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"Working in Community Health: Foundations for a Successful Career prepares community health workers for employment with the potential of a career ladder. This book provides knowledge required for effective employment skills, understanding basic anatomy and physiology of common chronic diseases, teaching how to access and understand health knowledge, resume development, and interview proficiency"--

Program Planning -- Evaluation and Research -- Budgets and Cost Analyses -- Ethics -- Determinants of Health -- Theories and Models -- Reliability and Validity -- Elements of Design -- Populations and Samples -- Qualitative Methods -- Surveys -- Data Tools -- Inferential Statistics -- Reports and Presentations of Results.

""New York Newsboys: Charles Loring Brace and the Founding of the Children's Aid Society (CAS) investigates Brace's visionary anti-poverty work among New York's vagrant children in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Taking as its central focus the CAS's flagship program-the Newsboys' Lodging House, which opened in 1854-this book examines its experiment in incentive-based youth engagement, its connection with other CAS branches, and its overall place in a continuum of child care. Brace forged new methods based on voluntary participation, a alternative to child asylums which policed the poor. Straddling periods dubbed antebellum, Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Gilded Age, CAS took root amid racial, ethnic, religious, nativist, and class-based tensions in a city absorbing a flood of poor immigrants and housing them in squalid conditions. Youth homelessness emerged as a new social problem. Brace's plan included a central office for intra- and extra-agency referrals; outreach; schools, reading rooms, evening entertainment, Sunday meetings, lodging houses, and emigration options for fostering or employing children in the West. The plan was stunning in its size, scope, and vision. It provided for children's basic needs while offering pathways out of poverty. Brace's goals were nothing short of eradicating child poverty, reducing homelessness, reducing illiteracy, preventing juvenile delinquency, improving child and maternal health, providing employment and job training, and promoting sympathy for poor children among the wealthy. Brace's internationally recognized work had a profound impact on child well-being and offered a radical alternative to the jural, carceral, and policing tactics common in the day ""--

Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Overview of the governments in the United States -- The three levels of governments -- The founding documents: federal constitution, state constitution -- And local charters -- The three branches of federal, state and local governments -- The federal Constitution -- Historical background -- Overview of the federal Constitution and federal constitutional -- Excerpts -- The preamble to the federal Constitution -- The three branches of the federal government -- The federal legislature -- The federal executive -- The federal judiciary -- Cases in context: separation of powers and checks and balances -- Federal courtroom set up -- Selected provisions of the U.S. Bill of Rights -- Idioms, phrasal verbs and other terms -- Notes -- Answers -- Index -- About the author

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Prologue -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Rituals Related to the Household and Childbirth -- Women and "Moving House" Rituals in Mid-Heian Japan -- Devising the Esoteric Rituals for Women: Fertility and the Demon Mother in the Gushi nintai sanshō himitsu hōshū by Anna Andreeva -- Taira no Tokushi's Birth of Emperor Antoku by Naoko Gunji -- Women and Buddhist Rituals and Icons -- A Female Deity as the Focus of a Buddhist Ritual: Kichijō Keka at Hōryūji by Chari Pradel -- The Relic and the Jewel: An Eleventh-Century Miniature Bronze Pagoda to Hold the Bones of a Young Queen by Hank Glassman -- Connecting Kannon to Women Through Print by Sherry Fowler -- Buddhist Women and Death Memorials -- Commemorating Life and Death: The Memorial Culture Surrounding the Rinzai Zen Nun Mugai Nyodai by Patricia Fister -- Of Surplices and Certificates: Tracing Mugai Nyodai's Kesa by Monica Bethe -- Female Patronage, Portraits, and Rituals -- Retired Empress and Buddhist Patron: Higashisanjō-in Donates a Set of Icon Curtains in the Illustrated Legends of Ishiyamadera Handscroll by Elizabeth Morrissey -- Life After Death: The Intersection of Patron and Subject in the Portrait of Jōkō-in by Elizabeth Self -- Back Matter -- Index.

