Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: alan scott

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  • NEW CRITICAL WRITINGS IN POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY
    ALAN SCOTT
    The articles collected together in this volume are concerned with why and how people get involved in politics, whether through formal mechanisms such as voting, through some of the more informal means and settings of social movement networks and political protest, or through engagement in public debate. But just as important is the question of why people do not get involved in ...

    $1,240.00

  • IDEOLOGY AND THE NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
    ALAN SCOTT
    First published in 1990, Ideology and the New Social Movements provides an incisive and much-needed assessment of debates concerning the nature and motivation of social movements and collective action. In particular, Alan Scott focuses upon the competing theoretical explanations of the rise and character of the ‘new social movements’ in North America and Europe. After introduci...

    $840.00

  • THE FISCAL SYSTEM AND THE POLLUTER PAYS PRINCIPLE
    ALAN BARRETT / JOHN LAWLOR / SUE SCOTT
    First published in 1997, this volume describes the theoretical underpinning of the Polluter Pays Principle as a means to deliver environmental benefits and reduce perverse incentives. By systematically examining each major sector of the economy to identify environmental issues, it considers how the principle can be applied to the Irish fiscal system and then proposes alteration...

    $1,000.00

  • TEACHING HISTORY WITH FILM
    ALAN S. MARCUS / SCOTT ALAN METZGER / RICHARD J. PAXTON / JEREMY D. STODDARD
    Teaching History with Film provides a fresh, engaging, and clear overview of teaching with film to effectively enhance social studies instruction. Using cases of experienced teachers to illustrate accomplished history teaching through movies, this text provides pre- and in-service teachers with ideas for implementing film-based lessons in their own classrooms and offers a deepe...

    $1,260.00

  • REMAKING MARKET SOCIETY
    ANTONINO PALUMBO / ALAN SCOTT
    Neoliberalism has been one of the most hotly contested themes in academic and political debate over the last 30 years. Given the global and persistent influence of neoliberal ideas on contemporary styles of governance, social-service provision, and public policy, this intensive interest is understandable. At the same time, the use of the term has become loose, vague, and over-e...

    $1,200.00

  • NEW CRITICAL WRITINGS IN POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY
    ALAN SCOTT
    In the third and final volume of this series, we examine the implications of the accelerating globalization process for the nation-state. Are globalization, the rise of regional and international institutions, and the international agreements on human rights actually reducing and transforming state sovereignty? Clearly ethnic, racial, and religious identities remain salient, bu...

    $1,240.00

  • MANAGING CRISES OVERSEAS
    SCOTT ALAN AST
    The book examines crisis management for operations located outside of a corporation’s normal confines, particularly in regions which might be overtly threatening or hostile to multinational corporations and their people and assets overseas. Outlining proper operating procedures, planning, implementation, and drills, it demonstrates how proper planning and effective management s...

    $980.00

  • BATTERY TECHNOLOGY FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES
    ALBERT LINK / ALAN O'CONNOR / TROY SCOTT
    Electric drive vehicles (EDVs) are seen on American roads in increasing numbers. Related to this market trend and critical for it to increase are improvements in battery technology. Battery Technology for Electric Vehicles examines in detail at the research support from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the development of nickel-metal-hydride (NiMH) and lithium-ion (Li-io...

    $4,000.00

  • GEORG SIMMEL: REMBRANDT
    ALAN SCOTT
    First published in 1916 in German, this important work has never been translated into English--until now. Simmel attacks such questions as "What do we see in a work of Art?" and "What do Rembrandt's portraits tell us about human nature?" This is a major work by a major thinker concerning one of the world's most important painters. ...

    $1,420.00

  • ANTARCTIC SECURITY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
    HEMMINGS, ALAN D. / ROTHWELL, DONALD R. / SCOTT, KAREN N.
    The Antarctic Treaty (1959) was adopted for the purpose of bringing peace and stability to Antarctica and to facilitate cooperation in scientific research conducted on and around the continent. It has now been over fifty years since the signing of the treaty, nevertheless security continues to drive and shape the laws and policy regime which governs the region. Antarctic Securi...

    $1,560.00

  • MANAGING SECURITY OVERSEAS
    SCOTT ALAN AST
    Written by a Certified Protection Professional (CPP), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and FBI-recognized subject matter expert, this text details the recommended protocol for protecting people and assets in hostile global settings. Scott Alan Ast offers wisdom and insight gleaned from 28 years of hands-on experience in international security management. He supplies the fundamen...

    $3,600.00

  • LAND USE SCENARIOS
    ALAN W. SHEARER / DAVID A. MOUAT / SCOTT D. BASSETT / MICHAEL W. BINFORD / CRAIG W. JOHNSON / JUSTIN A. S
    Any alteration of the natural processes occurring on a piece of land will have expected as well as unanticipated effects, and those effects have little regard for arbitrary human boundaries. Consequently, it is not enough for land managers to consider only how they might maintain the parcels for which they are responsible; they must also anticipate ...

    $2,120.00

  • THE EXODUS REALITY
    SCOTT ALAN ROBERTS / JOHN RICHARD WARD
    "An intriguing narrative . . . A complementary blend of scripture, ancient legends, history, and archaeology, it will stir your curiosity." —Lorraine Evans, Egyptologist and author of Burying the Dead In this groundbreaking work, the authors reexamine humanity's most enduring account of bondage, emancipation, and freedom. The Great Exodus is the story of how one man, empowered ...

    $274.00

  • EDGEHILL 1642
    CHRISTOPHER L. SCOTT / ALAN TURTON / ERIC GRUBER VON ARNI
    This seminal new study of a key battle of the Civil Wars re-examines one of England's most mysterious battlefields at Edgehill, and it combines the work of three outstanding military historians. Each is an expert in the areas of battlefield interpretation, military equipment and organization, and battle casualties and care. Their unique blend of knowledge gives a fascinating in...

    $119.00