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Guru's Heart Practices

Guru’s Heart Practice contains the essential texts for the Guru practices of Padmasambhava, according to the Dispeller of Obtacles’ cycle These unique hidden treasures are a revelation with a rich history. This extensive cycle contains teachings and practices for the preliminaries up to and including Dzogchen. Linking to a fresh treasure has the power to imbue us with hot and juicy blessings that invigorate our being and generate profound devotion and joy. Just as we prefer to have fresh food, the treasure teachings revealed with the short lineage’ are endowed with a very special quality that has not been interpolated by anyone else, but has come directly from Padmasambhava by means of one of his disciples appearing as a present-day incarnation. The teaching is then spread to people for their immediate practice.

CrowdAsset

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Crowdfunding is already transforming the way many entrepreneurs and enterprises around the globe think about community engagement and fundraising for various causes. This book puts forth the belief that policymakers, public servants and various governments, municipalities and regions can significantly benefit from crowdfunding through employing crowd-related mechanisms within their frameworks and using their crowd as an asset — a crowdasset. Using real-world examples, this book explores the opportunities presented by crowdfunding and crowdfunded innovation, and how major policymakers are already using crowdfunding and crowd mechanisms to accelerate innovation, engagement and community transformation. A guide for those involved in crowdfunding, CrowdAsset brings readers through the journey of maximising crowd impact.Contents: <ul><li>The Crowdfunding Opportunity:<ul><li>Introduction to Crowdfunding (Tim Wright, Dan Marom and Oliver Gajda)</li></ul></li><li>Our Framework:<ul><li>The Framework (Tim Wright, Dan Marom and Oliver Gajda)</li></ul></li><li>Crowdfunding in Action:<ul><li>Societal Impact:<ul><li>Civic Crowdfunding, Equity, and the Role of Government (David J Weinberger)</li><li>The Design of Paying Publics (Ann Light and Jo Briggs)</li><li>The Patronicity Crowdgranting Model (Ebrahim Varachia)</li><li>Match-Funding Calls for Open Crowdfunding: The Experience from Goteo.Org in New Policies for Crowdvocacy (Enric Senabre Hidalgo, Mayo Fuster Morell, Cristina Moreno de Alborán and Olivier Schulbaum)</li></ul></li><li>Civic and City Level:<ul><li>Co-Creating Cities — Practical Experiences from Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding Urban Areas in Turin, Brussels, and London (Conny Weber and Reinhard Willfort)</li><li>Crowdfunding Social or Community-Focused Projects (Jonathan Bone)</li><li>Crowdfund London: Civic Crowdfunding as a Tool for Collaborative Urban Regeneration in London (James Parkinson)</li><li>Lessons Learned from Civic Crowdfunding and Match-Funding Schemes in Europe (Francesca Passeri)</li><li>Civic Crowdfunding in Milan: Between Grass-Roots Actors and Policy Opportunities (Carolina Pacchi and Ivana Pais)</li></ul></li><li>State and Government Level:<ul><li>Crowdfund Angus: The Impact of Public-Level Crowdfunding (Shelley Hague)</li><li>Initiative Comes at a Cost: Russian Experience of Crowdfunding for Policymakers (Evgeny P Torkanovskiy)</li><li>From Crowdfunding Initiative to Fintech Hub: Lithuanian Case (Arvydas Paškevičius, Leva Astrauskaitė and Sigitas Mitkus)</li><li>Civic Crowdfunding in Germany — An Overview of the Developing Landscape in Germany (Karsten Wenzlaff)</li><li>Crowdfunding Act: Accelerating the Growth of Crowdfunding Market in Finland (Ilkka Harju and Aki Kallio)</li><li>Crowdsourcing Ideas for Public Investment: The Experience of Youth Participatory Budgeting in Portugal (Susana Jacinta Queirós Bernardino and José de Freitas Santos)</li><li>Crowdfunding — The Indonesian Experience (Anton Root)</li><li>Intrastate Crowdfunding: Achieving Its Full Potential as an Economic Development Tool (Amy Cortese)</li></ul></li><li>Pan National:<ul><li>Will the Proposed European Crowdfunding Regulation Lead to a 'True' European Market for Crowdfunding? (Sebastiaan Niels Hooghiemstra)</li><li>Crowdfunding for Civic and Development Projects (Robert Pasicko and Marina Petrovic)</li></ul></li><li>Blockchain and Cryptocurrency:<ul><li>Relationships among Crowdassets, Crowdfunding, and ICOs for Civic Engagement (Angelo Miglietta and Emanuele Mario Parisi)</li><li>The Berkeley Blockchain Initiative — Crypto Municipal Bonds: Addressing the Challenge of Homelessness and a Whole Lot More (Tim Wright)</li></ul></li></ul></li><li>Conclusion:<ul><li>Making It Happen (Tim Wright, Oliver Gajda and Dan Marom)</li></ul></li></ul> Readership: Policymakers and those involved in crowdfunding activities.Crowdfunding;Crowdsourcing;Crowd;Public;Policymakers;Government;State;Municipalities;Civic Crowdfunding;Civic Society;Citizen Engagement0Key Features:<ul><li>Authors and contributors are well-known experts from around the world providing various synergetic viewpoints</li><li>Hands-on guide with best practices, insights, tools and frameworks</li><li>Timely in addressing budgetary challenges faced by organisations</li></ul>

