Conference report on a seminar on problems of poverty among rural workers in the USA - includes a summary of the findings of the national advisory commission on rural poverty, and covers rural migration to urban areas, relevant aspects of agricultural policy and social policy, etc. Conference held in Washington 1967 December 14.

In this book, I have tried to impart my impressions of Germany and the German people since I lived in the western part of Germany from 1961 until 1983. Since 1983, I have made many trips back to Germany and broadened my travels to Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and various parts of Eastern Germany. I taught in the German volkshochschule (adult evening school) from 1977 until 1984, expanding my insights into this society.

This open access book focuses on a particular but significant topic in the social sciences: the concepts of “footprint” and “trace”. It associates these concepts with hotly debated topics such as surveillance capitalism and knowledge society. The editors and authors discuss the concept footprints and traces as unintended by-products of other (differently focused and oriented) actions that remain empirically imprinted in virtual and real spaces. The volume therefore opens new scenarios for social theory and applied social research in asking what the stakes, risks and potential of this approach are. It systematically raises and addresses these questions within a consistent framework, bringing together a heterogeneous group of international social scientists. Given the multifaceted objectives involved in exploring footprints and traces, the volume discusses heuristic aspects and ethical dimensions, scientific analyses and political considerations, empirical perspectives and theoretical foundations. At the same time, it brings together perspectives from cultural analysis and social theory, communication and Internet studies, big-data informed research and computational social science. This innovative volume is of interest to a broad interdisciplinary readership: sociologists, communication researchers, Internet scholars, anthropologists, cognitive and behavioral scientists, historians, and epistemologists, among others.

Told through a series of epistolary vignettes, the second novel in Melina Druga’s World War I trilogy traces the lives of the Steward and Bartlette families as they contend with their children’s and siblings’ wartime absences. Newlyweds Hettie Steward and Geoffrey Bartlette wasted no time heading to the Western Front after the war began. In the wake of the couple’s traumatic and untimely separation, their families begin to knit themselves together ever tighter. Matriarchs Lucretia Steward and Amelia Bartlette attempt to keep the home fires burning, unable to escape the tumult of the war. Hettie’s brother and brother-in-law join her on the front lines. Back in Ontario, some households grow. Others remain painfully stagnant. Romantic relationships wax and wane as these bright-eyed young adults fall in and out of love with one another and wrestle with the tension between timeworn traditions and the shiny appeal of progress. Those Left Behind offers readers the opportunity to connect deeply with the characters they met in The Unmarriable Kind and Angel of Mercy. As five years of deaths, births, tragedies, and triumphs unfold, one question never strays far from center: How does one maintain strong filial bonds — and repair weakened ones — when the world is changing rapidly on all sides?

Of all the books in our Most High God’s blessed word it is the book of Revelation that gives the body of Christ (1Corinthians 12:27) the most trepidation to study. In part because the book of Revelation is the foretelling of events that have not taking place, and it is in part due to the perception, by a majority in the body of Christ, that the book of Revelation is overly symbolic. But, in reality the book of Revelation is pretty straight forward. The word of God is replete in the books, chapters, and verses of God’s word that are either directly and/or indirectly related to the book of Revelation.

When Kathryn Garner took her life, she could not have known the devastation she would unleash for her family, friends, and the people she came in contact with every day. She was hurting, but she did she have any clue as to the pain her ultimate solution would cause the other women in her life? Dealing with the aftermath of suicide is difficult for family, friends, and even people who knew the deceased in everyday situations. That one desperate act unravels so many lives. Sometimes it helps to know that there are others going through the same kind of turmoil as Those She Left Behind.