This volume provides an examination of how garbage reveals the relationships between the global and the local, the economic and the ecological, and the historical and the contemporary.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
This practical guide to using ICT in the primary classroom addresses all the concerns of student teachers and provides plenty of ideas and advice on how to incorporate ICT into classroom practice on a daily basis. The authors bring together theory and practice to help prospective and new teachers acquire and develop the skills required for using ICT effectively. Meeting the Standards in Primary…
First published in 1997. This book is from the original Arabic text with an English translation, introduction and commentary of a critical edition of Zad al-musfir wa-qut al-hadir, Provisions for the Traveller and Nourishment for the Sedentary, book six.
To date, there has been no comprehensive analysis of the disperse research on the squatters’ movement in Europe. In Squatters in the Capitalist City, Miguel A. Martínez López presents a critical review of the current research on squatting and of the historical development of the movements in European cities according to their major social, political and spatial dimensions. Comparing citi…
How power is wielded in environmental policy making at the state level, and how to redress the ingrained favoritism toward coal and electric utilities.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An interdisciplinary account of phenomenal unity, investigating how experiential wholes can be characterized and how such characterizations can be analyzed computationally. How can we account for phenomenal unity? That is, how can we characterize and explain our experience of objects and groups of objects, bodily experiences, successions of events, and the attentional structure of consciousness…
Making local energy futures, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel, at the edge of the world.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"This book critiques what the author sees as a growing global cult of information through three case studies examining Indian anti-poverty initiatives"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Why do we run toward people we love, but only walk toward others? Why do people in New York seem to be in a rush? Why do our eyes linger longer on things we value more? There is a link between how the brain assigns value to things, and how it controls our movements. This link is an ancient one, developed through shared neural circuits that on one hand teach us how to value things, and on the o…
Case studies and analyses investigate how collaborative response to crisis can enhance social-ecological resilience and promote community reinvention. Crisis—whether natural disaster, technological failure, economic collapse, or shocking acts of violence—can offer opportunities for collaboration, consensus building, and transformative social change. Communities often experience a surge o…