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Metaphors for Change

Author : Penny Allen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351282433
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Metaphors for Change written by Penny Allen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we get from where we are to where we want to be? Metaphors for Change attempts to answer this question and provide a roadmap for sustainability by bringing together the thoughts of a unique collection of leading change agents from business, government and academia. Environmental questions have previously been dealt with metaphorically, by catastrophism or manicheism (zero growth; Malthusianism, Deep Ecology; "man is the enemy"; less is more). These metaphors have had limited impact because they have failed to connect with the mainstream of cultural, political, and business ideas. This book examines a number of new metaphors – and related partnerships, tools and action – which appear to have greater possibilities for the world in which we now live. The editors argue that Metaphors for Change can deliver to the public and to decision-makers new perceptions ("structured knowledge") that can help interpret the past and the present, and help us forge the future. The wider the gap between the "now" and the "necessary", the stronger the bridging perceptions have to be in order to break through barriers of fear and conservatism. Some of the concepts considered are: sustainable development; the polluter pays principle; the precautionary principle; eco-efficiency; eco-effectiveness; life-cycle assessment; design for the environment; eco-services; dematerialization; industrial symbiosis; industrial ecology; and zero emissions. There are of course other useful metaphors on the horizon, some of them included in this book. Including key contributions from the ground-breaking conferences ECO 97 and ECO 99, along with other specially commissioned and reprinted pieces, Metaphors for Change provides a treasure chest of new ideas, innovations and action. Accessible and forward-thinking, it will prove indispensable both as a student learning tool and as a panoramic overview of the sustainability metaphors key thinkers believe we should be putting into practice.

Billboard

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-03-31 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

1,001 Voices on Climate Change

Author : Devi Lockwood
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982146729
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book 1,001 Voices on Climate Change written by Devi Lockwood and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join journalist Devi Lockwood on this “monumental achievement” (Richard Moor, bestselling author of On Trails) as she bikes around the world collecting personal stories about how flood, fire, drought, and rising seas are changing communities. It’s official: apocalyptic climate predictions finally came true. Catastrophic wildfires, relentless hurricanes, melting permafrost, and coastal flooding have given us a taste of what some communities have already been living with for far too long. Yet, we don’t often hear the voices of the people most affected. Journalist Devi Lockwood set out to change that. In 1,001 Voices on Climate Change, Lockwood travels the world, often by bicycle, collecting first-person accounts of climate change. She frequently carried with her a simple carboard sign reading, “Tell me a story about climate change.” Over five years, covering twenty countries across six continents, Lockwood hears from indigenous elders and youth in Fiji and Tuvalu about drought and disappearing coastlines, attends the UN climate conference in Morocco, and bikes the length of New Zealand and Australia, interviewing the people she meets about retreating glaciers, contaminated rivers, and wildfires. She rides through Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia to listen to marionette puppeteers and novice Buddhist monks. From Denmark and Sweden to China, Turkey, the Canadian Artic, and the Peruvian Amazon, she finds that ordinary people sharing their stories foes far more to advance understanding and empathy than even the most alarming statistics and studies. This “luminous book” (Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Poison Squad and The Poisoner’s Handbook) is a hopeful global listening tour for climate change, channeling the urgency of those who have already glimpsed the future to help us avoid the worst.

China and Globalization

Author : Doug Guthrie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135854513
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book China and Globalization written by Doug Guthrie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new, revised edition author Doug Guthrie updates his story on modern China and provides the latest authoritative data and examples from current events to chart where this dynamically changing society is headed and what the likely consequences for the rest of the world will be.

