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ISBN 13 : 9788490972083
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Lecturas del agua: Un acercamiento interdisciplinar desde la cultura y el turismo written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : María Isabel Morales Sánchez
Publisher : LOS LIBROS DE LA CATARATA
ISBN 13 : 8490972486
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Lecturas del agua written by María Isabel Morales Sánchez and published by LOS LIBROS DE LA CATARATA. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Red Internacional de Universidades Lectoras decidió crear un foro de investigadores sobre la cultura del agua, con el objetivo de aunar esfuerzos en la investigación y la difusión de los trabajos realizados en esta línea por las universidades integrantes de la misma. Desde entonces se han sucedido diversas iniciativas cuyo objetivo principal ha sido el de ofrecer miradas multidisciplinares en torno a la lectura y la interpretación de sus paisajes y de la cultura que los integra. Este libro se suma a dichas aportaciones, ofreciendo una visión certera, heterogénea y plural, que vierte nuevas gotas a un incesante caudal tan esencial en nuestra historia e identidad. Una obra que nos ofrece un variado recorrido por cauces y meandros, ciudades y desiertos, mitos y villas turísticas. Un espacio abierto y transversal que invita a la reflexión y a la lectura; al descubrimiento y a la revelación.
Author : Joseph M. Reagle, Jr.
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262288702
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)
Download or read book Good Faith Collaboration written by Joseph M. Reagle, Jr. and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-09-21 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Wikipedia collaboration addresses the challenges of openness, consensus, and leadership in a historical pursuit for a universal encyclopedia. Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, is built by a community—a community of Wikipedians who are expected to “assume good faith” when interacting with one another. In Good Faith Collaboration, Joseph Reagle examines this unique collaborative culture. Wikipedia, says Reagle, is not the first effort to create a freely shared, universal encyclopedia; its early twentieth-century ancestors include Paul Otlet's Universal Repository and H. G. Wells's proposal for a World Brain. Both these projects, like Wikipedia, were fuelled by new technology—which at the time included index cards and microfilm. What distinguishes Wikipedia from these and other more recent ventures is Wikipedia's good-faith collaborative culture, as seen not only in the writing and editing of articles but also in their discussion pages and edit histories. Keeping an open perspective on both knowledge claims and other contributors, Reagle argues, creates an extraordinary collaborative potential. Wikipedia's style of collaborative production has been imitated, analyzed, and satirized. Despite the social unease over its implications for individual autonomy, institutional authority, and the character (and quality) of cultural products, Wikipedia's good-faith collaborative culture has brought us closer than ever to a realization of the century-old pursuit of a universal encyclopedia.
Author : Fernando M. Reimers
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030821595
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book University and School Collaborations During a Pandemic written by Fernando M. Reimers and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on twenty case studies of universities worldwide, and on a survey administered to leaders in 101 universities, this open access book shows that, amidst the significant challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, universities found ways to engage with schools to support them in sustaining educational opportunity. In doing so, they generated considerable innovation, which reinforced the integration of the research and outreach functions of the university. The evidence suggests that universities are indeed open systems, in interaction with their environment, able to discover changes that can influence them and to change in response to those changes. They are also able, in the success of their efforts to mitigate the educational impact of the pandemic, to create better futures, as the result of the innovations they can generate. This challenges the view of universities as "ivory towers" being isolated from the surrounding environment and detached from local problems. As they reached out to schools, universities not only generated clear and valuable innovations to sustain educational opportunity and to improve it, this process also contributed to transform internal university processes in ways that enhanced their own ability to deliver on the third mission of outreach
Author : Malcolm K. Read
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527526453
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book A Marxist Critique of Latin American Colonial Studies written by Malcolm K. Read and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the mid-1980s, Latin American colonial studies came to be dominated by the various ‘post’ movements—post-structuralism, post-modernism, post-Marxism—characterized by their promotion of discursivity as the ultimate horizon of sociality. This volume confronts discourse theory and examples of its colonial application with an alternative Althusserian problematic that foregrounds modes of production and class struggle, to which end it further promotes a view of colonial societies as split, not along a horizontal, geographic axis that offsets the New World against Europe, but vertically through the opposition between dominant tributary/feudal formations and their emergent capitalist equivalent. Its fundamental claim is that the radical-sounding rhetoric of the various ‘post’ movements, far from energizing the politics of resistance to the forces of imperialism, actually greases the mechanisms of finance capital.
