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Free step by step guide to plan, fund and implement youth projects involving migrant and multicultural youth groups, created using participative methods.
An extraordinary ethnographic study about an Italian woman who after living for years in New York City, and teaching at a University in Milan, decides to explore the South Bronx.
This book has just come out. It is by the eminent neurosurgeon, Henry Marsh. If you have wondered what it feels like to have responsibility for life and death in your hands, this is a brilliant testament. Wonderfully honest and intensely readable, it is also very moving.
Essential. The group of scientists involved with the creation of this book: Paul Ekman, Daniel Goleman, and Richard Davidson are at the forefront of affective neuroscience (the study of the neural mechanisms of emotion) and its attendant social sciences.
The life of Solomon Northup. This book gives you an insight as to what life is like when living under a great injustice. Forgot the film, this book is hard hitting.
I met Shannon Moroney at a restorative justice conference in November of 2011.
Written by the editor of Elle magazine following a severe, incapacitating stroke who wrote this book letter by letter with his speech therapist. It describes his experience of being in hospital, poor communication of healthcare staff & being objectified.
I highly recommend this book for anyone who questions life and wonders if it has any meaning or value. Frankl's reason for writing his life affirming book:
This is a true story of a young teen named Maddie, who while undergoing chemotheraphy saw something on TV that changed the way she saw the world, and her role in it. Touched by vision of an orphaned boy in Africa, Maddie was moved to help.