Tracking Resources for Primary Health Care

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The global health community is broadly in agreement that achievement of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) hinges upon both an escalation of the financial resources dedicated to primary health care (PHC) and a more effective use of those resources: more money, better spent. This book introduces and explicates the end-to-end resource tracking and management (RTM) framework, which includes five components that determine effective and efficient financing for PHC: resource mobilization, allocation, utilization, productivity, and targeting.In addition, this book compiles detailed results from the most recent RTM-based resource tracking efforts for PHC in selected countries. This is to demonstrate how the RTM framework can be used to bring a set of separate resource tracking efforts at different stages of flow of funds into a comprehensive process with an end-to-end 'storyline'. In order to build a functional PHC system that addresses access, quality, and equity issues, this book highlights the key (public) financing issues that researchers, technical advisors, and policy makers would need to address in addition to more resources.Contents: <ul><li>Introduction:<ul><li>From Resources to Beneficiaries: Introducing an End-to-End Resource Tracking and Management Framework and its Application for Primary Health Care Development in LMICs (Hong Wang, Daniel H Kress and Peter Berman)</li><li>Five Decades of Health Resource Tracking and Beyond (Nirmala Ravishankar, Ravi Rannan-Eliya, Hong Wang and Peter Berman)</li></ul></li><li>Resource Mobilization:<ul><li>Estimating Financing Needs Using Examples from LMICs (David Collins and Jean Kagubare)</li><li>Resource Mobilization for Health in Devolved Context: The Ethiopian Experience (Abebe Alebachew, Carlyn Mann, Workie Mitiku and Peter Berman)</li><li>How Much Do Countries Spend on Primary Care in the Americas? (Camilo Cid Pedraza, Claudia Pescetto, James Fitzgerald and Amalia del Riego)</li></ul></li><li>Resource Allocation:<ul><li>Resource Allocation in Ethiopia, Nigeria and India (David Collins, Peter Berman, Karima Saleh and Hong Wang)</li></ul></li><li>Resource Utilization:<ul><li> Resource Tracking for Primary Health Care in Selected States in Nigeria: Findings from a Prospective Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (Karima Saleh, Bernard Gauthier and Obert Pimhidzai)</li><li>Underutilization in the National Health Mission: A Story of Misaligned Public Financing and Health Financing Objectives in India (Rajesh Jha and Manjiri Bhawalkar)</li></ul></li><li>Resource Productivity:<ul><li>Measuring Technical Efficiency of Primary Health Care Providers: An Analysis from Ethiopia (Carlyn Mann and Peter Berman)</li><li>Productivity of Health Workers in Primary Healthcare Facilities in Nigeria: Why is the Average Caseload Estimated to be Low? (Yanfang Su, Daniel H Kress and Hong Wang)</li><li>Linkage Between Human and Financial Resources for Primary Health Care and the Activity Levels of Health Services: An Exploratory Study from Uttar Pradesh, India (Manjiri Bhawalkar, Rajesh Jha and Diana Bowser)</li><li>Productivity Analysis Using Actual and Normative Cost Data (David Collins and Jean Kagubare)</li></ul></li><li>Resource Targeting:<ul><li>Are Health Resources Targeting the Poor Effectively in a Low-Income Context? Evidence from Ethiopia (Girmaye D Dinsa, Peter Berman and Carlyn Mann)</li></ul></li><li>Conclusion:<ul><li>An Application of the RTM Framework to Understand Primary Health Care in Nigeria (Daniel H Kress, Hong Wang and Yanfang Su)</li><li>Using Resource Tracking and Management Framework for Health to Strengthen Health Financing Capacity: Experience from India (Rajesh Jha and Manjiri Bhawalkar)</li><li>Applying the Resource Tracking and Management Framework to Improve Ethiopia's Primary Health Care System (Carlyn Mann, Peter Berman, Abebe Alebachew and Girmaye Dinsa)</li></ul></li></ul> Readership: Health economists as well as students and researchers who want to work in this area for their career development and to improve the performance of primary health care worldwide.Health Financing;Public Financial Management;Resource Tracking;Health Economics;Health Policy0Key Features:<ul><li>Introduce a comprehensive end-to-end resource tracking and management (RTM) framework</li><li>Bring both quantitative and qualitative RTM information to guide evidence-based policy development and implementation</li><li>Focus on primary health care, the cornerstone of health care system and pathways to universal health coverage (UHC)</li></ul>