Author : Jerry Gregory
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465330526
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)
Download or read book The End of Madness written by Jerry Gregory and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-06-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human psyche, normally a fortress of strength, is most vulnerable when love dies. The emotionally chilling novellas in The End of Madness provide glimpses into the minds of people for whom love stopped existing. The End of Madness, the signature story, deals with despair born of David Reeds obsessive behavior. The story follows the decline of a famous novelist who blurs the line between loving, trusting and dying. When his love affair spins out of control, soaring to a point of no return, the writer plunges an alluring mistress and a loving wife into their own brand of hell. An unexpected twist provides a gripping conclusion to this transatlantic journey into madness. THE VISITOR In The Visitor, a beautiful widow tries desperately to retain her sanity after an encounter with a strange child. Brenda Carters improbable relationship, which slowly intensifies with young Karla Adams, exploits every aspect of her existence. Fear, hope, sadness and incredible discovery highlight four decades in the life of a popular and resolute woman. Unfortunately, her quest for love also falls victim to the indomitable search for truth. Brenda is the perfect protagonist, as Cape Cod is the perfect setting, for this haunting tale that confronts the differences between reality and madness. THE LOCKET A fanaticism born of tragedy leads a popular minister on a bizarre crusade. A respected clergymans mind discovers the darkest corner of despair after his loving wife is tragically killed. Leroy Madisons ability to traverse opposing social structures enables him to perform an inner voices unthinkable mandate. An intellectual debate, raging within a wounded heart, defines this psychological thriller. Forces of good and evil struggle to control a tormented mind, trapped in the cruelest of all placesmadness.
Author : Jorge Volpi Escalante
Publisher : Open Letter Books
ISBN 13 : 1934824100
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Season of Ash written by Jorge Volpi Escalante and published by Open Letter Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soviet biologist Irina Granina has experienced the worst of Communism, struggling to free her husband from the gulag for years. Following the rise of Gorbachev, her husband finally emerges a changed man, but then Irina is forced to witness the worst of capitalism, as her daughter disappears into the new consumer society and she loses her husband again, this time to greed and a lust for power. In the West, Jennifer Moore, a wealthy American, takes a high-ranking job at the IMF, hoping to bring the free market economy to all, whilst dealing with her philandering husband.
Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (717 download)
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Author : Daniella Tilbury
Publisher : IUCN
ISBN 13 : 9782831708232
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Engaging People in Sustainability written by Daniella Tilbury and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2004 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is based on the exchange of professional experiences which featured in an IUCN CEC workshop in August 2002. Practitioners from around the world shared their models of good practice and explored the challenges involved in engaging people in sustainability. The difficulties facing practitioners vary between country and context but some challenges are universal: A lack of clarity in communicating what is meant by sustainable development; An ambition to educate everyone to bring about a global citizenship; Social, organisational or institutional factors constrain change to sustainable development, yet there is an emphasis on formal education, and community educators do not receive the same support; A lack of balance in addressing the integration of environmental, social and economic dimensions leading to an interpretation that ESD is mainly about environment and conservation issues; New learning (rather than teaching) approaches are called for to promote more debate in society. Yet, few are trained or experienced in these new approaches. Practitioners need support to explore new ways of promoting learning. [Foreword, ed].
Author : Michael Hau
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226319768
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany written by Michael Hau and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-04-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1890s to the 1930s, a growing number of Germans began to scrutinize and discipline their bodies in a utopian search for perfect health and beauty. Some became vegetarians, nudists, or bodybuilders, while others turned to alternative medicine or eugenics. In The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany, Michael Hau demonstrates why so many men and women were drawn to these life reform movements and examines their tremendous impact on German society and medicine. Hau argues that the obsession with personal health and fitness was often rooted in anxieties over professional and economic success, as well as fears that modern industrialized civilization was causing Germany and its people to degenerate. He also examines how different social groups gave different meanings to the same hygienic practices and aesthetic ideals. What results is a penetrating look at class formation in pre-Nazi Germany that will interest historians of Europe and medicine and scholars of culture and gender.
Author : Marion Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317136845
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Fair Shared Cities written by Marion Roberts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together a diverse team of leading scholars and professionals, this book offers a variety of insights into ongoing gender mainstreaming policies in Europe with a focus on urban/spatial planning. Gender mainstreaming was first legislated for in the European Union with the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1999 and, although many interesting developments have occurred throughout the decade that followed, there is still much to do in terms of policy, knowledge production, dissemination and education. This work contributes to all three objectives, by advancing the state of knowledge, as well as providing educational and professional tools in the field of gender sensitive planning in Europe. The volume begins by explaining the concept of gender mainstreaming in relation to its origins in the 'second wave' of the women's movement and critiques of planning, architecture, transport planning and other built environment disciplines. It then provides a brief history of how gender mainstreaming was incorporated into European law, before focussing on the theoretical issues and questions that surround the concept of gender mainstreaming as they relate to urban space and the planning of cities and regions, including a discussion of the persistence of inequalities between the sexes in their access to urban space and services. In particular, the division between waged and unwaged work and its impact on the social construction of gender and of the physical built environment is considered. The differences between definitions of feminism and their implications for action in planning and design are also explored, paying regard to the tensions between a feminist vision of a transformation of gender relations and the requirements of gender mainstreaming to accommodate the different needs of women and men in their everyday lives in urban space. Throughout the book, key issues recur, such as the importance of time and space in the experience of urbanism, resistances to change on the part of institutions and social structures, and the importance of networks. Education and training also appear as common themes, as do citizen participation and the structures of governance. The chapters are organised into four sections: concepts, structures, empowerment and spatial quality. Contributors demonstrate a variety of approaches to the intersections of gender, women, cities, and planning, dealing with substantive and procedural issues in planning, at both local and regional scales. They stress the links between environmental sustainability and gender-sensitive urban development. The book concludes by putting forward an outlook for future action.
