Описание: George Hunt spent more than fifty years as a community planner and landscape architect. This included hands-on work in impoverished and low-income areas which helped him understand the dynamics that hold us back from achieving self-sufficiency. In this book, he outlines a sustainable community project that seeks to solve social problems that most community planners overlook. The pilot project includes numerous ways to make communities self-sufficient, and while it's geared for those in middle- and lower-income brackets, anyone can use its concepts. He explains how multiple-purpose buildings can be used to house a diversity of people, ways to launch a business within the community by collaborating and sharing with others, how to obtain a vocational work/study program offered on site, and more. The book is also a reference manual on transition community design, creating a purpose, the meaning of happiness, sustainable agricultural practices, how to live without stuff, and how to reduce anxiety and depression.
Описание: George Hunt spent more than fifty years as a community planner and landscape architect. This included hands-on work in impoverished and low-income areas which helped him understand the dynamics that hold us back from achieving self-sufficiency. In this book, he outlines a sustainable community project that seeks to solve social problems that most community planners overlook. The pilot project includes numerous ways to make communities self-sufficient, and while it's geared for those in middle- and lower-income brackets, anyone can use its concepts. He explains how multiple-purpose buildings can be used to house a diversity of people, ways to launch a business within the community by collaborating and sharing with others, how to obtain a vocational work/study program offered on site, and more. The book is also a reference manual on transition community design, creating a purpose, the meaning of happiness, sustainable agricultural practices, how to live without stuff, and how to reduce anxiety and depression.
Imagining the International interrogates mainstream understandings of international crime and international justice to tease out their ethical limits and possibilities.
International crime and justice are powerful ideas, associated with a vivid imagery of heinous atrocities, injured humanity, and an international community seized by the need to act. Through an analysis of archival and contemporary data, Imagining the International provides a sustained picture of how ideas about international crime and justice are given content and the global interrelations they enable and foreclose. Nesam McMillan argues that dominant approaches to conceptualizing distinctly international crime and international justice are problematic because they disconnect these phenomena from the everyday, fostering distance between those who have experienced international crime and those who have not. McMillan draws on interdisciplinary work spanning law, criminology, humanitarianism, socio-legal studies, cultural studies, and human geography to show how understandings of international crime and justice hierarchize, spectacularize, and appropriate the suffering of others and promote an ideal of justice fundamentally disconnected from life as it is lived. McMillan critiques the mode of global interconnection they offer, one which bears resemblance to past colonial global approaches and which seeks to foster community through the image of crime and the practice of punitive justice. This book powerfully underscores the importance of the ideas of international crime and justice and their significant limits, cautioning against their continued valorization.
Автор: Fenton Название: Risk Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering ISBN: 0470178205 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780470178201 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 20592.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: When Volkswagen launched the Golf GTI, over thirty years ago, it could hardly have known the impact its compact and sporty model would have on the car-buying public. Through an uncertain birth to its class-topping iconic status of today, rarely does a new model of car make a whole new market segment for itself but the Golf was the original hot hatch, a car that others would copy but seldom equal.
Автор: Roberts, Albert R. Название: Crisis Intervention Handbook ISBN: 0195179919 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195179910 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6897.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Expanded and fully updated, the Crisis Intervention Handbook: Assessment, Treatment, and Research, Third Edition focuses on crisis intervention services for persons who are victims of natural disasters, school-based and home-based violence, violent crimes, and personal or family crises. It applies a unifying model of crisis intervention, making it appropriate for front-line crisis workers-clinical psychologists, social workers, psychiatric-mental helath nurses, and graduate students who need to know the latest steps and methods for intervening effectively with persons in acute crisis.
Описание: This book introduces key model order reduction techniques in linear circuits, covering traditional methods and `state-of-the-art`, with real-world examples illustrating advantages and disadvantages. Numerical methods are treated from the CAD engineer`s perspective. For researchers and graduate students of electrical and computer engineering, and practitioners working in the VLSI design industry.
Автор: Eisenberg, Avigail Название: Reasons of Identity ISBN: 0199604428 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199604425 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7693.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Provides an elementary introduction to the basic concepts of the theory of ordinary representations to finite groups with a minimum of prerequisites; explores the for the important special case of the symmetric groups $S_n$ of permutations on $n$ letters; and uses the preparatory material of the first two parts, coupled with the $S_n$ theory, to do the same for some other important special groups.
