The Ways Of The World

Author : David Harvey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190469467

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David Harvey is one of most famous Marxist intellectuals in the past half century, as well as one of the world's most cited social scientists. Beginning in the early 1970s with his trenchant and still-relevant book Social Justice and the City and through this day, Harvey has written numerous books and dozens of influential essays and articles on topics across issues in politics, culture, economics, and social justice. In The Ways of the World, Harvey has gathered his most important essays from the past four decades. They form a career-spanning collection that tracks not only the development of Harvey over time as an intellectual, but also a dialectical vision that gradually expanded its reach from the slums of Baltimore to global environmental degradation to the American imperium. While Harvey's coverage is wide-ranging, all of the pieces tackle the core concerns that have always animated his work: capitalism past and present, social change, freedom, class, imperialism, the city, nature, social justice, postmodernity, globalization, and the crises that inhere in capitalism. A career-defining volume, The Ways of the World will stand as a comprehensive work that presents the trajectory of Harvey's lifelong project in full.

Author : Robert Goddard
Publisher : Random House
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448111084

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1919. The eyes of the world are on Paris, where statesmen, diplomats and politicians have gathered to discuss the fate of half the world’s nations in the aftermath of the cataclysm that was the Great War. A horde of journalists, spies and opportunists have also gathered in the city and the last thing the British diplomatic community needs at such a time is the mysterious death of a senior member of their delegation. So, when Sir Henry Maxted falls from the roof of his mistress’s apartment building in unexplained circumstances, their first instinct is to suppress all suspicious aspects of the event. But Sir Henry’s son, ex Royal Flying Corps ace James ‘Max’ Maxted, has other ideas. He resolves to find out how and why his father died – even if this means disturbing the impression of harmonious calm which the negotiating teams have worked so hard to maintain. In a city where countries are jostling for position at the crossroads of history and the stakes could hardly be higher, it is difficult to tell who is a friend and who a foe.And Max will soon discover just how much he needs friends, as his search for the truth sucks him into the dark heart of a seemingly impenetrable mystery.

Author : Robert W. Strayer,Eric W. Nelson
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781319030025

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Ways of the World, Volume 1 by Robert W. Strayer,Eric W. Nelson Pdf

Ways of the World is one of the most successful and innovative textbooks for world history. The brief-by-design narrative is truly global and focuses on significant historical trends, themes, and developments in world history. Authors Robert W. Strayer, a pioneer in the world history movement with years of classroom experience, along with new co-author Eric W. Nelson, a popular and skilled teacher, provide a thoughtful and insightful synthesis that helps students see the big picture while teaching students to consider the evidence the way historians do.

Author : Robert Strayer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781315503967

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Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?: Understanding Historical Change by Robert Strayer Pdf

Taking the Soviet collapse - the most cataclysmic event of the recent past - as a case study, this text engages students in the exercise of historical analysis, interpretation and explanation. In exploring the question posed by the title, the author introduces and applies such organizing concepts as great power conflict, imperial decline, revolution, ethnic conflict, colonialism, economic development, totalitarian ideology, and transition to democracy in a most accessible way. Questions and controversies, and extracts from documentary and literary sources, anchor the text at key points. This book is intended for use in history and political science courses on the Soviet Union or more generally on the 20th century.

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781465485090

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Around the World in 80 Ways by DK Pdf

A fascinating and engaging picture book exploring 80 exciting ways to travel, both past and present - from the obvious, to the crazy! Travel around the world by yacht, tram, train, unicycle, jetpack, camel... any way you can imagine, in this non-fiction children's book. Every mode of transport is part of a charming scene. See how astronauts travel around space, watch surfers ride the waves at the beach, and race to an emergency with the firefighters. Illustrator Katy Halford's beautiful drawings brings the scenes to life and fun complementary facts will prompt discussion and laughter between readers. How would you choose to travel? Donkey, pedalo, moon buggy? From the small to the big, the familiar to obscure, take your pick from the amazing 80 shown in DK's Around the Way in 80 Ways!

Author : Robert W. Strayer
Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0312583508

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Ways of the World with Sources for AP*, Second Edition by Robert W. Strayer Pdf

Comparisons, Connections, & Change-contexts for the particulars Ways of the World is the textbook preferred by AP World History teachers and students across North America. Like the AP course it supports, Ways of the World focuses on significant historical trends, themes, and developments in world history. Author Robert W. Strayer provides a thoughtful and insightful synthesis that helps students see the big picture. Each chapter then culminates with collections of primary sources (written and visual) organized around a particular theme, issue, or question, thus allowing students to consider the evidence the way historians do. The second edition includes a wealth of supporting resources and supplements for the AP course, including an AP Skills Primer and AP Chapter Wrap-Ups, and rolls out Bedford/St. Martin's new digital history tools, including LearningCurve, an adaptive quizzing engine that garners over a 90% student satisfaction rate, and LaunchPad, the all new interactive e-book and course space that puts high quality easy-to-use assessment at your fingertips. Featuring video, additional primary sources, a wealth of adaptive and summative quizzing, and more, LaunchPad cements student understanding of the text while helping them make progress toward learning outcomes. It's the best content joined up with the best technology.

