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Second Track Citizens' Diplomacy
Concepts and Techniques for Conflict Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
Almost all current wars are primarily intra-state, involving complex societal conflicts with at least one party a non-state community. Second Track/ Citizens' Diplomacy is broadly defined as facilitated dialogue to address conflict issues between unofficial representatives or equivalent opinion leaders...
Studies in Culture Contact
Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.
Studies in Culture Contact:...
Connecting Teaching and Learning
History, Evolution, and Case Studies of Teacher Work Sample Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
As accountability in education has become an increasingly prominent topic, teacher preparation programs are being asked to provide credible evidence that their teacher candidates can impact student learning.
Teacher Work Samples, first developed 30 years ago, have emerged as an effective method...
by Roger Frie, Bruce Ries, M Guy Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
This volume is the first concentrated effort to offer a philosophical critique of relational and intersubjective perspectives in contemporary psychoanalytic thought. The distinguished group of scholars and clinicians assembled here are largely preoccupied with tracing the theoretical underpinnings...
by Peter Anderson, Fleur Braddick, Patricia J. Conrod
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Addictions have increased markedly in contemporary societies over the past decades. As well as widely acknowledged issues surrounding illegal substance addictions, there are increasing numbers of problems related to behavioural addictions such as the use of legal substances such as antidepressants...
by Walter Demel, Andreas Rose, Susanne Lachenicht
Language: German
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Die Außenpolitik des Deutschen Kaiserreiches ist fraglos eines der zentralen und bis heute umstrittensten Themenfelder der Neueren Geschichte. Die europäischen Rivalitäten, das imperiale Ringen um überseeische Besitzungen und die zunehmende Bedeutung der eigenen Öffentlichkeit für das außenpolitische...
by Peter Nijkamp, Kenneth J. Button, G.C. Pepping
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Meta-analysis is a formal synthesis of results and findings of scientific studies, which can assist in gaining new insights, explaining differences between results of similar studies, or determine useful directions of research. In this book we focus on the use of meta-analysis in environmental economics...
Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment
Ecocritical Approaches to Northern European Literatures and Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Many contemporary environmental risks and global environmental changes occurring today are unprecedented in the history of human life on earth. However, the images and narratives through which humans relate to these phenomena are built on existing cultural tropes and narrative models. Cultural, social,...
Was ist Homosexualität?
Forschungsgeschichte, gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen und Perspektiven
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Umreißt man heute die Ambivalenz, Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft von Homosexualität, so ist die Antwort auf die Frage gar nicht so einfach. Lange Zeit hätte man einfach gesagt: das Gegenteil von Heterosexualität, pervers, nicht den sexuellen Normen entsprechend, die innerhalb der westlichen...
by Reiner Anselm, Petra Bahr, Peter Dabrock
Language: German
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Dieses Handbuch bietet eine von führenden Fachleuten verfasste Gesamtdarstellung der evangelischen Ethik. Sie umfasst deren Grundlagen und Teilgebiete auf dem aktuellen Stand der wissenschaftlichen Diskussion und im Gespräch mit Philosophie, Rechts, Sozial- und Naturwissenschaften. Die wissenschaftlich-technischen...
Controversy in Cardiology
The Practical Clinical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The purpose of this book is not to discuss in depth various topics in medicine nor to describe in detail all possible controversial subjects in car diology. The primary intention is to describe common cardiac problems with significant controversial viewpoints frequently encountered in our daily...
by Andrew Thompson, Peter Deplazes, Alan J. Lymbery
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Echinococcus and Echinococcosis, Part B, Volume 96 presents a complete synthesis on what is known about the parasitic cestode echinococcus and the disease it causes, echinococcosis (Hydatid Disease), demonstrating that, in addition to its medical, veterinary, and economic significance, it is also...
Managing soil health for sustainable agriculture Volume 2
Monitoring and management
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
There has been growing concern that both intensive agriculture in the developed world and rapid expansion of crop cultivation in developing countries is damaging the health of soils which are the foundation of farming. At the same time we are discovering much more about how complex soils are as living...
by Andrew Thompson, Alan J. Lymbery, Peter Deplazes
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Echinococcus and Echinococcosis Part A and B present a complete synthesis on what is known about the parasitic cestode echinococcus and the disease it causes, echinococcosis (Hydatid Disease), also demonstrating that in addition to its medical, veterinary, and economic significance, it is an intriguing...