David Orr: 20 books
by David Orr
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
A collection of reviews and essays by David Orr, the New York Times poetry columnist and one of the most respected critics in America today, his best work of the past fifteen years in one place
Poetry is never more vital, meaningful, or accessible than in the hands of David Orr. In the pieces collected...
Beautiful & Pointless
A Guide to Modern Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
"David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr’s a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and also for those of...
The Road Not Taken
Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
A cultural “biography” of Robert Frost’s beloved poem, arguably the most popular piece of literature written by an American
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood . . .” One hundred years after its first publication in August 1915, Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” is so...
A New Battlefield
The Royal Ulster Rifles in Korea 1950-51
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Since the publication of The Rifles Are There in 2005, which dealt with the 1st and 2nd Battalions Royal Ulster Rifles in the Second World War, it was felt by many that a follow up volume dealing with the Korean conflict was overdue. A limited yet competent history had been produced in 1953 by the...
Sustainable Education
Revisioning Learning and Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
While environmental education, and more recently education for sustainable development are important trends, they are not sufficient to reorient and transform education as a whole and yet time is short to realise such change. The Briefing critiques the prevailing managerial and mechanistic paradigm...
by Keri J. Sansevere, Michael J. Gall, Ross Thomas Rava
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A 2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
New scholarship provides insights into the archaeology and cultural history of African American life from a collection of sites in the Mid-Atlantic.
This groundbreaking volume explores the archaeology of African American life and cultures in the...
Safeguarding Adults Under the Care Act 2014
Understanding Good Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Practice in safeguarding adults is changing, with a shift in approach to ensure it is person-centred and outcome-focused. The Care Act 2014 introduced new safeguarding duties for local authorities, and this book describes what up-to-date practice should look like, and how to provide the best quality...
Hope Is an Imperative
The Essential David Orr
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
For more than three decades, David Orr has been one of the leading voices of the environmental movement, championing the cause of ecological literacy in higher education, helping to establish and shape the field of ecological design, and working tirelessly to raise awareness of the threats to future...
Down to the Wire
Confronting Climate Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
"The real fault line in American politics is not between liberals and conservatives.... It is, rather, in how we orient ourselves to the generations to come who will bear the consequences, for better and for worse, of our actions." So writes David Orr in Down to the Wire, a sober and eloquent...
Earth in Mind
On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
In Earth in Mind, noted environmental educator David W. Orr focuses not on problems in education, but on the problem of education.
Much of what has gone wrong with the world, he argues, is the result of inadequate and misdirected education that: alienates us from life in the name of human...
by David W. Orr, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1992
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
"For the most part . . . we are still educating the young as if there were no planetary emergency." Yet, continues David Orr, the...
by David W. Orr
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
A leading environmental thinker takes a hard look at the obstacles and possibilities on the long road to sustainability This gripping, deeply thoughtful book considers future of civilization in the light of what we know about climate change and related threats. David Orr, an award-winning, internationally...
The Last Refuge
Patriotism, Politics, and the Environmin an Age of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
"Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels" -SAMUEL JOHNSON, 1775 "a tightly reasoned, excellently written book that should be lethally effective in helping readers who aren't experts understand the contours of the crisis." -TOLEDO BLADE Updated and revised following the 2004 elections, The Last...
An Illustrated History of the Police Service in Northern Ireland and its Forerunners
From Peel to PSNI
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Hugh Forrester and David R. Orr cover nearly 200 years of policing in Ireland using images drawn from the archives of the Police Museum in Belfast. Policing in Ireland has its own unique and often troubled history and has been influenced by many of the great changes in Irish history such as armed...
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