Clarke: 1777 books
Revisioning Women, Health and Healing
Feminist, Cultural and Technoscience Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
This engaging collection examines the implications and representations of race, class and gender in health care offering new approaches to women's health care. Subjects covered range from reproductive issues to AIDS.
Water
The International Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Only 3 per cent of the world's water is freshwater and about one third of that is inaccessible. The rest is very unevenly distributed, parts of Canada and the Amazon, for example are both more than amply suppied. Terrible and permanent water stress can be seen, among other places, in the drylands...
by C.G Clarke, Dr J P Dickenson, J.P Dickenson
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The label of "Third World" covers half the land surface and three quarters of the population of the planet. The problems and potential of this region and its peoples are attracting increasing concern and interest.
Fully revised and updated this edition includes: * a wealth of photographic...
Place of the Wild
A Wildlands Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Where and what is the place of the wild? Is the goal of preserving biodiversity across the landscape of North America compatible with contemporary Western culture?Place of the Wild brings together original essays from an exceptional array of contemporary writers and activists to presin a single volume...
by James Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Save Me From the Lion's Mouth investigates the increasing conflict between people and wildlife in Africa and what needs to be done about it. It describes the human suffering and perceptions of those who live outside the reserve fences among man-eaters and marauders yet are excluded from the economic...
Fictions of Justice
The International Criminal Court and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2009
By taking up the challenge of documenting how human rights values are embedded in rule of law movements to produce a new language of international justice that competes with a range of other formations, this book explores how notions of justice are negotiated through everyday micropractices and grassroots...
Social Policy for Social Work
Placing Social Work in its Wider Context
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Contemporary social work cannot be understood without an appreciation of the broader context of social policy in which it takes place. Such an understanding is increasingly important as social workers are expected to work across institutional, professional and even national boundaries in new ways...
Knowing, Doing, and Being
New Foundations for Consciousness Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Between 1965 and 2002 several key lines of research emerged which, taken together, can potentially revolutionise our understanding of the place of consciousness in the universe. Two of these are crucial: first, the analyses of human mental processes by Barnard, and independently by McGilchrist, revealing...
Ways of Knowing
Science and Mysticism Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
The world faces a crisis of meaning. The old stories - whether the exclusive claims of rival religions or the grand schemes of perennial philosophy - seem bankrupt to many. The editorial stance of this book is that mysticism and science offer a way forward here, but only if they abandon the idol of a...
Adult Education and Community Action
Adult Education and Popular Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Originally published in 1982, this book discusses the role of adult education in social and community action. In particular it presents a critical assessment of 'community education' and the theories of Illich, Freire and Gramsci and it proves that there is a radical adult education tradition in the...
by Chris Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Ice cream as we recognize it today has been in existence for at least 300 years, though its origins probably go much further back in time. Before the development of refrigeration, ice cream was a luxury reserved for special occasions but its advance to commercial manufacture was helped by the first...
Mexico Is Not Colombia
Alternative Historical Analogies for Responding to the Challenge of Violent Drug-Trafficking Organizations, Supporting Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Despite the scope of the threat they pose to Mexico’s security, violent drug-trafficking organizations are not well understood, and optimal strategies to combat them have not been identified. While there is no perfectly analogous case to Mexico’s current security situation, historical case studies...
Foundations of Freedom
Welfare-Based Arguments Against Paternalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
What makes individual freedom valuable? People have always believed in freedom, have sought it, and have sometimes fought and died for it. The belief that it is something to be valued is widespread. But does this belief have a rational foundation?
This book examines answers to these questions...
Electric Pictures
A Guide to the Films, Film-Makers and Cinemas of Worthing and Shoreham
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Written as part of the Worthing WOW festival celebrations, Electric Pictures commemorates 120 years of film in the Sussex coastal towns of Worthing and Shoreham, capturing the region’s rich cinematic legacy and its place in British film history.From film-making pioneers through to blockbuster films...