Автор: Medlicott Joan A. Название: From the Heart of Covington ISBN: 0312988257 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312988258 Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS Цена: 735.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: The feisty ladies from "The Ladies of Covington Send Their Love" and "The Gardens of Covington" are back. The white farmhouse again brims with warmth and hope, as Hannah, Grace and Amelia celebrate friendship, supporting one another and laughing through the tears.
Established by Martin Eakes and Bonnie Wright in North Carolina in 1980, the nonprofit Center for Community Self-Help has grown from an innovative financial institution dedicated to civil rights into the nation's largest home lender to low- and moderate-income borrowers. Self-Help's first capital campaign—a bake sale that raised a meager seventy-seven dollars for a credit union—may not have done much to fulfill the organization's early goals of promoting worker-owned businesses, but it was a crucial first step toward wielding inclusive lending as a weapon for economic justice. In Lending Power journalist and historian Howard E. Covington Jr. narrates the compelling story of Self-Help's founders and coworkers as they built a progressive and community-oriented financial institution. First established to assist workers displaced by closed furniture and textile mills, Self-Help created a credit union that expanded into providing home loans for those on the margins of the financial market, especially people of color and single mothers. Using its own lending record, Self-Help convinced commercial banks to follow suit, extending its influence well beyond North Carolina. In 1999 its efforts led to the first state law against predatory lending. A decade later, as the Great Recession ravaged the nation's economy, its legislative victories helped influence the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the formation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Self-Help also created a federally chartered credit union to expand to California and later to Illinois and Florida, where it assisted ailing community-based credit unions and financial institutions. Throughout its history, Self-Help has never wavered from its mission to use Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of justice to extend economic opportunity to the nation's unbanked and underserved citizens. With nearly two billion dollars in assets, Self-Help also shows that such a model for nonprofits can be financially successful while serving the greater good. At a time when calls for economic justice are growing ever louder, Lending Power shows how hard-working and dedicated people can help improve their communities.
Автор: Covington W. A. Название: History of Colquitt County [Georgia] ISBN: 0806347414 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806347417 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 8552.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Covington II MR Gregory Wayne Название: God...Send Me a Builder!: The Builder vs. the Borrower ISBN: 061585026X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615850269 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1723.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Covington Jason Название: American Behemouth ISBN: 0578105225 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780578105222 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1195.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: -American BeheMouth- is a timely literary work that depicts American moral equivalencies and excesses. For fishermen, baseball fans, book lovers, sports enthusiasts, and economists alike, the novella is highly entertaining and insightful. Full of true fisheries science and sports history, -American BeheMouth- tells the greatest bass fishing story of all time while giving an insight into what America has become. On the surface, the story is about a literature student and his fisheries biologist girlfriend who raise the world-record bigmouth bass in a Kentucky lake. Underneath, the novella is much more than a fishing story; it is a metaphor for many other things: life, family, sacrifice, commitment, and dreams. In addition, it raises ethical questions about modern American sports, American businesses and consumerism, and our quest for the elusive. -American BeheMouth- is a metaphor for many things that are wrong in American culture, including the relentless pursuit for more, mirroring and predicting the many bubbles in the American economy. In the big picture, the author may be asking all the existential questions while writing about fishing. In all, everyone can glean something from the story with humor and inquisitiveness.
Автор: Covington, Evangelist Bobby G. Название: God`s company and his employee benefits ISBN: 1462028489 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781462028481 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1510.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
In Gesture and Power Yolanda Covington-Ward examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the Lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality are critical in mobilizing social and political action. Conceiving of the body as the center of analysis, a catalyst for social action, and as a conduit for the social construction of reality, Covington-Ward focuses on specific flash points in the last ninety years of Congo's troubled history, when embodied performance was used to stake political claims, foster dissent, and enforce power. In the 1920s Simon Kimbangu started a Christian prophetic movement based on spirit-induced trembling, which swept through the Lower Congo, subverting Belgian colonial authority. Following independence, dictator Mobutu Sese Seko required citizens to dance and sing nationalist songs daily as a means of maintaining political control. More recently, embodied performance has again stoked reform, as nationalist groups such as Bundu dia Kongo advocate for a return to precolonial religious practices and non-Western gestures such as traditional greetings. In exploring these embodied expressions of Congolese agency, Covington-Ward provides a framework for understanding how embodied practices transmit social values, identities, and cultural history throughout Africa and the diaspora.
Автор: Downing Douglas, Covington Ph. D. Michael, Congint Название: Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms ISBN: 0764147552 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780764147555 Издательство: Ingram Рейтинг: Цена: 2068.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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