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  • A Life in Education and Architecture

    Mary Beaumont Medd

    Series series Ashgate Studies in Architecture
    This book provides a detailed exploration of the relationships between individual architects, educators, artists and designers that laid the foundation and shaped the approach to designing new school buildings in post-war Britain. It explores the life and work of Mary Medd (née Crowley) (1907-2005) who was alongside her husband and professional partner, David Medd, one of the most important ... Read more

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  • Systems Leadership

    Creating Positive Organisations

    The new edition of this influential and bestselling book is concerned with how people come together to achieve a productive purpose. Survival and success in business and social terms have always depended upon our ability to form and sustain social organisations. People have a deep need to be creative and to belong. By creating positive organisations we can fulfil these needs and build a worthwhile ... Read more

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  • The School I'd Like: Revisited

    Children and Young People's Reflections on an Education for the Future

    ‘Wonderfully illuminated by children's essays, stories, poems, pictures and plans, this ground-breaking book offers a unique snapshot of the perceptions of today's school pupils’. -French bookstore Lavoisier www.lavoisier.frIn 2001, The Guardian launched a ground-breaking competition called ‘The School I'd Like’, in which young people were asked to imagine their ideal school. This vibrant and ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • School

    Series series Objekt
    As a specific form of architecture, the school is an amalgam of its function and its history. Though recognisable across cultures, the schoolhouse nevertheless retains the distinctive markings of different nations and eras. School is the first book to examine this institutional building’s modern growth on a global scale.Ian Grosvenor and Catherine Burke demonstrate how school buildings help ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • The Work of Management

    A Leader’s Guide to Applying Systems Leadership

    The Work of Management demonstrates how the concepts, models and tools of Systems Leadership can be applied, enabling you to become a more effective manager by improving your own work to create a more positive and effective organisation.Positive organisations, where people come together to achieve a productive and personally satisfying purpose, and which provide the basis for a good society, do ... Read more

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  • Greenpeace in the Circumpolar North

    Lessons Learned from the Anti-Sealing Era

    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    This book explores Greenpeace’s efforts to expand its engagement in the Circumpolar North in the 21st century and how this work is affected and informed by the organization’s controversial legacy of anti-sealing campaigning in the 1970s and 1980s.Presenting the fallout for peoples and cultures targeted by Greenpeace’s anti-sealing campaigning as a pivotal dimension to the organization’s history, ... Read more

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  • The Arachnean and Other Texts

    Translated by Drew S. Burk, Catherine Porter ...
    Series series Univocal
    The network as a mode of beingIn 1968, Fernand Deligny established a “network” for informally taking care of children with autism that was more than a mere site of living; it was a milieu created out of a reflection on the mode of being autistic. What is a space perceived outside of language? What is the form of a movement without perspective or goal? How do we engage with a world that is not our ... Read more

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  • The Timescapes of Teaching in Higher Education

    The chapters in this book grapple in varying ways with Barbara Adam's concept of timescapes, which provides a powerful metaphor that extends the imagery of landscapes to enable an understanding of time as entwined with space, conceptually drawn and constituted experientially. Space-time is deeply relational, contextual and experiential, forming overarching narratives of higher education, its ... Read more

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  • Constructions of the Real

    Intersections of Documentary-Based Film Practice and Theory

    Series series Artwork Scholarship: International Perspectives in Education
    Constructions of the Real features a wide range of writing from non-fiction and documentary filmmakers who undertake theoretically informed practice and think through making. These global filmmakers and writers straddle the divide between the academy and industry and they reflect on, interrogate and explicate their filmmaking practices in relationship to questions of form, content, and process.The ... Read more

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  • WWF and Arctic environmentalism

    Conservationism and the ENGO in the Circumpolar North

    Based on interviews with WWF representatives and other experts, this book explores WWF’s approach to engagement in the Circumpolar North. It argues that the foundation of WWF’s success in circumpolar engagement is based on four inter-related pillars: legacy, networks, scientific research and communication style. The book argues that WWF has made remarkable strides to distinguish itself in Arctic ... Read more

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  • Education, Childhood and Anarchism

    Talking Colin Ward

    Edited by Catherine Burke, Ken Jones ...
    As one of Britain's most original thinkers and writers Colin Ward wrote extensively about positive and practical examples from the past and present of the anarchist spirit or the 'social principle' in everyday life. This volume is the first scholarly work dedicated to examining the significance of his distinctive and highly relevant contributions to the areas of education, children and the ... Read more

    $75.57 CAD

  • Cultural Violence, Stigma and the Legacy of the Anti-Sealing Movement

    This book injects nuance into the debate about the moral legitimacy of environmental and animal activism and explores how activism can lead to stigma and destruction of minority group identities, cultural practices and community structures. It takes readers back to ground zero of the anti-sealing movement – Newfoundland and Labrador. This book sheds light on the human costs of activists and the ... Read more

    $37.09 CAD