Throughout the twentieth century, despite compelling evidence that some pesticides posed a threat to human and environmental health, growers and the USDA continued to favor agricultural chemicals over cultural and biological forms of pest control. In Ghostworkers and Greens, Adam Tompkins reveals a history of unexpected cooperation between farmworker groups and environmental organizations. Tompkins shows that the separate movements shared a common concern about the effects of pesticides on human health. This enabled bridge-builders within the disparate organizations to foster cooperative relationships around issues of mutual concern to share information, resources, and support.
Nongovernmental organizations, particularly environmental organizations and farmworker groups, played a key role in pesticide reform. For nearly fifty years, these groups served as educators, communicating to the public scientific and experiential information about the adverse effects of pesticides on human health and the environment, and built support for the amendment of pesticide policies and the alteration of pesticide use practices. Their efforts led to the passage of more stringent regulations to better protect farmworkers, the public, and the environment. Environmental organizations and farmworker groups also acted as watchdogs, monitoring the activity of regulatory agencies and bringing suit when necessary to ensure that they fulfilled their responsibilities to the public. These groups served as not only lobbyists but also essential components of successful democratic governance, ensuring public participation and more effective policy implementation.
Jesus commissioned His apostles--and, by extension, the church--to make disciples. Many church leaders have come to the conclusion that attending worship services and Bible study classes will result in making disciples. A review of statistical reports indicates a majority of church members and attenders do not believe this process will work, or they have come to the conclusion they do not want to become disciples.
The 2010 US Religion Census report indicated 79% of the 150,686,156 members, children, and other attenders did not attend worship services. It also reported over 60% of the same group did not attend Bible study classes. In 2014 one of the major denominations in the United States reported 63% of church members did not attend worship services and 62% did not attend Bible study classes.
There are literally thousands of spiritual surveys available to church leaders. A majority of these surveys develop conclusions based on a single survey being administered or two surveys being administered several months apart. If a disciple-making process is to be effective, there needs to be a method of measuring the progress of individuals moving toward spiritual maturity. This type of measurement would produce a visual of spiritual growth, spiritual decline, or spiritual non-growth. The only way to measure the spiritual progress of an individual is to create a measurement of the various elements of the spiritual life.
The process of measuring spiritual maturity in this book is self-contained within the participating church, and the responses of the participating individuals are highly confidential and warehoused by the participating church.
Автор: Tompkins Ronald Название: Doing Bad at Doing Good: Nonprofit Secrets Buried in the 990 ISBN: 1543965318 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781543965315 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 13790.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: How does a leader find a simple checklist to assess the health of their nonprofit? What kinds of questions are important for a board member to ask? 'Doing Bad at Doing Good' has four checklists organized by the Four Decisions made famous by Verne Harnish. The People decisions examine who is on the board and what is the best turnover rate? Another chapter has insights on fair and generous compensation for leaders. The People section keeps up the momentum to the end with a chapter on how to build a bad board The Strategy decisions look at the 990 for information on whether a nonprofit is driving the car around the block or actually going somewhere meaningful in its mission. Necessary growth and avoid death cycles is reviewed. The dangers of over-reliance on government funding or on charitable funding are illustrated with examples. The final chapter on lazy assets contrasts the usefulness of assets to newer agencies and the lazy accumulation of assets that sometimes afflict older companies. The Execution decisions look at characteristics on nonprofits that rarely have a surplus. A proposal is made that senior leadership of an agency should be responsbile for one dollar of profit for each dollar of their compensation. The 990s of successful nonprofits reveal that they are tireless to create partnerships and wholly owned agencies that extend their mission.The Cash decisions reduce all of the 990 financials to seven easy numbers for a leader to understand and use to direct the agency. Some nonprofits are very good about increasing their working capital without fund-raising. Internal controls are reviewed for fraud prevention. Examples drawn from 60 New York nonprofits bring each decision set to light and there are some wonderful nonprofit models to serve as a template for a nonprofit thats need to change.
