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  • SUCCESS AFTER TENURE
    VICKI L. BAKER WITH LAURA GAIL LUNSFORD, GRETCHEN NEISLER, MEGHAN J. PIFER, AND AIMEE LAPOINTE TEROS
    This book brings together leading practitioners and scholars engaged in professional development programming for and research on mid-career faculty members. The chapters focus on key areas of career development and advancement that can enhance both individual growth and institutional change to better support mid-career faculties.The mid-career stage is the longest segment of th...

    $960.00

  • MIND THE GAP
    NINA NAMASTE AND AMANDA STURGILL WITH NEAL W. SOBANIA AND MICHAEL VANDE BERG
    There is growing awareness that global learning is not confined to university, credit-bearing off campus international programs, and that institutions of higher learning have, up until now, conceived of global education too narrowly. Global learning through study abroad and off-campus domestic study fits into a larger context of students’ educational experiences. You can find g...

    $920.00

  • MANAGEMENT IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL BUSINESS COMPLEXITY
    BILL MCKELVEY WITH RENATA KAMINSKA, MARÍA PAZ SALMADOR, AND NADINE ESCOFFIER
    Management in the Age of Digital Business Complexity focuses on how the digital age is changing management and vastly speeding up complexity dynamics. The recent coevolution of technologies has dramatically changed in just a few years how people and firms learn, communicate, and behave. Consequently, the process of how firms coevolve and the speed at which they coevolve has bee...

    $1,200.00

  • CHINA'S INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIZATION OF POLITICAL ELITES IN THE BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE
    THEODOR TUDOROIU / WITH AMANDA R. RAMLOGAN
    This book argues that China’s international socialization of the political elites of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) partner states is an exceptionally effective instrument of China’s current foreign policy. It shows how the BRI-related process of socialization generates shared beliefs in the legitimacy and therefore in the acceptability of a Chinese international order among ta...

    $1,200.00

  • THE INFORMATION SOCIETY READER
    WITH RAIMO BLOM / ERKKI KARVONEN / HARRI MELIN
    There has been much debate over the idea of 'the information society'. Some thinkers have argued that information is becoming the key ordering principle in society, whereas others suggest that the rise of information has been overstated. Whatever the case, it cannot be denied that 'informization' has produced vast changes in advanced societies. The Information Society Reader pu...

    $1,420.00

  • AGING A-Z
    CARROLL L. ESTES / WITH NICHOLAS B. DICARLO
    This provocative, intellectually charged treatise serves as a concise introduction to emancipatory gerontology, examining multiple dimensions of persistent and hotly debated topics around aging, the life course, the roles of power, politics and partisanship, culture, economics, and communications. Critical perspectives are presented as definitions for reader understanding, with...

    $1,100.00

  • TRANSFORMING SOCIETY
    NGOH TIONG TAN WITH STEVE CHAN, KALYANI MEHTA AND DAVID ANDROFF
    Social change affects all quarters of life and human society whether in individual neighbourhoods, communities or nations, or in the world as a whole – encompassing many issues of gender, age, social class and ethnicity. This book examines both the conceptual as well as operational aspects of social transformation and social development. It examines societal transformation at t...

    $1,240.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HISTORY HANDBOOK OF MEDIEVAL REVOLT
    JUSTINE FIRNHABER-BAKER WITH DIRK SCHOENAERS
    The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Revolt charts the history of medieval rebellion from Spain to Bohemia and from Italy to England, and includes chapters spanning the centuries between Imperial Rome and the Reformation. Drawing together an international group of leading scholars, chapters consider how uprisings worked, why they happened, whom they implicated, what they ...

    $1,380.00

  • WATER AND RURAL COMMUNITIES
    LIA BRYANT / WITH JODIE GEORGE
    The overall theme of this book concerns the multiplicity and complexities of discursive constructions of water in Western economies in relation to irrigation communities. The authors argue that the politics of place is given meaning in relation to local knowledges and within multiple and multiscalar institutional frameworks involved with the social, physical, economic and polit...

    $1,260.00

  • RETHINKING STRATEGY FOR CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
    MILAN TODOROVIC / WITH ALI BAKIR
    Creative Industry practices are increasingly manifested through hybrid models and methods and emerging sub-sectors. With ever finer dividing lines between form and content, product and service, participation and consumption, the distinctions between sectors are increasingly blurred, while new, convergent models emerge. Reflecting this fluid context, this book provides a new per...

