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Local Actions

Author : Melissa Checker
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231502427
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Local Actions written by Melissa Checker and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-25 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Activism is alive and well in the United States, according to Melissa Checker and Maggie Fishman. It exists on large and small scales and thrives in unexpected places. Finding activism in backyards, art classes, and urban areas branded as "ghettos," these anthropologists explore the many routes people take to work toward social change. Ten absorbing studies present activist groups across the country—from transgender activists in New York City, to South Asian teenagers in Silicon Valley, to evangelical Christians and Palestinian Americans. Each one examines a social change effort as it unfolds on the ground. Through their anthropological approach these portraits of American society suggest the inherent possibilities in identity-based organizing and offer crucial in-depth perspectives on such hotly debated topics as multiculturalism and the culture wars, the environment, racism, public education, Native American rights, and the Christian right. Moving far beyond the walls of academia, the contributors address the complex issues that arise when researchers have stakes in the subjects they study. Scholars can play multiple roles in the activist struggles they recount, and these essays illustrate how ethnographic research itself can become a tool for activism.

Global Networks, Local Actions

Author : Marcella Milana
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317385756
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Global Networks, Local Actions written by Marcella Milana and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Networks, Local Actions: Rethinking adult education policy in the 21st century examines public policy developments in adult education, exploring the policy framing of adult education practice in a range of socio-cultural contexts, and contributing to the development of policy research from global and comparative perspectives. Drawing from multidisciplinary fields such as adult education, comparative and international education, and sociology, chapters analyse empirically grounded studies from the US, Italy, Argentina and Brazil. Each study helps to identify how political agents interact at international, regional, national and local scales, and what the implications are for publically-funded interventions in adult education. While this book recognises the complexity of adult education policy, it argues for the need to deconstruct the false belief that what is global in adult education may be intrinsically distinct from the characteristics of geographical or social territories in which adult education occurs. Instead, it points to localised norms and ideas on Adult Basic and Secondary Education as ultimately contained in, and constituting, what is at times perceived as global, or abstracted from definite geographical or social territories. This book calls for a global sociology of adult education in response to global challenges, and makes an important contribution to our understanding of developments in public adult education policy. As such, it will be of key interest to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of adult education, comparative and international education, education policy and politics, sociology of education, and global studies.

Local Actions

Author : Melissa Checker
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231128506
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book Local Actions written by Melissa Checker and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten absorbing studies present activist groups across the country--from transgender activists in New York City, to South Asian teenagers in Silicon Valley, to evangelical Christians and Palestinian Americans--and examines a social change effort as it unfolds on the ground. Through their anthropological approach these portraits of American society suggest the inherent possibilities in identity-based organizing and offer crucial in-depth perspectives on such hotly debated topics as multiculturalism and the culture wars, the environment, racism, public education, Native American rights, and the Christian right.

Lie Group Actions in Complex Analysis

Author : Dimitrij Akhiezer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3322802671
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Lie Group Actions in Complex Analysis written by Dimitrij Akhiezer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main topic of this book is the sudy of the interaction between two major subjects of modern mathematics, namely, the theory of Lie groups with its specific methods and ways of thinking on the one hand and complex analysis with all its analytic, algebraic and geometric aspects. More specifically, the author concentrates on the double role of Lie groups in complex analysis, namely, as groups of biholomorphic self-made of certain complex analytic objects on the one hand and as a special class of complex manifolds with an additional strong structure on the other hand. The book starts from the basics of this subject and introduces the reader into many fields of recent research.

Outdoor Recreation Action

Author : United States. Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Outdoor Recreation Action written by United States. Bureau of Outdoor Recreation and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hierarchical Annotated Action Diagrams

Author : Eduard Cerny
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461556155
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Hierarchical Annotated Action Diagrams written by Eduard Cerny and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standardization of hardware description languages and the availability of synthesis tools has brought about a remarkable increase in the productivity of hardware designers. Yet design verification methods and tools lag behind and have difficulty in dealing with the increasing design complexity. This may get worse because more complex systems are now constructed by (re)using Intellectual Property blocks developed by third parties. To verify such designs, abstract models of the blocks and the system must be developed, with separate concerns, such as interface communication, functionality, and timing, that can be verified in an almost independent fashion. Standard Hardware Description Languages such as VHDL and Verilog are inspired by procedural `imperative' programming languages in which function and timing are inherently intertwined in the statements of the language. Furthermore, they are not conceived to state the intent of the design in a simple declarative way that contains provisions for design choices, for stating assumptions on the environment, and for indicating uncertainty in system timing. Hierarchical Annotated Action Diagrams: An Interface-Oriented Specification and Verification Method presents a description methodology that was inspired by Timing Diagrams and Process Algebras, the so-called Hierarchical Annotated Diagrams. It is suitable for specifying systems with complex interface behaviors that govern the global system behavior. A HADD specification can be converted into a behavioral real-time model in VHDL and used to verify the surrounding logic, such as interface transducers. Also, function can be conservatively abstracted away and the interactions between interconnected devices can be verified using Constraint Logic Programming based on Relational Interval Arithmetic. Hierarchical Annotated Action Diagrams: An Interface-Oriented Specification and Verification Method is of interest to readers who are involved in defining methods and tools for system-level design specification and verification. The techniques for interface compatibility verification can be used by practicing designers, without any more sophisticated tool than a calculator.

