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Communities around the world are entering a new era of community building. Whether improving economic conditions and reducing poverty, re-energizing citizens and social programs, reducing crime, or revitalizing a troubled neighborhood, they are engaging people from all sectors as never before to work together as equals to improve their quality of life.At the heart of this engagement are community conversations, in which common goals are embraced by a diverse array of people with different backgrounds and needs, and influencers are drawn from multiple sectors, including community organizations, the various levels of government, and businesses big and small. Full of informative and inspiring examples of collaboration, Community Conversations captures the essence of creating such conversations and offers ten practical techniques to host conversations in your community.
How I Succeeded in Retirement and the Biway Story
The story of Mal Coven the family man, the businessman, and the entrepreneur for whom retirement from the Biway has meant pursuing original entrepreneurial ideas – as well as brushing up against and corresponding with celebrities Barbara Walters, Larry King, Nancy Sinatra, Jackie Mason, Bud Selig, Mort Zuckerman, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., and others.<br><br>Coven reveals the secrets behind his and Abe Fish's founding and development of the Biway, a hugely successful discount chain that predated the coming of Wal-Mart to Canada. During their twenty-eight-year tenure, the Biway grew to 249 stores across eight provinces, delivering quality merchandise at low markups and low prices never before seen in a chain store in the country. <br><br>Interwoven throughout are stories of the author's many passions, including breakfasts with «The Knights of the Round Bagel,» following the Toronto Blue Jays, and cultivating his taste for smoked meat, hot dogs, and other fun foods.
The Trouble with Canada ... Still
Two decades ago <i>The Trouble with Canada</i> sparked a conservative renewal and inspired a generation.<br><br>Now, in this completely revised update, William D. Gairdner rejoins the battle, showing that Canada suffered a disturbing regime change in the last quarter of the twentieth century and is now caught between two irreconcilable styles of government: top-down collectivism and bottom-up individualism.<br><br>The result is a regime besotted with high taxation and big government, a welfare culture that rewards laziness, and a hug-a-thug mentality that betrays justice.<br><br>In <i>The Trouble with Canada … Still!</i> Gairdner puts familiar topics under a searing new light, and recent issues, such as immigration, diversity, and corruption of the law, are confronted head on, yielding many startling – and sure to be controversial – conclusions. This book is a clarion call to arms for Canada to examine and renew itself before it is too late.
The Choice
Now available in paperback – Jan Hatanaka's powerful, life-enhancing book on how six people, encountering significant adversity, made a conscious choice to work to build a life of meaning.<br><br>Using six stories from her casebook as a therapist, Hatanaka explores and illustrates the complex relationships that exist between death and grief and the path that can lead to reconciling that grief.<br><br>Included in her stories is her own heart-wrenching and dramatic experience following a major health crisis. Hatanaka draws on her personal, clinical, and academic experience as she takes the reader through the Grief Reconciliation Process, describing the actual steps taken by people who manage to build a life of meaning in the face of significant adversity.<br><br><i>The Choice</i> is brilliant in its simple, gentle, and profound exploration of the reality of suffering as part of the human experience. It exposes the hope that can be hidden in affliction.<br><br><i>The Choice</i> will be of great help to those currently in the grips of personal adversity; the loved ones of those who are suffering; and health-care professionals, including medical practitioners, counsellors, therapists, and spiritual advisors. <br><br><b>Jan Hatanaka</b>, the founder of Grief Reconciliation International Inc., holds positions at York University, Toronto, in the Department of Nursing, the Religious Studies program, and the York Institute for Health Research. She has a B.Sc. in Nursing from the University of Ottawa, a Master's degree in Education and Counselling Psychology from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Wales. Dr. Hatanaka's approach to grief and reconciliation is informed by her personal experience; her extensive academic research on the universality of grief and loss; and her in-depth discussions with hundreds of individuals willing to recount their personal stories.