Author : Alissandra Cummins
Publisher : Common Ground Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781612290737
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Plantation to Nation written by Alissandra Cummins and published by Common Ground Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Bothe
Publisher : Eleven International Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9077596054
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (775 download)
Download or read book Climate Change Policy written by Michael Bothe and published by Eleven International Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the research results of an interdisciplinary study on climate change policies by the Enforcing Environmental Policy (EEP) Network, a project supported by the Human Dimension Potential Programme. Contributions are from highly qualified economic and legal specialists based at research institutes across Europe. The book gives answers to several questions related to the implementation of the international rules on climate change, most notably the Kyoto Protocol. It analyses ways and means to facilitate and encourage compliance with the objectives of the Kyoto Protocol. It is addressed to policy-makers, academics, business-sector and stakeholders throughout and outside Europe. Due to its interdisciplinary approach, this work is a distinctive and unique product compared to the existing literature on the subject. The effective implementation of climate protection and clean air policy requires an understanding of the political, legal and economic structures and constraints facing policy makers - and this is exactly what this book offers.
Author : Charles Saylan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520265386
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Failure of Environmental Education (And How We Can Fix It) written by Charles Saylan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The hope for the future depends on teaching current and future students the analytical and critical thinking skills for dealing with the most critical problems. My own hope is for this book to be read by everyone, even those outside the field of environmental education. Read this book, read it again, share it widely, and do something - anything - to help our needy and wounded planet."-Marc Bekoff, author of The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons For Expanding Our Compassion Footprint "Saylan and Blumstein provide a compelling vision of what can be, and what should be, if we have the courage to open our eyes and the boldness to act.”-Peter Saundry, Ph.D., Executive Director of the National Council for Science and the Environment “A clarion call to incorporate environmental education in all grades K-12, across all academic disciplines, in order to produce future generations of environmental stewards."-Mark Gold, President, Heal The Bay "We need a sea change in the educational system. After all, if we can teach schoolchildren that vandalism is wrong, why can we not teach them that environmental destruction is wrong? This book is a haunting call to action. A beautifully written manifesto that gets it right."-Ron Swaisgood, Director of Applied Animal Ecology, Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego Zoo Global “The greatest threat to the future of all species on the planet is the huge gap between what is understood about global climate change by the scientific community and what is known about climate change by the people who need to know -- the public. The sound prescriptions in this book need to be read now. We are running out of time.”-Dr. James Hansen, world-renowned climatologist and author of Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity “Environmental education is a disaster and educating the public on environmental issues is the greatest challenge facing humanity today. This book will help us understand why we are headed toward the collapse of civilization, and more important, how to fix it. Packed with sound science, useful information, and brilliant ideas, it is a book we must read, and give, to our local school boards and principals nationwide. Our children will thank us."-Paul R. Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb and Humanity on a Tightrope
Author : Thomas A. P. Van Leeuwen
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262720328
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Springboard in the Pond written by Thomas A. P. Van Leeuwen and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although others have written eloquently on the relationship of water to built form, until now no one has investigated the swimming, pool as a quintessentially modern and American space, reflecting America's infatuation with hygiene, skin, and recreation. In The Springboard in the Pond, Thomas van Leeuwen looks at a familiar hole - the domestic swimming pool - and discovers an icon indispensable to the reading of twentieth-century modernism. At one level, the book is a rereading of modern architecture that will leave that story permanently altered. At another level, it is the story of the origin and evolution of the private swimming pool as a building type and cultural artifact. And at still another level, it is a material philosophy of water. Van Leeuwen explores the human relationship to water from a variety of viewpoints: social, religious, artistic, sexual, psychological, technical, and above all architectural.
Author : Lynne Bowker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134560672
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Working with Specialized Language written by Lynne Bowker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working with Specialized Language: a practical guide to using corpora introduces the principles of using corpora when studying specialized language. The resources and techniques used to investigate general language cannot be easily adopted for specialized investigations. This book is designed for users of language for special purposes (LSP). Providing guidelines and practical advice, it enables LSP users to design, build and exploit corpus resources that meet their specialized language needs. Highly practical and accessible, the book includes exercises, a glossary and an appendix describing relevant resources and corpus-analysis software. Working with Specialized Language is ideal for translators, technical writers and subject specialists who are interested in exploring the potential of a corpus-based approach to teaching and learning LSP.
Author : Jorge Volpi Escalante
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743201183
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book In Search of Klingsor written by Jorge Volpi Escalante and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assigned to identify Hitler's top advisor on the atomic bomb, young physicist Francis Bacon encounters a survivor of the coup attempt against Hitler before entering into a complicated relationship with a mysterious woman.