Автор: Wiatt Thomas T. Название: Captain Sally: A Biography of Capt. Sally Tompkins, America`s First Female Army Officer ISBN: 1483493598 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781483493596 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 19540.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Sally Tompkins was a very wealthy young woman who was a nurse that owned and ran her own private hospital in Richmond, Virginia during the American Civil War. The hospital had the highest survival rate of any hospital north or south. This statistic was even more remarkable considering that the worst cases were sent to her. She was also commissioned as Captain in the Confederate Cavalry because, by law, all hospitals had to be under military rule to be able to receive medical supplies. She took her rank seriously. She was adored by the Confederate troops and received probably hundreds of marriage proposals, all of which she declined. It was said that "her strength of mind and character took the place of more frivolous charms." Capt. Sally Tompkins demonstrated that women were capable of doing so many things that, in this time period, women were thought incapable of doing. As a hospital administrator, she challenged gender expectations and helped to expand the role of women in all management positions.
Автор: Remy Ambuhl, James Bothwell, Laura Tompkins Название: Ruling Fourteenth-Century England : Essays in Honour of Christopher Given-Wilson ISBN: 1783274352 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783274352 Издательство: Boydell & Brewer Рейтинг: Цена: 100320.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Essays exploring how England was governed during a tumultuous period.
Автор: Johnson Deborah Tompkins Название: How Did They Do That?: A Journal for You ISBN: 1949572609 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781949572605 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 9190.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This journal is an outgrowth of the 2013 publication of How Did They Do That? -- Career Highlights, Triumphs, and Challenges. The original book (still available by the way) includes twelve stories based on interviews with an actor, America's first elected African-American Governor, an entrepreneurial couple, corporate executive, a survivor of the Iran hostage crisis, a centenarian-teacher who lived to be 108 and in the 1930's taught students not only traditional education subjects, but also life skills. Words of wisdom from these interviewees and the others will encourage, motivate and inspire your work, studies or personal thoughts.
Автор: Kyla Wazana Tompkins Название: Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century ISBN: 0814770029 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814770023 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 80080.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Winner of the 2013 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize presented by the American Studies Association Winner of the 2013 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Award Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series
The act of eating is both erotic and violent, as one wholly consumes the object being eaten. At the same time, eating performs a kind of vulnerability to the world, revealing a fundamental interdependence between the eater and that which exists outside her body. Racial Indigestion explores the links between food, visual and literary culture in the nineteenth-century United States to reveal how eating produces political subjects by justifying the social discourses that create bodily meaning.
Combing through a visually stunning and rare archive of children’s literature, architectural history, domestic manuals, dietetic tracts, novels and advertising, Racial Indigestion tells the story of the consolidation of nationalist mythologies of whiteness via the erotic politics of consumption. Less a history of commodities than a history of eating itself, the book seeks to understand how eating became a political act, linked to appetite, vice, virtue, race and class inequality and, finally, the queer pleasures and pitfalls of a burgeoning commodity culture. In so doing, Racial Indigestion sheds light on contemporary “foodie” culture’s vexed relationship to nativism, nationalism and race privilege.
For more, visit the author's tumblr page: http://racialindigestion.tumblr.com
Автор: Tompkins Matt Название: Odsburg ISBN: 194784508X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781947845084 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 14710.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
The world's first and only socio-anthropo-lingui-lore-ologist, Wallace Jenkins-Ross, finds himself drawn to the small town of Odsburg, Washington. Once there, he immerses himself in the community, recording stories and gathering documents, artifacts, and ephemera from town residents. But it doesn't take long for Wallace to realize something isn't quite right. His discoveries range from the semi-supernatural to the outlandishly mundane: a home infestation of mountain lions, a corporate employee whose skin is gradually receding, and a man who hallucinates the world on fire after laser-eye surgery. Despite Wallace's participation in local traditions of flannel and bar food, the residents prove hesitant to speak on record--particularly within earshot of OdsWellMore Pharmaceutical, the unregulated and integral heart of the town's economy. Odsburg's stories, while bizarre and unexpected, reveal that the residents--at their core--are still mostly human.
Автор: Tompkins Matthew Название: Spectacle of Illusion ISBN: 0500022429 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780500022429 Издательство: Thames & Hudson Рейтинг: Цена: 21950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: 'A spectacular treasury of treats. Page after page of utter joy: I can't tear my eyes away' - Derren BrownIn The Spectacle of Illusion, professional magician-turned experimental psychologist Dr. Matthew L.
Tompkins investigates the arts of deception as practised and popularised by mesmerists, magicians and psychics since the early 18th century. Organised thematically within a broadly chronological trajectory, this compelling book explores how illusions perpetuated by magicians and fraudulent mystics can not only deceive our senses but also teach us about the inner workings of our minds. Indeed, modern scientists are increasingly turning to magic tricks to develop new techniques to examine human perception, memory and belief.
