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  • Highland Homecomings

    Genealogy and Heritage Tourism in the Scottish Diaspora

    de Paul Basu ...
    The first full-length ethnographic study of its kind, Highland Homecomings examines the role of place, ancestry and territorial attachment in the context of a modern age characterized by mobility and rootlessness.With an interdisciplinary approach, speaking to current themes in anthropology, archaeology, history, historical geography, cultural studies, migration studies, tourism studies, Scottish ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Transatlantic Scots

    de Celeste Ray, Margaret Bennett, Edward J. Cowan, Paul Basu, Andrew Hook, Grant Jarvie, Colin McArthur, John W. Sheets, Michael Vance0, Jonathan Dembling1 ...
    Examines the impact of the Scottish legacy on North American cultures and heritageDuring the past four decades, growing interest in North Americans' cultural and ancestral ties to Scotland has produced hundreds of new Scottish clan and heritage societies. Well over 300 Scottish Highland games and gatherings annually take place across the U.S. and Canada.Transatlantic Scots is a multidisciplinary ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Essentials of Building Life and Fire Safety

    de Virendra K. Paul, Chaitali Basu, Abhijit Rastogi, Kuldeep Kumar ...
    The book aims to impart technical understanding on life and fire safety to aid planning and design of building projects. It emphasized upon the importance of integrating fire safety considerations together with the functional planning and design configuration during project development phase. It imparts theoretical insight that enables building professionals to ensure the compliance of necessary ... Leer más

    $39.90 USD

  • Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs

    de Lucia Lo, Valerie Preston, Paul Anisef, Ranu Basu, Shuguang Wang ...
    Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs examines how the combination of the low-density, car-centric geography of outer suburbs and neoliberal governance in the past several decades has affected disadvantaged populations in North American metro areas. Taking the example of York Region, a large outer suburb north of Toronto, the authors provide a spatial analysis that illuminates the ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Healthcare Infrastructure, Resilience and Climate Change

    Preparing for Extreme Weather Events

    de Virendra Kumar Paul, Abhijit Rastogi, Sumedha Dua, Chaitali Basu ...
    This book highlights the vulnerability of healthcare buildings in the context of climate change-triggered extreme weather events (EWEs) and the case for mitigation. With a concise discussion on climate change and its consequences in the form of such events, a cost model and equations that register losses and help quantify them are then presented. The model can be used to estimate the significant ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • The Inbetweenness of Things

    Materializing Mediation and Movement between Worlds

    Edición de Paul Basu ...
    We habitually categorize the world in binary logics of 'animate' and 'inanimate', 'natural' and 'supernatural', 'self' and 'other', 'authentic' and 'inauthentic'. The Inbetweenness of Things rejects such Western classificatory traditions – which tend to categorize objects using bounded notions of period, place and purpose – and argues instead for a paradigm where objects are not one thing or ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • New Directions in Women, Peace and Security

    de Briana Mawby, Gema Fernández Rodríguez, Marta Bautista Forcada, Anna Stavrianakis, Jamie Hagen, Toni Haastrup, Louise Chappell, Patricia Viseur Sellers, Elizabeth Pearson, Marjaana Jauhola, Minna Lyytikäinen, Nicole George, Christine Chinkin, Sam Cook ...
    What does gender equality mean for peace, justice, and security? At the turn of the 21st century, feminist advocates persuaded the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution that drew attention to this question at the highest levels of international policy deliberations.Today the Women, Peace and Security agenda is a complex field, relevant to every conceivable dimension of war and ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Museums, Heritage and International Development

    Edición de Paul Basu, Wayne Modest ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Culture and Development
    While many claims are made regarding the power of cultural heritage as a driver and enabler of sustainable development, the relationship between museums, heritage and development has received little academic scrutiny. This book stages a critical conversation between the interdisciplinary fields of museum studies, heritage studies and development studies to explore this under-researched sphere of ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

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  • When Principles Pay

    Corporate Social Responsibility and the Bottom Line

    de Geoffrey Heal ...
    Stories of predatory lending practices and the reckless destruction of the environment by greedy corporations dominate the news, suggesting that, in business, ethics and profit are incompatible pursuits. Yet some of the worst lenders are now bankrupt, and Toyota has enjoyed phenomenal success by positioning itself as the green car company par excellence. These trends suggest that antisocial ... Leer más

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  • New View of the Irish Language

    Edición de Caoilfhionn Nic Phaidin ...
    The 1871 census came to the stark conclusion that 'within relatively few years' Irish would cease to exist. Yet, over a century later, Irish became the twenty-third officially recognized language of the European Union in 2007. To believe the census returns of recent years, Irish is in a state of rude health. But is this true when half a million people claim to speak Irish, but seldom actually ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Emotional

    How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

    de Leonard Mlodinow ...
    We’ve all been told that thinking rationally is the key to success. But at the cutting edge of science, researchers are discovering that feeling is every bit as important as thinking in this "lively exposé of the growing consensus about the limited power of rationality and decision-making" (The New York Times Book Review).You make hundreds of decisions every day, from what to eat for breakfast to ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Governance

    Edición de Mike Wright, Donald Siegel, Kevin Keasey, Igor Filatotchev ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The behavior of managers-such as the rewards they obtain for poor performance, the role of boards of directors in monitoring managers, and the regulatory framework covering the corporate governance mechanisms that are put in place to ensure managers' accountability to shareholder and other stakeholders-has been the subject of extensive media and policy scrutiny in light of the financial crisis of ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD