Tom Turner: 15 books
David Brower
The Making of the Environmental Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
In this first comprehensive authorized biography of David Brower, a dynamic leader in the environmental movement over the last half of the twentieth century, Tom Turner explores Brower's impact on the movement from its beginnings until his death in 2000.
Frequently compared to John Muir, David...
Garden History
Philosophy and Design 2000 BC – 2000 AD
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
An updated version of this book is now available as European Gardens (2011), also by Tom Turner. Expanding into other regions are Asian Gardens (2010) and the forthcoming British Gardens, both also by Turner and published by Routledge.
Tom Turner, well-known teacher and writer in landscape...
Roadless Rules
The Struggle for the Last Wild Forests
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Roadless Rules is a fast-paced and insightful look at one of the mimportant, wide-ranging, and controversial efforts to protect public forests ever undertaken in the United States. In January 2000, PresidClinton submitted to the Federal Register the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, prohibiting road...
Are Trade Unions Still Relevant?
Union Recognition 100 Years On
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
This edited collection examines the relevance of trade unions 100 years on from the 1913 Lockout in Dublin. The general argument underpinning the papers in this book is that trade unions are still relevant in the 21st century, since they provide an independent collective representation for workers...
City as Landscape
A Post Post-Modern View of Design and Planning
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
In twenty essays, this book covers aspects of planning, architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, park and garden design. Their approach, described as post-postmodern, is a challenge to the 'anything goes' eclecticism of the merely postmodern.
by Tom Turner
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2004
Written for use in undergraduate and postgraduate planning courses and for those involved in all aspects of the planning process, this comprehensive textbook focuses on environmental impact assessment and design and in particular their impact on planning for the landscape.
Professional Investigations
Concepts & Strategies for Investigators in the Private Sector
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
This text covers the history of private investigations and provides a comparison and contrast the role of a private investigator to the role of government investigators. The students will also learn to identify strategies for business development and environment and be able to analyze ethical and...
by Tom Turner
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
40 was a dangerous age to meet a bewitching 19 year old Javanese girl on the beach at Bali.Jack Webb was 40 years old; a successful newspaper columnist with a lovely wife eight years younger and two healthy teenage kids. He thought he had everything he wanted.Then Mamik cast her spell over him and...
Family Thais
Part One
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
A middle aged Englishman, married to a Thai he hardly ever sees, embarks on an explosively physical affaire with a young Thai mother of two.Despite visiting the girl’s parents’ place many times, he never gets to see where she lives and has suspicions about that.A year into their affaire she becomes...
Family Thais 2
7 Billionth Baby
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Imprisoned by a corrupt legal system for three and a half years.Forced to have her baby by Caesarean section in a flooded jail.In constant fear of losing the support of her lover.How would Nok and her three children survive?Mother of two and 5 months pregnant with her third, Nok had been framed as...
Learning iPad Programming
A Hands-On Guide to Building iPad Apps
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
“Not many books have a single project that lives and evolves through the entire narrative. The reason not many books do this is because it is difficult to do well. Important toolkit features get shoehorned in weird places because the author didn’t do enough up-front design time. This book, though,...
Nine visions of capitalism
Unlocking the meanings of wealth creation
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Capitalism has been in a state of crisis for nearly one hundred years. The effects of the stock market crash of 1929 were felt well into the 1950s. The turbulence in international currency markets in the late 1960s, which sparked worldwide street protests in 1968, was unresolved until the middle of...
Individualism
The Cultural Logic of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity explores ideas of the modern sovereign individual in the western cultural tradition. Divided into two sections, this volume surveys the history of western individualism in both its early and later forms: chiefly from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries,...
Wetlands: Market and Intervention Failures
Four case studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Wetlands are vital and valuable resources, both as rich and unique wildlife habitats, and for the functions they fulfil - providing flood and sediment control and coastal protection, as carbon sinks and pollution buffers, for their role in storing and recycling nutrients, as well as for their recreational...
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