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When was the last time you said everything on your mind without
holding back? In this no-holds-barred discussion of America's top
hot-button issues, a journalist and a cultural anthropologist
express opinions that are widely held in private--but rarely heard
in public.
Everyone edits what they say. It's a part of growing up. But what
if we applied tell-it-like-it-is honesty to grown-up issues? In
"Impolite Conversations," two respected thinkers and writers openly
discuss five "third-rail" topics--from multi-racial identities to
celebrity worship to hyper-masculinity among black boys--and open
the stage for honest discussions about important and timely
concerns.
Organized around five subjects--Race, Politics, Sex, Money,
Religion--the dialogue between Cora Daniels and John L. Jackson Jr.
may surprise, provoke, affirm, or challenge you. In alternating
essays, the writers use reporting, interviews, facts, and figures
to back up their arguments, always staying firmly rooted in the
real world. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they don't, but they
always reach their conclusions with respect for the different
backgrounds they come from and the reasons they disagree.
Whether you oppose or sympathize with these two impassioned voices,
you'll end up knowing more than you did before and appreciating the
candid, savvy, and often humorous ways in which they each take a
stand.
Responding to disruptive or troubled pupils with emotional and
behavioural difficulties (EBD) remains a highly topical issue. The
challenges these children present relate to wider issues of
continuing political concern: the perceived declining discipline in
schools; school and social exclusion; the limits to inclusion for
children with special needs; increasing mental health difficulties
in children; youth crime and parenting skills. It s little wonder
that the 'EBD' (often known as BESD or SEBD ) category is one of
the most common forms of SEN around the world.
This topical and exhaustively-researched Companion examines the
difficulties of defining EBD, and the dangers of allocating this
imprecise label to children. Bringing together the work of
contributors from fifteen countries and across four continents,
this book features the research of leading experts in the global
field of EBD, who discuss and debate educators key concerns by:
- looking at the overlaps between EBD, ADHD and mental health
difficulties;
- outlining the types of appropriate schooling for children with
EBD;
- urging readers to look beyond pupils challenging behaviour in
order to understand and respond to the social, biological and
psychological causation;
- considering the key areas of assessment, whole-school and
targeted approaches that help pupils with EBD in mainstream and in
special settings;
- outlining helpful work with families, the crucial contribution
of effective multi-agency working and the importance of supporting
and developing teachers who work with challenging pupils.
Containing contrasting views on controversial topics, this
Companion s approachable style makes it an essential reference book
for academics, policy makers, practitioners, educators and students
who are working towards a higher degree in education.
Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World is the first book to provide
readers with an authoritative and comprehensive assessment of the
impact of New Labour governments on employment relations and trade
unions. This innovative text locates changes in industrial politics
since the 1990s in the development of globalization and the
worldwide emergence of neoliberalism. The advent of Tony Blair's
government in 1997 promised a new dawn for employment relations. In
this rigorous but readable volume, a team of experienced and
respected contributors explain in detail how the story has
unfolded. This book looks at all aspects of New Labour's policies
in relation to employment relations and trade unionism. The first
half of Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World presents an overview of
industrial politics, the evolution of New Labour and an anatomy of
contemporary trade unionism. It discusses relations between the
Labour Party and the unions and the response of trade unionists to
political and economic change. The second part contains chapters on
legislation, partnership, organizing, training, strikes and
perspectives on Europe.
Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World is the first book to provide
readers with an authoritative and comprehensive assessment of the
impact of New Labour governments on employment relations and trade
unions. This innovative text locates changes in industrial politics
since the 1990s in the development of globalization and the
worldwide emergence of neoliberalism. The advent of Tony Blair's
government in 1997 promised a new dawn for employment relations. In
this rigorous but readable volume, a team of experienced and
respected contributors explain in detail how the story has
unfolded. This book looks at all aspects of New Labour's policies
in relation to employment relations and trade unionism. The first
half of Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World presents an overview of
industrial politics, the evolution of New Labour and an anatomy of
contemporary trade unionism. It discusses relations between the
Labour Party and the unions and the response of trade unionists to
political and economic change. The second part contains chapters on
legislation, partnership, organizing, training, strikes and
perspectives on Europe.
Many campus universities are now adopting and adapting distance
education for some of their activities. Sir John Daniel discusses
the changing role of distance education and training and how to
gain a competitive advantage. The central question of the book is
how the knowledge media can contribute to the renewal of
universities, particularly through the further development of
distance learning. Part of the book examines universities that have
risen to the challenges of cost and accessibility by using
technology in its widest sense.
This is the go-to guide for planners in small towns. For decades,
this book has helped small towns and rural communities plan for
change. It is a step-by-step guide to drafting and implementing a
comprehensive plan through zoning ordinances, subdivision
regulations, and capital improvements programs, with sensitivity to
local character and limited resources.The third edition shows how
technologies such as GIS and the Internet can improve the planning
process. This edition contains a wealth of information on ways to
maintain or improve the design of small towns and explains how to
create a small town economic development plan. The authors
emphasize strategic planning for economic, social, and
environmental sustainability both in remote towns and in towns on
the edge of metropolitan regions.The authors are planners with more
than six decades of experience in small towns, rural counties, and
planning departments-including hundreds of evenings before rural
planning commissions.
This handbook provides an overview of physical, chemical and
biological methods used to analyze soils and plant tissue using an
ecosystem perspective. The current emphasis on climate change has
recognized the importance of including soil carbon as part of our
carbon budgets. Methods to assess soils must be ecosystem based if
they are to have utility for policy makers and managers wanting to
change soil carbon and nutrient pools. Most of the texts on soil
analyis treat agriculture and not forest soils and these methods do
not transfer readily to forests because of their different
chemistry and physical properties. This manual presents methods for
soil and plant analysis with the ecosystem level approach that will
reduce the risk that poor management decisions will be made in
forests. This manual was intended for the instructors that teach
students soil and plant analyses; however it can also be used by
the research laboratories and by environmental scientists.The
laboratory procedures in this manual are outlined in easy-to-follow
steps and frequently accompanied with examples of calculations,
questions to answer, and also a blank data sheet to use. These
methods used in this manual can be used on soil and plant tissues
found in agricultural, horticulture, forestry, urban, and natural
lands.
This handbook provides an overview of physical, chemical and
biological methods used to analyze soils and plant tissue using an
ecosystem perspective. The current emphasis on climate change has
recognized the importance of including soil carbon as part of our
carbon budgets. Methods to assess soils must be ecosystem based if
they are to have utility for policy makers and managers wanting to
change soil carbon and nutrient pools. Most of the texts on soil
analyis treat agriculture and not forest soils and these methods do
not transfer readily to forests because of their different
chemistry and physical properties. This manual presents methods for
soil and plant analysis with the ecosystem level approach that will
reduce the risk that poor management decisions will be made in
forests. This manual was intended for the instructors that teach
students soil and plant analyses; however it can also be used by
the research laboratories and by environmental scientists. The
laboratory procedures in this manual are outlined in easy-to-follow
steps and frequently accompanied with examples of calculations,
questions to answer, and also a blank data sheet to use. These
methods used in this manual can be used on soil and plant tissues
found in agricultural, horticulture, forestry, urban, and natural
lands.
The first historical study of export control regulations as a tool
for the sharing and withholding of knowledge. In this
groundbreaking book, Mario Daniels and John Krige set out to show
the enormous political relevance that export control regulations
have had for American debates about national security, foreign
policy, and trade policy since 1945. Indeed, they argue that from
the 1940s to today the issue of how to control the transnational
movement of information has been central to the thinking and
actions of the guardians of the American national security state.
The expansion of control over knowledge and know-how is apparent
from the increasingly systematic inclusion of universities and
research institutions into a system that in the 1950s and 1960s
mainly targeted business activities. As this book vividly reveals,
classification was not the only-and not even the most
important-regulatory instrument that came into being in the postwar
era.
The first historical study of export control regulations as a tool
for the sharing and withholding of knowledge. In this
groundbreaking book, Mario Daniels and John Krige set out to show
the enormous political relevance that export control regulations
have had for American debates about national security, foreign
policy, and trade policy since 1945. Indeed, they argue that from
the 1940s to today the issue of how to control the transnational
movement of information has been central to the thinking and
actions of the guardians of the American national security state.
The expansion of control over knowledge and know-how is apparent
from the increasingly systematic inclusion of universities and
research institutions into a system that in the 1950s and 1960s
mainly targeted business activities. As this book vividly reveals,
classification was not the only-and not even the most
important-regulatory instrument that came into being in the postwar
era.
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