Beginning by discussing mesmerism and spiritualism, the book moves on to consider how professional magicians such as John Nevil Maskelyne and Harry Houdini engaged with these movements - particularly how they set out to challenge and debunk paranormal claims. It also relates the interactions between magicians, mystics and scientists over the past 200 years, and reveals how the researchers who attempted to investigate magical and paranormal phenomena were themselves deceived, and what this can teach us about deception. Highly illustrated throughout with entertaining and bizarre drawings, double-exposure spirit photographs and photographs of spoon-bending from hitherto inaccessible and un-mined archives, including the Wellcome Collection, the Harry Price Library, the Society for Physical Research, and last but not least, the Magic Circle's closely guarded collection, the book also features newly commissioned photography of planchettes, rapping boards, tilting tables, ectoplasm, automata and illusion boxes.
Concluding with a modern-day analysis of the science of magic and illusion, analysing surprisingly weird phenomena such as ideomotor action, sleep paralysis, choice blindness and the psychology of misdirection, this unnerving volume highlights how unreliable our minds can be, and how complicit they can be in the perpetuation of illusions.
Автор: Tompkins Rosalind Название: As Long as There Is Breath in Your Body, There Is Still Hope ISBN: 1733651985 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781733651981 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 13750.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Take a good look at your life--right now, right where you are today.
Based on what you see, do you need a little hope? Or do you know someone else who does?
If you answered yes, the solutions you're seeking are between the covers of As Long as There Is Breath in Your Body, There Is Still Hope. Rosalind Tompkins, founder of the National Month of Hope and the nonprofit Mothers In Crisis, takes you on her personal journey of hope--in a riveting story of addiction and recovery that will change the way you look at everything.
You don't have to have been an addict to benefit from the compelling principles she teaches; you will learn that no matter what you face in life, there is always hope. But it doesn't stop there: within these pages you will learn practical ways to develop and apply hope--and to share that hope with others.
Sharing the gritty details of her own journey, as well as the real-life stories of those she has helped, Rosalind shows you how to renew your own journey of hope. She also teaches the theory of "hopeology" used by thousands to transform the way they navigate life. In addition, you will learn eight life-changing "pearls of wisdom" that will revolutionize your reaction to every challenge you face.
As Long as There Is Breath in Your Body, There Is Still Hope will teach you how to adopt a hopeful lifestyle, make a difference in the lives of others through the power of hope, and change the world, one person at a time.
Автор: Tompkins Matthew Название: Spectacle of Illusion ISBN: 1942884370 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781942884378 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 32190.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
The tricks and props of magic and spiritualism: how magicians and psychics fooled the world--and what scientists can learn from them In The Spectacle of Illusion, professional magician-turned experimental psychologist Dr. Matthew L. Tompkins investigates the arts of deception as practised and popularised by mesmerists, magicians and psychics since the early 18th century. Organised thematically within a broadly chronological trajectory, this compelling book explores how illusions perpetuated by magicians and fraudulent mystics can not only deceive our senses but also teach us about the inner workings of our minds. Indeed, modern scientists are increasingly turning to magic tricks to develop new techniques to examine human perception, memory and belief. Beginning by discussing mesmerism and spiritualism, the book moves on to consider how professional magicians such as John Nevil Maskelyne and Harry Houdini engaged with these movements - particularly how they set out to challenge and debunk paranormal claims. It also relates the interactions between magicians, mystics and scientists over the past 200 years, and reveals how the researchers who attempted to investigate magical and paranormal phenomena were themselves deceived, and what this can teach us about deception. Highly illustrated throughout with entertaining and bizarre drawings, double-exposure spirit photographs and photographs of spoon-bending from hitherto inaccessible and un-mined archives, including the Wellcome Collection, the Harry Price Library, the Society for Physical Research, and last but not least, the Magic Circle's closely guarded collection, the book also features newly commissioned photography of planchettes, rapping boards, tilting tables, ectoplasm, automata and illusion boxes. Concluding with a modern-day analysis of the science of magic and illusion, analysing surprisingly weird phenomena such as ideomotor action, sleep paralysis, choice blindness and the psychology of misdirection, this unnerving volume highlights how unreliable our minds can be, and how complicit they can be in the perpetuation of illusions.
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