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Managing Cultural Landscapes (Hardcover): Ken Taylor, Jane Lennon Managing Cultural Landscapes (Hardcover)
Ken Taylor, Jane Lennon
R4,504 Discovery Miles 45 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

One of our deepest needs is for a sense of identity and belonging. A common feature in this is human attachment to landscape and how we find identity in landscape and place. The late 1980s and early 1990s saw a remarkable flowering of interest in, and understanding of, cultural landscapes. With these came a challenge to the 1960s and 1970s concept of heritage concentrating on great monuments and archaeological locations, famous architectural ensembles, or historic sites with connections to the rich and famous. Managing Cultural Landscapes explores the latest thought in landscape and place by:

airing critical discussion of key issues in cultural landscapes through accessible accounts of how the concept of cultural landscape applies in diverse contexts across the globe and is inextricably tied to notions of living history where landscape itself is a rich social history record

  • widening the notion that landscape only involves rural settings to embrace historic urban landscapes/townscapes
  • examining critical issues of identity, maintenance of traditional skills and knowledge bases in the face of globalization, and new technologies
  • fostering international debate with interdisciplinary appeal to provide a critical text for academics, students, practitioners, and informed community organizations
  • discussing how the cultural landscape concept can be a useful management tool relative to current issues and challenges.

With contributions from an international group of authors, Managing Cultural Landscapes provides an examination of the management of heritage values of cultural landscapes from Australia, Japan, China, USA, Canada, Thailand, Indonesia, Pacific Islands, India and the Philippines; it reviews critically the factors behind the removal of Dresden and its cultural landscape from World Heritage listing and gives an overview of Historic Urban Landscape thinking.

Etiquette and Taboos around the World - A Geographic Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Customs (Hardcover): Ken Taylor,... Etiquette and Taboos around the World - A Geographic Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Customs (Hardcover)
Ken Taylor, Victoria R Williams
R3,778 Discovery Miles 37 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An interesting resource for learning about the cultural differences and characteristics of people across the globe, this encyclopedia covers the "do's" and "don'ts" of a breadth of countries and major ethnic groups. Readers of this one-volume reference will gain useful knowledge of what travelers should and shouldn't do when in countries outside of the United States. After a general introduction, approximately 100 alphabetically arranged entries cover topics such as greeting and meeting, appearance and dress, table manners, body language, social situations and hospitality, verbal communications, business etiquette, religious etiquette, gift-giving, and even "netiquette" regarding social media. Sidebars and images throughout make the text more accessible and engaging, and additional readings at the end of each entry as well as the bibliography offer opportunities for further research on the subject. The content also directly supports the National Geography Standards and the AP Human Geography curriculum for high school students as they learn about the cultural differences and characteristics of people in major ethnic groups across the globe. Provides comprehensive coverage of many of the world's countries and cultures that enables readers to make insightful cross-cultural comparisons Directly supports the National Geography Standards by examining cultural mosaics Provides relevant and useful information for readers preparing for study-abroad excursions or other international travel

The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Heritage in The Asia-Pacific (Hardcover): Kapila D. Silva, Ken Taylor, David S.... The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Heritage in The Asia-Pacific (Hardcover)
Kapila D. Silva, Ken Taylor, David S. Jones
R6,631 Discovery Miles 66 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Taking both a retrospective and prospective view of the management of cultural heritage in the region, this volume argues that the plurality and complexity of heritage in the region cannot be comprehensively understood and effectively managed without a broader conceptual framework like the cultural landscape approach. The book also demonstrates that such an approach facilitates the development of a flexible strategy for heritage conservation. Acknowledging the effects of rapid socio-economic development, globalization and climate change, contributors examine the pressure these issues place on the sustenance of cultural heritage. Including chapters from more than 20 countries across the Asia-Pacific region, the volume reviews the effectiveness of theoretical and practical potentials afforded by the cultural landscape approach and examines how they have been utilized in the Asia-Pacific context for the last three decades. The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Heritage in the Asia-Pacific provides a comprehensive analysis of the processes of cultural landscape heritage conservation and management. As a result, it will be of interest to academics, students and professionals who are based in the fields of cultural heritage management, architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture, and landscape management.

Management Planning for Cultural Heritage - Places and Their Significance (Hardcover): Ken Taylor, Giulio Verdini Management Planning for Cultural Heritage - Places and Their Significance (Hardcover)
Ken Taylor, Giulio Verdini
R4,469 Discovery Miles 44 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The book examines the changes that are taking place in modes of thinking about heritage as part of increasingly complex urban transformations, and considers how these must engage with, and inform, professional practice. It also acknowledges that international best practice has developed a great deal over the last forty years and needs to be adapted, applied and refined through the recognition and application of regional values - tangible and intangible - based on cultural attitudes and practices.

