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Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness
From Pretreatment Strategies to Psychologically Informed Environments
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness Reveal New Insights
This groundbreaking book presents compelling narratives and innovative approaches for addressing the psychological traumas that can underlie homelessness and is the first to explore in-depth what the US and UK can learn from one another.
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Hazardous Waste Sites
The Credibility Gap
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Mutual distrust defines the relationship between those who are the sources of hazardous wastes and those who oversee their activities. A lack of credibility, argue the authors, is a formidable, if not the biggest, obstacle to properly managing hazardous waste in the United States. Nowhere is the credibility...
Deleuze and World Politics
Alter-Globalizations and Nomad Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
The central argument of this book is that the univocal ontology and corresponding immanent metaphysics of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) can provide a theoretical perspective capable of accounting for the complex nature of world politics.
Drawing on a wide variety of Deleuze’s...
The Business of Leadership: An Introduction
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Specifically tailored to business students, this undergraduate textbook features a "how-to" approach and is filled with with current, lively examples and well-crafted learning tools. It takes readers from the kind of leradership they can exhibit in supervisory roles to the visionary leadership they must exhibit in management and executive roles.
Dynamics of Leadership in Public Service
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Eminently readible, current, and comprhensive, this acclaimed text sets the standard for instruction in
Globalization, Agriculture and Food in the Caribbean
Climate Change, Gender and Geography
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
The last decade has seen a growing body of research about globalization and climate change in the Caribbean. This collection is a significant addition to the literature on a topic that is of critical importance to the region. It explores research from a number of Caribbean islands dealing with a range...
Alerta Barcelona
Adiós a la ciudad autocomplaciente
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 22, 2019
Las grandes ciudades son las verdaderas propulsoras del crecimiento económico y de la creatividad en el mundo, por encima de estados y fronteras. Barcelona no ha parado de escalar posiciones y de afianzar su prestigio, hasta que cierta autocomplacencia colectiva ha erosionado su éxito.
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Learning Landscape Ecology
A Practical Guide to Concepts and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Filled with numerous exercises this practical guide provides a real hands-on approach to learning the essential concepts and techniques of landscape ecology. The knowledge gained enables students to usefully address landscape- level ecological and management issues. A variety of approaches are presented,...
Reforesting Landscapes
Linking Pattern and Process
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
The 21st century has seen the beginnings of a great restoration effort towards the world’s forests, accompanied by the emergence of an increasing literature on reforestation, regeneration and regrowth of forest cover. Yet to date, there is no volume which synthesises current knowledge on the extent,...
Landform - Structure, Evolution, Process Control
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Landform organised by the Research Training Group 437
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
This book offers a broad interdisciplinary overview of state-of-the-art research on landform related issues. It presents a selection of papers given at the International Symposium on "Landform – structure, evolution process control", Bonn, June 2007.
by Solon ben Earl
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2011
In 2010 we moved from the Seattle area to Las Vegas. This is the sad story of that move. No names have been changed because no-one is innocent.
by Trevor K. Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Environmental Justice and Activism in Indianapolis examines how place attachment, social capital, and perceptions influence citizen responses when their communities are environmentally threatened. Trevor K. Fuller determines what inspires citizens to take action by analyzing the responses of two communities...
by Joseph V. Chiaretti, Mahmoud A. Abdelfattah, Michael A. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Central to human life and civilization, soils are an integral part of the physical and cultural environment. Although we may take them for granted, the rise and fall of civilizations is closely linked with the use and abuse of soil and water resources. It is therefore important to evaluate soils for...
by Silas Flint
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Most people don't think much about acquisitions or "takings" of private property by the government--until they receive a letter that their land is about to be taken! This complex subject is made easy to understand in this volume. The author uses zany humor and bizarre examples to describe the...