Speeches That Will Leave Them Speechless
Kathryn MacKenzie's <i>Speeches That Will Leave You Speechless</i> is an informative and inspiring guide to public speaking. It will inspire you to new heights in giving speeches, making presentations, and communicating clearly in your work. MacKenzie, a dynamic award-winning speaker and coach, walks you through a speaker's alphabet of tools, including:<ul><li>Four A's to Anchor Your Points<li>The Keys of a Killer Keynote<li>Nerves Are Natural and Normal<li>From Boring to Brilliant<li>Lessons for Not Losing Your Audience
Organizing Outside the Box
You'd <i>like</i> to get organized. You <i>need</i> to get organized. But every time you try, you feel like a square peg in a round hole. Nothing ever seems to work.<br><br>The secret – as revealed in this clear, concise, and compelling book – is to organize according to your natural, preferred learning style. <i>Organizing Outside the Box</i> will help you to:<ul><li>Determine whether you are a visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learner</li><li>Pick the filing, storage, and organizing systems that fit your learning style</li><li>Overcome feelings of frustration, anxiety, and overload</li><li>Organize your thoughts and unleash your creative potential</li><li>Run a more efficient home and office by understanding the preferred organizing styles of family and co-workers</li></ul>
The Relationship Revolution
Any relationship can work. In The Relationship Revolution , Owen Williams calls on couples to stop working in their relationship and start working on it. When couples work in their relationship, they compete against each other. They justify themselves, play the blame game, and compare each other's level of effort. It's not long before they say, «A relationship that takes this much work isn't worth saving.» When couples work on their relationship, they co-create the relationship they both dream of. Their focus is on the needs of the relationship. Instead of fixating on their individual shortcomings, they concentrate on the potential of what they can build together. Then, as they discover what their relationship needs, each individual is naturally drawn to what keeps them from offering their best to the relationship. Before long the two – individually and together – evaluate their beliefs about themselves and the world. While relatively untroubled relationships can easily fall apart under the first approach, relationships marked by infidelity, loss, betrayal, or long-term disconnection can make the journey back to health under the second. Welcome to the revolution.
The Committed Self
The Committed Self is a clear and compelling introduction to Existentialism, the root of Postmodernism and, according to Victor A. Shepherd, still the most significant philosophy of our times. Focusing on Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Buber, Heidegger, and Sartre and their passionate commitment to the authenticity of the self, Shepherd maintains that Existentialism has much to say to Christians with its understanding of:What it is to be a human beingHow diverse forces operative in the world and in the psyche shape human self-awarenessThe manner in which radical commitment forges and forms that «self,» which is nothing less than a new birthShepherd believes that an acquaintance with Existentialism will aid Christians in negotiating the minefield they think life has become. And he persistently draws attention to the manner in which Existentialism recalls theology to its proper vocation whenever theology appears to be in danger of becoming a species of rationalism that uses religious vocabulary.
Creating Vibrant Communities
Equal parts inspiration, perspiration, and information – a book that is sure to take the Vibrant Communities story to new heights as it begins its next exciting phase.In Canada, «poverty reduction» is no longer a «wouldn't it be nice» dream discussed after yet another failure to make a dent in an age-old problem. It's a living, breathing, exhilarating reality.Why?Because all across the country people are approaching poverty in a positive, creative, and energetic way. They are doing so courtesy of a new social phenomenon called Vibrant Communities: a network of people who are getting people together – citizens (no matter what their income), community developers, business people, and representatives from all levels of government – to determine needs, community assets, and strategies. They're putting plans into action with astonishing results.This book tells their story. And perhaps yours, too.
Oh, Oh, Canada!
For more than two decades, William D. Gairdner has been a major voice from the conservative resistance, primarily through his bestselling books <i>The Trouble with Canada . . . Still</i>, <i>The War Against the Family,</i> and <i>The Trouble with Democracy</i>. <br><br>Now, in this new book, his passionate, probing, and provocative intellect is hard at work, ranging over hot button issues of the day in the spheres of culture, the family, politics, and science. His quick-hit, entertaining, and rousing chapters include «Late Night Thoughts on Equality,» «Baby Seals and Babies,» «Mourning Marriage,» and «Six Types of Freedom.» Here's what the famous conservative thinker William F. Buckley Jr. said about Gairdner's original publication of <i>The Trouble with Canada</i>: «His mobilizing passion wonderfully animates an analytical precision that should be the reason for a national – binational – celebration.»