Bøger af T P Schwartz-Barcott

"My children have been raised to have drive, a hatred of losing, and the stamina to keep pushing until they ultimately win....Like all parents, I dream of a healthy, happy life for my children." - Ivana Trump, Raising Trump"Does happiness matter in the behaviors and expressions of our leaders? I often think that our children and our society benefit greatly when our leaders convey genuine happiness in what they say and how they behave. This book convinces me that the answer is a resounding "Yes!" - Anonymous"This is not 'just another book, ' like so many other books that obviously advocate for or against Donald Trump. Here is a book that provides fascinating new ways to think about our leaders. It does so through the words and methods of a career sociologist who probably is as objective and non-partisan as a person can be. So put away your political biases as best you can. Get ready to be as open-minded as you can be." - B. HappyHere are some of the questions answered as objectively as possible in this book: - Which of the Trumps most often express happiness about themselves and about the other Trumps?- What have been the most significant sources of happiness and unhappiness to the Trumps over the last four generations? Genes? Health? Happy parents and other relatives? Experiences with friends, sex, schools, religions, marriages, parenting, and careers? Financial success and wealth? "Good luck"?- Which Presidents have expressed happiness most often and in what ways about themselves and their relatives: Reagan, Bush (#41), Clinton, Bush (#43), Obama, Trump? In their own words, what has made them happy?ABOUT THE AUTHORMy family and I have been happy enough to have our home in a very old farmhouse in rural Rhode Island for more than forty years. During those years our home and land have been home to countless critters, some of them tame, many of them rather wild. Most if not all of them have seemed happy enough in their barks, purrs, songs, scampers, slithers, and so many other natural expressions-escapes among them. As for me, I have been a research sociologist for many years (Ph.D. in sociology, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1975) and I have taught courses in sociology, social psychology, and criminology as a faculty member at the University of Delaware, Brown University, the University of Connecticut, and Providence College. Five of my books have been published since 2004. These include: War, Terror & Peace in the Qur'an and in Islam: Insights for Military and Government Leaders (2004); After the Disaster: Re-creating Community and Well-Being at Buffalo Creek since the Notorious Coal-Mining Disaster in 1972 (2008); and Violence, Terror, Genocide, and War in the Holy Books and in the Decades Ahead: New Psychological and Sociological Insights on How the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the Qur'an Might Influence Violence (2018).

Scholars who have studied rural people and places often have focused on a snapshot in time as they attempt to understand how human beings are impacted by change at the local community level. Community once was declared dead as a unit of analysis for social science scholars, yet the citizens who live in these places find that their attachments to place and to other people in these places are crucial to their lives. Too often those who study such phenomena fail to examine the longterm impacts of shocks to place and people. This methodological failing often leads to exaggerated estimations of the impacts of disasters on communities and their residents. Human beings and the social structures they create are resilient. In this book, the author fills some of the gaps in our knowledge when he returns repeatedly to Buffalo Creek for several years, long after the flash flood departed in 1972. It is not often that a scholar with empathy for rural citizens returns to a place for many years to understand the longer term implications of disasters for individual well-being. This book provides a view of a place long after the tragedy has taken place. It illustrates how community residents struggle to re-create community and well-being after a serious ecological shock. The resilience of the human character and the adaptability of community structures form the core of this book. Taking us through the days before the flash flood at Buffalo Creek, the author paints a portrait of human failings and of growing environmental danger. He draws on the voices that were there on the scene. He also gives us a detailed review of newspaper accounts, government documents, and research studies, including Kai Erikson's classic disaster study, Everything in Its Path. From these many sources, we get a multi-faceted account of how the disaster occurred and how dozens of local, state, and federal agencies responded to it. After the Disaster provides detailed discussions with local residents, survey data, and a gift for integration that allows the reader to gain an understanding of how disasters impact communities in the short term and in the long term. The latter is one of the most important contributions of this book.