    $1,120.00

  • STUDYING ENGLISH
    ROBERT EAGLESTONE / WITH JONATHAN BEECHER FIELD
    Clearly focussed on the needs of students, Robert Eaglestone and Jonathan Beecher Field have revised the best-selling Doing English specifically for English literature courses in America. Studying English presents the ideas and debates that shape literary studies in America today. This overview of the discipline explains not only what students need to know, but how and why Engl...

    $800.00

  • TRANSFORMING THE CULTURE OF SCHOOLS
    JERRY LIPKA / WITH GERALD V. MOHATT / ESTHER ILUTSIK
    This book speaks directly to issues of equity and school transformation, and shows how one indigenous minority teachers' group engaged in a process of transforming schooling in their community. Documented in one small locale far-removed from mainstream America, the personal narratives by Yupík Eskimo teachers address the very heart of school reform. The teachers' struggles port...

    $1,200.00

  • PEOPLE, PLANTS AND PROTECTED AREAS
    JOHN TUXILL / GARY PAUL NABHAN / WITH ELIZABETH DREXLER / MICHAEL HATHAWAY
    Conservation of plant resources is often focused on seed banks and botanical gardens. However, the two authors of this volume present a comprehensive conservation strategy that complements this ex-situ approach with practical guidance on in-situ management and conservation of plant resources. The book aims to facilitate better management of protected areas and to illustrate new...

    $1,420.00

  • ONE WORLD FOR ONE EARTH
    PHILIP SARRE / PAUL SMITH / PAUL SMITH WITH ELEANOR MORRIS
    We have only one earth, and how we choose to live in it matters. This highly readable and challenging text sets out some important topical issues that tells us we are not making a very good job of it. From the tropical rainforests to the teeming cities of the developing world and the energy hungry nations of Europe and North America, One World for One Earth shows that many of t...

    $860.00

  • THE REALITY OF AID 1998-1999
    JUDITH RANDEL / TONY GERMAN WITH DEBORAH EWING
    NOW IN ITS SIXTH ANNUAL EDITION, The Reality of Aid has for the first time analysed the 'fair share' of bilateral aid for basic social services � basic education, basic health, reproductive health, nutrition, clean water and sanitation - that should come from each donor; an analysis which shows only two donors meeting their fair share and the G7 nations (Canada, France, Germany...

    $1,200.00

  • STAKEHOLDERS
    IAN SMILLIE AND RENNY HELMICH IN COLLABORATION WITH TONY GERMAN AND JUDITH RANDEL
    This unique study from the OECD Development Centre presents a comprehensive review by independent experts of the relationships and division of responsibility between the 22 member governments of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), and NGOs from these donor countries, working in international development. Additional chapters cover the roles of the European Union and...

    $1,760.00

  • ELECTRONIC QUILLS
    BERTRAM C. BRUCE / ANDEE RUBIN / WITH CONTRIBUTI BARNHARDT AND TEACHERS
    This volume centers on the words and experiences of teachers and students who used QUILL -- a software package developed by the authors to aid in writing instruction. It looks in detail at the stories of these early users and considers questions relevant for other teachers, students, researchers, and developers of educational innovations. Questions posed include: * What does it...

    $800.00

  • COMPOSING A TEACHER STUDY GROUP
    RICHARD J. MEYER / WITH LINDA BROWN / ELIZABETH DENINO / KIMBERLY LARSON / MONA MCKENZIE
    There has been a flurry of writing about teachers as inquirers and researchers as well as books about children as inquirers. This volume brings these two areas together -- teachers and students are inquiring at Ridgeway Elementary School. It demonstrates the importance of thought collectives as forums for student and teacher learning. The children in the primary classrooms in t...

    $820.00

  • THE SELECTIVE ENVIRONMENT
    DEAN HAWKES / WITH JANE MCDONALD / KOEN STEEMERS
    The complex art of architecture embraces all of the concerns of the world's cultures. It meets the fundamental needs for shelter from the elements, but, almost from its origins, has acquired other purposes and meanings. The Selective Environment is an approach to environmentally responsive architectural design that seeks to make connections between the technical preoccupations ...

    $2,320.00

  • SHARING POWER
    GRAZIA BORRINI-FEYERABEND / MICHEL PIMBERT / M. TAGHI FARVAR / ASHISH KOTHARI / YVES RENARD WITH HANNA J
    The collaborative orco-management of natural resources - whether between states and local communities or amongst and within communities themselves - is a process of collective understanding and actions to bring about negotiated agreements on roles, rights and responsibilities for decentralized governance of natural resources. At heart, co-management is about sharing power, one ...

