Hope for Justice and Power

Hope for Justice and Power

Author: Kathleen Staudt

Publisher: University of North Texas Press

Published: 2020-03-15

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 157441805X

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Texas-based affiliates in the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF)—built on ideas, principles, and actions from the late Saul Alinsky—offer a strong, mature organizing model compared with other community organizations in the state and the United States as a whole. IAF affiliates’ members consist of institutions, most of them faith-based congregations and synagogues. Local volunteer leaders in those institutions work together in relationships of trust that draw strength, unity, and purpose from IAF principles and the social-justice precepts of their different faiths. In Hope for Justice and Power, Kathleen Staudt examines the twenty-first-century activities of the Texas IAF in multiple cities and towns around the state, drawing on forty years of academic teaching and on twenty years of active leadership experiences in the IAF. She identifies major contradictions, tensions, and their resolutions in IAF organizing related to centralism versus local control, reformist versus radical goals, stable revenue generation, greater gender balance in leadership, and evolving IAF principles. The political context in modern Texas is a challenging one compared to the Texas IAF founding period in the last quarter of the twentieth century, yet local IAF volunteer leaders achieve their goals with a strong political base in divergent urban regions around the state. With declining religious affiliation in U.S. society, the Texas IAF has begun to recruit members from broad-based institutions, such as schools and health clinics. The hope and winnable goals that sustain IAF organizing show the importance of organized power, trained volunteer leaders, and relationships with public officials in between elections. With cross-class alliances, IAF affiliates work to foster equitable change toward a more just society. To analyze the Texas IAF, Staudt draws on participant observation in El Paso, statewide meetings and training, on interviews, and on archival documents and media coverage. This book will appeal to those interested in community-based organizing and leadership, Mexican American and women’s politics, civic-capacity building in education, political socialization, and both Texas and urban politics.


The Books in My Life

The Books in My Life

Author: Henry Miller

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780811201087

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In this unique work, Henry Miller gives an utterly candid and self-revealing account of the reading he did during his formative years.


Exercise and the Heart in Health and Disease

Exercise and the Heart in Health and Disease

Author: Shepherd

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1998-11-05

Total Pages: 670

ISBN-13: 9781420002867

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This new edition of Exercise and the Heart in Health and Disease greatly advances the details of the first edition, expanding the amount of data on how to maximize cardiovascular health through exercise. A marriage of clinical cardiology and exercise physiology, this unique study improves assessment and prescription options for cardiologists, sports physicians, and other health professionals. Presenting the up-to-date work of 23 world-renowned experts, Exercise and the Heart in Health and Disease, Second Edition now contains new chapters and the latest findings on cardiovascular effects of exercise on women, emphasizing access to treatment the emerging issue of overtraining and the potential danger of hypertrophy of the myocardium in athletes the links between sudden cardiac death and exercise prescribing practices that focus on a more moderate active living approach exercise as a means of ameliorating vascular stress and hypertension tailoring exercise to different age groups and for high-risk patients with cardiovascular disorders the effects of exercise on conditions such as silent ischemia, angina, myocardial infarction, and congestive heart failure the role of exercise in rehabilitation from coronary bypass surgery, angioplasty, and cardiac transplantation and much more! Clarifies the various prescription options, matching type, frequency, duration, and intensity of exercise with the individualized needs of patients! Prodigiously referenced with almost 2000 literature citations-700 more than the previous edition-and featuring over 100 highly instructive tables, graphs, and drawings, Exercise and the Heart in Health and Disease, Second Edition is indispensable for cardiologists and cardiac rehabilitation specialists, nurses, physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, sports medicine physicians, internists, family practitioners, and medical school and graduate students in these disciplines.


Annual Report

Annual Report

Author: National Endowment for the Arts

Publisher:

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13:

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Reports for 1980-19 also include the Annual report of the National Council on the Arts.