Management Planning for Cultural Heritage - Places and Their Significance (Paperback): Ken Taylor, Giulio Verdini Management Planning for Cultural Heritage - Places and Their Significance (Paperback)
Ken Taylor, Giulio Verdini
R1,286 Discovery Miles 12 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The book examines the changes that are taking place in modes of thinking about heritage as part of increasingly complex urban transformations, and considers how these must engage with, and inform, professional practice. It also acknowledges that international best practice has developed a great deal over the last forty years and needs to be adapted, applied and refined through the recognition and application of regional values - tangible and intangible - based on cultural attitudes and practices.

21st Century Challenges Facing Cultural Landscapes (Paperback): Juliet Ramsay, Ken Taylor 21st Century Challenges Facing Cultural Landscapes (Paperback)
Juliet Ramsay, Ken Taylor
R1,482 Discovery Miles 14 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Through stories of diverse landscapes from around the world, this book captures human cultures and their land use practices in the environments they inhabit. The chapters cover topics from heritage in the 21st Century, appreciating and safeguarding values while facing challenges wrought by change. This title will lead readers through fascinating stories of landscapes and people. We learn of the physical and spiritual structure of rice terraces of the Honghe Mountains in China maintained by following a 1300 year sustainable practice of water allocation, while the colonial tea plantations of the Sri Lankan highlands are managed by Indian Tamils who now seek tourism as a means of additional income. Sustainable agricultural methods in the USA are being introduced to prevent landscape loss while in Australia a challenge confronting family farms is progressing to rural industrialisation. Challenges are further outlined in the mythical story of Finland's Saint Henrik pilgrimage and in the intangible Ui-won gardens of Korea. The huge challenge for Japan's landscapes is the legacy from fierce natural 21st Century disasters while in Australia's Dampier Archipelago, an avoidable yet brutal development on a unique Aboriginal rock sculptured landscape highlights serious concerns about heritage governance. These remarkable stories of landscapes and their management are inseparable from the communities that inhabit them. This book was originally published as a special issue of Landscape Research.

Conserving Cultural Landscapes - Challenges and New Directions (Paperback): Ken Taylor, Archer St.Clair, Nora J. Mitchell Conserving Cultural Landscapes - Challenges and New Directions (Paperback)
Ken Taylor, Archer St.Clair, Nora J. Mitchell
R1,295 Discovery Miles 12 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

New approaches to both cultural landscapes and historic urban landscapes increasingly recognize the need to guide future change, rather than simply protecting the fabric of the past. Challenging traditional notions of historic preservation, Conserving Cultural Landscapes takes a dynamic multifaceted approach to conservation. It builds on the premise that a successful approach to urban and cultural landscape conservation recognizes cultural as well as natural values, sustains traditional connections to place, and engages people in stewardship where they live and work. It brings together academics within the humanities and humanistic social sciences, conservation and preservation professionals, practitioners, and stakeholders to rethink the meaning and practice of cultural heritage conservation, encourage international cooperation, and stimulate collaborative research and scholarship.

21st Century Challenges Facing Cultural Landscapes (Hardcover): Juliet Ramsay, Ken Taylor 21st Century Challenges Facing Cultural Landscapes (Hardcover)
Juliet Ramsay, Ken Taylor
R4,466 Discovery Miles 44 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Through stories of diverse landscapes from around the world, this book captures human cultures and their land use practices in the environments they inhabit. The chapters cover topics from heritage in the 21st Century, appreciating and safeguarding values while facing challenges wrought by change. This title will lead readers through fascinating stories of landscapes and people. We learn of the physical and spiritual structure of rice terraces of the Honghe Mountains in China maintained by following a 1300 year sustainable practice of water allocation, while the colonial tea plantations of the Sri Lankan highlands are managed by Indian Tamils who now seek tourism as a means of additional income. Sustainable agricultural methods in the USA are being introduced to prevent landscape loss while in Australia a challenge confronting family farms is progressing to rural industrialisation. Challenges are further outlined in the mythical story of Finland's Saint Henrik pilgrimage and in the intangible Ui-won gardens of Korea. The huge challenge for Japan's landscapes is the legacy from fierce natural 21st Century disasters while in Australia's Dampier Archipelago, an avoidable yet brutal development on a unique Aboriginal rock sculptured landscape highlights serious concerns about heritage governance. These remarkable stories of landscapes and their management are inseparable from the communities that inhabit them. This book was originally published as a special issue of Landscape Research.

