Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: simon bell

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  • REMEMBERING THE HOLOCAUST AND THE IMPACT ON SOCIETIES TODAY
    SIMON BELL
    The Holocaust is the most researched and written about genocide in history. Known facts should be beyond dispute. Yet Holocaust memory is often formed and dictated by governments and others with an agenda to fulfil, or by deniers who seek to rewrite the past due to vested interests and avowed prejudices. Legislation can be used to prosecute hate crime and genocide denial, but i...

    $299.00

  • THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF FRIENDSHIP
    SANDRA BELL / SIMON COLEMAN
    Friendship is usually seen as a vital part of most people's lives in the West. From our friends, we hope to derive emotional support, advice and material help in times of need. In this pioneering book, basic assumptions about friendship are examined from a cross-cultural point of view. Is friendship only a western conception or is it possible to identify friends in such places ...

    $1,039.00

  • PLACE, PEDAGOGY AND PLAY
    JENNY WOOD / MATLUBA KHAN / SIMON BELL
    Place, Pedagogy and Play connects landscape architecture with education, psychology, public health and planning. Over the course of thirteen chapters it examines how design and research of places can be approached through multiple lenses – of pedagogy and play and how children, as competent social agents, are engaged in the process of designing their own spaces – and brings a g...

    $1,339.00

  • ELEMENTS OF VISUAL DESIGN IN THE LANDSCAPE
    SIMON BELL
    What makes a visually appealing landscape? How can the design and use of a landscape be harmonized? In this significantly revised and updated third edition of Simon Bell's seminal text, he further explores the answers to these questions by interrogating a range of design principles, applications and ideas. Written for students, instructors and professionals, the book unveils a ...

    $1,099.00

  • RE-CONSTRUCTING THE BOOK
    MAUREEN BELL / SHIRLEY CHEW / SIMON ELIOT
    This title was first published in 2001. Literary critics, textual editors and bibliographers, and historians of publishing have hitherto tended to publish their research as if in separate fields of enquiry. The purpose of this volume is to bring together contributions from these fields in a dialogue rooted in the transmission of texts. Arranged chronologically, so as to allow t...

    $1,339.00

  • RESEARCH IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
    ADRI VAN DEN BRINK, DIEDRICH BRUNS, HILDE TOBI AND SIMON BELL
    Defining a research question, describing why it needs to be answered and explaining how methods are selected and applied are challenging tasks for anyone embarking on academic research within the field of landscape architecture. Whether you are an early career researcher or a senior academic, it is essential to draw meaningful conclusions and robust answers to research question...

    $1,399.00

  • RICH PICTURES
    SIMON BELL / TESSA BERG / STEPHEN MORSE
    Rich Pictures focuses on the value of developing visual narratives – Rich Pictures – as an important component and starting point for community participation. A key device for the community to share ideas and perspectives on current and potential future situations, Rich Pictures provide a shared space for members to set out ideas and negotiate. While Rich Pictures are widely an...

    $1,179.00

  • URBAN ALLOTMENT GARDENS IN EUROPE
    SIMON BELL
    Although urban allotment gardening dates back to the nineteenth century, it has recently undergone a renaissance of interest and popularity. This is the result of greater concern over urban greenspace, food security and quality of life. This book presents a comprehensive, research-based overview of the various features, benefits and values associated with urban allotment garden...

    $1,179.00

  • RESILIENT PARTICIPATION
    SIMON BELL / STEPHEN MORSE
    Stakeholder or public participation has become something of a modern mantra employed in all sorts of contexts to give people a voice. There are many variants on this 'participation' but traditionally they all share a desire to maximise involvement and provide desired 'outputs' of a required quality as quickly and as cheaply as possible. Difference tends to be reduced and compro...

    $1,179.00

  • HOW TO SET UP INFORMATION SYSTEMS
    SIMON BELL / TREVOR WOOD-HARPER
    This introductory user's guide to systems analysis and systems design focuses on building sustainable information systems to meet tomorrow's needs. It shows how practitioners can apply multiple participatory perspectives in development, so as to avoid future problems. As a practical guide, it is presented to be readily comprehensible and is organized to enable users to concentr...

