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Sustainable Cities in Europe (Hardcover): Peter Nijkamp, Adriaan Perrels Sustainable Cities in Europe (Hardcover)
Peter Nijkamp, Adriaan Perrels
R4,557 Discovery Miles 45 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Worldwide, urbanization is steadily increasing, yet many modern cities are becoming less and less able to accommodate the growth in their population. Congestion, pollution, low-quality housing, social fragmentation, noise, crime and inadequate social services all contribute to a declining quality of urban life. Planners and policy makers are battling to alleviate the problems with a variety of urban renewal initiatives, and energy-environmental policies have become central to their quest for urban sustainability."Sustainable Cities in Europe" gives a comprehensive introduction to the available urban energy and environmental policies. Drawing on a detailed analysis of the CITIES programme of the Commission of the European Communities, the book includes detailed case studies of European cities which are devising and implementing alternative strategies for sustainable growth and development. The cities discussed include: Amsterdam, Besancon, Braganca, Cadiz, Dublin, Esch/Alzette, Gent, Mannheim, Newcastle, Odense, Thessaloniki and Turin.The policy discussions and case studies in this book will be invaluable for all those professionally or academically involved in the pressing issue of city planning development.

Managing Community Practice - Principles, Policies and Programmes (Hardcover, New edition): Sarah Banks, Hugh L. Butcher,... Managing Community Practice - Principles, Policies and Programmes (Hardcover, New edition)
Sarah Banks, Hugh L. Butcher, Andrew Orton, Jim Robertson
R3,010 Discovery Miles 30 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Managing community practice offers a comprehensive guide to a range of models and practices essential for the management of community-based practice. Fully updated, this second edition of a bestselling book takes account of the latest developments in community policy and practice. It places the management of community practice in the context of increasing pressures of economic austerity and trends towards community self-help and co-production of policies and services. Two brand new chapters cover community-led research and sustaining community practice for the future. Based on contributions from internationally recognised authors, the book offers a unique blend of theoretical models and practice guidance, including:an historical review of community practice in the UK; the organisational implications of managing community practice; ethical challenges in negotiating power and responsibility; the significance of networks in the context of partnership working; the manager's role in supporting community-led research; the importance of participative planning and evaluation.The book is an invaluable resource for operational and strategic managers in local government, community development, health, housing and other service delivery agencies with a focus on community participation and engagement. It is essential reading for tutors and students on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses concerned with community development, community-oriented practice and social action.

The Imperial Roman Economy (Hardcover): George Maher The Imperial Roman Economy (Hardcover)
George Maher
R601 Discovery Miles 6 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is the first coherent quantified assessment of the economy of the Roman Empire. George Maher argues inventively and rigorously for a much higher level of growth and prosperity than has hitherto been imagined, and also explains why, nonetheless, the Roman Empire did not achieve the transition which began in Georgian Britain. This book will have an enormous impact on Roman history and be required reading for all teachers and students in the field. It will also interest and provoke historians of the medieval and early modern periods into wondering why their economies failed to match the Roman level. Part of the problem in assessing the Roman economy is that we do not have much in the way of numerical data, but Roman historians, who rarely have much statistical expertise, have not always recognised the potential of the data we do have. Dr Maher's reassessment of the economy of the Roman Empire has to use the same data as everyone else, but he is able to draw strikingly novel conclusions in two ways: first, by more statistically sophisticated use of a few crucial datasets and, second, by correlating and drawing a coherent picture across the whole economy. On grain yields, firstly, instead of getting bogged down in details of individual cases, George Maher shows how there is a remarkably consistent pattern from which outliers can be excluded, showing yields were much higher than normally assumed. He then demonstrates that high yields are in fact necessary to explain the exceptional urbanization of the Empire. Urbanization at this level in turn, as George Maher shows, has implications for consumption and commerce. He takes this further to show how high levels of trade imply high levels of sophistication in economic practices and mentality. In one of his most methodologically novel chapters, George Maher develops a new and simpler way of assessing average life expectancy and argues for a life expectancy almost double the traditional view. This book, Dr George Maher's doctoral thesis, is the theoretical underpinning of his book Pugnare: Economic Success and Failure.

