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Disaster Management: Enabling Resilience
The present work will discuss relevant theoretical frameworks and applications pertaining to enabling resilience within the risk, crisis and disaster management domain. The contributions to this book focus on resilience thinking along 4 broad themes: Urban Domain; Cyber Domain; Organizational/Social domain; and Socio-ecological domain. This book would serve as a valuable reference for courses o…
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- 9783319088198
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- xvi, 338 pages
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- 363.348
Reclaiming Education: Moving Beyond the Culture of Reform
This book is an appeal to those directly and indirectly involved in education reform to reconsider the very nature of education as a process of transformation and not, as the neoliberal corporate model insists upon, as a “product.” By using Paulo Freire’s fundamental principle of understanding “education as the practice of freedom,” and expanding upon it with bell hooks’ own spirit…
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- 978-1-137-38843-8
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- 306.43
Reclaiming Composition for Chicano/as and Other Ethnic Minorities: A Critical…
Winner of Honorable Mention for the 2018 Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award This book examines the history of ethnic minorities particularly Chicano/as and Latino/as--in the field of composition and rhetoric; the connections between composition and major US historical movements toward inclusiveness in education; the ways our histories of that inclu…
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- 978-1-137-53673-0
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- 370.9
The Marriage Motive: A Price Theory of Marriage
While this book contains numerous facts and empirical findings and touches on policy issues, its main contribution to the existing literature lies in the theoretical perspective it offers. The core of this book is a general equilibrium theory of labor and marriage presented in Chapter 2, which provides the conceptual framework for the rest of the chapters. Two major implications of the theory a…
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- 978-1-4614-1623-4
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- XII, 209
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- 338.5
Disaster Vulnerability, Hazards and Resilience Perspectives from Florida
This monograph provides valuable lessons in building disaster resilience for rural communities and beyond. With a focus on Florida, the authors present a comprehensive review of the current debates surrounding the study of resilience, from federal frameworks, state plans and local initiatives. They also review evaluation tools and feature first-hand accounts of county emergency managers as well…
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- 9783319164533
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- 303.485
Disciplinary intuitions and the design of learning environments
As children, we would have spilt glasses of milk, dropped things, and broken things. As children, therefore, we would have developed intuitions about how the world?works?, but we would not necessarily have been able to explain these?workings?. It would only have been till we entered formal schooling that we would have learned codifications of canon within each respective discipline, and consequ…
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- 9789812871824
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- 214 pages
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- 331.55
Teaching in a Digital Age
The book examines the underlying principles that guide effective teaching in an age when everyone,and in particular the students we are teaching, are using technology. A framework for making decisions about your teaching is provided, while understanding that every subject is different, and every instructor has something unique and special to bring to their teaching. The book enables teachers an…
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Disgorgement of profits : gain-based remedies throughout the world
Disgorgement of profits is not exactly a household word in private law. Particularly in civil law jurisdictions as opposed to those of the common law the notion is not well known. What does it stand for? It is best illustrated by examples. One of the best known being the British case of Blake v Attorney General, [2001] 1 AC 268. In which a double spy had been imprisoned by the UK government bef…
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- 9783319187594
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- 340.2
Disorders of the neonatal airway : fundamentals for practice
Disorders of the Neonatal Airway serves as a comprehensive, multidisciplinary resource for all practitioners who care for neonates with airway disorders. With the evolution of advances in neonatology and neonatal airway care over the past three decades, the survival rate and life expectancy of premature newborns have dramatically increased to well over 50% in 24-25 week gestation infants. Unfor…
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- 9781493916108
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- xix, 401 pages
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- 363.124
Displacement, identity and belonging : an arts-based, auto/biographical portr…
Displacement, Identity and Belonging is a book about difference. It deals with ethnicity, migration, place, marginalisation, memory and constructions of the self. The arts-based and auto/biographical performance of the many voices in the text compliment and interrupt each other to create a polyvocal rendition of experience. The text unfolds through fiction, memoir, legend, artworks, photographs…
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- 9789463000703
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- xxiv, 265 pages
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- 303.482
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