The Backyard Revolution
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The Backyard Revolution
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Author : Harry C. Boyte
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
The Backyard Revolution written by Harry C. Boyte and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Community organization categories.
For some time, the American public seemed generally unconcerned and passive when it came to political affairs whether local or national in scope. It was commonly felt that the average citizen was preoccupied only with private matters. This book offers an in-depth look at the origins, development, and themes of the citizen movement.
Water Wise Gardening
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Author : Thomas Christopher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Water Wise Gardening written by Thomas Christopher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Landscape gardening categories.
In an elegantly written book, the author of In Search of Lost Roses examines how water shortages and environmental concerns are prompting a remarkable solution--the emergence of low-water gardening, one of the newest, most creative areas in gardening today. Color photos.
The Backyard Play Revolution
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Author : Jason Sperling
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-01-19
The Backyard Play Revolution written by Jason Sperling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-19 with categories.
In this eye opening, easy-to-follow, action-oriented book, Jason Runkel Sperling explains how to use screen-free, unstructured outdoor play and toys to increase early-age child learning opportunities and improve happiness for the whole family.You'll learn:* How to encourage your child to enjoy active, outdoor, screen-free play * How to foster unstructured, child-led playtime * The secret to making risky play work for your child* Practical advice on how to pick the right toys and transform your backyard* How to set up your backyard playspace and not break the bank* And much, much more... Follow one father's entertaining and informative experiments to find play and toys that inspire his children to play outside, offline, and independently-like children of past generations. Author Jason Runkel Sperling shares his six-year journey discovering the history of play, playgrounds, toys, and the role of adults in their children's experiences, culminating in a revolutionary approach to backyard play. Full of humor, parenting insight, and in-depth research, Sperling's book will change how you think about raising children, and how you organize your home.If you're like the majority of parents today, you may have noticed the differences in modern childhood. Unlike every other generation, your children spend more time indoors, glued to screens, and are less active and free to roam than in any time in history. You likely have come across countless articles on the epidemic of child obesity and behavioral problems today, and perhaps you've heard that getting children to play outside is an easy and inexpensive remedy. You may already want to get your children to play outside, but nothing seems to motivate them. Or maybe you're frozen with fear that they might get hurt if they go out. Plus, your backyard is manicured for adult enjoyment. So instead of heading outside, your children stay indoors, damaging their health, and driving you up the walls.You may have tried lawn games, sports equipment, remote control toys, or backyard arts and crafts, but nothing seems to hold their attention. And when you do spend time in the backyard, you always have to play with them. Or, perhaps you can't stand the thought of your children not getting ahead-so the children's schedule is jam-packed with adult-led, goal-based activities outside the home. In other words, you've turned into the family chauffeur. Whatever happened to "go outside and play"? Raising children today is harder than ever before, but children haven't changed all that much.The best way to get children to develop their imagination and creativity, motor and sensory skills, emotional and social intelligence, and every other physical and mental ability, is to get them to "go outside and play" with open-ended, child-led play that can be enjoyed in the backyard. There are proven, evidence-based approaches for the role parents should take in facilitating this kind of play. And you can learn them quickly and apply them tomorrow. This doesn't mean getting rid of every after-school activity, throwing away every toy in the house, or putting the kibosh on screen time forever. But it does mean making sure that children have active playtime necessary to prevent physical and psychological maladies. It's vital, especially with early-age children, to give them the environment and support they need to develop. You don't have to play with children every second, you just need to know the right kind of play and toys to provide and how to gently guide them.The Backyard Play Revolution is for parents from every background, regardless of location or income level, and is appropriate for backyards of any size.This book isn't hundreds of pages long. You can read the whole thing the day you get it and take action the next day. Are you ready to profoundly impact your child's life? Scroll up to the top of the page and get your copy of The Backyard Revolution now.
Front Porch Politics
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Author : Michael Stewart Foley
language : en
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Release Date : 2013-09-17
Front Porch Politics written by Michael Stewart Foley and has been published by Hill and Wang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-17 with History categories.
