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'The crossbill is a bonny bird An she sings wi a guid Scots tongue
Jip-jip-jip A'll gie ye gip Gin ye meddle wi me nor ma young' As a
result of his travels across the North American continent in the
eighteenth century Alexander Wilson pioneered the science of
ornithological writing and illustration, becoming an inspiration
for most of the ornithological works which followed. This new book
celebrates the artwork of Alexander Wilson by reproducing his
illustrations alongside new poems in Scots by Hamish MacDonald,
looking at the habits, habitats, and characteristics of birds.
Digital Participatory Planning outlines developments in the field
of digital planning and designs and trials a range of technologies,
from the use of apps and digital gaming through to social media, to
examine how accessible and effective these new methods are. It
critically discusses urban planning, democracy, and computing
technology literature, and sets out case studies on design and
deployment. It assesses whether digital technology offers an
opportunity for the public to engage with urban change, to enhance
public understanding and the quality of citizen participation, and
to improve the proactive possibilities of urban planning more
generally. The authors present an exciting alternative story of
citizen engagement in urban planning through the reimagination of
participation that will be of interest to students, researchers,
and professionals engaged with a digital future for people and
planning.
Digital Participatory Planning outlines developments in the field
of digital planning and designs and trials a range of technologies,
from the use of apps and digital gaming through to social media, to
examine how accessible and effective these new methods are. It
critically discusses urban planning, democracy, and computing
technology literature, and sets out case studies on design and
deployment. It assesses whether digital technology offers an
opportunity for the public to engage with urban change, to enhance
public understanding and the quality of citizen participation, and
to improve the proactive possibilities of urban planning more
generally. The authors present an exciting alternative story of
citizen engagement in urban planning through the reimagination of
participation that will be of interest to students, researchers,
and professionals engaged with a digital future for people and
planning.
Everyone looks forward to their holidays. In this book you can
learn how holidays began, and what they are like today. Orange/Band
6 books offer varied text and characters, with action sustained
over several pages. Text type: An information text. Curriculum
links: History: 'how people's lives have shaped this nation'. A
timeline on pages 22-23 allows children to see the history of
holidays in one neat summary. This book has been quizzed for
Accelerated Reader.
Africa is commonly perceived as a global growth region and a
continent on the move, with a huge demand for managerial skills to
ensure sustainable economic growth. In order to gain a
comprehensive understanding of the challenges to management
education development in Africa, it is important to understand the
diverse cultures, histories and contexts underlying the 54 member
states. With this is mind, this book explores the future of
management education, considering the differing scenarios for
change and the practical realities of developing management
education in VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous)
environments. This is the second of two volumes, written with
strong support from the EFMD (European Foundation for Management
Development) and the GMAC (Graduate Management Admission Council),
aimed at understanding and examining the challenges of developing
management education across Africa. The authors, through a
fine-tuned, face-to-face interview process, explore the
perspectives and interactions between management educators and
other business and government stakeholders as they look to the
future of management education in Africa.
This is the first of the two volumes, written with strong support
from EFMD (The European Foundation for Management Development) and
GMAC (The Graduate Management Admissions Council), aimed at
understanding and examining the challenges involved in management
education across Africa. The common perception of Africa is as a
global growth region, and a continent on the move, with a parallel,
huge demand for managerial skills to leverage the potential for
economic growth. The authors, through a fine-grained, face-to-face,
interview process, explore the perspectives, and interactions
between, management educators and other business, and government
stakeholders as they seek to close the management education gap.
Africa has no collective identity. Therefore, it is important to
understand the diverse cultures, histories and contexts underlying
the 54 member states. With this is mind, the book "maps" the
diverse landscape of Africa in the earlier chapters. This provides
the framework around which subsequent chapters can reflect sensibly
on the past evolution of alternative management education
approaches in Africa, and the current landscape.
This is the second of two volumes written to celebrate the 40th
anniversary of EFMD. Drawing on interviews conducted with leaders
in the world of management education, the first volume took a
retrospective view, focusing on the evolution of management
education and providing the context that led management education
to where it stands today. It also synthesized respondents' views on
the strengths and weaknesses of the field, the challenges it faces,
as well as lessons learned and not learned from the past. This
second volume similarly draws on the very rich data provided by the
same respondents, but is future-oriented and takes on the theme of
change. It provides the reader with a sense of the challenges on
the horizon, potential blind spots, and new realities of an
increasingly competitive environment. It discusses a range of
alternative future scenarios for management education, and urges
the field to resist the lures of the dominant paradigm and to
develop new models instead. The authors contend that, given the
challenges ahead, it is only through transformations and
innovations that the future of the field can be secured.
