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Free step by step guide to plan, fund and implement youth projects involving migrant and multicultural youth groups, created using participative methods.
An extraordinary ethnographic study about an Italian woman who after living for years in New York City, and teaching at a University in Milan, decides to explore the South Bronx.
This book has just come out. It is by the eminent neurosurgeon, Henry Marsh. If you have wondered what it feels like to have responsibility for life and death in your hands, this is a brilliant testament. Wonderfully honest and intensely readable, it is also very moving.
"The Free World takes place in the near past — 1978 — and chronicles the adventures of the Krasnanskys, a family of Russian Jews, at a critical moment in their history. The family, a three-generational collective, has decided to take advantage of a minor loophole in Soviet emigration po
"If it is true, and I think it is, that literature often serves as a sounding board for the collective psychic preoccupations of a particular time and place, then it is perhaps not surprising, in our post millennial financial implosion world, that the American Dream is receiving some pointed lite
"Lyle Henderson, a rough-looking 25-year-old former resident of the Stumps, in Miramichi, New Brunswick, appears suddenly at the apartment of Terrieux, a retired police officer, who years before, worked in Lyle’s home town.
"In past interviews, Dobozy has indicated that his writing has often been preoccupied with the negative relationship between immigrants and place — the sense of not belonging to either new or old homeland or the difficulties which arise from an inability to adapt sufficiently. While, in Sieg