[Springboard] Book after next?

Tue Jun 2 13:21:09 EDT 2009

How do we get a copy of George West's book?

Nancy

2009/6/1 Lawrence Philbrook <icalarry at gmail.com>

>  I just finished reading Georges book it is great and just as Marianna
> suggested a rehearsing/remembering/ adding to and projecting forward
> dialogue would be great.
>
> I would love to participate in a study of it but probably not as the next
> book since I will be hard to connect with until mid-July.
>
> With respect, Larry
>
> Marianna Bailey wrote:
>
> We definitely want to get a copy of his book. That would be different kind
> of study, like rehearsing/remembering and projecting forward?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* James Wiegel <jfwiegel at yahoo.com>
> *To:* Springboard Dialogue <springboard at wedgeblade.net>
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:30 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Springboard] Outliers study session 3. Great study,see you
> next time -- What about a next book?
>
>   Also, I ran across George West's book on creating community.
>
> Jim Wiegel
>
> If anyone tells you something strange about the world, something you had
> never heard before, do not laugh but listen attentively; make him repeat it,
> make him explain it; no doubt there is something there worth taking hold of.
> -- Georges Duhamel.
>
> 401 North Beverly Way
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> +1 623-363-3277
> jfwiegel at yahoo.com
> www.partnersinparticipation.com
>
> --- On *Thu, 5/28/09, Marianna Bailey <wmbailey at charter.net><wmbailey at charter.net>
> * wrote:
>
>
> From: Marianna Bailey <wmbailey at charter.net> <wmbailey at charter.net>
> Subject: Re: [Springboard] Outliers study session 3. Great study, see you
> next time -- What about a next book?
> To: "Springboard Dialogue" <springboard at wedgeblade.net><springboard at wedgeblade.net>
> Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009, 7:23 AM
>
>  This looks like a very interesting book. We are interested.
>
> Marianna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* James Wiegel <http://mc/compose?to=jfwiegel@yahoo.com>
> *To:* Springboard Dialogue<http://mc/compose?to=springboard@wedgeblade.net>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 27, 2009 9:36 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Springboard] Outliers study session 3. Great study,see you
> next time -- What about a next book?
>
>    Anyone interested in studying THE BIG SORT?
>
>
>
>  *THE BIG SORT* (Houghton Mifflin, May 7, 2008) is the landmark story of
> how America came to be a country of swelling cultural division, economic
> separation, and political polarization.
>
> Going far beyond the simplistic red state/blue state divide, journalist *Bill
> Bishop* (in collaboration with sociologist and statistician Robert
> Cushing) marshals original data and incisive reporting to show how Americans
> have sorted themselves geographically, economically, and politically into
> like-minded communities over the last three decades.
>
> Homogeneity may be a perk of the unprecedented choice our society
> offers—but it also breeds economic inequality, cultural misunderstanding,
> political extremism, and legislative gridlock. This is the story of our
> times, and its reality poses a profound threat to democracy, but no one
> before now has seemed to notice, let alone been able to describe, its causes
> and consequences.
> The nation we live in—our culture, economy, neighborhoods, and churches—has
> been sculpted by the Big Sort over the past thirty years:
>
>
>
>  How did zip codes become as useful to political activists as to mail
> carriers? In the relatively new cultural dynamics of political segregation,
> Bishop discerns a troubling transformation of American life. Complex and
> surprising, the story of that transformation will confound readers who
> suppose that recent decades have made American society both more diverse and
> more tolerant. Pinpointing 1965 as the year when events in Vietnam,
> Washington, and Watts delivered body blows to traditional social
> institutions, Bishop recounts how Americans who had severed ties to
> community, faith, and family forged new affiliations based on lifestyle
> preferences. The resulting social realignment has segmented the nation into
> groupthink communities, fostering political smugness and polarization. The
> much-noted cartography of Red and Blue states, as Bishop shows, actually
> distorts the reality of a deeply Blue archipelago of urban islands
> surrounded by a starkly Red rural sea. Bishop worries about the future of
> democratic discourse as more and more Americans live, work, and worship
> surrounded by people who echo their own views. A raft of social-science
> research underscores the growing difficulty of bipartisan compromise in a
> balkanized country where politicians win office by satisfying their most
> radical constituents. A book posing hard questions for readers across the
> political spectrum.
>
> Bryce Christensen
>
> Jim Wiegel
>
> If anyone tells you something strange about the world, something you had
> never heard before, do not laugh but listen attentively; make him repeat it,
> make him explain it; no doubt there is something there worth taking hold of.
> -- Georges Duhamel.
>
> 401 North Beverly Way
> Tolleson, Arizona 85353-2401
> +1 623-936-8671
> +1 623-363-3277
> jfwiegel at yahoo.com
> www.partnersinparticipation.com
>
> --- On *Wed, 5/27/09, Robert Rafos <rafos at sympatico.ca><rafos at sympatico.ca>
> * wrote:
>
>
> From: Robert Rafos <rafos at sympatico.ca> <rafos at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: [Springboard] Outliers study session 3.
> To: "Springboard Dialogue" <springboard at wedgeblade.net><springboard at wedgeblade.net>
> Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 12:24 PM
>
>  Tonight at 6:00 P.M. Mountain time continues the study of Outliers,
> Chapters 6 and 7.
>  Dial in Number is: 269-320-8400
>
>  Access code is: 881373#
>
>  Chart attached
>
>  Bob Rafos
>
>
>  *"Remember the trail, for if you don't know the way you have come, you
> will be lost."  -  Grandfather Albert, a Sicangu Lakota.*
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