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  • Surviving and Diving

    by Brian Walker ...
    Surviving and Diving is a short book of poetry based on Brian Walker's experiences as an African American professional and creative. The book includes commentary about the 2020 Election, BLM, 2020 Pandemic and Racism. Walker started to write the book on his 32nd Birthday in October and wrote a poem each day for 32 days. Surviving and Diving is a reflective piece that describes hope, struggle, and ... Read more

    $8.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Finding Resilience

    Change and Uncertainty in Nature and Society

    by Brian Walker ...
    Floods, fires, famines, epidemics and disasters of all kinds are on the increase, and as their frequency rises so does the call for greater resilience. But what does that mean? The word is used differently in psychology, ecology, economics and engineering and runs the risk of becoming meaningless jargon. This would be most unfortunate because, if we are to successfully navigate very real and ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Resilience Practice

    Building Capacity to Absorb Disturbance and Maintain Function

    by Brian Walker, David Salt ...
    In 2006, Resilience Thinking addressed an essential question: As the natural systems that sustain us are subjected to shock after shock, how much can they take and still deliver the services we need from them? This idea caught the attention of both the scientific community and the general public.In Resilience Practice, authors Brian Walker and David Salt take the notion of resilience one step ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Boy in the Pit: Book I

    by Brian Walker ...
    What happens when a man loses the one thing that defines him-himself?Trapped in a cycle of fear, self-doubt, and relentless setbacks, he searches for the person he used to be while life keeps throwing obstacles in his path. Every step forward feels earned, every answer just out of reach, yet quitting is not an option.The Boy in the Pit is a gripping story of survival and self-rediscovery, about a ... Read more

    $8.00 USD

  • The Princeton Guide to Ecology

    Edited by Michel Loreau, Brian Walker, Simon A. Levin, Stephen R. Carpenter, H. Charles J. Godfray, Ann P. Kinzig, David S. Wilcove, Jonathan B. Losos ...
    The Princeton Guide to Ecology is a concise, authoritative one-volume reference to the field's major subjects and key concepts. Edited by eminent ecologist Simon Levin, with contributions from an international team of leading ecologists, the book contains more than ninety clear, accurate, and up-to-date articles on the most important topics within seven major areas: autecology, population ecology, ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Resilience Thinking

    Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World

    by Brian Walker, David Salt ...
    Increasingly, cracks are appearing in the capacity of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes to provide the goods and services that sustain our planet's well-being. The response from most quarters has been for "more of the same" that created the situation in the first place: more control, more intensification, and greater efficiency."Resilience thinking" offers a different way of understanding ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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  • Oxford Bookworms Library Level 2: Tales from Longpuddle

    by Thomas Hardy, Jennifer Bassett, Jennifer Bassett, Tricia Hedge ...
    Series Book 2 - Oxford Bookworms Library
    Tony Kytes is a favourite with the girls but he’s not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks for a ride home in your wagon, do you say yes? And then if you meet the girl you are planning to marry, what do you do? Very soon, Tony is in a great muddle, and does not know how to escape from it. These stories are set in an English country village of the nineteenth century, but ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • The Community Resilience Reader

    Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval

    by Sarah Byrnes, Chuck Collins, Rosemary Cooper, Denise Fairchild, Joshua Farley, Richard Heinberg, Leena Iyengar, Mike Lydon, Asher Miller, Stephanie Mills, William Rees, Margaret Robertson, David Salt, Scott Sawyer, Howard Silverman, William Throop, Brian Walker, Al Weinrub, Rebecca Wodder ...
    The sustainability challenges of yesterday have become today’s resilience crises. National and global efforts have failed to stop climate change, transition from fossil fuels, and reduce inequality. We must now confront these and other increasingly complex problems by building resilience at the community level. But what does that mean in practice, and how can it be done in a way that’s effective ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Discourse Analysis

    A Practical Introduction

    by Patricia Canning, Brian Walker ...
    Series series Learning about Language
    Discourse Analysis provides an essential and practical introduction for students studying modules on the analysis of language in use. It explores the ways in which language is used and organised in written and spoken texts to generate meanings and takes into account the social contexts of production, and the social roles and identities of those involved.Investigating the ways in which language ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Stylistics

    Text, Cognition and Corpora

    by Jane Lugea, Brian Walker ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This textbook introduces the reader to contemporary approaches to language analysis such as cognitive stylistics and corpus stylistics, reflecting recent shifts in research trends and offering students a practical way to access and understand these developments. The authors lead readers through detailed explanations, guided analyses, examples of research and suggestions for further reading. This ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Kruger Experience

    Ecology And Management Of Savanna Heterogeneity

    Edited by Johan T. du Toit, Kevin H. Rogers, Harry C. Biggs ...
    Kruger National Park in South Africa has one of the most extensive sets of records of any protected area in the world, and throughout its history has supported connections between science and management. In recognition of that long-standing tradition comes The Kruger Experience, the first book to synthesize/summarize a century of ecological research and management in two million hectares of ... Read more

    $49.69 USD

  • Keywords in the Press: The New Labour Years

    by Dr Lesley Jeffries, Dr Brian Walker ...
    Series series Corpus and Discourse
    Building on Raymond Williams' iconic "Keywords" released in 1975, Jeffries and Walker show how some pivotal words significantly increased in use and evolved in meaning during the years of the 'New Labour' project. Focussing on print news media, this book establishes a set of socio-political keywords for the 'Blair Years', and demonstrates how their evolving meanings are indicative of the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD