Author: Tobias Hecht
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pre
Keywords: latin, society, living, america, history, american, omissions, children, minor
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-09-07
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0299180344
ISBN-13: 9780299180348

Latin American history-the stuff of wars, elections, conquests, inventions, colonization, and all those other events and processes attributed to adults-has also been lived and partially forged by children. Taking a fresh look at Latin American and Caribbean society over the course of more than half a millennium, this book explores how the omission of children from the region’s historiography may in fact be no small matter. Children currently make up one-third of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean, and over the centuries they have worked, played, worshipped, committed crime

Author: Tobias Hecht
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: street, brazil, northeast, children, home
Number of Pages: 279
Published: 1998-05-13
List price: $31.99
ISBN-10: 0521598699
ISBN-13: 9780521598699

Through innovative fieldwork and ethnographic writing, Hecht lays bare the received truths about the lives of Brazilian street children. This book changes the terms of the debate, asking not why there are so many homeless children in Brazil but why - given the oppressive alternative of home life in the shantytowns - there are in fact so few. Speaking in recorded sessions that participants called "radio workshops," street children asked one another questions that even the most experienced researchers would be unlikely to pose. At the center of this study are children who play, steal, sleep, dan

Author: Tobias Hecht
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: novel, ethnographic, life
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-05-30
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0822337886
ISBN-13: 9780822337881

Bruna Veríssimo, a youth from the hardscrabble streets of Recife, in Northeast Brazil, spoke with Tobias Hecht over the course of many years, reliving her early childhood in a raging and destitute home, her initiation into the world of prostitution at a time when her contemporaries had scarcely started school, and her coming of age against all odds. Hecht had originally intended to write a biography of Veríssimo. But with interviews ultimately spanning a decade, he couldn’t ignore that much of what he had been told wasn’t, strictly speaking, true. In Veríssimo’s recounting of her

Authors:Ben Hecht, Bennett L. Hecht, Ray Ramsey,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: digital, management, dynamic, org, managingnonprofits
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-11-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0471395277
ISBN-13: 9780471395270

Praise for ManagingNonprofits.org "Hecht and Ramsey have hit a home run. ManagingNonprofits.org not only applies lessons learned from the dot.com world’s use of technology and the Internet to the nonprofit sector but helps nonprofit managers to adapt the best new management and leadership practices to their efforts. It is an invaluable tool for helping nonprofits reshape their old ways of doing business." -Milton J. Little Jr. Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer National Urban League "Ben Hecht and Rey Ramsey pull no punches in stating forcefull

Authors:Randall Tobias, Todd Tobias,
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: journey, business, life, ceo’s, leadership, table, lessons, moose
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-03-13
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0253342392
ISBN-13: 9780253342393

Like a moose in the living room some problems are just plain hard to ignore. Try as we might to keep them out of sight, they have a way of hanging around, demanding to be addressed. The best thing to do is confront them and look for a solution. Those who fail to do so usually come to regret that they didn’t put the moose on the table. PUT THE MOOSE ON THE TABLE is an effort to capture the lessons learned by one man over the course of a life and a career in the corporate world. It’s about his experiences and the lessons in leadership he learned during a time of unprecedented chan

Authors:Shelia Tobias, Sheila Tobias,
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: anxiety, math, overcoming
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 1994-03
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0393035778
ISBN-13: 9780393035773

Tobias’ lucid explanations help take the sting out of math anxiety and make math more accessible. Updated chapters demonstrate how little we really know about sex differences in brain function and new programs, many for women only, are described in detail. Illustrations.

Author: Joy E. Hecht
Publisher: World Conservation Union
Keywords: nine, case, studies, findings, accounting, learned, environmental, lessons
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2000-04-01
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0967060516
ISBN-13: 9780967060514

"Environmental accounting" - the modification of national income accounts to take into consideration the economic role of the environment - has grown in importance over the past ten years. However many countries have not yet implemented such accounts, and there is much controversy about whether and how to do so. This paper aims to shed light on the situation through nine country case studies: Norway, The Netherlands, Sweden, France, Canada, The Philippines, Namibia, Germany, and the United States.