Conserving Cultural Landscapes - Challenges and New Directions (Hardcover): Ken Taylor, Archer St.Clair, Nora J. Mitchell Conserving Cultural Landscapes - Challenges and New Directions (Hardcover)
Ken Taylor, Archer St.Clair, Nora J. Mitchell
R4,956 Discovery Miles 49 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

New approaches to both cultural landscapes and historic urban landscapes increasingly recognize the need to guide future change, rather than simply protecting the fabric of the past. Challenging traditional notions of historic preservation, Conserving Cultural Landscapes takes a dynamic multifaceted approach to conservation. It builds on the premise that a successful approach to urban and cultural landscape conservation recognizes cultural as well as natural values, sustains traditional connections to place, and engages people in stewardship where they live and work. It brings together academics within the humanities and humanistic social sciences, conservation and preservation professionals, practitioners, and stakeholders to rethink the meaning and practice of cultural heritage conservation, encourage international cooperation, and stimulate collaborative research and scholarship.

New Cultural Landscapes (Hardcover, New): Maggie Roe, Ken Taylor New Cultural Landscapes (Hardcover, New)
Maggie Roe, Ken Taylor
R5,840 Discovery Miles 58 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

While historical and protected landscapes have been well studied for years, the cultural significance of ordinary landscapes is now increasingly recognised. This groundbreaking book discusses how contemporary cultural landscapes can be, and are, created and recognised.

The book challenges common concepts of cultural landscapes as protected or special landscapes that include significant buildings or features. Using case studies from around the world it questions the usual measures of judgement related to cultural landscapes and instead focuses on landscapes that are created, planned or simply evolve as a result of changing human cultures, management policy and practice.

Each contribution analyses the geographical and human background of the landscape, and policies and management strategies that impact upon it, and defines the meanings of 'cultural landscape' in its particular context. Taken together they establish a new paradigm in the study of landscapes in all forms."

Managing Cultural Landscapes (Paperback): Ken Taylor, Jane Lennon Managing Cultural Landscapes (Paperback)
Ken Taylor, Jane Lennon
R1,635 Discovery Miles 16 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

One of our deepest needs is for a sense of identity and belonging. A common feature in this is human attachment to landscape and how we find identity in landscape and place. The late 1980s and early 1990s saw a remarkable flowering of interest in, and understanding of, cultural landscapes. With these came a challenge to the 1960s and 1970s concept of heritage concentrating on great monuments and archaeological locations, famous architectural ensembles, or historic sites with connections to the rich and famous. Managing Cultural Landscapes explores the latest thought in landscape and place by:

airing critical discussion of key issues in cultural landscapes through accessible accounts of how the concept of cultural landscape applies in diverse contexts across the globe and is inextricably tied to notions of living history where landscape itself is a rich social history record

  • widening the notion that landscape only involves rural settings to embrace historic urban landscapes/townscapes
  • examining critical issues of identity, maintenance of traditional skills and knowledge bases in the face of globalization, and new technologies
  • fostering international debate with interdisciplinary appeal to provide a critical text for academics, students, practitioners, and informed community organizations
  • discussing how the cultural landscape concept can be a useful management tool relative to current issues and challenges.

With contributions from an international group of authors, Managing Cultural Landscapes provides an examination of the management of heritage values of cultural landscapes from Australia, Japan, China, USA, Canada, Thailand, Indonesia, Pacific Islands, India and the Philippines; it reviews critically the factors behind the removal of Dresden and its cultural landscape from World Heritage listing and gives an overview of Historic Urban Landscape thinking.

The Magic of Crystals - For Health, Home and Happiness (Hardcover): Ken Taylor, Joules Taylor The Magic of Crystals - For Health, Home and Happiness (Hardcover)
Ken Taylor, Joules Taylor
R310 R283 Discovery Miles 2 830 Save R27 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Journey on the path of self-discovery through the magic of crystals. Whether you need the power to help you with your home, health or happiness, this book contains the guidance, advice and rituals you need to be in sync with your spirituality. The beauty and uniqueness of crystals and other stones have long been recognized for their mystic influence in our day-to-day lives. Historically, people used them for trade and jewellery and, even in modern times, we use them to create new and wonderous technologies. They are the product of natural energy derived from cosmic and geological forces including stars, the sun and intense heat and pressure from the Earth, so it makes sense to recycle this potential. The Magic of Crystals explores how you can unlock this potent vitality with practical advice on what crystals you will need to enhance particular characteristics in your home, how to combine their energy with feng shui to create happiness and harmony, how to relieve spiritual blockages in your chakras plus much, much more. There are also quick reference pages that give advice on how to solve common problems.

