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The Rise and Rise of Illegal Ticket Touting An Ethnography of Deviant Entrepreneurship

The Rise and Rise of Illegal Ticket Touting An Ethnography of Deviant Entrepreneurship

This book presents an ethnographic study of contemporary ticket touts in the UK. Despite the recent interest in the topic of black-market ticket sales media coverage and parliamentary interventions over the last ten years have revealed a widespread lack of knowledge with regard to the phenomenon of touting and the players engaging in the practice. The Rise and Rise of Illegal Ticket Touting sheds light on the world of touting and delivers an authentic picture of the individuals involved of their methods values and motivations for performing ticket touting as an organised entrepreneurial deviant activity. The touts’ varied methods of buying and selling tickets the hierarchical structures and strict ethos of their criminal organisations and their specific modi operandi for evading detection and arrest both on the streets and online are focal points of the study. Of equal importance are the touts’ attitudes perceptions and adaptations to (or outright dismissal of) society’s legal and moral frameworks. This book illuminates why historic and renewed attempts to challenge ticket touting have been unsuccessful focusing on inadequate legislation a lack of enforcement and the widespread corruption and exploitable loopholes that exist within the official primary ticket market. An accessible and compelling read The Rise and Rise of Illegal Ticket Touting will appeal to students and scholars of criminology sociology social policy policing and all those with an interest in live music and sport and the hidden practices that lurk beneath the surface. | The Rise and Rise of Illegal Ticket Touting An Ethnography of Deviant Entrepreneurship

GBP 120.00
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Secrets of the Moon Understanding and Analysing the Lunar Surface

Secrets of the Moon Understanding and Analysing the Lunar Surface

Secrets of the Moon: Understanding and Analysing the Lunar Surface provides a unique account of the origin of key features on the lunar surface. Containing historical accounts and the latest observations from the field in addition to exciting data from the Apollo manned missions it describes the development of our current understanding of our Moon. It also explores the fracturing of the Moon a topic not explored in other literature in the area and contains a statistical treatment of the smaller craters of the Moon as well as a geological treatment of the larger craters. This moderately technical account is designed to clarify and update the general thinking on the nature and origin of the most important lunar surface features for both undergraduate and research students. It may also be read by the professional scientist especially the astronomer and the geologist who has found little time to study the Moon’s topography in addition to the lunar amateur astronomer and even the dedicated layman with a keen interest in lunar science. The book excludes nearly all mathematical symbols in order to remain accessible to those without a formal education in the area. Key Features: Authored by an expert in the area Presents a comprehensive account of the lunar surface from historical observations to the NASA Apollo manned missions and the latest observations and data in the field Includes a statistical and geological treatment of the craters Dr. Gilbert Fielder is Reader Emeritus at Lancaster University United Kingdom. He performed extended teaching at Lancaster University on Planetary Science and introduced a new degree course on Remote Sensing. Prior to this he was Principal Investigator in NASA’s Heat Capacity Mapping Programme while continuing to head the Lunar and Planetary Unit at Lancaster until retirement. Dr. Fielder has authored several books and presented many BBC and ITA television news programmes as well as popular programmes with Sir Patrick Moore (on the BBC’s The Sky at Night) and on the occasion of the first landing of astronauts on the Moon with David Frost as Chairman in a special programme. | Secrets of the Moon Understanding and Analysing the Lunar Surface

GBP 150.00
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The Complete Guide to Landscape Astrophotography Understanding Planning Creating and Processing Nightscape Images

The Complete Guide to Landscape Astrophotography Understanding Planning Creating and Processing Nightscape Images