Youth and the Mystery Wall (Paperback, First): Phil Frampton Youth and the Mystery Wall (Paperback, First)
Phil Frampton; Illustrated by Emily Mulenga
R471 Discovery Miles 4 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Jesus Takes a Side - Embracing the Political Demands of the Gospel (Paperback): Jonny Rashid Jesus Takes a Side - Embracing the Political Demands of the Gospel (Paperback)
Jonny Rashid
R447 R412 Discovery Miles 4 120 Save R35 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jesus Takes a Side - Embracing the Political Demands of the Gospel (Hardcover): Jonny Rashid Jesus Takes a Side - Embracing the Political Demands of the Gospel (Hardcover)
Jonny Rashid
R751 R659 Discovery Miles 6 590 Save R92 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Popular Music and Youth Culture - Music, Identity and Place (Hardcover): Andrew Bennett Popular Music and Youth Culture - Music, Identity and Place (Hardcover)
Andrew Bennett
R4,665 Discovery Miles 46 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Music- and style-centred youth cultures are now a familiar aspect of everyday life in countries as far apart around the globe as Nepal and Jamaica, Hong Kong and Israel, Denmark and Australia. This lucid and original text provides a lively and wide-ranging account of the relationship between popular music and youth culture within the context of debates about the spatial dimensions of identity. It begins with a clear and comprehensive survey, and critical evaluation, of the existing body of literature on youth culture and popular music developed by sociologists and cultural and media theorists. It then develops a fresh perspective on the ways in which popular music is appropriated as a cultural resource by young people, using as a springboard a series of original ethnographic studies of dance music, rap, bhangra and rock. Bennett's original research material is carefully contextualised within a wider international literature on youth styles, local spaces and popular music but it serves to illustrate graphically how styles of music and their attendant stylistic innovations are appropriated and `lived out' by young people in particular social spaces. Music, Bennett argues, is produced and consumed by young people in ways that both inform their sense of self and also serve to construct the social world in which their identities operate. With its comprehensive coverage of youth and music studies and its important new insights, Popular Music and Youth Culture is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students in sociology, cultural studies, media studies and popular music studies. Dr ANDY BENNETT is lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He has published articles on aspects of youth culture, popular music, local identity and music and ethnicity in a number of journals, including Sociological Review, Media Culture and Society and Popular Music. He is currently co-editing a book on guitar cultures.

The Generation Divide - Why We Can't Agree And Why We Should (Paperback): Bobby Duffy The Generation Divide - Why We Can't Agree And Why We Should (Paperback)
Bobby Duffy
R325 R290 Discovery Miles 2 900 Save R35 (11%) In Stock

Are we in the middle of a generational war? Are Millennials really entitled 'snowflakes'? Are Baby Boomers stealing their children's futures? Are Generation X the saddest generation? Will Generation Z fix the climate crisis?

Revealing and informative, The Generation Divide provides a bold new framework for understanding the most divisive issues raging today: from culture wars to climate change and mental health to housing.

Including data from all over the globe, and with powerful implications for humanity's future, this big-thinking book will transform how you view the world.

Previously published as Generations.

