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  • Community Pest Management in Practice

    A Narrative Approach

    by Tanya M. Howard, Theodore R. Alter, Paloma Z. Frumento, Lyndal J. Thompson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents a collection of practitioner and community stories that reveal how invasive species management is a community issue that can spark community formation and collective action. It combines the unique first-person narratives of practitioners on the frontline of invasive species management in Australia with three case studies of community action for wild dog management across a range ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Entrepreneurship, Community, and Community Development

    Edited by Michael W-P Fortunato, Theodore R. Alter ...
    Series series Community Development – Current Issues Series
    While entrepreneurship is widely cited as playing a key role in economic development, job creation, and advances in well-being in capitalist nations, there has been an overwhelming focus on the firm, firm founders, and founders’ strategies and decision-making processes. Only more recently, the important link between communities and entrepreneurshas emerged as a new frontier in entrepreneurship ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Democracy and Higher Education

    Traditions and Stories of Civic Engagement

    by Scott J. Peters, Theodore R. Alter, Neil Schwartzbach ...
    Series series Transformations in Higher Education
    How are we to understand the nature and value of higher education's public purposes, mission, and work in a democratic society? How do-and how should-academic professionals contribute to and participate in civic life in their practices as scholars, scientists, and educators?Democracy and Higher Education addresses these questions by combining an examination of several normative traditions of civic ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • The Intersectional Environmentalist

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    From the 2022 TIME100 Next honoree and the activist who coined the term comes a primer on intersectional environmentalism for the next generation of activists looking to create meaningful, inclusive, and sustainable change.The Intersectional Environmentalist examines the inextricable link between environmentalism, racism, and privilege, and promotes awareness of the fundamental truth that we ... Read more

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  • Change Here Now

    Permaculture Solutions for Personal and Community Transformation

    by Adam Brock ...
    Award-winning social entrepreneur and permaculturalist Adam Brock draws from ecology, sociology, community economics, social justice, and indigenous practices the world over to present more than eighty proven solutions for building healthy communities. Using the "pattern language" framework developed by architect Christopher Alexander and his colleagues in the 1970s, Brock outlines strategies for ... Read more

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  • Harvard Envy

    Why Too Many Colleges Overshoot

    by Andrew S Rosen ...
    Harvard Envy is a chapter excerpt from Change.edu coming out October 18, 2011.Exploring the limitations of the exclusive, tradition-bound world of higher education, innovator Andrew S. Rosen, chairman and CEO of Kaplan, Inc., delivers a vision for making a world-class college experience available to students of all backgrounds.Little is known about John Harvard, who bequeathed his books and £779 ... Read more

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  • The Myth of the Age of Entitlement

    Millennials, Austerity, and Hope

    by James Cairns ...
    We are said to be living in the age of entitlement. Scholars and pundits declare that millennials expect special treatment, do whatever they feel like, and think they deserve to have things handed to them. In The Myth of the Age of Entitlement, Cairns peels back the layers of the entitlement myth, exposing its faults and arguing that the majority of millennials are actually disentitled, facing ... Read more

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  • Community Organizing

    A Holistic Approach

    by Joan Kuyek ...
    History is full of stories of the oppressed rebelling against the oppressor, only to reinstate an equally oppressive system. What we learn from oppression is how to oppress. If we want a truly transformative politics, then we must take up methods that embody the kind of world we want to create; we have to change deeply embedded beliefs and behaviours.In this engaging and passionate book, long-time ... Read more

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  • Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations

    Processes of Creative Self-Destruction

    by Christopher Wright, Daniel Nyberg ...
    Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity, a definitive manifestation of the well-worn links between progress and devastation. This book explores the complex relationship that the corporate world has with climate change and examines the central role of corporations in shaping political and social responses to the climate crisis. The principal message of the book is that despite ... Read more

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  • Choosing a Sustainable Future

    Ideas and Inspiration from Ithaca, NY

    by Liz Walker ...
    A small city's big vision that can help transform your own community.We all want a sustainable future, but what does it look like, and how do we get there? In Ithaca, NY a new culture is blossoming-one that values cooperation, local production, environmental stewardship, social justice andcreativity. Ithaca is showing the way to meet the challenges of the day with a wide variety of practical, real ... Read more

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  • Cultivating Food Justice

    Race, Class, and Sustainability

    Edited by Alison Hope Alkon, Julian Agyeman ...
    Series series Food, Health, and the Environment
    Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives.Popularized by such best-selling authors as Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Eric Schlosser, a growing food movement urges us to support sustainable agriculture by eating fresh food produced on local family farms. But many ... Read more

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