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Displaying records 151 through 160 of 2006 |
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Price: $31.00
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Sale: $12.94
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Manufacturer: Granta Books
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Studs Terkel
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Publisher: Granta Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324
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Publication Date: 2004-07-22
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: For Terkel, hope is born of activism, engagement, and a stubborn determination to improve the world. In Hope Dies Last, he talks with a wide range of politically-engaged Americans, musing on fundamental questions: where does hope spring from? How can it sustain us? How does one instil it in others? As well as talking to well-known figures, including Paul Tibbets (pilot of the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima), Sixties activist Tom Hayden and economist John Kenneth Galbraith, Terkel talks to ordinary citizens, such as a death-row inmate pardoned after serving nearly 20 years for a crime he did not commit, a schoolteacher in a tough inner-city high school, and a homeless advocate who points out that 'Some people have the luxury of losing hope. But poor people never lose hope. They can't afford to.' Throughout, he encourages these fascinating people to speak passionately and candidly on their life's work. Hope Dies Last is a celebration of hope in troubled times, an inspiring book about political engagement in the face of indifference.
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Price: $32.95
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Sale: $23.53
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Manufacturer: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Wendy Sarkissian::Nancy Hofer::Yollana Shore::Steph Vajda::Cathy Wilkinson
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Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 307.14
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Publication Date: 2008-12
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: Real positive change in the quest for a sustainable world begins at the local level, on the ground. Yet the prospect of participating in building sustainable communities can be daunting for community groups and the person on the street, as well as for professionals not used to dealing with public participation. This book bridges this gap and takes sustainability and community development out of the ivory towers of universities, government departments and planners to the kitchen tables of the world.
Written by one of the world's leading experts on community engagement and planning, this practical guide distills decades of wisdom from community planning engagement and sustainability practice from around the world into a user-friendly and engaging book that is both inspirational and packed with hands-on tools. The core of the book is a bottom-up approach to participatory community engagement and development, referred to as EATING, which consists of 6 components: Education, Action, Trust, Inclusion, Nurturing and Governance. This approach develops community's ability to participate and gives readers the knowledge, vocabulary, tools and confidence to engage in bringing sustainability to the forefront of community planning and development.
The EATING approach consists of:
Education: state-of-the art environmental education processes that underpin a community-based, participatory approach to growing local knowledge about sustainability and how this relates to building communities.
Action: acceptance of action-based and activist approaches that lead to tangible results and allow local people to take immediate action on matters that concern them and to contribute to actions on a wider scale and with longer time frames.
Trust: community engagement approaches that tackle issues of trust in sophisticated ways, finding ways for communities, proponents, developers and governments to form trusting relationships with each other across difference, including nurturing collaborative working relationships and using the model of a trust to engender sharing, networked communities that build alliances and common understandings.
Inclusion: “listening across difference”: the critical role of Inclusion to ensure that everyone sitting at the table can speak and be heard with respect for diversity and difference and the realization of everyone's knowledge as valid and valuable.
Nurturing: exploring the potential of human-centered and creative ways to engage with and build community understanding of sustainability, while allowing strong emotions to be expressed in positive ways in safe forums. Nurturing also means nurturing the desire to learn and building self-confidence and self-esteem.
Governance: exploring new approaches to governance and decision-making, ensuring that specific forums are available for the voices of the community to be heard and that governance structures are in place to support ongoing community engagement and influence.
Cases studies and examples in the book are drawn from across the world and at every scale—from local housing projects and community parks to large-scale residential and commercial developments in sensitive habitats to mining developments to river basin and water management plans.
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Manufacturer: Imported Pubn
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tim Jenkin
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Publisher: Imported Pubn
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Publication Date: 1989-12
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Reading Level: 240
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $9.57
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Manufacturer: Princeton Architectural Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Sarhandi and Boboc
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Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 949.7103
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Publication Date: 2001-05
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Reading Level: 194
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Description: For most Americans and Europeans, the Bosnian War was played out in the brief, flickering images of television news. But another set of images, more permanent and more profound, played an active role in this war, molding public sentiment and calling attention to the plight of the Bosnian people. For three hellish years, Bosnians plastered the walls of their towns with messages of anger, frustration, desperation, resistance, and hope. These extraordinary images, the focus of this book, are juxtaposed with the hateful, divisive works of propaganda that served the most vicious practitioners of "ethnic cleansing." Evil Doesn't Live Here presents this visual battle to the rest of the world for the first time. Former Bosnian aid workers Daoud Sarhandi and Alina Boboc have gathered over 180 of the most dramatic wartime posters, largely created by Bosnian artists and graphic designers at the height of the war. Fascinating on both political and artistic levels, they provide a harrowing account of the war and put a human face on this seemingly incomprehensible conflict. David Rohde, author of the acclaimed Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica and winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Bosnian War, introduces this vivid and unforgettable collection, which will appeal as much to those interested in current affairs as designers and artists. A portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to victims of the Bosnian War.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $28.54
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Manufacturer: Transaction Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Transaction Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 944.36063
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Publication Date: 2001-09-18
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Reading Level: 293
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Description: In June 1848, two irregular armies of the urban poor fought a four-day battle in the streets of Paris that decided the fate of the French Second Republic. The Parisian National Workshops and the Parisian Mobile Guard -- organizations newly created at the time of the February Revolution -- provided the bulk of the June combatants associated with the insurrection and repression, respectively. According to Marx's simple and compelling hypothesis, a nascent French proletariat unsuccessfully attempted to assert its political and social rights against a coalition of the bourgeoisie and lumpenproletariat, represented by the Parisian Mobile Guard. Through a detailed study of archival sources, Mark Traugott challenges this interpretation of these events and proposes an organizational explanation. Research has consistently shown that skilled artisans and not unskilled proletarians stood at the forefront of the revolutionary struggles of the nineteenth century. Traugott compares the social identities of the main participants on opposite sides of the conflict and sorts out the reasons for the political alignments observed. Drawing on work by Charles Tilly and Lynn Lees, Traugott demonstrates that the insurgents were not highly proletarianized workers, but rather members of the highly skilled trades predominant in the Parisian economy. Meanwhile, those who spearheaded the repression were little different in occupational status, though they tended to be significantly younger. Traugott's "organizational hypothesis" makes sense of the observed configuration of forces. He accounts for the age differential as a by-product of the recruitment criteria that Mobile Guard volunteers were required to meet.Finally, he explains why class position creates no more than a diffuse political predisposition that remains subject to the influence of situation-specific factors such as organizational affiliations. Armies of the Poor helps clarify our understanding of the dynamic at work in the insurrectionary turmoil of 1848 in particular and in the great waves of early industrial revolutionism in general. It now is a standard interpretation for subsequent research on the French Revolution of 1848. Armies of the Poor will be of interest to historians seeking a re-interpretation of a major revolutionary episode and social scientists considering a re-examination of Marx and Engels' hypotheses of the roots of political mobilization and protest.
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Price: $42.00
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Sale: $29.00
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Manufacturer: Westview Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Julian Kunnie
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Publisher: Westview Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.896068
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Publication Date: 2000-08-20
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Is Apartheid Really Dead? provides an illuminating and comprehensive critique of post-apartheid society in South Africa, through the lenses of indigenous Black Consciousness philosophy, and discussing issues of class, gender, religio-culture, and Pan Africanism.
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Price: $31.00
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Sale: $16.14
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Manufacturer: Serpent's Tail
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Subcomandante Marcos
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Publisher: Serpent's Tail
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320
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Publication Date: 2002-08-08
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Reading Level: 465
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Description: Marcos first captured world attention on New Year's Day, 1994 when he and an indigenous guerrilla group calling themselves 'Zapatistas' revolted against the Mexican government and seized key towns in the southernmost state of Chiapas. Since that day Marcos has altered the course of Mexican politics and emerged as an international symbol of grassroots movement-building, rebellion and democracy. The prolific stream of poetic political writings, tales, and traditional myths which Marcos has written during this period are collected in this remarkable work. These words now form an incendiary volume of contemporary political history, an inspirational text in which we hear the voice of a people refusing to be forgotten or silenced.
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $1.03
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Manufacturer: Scribner
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mariane Pearl
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Publisher: Scribner
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Dewey Decimal Number: 070.92
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Publication Date: 2004-09-28
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Most people were unfamiliar with Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl before his kidnapping and murder in Pakistan. In A Mighty Heart, his widow Mariane introduces us to Danny as he was when he was alive while also providing a heart-breaking first person account of his disappearance and death. There are plenty of endearing details about Danny--his insistence on moving his favorite Barcalounger with him around the world, his love of playing mandolin, his private conversations with his unborn son--but the more remarkable portrait that emerges is one of extraordinary bravery. Danny placed himself in post-9/11 Pakistan, realizing full well that region's inherent dangers, because of his courageous dedication to getting the truth about attempted shoe bomber Richard Reid and other terrorist activity. When he is kidnapped and pictures are e-mailed to his wife, she notices that he's slyly showing the peace or victory sign with one hand and flipping the kidnappers off with the other. And while clues to his fate are still being pieced together, Mariane's story, until now, has not been widely told. Realizing Danny has been abducted, she must navigate underworld politics, the international spotlight, and her own shattered nerves in a race against time to save her husband. Along the way, with the broad array of people and agencies assisting the cause, clues are gathered about the kidnappers' identity and the intricate machinations of the international terrorist community. When his fate is finally learned, the spotlight does not abate even as she is devastated and awaiting the couple's first child. Mariane Pearl's candor is remarkable and her courage, along with that of her late husband, serve to make A Mighty Heart, despite Danny Pearl's death, an uplifting story. --John Moe
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $15.89
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Manufacturer: New South Wales University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tim Doyle
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Publisher: New South Wales University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333
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Publication Date: 2000-04
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: A book that intermeshes the theories of social movements and non-government organisations with everyday events occurring in the environmental movement in Australia. The book's focus is on non-institutional politics, considering informal networks and groups as well as more formal non-government organisations.
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Price: $65.00
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Sale: $40.95
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Manufacturer: The Menil Collection
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Laureen Schipsi
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Publisher: The Menil Collection
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Dewey Decimal Number: 708
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Publication Date: 2009-01-06
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Reading Level: 350
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Description: This lavishly illustrated book is the first to examine the significant contributions of John and Dominique de Menil to art, architecture, and the civil and human rights movements. The de Menils, who moved to Houston from France in 1941, amassed one of the world’s great private art collections and became passionately involved in the cause of human rights. The volume includes a discussion of the building of the de Menils’ art collection; their patronage of modern architecture in Houston; their embrace of modernism; their leadership in Houston’s civil rights movement and in human rights projects worldwide; their commissioning of works of art and catalogue raisonnés; and their establishment of the Rothko Chapel, the Menil Collection, the Cy Twombly Gallery, the Dan Flavin Installation, and the Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum. Vintage photographs, many taken by Henri Cartier Bresson, previously unpublished correspondence with artists, and an illustrated chronology all add to this textured tribute to the de Menils’ extraordinary achievements. |
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