Although it feels like we live in a time of seeming hopelessness, this pioneering book illustrates what language can teach us about the practice, logic, and feasibility of hope in the twenty-first century. Silva and Lee highlight how people living in Brazilian urban peripheries, who have grown accustomed to unrelenting prejudice and violence on an everyday basis, use language to survive and imagine futures that are worth aspiring to. In so doing, this book foregrounds how language becomes a matter of survival for these communities. It provides a thorough theorization of how language can produce conditions of hope, moving away from the idea of language merely as a tool of communication and toward something that can meaningfully impact social realities. Innovative and engaging, it is essential reading for researchers and students in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

When asked to describe their struggles, many people would say they are troubled, discouraged, saddened, hard-pressed, or afraid, because of the circumstances they face. We have no assurance, as God’s people, that we will not encounter problems or trials. But God blesses us with wisdom and understanding to help us through our difficulties. Through His unfailing love, expressed in His promises, we have the strength to face adversity, endure trials, and overcome our worries. Even so, to be able to see God while we’re stuck in our problems, we sometimes need to understand the reason we have them. Gaining Hope seeks to encourage you, strengthen your heart, restore your confidence, help you focus on your future, and understand your God-given purpose in life. Author Beverly Hughes identifies the root cause of lost hope, reveals how to recognize the pitfalls of losing hope in your situation, and demonstrates how to regain your hope—and maintain it. This inspirational spiritual self-help guide presents a series of principles intended to help you understand God’s purpose for your life and find joy so that you can set and reach new goals.

As the new administration moved beyond its first year in office, Obama's politics of hope increasingly has been transformed into a politics of accommodation. To many of his supporters, his quest for pragmatism and realism has become a weakness rather than a strength. By focusing on those areas where Obama grounded his own sense of possibility, Giroux critically investigates the well-being and future of young people, including the necessity to overcome racial injustices, the importance of abiding by the promise of a democracy to come, and the indisputable value of education in democracy. Giroux shows why considerations provide the ethical and political foundations for enabling hope to live up to its promises, while making civic responsibility and education central to a movement that takes democracy seriously.

Discover real purpose, lasting peace, and faithful promises in God’s Word each day, with a devotional written by Rick Warren, the bestselling author of The Purpose Driven Life. Ever feel like you're just floating along, not really anchored to anything? Are you searching for purpose and peace in your life? Do you feel like something is missing? It's time to anchor yourself to something solid, something unchanging—but not to just any old thing. Take hold of something firm and secure. Take hold of hope—“an anchor for the soul” (Hebrews 6:19 NIV). So where do you turn to find real hope? The only answer is God. In Romans 15:13, the Bible says, “May God, the source of hope, fill you with joy and peace through your faith in him. Then you will overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit” (GW). God is the only source of hope that will never disappoint. In fact, the Bible says he is the God of hope. He wants his hope to overflow into your daily life, providing the power to conquer fear, reduce stress, resolve conflict, build healthy relationships, overcome temptation, and face any challenge. In this Daily Hope Devotional: 365 Days of Purpose, Peace, and Promise, you will experience clear, practical, and biblical teaching, helping you stay anchored to the real and unfailing hope that comes only from God. Discover what God has for you in the pages of the Daily Hope Devotional: 365 daily devotions: Fill your heart with hope and encouragement every day Lessons rooted in the Bible: Scripture verses with each reading The latest from Rick Warren, author of the runaway New York Times bestseller The Purpose Driven Life

A more abundant life is within your reach. Join Jess Connolly as she casts a fresh vision for how to break free of cheap grace and empty rule-keeping and change the world rather than be changed by it. Grace is always good news, but it's not cheap. True grace compels us to change, and that's where holiness comes in. Jess Connolly--beloved writer, speaker, business coach, coauthor of Wild and Free, and author of You Are the Girl for the Job--will be the first to admit that not long ago, like many women, she embraced God's grace, but found herself forgetting holiness altogether. Dance, Stand, Run charts Jess's discovery that holiness was never meant to be a shaming reminder of what we "should" do, but rather a profound privilege of becoming more like Christ. In Dance, Stand, Run, Jess shares the truth that changed her life and her faith forever: once we've gripped the grace that Jesus has given us by faith and planted our feet on his holy ground, we become ambassadors of life, hope, truth, and love. Jess will give you the encouragement you need to finally: Claim your identity as a holy daughter of God Live out your holy influence with confidence before a watching world Discover your true purpose Dance, Stand, Run is an invitation to God's daughters to step into the movements of abundant life: dancing in grace, standing firm in holiness, and running on mission.

This book is a collection of true life stories; some tragic, others much more light hearted, but all will pull at your heart strings. From early childhood through adulthood, the author’s life had been one of struggle with a determination to succeed against all odds. Each story will draw the reader into it as if you were present when it was happening. The devotionals following each story will help the reader understand how to have personal victories over hardships. You will find in each one a ‘life application’ for your life today.

One of the foremost experts in public policy here attempts not only to describe what public policy is, but given societal changes in the last two decades, to account for its present status.To learn from the past in order to establish public policy as a discipline in its own right, Wildavsky traces its motifs from their beginnings in the 1960s to the 1980s. Starting from the premise that there has been growing polarization of political elites, he shows how public policy as a field has had to face increased politicization. For Wildavsky, the field of public policy needs to incorporate more awareness of the human aspects of policy making: he emphasizes the political choices to be made in a competitive environment and the social relations that sustain them.When the first specialist schools devoted solely to public policy came into existence in the 1960s, the programs of the Great Society were their main impetus. With the disillusionment and failure of the Great Society, the identity of public policy became transformed. New theoretical issues had to be addressed. In this volume, Wildavsky provides a foundation for the theory no less than the practice of policy-making.Aaron Wildavsky is professor of political science, University of California, Berkeley. He founded the School of Public Policy there, and is presently its Director. He was formerly Director of the Russell Sage Foundation. He was the President if the American Political Science Association for the years 1986-1987.

The hope for a successful marriage remains hidden in almost every heart. In fact, it is imprinted on your spiritual DNA: Two becoming One. Why then is there so much confusion and failure in marriage today? Why have so many of our children endured not just divorce, but serial monogamy? We have lost an understanding of the purpose of marriage and the nature of the commitment it requires. We have reduced marriage to a vehicle for self-fulfillment when it was created to meet the needs of others. We are trying to chart our own courses because we are biblically illiterate. Written as a course for engaged couples preparing for marriage, Becoming a Better Lover serves as a reference for anyone who wishes to grow in love and to nurture his/her marriage. Marriage isn't rocket science, but it does take vision, and it does require adopting God's worldview. Far from being a cultural artifact, the intricate wisdom of God's design is increasingly illuminated by research in the social sciences. Here is a guide for living life in sync with the way God created you and for allowing him to change you from the inside out.