Author : Robert W. Strayer,Eric W. Nelson
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
Page : 1549 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781319109776

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Ways of the World with Sources, Volume 1 by Robert W. Strayer,Eric W. Nelson Pdf

Ways of the World is one of the most successful and innovative textbooks for world history. This 2-in-1 textbook and reader includes a brief-by-design narrative that focuses on significant historical developments and broad themes in world history. With keen consideration of the needs of their student audience, authors Robert W. Strayer and Eric W. Nelson provide an insightful, big picture synthesis that helps students discern what matters most in world history--patterns and variations on both global and regional levels and continuity and change over time. With the same personal touch, the authors guide students to consider primary and secondary source evidence the way historians do. Available for free when packaged with the print book, the popular digital assignment options for this text bring skill building and assessment to a highly effective level. The active learning options come in LaunchPad, which combines an accessible e-book with LearningCurve, an adaptive and automatically graded learning tool that—when assigned—helps ensure students read the book; the complete companion reader with Thinking through Sources digital exercises that help students build arguments from those sources; and many other study and assessment tools. For instructors who want the easiest and most affordable way to ensure students come to class prepared, Achieve Read & Practice pairs LearningCurve adaptive quizzing and our mobile, accessible Value Edition e-book, in one easy-to-use product.

Author : Kim Hooper
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781684428014

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Ways the World Could End by Kim Hooper Pdf

A 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist for Best General Fiction Dave is a Dad with Asperger's. He sees the world differently than most, and he feels like he has no idea what he’s doing when it comes to raising his 15-year-old daughter, Cleo. She also feels like he has no idea what he’s doing, especially now that her mom is gone. They were both better off when Jana was around—Dave's wife, Cleo's mother. But now she's not, and they are left to figure out life on their own. Dave dedicates his attention to his newfound hobby of doomsday prepping, researching the various ways the world could end. Cleo feels like her world already has. Everything changes when neighbors move in, threatening their isolation in the hills of San Juan Capistrano. Cleo is intrigued by the new girl, Edie, and soon finds out the intrigue is mutual. Dave, not at all intrigued, is forced to come to terms with everything he cannot control. As they struggle to live in the present, both Dave and Cleo must dare to revisit the tragic past they share. What happened to Jana? Who was she, really? Who are they without her? Ways the World Could End is a story of grief, friendship, and love—the love between parents and children, between spouses, between teenagers, and between strangers. It is a story that requires us to consider the bounds of forgiveness, what we’re willing and not willing to forgive, and reminds us that often the hardest thing to forgive is ourselves.

Author : Robert W. Strayer,Eric W. Nelson
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781319030551

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Ways of the World, Volume 2 by Robert W. Strayer,Eric W. Nelson Pdf

Ways of the World is one of the most successful and innovative textbooks for world history. The brief-by-design narrative is truly global and focuses on significant historical trends, themes, and developments in world history. Authors Robert W. Strayer, a pioneer in the world history movement with years of classroom experience, along with new co-author Eric W. Nelson, a popular and skilled teacher, provide a thoughtful and insightful synthesis that helps students see the big picture while teaching students to consider the evidence the way historians do.

Author : Robert W. Strayer,Eric W. Nelson
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
Page : 2642 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781319109745

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Ways of the World with Sources, Combined Volume by Robert W. Strayer,Eric W. Nelson Pdf

Ways of the World is one of the most successful and innovative textbooks for world history. This 2-in-1 textbook and reader includes a brief-by-design narrative that focuses on significant historical developments and broad themes in world history. With keen consideration of the needs of their student audience, authors Robert W. Strayer and Eric W. Nelson provide an insightful, big picture synthesis that helps students discern what matters most in world history--patterns and variations on both global and regional levels and continuity and change over time. With the same personal touch, the authors guide students to consider primary and secondary source evidence the way historians do. Available for free when packaged with the print book, the popular digital assignment options for this text bring skill building and assessment to a highly effective level. The active learning options come in LaunchPad, which combines an accessible e-book with LearningCurve, an adaptive and automatically graded learning tool that—when assigned—helps ensure students read the book; the complete companion reader with Thinking through Sources digital exercises that help students build arguments from those sources; and many other study and assessment tools. For instructors who want the easiest and most affordable way to ensure students come to class prepared, Achieve Read & Practice pairs LearningCurve adaptive quizzing and our mobile, accessible Value Edition e-book, in one easy-to-use product.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780763645069

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31 Ways to Change the World by Anonim Pdf

This book contains 31 suggestions and activities that kids can do that help the environment and other people.

Author : Alok Jha
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781623652821

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The Doomsday Handbook by Alok Jha Pdf

We live in a world positively teeming with threats and apocalyptic scenarios. Many of them are familiar: terrorism, deadly viruses, global warming and war, but many others most of us can't even imagine: self-replicating nanobots that can devour an entire planet, high-energy experiments that threaten to suck the Earth into a mini black hole, and even super-sophisticated scientific contraptions that can put an end to the entire universe.

Author : Gordon Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1398503630

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Seven Ways to Change the World by Gordon Brown Pdf

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown offers his solutions to the key issues facing us all in 2021, from Covid to climate change and the crisis of capitalism

Author : Robert W. Strayer,Eric W. Nelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1319282598

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1200 Update Launchpad for Ways of the World With Sources for the Ap Modern Course, One-use Access by Robert W. Strayer,Eric W. Nelson Pdf

Author : Kevin Reilly
Publisher : Bedford/st Martins
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : World history.
ISBN : 0312157894

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Worlds of History: To 1550 by Kevin Reilly Pdf

A comparative reader that offers a dynamic balance of primary and secondary sources, Worlds of History invites students to make connections across cultures while teaching them to think like historians. The 90 readings in Volume 1 and 94 readings in Volume 2 combine global coverage, topical balance, and new scholarship, expanding on the features of Kevin Reilly's best-selling Readings in World Civilizations.