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Waddie Welcome & the Beloved community by Tom Kohler & Susan Earl
	Order code: 02-B029 Price: £12.00 £11.50 Format: 205x270mm 80pp paperback Our purpose is to tell a story. A story about a man named Waddie Welcome. There are five points to make up front......This telling of Mr. Welcome's story began as Tom Kohler joined slides and written materials with a reflection written by Susan Earl to create a talk for people concerned about community building, and especially about community building as it is done by people associated with Chatham-Savannah Citizen Advocacy, as Mr. Welcome was. Response to the talks led to this book.…You will see Lester Johnson, a citizen advocate, in this story, but this story is bigger than that. It is the story of Mr. Welcome's eighty-seven years.... We would not usually be telling a person's story in such detail; people's lives are private. But Mr. Welcome became in the latter part of his life a public figure and a man who felt his life had a message. Mr. Welcome's great nieces have seen the story and think that it is respectful. This is the story of a remarkable man and the people who surrounded him to make their whole community stronger. It is a life lesson in community building from people who became masterful by doing it. It is a treasure story with amazing photos. "The beloved community is not a utopia, but a place where the barriers between people gradually come down and where the citizens make a constant effort to address even the most difficult problems of ordinary people. It is above all else an idealistic community." - Jim Lawson
What Colour Is Your Parachute? A practical manual for job-hunters and career changers by Richard Nelson Bolles
	Order code: 18-B011 Price: £14.99 Format: 150 x 230 mm 382pp paperback In the 2007 edition of his legendary job-hunting book, Bolles offers hope and presents an inspiring and detailed plan for finding your place in this uncertain job market. WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? has been the best-selling job-hunting book in the world for more than three decades, in good times and bad, and it continues to be a fixture on best-seller lists. It has sales over nine million copies and has been translated into 12 languages around the world. With an extended preface that addresses job loss, vacancies, and outsourcing and updated references on how to use the Internet in your job-hunt throughout, the 2006 PARACHUTE addresses the top concerns of today’s job-hunters. In the words of Fortune magazine: "Parachute remains the gold standard of career guides."
When People Care Enough To Act by Mike Green, Henry Moore & John O’Brien
	Order code: 02-B036 Price: £13.00 Format: 270 x 205mm 190pp paperback Developed in response to the question “I love ABCD (Asset Based Community Development); what do I do Monday Morning?”-and based on Mike Green & Henry Moore’s highly regarded work as ABCD organisers, consultants and trainers–these materials support a practical approach to creating community collaborations that work. Enriching each other, the book and the DVD provide clear exposition of ABCD organising principles and best practices, examples of ABCD organising in action, learning exercises, worksheets, and reflections from experienced practitioners of ABCD organising. Main topics include: ABCD Principles & Practice • Discovering What People Care About • Mobilising A Community’s Assets • People & Programs: We Need Both • Leading By Stepping Back: The Role Of Governments & Agencies • Inclusion: There Is No One We Do Not Need • John McKnight’s Reflections On ABCD organising. Lessons from Ashville NC, Marquette, MI, Laconia, NH, Savannah, GA, Ames, IO.
When Spider Webs Unite. Challenging articles & essays on Community, Diversity and Inclusion by Shafik Asante
	Order code: 02-B011 Price: £6.90 £3.00 Format: 205x130mm 136pp paperback Shafik gives us fresh and challenging definitions of inclusive community, inclusion, alliances, networks, leadership and diversity. You may not agree with everything he has to say, but we guarantee you won't be bored. The articles are short and punchy. Shafik speaks from the point of view of a community organiser, a human rights leader, and as a parent. The sections on alliance building and leadership are particularly inspiring. The content is vibrant and real because Shafik lived and "walked the talk" of building inclusive community daily. When you feel down and tired and wonder whether change can really happen, it is time to pick up this book - again and again. There is a complimentary video – see 02-V010.
Who’s Drawing the Lines? by Judith Snow
	Order code: 02-B049 Price: £12.95 Format: 215x140mm 125pp paperback This is the first of three volumes by Judith Snow - an autobiographical exploration of powerful learning that began very early. Read, enjoy, expand your horizons. Judith Snow is one of Canada’s national treasures. She has taught people all across North America how to create communities with a welcome at the edge. This book is the story of how her personal life led so many to a great new vision. Anyone who aspires to be a pathfinder will find the book an unerring compass. -- John McKnight Book Good. Author One in a Million. Read It Now. Love, Peter --Peter Block, www.abundantcommunity.com Judith Snow stubbornly moves forward assuming the vision of inclusion. We see her learning to negotiate the minefields of human services, the compromised options, and the joys of triumph. Bill Worrell The originals of some of the paintings included in this book are among those which will be displayed in the exhibition: Who’s Drawing the Lines?, at the Royal Ontario Museum, in Toronto through the late summer and winter of 2011.
Why It’s Worth It. Inclusive education in Scotland -a parents’ perspective by Ceri Millard
	Order code: 17-B005 Price: £13.00 £9.00 Format: 280x210mm 156pp paperback This book was written after speaking with 15 parents of children with special educational needs throughout Scotland about their child’s experiences of inclusive education in mainstream school. The families interviewed included children and young people at all stages of education from nursery right through to 18 year olds just about to leave school, and a range of experiences of education and inclusion from very positive to very negative. The experiences that are recounted in this book are real life illustrations of what it is like for families to include their children in mainstream schools in Scotland today. These accounts provide practical examples of what works and what doesn’t work to make pupils and their families feel like an included part of their chosen mainstream school. The book explores all aspects of school inclusion including the policy context, access to information, planning and support of inclusive placements, legal exclusions from mainstream school and the benefits of inclusion for everyone.
18-B007 Women who worry too much by Holly Hazlett-Stevens PhD
	Order code: 18-B007 Price: £12.00 Format: 190x130mm 168pp paperback Is your worry out of control? Do you worry incessantly about things that are not likely to happen? Do you lose sleep because of worry or ‘worry yourself sick?’ Does your tendency to worry affect your work or relationships? Do you even worry about worry itself? Many women feel just like you do. In fact, research suggests that a range of psychological, social, and even biological factors make women more prone to worry about things than men. However worrying too much is something that you can overcome - if you have the right information and good advice. This book offers a range of simple, powerful techniques to combat worry. The exercises in this book will help you gain new perspectives, relax, and live fully in the present.
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