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Life as a Daymaker

How to Change the World Simply by Making Someone's Day!

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Daymaker- A person who performs acts of kindness with the intention of making the world a better place! You have stumbled onto a simple yet profound idea that can change your life. You don't need money, yet you provide wealth beyond your imagining. You don't have to be spiritually inclined, yet it's the ultimate spiritual behavior. You need no formal education, yet it's and act of great wisdom. ... Read more

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Daymaker- A person who performs acts of kindness with the intention of making the world a better place! You have stumbled onto a simple yet profound idea that can change your life. You don't need money, yet you provide wealth beyond your imagining. You don't have to be spiritually inclined, yet it's the ultimate spiritual behavior. You need no formal education, yet it's and act of great wisdom.
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Poverty and Welfare in America

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This book closely examines controversial claims and beliefs surrounding poverty and anti-poverty programs in the United States. It authoritatively dismantles falsehoods, half-truths, and misconceptions, leaving readers with an unbiased, accurate understanding of these issues.Poverty and Welfare in America: Examining the Facts, like every book in the Contemporary Debates series, is intended to ... Read more

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This book closely examines controversial claims and beliefs surrounding poverty and anti-poverty programs in the United States. It authoritatively dismantles falsehoods, half-truths, and misconceptions, leaving readers with an unbiased, accurate understanding of these issues.Poverty and Welfare in America: Examining the Facts, like every book in the Contemporary Debates series, is intended to
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ORDINARY PEOPLE

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David Wagner explores the lives of poor people during the three decades after the Civil War, using a unique treasure of biographies of people who were (at one point in time) inmates in a large almshouse, combined with genealogical and other official records to follow their later lives. Ordinary People develops a more fluid picture of "poverty" as people's lives change over the course of time. ... Read more

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David Wagner explores the lives of poor people during the three decades after the Civil War, using a unique treasure of biographies of people who were (at one point in time) inmates in a large almshouse, combined with genealogical and other official records to follow their later lives. Ordinary People develops a more fluid picture of "poverty" as people's lives change over the course of time.
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Ordinary People

Americans Falling in and out of Poverty

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David Wagner explores the lives of poor people during the three decades after the Civil War using a unique treasure of biographies of people who were (at one point in time) inmates in a large almshouse, combined with genealogical and other official records to follow their later lives. Ordinary People develops a more fluid picture of "poverty" as people's lives change over the course of time. ... Read more

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David Wagner explores the lives of poor people during the three decades after the Civil War using a unique treasure of biographies of people who were (at one point in time) inmates in a large almshouse, combined with genealogical and other official records to follow their later lives. Ordinary People develops a more fluid picture of "poverty" as people's lives change over the course of time.
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Every Word Of God

A Call For Christians to Love & Obey the Old Testament

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What is the Christian’s relationship to the Old Testament? Why does the Old Testament seem so strange and unfamiliar to Christians? Should Christians even read it? The Christian neglect of the Old Testament has resulted in a malnourished church and an increasingly chaotic world. Find out why Jesus said that He lived on every word of the Old Testament Scripture. ... Read more

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What is the Christian’s relationship to the Old Testament? Why does the Old Testament seem so strange and unfamiliar to Christians? Should Christians even read it? The Christian neglect of the Old Testament has resulted in a malnourished church and an increasingly chaotic world. Find out why Jesus said that He lived on every word of the Old Testament Scripture.
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The New Temperance

The American Obsession With Sin and Vice

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The war on drugs ... the campaigns against smoking cigarettes ... v-chips to control what children watch on TV ... censoring the Internet and Calvin Klein jeans ads...bipartisan lectures about the dangers of teen sex ... constant warnings about food and fat ... all are examples of what David Wagner terms the "New Temperance." The New Temperance contrasts the new obsession with personal behavior in ... Read more

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The war on drugs ... the campaigns against smoking cigarettes ... v-chips to control what children watch on TV ... censoring the Internet and Calvin Klein jeans ads...bipartisan lectures about the dangers of teen sex ... constant warnings about food and fat ... all are examples of what David Wagner terms the "New Temperance." The New Temperance contrasts the new obsession with personal behavior in
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PROGRESSIVES IN AMERICA 1900-2020

Liberals with Attitude!

by David Wagner ...

