Authors:Rachel Kaplan, Stephen Kaplan, Robert Ryan,
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: everyday, nature, management, design, mind, people
Number of Pages: 239
Published: 1998-03-01
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 1559635940
ISBN-13: 9781559635943

Some parks, preserves, and other natural areas serve people well; others are disappointing. Successful design and management requires knowledge of both people and environments.With People in Mind explores how to design and manage areas of "everyday nature"-parks and open spaces, corporate grounds, vacant lots and backyard gardens, fields and forests-in ways that are beneficial to and appreciated by humans. Rachel Kaplan and Stephen Kaplan, leading researchers in the field of environmental psychology, along with Robert Ryan, a landscape architect and urban planner, provide a conceptual framewor

Authors:Robert Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: free, mathematics, setting, labyrinth
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-01-22
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0195147448
ISBN-13: 9780195147445

Who hasn’t feared the math Minotaur in its labyrinth of abstractions? Now, in Out of the Labyrinth, Robert and Ellen Kaplan--the founders of The Math Circle, the popular learning program begun at Harvard in 1994--reveal the secrets behind their highly successful approach, leading readers out of the labyrinth and into the joyous embrace of mathematics. Written with the same wit and clarity that made Robert Kaplan’s The Nothing That Is an international bestseller, Out of the Labyrinth offers an engaging and practical guide for parents and educators, and a delight for anyone intereste

Author: Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: elite, american, romance, arabists
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 1995-07-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0028740238
ISBN-13: 9780028740232

A tight-knit group closely linked by intermarriage as well as class and old school ties, the "Arabists" were men and women who spent much of their lives living and working in the Arab world as diplomats, military attaches, intelligence agents, scholar-adventurers, and teachers. As such, the Arabists exerted considerable influence both as career diplomats and as bureaucrats within the State Department from the early 19th century to the present. But over time, as this work shows, the group increasingly lost touch with a rapidly changing American society, growing both more insular and headstrong

Author: Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: cold, war, post, dreams, anarchy, shattering, coming
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2001-02-13
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 037570759X
ISBN-13: 9780375707599

From the bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts and The Ends of the Earth comes a fascinating new book on the imminent global chaos that is as brilliant as it is necessary, as original as it is controversial.The end of the Cold War has not ushered in the global peace and prosperity that many had anticipated. Environmental degradation is causing the rampant spread of famine and disease, and a rising number of nations are being torn by violent wars of fierce tribalism and trenchant regionalism. Our newest democracies, such as Russia and Venezuela, are bloody maelstroms of violence and crime, whil

Author: Robert Kaplan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: zero, history, natural
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1999-10-15
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0195128427
ISBN-13: 9780195128420

A symbol for what is not there, an emptiness that increases any number it’s added to, an inexhaustible and indispensable paradox. As we enter the year 2000, zero is once again making its presence felt. Nothing itself, it makes possible a myriad of calculations. Indeed, without zero mathematics as we know it would not exist. And without mathematics our understanding of the universe would be vastly impoverished. But where did this nothing, this hollow circle, come from? Who created it? And what, exactly, does it mean? Robert Kaplan’s The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero

Author: Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: history, journey, ghosts, balkan
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2005-05-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0312424930
ISBN-13: 9780312424930

This new edition includes six opinion pieces written by Robert Kaplan about the Balkans between l996 and 2000 beginning just after the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords and ending after the conclusion of the Kosovo war, with the removal of Slobodan Milosevic from power

Author: Robert Kaplan
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Keywords: dancers, training, rhythmic
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2002-04-11
List price: $57.00
ISBN-10: 0736037802
ISBN-13: 9780736037808

If you want to improve your students’ ability to learn movement combinations, teach dance, and create choreography, then help them get in touch with the musicality in their movements with Rhythmic Training for Dancers. Rhythmic Training for Dancers and its companion CD-ROM, An Interactive Guide to Music for Dancers, help dancers develop a better understanding of musical time and phrasing, which directly correspond with their dance activities. These materials provide an interdisciplinary approach that bridges the perceptual barrier between dancers and musicians by explaining concepts from