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  • Inflection 06: Originals

    Journal of the Melbourne School of Design

    by Sir Peter Cook, Alison Brooks, Beatriz Colomina, Sean Godsell, Adam Peacock ...
    Series Book 6 - Inflection
    Architects are expected to create original ideas resulting in a unique, bespoke design. With the rise of Modern Architecture, originality became ingrained in perceptions of good design. As a result, originality has become a barometer against which we measure the value of design. However technology today allows for ease of replication and copies, thus originality in design has become an ostensibly ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Youth Athlete

    A Practitioner's Guide to Providing Comprehensive Sports Medicine Care

    Edited by Brian J. Krabak, M. Alison Brooks ...
    The Youth Athlete: A Practitioner's Guide to Providing Comprehensive Sports Medicine Care includes topics that provide the most comprehensive and holistic understanding of the youth athlete. The foundation of the book focuses on the growth and development of the athlete from child to adolescence, balancing their physical, mental and emotional needs. The middle sections expand on this foundation, ... Read more

    $148.49 USD

  • What Do We Expect from Our Government?

    by Alison Brooks, Joshua Chanin, David A. Dulio, Peter B. Edelman, Daniel J. Fiorino, Amanda M. Girth, William L. Harder, Guillermina Jasso, Gary LaFree, William M. LeoGrande, John D. Marvel, Rick Melberth, Kelley Moult, Walter J. Oleszek, William G. Resh, James Roosevelt, Jr., David M. Walker ...
    Much has changed in US politics since the historic 2008 election. While the press covers the actions and agendas of the new administration, other impacts of this political shift have not received as much attention. These changes have forced the nation to rethink the necessary role of government, the role of the private market, the impact of science, technology, and information, and, ultimately, ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship the World Over

    by Rita Simon, Alison Brooks ...
    Series series Global Perspectives on Social Issues
    In this eleventh volume in The World Over series, Simon and Brooks examine and compare the rights and responsibilities of citizenship across twenty-one countries. The countries included are Canada, the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Israel, Egypt, Iran, Nigeria, South Africa, India, China, Japan, and Australia. In addition ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

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  • Policy Arrogance or Innocent Bias

    Resetting Citizenship and Multiculturalism

    by Andrew Griffith ...
    Canada is known for its inclusive citizenship and multiculturalism policies that have been largely successful in integrating an increased diversity of Canadians. In contrast to the previous approach, in 2007, the Conservative government initiated a fundamental change to make citizenship more meaningful and emphasize integration in multiculturalism. Policy Arrogance or Innocent Bias: Resetting ... Read more

    $5.89 USD

  • Stronger Together

    by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Tim Kaine ...
    For more than a year, Hillary Clinton has laid out an ambitious agenda to improve the lives of the American people and make our country stronger and safer. Stronger Together presents that agenda in full, relating stories from the American people and outlining the Clinton/Kaine campaign’s plans on everything from apprenticeships to the Zika virus, including:-Building an economy that works for ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Citizenship between Empire and Nation

    Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960

    by Frederick Cooper ...
    A groundbreaking history of the last days of the French empire in AfricaAs the French public debates its present diversity and its colonial past, few remember that between 1946 and 1960 the inhabitants of French colonies possessed the rights of French citizens. Moreover, they did not have to conform to the French civil code that regulated marriage and inheritance. One could, in principle, be a ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Americanism:The Fourth Great Western Religion

    by David Gelernter ...
    What does it mean to “believe” in America? Why do we always speak of our country as having a mission or purpose that is higher than other nations?Modern liberals have invested a great deal in the notion that America was founded as a secular state, with religion relegated to the private sphere. David Gelernter argues that America is not secular at all, but a powerful religious idea—indeed, a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Democratic Futures

    Re-Visioning Democracy Promotion

    by Milja Kurki ...
    Series series Interventions
    Democracy promotion has been an influential policy agenda in many Western states and international organisations, and amongst many NGO actors. But what kinds of models of democracy do democracy promoters promote? This book examines in detail the conceptual orders that underpin democracy support activity, and the conceptions of democracy that democracy promoters, consciously or inadvertently, work ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Civitas by Design

    Building Better Communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism

    by Howard Gillette Jr. ...
    Since the end of the nineteenth century, city planners have aspired not only to improve the physical living conditions of urban residents but also to strengthen civic ties through better design of built environments. From Ebenezer Howard and his vision for garden cities to today's New Urbanists, these visionaries have sought to deepen civitas, or the shared community of citizens.In Civitas by ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • NIPCC vs. IPCC

    Addressing the Disparity between Climate Models and Observations: Testing the Hypothesis of Anthropogenic Global Warming

    by S. Fred Singer ...
    Global warming: Is it natural or is it manmade? This issue is of crucial importance for both climate science and climate policy. We update the ongoing controversy. This booklet also discusses chaotic uncertainties of climate models and how to overcome them, presents new thinking on Climategate and the Hockeystick graph - and shows what we can say about the absence of post-1979 warming in the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Contemporary Protest and the Legacy of Dissent

    Edited by Stuart Price, Ruth Sanz Sabido ...
    Contemporary protest, often presented in media forms as a dramatic ritual played out in an iconic public space has provided a potent symbol of the widespread economic and social discontent that is a feature of European life under the rule of “austerity.” Yet, beneath this surface activity, which provides the headlines and images familiar from mainstream news coverage, lies a whole array of deeper ... Read more

    $48.99 USD