The Forest Laird

Author : Jack Whyte
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429922613
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Forest Laird written by Jack Whyte and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This epic historical novel brings to life the hero of the Scottish Wars of Independence who struggled against the tyranny of the English. In the predawn hours of August 24, 1305, in London’s Smithfield Prison, the outlaw William Wallace—hero of all the Scots and deadly enemy of King Edward of England—sits awaiting the dawn, when he is to be hanged and then drawn and quartered. Wallace is visited by a Scottish priest to hear his last confession. Here, Wallace recounts his own incredible real-life story. We follow Wallace through his many lives—from fugitive to patriot, rebel, and kingmaker. His desperate struggles and victorious campaigns are all here, as are the high ideals and fierce patriotism that drove him to abandon the people he loved to save his country. With far more breadth, detail, and historical accuracy than the Hollywood film Braveheart, Jack Whyte’s masterful storytelling breathes life into Wallace’s tale, giving readers an amazing character study of the man who helped shape Scotland’s identity and future.

Leaving Faith Behind

Author : Fiyaz Mughal
Publisher : Augsburg Books
ISBN 13 : 1506467423
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Leaving Faith Behind written by Fiyaz Mughal and published by Augsburg Books. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaving Faith Behind gives voice to women and men who were born into Muslim families and communities, but who have made the decision to leave Islam or to dissent against some of the most significant aspects of Islamic doctrine. Aliyah, who realized as a young woman that she did not have to live by rigid rules and concepts that suffocated her true self. Hassan, who became a practicing Muslim in his teens, but for whom doubts led him to leave the faith in his fifties. Jimmy, banished from his home and family when he was discovered to be gay. Marwa, who keeps secret from her community the fact that she can no longer practice a religion that she believes degrades and denies basic rights to women. Aisha, for whom the journey from belief to disbelief was a gradual process involving personal challenge and confrontations with friends and family. As increasing numbers of people in Western society choose to turn away from organized religion, this book allows the stories of some of them to be heard: the reasons for their decisions to leave, the challenges of leaving, and the effects on their lives and relationships. It also captures portraits of life and culture within Muslim communities in our fast-changing world, and how they are reacting and responding to migration, secularization, more inclusive attitudes to gender and sexuality, and other trends of modern society.

Mommy Brain

Author : Jodi Pawluski
Publisher : Demeter Press
ISBN 13 : 1772584894
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Mommy Brain written by Jodi Pawluski and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2023-08-19 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you sometimes have the feeling that your brain is going to mush and that your baby is literally sucking the life out of your neurons? Don' t worry, you' re not losing your mind! In fact, your brain is getting a complete makeover and focusing on new areas of learning which are essential for parenting. In this book, Dr Jodi Pawluski questions our relationship with motherhood and explores, in an unprecedented way, the fantastic universe of the maternal, and parental, brain. Drawing on numerous scientific studies, including her own neuroscience research and experience, she provides insight into how your brain really changes with motherhood, and why.

Western Dominance and Political Islam

Author : Khalid B. Sayeed
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791422656
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (226 download)

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Download or read book Western Dominance and Political Islam written by Khalid B. Sayeed and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sayeed explores the kinds of resistance Western hegemony has provoked in the Middle East and shows that, although Islamic fundamentalism cannot provide a viable alternative to Western political, cultural, and economic systems, some of the major Islamic ideas can do so.

Elusive Consumption

Author : Karin M. Ekström
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000180581
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Elusive Consumption written by Karin M. Ekström and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the context of rising consumerism and globalization, books on consumption are numerous. These tend to be firmly rooted in particular disciplines, however sociology, anthropology, business or cultural studies and as a result often present a blinkered view. Charged with the mission of unravelling what consumption means and how it operates, the worlds leading experts were flown to a secluded location in Sweden to 'battle it out'. This pioneering book represents the outcome. Ranging from the 'little black dress' to on-line communities, Elusive Consumption challenges our very understanding of consumerism. How successful is the advertising world in manipulating our buying patterns? Does the global marketplace promote cultural homogeneity or heterogeneity? Is the West really more of a 'consumerist civilization' than other countries? Does the advertising of certain products influence a voters choice of political party? How are products associated and marketed to different genders? These controversial topics and many more are discussed. Covering virtually every aspect of the word 'consumerism', Elusive Consumption provides a state-of-the-art view of the highly commercialized society we inhabit today. Some might have it that consumers are unwitting pawns, completely lacking in agency. Others might argue that consumer choices are empowering and subtly shape production. Richard Wilk, Colin Campbell, John F. Sherry, Richard Elliott, Russell Belk, and Daniel Miller who offers the most persuasive argument in this battle royal?