Автор: Daly Название: Rebuilding Asia Following Natural Disasters ISBN: 110707357X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107073579 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Providing a detailed and comparative assessment of the humanitarian responses to a series of major disasters in Asia over the past two decades, this book explores complex and changing understandings and practices of relief, recovery and reconstruction. This is a valuable resource for academic researchers, NGO practitioners and government officials.
Автор: Russ Название: Affect and Creativity ISBN: 1138966193 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138966192 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7348.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Much work has been done on cognitive processes and creativity, but there is another half to the picture of creativity -- the affect half. This book addresses that other half by synthesizing the information that exists about affect and creativity and presenting a new model of the role of affect in the creative process. Current information comes from disparate literatures, research traditions, and theoretical approaches. There is a need in the field for a comprehensive framework for understanding and investigating the role of affect in creativity. The model presented here spells out connections between specific affective and cognitive processes important in creativity, and personality traits associated with creativity.
Identifying common findings and themes in a variety of research studies and descriptions of the creative process, this book integrates child and adult research and the classic psychoanalytic approach to creativity with contemporary social and cognitive psychology. In so doing, it addresses two major questions: * Is affect an important part of the creative process? * If it is, then how is affect involved in creative thinking? In addition, Russ presents her own research program in the area of affect and creativity, and introduces The Affect in Play Scale -- a method of measuring affective expression in children's play -- which can be useful in child psychotherapy and creativity research. Current issues in the creativity area are also discussed, such as artistic versus scientific creativity, adjustment and the creative process, the role of computers in learning about creativity, gender differences in the creative process, and enhancing creativity in home, school, and work settings. Finally, Russ points to future research issues and directions, and discusses alternative research paradigms such as mood-induction methods versus children's play procedures.
Автор: Hogan Cathy Название: Emergency Management: Planning, Assessment and Analysis ISBN: 1682861597 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682861592 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 24138.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Disasters can disturb not only the ecological but also the economic balance of any community. It is thus important to be prepared for disasters and take up measures to mitigate its adverse effects. This comprehensive book sheds light on the methods and techniques being followed across the globe in the field of emergency management. Some significant topics covered in this text include vulnerability, landslide susceptibility, risk assessment, modelling social vulnerability, awareness campaigns, adaptations strategies, etc. This exclusive book will prove beneficial for students, researchers, activists, policy makers and professionals in the field of emergency management.
Автор: Scott Alfred Название: Disaster Management: Risk Assessment and Analysis ISBN: 168286264X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682862643 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 24621.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Disasters cause a major loss of life and property. Both manmade and natural disasters have severe impacts on the society. The researches presented in this book revolve around the design, development and validation of new methods and tools for the detection and monitoring of natural hazards. It also discusses their impact and consequences on human life and the environment. The book also brings forth studies and techniques for disaster management and risk mitigation. It will serve as a resource guide for a broad spectrum of readers including students, environmentalists, professionals, researchers, etc.
Название: Foresight in Action ISBN: 1138866997 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138866997 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7501.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Assessing the future is vital in informing public policy decisions. One of the most widespread approaches is the development of scenarios, which are alternative hypothetical futures. Research has indicated, however, that the reality of how professionals go about employing scenarios is often starkly at odds with the theory - a finding that has important ramifications for how the resulting images of the future should be interpreted. It also shows the need for rewriting and updating theory. This book, based on an intensive five year study of how experts actually go about assessing the future, provides a groundbreaking examination of foresighting in action. Obtained via ethnographic techniques, the results lay bare for the first time the real processes by which scenarios are made. It is also the first book to examine foresighting for public policy, which is so often overlooked in favour of business practice. From handling of discontinuity to historical determinism, the analysis reveals and explains why foresight is difficult and what the major pitfalls are. Each chapter ends with a toolkit of recommendations for practice. The book aims to help readers to reflect on their own practices of public-oriented foresight and thus to foster a deeper understanding of the key principles and challenges. Ultimately, this will lead to better informed decision making.
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