Changes Progress Reactions And History

Author : Brenda McGee
Publisher : PRUFROCK PRESS INC.
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07
Category : Change
ISBN : 9781593632564

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Changes - Progress, Reactions, and History by Brenda McGee Pdf

Changes are constantly occurring in life. The increase of technology and the needs of mankind continuously force change. The Changes curriculum asks students three main questions: Can people control changes? Can using past information help you predict change? and Are changes positive or negative? In Changes Book 2: Progress, Reactions, and History, students focus on three main questions: Is progress good or bad? What would happen if progress stopped? and How would this affect the field of technology, medicine, or education? The second book in the Changes series will lead your students on a journey of understanding the nature of change. Students also will investigate the universal concept of change. Students learn about chemical changes by examining the effects of salt on buoyancy, water on pasta, and heat on popcorn kernels. Students' investigation continues with the story and examination of a young character's life as she and her father go into the wilderness and live with Native Americans.

Author : Dan Edelstein,Stefanos Geroulanos,Natasha Wheatley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226706016

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Power and Time by Dan Edelstein,Stefanos Geroulanos,Natasha Wheatley Pdf

Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events. Different temporalities interact dynamically; sometimes they coexist tensely, sometimes they clash violently. In this innovative volume, editors Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley challenge how we interpret history by focusing on the nexus of two concepts—“power” and “time”—as they manifest in a wide variety of case studies. Analyzing history, culture, politics, technology, law, art, and science, this engaging book shows how power is constituted through the shaping of temporal regimes in historically specific ways. Power and Time includes seventeen essays on human rights; sovereignty; Islamic, European, Chinese, and Indian history; slavery; capitalism; revolution; the Supreme Court; the Anthropocene; and even the Manson Family. Power and Time will be an agenda-setting volume, highlighting the work of some of the world’s most respected and original contemporary historians and posing fundamental questions for the craft of history.

Author : Vitor Eduardo Schincariol
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781040093641

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Environment and Ecology in the History of Economic Thought by Vitor Eduardo Schincariol Pdf

This volume proposes a reconsideration of ecological and environmental aspects of the work and ideas of various heterodox authors and traditions in the history of economic thought, including the field of economic development. Many of the contributors to this book focus on thinkers and works which are not typically considered as part of the ecological sphere, while others consider such economists in a new light or domain. Thus, the book elucidates a new and useful research field of reconsidering ecological dimensions in the traditional history of economic thought as well as helping to delineate alternative views for ongoing debates on ecological themes. Did Veblen, Keynes, Sraffa, C. Furtado and other key economists and schools of thought of our age have relevant and useful insights with respect to environmental issues? Which aspects of their intellectual legacies should eventually be discarded in the face of our new environmental challenges? On the contrary, what aspects of their economic theories can be updated and adapted to a better interpretation of our present ecological concerns? How do they differ, and why? The essays contained in this book will help to answer these questions, by means of recovering, analysing and updating the work of some of the most relevant heterodox economists and schools of thought of our time. This book will be of great interest for readers in the history of economic thought, ecological economics, environmental economics and economic development.

Author : Stephen M. Wheeler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136344176

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Climate Change and Social Ecology by Stephen M. Wheeler Pdf

Although strategies to prevent global warming – such as by conserving energy, relying on solar and wind power, and reducing motor vehicle use – are well-known, societies have proved unable to implement these measures with the necessary speed. They have also been unwilling to confront underlying issues such as overconsumption, overpopulation, inequity, and dysfunctional political systems. Political and social obstacles have prevented the adoption of improved technologies, which would provide only a partial solution in any case if the fundamental causes of greenhouse gas emissions aren’t addressed. Climate Change and Social Ecology takes a new approach to the climate crisis, portraying global warming as a challenge of rapid social evolution. This book argues that, in order to address this impending catastrophe and bring about more sustainable development, we must focus on improving social ecology – our values, mind-sets, and social organization. Steps to do this include institutional reforms to improve democracy, educational strategies to encourage public understanding of complex issues, and measures to prevent corporations and the wealthy from shaping societies in other directions instead. This book presents a captivating vision of how to help social systems evolve toward sustainability and explores the social transformations needed for dealing with the climate crisis in the long term. It reviews the climate change strategies considered to date, presents a detailed description of a future sustainable society, and analyzes how this vision might be realized through more conscious public nurturing of our social systems. This interdisciplinary volume provides a compelling rethink of the climate crisis. Authoritative and accessible, it will be of great interest to anyone concerned about climate change and sustainability challenges and is essential reading for students, professionals, and general readers alike.

Author : Hugh De Santis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226142965

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Beyond Progress by Hugh De Santis Pdf

Argues that in a world of dwindling resources, economic inequality, and unremitting violence, the belief in endless progress can no longer be sustained. Asserts that we have arrived at a great historic divide, in which the old modern order is giving way to an age of "mutualism". Draws on world history and the study of international relations to explore the emerging future, in which new forms of social and political identity and regional associations and alignments will be needed to solve global problems. Argues that mutualism will require a dramatical change in the way states, international institutions, corporations, and local communities interact, and that this transformation will be especially difficult for the United States, which will have to abandon its exceptionalist identity and rejoin a world it can no longer escape.

