Authors:Nancy Lee Peluso, Michael Watts,
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: environments, violent
Number of Pages: 453
Published: 2001-08
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0801487110
ISBN-13: 9780801487118

Authors:Richard Peet, Michael Watts,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: ecologies, liberation
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2004-05-18
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0415312361
ISBN-13: 9780415312363

Liberation Ecologies elaborates a political-economic explanation of environmental crisis, drawing from the most recent advances in social theory.

Authors:Michael Watts, William B. Walstad,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: economics, markets, classroom, marx, transition, teaching, reforming, economies
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2002-10
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 1840645415
ISBN-13: 9781840645415

This comprehensive and impressive volume presents the first book-length, multi-country investigation of reform of economic education in transition economies. Authors from the West and from the transition economies describe the major changes in economics content and instruction that occurred in schools and universities throughout nations in eastern and central Europe and the former Soviet Union from 1989 to 2000. Nine of the chapters discuss specific countries - Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine. Other chapters describe reforms in the underg

Authors:William E. Becker, Michael Watts,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: chalk, alternatives, undergraduates, economics, teaching
Number of Pages: 274
Published: 2000-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 184064270X
ISBN-13: 9781840642704

Alternatives to the lectures-and-chalkboard approach that dominates the teaching of economics are given here in a wide range of learning styles aimed at undergraduates.

Authors:Richard Peet, Michael Watts,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: social, movements, development, environment, ecologies, liberation
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1996-08-30
List price: $56.95
ISBN-10: 0415133629
ISBN-13: 9780415133623

In Liberation Ecologies, some of the most exciting theorists in the field explores the impact of political ecology in today’s developing world, question what we understand by development and raise questions about change on global change.

Authors:Jon Carlson, Richard E. Watts, Michael Maniacci,
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Keywords: practice, theory, therapy, adlerian
Number of Pages: 313
Published: 2005-10
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 1591472857
ISBN-13: 9781591472858

Introduces the reader to Alfred Adler?s (1870 ? 1937) influential approach to psychotherapy, that human behavior is goal oriented and socially embedded, and emphasizing understanding individuals? characteristic ways of moving through life?the life style?before working toward change. Illustrates how Adler?s ideas have influenced current practice and highlights the short-term nature of its interventions with individuals, couples, families, and groups, as well as in educational settings. Readers will find a model of diagnosis that can be used to complement DSM diagnoses, many case examples to ill

Authors:William B. Walstad, Michael W. Watts, Ken Rebeck,
Publisher: National Council On Economic Education
Keywords: examiner, manual, economics, college, understanding, test
Number of Pages: 44
Published: 2007-02-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1561836095
ISBN-13: 9781561836093

This edition of the Test of Understanding in College Economics (TUCE-4) is the fourth edition of a test that was first developed forty years ago, and has an extensive history of use by teachers and researchers in the economics profession. The previous editions and their use have been described in earlier studies (Fels, 1967; Welsh and Fels, 1969; Saunders, 1981; Saunders, Fels and Welsh, 1981; Saunders, 1991a; and Saunders, 1991b) and in three reviews of research in economic education at the college and university level (Siegfried and Fels, 1979; Becker, 1997; and Siegfried and Walstad, 1998).