New Cultural Landscapes (Paperback, New): Maggie Roe, Ken Taylor New Cultural Landscapes (Paperback, New)
Maggie Roe, Ken Taylor
R1,684 Discovery Miles 16 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

While historical and protected landscapes have been well studied for years, the cultural significance of ordinary landscapes is now increasingly recognised. This groundbreaking book discusses how contemporary cultural landscapes can be, and are, created and recognised.

The book challenges common concepts of cultural landscapes as protected or special landscapes that include significant buildings or features. Using case studies from around the world it questions the usual measures of judgement related to cultural landscapes and instead focuses on landscapes that are created, planned or simply evolve as a result of changing human cultures, management policy and practice.

Each contribution analyses the geographical and human background of the landscape, and policies and management strategies that impact upon it, and defines the meanings of 'cultural landscape' in its particular context. Taken together they establish a new paradigm in the study of landscapes in all forms."

Celestial Geometry - Understanding the Astronomical Meanings of Ancient Sites (Paperback, New edition): Ken Taylor Celestial Geometry - Understanding the Astronomical Meanings of Ancient Sites (Paperback, New edition)
Ken Taylor
R741 R650 Discovery Miles 6 500 Save R91 (12%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Many ancient, even prehistoric, monuments and temples around the world show an amazingly sophisticated understanding of the heavens. They reflect this sacred knowledge in celestial alignments - to the eternal cycles of the sun, moon, stars and planets. The ceremonies performed at sites such as Stonehenge in England or Teotihuacan in Mexico are now lost to us. But the time-worn stones and structures remain, and archaeoastronomers (experts in ancient astronomy) have studied how their sightlines relate to astronomical phenomena such as midwinter or midsummer sunrise or the rising of the Pleiades star cluster. Within, Ken Taylor dives into the fantastical: The principles of astronomy - the seasons, the solstices and equinoxes, the rising and setting of stars, the "lunar standstills" Solar alignments - the language of light and shadow, and the life-giving shows of the sun Lunar alignments - the drama of the eclipse and the mysterious energies of the night Alignments to stars and planets - reaching out to the immensity of the cosmos In exploring such connections, in words, superb photographs and clear explanatory artworks, Celestial Geometry opens a whole universe of mystery and wonder, and a window on the inner life of ancient civilizations.

GoalSetting - The Process of Progress (Paperback): Ken Taylor GoalSetting - The Process of Progress (Paperback)
Ken Taylor
R276 Discovery Miles 2 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
50 Ways to improve your business English (Paperback): Ken Taylor 50 Ways to improve your business English (Paperback)
Ken Taylor
R366 Discovery Miles 3 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Self-study business English for second-language learners

Dear Young Leader - Thoughts Every Young Leader Should Know (Paperback): Ken Taylor Dear Young Leader - Thoughts Every Young Leader Should Know (Paperback)
Ken Taylor
R663 Discovery Miles 6 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Life Without Limits - 100 Inspirational Stories (Paperback): Ken Taylor Life Without Limits - 100 Inspirational Stories (Paperback)
Ken Taylor
R449 Discovery Miles 4 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dear Ken (Paperback): Ken Taylor Dear Ken (Paperback)
Ken Taylor
R524 Discovery Miles 5 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Answers to FAQs about business English based on questions sent to "Dear Ken", a popular column in Spotlight magazine. Many of the questions are from German-speaking learners (and teachers) but the topics they raise and the answers given are of relevance to anyone who is working in English.

German Secrets - Achtung to Zeitgeist (Paperback): Paul Smith, Ken Taylor German Secrets - Achtung to Zeitgeist (Paperback)
Paul Smith, Ken Taylor
R418 Discovery Miles 4 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Be warned! This is not a travel guide. Nor is it a cross-cultural manual for business people. And it is certainly not a deep, psychological treatise on the German psyche. But have you ever wondered why the Bavarians drink beer at breakfast, or why the car is the ultimate German status symbol? Why do Germans smile when asked "Same procedure?" and how can you learn to speak fluent German, instantly? This book gives the answers, and reveals a multitude of other secrets for all those wanting to better understand what makes Germans tick.

Philosophy Talk, Vol. 5 (Standard format, CD, 5th ed.): John Perry, Ken Taylor Philosophy Talk, Vol. 5 (Standard format, CD, 5th ed.)
John Perry, Ken Taylor; Produced by Ben Manilla Productions
R808 R632 Discovery Miles 6 320 Save R176 (22%) Out of stock
Philosophy Talk, Vol. 5 (MP3 format, CD, 5th ed.): John Perry, Ken Taylor Philosophy Talk, Vol. 5 (MP3 format, CD, 5th ed.)
John Perry, Ken Taylor; Produced by Ben Manilla Productions
R699 R567 Discovery Miles 5 670 Save R132 (19%) Out of stock
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