The Moment of Lift
1,779円 'We need this message more than ever' – Malala Yousafzai The Sunday Times bestseller. Hard-hitting and uplifting true stories of the women around the world facing extreme gender inequality who, when the wider community supports them to challenge the status quo, improve life for the whole of socie...
Dare to Matter
1,658円 Foreword by Neil Blumenthal, co-founder of Warby Parker “A beautiful, timely book that will guide you as you find your way to make a difference in the world.” ーWalter Isaacson You don’t have to be a billionaire philanthropist, give up your day job, or wait for retirement to make a difference in ...
Who Killed Civil Society?
3,183円 Billions of American tax dollars go into a vast array of programs targeting various social issues: the opioid epidemic, criminal violence, chronic unemployment, and so on. Yet the problems persist and even grow. Howard Husock argues that we have lost sight of a more powerful strategyーa preventiv...
The Precipice
1,990円 In this urgent and “thrillingly written” book, there is a case and solution for humanity’s last shot at survival (Sunday Times).** Humanity’s future is at risk. We face existential catastrophes, climate change, nuclear war, and more. If we do not act fast to reach a place of safety, it will soon ...
Museums and Source Communities
9,616円 This volume combines some of the most influential published research in this emerging field with newly commissioned essays on the issues, problems and lessons involved in collaborating museums and source communities. Focusing on museums in the UK, North America and the Pacific, the book highlight...
Sweet Charity?
777円 In this era of eroding commitment to government sponsored welfare programs, voluntarism and private charity have become the popular, optimistic solutions to poverty and hunger. The resurgence of charity has to be a good thing, doesn't it? No, says sociologist Janet Poppendieck, not when stopgap c...
The Arrival of the Promise Land
1,856円 A fully complete Promise Land Community is similar in nature to a highly advanced Garden of Eden > meets
As We Are and As We May Be
76円 "..."As We Are and As We May Be" (by Sir Walter Besant) is the exposition of a practical philanthropist's creed, and of his hopes for the progress of his fellow-countrymen. Some of these hopes may never be realised; some he had the great happiness to see bear fruit. And for the realisation of all...
The First 30 Years of Making It Possible
1,326円 The history of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation is a tale similar to many you have heard before: a young man born to modest, immigrant Jewish parents achieves great success in business and decides to devote substantial time and resources to philanthropy. He joins with his wife t...
Calculating compassion
15,919円 Calculating compassion examines the origins of British relief work in late-nineteenth-century wars on the continent and the fringes of Empire. Commencing with the Franco-Prussian war of 1870–71, it follows distinguished surgeons and ‘lady amateurs’ as they distributed aid to wounded soldiers and ...
The cruelty man
5,963円 Recent debates surrounding children in State care, parental rights, and abuse in Ireland's industrial schools, concern issues that are rooted in the historical record. By examining the social problems addressed by philanthropists and child protection workers from the nineteenth century, we can be...
Aventures et mésaventures d'un pompier vo...
1,500円 Accompagnez un pompier volontaire dans ses interventions les plus palpitantes ! Si vous pensez qu’être pompier volontaire se résume à balayer une chaussée après un accident ou à rouler les tuyaux après un incendie, vous serez bien étonné de la réalité. Au travers du récit de ses nombreuses interv...
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