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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Recent years in North America have seen a rapid development in the area of crime analysis and mapping using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology.
In 1996, the US National Institute of Justice (NIJ) established the crime mapping research center (CMRC), to promote research, evaluation, development,...
by Elizabeth J. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Issues related to gender and sexual diversity in schools can generate a lot of controversy, with many educators and youth advocates under-prepared to address these topics in their school communities. This text offers an easy-to-read introduction to the subject, providing readers with definitions and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
This Handbook offers a comprehensive collection of essays that cover essential features of geographical mobility, from internal migration, to international migration, to urbanization, to the adaptation of migrants in their destinations. Part I of the collection introduces the range of theoretical...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
The Politics of Education Reforms, which is the ninth volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses concerning the politics of education reforms globally. It provides an easily accessible, practical yet...
Spheres of Global Justice
Volume 1 Global Challenges to Liberal Democracy. Political Participation, Minorities and Migrations; Volume 2 Fair Distribution - Global Economic, Social and Intergenerational Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013
Spheres of Global Justice analyzes six of the most important and controversial spheres of global justice, each concerning a specific global social good. These spheres are democratic participation, migrations, cultural minorities, economic justice, social justice, and intergenerational justice. Together...
Communist China and Tibet
The First Dozen Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The signing in Peking on May 27, I95I, of the I7-point Agreement on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet marked the end of Tibet's latest forty-year interlude of de facto independence and formalized an arrangement which, although in some respects differing from the earlier relationship between...
Population Aging
The Transformation of Societies
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Population Aging: The Transformation of Societies presents an overview and international comparison of the causes, consequences and policy implications of one of the major processes of change in contemporary societies. It provides a foundation for understanding and reflecting on keydemographic and...
Federalism and Legal Unification
A Comparative Empirical Investigation of Twenty Systems
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
How and to what degree do federations produce uniform law within their system? This comparative empirical study addresses these questions comprehensively for the first time. Originally produced under the auspices of the International Academy of Comparative Law, this volume examines legal unification...
Pedagogy in (E)Motion
Rethinking Spaces and Relations
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
This personal, creative, critical work from a leading scholar of psychology is rooted in three novel concepts and aims to share critical pedagogy in the spirit of nascent potential found in the context of a colonial Puerto Rico. First comes the idea of ‘pedagogy in (e)motion’, or the emotional...
by Graciela Tonon
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
The study of quality of life refers to the material environment (social welfare) and psychosocial environment (wellbeing). It has been defined as a concept that implies the objective and subjective dimension that Cummins (1997) first studied in seven domains. The use of domains in the quality of life...
Understanding Lone Wolf Terrorism
Global Patterns, Motivations and Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
What drives the lone wolf terrorist to commit mass violence? What are their ideologies and motivations? How do they plan and carry out their attacks, and who do they target? How can lone wolf terrorism be effectively countered? One of the first in-depth analyses of lone wolf terrorism, this publication...
Teaching About Hegemony
Race, Class and Democracy in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Political progressives in Canada and the United States are deeply concerned by the manner in which their countries treat their poor. They are dismayed at the dismantling of the social welfare state, the weakening of public education systems and the grotesque and ever-growing inequality of wealth....
Sustainable Development
A History
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This book documents the influence of nongovernmental organizations on the rise of the sustainable development movement in international politics. It adds to the body of scholarly research on non-governmental organizations, by examining their political influence during the first two decades of international...
Schooling for Sustainable Development in Chinese Communities
Experience with Younger Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
This book focuses on the academic foundations, trends and traditions of environmental education for sustainable development principally in Chinese contexts. It highlights contexts and case studies that illuminate recent Chinese initiatives. It includes case studies of green schools and reports on...