The Common Law Procedure Act, 1856

Author : Ontario
Publisher : Maclear
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Common Law Procedure Act, 1856 written by Ontario and published by Maclear. This book was released on 1858 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Managing Archaeological Resources

Author : Francis P McManamon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315424924
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Managing Archaeological Resources written by Francis P McManamon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original research articles show the range of activities, issues, and solutions undertaken by contemporary managers of heritage sites around the world.

Climate Change and Global Energy Security

Author : Marilyn A. Brown
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262516314
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Climate Change and Global Energy Security written by Marilyn A. Brown and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of commercially available technologies that can enhance energy security and address climate change and public policy options crucial to their adoption. Tackling climate change and improving energy security are two of the twenty-first century's greatest challenges. In this book, Marilyn Brown and Benjamin Sovacool offer detailed assessments of the most advanced commercially available technologies for strengthening global energy security, mitigating the effects of climate change, and enhancing resilience through adaptation and geo-engineering. They also evaluate the barriers to the deployment of these technologies and critically review public policy options crucial to their adoption. Arguing that society has all the technologies necessary for the task, Brown and Sovacool discuss an array of options available today, including high-efficiency transportation, renewable energy, carbon sequestration, and demand-side management. They offer eight case studies from around the world that document successful approaches to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases and improving energy security. These include the Danish approach to energy policy and wind power, Brazil's ethanol program, China's improved cookstove program; and the U.S. Toxics Release Inventory. Brown and Sovacool argue that meeting the twin challenges of climate change and energy security will allow us to provide energy, maintain economic growth, and preserve the natural environment—without forcing tradeoffs among them.

Sustainability and Law

Author : Volker Mauerhofer
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030426300
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Sustainability and Law written by Volker Mauerhofer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book discusses sustainability and law in a multifaceted way. Together, sustainability and law are an emerging challenge for research and science. This volume contributes through an interdisciplinary concept to its further exploration. The contributions explore this exciting domain with innovative ideas and replicable approaches. It combines a variety of authors, from both the public and the private sectors, and thereby guarantees a broad view that enshrines the more theoretical arguments from the academic side as well as stronger practical applicable perspectives. The book provides space for thoughtful expansions of established theories as well as the hopeful emergence of innovative ideas. Moreover, the combination of three to five contributions into the eleven parts respectively aims toward a compression of like minded thoughts. This should lead to an intensification of exchange of viewpoints from different angles on a similar theme. Readers therefore also have the opportunity to concentrate on single chapters, but receive comprised knowledge and a variety of thoughts for new ideas on a particular theme.

Federal Civil Defense Guide

Author : United States. Office of Civil Defense
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Federal Civil Defense Guide written by United States. Office of Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Programming Languages and Systems

Author : Ranjit Jhala
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642351824
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book Programming Languages and Systems written by Ranjit Jhala and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-09 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems, APLAS 2012, held in Kyoto, Japan, in December 2012. The 24 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on concurrency, security, static analysis, language design, dynamic analysis, complexity and semantics, and program logics and verification.

Nature-Based Solutions and Water Security

Author : Jan Cassin
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128198982
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Nature-Based Solutions and Water Security written by Jan Cassin and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature-Based Solutions and Water Security: An Action Agenda for the 21st Century presents an action agenda for natural infrastructure on topics of standards and principles, technical evaluation and design tools, capacity building and innovative finance. Chapters introduce the topic and concepts of natural infrastructure, or nature-based solutions (NBS) and water security, with important background on the urgency of the global water crisis and the role that NBS can, and should play, in addressing this crisis. Sections also present the community of practice's collective thinking on a prioritized action agenda to guide more rapid progress in mainstreaming NBS. With contributions from global authors, including key individuals and organizations active in developing NBS solutions, users will also find important conclusions and recommendations, thus presenting a collaboratively developed, consensus roadmap to scaling NBS. - Covers all issues of water security and natural infrastructures - Presents a comprehensive state of synthesis, providing readers with a solid grounding in the field of natural infrastructures and water security - Includes a fully workable and intuitive roadmap for action that is presented as a guide to the most important actions for practitioners, research questions for academics, and information on promising careers for students entering the field

National Urban Recreation Study

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book National Urban Recreation Study written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Directions in Locally Compact Groups

Author : Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108413129
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book New Directions in Locally Compact Groups written by Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A snapshot of the major renaissance happening today in the study of locally compact groups and their many applications.

Halting Biodiversity Loss

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environmental Audit Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215524843
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Halting Biodiversity Loss written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environmental Audit Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the thirteenth report from the Environmental Audit Committee of the 2007-08 session (HCP 743, ISBN 9780215524843). The Committee states, that the Government will fail to meet the 2010 traget to halt biodiversity loss, although the target might have been unrealistic. The Committee does see some progress, with 80% of Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSIs) in a favourable condition, with a number of rare species having recovered. In general though, biodiversity loss continues in the wider countryside with many species and habitats facing severe declines and local extinctions. The Committee does believe though that with leadership and effective policies, biodiversity loss could in fact be reversed, and states the Government should adopt a new target to halt the loss. Biodiversity policies need to be cross-departmental, and the Government's ecosystem assessment is a way forward, by encouraging such an approach and promoting biodiversity protection at the regional and local scales. The Committee further states that the Government could make a large contribution in preventing biodiversity loss through more support for the UK Overseas Territories.