|
Showing 1 - 25 of
34 matches in All Departments
Disasters are the result of complex interactions between social
and natural forces, acting at multiple scales from the individual
and community to the organisational, national and international
level. Effective disaster planning, response and recovery require
an understanding of these interacting forces, and the role of
power, knowledge and organizations.
This book sheds new light on these dynamics, and gives disaster
scholars and practitioners new and valuable lessons for management
and planning in practice. The authors draw on methods across the
social sciences to examine disaster response and recovery as viewed
by those in positions of authority and the 'recipients' of
operations. These first two sections examine cases from Hurricane
Katrina, while the third part compares this to other international
disasters to draw out general lessons and practical applications
for disaster planning in any context. The authors also offer
guidance for shaping institutional structures to better meet the
needs of communities and residents.
Mathematics Education identifies some of the most significant
issues in mathematics education today. Pulling together relevant
articles from authors well-known in their fields of study, the book
addresses topical issues such as:
- gender
- equity
- attitude
- teacher belief and knowledge
- community of practice
- autonomy and agency
- assessment
- technology.
The subject is dealt with in three parts: culture of the
mathematics classroom, communication in mathematics classrooms and
pupils' and teachers' perceptions.
Students on postgraduate courses in mathematics education will find
this book a valuable resource. Students on BEd and PGCE courses
will also find this a useful source of reference as will teachers
of mathematics, mentors and advisers.
Despite the homogenization of American life, areas of strong
regional consciousness still persist in the United States, and
there is a growing interest in regionalism among the public and
among academics. In response to that interest ten folklorists here
describe and interpret a variety of American regional cultures in
the twentieth century. Their book is the first to deal specifically
with regional culture and the first to employ the perspective of
folklore in the study of regional identity and consciousness. The
authors range widely over the United States, from the Eastern Shore
to the Pacific Northwest, from the Southern Mountains to the Great
Plains. They look at a variety of cultural expressions and
practices -- legends, anecdotes, songs, foodways, architecture, and
crafts. Tying their work together is a common consideration of how
regional culture shapes and is shaped by the consciousness of
living in a special place. In exploring this dimension of regional
culture the authors consider the influence of natural environment
and historical experience on the development of regional culture,
the role of ethnicity in regional consciousness, the tensions
between insiders and outsiders that stem from a sense of regional
identity, and the changes in culture in response to social and
economic change. With its focus on cultural manifestations and its
folkloristic perspective this book provides a fresh and needed
contribution to regional studies. Written in a clear, readable
style, it will appeal to general readers interested in American
regions and their cultures. At the same time the research and
analytical approach make it useful not only to folklorists but to
cultural geographers, anthropologists, and other scholars of
regional studies.
Series Information: Researching Mathematics Learning
The Quest to Understand Human Affairs presents fifty previously
unpublished essays by Vincent Ostrom on the U.S. Government's
environmental problems and resource governance and span the six
decades of Ostrom's career in political science and public
administration. Including everything from a 1947 essay on Western
(U.S) issues in national politics to ending with a 2004 manuscript
on Constitutional foundations and federal institutional forms,
these essays examine significant developments in administration,
constitutional design, and the evolution of theory and practice in
the field of institutional analysis and development during the
second half of the twentieth century and first decade of the new
millennium. Political theorist, Barbara Allen, has edited the work
and provided extensive notes that provide context and identify key
events and persons cited in the works. These remarkable works not
only offer specialists insight into developments in the fields of
institutional analysis, resource governance, policy and
administration, but also speak to general readers about worldwide
transformations in democracies and human and environmental
relations as well as the enduring challenge of sustaining just,
productive political orders.
The Quest to Understand Human Affairs presents fifty previously
unpublished essays by Vincent Ostrom on the U.S. Government's
environmental problems and resource governance and span the six
decades of Ostrom's career in political science and public
administration. Including everything from a 1947 essay on Western
(U.S) issues in national politics to ending with a 2004 manuscript
on Constitutional foundations and federal institutional forms,
these essays examine significant developments in administration,
constitutional design, and the evolution of theory and practice in
the field of institutional analysis and development during the
second half of the twentieth century and first decade of the new
millennium. Political theorist, Barbara Allen, has edited the work
and provided extensive notes that provide context and identify key
events and persons cited in the works. These remarkable works not
only offer specialists insight into developments in the fields of
institutional analysis, resource governance, policy and
administration, but also speak to general readers about worldwide
transformations in democracies and human and environmental
relations as well as the enduring challenge of sustaining just,
productive political orders.
June 7, 2005, a sandstorm obscured what light lingered in Iraq's
nighttime sky as Staff Sergeant Alberto Martinez tied a claymore
mine to a window grate. On the other side of the window Lt Louis
Allen, a husband and father of four young boys, and his good friend
and Commanding Officer Captain Phillip Esposito, a West Point
graduate and father of a baby girl. The men were engaged in a board
game, unwinding after a hard day, when without warning the window
exploded; 700 steel ball bearings erupted from the mine and hurtled
inward with lethal force, obliterating everything in their kill
zone.
Martinez was arrested and tried for the murders. But the military
judicial system failed, and the killer was set free.
How can American soldiers be at risk on their own base, among
their fellow soldiers? Could these murders have been prevented?
Will it happen again? How can the military's judicial system have
failed so drastically, and what was the government hiding from the
slain soldiers' families?
"Front Toward Enemy" is a personal and factual account behind the
scenes of a case that is to the military judicial system what the
O.J. Simpson case is to the civilian judicial system.
When workers and peasants rose up across Russia and smashed the
centuries old Tsarist autocracy their actions reverberated across
the world, and continue to inspire activists to this day. This
carefully assembled and expertly translated collection of documents
from the Petrograd socialist movement in 1917 provides contemporary
readers with a firsthand glimpse into the revolutionary ferment as
it unfolds.
Spirituality development of oneself, reaching your impossibilities
climbing the ladder to greater success. Being able to reach your
full potential. This book is a must read for those who are looking
to change their life.
Folklore Studies, No. 11, University Of California Publications.
Additional Editors Are Charles Speroni And M. A. Zeitlin.
Folklore Studies, No. 11, University Of California Publications.
Additional Editors Are Charles Speroni And M. A. Zeitlin.
|
Evanston (Hardcover)
Barbara Allen Bogart, Uinta County Museum
|
R842
R691
Discovery Miles 6 910
Save R151 (18%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
This revised and expanded third edition extends Ostrom's analysis
to account for the most resent developments in American politics,
including those of the Clinton and Bush administrations.
Countries, governments, and organizations devise constitutions to
reflect their visions of governance and rules for their leaders.
They vary considerably in both formats and consequences. Disputes
over constitutions can lead to fights, contests, debates, and more.
Vincent Ostrom is one of America's leading scholars on
constitutions and has spent a lifetime researching, analyzing, and
writing about constitutions in America and overseas. He provides
methods to judge and to implement constitutions as citizens
struggle with their formulation. In this book, scholars from around
the world add to this intellectual quest of massive scholarly and
practical importance. Using the research and methodology pioneered
by Ostrom, they identify and analyze the criteria for successful
constitutions in both theory and practice.
