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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Upon turning 75, I felt the compelling need to spend time in
solitude, to live more fully the mystical consciousness I have been
writing about for 25 years. As the experience deepened, I began
writing mystical poetry in the tradition of Hafez, Rumi, Kabir and
Gibran. Hundreds of verses poured forth, an amazing surprise. I had
found a new voice, poetry became a new spiritual practice, and
wisdom and revelation now flow from the One. One Consciousness -
God's consciousness fills the universe. Everything contains and
expresses it. The world is alive, awake, aware, loving, and
breathtakingly intelligent. We each share this consciousness though
we wrap it in personal identity and assume everyone's version is
uniquely theirs. What does this mean? It means you have direct
access to the consciousness of God. This realization alone can
begin your awakening.
This book describes an important advance in international social
science research-the first cooperative survey of representative
samples of the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics. It identifies changes in the time-use patterns of both
cities during the last two decades.
First published in 1982, Organizing Educational Broadcasting
provides advice and guidance in organizational and managerial
skills for those responsible for the operation of educational
broadcasting systems. It is principally designed for those who
actually work within educational radio and television systems. They
are the people who perhaps stand to gain most by reading about
international case studies. In addition, high-level
decision-makers, planners and others who are concerned with
conceptualizing, planning and implementing new systems, or more
likely, modifying old ones, will find much to interest them.
Sustainability in an Imaginary World explores the social agency of
art and its connection to complex issues of sustainability. Over
the past decade, interest in art's agency has ballooned as an
increasing number of fields turn to the arts with ever-expanding
expectations. Yet just as art is being heralded as a magic bullet
of social change, research is beginning to throw cautionary light
on such enthusiasm, challenging the linear, prescriptive,
instrumental expectations such transdisciplinary interactions often
imply. In this, art finds itself at a treacherous crossroads,
unable to turn a deaf ear to calls for help from an increasing
number of ostensibly non-aesthetic fields, yet in answering such
prescriptive urgencies, jeopardizing the very power for which its
help was sought in the first place. This book goes in search of a
way forward, proposing a theory of art aiming to preserve the
integrity of arts practices within transdisciplinary mandates. This
approach is then explored through a series of case studies
developed in collaboration with some of Canada's most prominent
artists, including internationally renowned nature poet Don McKay;
Italian composer and Head of Vancouver New Music, Giorgio
Magnanesi; the renowned Electric Company Theatre, led by Kevin
Kerr; and finally through a largescale multimedia installation
aiming to reimagine the relationship between climate, culture, and
human agency. Sustainability in an Imaginary World will be of great
interest to students and scholars of arts-based research fields,
sustainability studies, and environmental humanities.
Sustainability in an Imaginary World explores the social agency of
art and its connection to complex issues of sustainability. Over
the past decade, interest in art's agency has ballooned as an
increasing number of fields turn to the arts with ever-expanding
expectations. Yet just as art is being heralded as a magic bullet
of social change, research is beginning to throw cautionary light
on such enthusiasm, challenging the linear, prescriptive,
instrumental expectations such transdisciplinary interactions often
imply. In this, art finds itself at a treacherous crossroads,
unable to turn a deaf ear to calls for help from an increasing
number of ostensibly non-aesthetic fields, yet in answering such
prescriptive urgencies, jeopardizing the very power for which its
help was sought in the first place. This book goes in search of a
way forward, proposing a theory of art aiming to preserve the
integrity of arts practices within transdisciplinary mandates. This
approach is then explored through a series of case studies
developed in collaboration with some of Canada's most prominent
artists, including internationally renowned nature poet Don McKay;
Italian composer and Head of Vancouver New Music, Giorgio
Magnanesi; the renowned Electric Company Theatre, led by Kevin
Kerr; and finally through a largescale multimedia installation
aiming to reimagine the relationship between climate, culture, and
human agency. Sustainability in an Imaginary World will be of great
interest to students and scholars of arts-based research fields,
sustainability studies, and environmental humanities.
This book describes an important advance in international social
science research-the first cooperative survey of representative
samples of the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics. It identifies changes in the time-use patterns of both
cities during the last two decades.
To date, climate change adaptation and mitigation have been treated
separately both in research and in the climate negotiations.
However, a growing body of literature is now being developed that
points to actual and potential synergies and trade-offs between
responses to climate change and sustainability. This literature has
evolved in a spontaneous way with diverse approaches and no common
methodology to help practitioners explicitly plan for these
synergies.This special issue of the Climate Policy journal
addresses this gap between scientific knowledge and practitioners'
needs by focussing on linkages between climate change and
sustainable development at the level of conceptual framework and
methods. In particular, the papers address in an integrated way
local development options involving both adaptation and mitigation
in order to promote resilience to climate change in human and
natural systems. The special issue provides policy and
methodological guidelines for linking local deveopment pathways
with responses to climate change, based on collaboration between
local practitioners, the public and scientists.
In our schools, hip-hop culture is the dominant culture among the
students. In Youth Culture Power: A #HipHopEd Guide to Building
Teacher-Student Relationships and Increasing Student Engagement,
Jason D. Rawls and John Robinson, educators and hip-hop artists
with experience in the urban classrooms, focus their efforts
through Hip-Hop Based Education (HHBE). They argue that hip-hop
culture could be useful in building relationships and building
student engagement. The approach to achieve this is Youth Culture
Pedagogy (YCP). YCP is based in a foundation of reality pedagogy
(Emdin, 2014), culturally responsive pedagogy (Ladson-Billings,
1995), and HHBE (Hill, 2009; Petchauer, 2009). In this volume, the
authors lay the groundwork for YCP and how they envision its use
within the classroom. In Youth Culture Power, the authors put forth
their C.A.R.E. Model of youth pedagogy to help teachers create a
positive learning environment by building relationships and lessons
around students' own culture. Instead of forcing students to give
up the things they frequent, Rawls and Robinson feel teachers
should discuss them and when possible, use them in lessons. The
purpose of this book is to present a fresh take on why educators
should not discount the culture of youth within the classroom.
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