Resource Journal: December 2009

The Crisis of Islamic Civilization, by Ali A. Allawi, (Yale University Press) is the view of the former minister of defense and minister of finance of Iraq’s post-war governments on the causes and consequences of the decline of Islamic civilization. Allawi’s viewpoint will likely be shared by a limited audience, but it’s a useful read [...]

What’s in your Kindle?

Justin Long (strategicnetwork.org…):

Vocations and what to do with them: how Jesuits identify and recruit: great little book that talks about a number of “tests” for potential candidates to help recruiters determine whether someone has potential as a missionary candidate. Applicable to Protestant agencies, too.
Viral Loop: From Facebook to Twitter, How Today’s Smartest Businesses Grow Themselves [...]

What’s in your Kindle?

The first page of my ‘most recently read items’ in Kindle right now:
1. Foreign Affairs. I have a monthly subscription and I just got an update.
2. Movement 2.0: the new levers of social change and why you can’t ignore them, from Steve Moore and the Mission Exchange. This is a downloaded file that I sent [...]

A Short Introduction to Swarming @ The Mission Exchange

The Mission Exchange has posted its September 2009 “Learning at the Speed of Life” videoblog, in which they kindly allowed me to share on video for about 10 minutes about swarming. Check the video out if you’re interested in a highly condensed version of what we’ll talk about in the 2-hour Introduction to Swarming online [...]

Review: Movements that change the world

Steve Addison has written a new book, “Movements that change the world,” which will be available shortly (see http://www.movements.net). He was kind enough to send a pre-release copy to us for review.
The book is an excellent popular introduction to the concept of movements. Each chapter features several stories, with in particular a look at the [...]

Resource Journal: July 15, 2009

The United States Government released the 2009 edition of its Human Trafficking Report, with Malaysia at the top of its list of trafficking offenders. The report believes the recession has increased the worldwide trade. The ILO estimates 12.3 million adults and children are victims of forced labor, bonded labor and sex slavery each year.
The world’s [...]

What’s in your Kindle?

This is a recap of some of the things we’re reading right now, and have found interesting. Feel free to add notes about books you are reading in the comments below.
Books I’m reading this month
No one responded to the Kindle post last month (!) and I ended up with 4 books that were not at [...]

What’s in your Kindle?

This is a recap of some of the things we’re reading right now, and have found interesting. Feel free to add notes about books you are reading in the comments below.
Books I’ve read this week
1. The Nonverbal Advantage: Secrets and Science of Body Language at Work, Carol Kinsey Goman. Read this one through today in [...]

Resources Journal: May 8-14

Mapping wars: The Human Security Report Project as a miniAtlas of Human Security available as downloadable PDFs, consisting of a series of charts and maps describing wars for the period 1946-2005.
Photographing urban history: Jeffrey Wasserstrom has written a new book, Global Shanghai, 1850-2010, which presents photos of the city for every quarter century over a [...]

Resource Journal: Apr 30-May 7

ODI has a series of publications available via the web that examine the impact of the global economic crisis on the world’s poor. Any mission involved in development work, social justice, or microenterprise would likely benefit from these.
Network for Good has published Fundraising Campaign in a Box, a free 16-page PDF step-by-step guide for online [...]