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Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Homeopathy
ISBN : HARVARD:HC2L2K
Author : Edgar A. Pieterse
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781770097957
"The City of Cape Town is heading for disaster and is already in deep crisis if one cares to look close enough. The recent proliferation of public construction, public squares and public housing along the N2 towards the airport is little more than a mirage compared with the direction of more underlying trends. Cape Town's grim future is born out of the confluence of the globalised economic and ecological collapse that is fast becoming the defining feature of the twenty-first century. It is manifested most starkly in the dire situation that faces the majority of the city's residents, who are excluded from the formal economy and must rely on substandard public services and their own makeshift shelters. The scenario is serious enough to draw everyone's attention but should be set against the broader issues of long-term economic resilience and environmental sustainability to achieve a low-carbon society - so we have our work cut out for us. The purpose of this volume is to demystify these challenges and present readers with a creative portfolio of thinking, practice and strong vision to show that we can find alternatives - and, moreover, that these alternatives are already emerging in (marginal) sections of the state, civil society and the business sectors."--Introduction.
Author : Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00133448
Author : Olaf Stapledon
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547184300
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Odd John" by Olaf Stapledon. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Agnes Repplier
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066442224
This is an invaluable collection of nine essays on critical matters of the time by American essayist Agnes Repplier. Contents The Cost of Modern Sentiment Our Loss of Nerve Christianity and War Women and War The Repeal of Reticence Popular Education The Modest Immigrant Waiting Americanism
Author : Rena Bivens
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442615861
Rena Bivens takes the reader inside TV newsrooms to explore how news organisations are responding to the paradigmatic shifts in media and communication practices.
Author : Robert E. Buswell, Jr.
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824874490
Soon after the inception of Buddhism in the sixth or fifth century B.C.E., the Buddha ordered his small band of monks to wander forth for the welfare and weal of the many, a command that initiated one of the greatest missionary movements in world religious history. But this account of a monolithic missionary movement spreading outward from the Buddhist homeland of India across the Asian continent is just one part of the story. The case of East Asian Buddhism suggests another tale, one in which the dominant eastward current of diffusion creates important eddies, or countercurrents, of influence that redound back toward the center. These countercurrents have had significant, even profound, impact on neighboring traditions. In East Asia perhaps the most important countercurrent of influence came from Korea, the focus of this volume. Chapters examine the role played by the Paekche kingdom in introducing Buddhist material culture (especially monastic architecture) to Japan and the impact of Korean scholiasts on the creation of several distinctive features that eventually came to characterize Japanese Pure Land Buddhism. The lives and intellectual importance of the monks Sungnang (fl. ca. 490) and Wonch’uk (613–696) are reassessed, bringing to light their role in the development of early intellectual schools within Chinese Buddhism. Later chapters discuss the influential teachings of the semi-legendary master Musang (684–762), the patriarch of two of the earliest schools of Ch’an; the work of a dozen or so Korean monks active in the Chinese T’ient’ai tradition; and the Huiyin monastery.
Author : Sophie Winthrop Weitzel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Manners and customs
ISBN : OCLC:951065804
Author : Sophie Winthrop Weitzel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : American fiction
ISBN : HARVARD:HNNZLC
Author : Samir Amin
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583676035
Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world’s first significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society. According to Marxist economist Samir Amin, the great upheaval that once produced the Soviet Union has also produced a movement away from capitalism – a long transition that continues even today. In seven concise, provocative chapters, Amin deftly examines the trajectory of Russian capitalism, the Bolshevik Revolution, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the possible future of Russia – and, by extension, the future of socialism itself. Amin manages to combine an analysis of class struggle with geopolitics – each crucial to understanding Russia’s singular and complex political history. He first looks at the development (or lack thereof) of Russian capitalism. He sees Russia’s geopolitical isolation as the reason its capitalist empire developed so differently from Western Europe, and the reason for Russia’s perceived “backwardness.” Yet Russia’s unique capitalism proved to be the rich soil in which the Bolsheviks were able to take power, and Amin covers the rise and fall of the revolutionary Soviet system. Finally, in a powerful chapter on Ukraine and the rise of global fascism, Amin lays out the conditions necessary for Russia to recreate itself, and perhaps again move down the long road to socialism. Samir Amin’s great achievement in this book is not only to explain Russia’s historical tragedies and triumphs, but also to temper our hopes for a quick end to an increasingly insufferable capitalism. This book offers a cornucopia of food for thought, as well as an enlightening means to transcend reductionist arguments about “revolution” so common on the left. Samir Amin’s book – and the actions that could spring from it – are more necessary than ever, if the world is to avoid the barbarism toward which capitalism is hurling humanity.
Author : United States. Hydrographic Office,Robert Harris Wyman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Pilot guides
ISBN : HARVARD:32044080603855
Author : John Toland
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 1281 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101872772
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian John Toland’s classic, definitive biography of Adolf Hitler remains the most thorough, readable, accessible, and, as much as possible, objective account of the life of a man whose evil affect on the world in the twentieth century will always be felt. Toland’s research provided one of the final opportunities for a historian to conduct personal interviews with over two hundred individuals intimately associated with Hitler. At a certain distance yet still with access to many of the people who enabled and who opposed the führer and his Third Reich, Toland strove to treat this life as if Hitler lived and died a hundred years before instead of within his own memory. From childhood and obscurity to his desperate end, Adolf Hitler emerges , in Toland’s words, "far more complex and contradictory . . . obsessed by his dream of cleansing Europe Jews . . . a hybrid of Prometheus and Lucifer."
Author : Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103077442
Author : Open Open University
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780080537948
This second edition retains the general structure of the first edition, buthas been updated in the light of recent oceanographic research, and improvedas a teaching text on the basis of feedback from past students and otherreaders.Notable additions include new sections addressing the topic ofnumerical modelling, and more discussion of natural oscillations in theocean-atmosphere system (previously confined to the El Niño phenomenon). Inparticular, the Chapter on the North Atlantic now includes a discussion ofthe North Atlantic Oscillation, as well as of the Great Salinity Anomaly. Inthe final Chapter, treatment of water mass formation has been updated toreflect recent ideas about the processes involved and how they relate toclimatic change over different time-scales, from decades to millennia. High quality full colour diagramsSubstantial chapter summaries ideal for revisionAnswers, hints and notes for questions at back of the book
Author : Jay W. Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136945816
"EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION "This book brings a thoughtful and refreshing perspective on experiential education. Educators interested in outdoor learning, service learning, and place-based learning will find in Roberts' analysis a critical understanding of what learning by doing means." Dilafruz Williams, Portland State University What is experiential education? What are its theoretical roots? Where does this approach come from? Offering a fresh and distinctive take, this book is about going beyond "learning by doing" through an exploration of its underlying theoretical currents. As an increasingly popular pedagogical approach, experiential education encompasses a variety of curriculum projects from outdoor and environmental education to service learning and place-based education. While each of these sub-fields has its own history and particular approach, they draw from the same progressive intellectual taproot. Each, in its own way, evokes the power of "learning by doing" and "direct experience" in the educational process. By unpacking the assumed homogeneity in these terms to reveal the underlying diversity of perspectives inherent in their usage, this book allows readers to see how the approaches connect to larger conversations and histories in education and social theory, placing experiential education in social and historical context. Combining a critical philosophical approach with practical examples from the field, Beyond Learning by Doing gives readers both an excellent summary of the theoretical histories of experiential education and a thesis-driven argument about the current state of the field and its future possibilities and limitations Jay W. Roberts is Associate Professor of Education and Environmental Studies, Earlham College"-- Provided by publisher.