Rally

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“This is a prayer book for revolution–a revolution of love and compassion and justice,” Shane Claiborne writes in the foreword. The prayers in this collection are meant to be prayed in community.
Rally is a prayer book for faith communities searching for words to respond to the injustices around them. It’s a prayer book for Christian activists who believe in putting feet to their prayers. The book supplies words for concerned Christians who yearn to lift their voices to God about such issues as racism; the abuse of power and privilege; mistreatment of migrants and refugees; lives tragically lost; our violent society; white supremacy; and people being marginalized because of their gender, ethnic identity, sexual orientation, or economic status. Rally contains prayers for perpetrators, for loving our bodies, for listening to one another, for those who have been wounded by the church. In this resource, readers will find prayers that evoke hope and connection, guidance for sifting through the news and social media headlines, laments about destruction of the earth, and pleas for loving alike though we don’t think alike.
The beauty of this book lies in the rich variety of voices and experiences of its writers—leaders who work at the intersection of Christianity and social justice and who want to resource those who gather to lament the needs and celebrate the possibilities of a better world. “Lord, stir us up to holy action,” cries this powerful book. Rally spurs people to compassionately continue the important work of loving God and neighbor until all of God’s people feel safe and seen.

Arts of Healing

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This book occurs at the intersection of philosophy, critical theory, psychoanalysis and the visual arts. Each chapter looks at art produced in various traumatogenic cultures: detention centres, post-Holocaust film, autobiography and many more.Other chapters look at the Juarez femicides, the production of collective memory, of makeshift memorials, acts of forgiveness and contemporary forms of trauma. The book proposes new ways of 'thinking trauma', foregrounding the possibility of healing and the task that the critical humanities has to play in this healing. Where is its place in an increasingly terror-haunted world, where personal and collective trauma is as much of an everyday occurrence as it is incomprehensible?What has become known as the 'classical model of trauma' has foregrounded the unrepresentability of the traumatic event. New, revisionist approaches seek to move beyond an aporetic understanding of trauma, investigating both intersubjective and intrasubjective psychic processes of healing. Traumatic memory is not always verbal and 'iconic' forms of communication are part of the arts of healing .

Data Rights Law 2.0

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Human rights, real rights, and data rights will be the three categories of fundamental rights of mankind in the future. Data rights, in essence, are the rights to share and the ultimate manifestation of data ownership. They aim at the effective use of data and holds special significance for our future life. – People.cn The digital civilization is the value justification and driving force of the creation of the data rights law, while the data rights law offers basis for the existence of the digital civilization, helping maintain its systems and improving its order. – Democracy and Law Times The research of the data rights law is a grand groundbreaking project and a major social and academic issue that future generations will have to continue to work on. – China and Africa Daily In this sense, the data rights law is the product of a leap of our civilization and its order, and it pushes for the leap of the human world from the industrial civilization to the digital civilization. – eztv.vip The proposal of the data rights law has laid a legal foundation for us to safeguard national data sovereignty, take form hold on our right to formulate data rights rules, have our voice heard in the international community in the field of data rights, and promote the rule of law in global cyberspace governance. It is of special importance to the building of a community with a shared future in cyberspace. – World Chinese Weekly

The Life of Prayer on Mount Athos

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Failure Pedagogies

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Can we all learn from failure equally? Failure Pedagogies examines the ways failure is often appropriated to advantage those most likely to be insulated from the risks associated with pursuing it as a creative strategy._Contributors ask questions that examine what happens when failures do not necessarily lead to progress or innovation: How is risk distributed? For whom is failure «safe» and why? For whom is failure a real end rather than an opening to generative possibilities? To address these questions, we focus largely on pedagogical settings—classrooms, universities, and the conventions that reign there—but also confi gure pedagogy as a broad cultural practice that teaches acceptable and unacceptable forms of resistance, subversion, and risk. Contributors focus on a range of topics, including teaching and failure, language failures, fake news, disaster response failures, academic racism, sexual harassment and gender bias, queer failure, intersectionality and infertility activism, and institutional failures to imagine disabled bodies. Failure Pedagogies will be of interest to scholars, students, and teachers of writing, rhetoric, and popular culture.

The Faces of Depression in Literature

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The Faces of Depression in Literature brings together some of the best-known specialists and scholars on the topic of depression in literature worldwide to offer a multidisciplinary approach concerning the philosophical, theological, and literary narratives of depression over time and their approximations to the current, clinical understanding of Major Depressive Disorder. The authors clarify the background of depression by paying attention to its representation through these narratives and revalue them as a means of acquiring knowledge in an interdisciplinary way. This pioneering initiative fills the knowledge gap that still exists concerning the nature of depression from a multidisciplinary perspective that takes into account some cross-cutting narratives. The authors give voice to the forgotten manifestations of depression found in literature, philosophy, theology, and even early medical works. The Faces of Depression in Literature is for graduates and researchers on depression from a cultural and social point of view, including philosophers, historians, cultural theorists, literature and art experts and enthusiasts, as well as artists and writers themselves, specialists in mental health and cognitive psychology, and anyone interested in a better understanding of the human condition.

Living the Story

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Poetry and story can tell the deepest truths about who we are as human beings. In Living the Story, Joe Cassidy explores how Ignatian spirituality can help us discover the power of story in the scriptures.