387 pages , Allyn & Bacon , 1998 Educators are becoming increasingly concerned with more areas of discrimination and inequality that affects students. For example, as more immigrant students enter schools, understandings and skills for educating about language discrimination are needed. Similarly, as educators become more aware of the negative consequences of homophobic ...[Read More]
256 pages , St. Martin's Essentials , 2019-10-08 Inspiring and insightful, Our Better Angels: Seven Simple Virtues That Will Change Your Life and the World celebrates the shared principles that unite and enable us to overcome life’s challenges together. “When the waters rise, so do our better angels.”—President Jimmy Carter Jonathan Reckford, the CEO of Habitat f...[Read More]
264 pages , Edward Elgar Publishing , 2017-10-27 This book builds an essential bridge between climate change and social policy. Combining ethics and human need theory with political economy and climate science, it offers a long-term, interdisciplinary analysis of the prospects for sustainable development and social justice. Beyond ‘green growth’ (which assumes an unp...[Read More]
Academic Press , 2020-02 Handbook of Human Factors in Healthcare Design: Novel Trends and Applications takes a deep dive into critical issues in healthcare and patient safety, and examines how human factors play a role in these domains. Using the Design for X (DfX) methodology to discuss a wide range of criteria that need to be considered in the design of safe and usable healthc...[Read More]
527 pages , Pearson Higher Education AU , 2013-09-12 Building upon the success of previous editions, this fully revised edition of Sociology lays the foundations for understanding sociology in Australia. The depth and breadth of the book ensures its value not only for first-year students, but for sociology majors requiring on-going reference to a range of theoretical per...[Read More]
220 pages , SAGE Publications India , 2009-02-04 Seeing Stars: Spectacle, Society and Celebrity Culture explores the ways in which celebrities are 'manufactured', how they establish their hold on the public imagination and how social responses enable them to be what they are. Celebrity culture is marked by three main responses: adulation, identification and emulation. Th...[Read More]
288 pages , BRILL , 2018-12-06 Drama Research Methods: Provocations of Practice focuses on innovative drama/theatre research practices in ever-widening contexts for a broad range of purposes within and outside of the arts and the challenges this poses for researchers, writers and research participants.
224 pages , Allen & Unwin , 2017-04-26 Sometimes bees get too big to be up in the branches, sometimes they fall and break their bones. This week both happened and Foreman said, 'Tomorrow we'll find two new bees.' Peony lives with her sister and grandfather on a fruit farm outside the city. In a world where real bees are extinct, the quickest, bravest kids climb the fruit...[Read More]
358 pages , Ingram , 2005 "Children deserve to spend their days in well-designed environments that support their needs and stimulate their learning. Adults who spend their days teaching and caring for young children deserve environments that maximize their skills. Caring Spaces, Learning Places is a book of ideas, observations, problems, solutions, examples, resources, p...[Read More]
322 pages , UNSW Press , 2006 Australian local government economics is the first book devoted exclusively to the economic dimensions of local government in Australia. The book considers the development of the present crisis in council funding, the consequences of this crisis, and the current place of councils in the broad context of Australian fiscal federalism. In some ...[Read More]
