Society and Social Sciences

This book examines four theses regarding Asian higher education and development: interplay between cultural traditions, economic development, globalization, and the evolution of the 'hybrid' university.

Rescue Robotics presents the most significant findings of the DDT Project on robots and systems for urban search and rescue.

This book explores the intimate marital relationships of Indonesian Muslim married women.

Louis Brownlow, one of public administration's historical thinkers, once argued, "e;[T]he principal requirement of a good administrator is an insatiable curiosity.

Der Band lotet die Bedingungen des Erinnerns und Erzählens und damit einer Re-Inszenierung der Vergangenheit im Feld der Kinder- und Jugendmedien aus.

First published in 1987, this volume makes available key documents, giving the contemporary reader a valuble record of women's struggle for eduacation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Though certainly not a new idea, citizenship education manifests in unique and often unpredictable ways in our contemporary neoliberal era.

It is widely known that - at least in current societies - culture depends on money.

Ernst L.

The history of the execution of women in the United States has largely been ignored and scholars have given scant attention to gender issues in capital punishment.

Examining the dynamics between subject, photographer and viewer, Fashioning Brazil analyses how Brazilians have appropriated and reinterpreted clothing influences from local and global cultures.

Im Lehrgang Technische Hilfeleistung (nach FwDV 2) sind für das Erlernen des korrekten Umgangs mit Trennschleifer, Plasmaschneider und Brennschneidegerät nur wenige Unterrichtseinheiten vorgesehen.

This research monograph delves into the pressing issue of employee-centered social sustainability in the hospitality industry.

This book uniquely combines data from a study focused on the use of dialogic instruction in an elementary classroom, with analysis of students' retrospective beliefs about the classroom environment, interactions, and authority.

Paul Honigsheim is unique.

Photography: A Critical Introduction was the first introductory textbook to examine key debates in photographic theory and place them in their social and political contexts, and is now established as one of the leading textbooks in its field.

Inviting in tone and organization but rigorous in its scholarship, The Paradox of Democracy in Latin America focuses on the problems, successes, and multiple forms of democracy in Latin America.

`This is a really useful book.

Promoting Reproductive Security in Developing Countries provides a comprehensive approach to developing and implementing reproductive health programs in the developing world.

South Korea is one of the rare countries that has experienced political/industrial democratization and economic development simultaneously in a relatively short period.

The history of the often-overlooked chewa Ethiopian warriors and their crucial role in defending their homeland against invasion, as well as their strong influence on political identity and the social infrastructure.

How do perceptions of the past--not just of particular events, but of the trajectory of history as a whole--shape our experience of the world?

Originally published in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, the country was split into pro-fascists and pro-communists, the author felt that the conflict in Spain threatened to develop into an international war, perhaps an international civil war since the issue cut across frontier lines.

This book contains a set of papers which explore the links among climate change, health, and hazards and demonstrate how they interact.

Die Soziale Arbeit begegnet vor allem in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe jungen Menschen, deren emotionale Balance aus dem Gleichgewicht geraten ist.

This brief presents the case study of a hill in Czech Republic (Rip) and its region, and contributes to theorization in sociocultural psychology on three points, along three current debates.

During the Qing dynasty (16441911), the province emerged as an important element in the management of the expanding Chinese empire, with governors -- those in charge of these increasingly influential administrative units -- playing key roles.

In 2011 the world watched as Egyptians rose up against a dictator.

This book expands the discourse as well as the nature of critical commentary on science fiction, speculative fiction and futurism - literary and cinematic by Black writers.

Since the summer of 2007, the world scenario has been dominated by the US sub-prime mortgage crisis and its repercussions on global financial markets and economic growth.

First published in 1998.

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With Multicultural Perspectives in Music Education, you can explore musics from around the world with your students in a meaningful way.

This book introduces the concept of the ';Person One Could Have Become' and shows the importance of mourning for individuals with traumatic experiences.

Meeting the aims of sustainability is becoming increasingly difficult; at the same time, the call for culture is becoming more powerful.

Que la universidad sea inclusiva es un desafío para los sistemas educativos.

This book provides an in-depth and thematic analysis of socially engaged art in Mainland China, exploring its critical responses to and creative interventions in China's top-down, pro-urban, and profit-oriented socioeconomic transformations.

Applied Crowd Science outlines the theory and applications of the crowd safety course that Keith Still has developed and taught worldwide for over thirty years.

Estimation of Time since Death in Australian Conditions collates data about decomposed bodies found in the eastern states of Australia from the years 2000 to 2010.

'Joseph Breuer's celebrated patient, Anna O.

This collection of essays, edited by the distinguished historian of education Richard Aldrich, examines past, present and future relationships between the private and public dimensions of knowledge and education.

Interdisciplinary Teaching about the Earth and Environment for a Sustainable Future presents the outcomes of the InTeGrate project, a community effort funded by the National Science Foundation to improve Earth literacy and build a workforce prepared to tackle environmental and resource issues.

Brilliant Ideas for Using ICT in the Classroom is a totally practical, hands-on guide to using ICT in and around the classroom for all secondary school teachers and lecturers in post-compulsory education.

This book argues that a sense of affinity for land and space constitutes the foundation of human agency and underlies all social activity of human beings from a personal level to family, nation, region, and the world.

This book acquaints the reader to the often invisible-ized practices and policies under the rhetoric of 'inclusion', through theoretical and empirical analysis.