Wildlife Conservation in China

Author : Richard B. Harris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317452038
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Wildlife Conservation in China written by Richard B. Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very little is known about the issue of wildlife conservation within China. Even China specialists get a meager ration of stories about pandas giving birth in zoos, or poachers in some remote setting being apprehended. But what does the future hold for China's wildlife? In this thoughtful work the leading U.S. expert on wildlife projects in Western China presents a multi-faceted assessment of the topic. Richard B. Harris draws on twenty years of experience working in China, and incorporates perspectives ranging from biology through Chinese history and tradition, to interpret wildlife conservation issues in a cultural context. In non-technical language, Harris shows that, particularly in its vast western sections where most species of wildlife still have a chance to survive, China has adopted a strongly preservationist, "hands-off" approach to wildlife without confronting the larger and more difficult problem of habitat loss. This policy treats wildlife conservation as a strictly technical problem - and thus prioritizes captive breeding to meet the demand for animal products - while ignoring the manifold cultural, social, and economic dimensions that truly dictate how wild animals will fare in their interaction with the physical and human environments. The author concludes that any successes this policy achieves will be temporary.

Professional Journal of the United States Army

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Total Pages : 902 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Professional Journal of the United States Army written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Modern Guide to Local and Regional Politics

Author : Copus, Colin
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839103450
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book A Modern Guide to Local and Regional Politics written by Copus, Colin and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilising international material to explore the roles, functions, tasks, responsibilities, powers and actions of intra-state politicians and the institutions to which they are elected, this insightful book examines how local and regional authorities are pivotal in the democratic and governing arrangements of different countries.

Saving The World At Business School (Part 2)

Author : Howard Burton
Publisher : Open Agenda Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1771701285
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book Saving The World At Business School (Part 2) written by Howard Burton and published by Open Agenda Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on an in-dept, remotely filmed conversation in December 2020 between Howard Burton and Andy Hoffman, Holcim Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and School of Environment and Sustainability. They discuss Andy Hoffman’s research and scholarly insights which are extremely relevant to today’s society. Andy Hoffman is passionately committed to encouraging fellow academics to play a much stronger role in communicating knowledge, facts and information to the regular public and politicians which has culminated into his two new books ‘The Engaged Scholar’ and ‘Management As A Calling’. This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, Exceptional Times, and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter: I. Reprise - 7 years on II. Truth Decay - Facts under fire? III. The Value of Wisdom - Beyond knowledge IV. Investigating Rewards - Intrinsic vs. extrinsic V. Concrete Opportunities - And concrete scepticism VI. Management as a Calling - Focusing on the students VII. Opinionated Ignorance - Hardly what the Founding Fathers had in mind VIII. Qualified Optimism - Hopeful signs IX. Spreading the Word - Creating new platforms through technology X. Getting Personal - Slings, arrows and the learning experience XI. Shattered Leadership? - Desperately trying to pick up the pieces About Ideas Roadshow Conversations: This book is part of an expanding series of 100+ Ideas Roadshow conversations, each one presenting a wealth of candid insights from a leading expert through a focused yet informal setting to give non-specialists a uniquely accessible window into frontline research and scholarship that wouldn't otherwise be encountered through standard lectures and textbooks. For other books in this series visit our website: https://ideas-on-film.com/ideasroadshow/.