The Complete Guide to Landscape Astrophotography is the ultimate manual for anyone looking to create spectacular landscape astrophotography images. By explaining the science of landscape astrophotography in clear and straightforward language it provides insights into phenomena such as the appearance or absence of the Milky Way the moon and constellations. This unique approach which combines the underlying scientific principles of astronomy with those of photography will help deepen your understanding and give you the tools you need to fulfil your artistic vision. Key features include: • Distinguished Guest Gallery of images from renowned nightscape photographers such as Babak Tafreshi Bryan Peterson Alan Dyer Brenda Tharp Royce Bair Wally Pacholka and David Kingham • The twenty-five best landscape astrophotography subjects and how to photograph them • Astronomy 101 - build your knowledge of night sky objects and their motion: the Milky Way moon Aurora Borealis/Australis constellations meteors and comets • Information on state-of-the-art planning software and apps designed to enable you to capture and enhance your landscape astrophotography • Field guide for creating a detailed plan for your night shoot • Description of the best moon phases for specific types of nightscape images and the best months and times of night to see the Milky Way • How-to guide for creating stunning time-lapse videos of the night sky including Holy Grail transitions from pre-sunset to complete darkness • Four detailed case studies on creating landscape astrophotography images of the Milky Way full moon star trails and constellations | The Complete Guide to Landscape Astrophotography Understanding Planning Creating and Processing Nightscape Images

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The Right Way to Flourish Reconnecting to the Real World

The Right Way to Flourish Reconnecting to the Real World

In this ground-breaking book pre-eminent thought leader in the fields of sustainability and flourishing John R. Ehrenfeld critiques the concept of sustainability as it is understood today and which is coming more and more under attack as unclear and ineffective as a call for action. Building upon the recent work of cognitive scientist Iain McGilchrist who argues that the human brain’s two hemispheres present distinct different worlds this book articulates how society must replace the current foundational left-brain-based beliefs – a mechanistic world and a human driven by self interest – with new ones based on complexity and care. Flourishing should replace the lifeless metrics now being used to guide business and government as well as individuals. Until we accept that our modern belief structure is itself the barrier we will continue to be mired in an endless succession of unsolved problems. | The Right Way to Flourish Reconnecting to the Real World

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The Routledge Guidebook to The New Testament

The Routledge Guidebook to The New Testament

As part of the Christian canon of scripture the New Testament is one of the most influential works in history. Its impact can be seen in many different fields but without an awareness of the historical cultural social and intellectual context of early Christianity it can be difficult for modern-day readers to fully understand what the first-century authors were trying to say and how the first readers of the New Testament would have understood these ideas. The Routledge Guidebook to the New Testament offers an academic introduction to the New Testament examining: The social and historical context in which the New Testament was written The primary text supporting students in close analysis from a range of consensus positions The contemporary reception and ongoing influence of the New Testament With further reading suggestions this guidebook is essential reading for all students of religion and philosophy and all those wishing to engage with this important work.

GBP 29.99
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Introduction to the Principalship Theory to Practice

Introduction to the Principalship Theory to Practice

The second edition of this textbook from respected author team Kaplan and Owings explores how principals can effectively build a culture around student achievement. Introduction to the Principalship a second edition closely aligned with NELP (2018) standards helps aspiring principals understand how to develop a vision for improvement make decisions and manage conflict build teachers’ capacity communicate monitor the organization’s performance and create a school climate of mutual respect. This important book provides readers with various leadership concepts to inform their practice as well as the cognitive and practical tools to evaluate and prioritize what leadership actions to take. Each chapter offers opportunities for readers to create personal meaning and explore new ways of doing leadership to advance a positive person-focused environment. Providing both the theoretical framework and skills for effective practice Introduction to the Principalship addresses the issues most urgent and relevant for educational leadership graduate students learning how to build a school culture that promotes every student’s success. Fully revised this second edition includes a new chapter on building your capacity for leadership expanded discussion of data-informed accountability equity considerations and crisis management and all chapters updated and revised throughout to reflect the latest developments in the field. Special Features: •Learning Objectives—chapter openers introduce the topic and initiate student thinking. •Reflections and Relevance—interactive exercises role plays class activities and assignments that can be used synchronously and asynchronously to deepen and extend student learning. •Key Takeaways—organized by learning objective these answer readers’ question What about this information is meaningful for me as an aspiring principal? •Suggested Readings—each chapter concludes with annotated suggested readings to extend and deepen discussion of key issues in chapter. •NELP Standards—each chapter is aligned to the latest school leadership licensure standards. •Companion Website—includes links to supplemental material additional readings video clips with related teaching and learning activities and PowerPoints for instructors. | Introduction to the Principalship Theory to Practice

