Authors:Marion Gret, Yves Sintomer,
Publisher: Zed Books
Keywords: lessons, democracy, learning, experiment, alegre, porto
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2005-07-22
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1842774050
ISBN-13: 9781842774052

With its experiment in participative budget-making over the past decade, Porto Alegre has institutionalized the direct democratic involvement, locality by locality, of ordinary citizens in deciding spending priorities. This book examines how this democratic innovation works in practice and asks the difficult questions. Can local participation in public management really strengthen its efficiency? Is genuine participation possible without small groups monopolizing power? Can local organizations avoid becoming bureaucratized and cut off from their roots? Can neighborhood mobilization go beyond p

Author: Gret Haller
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: europe, united, states, religion, nation, atlanticism, perceptions, state, limits
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2007-08-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1845453182
ISBN-13: 9781845453183

Working as Ombudsperson for Human Rights in the State of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo, Gret Haller became aware that the reactions of the United States and Europe are hardly ever the same, be it in Bosnia or in other parts of the world, with the current crisis in the Middle East offering just another example: in international negotiations it is always the United States that refuses to give up sovereignty. While Europeans view sharing as an instrument to guarantee freedom and peace, Washington sees it as a threat to its independence and power. Instead, the U.S. government relies on unsanc

Authors:Kenneth L. Smith, Keith Kenney, Sandra Moriarty, Gret
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: communication, routledge, series, media, theory, visual, handbook, methods
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2004-11-03
List price: $205.00
ISBN-10: 0805841784
ISBN-13: 9780805841787

This Handbook of Visual Communication explores the key theoretical areas in visual communication, and presents the research methods utilized in exploring how people see and how visual communication occurs. With chapters contributed by many of the best-known and respected scholars in visual communication, this volume brings together significant and influential work in the visual communication discipline.The theory chapters included here define the twelve major theories in visual communication scholarship: aesthetics, perception, representation, visual rhetoric, cognition, semiotics, reception t

Authors:Edith Wharton, Marion Mainwaring, Marion Manwaring,
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: century, books, penguin, buccaneers
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1994-10-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0140232028
ISBN-13: 9780140232028

Authors:Stefan Zweig Symposium, Marion Sonnenfeld, Marion So
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: humanist, yesterday, world, zweig, stefan
Number of Pages: 357
Published: 1983-07
List price: $29.50
ISBN-10: 0873955994
ISBN-13: 9780873955997

GLEANINGS IN EUROPE - FRANCE By JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Edited by ROBERT E. SPILLER, . November i, 1926 MY DEAR PROFESSOR SPILLER I inclose two impressions of Fenimore-Coopers seal as I promised you last summer. I want to tell you how much we are gratified at the re publication of Fenimore-Coopers France and Eng land, and at the possible publication in the future of others of his books of travel. The first, and only edition, has even disappeared from the shelves of the old book dealers. Very sincerely yours, JAMES FENIMORE COOPER. KANSAS CITY MO. PUBLIC LIBRARY CONTENTS INTRODUCTION AUTHORS PREF

Author: Crawford F. Marion (Francis Marion)
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: arethusa
Number of Pages: 398
Published: 2009-07-10
List price: $35.99
ISBN-10: 1110782713
ISBN-13: 9781110782710

Authors:Marion Solomon, Daniel J. Siegel, Marion F. Solomon,
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: brain, mind, attachment, trauma, healing
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2003-01
List price: $42.50
ISBN-10: 0393703967
ISBN-13: 9780393703962

How attachment relationships create a coherent self, and what happens when these relationships break down. Leading researchers discuss cutting-edge ideas about the nature of trauma and its treatment. Contributors include Allan Schore, Bessel van der Kolk, Mary Main, Robert Neborsky, Francine Shapiro, and Diana Fosha.