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Politics of Economic Planning
Papers on Planning and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The issue of planning prompted some of the fiercest debate in mid-twentieth century economics. Politics of Economic Planning collects together a number of papers from journals and contributed books that examine the problems of economic planning in a free society. They fall into three groups:
Part...
Age Matters
Re-Aligning Feminist Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This volume of original chapters is designed to bring attention to a neglected area of feminist scholarship - aging. After several decades of feminist studies we are now well informed of the complex ways that gender shapes the lives of women and men. Similarly, we know more about how gendered power...
Localizing and Transnationalizing Contentious Politics
Global Civil Society Movements in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009
The Philippines makes an interesting case for examining direct and collective acts of contention against the neoliberal project of economic globalization. Crippled by foreign debt, indiscriminate liberalization of trade, falling stock markets, and perpetual corruption, the Philippines is also a democratic...
The Uprooted
Improving Humanitarian Responses to Forced Migration
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
By conservative estimates about 50 million migrants are currently living outside of their home communities, forced to flee to obtain some measure of safety and security. In addition to persecution, human rights violations, repression, conflict, and natural and human-made disasters, current causes...
Rethinking Engineering Education
The CDIO Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
This book describes an approach to engineering education that integrates a comprehensive set of personal, interpersonal, and professional engineering skills with engineering disciplinary knowledge in order to prepare innovative and entrepreneurial engineers. The education of engineers is set in the...
Future Drive
Electric Vehicles And Sustainable Transportation
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
In Future Drive, Daniel Sperling addresses the adverse energy and environmental consequences of increased travel, and analyzes currinitiatives to suggest strategies for creating a more environmentally benign system of transportation. Groundbreaking proposals are constructed around the idea of electric...
by Michael E. Kitces, MSFS, MTAX
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Field Guide to Financial Planning offers step-by-step solutions to hundreds of planning needs and challenges. It is the definitive guide for agents and financial planners to identify, understand, and employ the concepts and techniques used in financial and wealth management planning.The 2014...
by Helen E. Roy, Peter M. J. Brown, Richard F. Comont
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This revised and updated edition of Ladybirds provides a succinct but comprehensive and accessible overview of the biology of ladybirds and their parasites, focusing on ecology in an evolutionary context. It provides the latest information, coverage of recent additions to the British list including the...
Assessing Expressive Learning
A Practical Guide for Teacher-directed Authentic Assessment in K-12 Visual Arts Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Assessing Expressive Learning is the only book in the art education field to date to propose and support a research-supported teacher-directed authentic assessment model for evaluating K-12 studio art, and to offer practical information on how to implement the model.
This practical text for...
Extrusion
The Definitive Processing Guide and Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
The second edition of Extrusion is designed to aid operators, engineers, and managers in extrusion processing in quickly answering practical day-to-day questions. The first part of the book provides the fundamental principles, for operators and engineers, of polymeric materials extrusion processing...
by Pat Adams, American Association of Museums, Association of Science-Technology Centers
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
There has been, and continues to be, an explosion of interest in developing new small science centers that is changing the world of museums. This handbook is designed to be a one-stop source for future and current centers, and anyone interested in the important roles these institutions play in their...
by Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Molly Cummings Carney, Elizabeth Stringer Keefe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Teacher accountability has been a major strategy for “fixing” education for the last 2 decades. In this book, Cochran-Smith and her research team argue that it is time for teacher educators to reclaim accountability by adopting a new approach that features intelligent professional responsibility,...
by A.H. Neilson, D. Mackay, S. Paterson
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science. Interest in this subject, however, is growing very rapidly and, although no agreement has been reached as yet about the exact content and limits of this interdisciplinary discipline, there appears to be increasing interest in seeing environmental...
Maintenance Management in Network Utilities
Framework and Practical Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
In order to satisfy the needs of their customers, network utilities require specially developed maintenance management capabilities. Maintenance Management information systems are essential to ensure control, gain knowledge and improve-decision making in companies dealing with network infrastructure,...