GBP 64.99
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The American School From the Puritans to the Trump Era

The American School From the Puritans to the Trump Era

This current comprehensive history of American education is designed to stimulate critical analysis and critical thinking by offering alternative interpretations of each historical period. In his signature straight-forward concise style Joel Spring provides a variety of interpretations of American schooling from conservative to leftist in order to spark the reader’s own critical thinking about history and schools. This tenth edition follows the history of American education from the seventeenth century to the integration into global capitalism of the twenty-first century to the tumultuous current political landscape. In particular the updates focus on tracing the direct religious links between the colonial Puritans and the current-day Trump administration. Chapters 1 and 2 have been rewritten to take a closer look at religious traditions in American schools leading up to the educational ideas of the current U. S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. An updated Chapter 15 further links traditional religious fundamentalist ideas and the twentieth century free market arguments of the Chicago school of economists to President Trump’s administration and the influence of the Alt-Right. | The American School From the Puritans to the Trump Era

GBP 48.99
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The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical

The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical

The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical is dedicated to the musical’s evolving relationship to American culture in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In the past decade-and-a-half international scholars from an ever-widening number of disciplines and specializations have been actively contributing to the interdisciplinary field of musical theater studies. Musicals have served not only to mirror the sociopolitical economic and cultural tenor of the times but have helped shape and influence it in America and across the globe: a genre that may seem at first glance light-hearted and escapist serves also as a bold commentary on society. Forty-four essays examine the contemporary musical as an ever-shifting product of an ever-changing culture. This volume sheds new light on the American musical as a thriving contemporary performing arts genre one that could have died out in the post-Tin Pan Alley era but instead has managed to remain culturally viable and influential in part by newly embracing a series of complex contradictions. At present the American musical is a live localized old-fashioned genre that has simultaneously developed into an increasingly globalized tech-savvy intensely mediated mass entertainment form. Similarly as it has become increasingly international in its scope and appeal the stage musical has also become more firmly rooted to Broadway—the idea if not the place—and thus branded as a quintessentially American entertainment.

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The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities

The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities

The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities provides a comprehensive transnational and interdisciplinary map to the field offering a broad overview of its founding principles while providing insight into exciting new directions for future scholarship. Articulating the significance of humanistic perspectives for our collective social engagement with ecological crises the volume explores the potential of the environmental humanities for organizing humanistic research opening up new forms of interdisciplinarity and shaping public debate and policies on environmental issues. Sections cover:The Anthropocene and the Domestication of EarthPosthumanism and Multispecies CommunitiesInequality and Environmental Justice Decline and Resilience: Environmental Narratives History and MemoryEnvironmental Arts Media and TechnologiesThe State of the Environmental HumanitiesThe first of its kind this companion covers essential issues and themes necessarily crossing disciplines within the humanities and with the social and natural sciences. Exploring how the environmental humanities contribute to policy and action concerning some of the key intellectual social and environmental challenges of our times the chapters offer an ideal guide to this rapidly developing field.

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Attending to the Literary The Distinctiveness of Literature

Attending to the Literary The Distinctiveness of Literature

Attending to the Literary: The Distinctiveness of Literature is a foray into current debates about the nature of the literary. What is literary? Is literarity a thing? Are there still aesthetic standards of taste? Is the category of literary aesthetics an obstacle to understanding the uses of literature? What does it mean to count the reading of literature as an experience in its own right? What would be the deficits to human experience without literature? Attending to the Literary addresses all of these questions with a view to challenging the notion of literarity as merely representative of experience. On the contrary Alan Singer shows how literarity is an enacting of experience. Through close readings of an eclectic repertoire of literary sentences – culled from the genres of fiction poetry and drama – Singer demonstrates how syntax stages human capacities for attending ever more consequentially to the world of practical experience. These stagings of forms of attention involve readers in the drama of reason-giving and expand the possibilities of rational imagination. Attending to the Literary speaks to a broad audience of readers for whom the question Does literature matter? remains an urgent intellectual challenge. | Attending to the Literary The Distinctiveness of Literature

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The Routledge Companion to the American Landscape

