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Language Revitalization Processes and Prospects: Quichua in the Ecuadorian Andes
Kendall A. King

Multilingual Matters Limited, 2000

Revitalizations and Mazeways: Essays on Culture Change, Volume 1
Anthony F. C. Wallace

University of Nebraska Press, 2003

Anthony F. C. Wallace, one of the most influential American anthropologists of the modern era, brings together some of his most stimulating and celebrated writings. These essays feature his seminal work on revitalization movements, which has profoundly shaped our understanding of the processes of change in religious and political organizations?from the nineteenth-century code of the Seneca prophet known as Handsome Lake to the origins of world ...

Urban Revitalization (Urban Affairs Annual Reviews)

Sage Publications, Inc, 1980

Volume 18 of the Urban Affairs Annual Reviews examines the process of urban revitalization from a variety of perspectives. The papers point, guardedly, to a measure of rebirth for the inner city through gentrification and redevelopment schemes. The contributors of the twelve articles examine both the current state of the American city and strategies for change, as well as providing comparative data from Britain and Latin America. They sum up our ...

Make or Break: How Manufacturers Can Leap from Decline to Revitalization (Future of Business Series)

2 reviews
Kaj Grichnik, Conrad Winkler

McGraw-Hill, 2008

The future of manufacturing? There's "bad news" but also "good news"
This is one of the volumes in "The Future of Business from Booz & Company" series in which the firm's senior-level executives explain especially significant developments and emerging trends within major sectors of the global marketplace. (Booz & Company is the new name for the commercial side of Booz Allen Hamilton.) In this instance, Kaj Grichnik and Conrad Winkler with Jeffrey Rothfeder focus ...

30-Day Revitalization Plan: Total Rejuvenation for Body and Mind

Sterling, 2005

A beautiful, illustrated short-cut guide to good health that is like having a personal trainer in your own home, every day. Written for those who never seem to find the time to take control of their mental, physical, and spiritual lives, this 30-day plan addresses the total person and covers emotional as well as physical health. The rejuvenation starts with a 7-day plan to purify and detoxify the system, accompanied by detailed advice on ...

Urban Renewal, Municipal Revitalization: The Case of Curitiba, Brazil
Hugh Schwartz

Higher Education Publications, 2004

The first major account in English of perhaps the most successful urban renewal of the 20th Century, highlighting the implementation of development visions. Innovations in public transit (being considered in many other cities, 18 in U.S.), downtown rejuvenation, recreational and flood control facilities, ecological endeavors, industrial infrastructure, and the socioeconomic safety net. Cover and 12 pages of glossy color photographs. ...

Prophets of the Great Spirit: Native American Revitalization Movements in Eastern North America
Alfred Cave

University of Nebraska Press, 2006

Prophets of the Great Spirit offers an in-depth look at the work of a diverse group of Native American visionaries who forged new, syncretic religious movements that provided their peoples with the ideological means to resist white domination. By blending ideas borrowed from Christianity with traditional beliefs, they transformed ?high? gods or a distant and aloof creator into a powerful, activist deity that came to be called the Great Spirit. ...

The Green Book of Language Revitalization in Practice

1 review

Academic Press, 2001

See also
Another useful reference for revitalization is: Paper And Talk: A Manual for Reconstituting Materials in Australian Indigenous Languages from Historical Sources

Their Town Paradise Lost (Why Urban Revitalization Eforts Fail, Phoney leadership that cares more about there ...
Charles Adrian

Mainland Corporation (Publisher), 2007

The notion that race should not be an advantage or disadvantage for anyone in America is a reality that is lost to a large segment of African Americans who more often than not are the most aggressive in demanding justice both in word and in deed. Specifically, many of AMERICA'S BLACK POLITICOS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS see race as a trump card often played to maintain the status quo. When whites do this it is wrong. When blacks do this, it is in ...

The Healing Journey Through Job Loss: Your Journal for Reflection and Revitalization (The Healing Journey ...
Phil Rich, Stuart Copans, ...

Wiley, 1999

A powerful source of professional renewal Written by professional counselors and a financial planner, this unique journal is designed to help you deal with the difficult emotions that surface when your life has been turned upside down by job loss. Whether you have been recently let go or are long out of work, this workbook helps you understand and work through the effects that job loss can have on your life and your sense of identity, ...

The Rough Road to Renaissance: Urban Revitalization in America, 1940-1985 (Creating the North American ...

1 review
Jon C. Teaford

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990

The only thing missing is the ?why.
Analysis of Jon C. Teaford's The Rough Road to Renaissance: Urban Revitalization in America, 1940-1985 The Rough Road to Renaissance is a chronicle of the urban revitalization efforts of several older central cities in the Northeastern United States from World War II to the mid 1980s. As the author reveals, these efforts were fraught with difficulties from the very beginning, but ...

Varieties of Unionism: Strategies for Union Revitalization in a Globalizing Economy

Oxford University Press, USA, 2004

As unions face an ongoing crisis all over the industrialized world, they have often been portrayed as outmoded remnants of an old economic structure. This book argues that despite structural shifts in the economy and in politics, unions retain important functions for capitalist economies as well as for political democracy. Union revitalization in the face of their current difficulties is therefore of fundamental importance. ...

Creating Shared Vision: The Story of a Pioneering Approach to Organizational Revitalization

1 review
Marjorie Parker

Dialog Intl, 1991

A book to bolster the concept of "shared vision"
I read this book a couple of years ago and it still stands out in my mind as one of the best testimonials for energizing organizations through developing shared vision. Through the telling of a powerful story the book relates in luscious detail how one organization made it work. I still recommend it to clients.

Economic Revitalization: Cases and Strategies for City and Suburb
Joan Fitzgerald, Nancey Green Leigh

Sage Publications, Inc, 2002

Economic Revitalization is unique in that it discusses leading revitalization strategies in the context of both city and suburban settings, offering case studies of program development and implementation. In Economic Revitalization: Cases and Strategies for City and Suburb Fitzgerald and Leigh answer the need for a text that incorporates social justice and sustainability into how we think about and practice economic development. It is one ...

America's New Downtowns: Revitalization or Reinvention? (Creating the North American Landscape)
Larry R. Ford

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003

What makes a good downtown, and why? Are today's downtowns, with their waterfront parks, festival markets, sports arenas, and cultural centers, more vibrant and lively than the "central business districts" of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Was there ever a "golden age" of downtowns? In this book, noted urban scholar Larry Ford casts a critical and practiced eye on sixteen contemporary urban centers to offer an expert's view of the ...

The Art of Revitalization: Improving Conditions in Distressed Inner-City Neighborhoods (Garland Reference ...

2 reviews
Sean Zielenbach

Routledge, 2000

Change Lives By Changing Neighborhoods
This book offers a detailed look at the agents of change in two Chicago neighborhoods. By rigorously analyzing the measures of improvement in the quality of life of these neighborhoods, the author increases our awareness and knowledge of how neighborhood change and stability occurs. I would recommend this book to anyone working in this field who wishes to broaden their knowledge and increase ...

Saving Languages: An Introduction to Language Revitalization
Lenore A. Grenoble, Lindsay J. Whaley

Cambridge University Press, 2005

Written not only for linguists and anthropologists, this book serves as a general reference guide to language revitalization for language activists and community members who believe they should ensure the future use of their languages, despite their predicted loss. Drawing extensively on case studies, it highlights the necessary background and central issues such as literacy, policy decisions, and allocation of resources. The volume's primary ...

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