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  • Education, Nature, and Society

    by Stephen Gough ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Environmental issues continue to divide opinion, sometimes in extreme ways. Almost everyone agrees that education has a role to play in ensuring the future of humanity on Earth. Some think we should all learn to leave a minimal environmental footprint; others argue that education should promote economic growth, because only growth can generate the capital needed to develop solutions to ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Nursing and Health Care Research

    First published in 1997. This volume is part of the Prentice Hall series- a series of comprehensive textbooks and reference manuals for nurses and other health care professionals. The development of a number of sections in the second edition of this book serves perhaps as an indication of the changes that have occurred in health care education and research over recent years. The emphasis of this ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Learning, Natural Capital and Sustainable Development

    Options for an Uncertain World

    Edited by John Foster, Stephen Gough ...
    This special issue of the journal Environmental Education Research addresses a topical area of importance - human behaviour towards the environment. The book explores the economic metaphor of 'natural capital' in this context arguing that the currently dominant model of sustainable development, underpinned by a particular understanding of this metaphor, is impeding progress towards genuine ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Development and Learning: framing the issues

    This book examines the difficult and wide-ranging issues relating to how we understand our environment, our place in it, and how we choose to act.This comprehensive text provides an overview of these developing key issues, illustrating how - through schooling, higher education, professional training and development, and awareness-raising - people can bring about change, as well as engaging in ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Higher Education and Sustainable Development

    Paradox and Possibility

    Series series Key Issues in Higher Education
    The ‘Key Issues in Higher Education’ series aims to raise both awareness and thestandards of debate on the fundamental issues that lie at the very heart of highereducation and intends to assist national and international debate.Higher Education and Sustainable Development examines whether it is actually possible to mandate, plan, monitor and evaluate the higher education sector’s route to the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Sustainability and Security within Liberal Societies

    Learning to Live with the Future

    Edited by Stephen Gough, Andrew Stables ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    Much of the world will be living in broadly "liberal" societies for the foreseeable future. Sustainability and security, however defined, must therefore be considered in the context of such societies, yet there is very little significant literature that does so. Indeed, much ecologically-oriented literature is overtly anti-liberal, as have been some recent responses to security concerns. This book ... Read more

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  • Resilience

    The Governance of Complexity

    Series series Critical Issues in Global Politics
    Resilience has become a central concept in government policy understandings over the last decade. In our complex, global and interconnected world, resilience appears to be the policy ‘buzzword’ of choice, alleged to be the solution to a wide and ever-growing range of policy issues. This book analyses the key aspects of resilience-thinking and highlights how resilience impacts upon traditional ... Read more

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  • Critical Marketing

    Marketing is still widely perceived as simply the creator of wants and needs through selling and advertising and marketing theory has been criticized for not taking a more critical approach to the subject. This is because most conventional marketing thinking takes a broadly managerial perspective without reflecting on the wider societal implications of the effects of marketing activities. In ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Education, Philosophy and the Ethical Environment

    by Graham Haydon ...
    Series series Foundations and Futures of Education
    How much can we reasonably expect from education? This book, written by a philosopher of education, casts new light on this question by seeing values education, not as a separate activity within schools, but as an aspect of education that both reflects the surrounding climate of values and can help to change it. Graham Haydon argues that all of us – whether as teachers, parents, students or ... Read more

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  • Modernity and Self-Identity

    Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

    This major study develops a new account of modernity and its relation to the self. Building upon the ideas set out in The Consequences of Modernity, Giddens argues that 'high' or 'late' modernity is a post traditional order characterised by a developed institutional reflexivity. In the current period, the globalising tendencies of modern institutions are accompanied by a transformation of day-to ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Community Development in an Uncertain World

    Vision, Analysis and Practice

    by Jim Ife ...
    In Community Development in an Uncertain World, Jim Ife draws on the principles of social justice, ecological responsibility and post-Enlightenment and Indigenous perspectives to advance new holistic approaches to community development. The book explores the concept of community development on a local and international scale in the context of globalisation and postcolonial theory. Students will ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Feminist Theory

    From Margin to Center

    by bell hooks ...
    When Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center was first published in 1984, it was welcomed and praised by feminist thinkers who wanted a new vision. Even so, individual readers frequently found the theory "unsettling" or "provocative." Today, the blueprint for feminist movement presented in the book remains as provocative and relevant as ever. Written in hooks's characteristic direct style, Feminist ... Read more

    $38.99 USD