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This African-American Life
In this engaging memoir, Hugh Price, former CEO of the National Urban League, recounts his amazing American life and ancestry.
Mobilizing the Community to Help Students Succeed
In Mobilizing the Community to Help Students Succeed, Hugh B. Price shares the lessons learned while helping to do just that during his tenure as president of the National Urban League. Here, find out how educators can apply some of the same tactics to inspire and award academic achievement in even the most challenged school districts. Using real-life examples and shared wisdom from successful educators and community organizers coast to coast, Price describes ways to * Create initiatives such as community-based honor societies, parades, and rallies to motivate students and reward achievement; * Include parents in motivational efforts to rekindle students' natural curiosity and enthusiasm for...
Achievement Matters
Presents tips and strategies for African American parents that reveal how to attain higher educational standards in the schools.
Magia Sexualis
"This book offers a fascinating account of the development of Western sexual magic through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Urban focuses on an extraordinary set of historical figures, and his rich analysis illuminates the sexual—and supernatural—undercurrents that have shaped modernity."—Randall Styers, author of Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World
Strugglers Into Strivers
Research convincingly shows that students who struggle perpetually in school often lack the social and emotional skills needed to succeed academically. Their families, communities, and churches have fallen short. Their peer groups often pull them in the wrong direction. Drawing on research and real-world experience, Hugh Price proposes a new school paradigm that places equal emphasis on adolescents' academic and social development. By borrowing from the best of United States military education and training methods, Price argues, we can find out a lot about how young people learn and grow, particularly troubled teens and high school dropouts. Fostering responsible citizenship, community service, life-coping skills, health and hygiene, belonging, teamwork, interdependence, self-discipline, and accountability to oneself and others-this is what the U.S. military does well, even for young people who've been written off. Price urges the creation of a brand new type of public school, one devoted to the academic and social development of students who are laboring futilely in school and in life, schools whose mission it is to turn Strugglers Into Strivers.
New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements
New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements is the most extensive study to date of modern American alternative spiritual currents. Hugh B. Urban covers a range of emerging religions from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, including the Nation of Islam, Mormonism, Scientology, ISKCON, Wicca, the Church of Satan, Peoples Temple, and the Branch Davidians. This essential text engages students by addressing major theoretical and methodological issues in the study of new religions and is organized to guide students in their learning. Each chapter focuses on one important issue involving a particular faith group, providing readers with examples that illustrate larger issues in the study ...
Biotechnology and the Law
The book is written to help lawyers faced with the challenge of identifying the legal issues and processes that must be faced by their clients in building, marketing, and protecting a biotech business. The contributors are experts in this specialized area and provide thorough, yet accessible, overviews of biotech subspecialties with an eye to practical application. A biotech legal practice involves specialized subject matter and regulatory schemes that, generally, are not part of the business lawyer's repertoire and which can present many hazards for the uninitiated. Because of the expansion in biotech practice beyond the traditional organizations and their representatives, this guide was written to help lawyers find their way through the biotech maze.
Principles of Public Finance
In this edition of famous textbook, much new material has been added to a general survey, in the light of recent fiscal developments, of the general theory of taxation, other forms of public revenue, public expenditure and public debts. There is chapter on modern theories of budgetary policy, as developed by Keynes and others, and a final chapter dealing with the author’s tenure of the British Treasury from 1945-47 which discusses the problems he encountered at that time, the policy pursued in his four successive budgets and, in particular, his controversial cheap money policy.
The Church of Scientology
Hugh Urban tells the real story of Scientology from its cold war-era beginnings in the 1950s to its prominence today as the religion of Hollywood's celebrity elite. Urban paints a vivid portrait of Hubbard, the enigmatic founder who once commanded his own private fleet and an intelligence apparatus rivaling that of the U.S. government. One FBI agent described him as "a mental case," but to his followers he is the man who "solved the riddle of the human mind." Urban details Scientology's decades-long war with the IRS, which ended with the church winning tax-exempt status as a religion; the rancorous cult wars of the 1970s and 1980s; as well as the latest challenges confronting Scientology, from attacks by the Internet group Anonymous to the church's efforts to suppress the online dissemination of its esoteric teachings.
An Abundant Life
During the years that Hugh B. Brown served in the LDS First Presidency (1961-70), he proved to be one of the most compassionate and tolerant members of the church hierarchy. Shortly before his death, his grandson conducted in-depth, candid interviews that appear in this compilation and constitute a refreshing look at one of Mormonism's best loved leaders. (This is the second, enlarged edition.)