    $1,799.00

  • MEASURING SUSTAINABILITY
    SIMON BELL / STEPHEN MORSE
    ' Measuring the sustainability of development is crucial to achieving it, and is one of the most actively studied issues in the area. To date, most studies of measurements or indicators have been largely theoretical. However, this book, a follow-on to Bell and Morse's highly influential Sustainability Indicators (1999), presents valuable practical advice on how to develop measu...

    $1,179.00

  • LANDSCAPE: PATTERN, PERCEPTION AND PROCESS
    SIMON BELL
    Landscapes develop and evolve through an interacting series of processes – climatic, geological, ecological and cultural – over varying periods of time. These processes shape the structure and character of the landscapes which we experience. Over time, distinctive patterns emerge – ranging in scale from the distribution of small plants to the sculptured sides of a huge canyon. ...

    $1,339.00

  • SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS
    SIMON BELL / STEPHEN MORSE
    Praise for the first edition: 'This book should be of interest to anyone interested in sustainable development, and especially sustainability indicators. Bell and Morse easily succeed in exposing the fundamental paradoxes of these concepts and, more importantly, they offer us a way forward. Readers ... will find their practical recommendations for those attempting to do sustain...

    $1,039.00

  • EXPLORING THE BOUNDARIES OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
    BELL, SIMON / HERLIN, INGRID SARLOV / STILES, RICHARD
    What have cultural anthropologists, historical geographers, landscape ecologists and environmental artists got in common? Along with eight other disciplines, from domains as diverse as planning and design, the arts and humanities as well as the social and natural sciences, they are all fields of importance to the theory and practice of landscape architecture. In the context of ...

    $1,439.00

  • INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO RESEARCHING LANDSCAPE AND HEALTH
    WARD THOMPSON, CATHARINE / ASPINALL, PETER / BELL, SIMON
    Our modern lifestyles often cause us to spend more time sitting behind a desk than being active outdoors. At the same time, our general health is deteriorating. The alarming rise in obesity, sedentary lifestyles and mental ill-health across the developed world has resulted in an urgent desire to understand how the environment, in particular the outdoor environment, influences h...

    $1,179.00

  • EUROPEAN FOREST RECREATION AND TOURISM
    BELL, SIMON / SIMPSON, MURRAY / TYRVÄINEN, LISA / SIEVÄNEN, TUIJA / PRÖBSTL, ULRIKE
    *Please note the 2015 paperback is a reprint of the original 2008 hardback* In an increasingly urbanized world more and more people are turning to our forests and woodland for recreation and tourism. Planning and providing for this growing demand poses challenges that need to be addressed by managers and designers alike. Based on a study of forest recreation from across Europe,...

    $1,179.00

  • DESIGN FOR OUTDOOR RECREATION
    SIMON BELL
    Design for Outdoor Recreation takes a detailed look at all aspects of design of facilities needed by visitors to outdoor recreation destinations. The book is a comprehensive manual for planners, designers and managers of recreation taking them through the processes of design and enabling them to find the most appropriate balance between visitor needs and the capacity of the lan...

    $2,500.00

  • DESIGNING SUSTAINABLE FOREST LANDSCAPES
    SIMON BELL / DEAN APOSTOL
    Designing Sustainable Forest Landscapes is a definitive guide to the design and management of forest landscapes, covering the theory and principles of forest design as well as providing practical guidance on methods and tools. Including a variety of international case studies the book focuses on ecosystem regeneration, the management of natural forests and the management of pla...

    $1,179.00

  • REMEMBERING THE HOLOCAUST AND THE IMPACT ON SOCIETIES TODAY
    SIMON BELL
    The Holocaust is the most researched and written about genocide in history. Known facts should be beyond dispute. Yet Holocaust memory is often formed and dictated by governments and others with an agenda to fulfil, or by deniers who seek to rewrite the past due to vested interests and avowed prejudices. Legislation can be used to prosecute hate crime and genocide denial, but i...

    $299.00

  • VASCULAR SURGERY: CURRENT QUESTIONS
    BARROS D'SA, AIRES A. B. / BELL, PETER R. F. / DARKE, SIMON G.
    Vascular Surgery ...

    $928.00

  • LEARNING WITH INFORMATION SYSTEMS
    SIMON BELL
    In Learning with Information Systems the author takes the developing world as the context and through a series of case studies develops a commonly used systems analysis methodology. He demonstrates how this methodology can evolve and adapt as new ideas become prominent. Issues of sustainability of information systems, participation in systems design and user ownership of system...

    $1,219.00