The Two Minute Drill

Author : Clinton O. Longenecker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470178612
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Two Minute Drill written by Clinton O. Longenecker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-09-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authors Clinton Longenecker, Greg Papp, and Timothy Stansfield reveal that all too often business organizations are defeated while the clock is still ticking. Bogged down by sluggish business practices that stifle change, they are unable to pick up the pace when necessary to score and win. The Two-Minute Drill translates football’s lessons for business leaders who want to succeed in today’s competitive marketplace. The book clearly shows what it takes to accelerate change and improvement within any type of organization.

Legalizing Identities

Author : Jan Hoffman French
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807889881
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Legalizing Identities written by Jan Hoffman French and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologists widely agree that identities--even ethnic and racial ones--are socially constructed. Less understood are the processes by which social identities are conceived and developed. Legalizing Identities shows how law can successfully serve as the impetus for the transformation of cultural practices and collective identity. Through ethnographic, historical, and legal analysis of successful claims to land by two neighboring black communities in the backlands of northeastern Brazil, Jan Hoffman French demonstrates how these two communities have come to distinguish themselves from each other while revising and retelling their histories and present-day stories. French argues that the invocation of laws by these related communities led to the emergence of two different identities: one indigenous (Xoco Indian) and the other quilombo (descendants of a fugitive African slave community). With the help of the Catholic Church, government officials, lawyers, anthropologists, and activists, each community won government recognition and land rights, and displaced elite landowners. This was accomplished even though anthropologists called upon to assess the validity of their claims recognized that their identities were "constructed." The positive outcome of their claims demonstrates that authenticity is not a prerequisite for identity. French draws from this insight a more sweeping conclusion that, far from being evidence of inauthenticity, processes of construction form the basis of all identities and may have important consequences for social justice.

American Aloha

Author : Heather A. Diamond
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824831713
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book American Aloha written by Heather A. Diamond and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the 1989 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, throngs of visitors gathered on the National Mall to celebrate Hawai‘i’s multicultural heritage through its traditional arts. The "edu-tainment" spectacle revealed a richly complex Hawai‘i few tourists ever see and one never before or since replicated in a national space. The program was restaged a year later in Honolulu for a local audience and subsequently inspired several spin-offs in Hawai‘i. In both Washington, D.C., and Honolulu, the program instigated a new paradigm for cultural representation. Based on archival research and extensive interviews with festival organizers and participants, this innovative cross-disciplinary study uncovers the behind-the-scenes negotiations and processes that inform the national spectacle of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Intersecting the fields of museum studies, folklore studies, Hawaiian studies, performance studies, cultural studies, and American studies, American Aloha supplies a nuanced analysis of how the carefully crafted staging of Hawai‘i’s cultural diversity was used to serve a national narrative of utopian multiculturalism—one that collapsed social inequities and tensions, masked colonial history, and subordinated indigenous politics—while empowering Hawai‘i’s traditional artists and providing a model for cultural tourism that has had long-lasting effects. Heather Diamond deftly positions the 1989 program within a history of institutional intervention in the traditional arts of Hawai‘i’s ethnic groups as well as in relation to local cultural revivals and the tourist industry. By tracing the planning, fieldwork, site design, performance, and aftermath stages of the program, she examines the uneven processes through which local culture is transformed into national culture and raises questions about the stakes involved in cultural tourism for both culture bearers and culture brokers.

Reinventing Management

Author : Julian Birkinshaw
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118389670
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Management written by Julian Birkinshaw and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The economic crisis was not just caused by a failure of regulation or economic policy; it was a story of the failure of management in a fundamental sense—a deeply flawed approach to management that encouraged bankers to pursue opportunities without regard for their long-term consequences, and to put their own interests ahead of those of their employers and their shareholders. The revised edition of this best-selling book shows convincingly that many of today’s major economic problems in the west can be traced to a failure of management. In this updated edition the author draws our attention to new examples of failed management, from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, and the disaster at BP, to the ongoing problems in financial services companies such as UBS and RBS. Throughout the book the references and statistics have been updated, to make this a current, highly relevant analysis of the problems besetting modern business and how managers need to tackle them.