching

Atlas Society Press

Featuring a spectrum of families from diverse backgrounds, this book reveals the joys and challenges of adoptive and foster parenting. The authors outline how the experience of adopting and fostering has changed for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people over the years, major changes in policy, and what the research can tell us about LGBT parenting. They interview families involved at different stages of the fostering and adoption process, from those undergoing assessments through to the experienced foster carers and adopters who were interviewed for the first edition of this book 20 years previously. While the number of LGBT people adopting or fostering has increased since then, some of the very real challenges still endure - including social stigma, homophobia and discriminatory policies - and families share some of the strategies they have used to help to address them.This is an essential source of information and advice for same-sex couples and LGBT single parents, as well as social workers, social work educators, sociologists of personal life, fostering and adoption panel members.

Lesbian and Gay Foster Care and Adoption, Second Edition

Parenting & Relationships

McDermott, Janet

Adoption

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Tracing postmodernism from its roots in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant to their development in thinkers such as Michel Foucault and Richard Rorty, philosopher Stephen Hicks provides a provocative account of why postmodernism has been the most vigorous intellectual movement of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. 
 Why do skeptical and relativistic arguments have such power in the contemporary intellectual world? Why do they have that power in the humanities but not in the sciences? Why has a significant portion of the political Left--the same Left that traditionally promoted reason, science, equality for all, and optimism--now switched to themes of anti-reason, anti-science, double standards, and cynicism?
 Explaining Postmodernism is intellectual history with a polemical twist, providing fresh insights into the debates underlying the furor over political correctness, multiculturalism, and the future of liberal democracy.

Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault

Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd

DADS HORROR MOVIE LOG BOOK: The Perfect Fathers Day Gift For Horror Fans

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Independently published

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