This is the first of two volumes written to celebrate the 40th
Anniversary of EFMD. Through an open-ended interview research
process, it seeks to explore the perspectives and views of a wide
range of experts drawn not only from the European environment but
also from the United States and other global players in the
management education field. Understanding the relations and
interactions between the various actors in management education is
fundamental to any rich analysis of the roles, value and purposes
of management education as well as the unfulfilled promises in its
evolution. The focus in this first volume is on the challenges,
issues, themes and lessons learned in the 40 years of EFMD's
evolution. The second volume will concentrate on the future of
management education.
Latin American business schools have grown in scale and quality in
recent decades, yet they have received a relatively low level of
attention globally when compared to schools from other parts of the
world. This book seeks to address this dearth of attention and
provide an in-depth examination of management education in the
region. The book examines the main historical, cultural, social,
political, and economic aspects of the Latin American continent and
describes the evolutionary path of business education in the region
until its current state. It analyzes and interprets the major
events, key issues, impact of different actors, main changes, and
"blind spots" in the evolution of management education in Latin
America over the last 10 years. It then identifies the biggest
on-going challenges confronting business education on the continent
and discusses whether a Latin American model for management
education is a realistic proposition. Finally, the book explores
how the competitive environment of business education in the region
will evolve over the next 10 years, and how these changes will
influence the critical issues facing Latin American management
education.
Some 60 million people died during the Second World War; millions
more were displaced in Europe, Africa, and Asia. The war resulted
in the creation of new states, the acceleration of imperial
decline, and a shift in the distribution of global power. Despite
its unprecedented impact, a comprehensive account of the complex
international experiences of this war remains elusive. The Peoples'
War? offers fresh approaches to the challenge of writing a new
history of the Second World War. Exploring aspects of the war that
have been marginalized in military and political studies, the
volume foregrounds less familiar narratives, subjects, and places.
Chapters recover the wartime experiences of individuals - including
women, children, members of minority ethnic groups, and colonial
subjects - whose stories do not fit easily into conventional
national war narratives. The contributors show how terms used to
delineate the conflict such as home front and battle front,
occupier and occupied, captor and prisoner, and friend and foe
became increasingly blurred as the war wore on. Above all, the
volume encourages reflection on whether this conflict really was a
"Peoples' War." Challenging the homogenizing narratives of the war
as a nationally unifying experience, The Peoples' War? seeks to
enrich our understanding of the Second World War as a global event.
Latin American business schools have grown in scale and quality in
recent decades, yet they have received a relatively low level of
attention globally when compared to schools from other parts of the
world. This book seeks to address this dearth of attention and
provide an in-depth examination of management education in the
region. The book examines the main historical, cultural, social,
political, and economic aspects of the Latin American continent and
describes the evolutionary path of business education in the region
until its current state. It analyzes and interprets the major
events, key issues, impact of different actors, main changes, and
"blind spots" in the evolution of management education in Latin
America over the last 10 years. It then identifies the biggest
on-going challenges confronting business education on the continent
and discusses whether a Latin American model for management
education is a realistic proposition. Finally, the book explores
how the competitive environment of business education in the region
will evolve over the next 10 years, and how these changes will
influence the critical issues facing Latin American management
education.
A new speculative ontology of aesthetics In Aesthesis and
Perceptronium, Alexander Wilson presents a theory of materialist
and posthumanist aesthetics founded on an original speculative
ontology that addresses the interconnections of experience,
cognition, organism, and matter. Entering the active fields of
contemporary thought known as the new materialisms and realisms,
Wilson argues for a rigorous redefining of the criteria that allow
us to discriminate between those materials and objects where
aesthesis (perception, cognition) takes place and those where it
doesn't. Aesthesis and Perceptronium negotiates between
indiscriminately pluralist views that attribute mentation to all
things and eliminative views that deny the existence of mentation
even in humans. By recasting aesthetic questions within the
framework of "epistemaesthetics," which considers cognition and
aesthetics as belonging to a single category that can neither be
fully disentangled nor fully reduced to either of its terms, Wilson
forges a theory of nonhuman experience that avoids this untenable
dilemma. Through a novel consideration of the evolutionary origins
of cognition and its extension in technological developments, the
investigation culminates in a rigorous reevaluation of the status
of matter, information, computation, causality, and time in terms
of their logical and causal engagement with the activities of human
and nonhuman agents.
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