This book represents the first systematic effort to examine (1) the
factual accuracy of the claims made in an entire political
advertising campaign, (2) the visuals and sound cues used in that
advertising and their relationship with the tone and accuracy of
ads, and (3) the impact of the accuracy of claims on what people
know and how they vote in a real campaign. The research is based on
several years of labor-intensive coding of the factual accuracy of
every claim made in the presidential ads in the 2008 election as
well as the ads for the races for the US Congress in Minnesota. We
show how the accuracy of political ad claims, the visuals and sound
of ads, and ad tone (particularly negativity) are related to voting
behavior. We argue that understanding how the accuracy of political
ad claims affects voters is now more important than ever. This
research has steered clear of the normative question of what such
putative gains in knowledge represent, however. Does the content of
negative advertising enhance voter capacities, such as the ability
to locate candidates' issue positions accurately or state reasons
to like or dislike candidates based on accurate information about
the candidates' traits or issue stands? Does the accuracy of the
information in political advertising matter-to voting behavior or
vote choice--whether turnout goes up or down? Would voting more,
while knowing less that is true be sufficient in a democracy? In
studying the effects of advertising tone, such questions about
advertising tone have not been asked. Our book redresses this
lacuna. We show that negative advertising is more likely to make
inaccurate claims. We show that ads making inaccurate claims also
use a larger number of visual and sound distortions, perhaps tying
up more cognitive capacities while pressing their untruthful
arguments. We show links between inaccurate advertising and
aggregate turnout, individual turnout, and individual political
knowledge. The news is not good in an age of post-factual
democracies.
This book represents the first systematic effort to examine (1) the
factual accuracy of the claims made in an entire political
advertising campaign, (2) the visuals and sound cues used in that
advertising and their relationship with the tone and accuracy of
ads, and (3) the impact of the accuracy of claims on what people
know and how they vote in a real campaign. The research is based on
several years of labor-intensive coding of the factual accuracy of
every claim made in the presidential ads in the 2008 election as
well as the ads for the races for the US Congress in Minnesota. We
show how the accuracy of political ad claims, the visuals and sound
of ads, and ad tone (particularly negativity) are related to voting
behavior. We argue that understanding how the accuracy of political
ad claims affects voters is now more important than ever. This
research has steered clear of the normative question of what such
putative gains in knowledge represent, however. Does the content of
negative advertising enhance voter capacities, such as the ability
to locate candidates' issue positions accurately or state reasons
to like or dislike candidates based on accurate information about
the candidates' traits or issue stands? Does the accuracy of the
information in political advertising matter-to voting behavior or
vote choice--whether turnout goes up or down? Would voting more,
while knowing less that is true be sufficient in a democracy? In
studying the effects of advertising tone, such questions about
advertising tone have not been asked. Our book redresses this
lacuna. We show that negative advertising is more likely to make
inaccurate claims. We show that ads making inaccurate claims also
use a larger number of visual and sound distortions, perhaps tying
up more cognitive capacities while pressing their untruthful
arguments. We show links between inaccurate advertising and
aggregate turnout, individual turnout, and individual political
knowledge. The news is not good in an age of post-factual
democracies.
The second volume of The Quest to Understand Human Affairs presents
thirty-six previously unpublished manuscripts written by Vincent
Ostrom, cofounder of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy
Analysis. The essays are divided among three parts: Constitutional
Choice, Epistemic Choice, and The Quest for Understanding and the
Future of Democratic Self-Governance. Part I, Constitutional
Choice, includes studies on public sector performance and the
constitutional dilemmas facing the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the
North American "New World" of US constitutionalism, and the United
States of Mexico. In the essays of Part II, Ostrom turns to the
foundational ideas on which the institutions of a particular
culture rest. He raises questions about the methodologies of the
social sciences and insists that we return to "basic questions" in
our search for institutional forms that will liberate human
communities. Part III offers the reader a colloquy on
self-governance in which Ostrom's speeches and presentations on a
variety of twenty-first-century issues are supplemented with
letters and memos between Ostrom and visiting scholars and
students. These remarkable works not only offer specialists insight
into developments in the fields of institutional analysis, resource
governance, policy and administration-during the second half of the
twentieth century and first decade of the new millennium-but also
speak to general readers about worldwide transformations in
democracies and human and environment relations as well as the
enduring challenge of sustaining just, productive political orders.
The Quest to Understand Human Affairs is introduced with a foreword
by Nobel Laureate and co-founder of the Workshop in Political
Theory and Policy Analysis, Elinor Ostrom, with a preface by the
editor of the volume, political theorist Barbara Allen.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Poor Things
Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, …
DVD
R449
R329
Discovery Miles 3 290
|