Civilian-Driven Violence And The Genocide Of Indigenous Peoples In Settler Societies (Paperback): Mohamed Adhikari Civilian-Driven Violence And The Genocide Of Indigenous Peoples In Settler Societies (Paperback)
Mohamed Adhikari
R385 R355 Discovery Miles 3 550 Save R30 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days
Cities of Ambition (Paperback): Charles Landry Cities of Ambition (Paperback)
Charles Landry
R333 Discovery Miles 3 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Proceedings of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Canada: At the Annual Convocation, Held at the Town of Prescott, C.... Proceedings of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Canada: At the Annual Convocation, Held at the Town of Prescott, C. W., On the Second Tuesday, the 8th Day of August, A. L., 5865, A. D., 1865 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)
Royal Arch Masons of Canada
R429 Discovery Miles 4 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Proceedings of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Canada: Eighty-Fourth Annual Convocation, Niagara Falls, Ontario,... Proceedings of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Canada: Eighty-Fourth Annual Convocation, Niagara Falls, Ontario, April 22nd and 23rd, 1942 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)
Royal Arch Masons of Canada
R501 Discovery Miles 5 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Jesus of the East - Reclaiming the Gospel for the Wounded (Paperback): Phuc Luu Jesus of the East - Reclaiming the Gospel for the Wounded (Paperback)
Phuc Luu; Foreword by Gregory Boyle
R443 R414 Discovery Miles 4 140 Save R29 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Power of Geography (Paperback): Marshall-T Power of Geography (Paperback)
Marshall-T
R489 R455 Discovery Miles 4 550 Save R34 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Feather & Fin - The Beautiful Me Collection (Hardcover): Marlene Service Feather & Fin - The Beautiful Me Collection (Hardcover)
Marlene Service
bundle available
R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Cradock - How Segregation and Apartheid Came to a South African Town (Paperback): Jeffrey Butler Cradock - How Segregation and Apartheid Came to a South African Town (Paperback)
Jeffrey Butler; Edited by Richard Elphick, Jeannette Hopkins
R350 R323 Discovery Miles 3 230 Save R27 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Cradock is a vivid history of a South African town in the years when segregation gradually emerged, preceding the rapid and rigorous implementation of apartheid. Through the details of one emblematic community, Jeffrey Butler offers an ambitious treatment of the racial themes that dominate recent South African history. Although Butler was born and raised in Cradock, he eschews sentimentality in favour of scholarly precision. Augmenting the obvious political narratives, Cradock examines the poor infrastructural conditions, ranging from public health to public housing, that typify a grossly unequal system of racial segregation but are otherwise neglected in the region's historiography. Butler shows, with the richness that only a local study could provide, how the lives of blacks, whites and coloureds were affected by the bitter transition from segregation before 1948 to apartheid thereafter.

Feather & Fin - The Beautiful Me Collection (Paperback): Marlene Service Feather & Fin - The Beautiful Me Collection (Paperback)
Marlene Service
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R276 Discovery Miles 2 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Becoming Myself - A Psychiatrist's Memoir (Paperback): Irvin D. Yalom Becoming Myself - A Psychiatrist's Memoir (Paperback)
Irvin D. Yalom
R524 R458 Discovery Miles 4 580 Save R66 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Bestselling writer and psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom puts himself on the couch in a “candid, insightful” memoir​.

Irvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this profound memoir, he turns his writing and his therapeutic eye on himself.

He opens his story with a nightmare: He is twelve, and is riding his bike past the home of an acne-scarred girl. Like every morning, he calls out, hoping to befriend her, "Hello Measles!" But in his dream, the girl's father makes Yalom understand that his daily greeting had hurt her. For Yalom, this was the birth of empathy; he would not forget the lesson.

As Becoming Myself unfolds, we see the birth of the insightful thinker whose books have been a beacon to so many. This is not simply a man's life story, Yalom's reflections on his life and development are an invitation for us to reflect on the origins of our own selves and the meanings of our lives.

Participatory Practice - Community-based Action for Transformative Change (Hardcover): Margaret Ledwith, Jane Springett Participatory Practice - Community-based Action for Transformative Change (Hardcover)
Margaret Ledwith, Jane Springett
R2,995 Discovery Miles 29 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This exciting new book is both practical and theoretical. It is a pioneering work of integrated praxis, situating theory within a participatory worldview and grounding practice in the important issues of our times - social justice and sustainability. Ledwith and Springett's ideas are founded on two premises. Firstly, transformative practice begins in the stories of people's everyday lives, and practical theory generated from these narratives is the best way to inform both policy and practice. This innovative approach bridges the divide between ideas and practice, and allows the development of the knowledge needed to bring about transformative social change. Secondly, participatory approaches to practice allow practitioners not only to critically examine the world, but also to reflect on the way in which they view the world in order to situate their local practice more relevantly within bigger social issues. Participatory practice is structured in an unfolding and engaging way. It is divided into two major sections: the first, 'A Participatory Paradigm', considers theory in relation to current times, and the second, 'Participatory Practice', develops skills related to this thinking. The book will be of interest to both academics and community-based practitioners.

Survival In The 'Dumping Grounds' - A Social History Of Apartheid Relocation (Paperback): Laura Evans Survival In The 'Dumping Grounds' - A Social History Of Apartheid Relocation (Paperback)
Laura Evans
R350 R323 Discovery Miles 3 230 Save R27 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Survival in the 'Dumping Grounds' examines a defining aspect of South Africa's recent past: the history of apartheid-era relocation.

While scholars and activists have long recognised the suffering caused by apartheid removals to the so-called 'homelands', the experiences of those who lived through this process more often have been obscured. Drawing on extensive archival and oral history research, this book explores the makings and multiple meanings of relocation into two of the most notorious apartheid 'dumping grounds' established in the Ciskei bantustan during the mid-1960s: Sada and Ilinge.

Author Laura Evans describes the local and global dynamics of the project of bantustan relocation and develops a multi-layered analysis of the complex histories-and ramifications-of displacement and resettlement in the Ciskei.

The Oddfellows - 200 Years of Making Friends and Helping People (Hardcover): Daniel Weinbren The Oddfellows - 200 Years of Making Friends and Helping People (Hardcover)
Daniel Weinbren
R827 Discovery Miles 8 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

On 10 October 1810, 27 men came together to form the Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity. It was to be the beginning of an organisation which for the last 200 years has appealed to the best in people, treated them as capable of exercising responsibility, and empowered them to face the challenges of life. All the principles and practices of Oddfellowship developed from these core values, which still characterise the Society today. The story of the last two centuries, including many dramatic changes, is chronicled in this well-researched, readable and lively history, lavishly illustrated with many wonderful photographs, documents and commemorative memorabilia. And, as befits a Society which values its members so highly, there are also contributions from present-day Oddfellows, whose memories and recollections have been passed down through families over generations. This wonderful book vividly portrays the life of the Oddfellows since its birth and is certain to fascinate all current Society members, for whom it will be a treasured keepsake. It is also, however, a valuable and interesting resource for historians, those connected with the study of friendly societies, and anyone interested in British social history.

The Green Book of Elus Coens (Hardcover): Stewart Clelland, Josef Wages The Green Book of Elus Coens (Hardcover)
Stewart Clelland, Josef Wages; Illustrated by Steve Adams
R1,201 Discovery Miles 12 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Some Masonic Musings (Hardcover): Aubrey Newman Some Masonic Musings (Hardcover)
Aubrey Newman
R846 Discovery Miles 8 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Beautiful me collection - Makeeda and the painting (Paperback): Marlene Service The Beautiful me collection - Makeeda and the painting (Paperback)
Marlene Service
R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Beautiful Me Collection - Big Kids Edition 6+ Makeeda and the Painting ~ Have you ever heard the expression - "a picture is worth a thousand words,a How often do we look at an image without text and know just what the painting or photograph is trying to say? It is almost as if there is a silent coversation taking place, and only those who speak the language can be part of this mysterious dimension of thought. It has been said that where there is art there are no lonely hearts. In this story, Makeeda gets really close to uncovering a secret only artists know.... This story was written by Marlene Service and co-written by both of her daughters Nylah-May Service aged 9 and Xi-Ana Ray Service aged 6. Credit for the creative concept of this story must be given to the girls who really tapped into their imagination and came up with such a fun and layered idea. Celebrating Diversity - There are 5 delightful books in The Beautiful Me Collection and to learn more you can visit www.thebeautifulmecollection.com

Beyond Beyond - A Chance Encounter, a Digital Courtship, and the Language of Love (Hardcover): Roz Lewy, Ralph Insinger Beyond Beyond - A Chance Encounter, a Digital Courtship, and the Language of Love (Hardcover)
Roz Lewy, Ralph Insinger
R727 R655 Discovery Miles 6 550 Save R72 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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