This is the first history of the three progressive movements in the twentieth and twentieth-first century: The original Progressives primarily in the first two decades of the twentieth century; the Popular Front progressives of the 1930s and 1940s; and recent progressives in the Democratic Party from Jesse Jackson to Bernie Sanders. Although characterized by much rhetoric, none of these movements ... Read more

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This is the first history of the three progressive movements in the twentieth and twentieth-first century: The original Progressives primarily in the first two decades of the twentieth century; the Popular Front progressives of the 1930s and 1940s; and recent progressives in the Democratic Party from Jesse Jackson to Bernie Sanders. Although characterized by much rhetoric, none of these movements
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NO LONGER HOMELESS

How the Ex-Homeless Get and Stay off the Street

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This is a first-time study of formerly homeless people showing how people become and then leave the state of homelessness. Using a sample of people from across the nation and of different sexes, races, and ethnicities, Wagner suggests the key variables in ending homelessness for individuals as well ascommunities. ... Read more

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This is a first-time study of formerly homeless people showing how people become and then leave the state of homelessness. Using a sample of people from across the nation and of different sexes, races, and ethnicities, Wagner suggests the key variables in ending homelessness for individuals as well ascommunities.
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The Poorhouse: America's Forgotten Institution: America's Forgotten

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Though poorhouses (sometimes also known as almshouses or poor farms) were around United States' history for nearly four centuries, there has been little written about them. Not only was this institution critical to the history of social welfare and the poor but also for the disabled, correctional institutions, and aged. The book not only reviews history, but it analyzes how institutional care has ... Read more

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Though poorhouses (sometimes also known as almshouses or poor farms) were around United States' history for nearly four centuries, there has been little written about them. Not only was this institution critical to the history of social welfare and the poor but also for the disabled, correctional institutions, and aged. The book not only reviews history, but it analyzes how institutional care has
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Unlikely Fame: Poor People Who Made History: Poor People Who Made

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This book uniquely explores the rare event of poor people who become nationally or internationally famous. This book describe how poverty is a severe disability that stunts areas of growth and opportunity among children. Nevertheless, using a sample of 27 people including Charlie Chaplin, Billie Holiday, Marilyn Monroe, Richard Pryor, Babe Ruth, Oprah Winfrey, and Malcolm X, the book shows how ... Read more

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This book uniquely explores the rare event of poor people who become nationally or internationally famous. This book describe how poverty is a severe disability that stunts areas of growth and opportunity among children. Nevertheless, using a sample of 27 people including Charlie Chaplin, Billie Holiday, Marilyn Monroe, Richard Pryor, Babe Ruth, Oprah Winfrey, and Malcolm X, the book shows how
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Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community

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A sociological/anthropological examination of the homeless community of "North City" which won the C. Wright Mills award of 1994. Examines the life of homeless and ex homeless people in relation to family, workplace, and government as well as interactions in the community itself and subgroups within it. ... Read more

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A sociological/anthropological examination of the homeless community of "North City" which won the C. Wright Mills award of 1994. Examines the life of homeless and ex homeless people in relation to family, workplace, and government as well as interactions in the community itself and subgroups within it.
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THE NEW TEMPERANCE

THE AMERICAN OBSESSION WITH SIN AND VICE

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The author compares the current "temperance "movements (against drugs, smoking, alcohol, teen pregnancy, pornography, fatty foods, and even politically incorrect language) with similar movements in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The book addresses why the new campaigns emerged after the supposed freer days of the 1960s, and why these issues are popular in America. ... Read more

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The author compares the current "temperance "movements (against drugs, smoking, alcohol, teen pregnancy, pornography, fatty foods, and even politically incorrect language) with similar movements in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The book addresses why the new campaigns emerged after the supposed freer days of the 1960s, and why these issues are popular in America.
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