The Routledge Companion to the American Landscape

The Routledge Companion to the American Landscape provides a comprehensive overview of the American landscape in a way fit for the twenty-first century not only in its topical and regional scope but also in its methodological and disciplinary diversity. Critically surveying the contemporary scholarship on the American landscape this companion brings together scholars from the social sciences and humanities who focus their work on understanding the polyphonic evolution of the United States’ landscape. It simultaneously assesses the development of the US landscape as well as the scholarly thought that has driven innovation and continued research about that landscape. Four broad sections focus on key areas of scholarship: environmental landscapes social cultural and popular identities in the landscape political landscapes and urban/economic landscapes. A special essay American Landscapes Under Siege and accompanying short case studies call attention to the legacies and realities of race in the American landscape bridging the discussion of social and political landscapes. This companion offers an invaluable and up-to-date guide for scholars and graduate students to current thinking across the range of disciplines which converge in the study of place including Geography Cultural Studies and History as well as the interdisciplinary fields of American Studies Environmental Studies and Planning.

GBP 190.00
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India in the World 1500 to the Present

India in the World 1500 to the Present

If we look back at world history in the past five hundred years it is evident that Indian ideas peoples and goods helped drive world connections. From the quest to reach the Indies that drove Iberian rulers to fund costly expeditions that ultimately connected the Old World with the Americas to Gandhi’s creed of non-violence that created transnational resistance movements India has been crucial to world history. In what ways have the movement of goods people and ideas from India served to connect the world? Conversely how has India’s global history shaped the many boundaries and inequalities that have divided the world despite—and at times because of—the transnational connections often lumped together under the aegis of globalization? Through its emphasis on both linkages and boundaries India in the World examines the range of connections between India and the world in a truly global perspective. | India in the World 1500 to the Present

GBP 130.00
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To Die Gallantly The Battle Of The Atlantic

To Die Gallantly The Battle Of The Atlantic

German U-boats known as iron coffins terrorized Allied ships during World War II and were responsible for thousands of deaths. This volume published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic brings together historians from both sides of the ocean to discuss this important campaign. As well as offering new insights into both familiar and more neglected aspects the book reflects the human dimension of the conflict paying tribute to the whole spectrum of personnel involved - planners and strategists spies and code-breakers naval officers and crews merchant sailors and civilians. | To Die Gallantly The Battle Of The Atlantic

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The Routledge Companion to Surrealism

The Routledge Companion to Surrealism

This book provides a conceptual and global overview of the field of Surrealist studies. Methodologically the companion considers Surrealism’s many achievements but also its historical shortcomings to illuminate its connections to the historical and cultural moment(s) from which it originated and to assess both the ways in which it still shapes our world in inspiring ways and the ways in which it might appear problematic as we look back at it from a twenty-first-century vantage point. Contributions from experienced scholars will enable professors to teach the subject more broadly by opening their eyes to aspects of the field that are on the margins of their expertise and it will enable scholars to identify new areas of study in their own work by indicating lines of research at a tangent to their own. The companion will reflect the interdisciplinarity of Surrealism by incorporating discussions pertaining to the visual arts as well as literature film and political and intellectual history. | The Routledge Companion to Surrealism

GBP 190.00
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The Routledge Companion to the History of Retailing

The Routledge Companion to the History of Retailing

Retail history is a rich cross-disciplinary field that demonstrates the centrality of retailing to many aspects of human experience from the provisioning of everyday goods to the shaping of urban environments; from earning a living to the construction of identity. Over the last few decades interest in the history of retail has increased greatly spanning centuries extending to all areas of the globe and drawing on a range of disciplinary perspectives. By offering an up-to-date comprehensive thematic spatial and chronological coverage of the history of retailing this Companion goes beyond traditional narratives that are too simplistic and Euro-centric and offers a vibrant survey of this field. It is divided into four broad sections: 1) Contexts 2) Spaces and places 3) People processes and practices and 4) Geographical variations. Chapters are written in an analytical and synthetic manner accessible to the general reader as well as challenging for specialists and with an international perspective. This volume is an important resource to a wide range of readers including marketing and management specialists historians geographers economists sociologists and urban planners. | The Routledge Companion to the History of Retailing

