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UNINA9910456896103321 |
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Autore |
Eliasoph Nina |
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Making volunteers [[electronic resource] ] : civic life after welfare's end / / Nina Eliasoph |
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Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011 |
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1-283-00915-3 |
9786613009159 |
1-4008-3882-7 |
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[Core Textbook] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (329 p.) |
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Collana |
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Princeton studies in cultural sociology |
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Voluntarism - United States |
Young volunteers in community development - United States |
Volunteer workers in community development - United States |
Community development - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Empower Yourself! -- CHAPTER 1. How to Learn Something in an Empowerment Project -- PART ONE. Cultivating Open Civic Equality -- CHAPTER 2. Participating under Unequal Auspices -- CHAPTER 3. "The Spirit that Moves Inside You": Puzzles of Using Volunteering to Cure the Volunteer's Problems -- CHAPTER 4. Temporal Leapfrog: Puzzles of Timing -- CHAPTER 5. Democracy Minus Disagreement, Civic Skills Minus Politics, Blank "Reflections" -- PART TWO. Cultivating Intimate Comfort and Safety -- CHAPTER 6. Harmless and Destructive Plug-in Volunteers -- CHAPTER 7. Paid Organizers Creating Temporally Finite, Intimate, Family-like Attachments -- CHAPTER 8. Publicly Questioning Need: Food, Safety, and Comfort -- CHAPTER 9. Drawing on Shared Experience in a Divided Society: Getting People Out of Their "Clumps" -- PART THREE. Celebrating Our Diverse, Multicultural Community -- CHAPTER 10. "Getting Out of Your Box" versus "Preserving a Culture": Two Opposed Ways of "Appreciating Cultural Diversity" -- CHAPTER 11. Tell Us about Your Culture: What Participants Count as "Culture" -- |
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CHAPTER 12. Celebrating ... Empowerment Projects! -- CONCLUSION. Finding Patterns in the "Open and Undefined" Organization: Gray Flannel Man Is Mostly Dead -- APPENDIX 1. On Justification -- APPENDIX 2. Methods of Taking Field Notes and Making Them Tell a Story -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Backmatter |
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Volunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. But what do these programs really accomplish? In Making Volunteers, Nina Eliasoph offers an in-depth, humorous, wrenching, and at times uplifting look inside youth and adult civic programs. She reveals an urgent need for policy reforms in order to improve these organizations and shows that while volunteers learn important lessons, they are not always the lessons that empowerment programs aim to teach. With short-term funding and a dizzy mix of mandates from multiple sponsors, community programs develop a complex web of intimacy, governance, and civic life. Eliasoph describes the at-risk youth served by such programs, the college-bound volunteers who hope to feel selfless inspiration and plump up their resumés, and what happens when the two groups are expected to bond instantly through short-term projects. She looks at adult "plug-in" volunteers who, working in after-school programs and limited by time, hope to become like beloved aunties to youth. Eliasoph indicates that adult volunteers can provide grassroots support but they can also undermine the family-like warmth created by paid organizers. Exploring contradictions between the democratic rhetoric of empowerment programs and the bureaucratic hurdles that volunteers learn to navigate, the book demonstrates that empowerment projects work best with less precarious funding, more careful planning, and mandatory training, reflection, and long-term commitments from volunteers. Based on participant research inside civic and community organizations, Making Volunteers illustrates what these programs can and cannot achieve, and how to make them more effective. |
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UNINA9910457165403321 |
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Autore |
Ball Andrew J (Andrew Jonathan), <1972-> |
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Planetary landers and entry probes / / Andrew J. Ball [and others] [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007 |
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1-107-15946-6 |
1-280-90937-4 |
9786610909377 |
0-511-28615-5 |
0-511-28541-8 |
0-511-28381-4 |
0-511-32084-1 |
0-511-53605-4 |
0-511-28461-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxi, 340 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Roving vehicles (Astronautics) |
Space probes |
Space vehicles - Design and construction |
Space vehicles - Control systems |
Planets - Exploration |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Engineering Issues Specific to Entry Probes, Landers or Penetrators: 1. Mission goals and system engineering; 2. Accomodation, launch, cruise and arrival from orbit or interplanetary trajectory; 3. Entering atmospheres; 4. Descent through an atmosphere; 5. Descent to an airless body; 6. Planetary balloons, aircraft, submarines and cryobots; 7. Arrival at a surface; 8. Thermal control of landers and entry probes; 9. Power systems; 10. Communication and tracking of entry probes; 11. Radiation environment; 12. Surface activities: arms, drills, moles and mobility; 13. Structures; 14. Contamination of spacecraft and planets; Part II. |
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Previous Atmosphere/Surface Vehicles and Their Payloads: 15. Destructive impact probes; 16. Atmospheric entry probes; 17. Pod landers; 18. Legged landers; 19. Payload delivery penetrators; 20. Small body surface missions; Part III. 'Case Studies': 21. Surveyor landers; 22. Galileo probe; 23. Huygens; 24. Mars Pathfinder and Sojourner; 25. Deep Space 2 Mars microprobes; 26. Rosetta lander Philae; 27. Mars exploration rovers: Spirit and Opportunity; Appendix: Some key parameters for bodies in the Solar System; List of acronyms; Bibliography; References; Index. |
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This book provides a concise but broad overview of the engineering, science and flight history of planetary landers and atmospheric entry probes designed to explore the atmospheres and surfaces of other planets. It covers engineering aspects specific to such vehicles which are not usually treated in traditional spacecraft engineering texts. Examples are drawn from over thirty different lander and entry probe designs that have been used for lunar and planetary missions since the early 1960s. The authors provide detailed illustrations of many vehicle designs from different international space programs, and give basic information on their missions and payloads, irrespective of the mission's success or failure. Several missions are discussed in more detail to demonstrate the broad range of the challenges involved and the solutions implemented. This will form an important reference for professionals, academic researchers and graduate students involved in planetary science, aerospace engineering and space mission development. |
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