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  • Charisma and Compassion

    Cheng Yen and the Buddhist Tzu Chi Movement

    by C. Julia Huang ...
    The Venerable Cheng-yen is an unassuming Taiwanese Buddhist nun who leads a worldwide social welfare movement with five million devotees in over thirty countries—with its largest branch in the United States. Tzu-Chi (Compassion Relief) began as a tiny, grassroots women's charitable group; today in Taiwan it runs three state-of-the-art hospitals, a television channel, and a university. Cheng-yen, ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Tribeswomen of Iran

    Weaving Memories among Qashqa’i Nomads

    by Julia Huang ...
    Since the revolution in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted very few Western scholars to conduct research in the country. Foreign travellers and media persons have limited access and much Iranian scholarship tends to focus on the realms of politics and government. Here Julia Huang provides a remarkable account of local tribal Iranian life, offering a rare glimpse into the daily ... Read more

    $199.99 CAD

  • Participatory Grantmaking in Philanthropy

    How Democratizing Decision-Making Shifts Power to Communities

    by Jasmine McGinnis Johnson, David Suárez, Kelly Husted, Emily Finchum-Mason, Mirenda Megheilli, Elizabeth Barajas-Roman, Elizabeth Dale0, Anne Katahira1, Jen Bokoff2, Melanie Kawano-Chiu3, Karla Nicholson4, Julia Dundorf5, Bart Westdijk6, Sarah Huang7, William Schambra8, Michael Hartmann9, Terry Odendahl0, Laura Garcia1, Stephanie Boddie2, Tracy Rone3, Marissa Jackson4, Katie Carter5 ...
    Series series Georgetown Studies in Philanthropy, Nonprofits, and Nongovernmental Organizations
    A new community-based framework assessing the impact of participatory grantmaking on philanthropyInstitutional foundations are influential, yet it can be difficult to understand how they operate. How do their staff members make decisions? What impact do these decisions have on nonprofits, civil society, and democracy more broadly? One practice that holds promise for demystifying this relationship ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • To Be an Entrepreneur

    Social Enterprise and Disruptive Development in Bangladesh

    by Julia Qermezi Huang ...
    In To Be an Entrepreneur**, Julia Qermezi Huang focuses on Bangladesh's iAgent social-enterprise model, the set of economic processes that animate the delivery of this model, and the implications for women's empowerment.** The book offers new ethnographic approaches that reincorporate relational economics into the study of social enterprise. It details the tactics, dilemmas, compromises, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Religion and Charity

    The Social Life of Goodness in Chinese Societies

    by Robert P. Weller, C. Julia Huang, Keping Wu, Lizhu Fan ...
    Free markets alone do not work effectively to solve certain kinds of human problems, such as education, old age care, or disaster relief. Nor have markets ever been the sole solution to the psychological challenges of death, suffering, or injustice. Instead, we find a major role for the non-market institutions of society - the family, the state, and social institutions. The first in-depth ... Read more

    $122.99 CAD

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  • Prioritizing Academic Programs and Services

    Reallocating Resources to Achieve Strategic Balance, Revised and Updated

    by Robert C. Dickeson ...
    Prioritizing Academic Programs and ServicesREVISED AND UPDATEDIncreasing economic concerns make the new edition of this best-selling classic an invaluable resource for those who want and need to implement a proven step-by-step approach to reallocating resources in tough times. Thoroughly revised and updated, Prioritizing Academic Programs and Services includes new recommendations from the field, ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Confucius

    And the World He Created

    by Michael Schuman ...
    Confucius is perhaps the most important philosopher in history. Today, his teachings shape the daily lives of more than 1.6 billion people. Throughout East Asia, Confucius's influence can be seen in everything from business practices and family relationships to educational standards and government policies. Even as western ideas from Christianity to Communism have bombarded the region, Confucius's ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • The Service State: Rhetoric, Reality and Promise

    Rhetoric, Reality and Promise

    by Patrice Dutil, Cosmo Howard, John Langford, Jeffrey Roy ...
    Series series Governance Series
    In the past ten years, Canadians have witnessed a renaissance in the delivery of government services. New service organizations are cropping up across the country and accomplishing extraordinary things. Efforts are being made to consult citizens on how to improve and integrate services. Considerable resources are being invested in measuring and showcasing performance improvement.This book probes ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • China's New Confucianism

    Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society

    by Daniel A. Bell ...
    What is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state? Why do Chinese sex workers sing karaoke with their customers? And why do some Communist Party cadres get promoted if they care for their elderly parents? In this entertaining and illuminating book, one of the few Westerners to teach at a Chinese university draws on his personal experiences to paint an ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Public Policy Primer

    Managing the Policy Process

    by Xun Wu, Michael Howlett, Scott A. Fritzen, M Ramesh ...
    Series series Routledge Textbooks in Policy Studies
    Fully revised for a second edition, this essential guide provides a concise and accessible overview of the public policy process: agenda-setting, policy formulation, decision-making, implementation, and evaluation.The book provides an introduction to the key policy functions, the challenges they entail, and how the challenges may be addressed by policy actors. Written from a comparative ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Wisdom of Sustainability

    Buddhist Economics for the 21st Century

    by Sulak Sivaraksa ...
    The Wisdom of Sustainability continues E. F. Schumacher s groundbreaking work on Buddhist economics in Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. Emphasizing small-scale, indigenous, sustainable alternatives to globalization, Sulak offers hope and alternatives for restructuring our economies based on Buddhist principles and personal development. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Making Public Organizations Work

    by Bert George ...
    Public organizations matter, now more than ever. Be it hospitals providing us healthcare, schools offering us education, police officers keeping our streets safe, museums safeguarding our cultural heritage, one can provide multiple examples of how public organizations impact our daily lives. But running public organizations is complex and expectations towards these organizations have never been ... Read more

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