Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john abbott

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  • COMMON INSECTS OF TEXAS AND SURROUNDING STATES
    JOHN C. ABBOTT / KENDRA ABBOTT
    A comprehensive field guide to Texas's insects, featuring 1,300 species and over 2,700 photographs. Thanks to its size and geographic position, Texas is home to nearly 30,000 species of insects, likely making its insect population the most diverse in the nation. Ranging from eastern and western to temperate and tropical species, this vast array of insects can be difficult to id...

    $229.00

  • POLITICS AND POVERTY
    JOHN ABBOTT
    Originally published in 1992. At its foundation FAO was conceived as an organization that would bring together health and agriculture. It would manage the world’s food output to greater advantage and improve the well-being of its people. Almost a half-century on, FAO faced mounting criticism from its major funding nations, professionals within the field, and developing countrie...

    $1,000.00

  • SHARING THE CITY
    JOHN ABBOTT
    While the rate of urbanisation in the developing world has increased dramatically over the past 20 years, governments' capacity to support urban growth has, in many cases, failed to keep up with this trend. Non-governmental organisations working in the field have long advocated community management of the urban environment as the best solution to this problem, and there is now ...

    $860.00

  • GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA
    JOHN ABBOTT
    This book shows for the first time how green infrastructure can work in an African urban context. On one level it provides a major rethinking of the role of infrastructure in urban society since the creation of networked infrastructure in the early twentieth century. On another, it explores the changing paradigms of urban development through the fundamental question of how deci...

    $1,420.00

  • THE UNFINISHED REVOLUTION
    JOHN ABBOTT / TERRY RYAN
    If you believe it is possible for communities, schools, parents, and businesses to come together around helping all children become lifelong learners, then read this book. In The Unfinished Revolution, authors John Abbott and Terry Ryan argue that the so-called crisis in education is really a crisis in childhood and that the unit of change is not the school but rather the large...

    $603.00