Collaboration between nonprofits and businesses is a necessary component of strategy and operations.Creating Value in Nonprofit-Business Collaborations: New Thinking & Practice provides breakthrough thinking about how to conceptualize and realize collaborative value. With over a hundred case examples from around the globe and hundreds of literature references, the book reveals how collaboration between businesses and nonprofit organizations can most effect...

20 Must-Read Memoirs of Civil War assembles a capacious documentary literature of the American Civil War, juxtaposing battlefield recollection, military analysis, political observation, domestic testimony, and accounts of irregular warfare. Its range extends from commanders' strategic narratives to nurses' and civilians' intimate records, rendering the conflict as both a national crisis and a sequence of intensely local, embodied experiences. Particularly compelling are the contrasts betwe...

American against American: 20 Gripping Civil War Memoirs & Diaries assembles a capacious archive of conflict, testimony, and remembrance from the United States' defining internal war. Ranging from diaries and military narratives to reflections on campaigns, captivity, guerrilla violence, nursing, and civilian endurance, the volume juxtaposes terse eyewitness record with retrospective memoir. Its standout materials illuminate both celebrated operations and the war's intimate dislocations, r...

In the towns where the porch lights glow late, the screen doors creak often, and no secret stays secret for long, life unfolds with charm, chatter, and more than a touch of mischief.Porch Swings, Parlors & Pryin’ Eyes invites you into parlors both prim and peculiar, where romances are whispered behind teacups, rivalries simmer at choir practice, and widows form committees with suspicious speed. Within these sixteen short stories, you’ll find aging sopranos and checker champions, ta...

Top Gear presenter and columnist for the Daily Telegraph James May brings together another brilliant collection of his most controversial and humorous writing.From tales of motoring adventures through India, Russia and Iceland, to classic articles on essential subjects such as driving songs and haunted car parks, these gems from the number one car connoisseur will take readers on a motoring journey that will amuse and entertain in equal measure.

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This book captures life in hockey in the small-town arenas across our country, from five-year-old kids to all-time hockey legends, from the everyday to some of the most memorable moments in our hockey history through the eyes of an administrator, father, instructor, referee, and fan. They are unbelievable stories of unbelievable people who display the good, the bad and the ugly of the game of hockey.

Solovetsky occupies the island site of a former monastery in the White Sea. Here, hundreds of miles from civilization, and with a skeleton crew of secret-policemen in charge, some prisoners are consigned to all kinds of forced labor and others sit at comfortable desks in administrative or cultural positions.With the brutal winter fast approaching, Tolya Bogomolov, a young mathematician serving a three-year sentence, hopes an acquaintance he’s been cultivating will lead to a less br...

This much-needed commentary provides an authoritative guide to a better understanding of the often-neglected book of Micah. It gives insight into the individual sayings of Micah, to the way they were understood and used as they were gathered into the growing collection, and to their role in the final form of the document. "I am convinced," says Dr. Mays, that Micah "is not just a collection of prophetic sayings, but is the outcome of a history of prophetic proclamations and is itself, in i...

Reflecting a global trend, scores of countries have affirmed that their citizens are entitled to healthy air, water and land, and that their constitution should guarantee certain environmental rights. This book examines the increasing recognition that the environment is a proper subject for protection in constitutional texts and for vindication by constitutional courts. This phenomenon, which the authors call environmental constitutionalism, represents the confluence of constitutional law,...

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This thought-provoking introduction provides an incisive overview of dignity law, a field of law emerging in every region of the globe that touches all significa...

The natural forces of the world reclaimed the land after mankind did its best to destroy the planet with devastating wars. Finally, Earth can once again provide everything humans need to survive.Throughout a much-changed world, small pockets of survivors have started to repopulate the altered natural landscape, but without such conveniences as electricity, communications, and fossil fuels.Still, some of mankind’s worst traits have survived, including the need to crave power over others. Ro...