    $3,200.00

  • MODELLING HIGH-LEVEL COGNITIVE PROCESSES
    RICHARD P. COOPER WITH CONTRIBUTI / PETER G. YULE / JOHN FOX / DAVID W. GLASSPOOL / RICHARD P. COOPER
    This book is a practical guide to building computational models of high-level cognitive processes and systems. High-level processes are those central cognitive processes involved in thinking, reasoning, planning, and so on. These processes appear to share representational and processing requirements, and it is for this reason that they are considered together in this text. The ...

    $1,560.00

  • INTRODUCTORY REMOTE SENSING PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS
    PAUL GIBSON / WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM CLARE POWER
    Introduction to Remote Sensing: Digital Image Processing and Applications presents a unique textbook/downloadable resources package. It explains how digital images can be processed and offers practical hands-on experience of image processing. This package, which is ideal for student self-study, institutional or library purchase, shows how digital images can be processed to maxi...

    $1,760.00

  • RETHINKING THE REGION
    JOHN ALLEN / WITH JULIE CHARLESWORTH / ALLAN COCHRANE / GILL COURT / NICK HENRY / DOREEN MASSEY / PHIL SAR
    Rethinking the Region argues that regions are not simply bounded spaces on a map. This book uses unique research of England during the 1980s to show how regions are made and unmade by social processes. The book examines how new lines of division both social and geographical were laid down as free-market growth and reconstructed this are as a `neo-liberal' region. The authors ar...

    $1,600.00

  • ONLY ONE EARTH
    FELIX DODDS / MICHAEL STRAUSS / WITH MAURICE F. STRONG
    Forty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the goal of sustainable development continues via the Rio+20 conference in 2012. This book will enable a broad readership to understand what has been achieved in the past forty years and what hasn’t. It shows the continuing threat of our present way of living to the planet. It looks to the ch...

    $1,000.00

  • THEORY AND THE DISAPPEARING FUTURE
    TOM COHEN / CLAIRE COLEBROOK / J. HILLIS MILLER / WITH A MANUSCRIPT BY PAUL DE MAN
    Paul de Man is often associated with an era of ‘high theory’, an era it is argued may now be coming to a close. This book, written by three leading contemporary scholars, includes both a transcript and facsimile print of a previously unpublished text by de Man of his handwritten notes for a lecture on Walter Benjamin. Challenging and relevant, this volume presents de Man’s work...

    $1,160.00

  • EMBRACING MATHEMATICS
    PETER APPELBAUM / WITH DAVID SCOTT ALLEN
    This alternative textbook for courses on teaching mathematics asks teachers and prospective teachers to reflect on their relationships with mathematics and how these relationships influence their teaching and the experiences of their students. Applicable to all levels of schooling, the book covers basic topics such as planning and assessment, classroom management, and organizat...

    $1,760.00

  • POLITICAL APPROACHES TO EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND LEADERSHIP
    SAMIER, EUGENIE A. / STANLEY, WITH ADAM G.
    This collection explores the political philosophy and theory foundations for educational administration and leadership as they influence our understanding, analysis and practice in the field. The first section, "Political Philosophy: The Foundations," discusses the work of such writers as Machiavelli, Kant and Hegel, Hayek, Habermas, and Bourdieu as their theories apply to the ...

    $640.00

  • COMMUNITY NURSING AND PRIMARY HEALTHCARE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN
    HELEN M. SWEET / WITH RONA DOUGALL
    This book takes a fresh look at community nursing history in Great Britain, examining the essentially generalist and low profile, domiciliary end of the professional nursing spectrum throughout the twentieth century. It charts the most significant changes affecting the nurse’s work on the district including compulsory registration for general nursing, changes in organization, t...

    $860.00

  • ENVIRONMENT AND PHILOSOPHY
    EMILY BRADY / WITH JANE HOWARTH / VERNON PRATT
    Environment and Philosophy provides an accessible introduction to the radical challenges that environmentalism poses to concepts that have become almost second nature in the modern world. These include: * the ideas of science and objectivity * the conventional placement of the human being within the environment * the individualism of convential Modern thought Written in an acce...

    $1,100.00

  • OUT OF THE MARGIN
    EDITH KUIPER AND JOLANDE SAP WITH SUSAN FEINER, NOTBURGA OTT AND ZAFIRIS TZANNATOS
    Out of the Margin is the first volume to consider feminist concerns across the entire domain of economics. The book addresses the philosophical roots of 'rational economic man', power relations and conflicts of interest within the family, the limitations of relying on secondary data and the policy implications of neo-classical models. With its range and depth of coverage this i...

    $1,600.00


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