"There are certain kinds of people who garner enormous satisfaction from successfully taking on a "mission impossible" and, by so doing, actually manage to change the world, sometimes in surprising ways. Such individuals are rare, and when we become aware of them and their aston…
In a revelatory study of Philadelphia's Germantown Avenue, home to a diverse array of more than 90 congregations, Katie Day explores the formative and multifaceted role of religious congregations within an urban environment.
"Packed with indelible portraits of individual artist, informed by Swenson's encyclopedic knowledge of the city's unique and varied music scene--which includes jazz, R & B, brass band, rock, and hip hop--New Atlantis is a stirring chronicle of the valiant efforts to preserve the…
Reclaiming Chinese society: the new social activism
"Citizens' sense of responsibility to their community and to their nation is becoming a topic of growing concern. Recent research indicates that citizens of the United States and many other nations have become increasingly disconnected from their fellow community members, and wh…
"Citizens' sense of responsibility to their community and to their nation is becoming a topic of growing concern. Recent research indicates that citizens of the United States and many other nations have become increasingly disconnected from their fellow community members, and wh…
"Art as Social Action is an essential guide to deepening social art practices and teaching them to students."--Laura Raicovich, president and executive director, Queens Museum. Art as Social Action is both a general introduction to and an illustrated, practical textbook for the …