Beyond Homelessness

Beyond Homelessness

Author: Steven Bouma-Prediger

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2008-06-03

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 0802846920

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This book is a brilliant use of metaphor that makes clear why the world leaves us feeling so uneasy!


Beyond Homelessness

Beyond Homelessness

Author: Benedict Giamo

Publisher: University of Iowa Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9781587290817

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Interviews with nine observers from the humanities, social and medical sciences, and human services examine the nature and conditions of this ongoing crisis.


Beyond Homelessness, 15th Anniversary Edition

Beyond Homelessness, 15th Anniversary Edition

Author: Steven Bouma-Prediger

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2023-09-12

Total Pages: 539

ISBN-13: 1467466905

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What would the world look like if everyone had a home? The rise in homeless encampments. The destruction of our planet. The disconnection from place caused by capitalism and technology. Beyond the unavailability of housing, our culture is experiencing a devastating loss of home. In Beyond Homelessness, Steven Bouma-Prediger and Brian Walsh explore the relationship between socioeconomic, ecological, and cultural homelessness. Bouma-Prediger and Walsh blend groundbreaking scholarship with stirring biblical meditations, while enriching their discussion with literature, music, and art. Offering practical solutions and a hope-filled vision of home, they show how to heal the deep dislocations in our society. In this fifteenth-anniversary edition, the authors return to their work with a new postscript, in which they discuss the evolution of their ideas and share true stories of home and community built anew. This revitalized classic is a must-read for any Christian committed to social justice—and anyone longing for home.


I Beat The Odds

I Beat The Odds

Author: Michael Oher

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-02-07

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1101560037

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The football star made famous in the hit film (and book) The Blind Side reflects on how far he has come from the circumstances of his youth. Michael Oher shares his personal account of his story, in this inspirational New York Times bestseller. Looking back on how he went from being a homeless child in Memphis to playing in the NFL, Michael talks about the goals he had to break out of the cycle of poverty, addiction, and hopelessness that trapped his family. Eventually he grasped onto football as his ticket out and worked hard to make his dream into a reality. With his adoptive family, the Touhys, and other influential people in mind, he describes the absolute necessity of seeking out positive role models and good friends who share the same values to achieve one's dreams. Sharing untold stories of heartache, determination, courage, and love, I Beat the Odds is an incredibly rousing tale of one young man's quest to achieve the American dream.


The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

Author: Michael Lewis

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2007-08-28

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 0393330478

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Story of Michael Oher, a rising gridiron star, who was rescued from the ghettos of Memphis and placed with a wealthy family to help develop his football skills.


Beyond Charity

Beyond Charity

Author: DeBorah Gilbert White

Publisher: Kharis Publishing

Published: 2021-09-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781637460993

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A few days shy of her 55th birthday, DeBorah finds herself living in a homeless women's shelter. Her education and accomplishments to this point say that she should not be there, however, the reality of her lack of income and inability to maintain housing insists otherwise. Attitudes, myths, and perceptions about poverty provide the backdrop for advocacy towards a bill of rights for people experiencing homelessness and call for the right to counsel for people facing eviction. Justice and equity considerations, systematic and institutional dynamics, and the trauma of homelessness frame this personal journey of loss, enlightenment, and empowerment.


Beyond Shelters

Beyond Shelters

Author: James Hughes

Publisher: James Lorimer & Company

Published: 2018-10-02

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1459413563

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Newspapers, television and films cast homeless shelters as places of desperation, sadness and sickness. However, over the last 25 years, homeless shelters have changed dramatically. Shelters have become more professional and sophisticated in addressing homelessness in their communities. They now do much more than provide a bed and a meal for the night — they offer different methods of intervention, different types of services and different forms of connection to the communities they serve. This book offers essays by experienced shelter managers who address the future of the homeless shelter in Canada. This diverse collection also includes a chapter by Dr. Sam Tsemberis, the father of the successful Housing First Model. There are contributions by leaders in the homelessness field from across Canada, who have been at the forefront of developing unique services for women, youth, Indigenous people, and families. The days of shelters serving to merely warehouse homeless people out of sight and mind are being replaced by specialized approaches that are reducing homelessness in Canada. The contributors have years of experience understanding the causes of and solutions to homelessness and the role that shelters can play in achieving their ultimate goal — the elimination of all forms of homelessness in Canada.


Beyond Civilization

Beyond Civilization

Author: Daniel Quinn

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2009-02-04

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0307554643

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In Beyond Civilization, Daniel Quinn thinks the unthinkable. We all know there's no one right way to build a bicycle, no one right way to design an automobile, no one right way to make a pair of shoes, but we're convinced that there must be only one right way to live -- and the one we have is it, no matter what. Beyond Civilization makes practical sense of the vision of Daniel Quinn's best-selling novel Ishmael. Examining ancient civilizations such as the Maya and the Olmec, as well as modern-day microcosms of alternative living like circus societies, Quinn guides us on a quest for a new model for society, one that is forward-thinking and encourages diversity instead of suppressing it. Beyond Civilization is not about a "New World Order" but a "New Personal World Order" that would allow people to assert control over their own destiny and grant them the freedom to create their own way of life right now -- not in some distant utopian future.


Beyond Benevolence

Beyond Benevolence

Author: Dawn M. Greeley

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2022-01-04

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0253059119

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A comprehensive history of one of the largest charitable organizations in early modern America. Drawing on extensive archival records, Beyond Benevolence tells the fascinating story of the New York Charity Organization Society. The period between 1880 and 1935 marked a seminal, heavily debated change in American social welfare and philanthropy. The New York Charity Organization Society was at the center of these changes and played a key role in helping to reshape the philanthropic landscape. Greeley uncovers rarely seen letters written to wealthy donors by working-class people, along with letters from donors and case entries. These letters reveal the myriad complex relationships, power struggles, and shifting alliances that developed among donors, clients, and charity workers over decades as they negotiated the meaning of charity, the basis of entitlement, and the extent of the obligation between classes in New York. Meticulously researched and uniquely focused on the day-to-day practice of scientific charity as much as its theory, Beyond Benevolence offers a powerful glimpse into how the trajectory of one charitable organization reflected a nation's momentous social, economic, and political upheavals as it moved into the 20th century.


Beneath the Neon

Beneath the Neon

Author: Matthew O'Brien

Publisher: Huntington Press Inc

Published: 2007-03-07

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0929712390

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Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas chronicles O’Brien’s adventures in subterranean Las Vegas. He follows the footsteps of a psycho killer. He braces against a raging flood. He parties with naked crackheads. He learns how to make meth, that art is most beautiful where it’s least expected, that in many ways, he prefers underground Las Vegas to aboveground Las Vegas, and that there are no pots of gold under the neon rainbow.