"Reading this book revives the spirit of civic action today for those who are unjustifiably forlorn about overcoming injustice."—Ralph Nader An on-the-ground history of ordinary Americans who took to the streets when political issues became personal The 1960s are widely seen as the high tide of political activism in the United States. According to this view, Americans retreated to the private realm after the tumult of the civil rights and antiwar movements, and on the rare occasions when they did take action, it was mainly to express their wish to be left alone by government—as recommended by Ronald Reagan and the ascendant New Right. In fact, as Michael Stewart Foley shows in Front Porch Politics, this understanding of post-1960s politics needs drastic revision. On the community level, the 1970s and 1980s witnessed an unprecedented upsurge of innovative and impassioned grass roots political activity. In Southern California and on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, tenants challenged landlords with sit-ins and referenda; in the upper Midwest, farmers vandalized power lines and mobilized tractors to protect their land; and in the deindustrializing cities of the Rust Belt, laid-off workers boldly claimed the right to own their idled factories. Meanwhile, activists fought to defend the traditional family or to expand the rights of women, while entire towns organized to protest the toxic sludge in their basements. Recalling Love Canal, the tax revolt in California, ACT UP, and other crusades famous or forgotten, Foley shows how Americans were propelled by personal experiences and emotions into the public sphere. Disregarding conventional ideas of left and right, they turned to political action when they perceived, from their actual or figurative front porches, an immediate threat to their families, homes, or dreams. Front Porch Politics is a vivid and authoritative people's history of a time when Americans followed their outrage into the streets. Addressing today's readers, it is also a field guide for effective activism in an era when mass movements may seem impractical or even passé. The distinctively visceral, local, and highly personal politics that Americans practiced in the 1970s and 1980s provide a model of citizenship participation worth emulating if we are to renew our democracy.
The Spirit Of The Sixties
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Author : James J. Farrell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-18
The Spirit Of The Sixties written by James J. Farrell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-18 with History categories.
The Spirit of the Sixties explains how and why the personal became political when Sixties activists confronted the institutions of American postwar culture. The Spirit of the Sixties uses political personalism to explain how and why the personal became political when Sixties activists confronted the institutions of American postwar culture. After establishing its origins in the Catholic Worker movement, the Beat generation, the civil rights movement, and Ban-the-Bomb protests, James Farrell demonstrates the impact of personalism on Sixties radicalism. Students, antiwar activists and counterculturalists all used personalist perspectives in the "here and now revolution" of the decade. These perspectives also persisted in American politics after the Sixties. Exploring the Sixties not just as history but as current affairs, Farrell revisits the perennial questions of human purpose and cultural practice contested in the decade.
In Nobody S Backyard Facing The World
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Author : Tony Martin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
In Nobody S Backyard Facing The World written by Tony Martin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with History categories.
Strong Democracy
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Author : Benjamin Barber
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003
Strong Democracy written by Benjamin Barber and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
"One of the chosen few: an enduring contribution to democratic thought."—Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University
Private Neighborhoods And The Transformation Of Local Government
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Author : Robert Henry Nelson
language : en
Publisher: The Urban Insitute
Release Date : 2005
Private Neighborhoods And The Transformation Of Local Government written by Robert Henry Nelson and has been published by The Urban Insitute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Political Science categories.
From 1980 to 2000, half the new housing in the United States was built in a development project governed by a neighborhood association. More than 50 million Americans now live in these associations. In Private Neighborhoods and the Transformation of Local Government, Robert Nelson reviews the history of neighborhood associations, explains their recent explosive growth, and speculates on their future role in American society. Unlike many previous studies, Nelson takes on the whole a positive view. Neighborhood associations are providing the neighborhood environment controls desired by the residents, high quality common services, and a stronger sense of neighborhood community. Identifying significant operating problems, Nelson proposes new options for improving the future governance of neighborhood associations.
In Nobody S Backyard Facing The World
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Author : Tony Martin
language : en
Publisher: The Majority Press
Release Date : 1983
In Nobody S Backyard Facing The World written by Tony Martin and has been published by The Majority Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Grenada categories.
The English speaking Caribbean's most unique recent political experiment, as chronicled in the pages of the Free West Indian, and other organs of the revolution.
Occupation Organizer
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Author : Clément Petitjean
language : en
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Release Date : 2023-04-18
Occupation Organizer written by Clément Petitjean and has been published by Haymarket Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-18 with Social Science categories.
A trenchant history of community organizing and a must-read for the next generation of organizers seeking to learn from the successes, failures, and contradictions of the past. The community organizing tradition is long overdue for reexamination. In Occupation: Organizer, scholar and activist Clément Petitjean traces that history from its roots in the Progressive movement to its expansion and diverging paths during the social movements of the 1960s and ’70s, when Saul Alinsky became the most popular “professional radical” in the US while groups like Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Students for a Democratic Society, and the Black Panthers recast organizers as horizontal, antihierarchical spadeworkers—those who do the work as part of the community, rather than standing apart from it. But in the years since, the professionalization of organizing work has only increased, despite the critiques. Only by grappling with its limitations and pitfalls, Petitjean insists, can we learn to build durable, effective organizations for change.