Author : Christopher Shaw
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429872761

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Liberalism and the Challenge of Climate Change by Christopher Shaw Pdf

In this book Christopher Shaw analyses how liberalism has shaped our understanding of climate change and how liberalism is legitimated in the face of a crisis for which liberalism has no answers. The language and symbolism we use to make sense of climate change arose in the post-World War II liberal institutions of the West. This language and symbolism, in neutralising the philosophical and ideological challenge climate change poses to the legitimacy of free market liberalism, has also closed off the possibility of imagining a different kind of future for humanity. The book is structured around a repurposing of the ‘guardrail’ concept, commonly used in climate science narratives to communicate the boundary between safe and dangerous climate change. Five discursive ‘guardrails’ are identified, which define a boundary between safe and dangerous ideas about how to respond to climate change. The theoretical treatment of these issues is complemented with data from interviews with opinion-formers, decision-makers and campaigners, exploring what models of human nature and political possibilities guide their approach to the politics of climate change governance. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, liberal politics, environmental communication and environmental politics and philosophy, in general.

Author : H. Faridi,J.M. Faubion
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781461308614

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Dough Rheology and Baked Product Texture by H. Faridi,J.M. Faubion Pdf

Cereal chemists are interested in rheology because the dough undergoes some type of deformation in every phase of the conversion of flour into baked products. During mixing, dough is subjected to extreme deformations, many that exceed the rupture limit; during fermentation, the deformations are much smaller and therefore exhibit a different set of rheological properties; during sheeting and molding, deformations are at an intermediate level; and, finally, during proofing and baking, the dough is subjected to a range of deformations at varying temperatures. Accordingly, the application of rheological concepts to explain the behavior of dough seems a natural requirement of research on the interrelationships among flour constituents, added ingredients, process parameters, and the required characteristics of the final baked product. At any moment in the baking process, the rheological behavior, that is, the nature of the deformation, exhibited by a specific dough derives from the applied stress and how long the stress is maintained. The resulting deformation may be simple, such as pure viscous flow or elastic deformation, and therefore easy to define precisely. Moreover, under some conditions of stress and time (i. e. , shear rate), doughs behave as ideal materials and their behavior follows theory derived from fundamental concepts. Under usual conditions encountered in baking, however, the rheological behavior is far from ideal; shear rates vary widely and sample size and dimensions are ill-defined.

Author : B. Elan Dresher,Harry van der Hulst
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192516909

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The Oxford History of Phonology by B. Elan Dresher,Harry van der Hulst Pdf

This volume is the first to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive history of phonology from the earliest known examples of phonological thinking, through the rise of phonology as a field in the twentieth century, and up to the most recent advances. The volume is divided into five parts. Part I offers an account of writing systems along with chapters exploring the great ancient and medieval intellectual traditions of phonological thought that form the foundation of later thinking and continue to enrich phonological theory. Chapters in Part II describe the important schools and individuals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who shaped phonology as an organized scientific field. Part III examines mid-twentieth century developments in phonology in the Soviet Union, Northern and Western Europe, and North America; it continues with precursors to generative grammar, and culminates in a chapter on Chomsky and Halle's The Sound Pattern of English (SPE). Part IV then shows how phonological theorists responded to SPE with respect to derivations, representations, and phonology-morphology interaction. Theories discussed include Dependency Phonology, Government Phonology, Constraint-and-Repair theories, and Optimality Theory. The part ends with a chapter on the study of variation. Finally, chapters in Part V look at new methods and approaches, covering phonetic explanation, corpora and phonological analysis, probabilistic phonology, computational modelling, models of phonological learning, and the evolution of phonology. This in-depth exploration of the history of phonology provides new perspectives on where phonology has been and sheds light on where it could go next.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : PSU:000008404916

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Proceedings and Papers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paola Crisma,Giuseppe Longobardi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199560547

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Historical Syntax and Linguistic Theory by Paola Crisma,Giuseppe Longobardi Pdf

This text of new work by leading international scholars considers developments in the study of historical linguistics and grammatical theory. It then tests their value and applicability by examining diachronic transmission of syntax at different times and in a wide range of languages

Author : Congrès international de psychologie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Psychology
ISBN : WISC:89110084696

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Abstract Guide by Congrès international de psychologie Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UFL:31262095202262

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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wendall V. Harris
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349244126

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Literary Meaning by Wendall V. Harris Pdf

Today's student of literature is faced with an overwhelming variety of critical approaches. The need to evaluate their usefulness in furthering our understanding of literature is therefore a growing concern. In Literary Meaning, Wendell V. Harris explores the fallacies behind the fashionable hermeticism that insists that the meaning of a text is indeterminate and divides language from any reality beyond itself. Harris then puts forward a powerful case for the return to hermeneutics, in which an understanding of the author's intended meaning is the first step in reading, and at the same time insists upon the hollowness of the current mode of professionalism in literature departments. Set to provoke fierce debate, this controversial book will become essential reading for all those involved in literary criticism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Humanities
ISBN : MINN:30000011053687

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Humanities by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Holmes Agnew,Walter Hilliard Bidwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : CHI:74713707

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The Eclectic Magazine by John Holmes Agnew,Walter Hilliard Bidwell Pdf