GBP 52.99
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The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School

The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School

The portentous terms and phrases associated with the first decades of the Frankfurt School – exile the dominance of capitalism fascism – seem as salient today as they were in the early twentieth century. The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School addresses the many early concerns of critical theory and brings those concerns into direct engagement with our shared world today. In this volume a distinguished group of international scholars from a variety of disciplines revisits the philosophical and political contributions of Theodor W. Adorno Walter Benjamin Max Horkheimer Herbert Marcuse Jürgen Habermas Axel Honneth and others. Throughout the Companion’s focus is on the major ideas that have made the Frankfurt School such a consequential and enduring movement. It offers a crucial resource for those who are trying to make sense of the global and cultural crisis that has now seized our contemporary world.

GBP 42.99
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The Respectful Manager The Guide to Successful Management

The Respectful Manager The Guide to Successful Management

Many people are confused by mixed messages from their managers. About 85% of the pool of managers are malevolent who do not care about the organisation and use the structure for their own needs of power and control. We know what a good manager looks like but in complex social interactions within organisations this can be confused with the manipulations of the malevolent managers from CEO to the lowest grade supervisor. The Respectful Manager: The Guide to Successful Management is about the application of the Executive Impression Management type of the Respectful Manager derived from new ground-breaking research regarding fraudster managers. It explains clearly and precisely what a good manager looks like and behaves like with their co-workers. In this book the foundations are laid to understand and recognise a Respectful Manager. This is critical for management training purposes and for managerial recruitment and promotion procedures. For those looking at increasing profitability increasing competitive edge and engaging their workforce in fulfilling work the Respectful Manager is the key. This book is a must read for those who aspire to management roles including senior management as a guide to the very best practice in the field. | The Respectful Manager The Guide to Successful Management

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Architecture in the Indian Subcontinent From the Mauryas to the Mughals

Architecture in the Indian Subcontinent From the Mauryas to the Mughals

Dedicated to the tracing of continuity across sectarian divides Christopher Tadgell’s History of Architecture in India (1989) was the first modern monograph to draw together in one volume all the strands of India’s pre-colonial architectural history – from the Vedic and Native traditions of early India through Hindu Buddhist Islamic and secular architecture. This comprehensive revision Architecture in the Indian Subcontinent: From the Mauryas to the Mughals expands the structure to acknowledge the great advance in scholarship across this extremely complex subject over the last three decades. An understanding of Indian history and religion is the basis for understanding the complex pattern of relationships in the evolution of architecture in the subcontinent. Therefore background material covers major invasions migrations dynastic conflicts and cultural and commercial connections the main religious developments and their significance and repercussions and external architectural precedents. While avoiding the usual division of the subject into ‘Buddhist and Hindu’ and ‘Islamic’ parts in order to trace continuity the importance of religion symbolism and myth to the development of characteristic Indian architectural forms in all their richness and complexity is fully explained in this fully illustrated account of the subcontinent’s architecture. | Architecture in the Indian Subcontinent From the Mauryas to the Mughals

GBP 44.99
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The Manager's Guide to Discipline

The Manager's Guide to Discipline

For most managers let alone the employees involved the disciplinary process can be painful and embarrassing. Poor performance tends to be confused with misconduct and consequently carries the stigma of punishment; this despite the fact that most company policies and indeed the ACAS Code (correctly) put emphasis on improving behaviour or performance rather than punishment. Derek Eccleston's concise guide provides a clear picture of the purpose and the process of the disciplinary procedure. This toolkit approach contains invaluable information and includes clear checklists and sample letters to help guide managers and supervisors through the minefield of employment rights explaining what to do and how to do it. Written in a no nonsense way The Manager's Guide to Discipline is free of legal jargon and focuses on the practical issues throughout. It will help to protect the organisation whilst ensuring matters are dealt with not left or brushed under the carpet because of a lack of management confidence. This essential reference will encourage managers to approach performance and disciplinary problems proactively and with more confidence and will significantly reduce the risk of getting it wrong.