"Carceral Spaces and Animals develops a framework for exploring embodied, geographical, legal, and ethical resonances across human and nonhuman carceral spaces. This book examines the close linkages that can be found across prisoner and animal carcerality and captivity, focusing on their corresponding and parallel disciplinary regimes and structures of violence. Case studies juxtapose four main types of institutions: death row and slaughterhouse; laboratory testing on incarcerated humans and animals, solitary confinement, and sites of exploited labor. The shared structural conditions and inequalities that span species boundaries at these sites are explored theoretically and conceptually, looking at emotional and psychological strain, the geographies of these carceral spaces, legal mechanisms (or the lack of) and the ethical questions that arise when we consider the potential for these sites to become locations of genocide and/or extinction of particular populations"--

"As President John F. Kennedy declared the nation at a promising and perilous "New Frontier"-"a turning-point in history" -Newburgh, New York, seemed to belong in the proverbial dust heap with the rest of the detritus of the past. Once the headquarters for George Washington and the Continental Army, and later a hub for industry and transportation, Newburgh was falling into ruin. Its population was declining, its housing stock decaying, and its economy failing. City Manager Joseph McDowell Mitchell claimed to know exactly whom to blame: the city's hundreds of "chiselers and loafers," "freeload[ing]" migrants, "social parasites," and "illegitimate children." They burned through "taxpayer" dollars, he alleged, bringing in return only crime, blight, and immoral behavior. If Newburgh could simply reassert traditional, local controls over the poor, he insisted, the city would recover its former glory"--

Social policy has become an increasingly prominent component of the European Union's policy-making responsibilities. Today, for example, a highly developed body of law regulates equal treatment in social security and co-ordinates national security schemes; national health services have opened up to patients and service providers from other states; and rules govern the translation of educational and vocational certificates across member states. This state of affairs is all the more remarkable given the relatively limited resources at the EU's disposal and the initial intentions of its founders. During negotiations for the Treaty of Rome in the 1950s, social policy was viewed as the exclusive provenance of the member states. There were to be provisions to facilitate labour mobility within the common market, but until the 1970s social policy making at the EU-level was modest. However, plans for the internal market moved social policy on the EU's decision-making agenda. The Social Chapter was adopted in 1989, and the Single European Act expanded EU competencies in social policy. The Treaties of Maastricht, Amsterdam and Nice all expanded competencies further, so that by the time the heads of government met in Lisbon in 2007 to sign the EU's latest treaty, the extent of supranational control over important aspects of social policy making was quite impressive. This important book provides a full account of the evolution of social policy in the EU and of its current reach. It examines the reasons for the increased role of the EU in the area, in spite of formidable obstacles, and details its effects in member states, where social provision is often the biggest item in government budgets and a crucial issue in national elections. Drawing on research done on welfare states around the world and on European integration, this book provides a distinctive and sophisticated account of social policy in Europe, showing how it must now be understood in the context of multi-level governance in which EU institutions play a pivotal role.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue -- PART ONE: COOPERATION OR COMBAT -- 1 A Fighting Faith -- 2 Apostolic Catholics -- 3 Behind the Scenes -- 4 Enter the CIA -- 5 Allard Lowenstein and the International Student Conference -- PART TWO: DENIAL OPERATIONS -- 6 The Counteroffensive -- 7 The Battle for Members -- 8 Opening the Spigot -- 9 The Spirit of Bandung -- 10 Shifting Battlefields -- PART THREE: COMPETITIVE COEXISTENCE -- 11 Hungary and the Struggle Against Nonalignment -- 12 Debating Democracy in Red Square -- 13 Courting Revolutionaries -- 14 Gloria Steinem and the Vienna Operation -- 15 Social Upheavals -- PART FOUR: LOSING CONTROL -- 16 Showdown in Madison -- 17 Pro-West Moderate Militants -- 18 A Pyrrhic Victory -- 19 The Persistent Questioner -- 20 Lifting the Veil -- PART FIVE: THE FLAP -- 21 Philip Sherburne Takes on the CIA -- 22 The Game Within the Game -- 23 Hide-and-Seek -- 24 Do You Want Blood on Your Hands? -- 25 The Firestorm -- 26 The Enemy at Home -- Cast of Characters -- Chronology -- Notes -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.