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An ecologist and mother brings the overwhelming problem of global warming to a personal level, with a mix of memoir and science As Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver examine food issues through their own families' meals, Amy Seidl looks at climate change through family walks in the woods, work in her garden, and seasonal community events throughout the year. She brings home the reality of global warming by considering how it has altered her...

Community development has been increasingly influenced and co-opted by a modernist, soulless, rational philosophy, which has reduced it to a shallow technique for 'solving community problems' and threatens the very legitimacy of community development as an instrument of society's renewal and fulfilment. Dialogical Community Development is a courageous, ground-breaking attempt to re-draw the parameters and re-map the ground of community develop...

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Climate change. Energy security. Water shortages. These perils affect our world and ??increasingly ??the ability of businesses to operate profitably. In the face of soaring energy prices and decreasing inventories of natural resources, larger businesses are taking steps to control their costs. In addition, these businesses are implementing environmentally friendly practices in order to manage risks, appeal to a growing base of consumers who ma...

A test preparation guide designed specifically to meet the requirements of the ASE certification exam for Transit Bus H5, Suspension and Steering. It is suitable for those seeking to successfully master the H5 ASE certification exam.

The book helps keyboardists understand and appreciate their instruments without getting too technical. It includes chapters on auditioning keyboards and pianos, appreciating sound, connections, MIDI, maintenance, and much more. A glossary, an index, and the Tipbook Company's unique Tipcodes complete the book.

The Crimson Hotel is a hilarious absurdist comedy by one of Britain's greatest living playwrights. The play has its world premiere at the Donmar Warehouse Theatre, London, on 25 July 2007. The volume also features the 1991 one-act play, Audience.

A brilliant and terriying book that forces us to move beyond denial and into action.

Consciousness has long been a subject of interest in philosophy and religion but only relatively recently has it become subject to scientific investigation. Now, more than ever before, we are beginning to understand this mental state. Developmental psychologists understand when we first develop a sense of self, neuropsychologists see which parts of the brain activate when we think about ourselves and which parts of the brain control that aware...

Challuabamba, the city in the southern highlands of Ecuador - has been known as an ancient site that produced fine pottery in great quantities. This work presents an analysis of ceramics dating to 2100-1100 BC, along with descriptions of stamps and seals, stone and shell artefacts, burials and their offerings, human remains, and zoo-archaeology.

Written in an encrypted notebook while incarcerated in a Nazi insane asylum and discovered after his death, The Drinker may be Hans Fallada's most breathtaking piece of craftsmanship. It is an intense yet absorbing study of the descent into drunkenness by an intelligent man who fears he's lost it all.***This is a Hybrid Book.Melville House HybridBooks combine print and digital media into an enhanced reading experience by including with each ti...

This is the book that led to Hans Fallada's downfall with the Nazis. The story of a young couple struggling to survive the German economic collapse was a worldwide sensation and was made into an acclaimed Hollywood movie produced by Jews, leading Hitler to ban Fallada's work from being translated. Nonetheless, it remains, as The Times Literary Supplement notes, "the novel of a time in which public and private merged even for those whowanted to...

An Edgar-Award finalist for Best Paperback Original!

A young bi-racial woman's triumphant memoir, recounting struggles against bigotry in the school system.

The first English-language study of the history and lessons of French anarchism between the wars.

Rund 70 Minuten Expertise für die Ohren. Für alle, die in freier Rede professionell ihre Inhalte transportieren müssen. René Borbonus führt Sie von der Pflicht zur Kür: Lernen Sie, wie man in eine Rede einsteigt, ihre Inhalte sprachlich aufwertet und mit Einwänden umgeht. Werden Sie kreativ: Machen Sie Bilder und Worte zu Botschaftern Ihrer Überzeugung. Sachlichkeit und Begeisterung sind keine Gegensätze mit diesem Grundsatz schenkt René Borbo...

Parisian P.I. Aimée Leduc is head-over-heels when a former boyfriend, an investigative journalist, reappears and proposes-but his professional past has caught up with him, and now Aimée must figure out who would want him deadAimée Leduc seems to be having a streak of good luck. First, she secures a lucrative computer security contract for her Paris detective agency. Then her ex-boyfriend Yves, the gorgeous bad-boy investigative journalist, rea...

Stories of prisoners who learn law to represent and sometimes win freedom for fellow prisoners

More blocks and more projects using Penny Haren's unique, innovative techniques for creating perfect blocks with ease. Full size templates, excellent step-by-step how-to, hundreds of full color photos and illustrations. Lay flat, hidden spiral binding.

This rich and revelatory biography of Lincoln Kirstein, cofounder of the New York City Ballet and School of American Ballet, is filled with fascinating incidents and perceptions, and is being published for Kirstein's centenary. photos.