GBP 175.00
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Seafood Ocean to the Plate

Seafood Ocean to the Plate

Seafood draws on controversial themes in the interdisciplinary field of food studies with case studies from different eras and geographic regions. Using familiar commodities this accessible book will help students understand cutting-edge issues in sustainability and ask readers to think about the future of an industry that has lain waste to its own resources. Examining the practical aspects of fisheries and seafood leads the reader through discussions of the core elements of anthropological method and theory and the book concludes with discussions of sustainable seafood and current efforts to save what is left of marine ecosystems. Students will be encouraged to think about their own seafood consumption through project assignments that challenge them to trace the commodity chains of the seafood on their own plates. Seafood is an ideal book for courses on food and culture economic anthropology and the environment. | Seafood Ocean to the Plate

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The Guide to Buddhist Counseling

The Guide to Buddhist Counseling

Buddhist concepts and practices have become increasingly popular and integrated into professional psychology. This book is the first to propose a theoretical orientation for counseling based on Early Buddhist teaching and introduce it to counseling professionals for use in mental health treatment and practice. Lee begins his book by outlining the essential concepts required to understand the Buddhist view of human nature and the world. He presents the Buddhist counseling model and suggests practices for the spiritual advancement of counselors including self-cultivation plans contemplative exercises and different types of meditation. Lastly he discusses how to apply the model in assessment conceptualization and intervention and uses several case examples to illustrate the actual process. As a go-to book in Buddhist counseling this book is a valuable resource for Buddhist chaplains counselors and mental health professionals interested in using Buddhism in their clinical practice as well as graduate students in religious studies and counseling. | The Guide to Buddhist Counseling

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Teaching to Change the World

Teaching to Change the World

Teaching to Change the World is an up-to-the-moment engaging social justice-oriented introduction to education and teaching and the challenges and opportunities they present. Both foundational and practical the chapters are organized around conventional topics but in a way that consistently integrates a coherent story that explains why schools are as they are. Taking the position that a hopeful democratic future depends on ensuring that all students learn the text pays particular attention to inequalities associated with race social class language gender and other social categories and explores teachers’ role in addressing them. This thoroughly revised fifth edition remains a vital introduction to the profession for a new generation of teachers who seek to become purposeful knowledgeable practitioners in our ever-changing educational landscape—for those teachers who see the potential for education to change the world. Features and Updates of the New Edition: • Fully updated Chapter 1 The U. S. Schooling Dilemma reflects our current state of education after the 2016 U. S. presidential election. • First-person observations from teachers including first-year teachers continue to offer vivid authentic pictures of what teaching to change the world means and involves. • Additional coverage of the ongoing effects of Common Core highlights the heated public discourse around teaching and teachers and charter schools. • Attention to diversity and inclusion is treated as integral to all chapters woven throughout rather than tacked on as separate units. • Digging Deeper resources on the new companion website include concrete resources that current and future teachers can use in their classrooms. • Tools for Critique provides instructors and students questions prompts and activities aimed at encouraging classroom discussion and particularly engaging those students least familiar with the central tenets of social justice education.

GBP 84.99
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Introduction to the Environmental Humanities

Introduction to the Environmental Humanities

In an era of climate change deforestation melting ice caps poisoned environments and species loss many people are turning to the power of the arts and humanities for sustainable solutions to global ecological problems. Introduction to the Environmental Humanities offers a practical and accessible guide to this dynamic and interdisciplinary field. This book provides an overview of the Environmental Humanities’ evolution from the activist movements of the early and mid-twentieth century to more recent debates over climate change sustainability energy policy and habitat degradation in the Anthropocene era. The text introduces readers to seminal writings artworks campaigns and movements while demystifying important terms such as the Anthropocene environmental justice nature ecosystem ecology posthuman and non-human. Emerging theoretical areas such as critical animal and plant studies gender and queer studies Indigenous studies and energy studies are also presented. Organized by discipline the book explores the role that the arts and humanities play in the future of the planet. Including case studies discussion questions annotated bibliographies and links to online resources this book offers a comprehensive and engaging overview of the Environmental Humanities for introductory readers. For more advanced readers it serves as a foundation for future study projects or professional development.

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