Authors:James Gustave Speth, Peter Haas,
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: environmental, studies, contemporary, foundations, series, governance, global
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-05-12
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1597260819
ISBN-13: 9781597260817

Today’s most pressing environmental problems are planetary in scope, confounding the political will of any one nation. How can we solve them?Global Environmental Governance offers the essential information, theory, and practical insight needed to tackle this critical challenge. It examines ten major environmental threats-climate disruption, biodiversity loss, acid rain, ozone depletion, deforestation, desertification, freshwater degradation and shortages, marine fisheries decline, toxic pollutants, and excess nitrogen-and explores how they can be addressed through treaties, governance re

Authors:Don Rubin (Series Editor), Ghassan Maleh, Farouk Oha
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: world, theatre, contemporary, encyclopedia, vol, arab
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1999-06
List price: $385.00
ISBN-10: 0415059321
ISBN-13: 9780415059329

This unique A-Z country-by-country account covers theater in the Arab world since the end of World War II. Countries included are: Algeria (Overview); Bahrain (Overview); Comoros Islands; Djibouti; Egypt; Iraq; Jordan (overview); Kuwait (Overview); Lebanon; Libya; Mauritania; Morocco (Overview); Oman (Overview); Palestine (Overview); Qatar (Overview); Saudi Arabia; Somalia; Syria; Sudan; Tunisia (Overview); United Arab Emirates; Yemen (Overview). The entries are preceded by background articles on women in the Arab theatre, language in Arab theatre, puppetry and much more. With the public

Author: Peter Lehman
Publisher: Wayne State Univ Pr
Keywords: approaches, film, television, contemporary, series, male, scared, masculinity, representation, running
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-09-09
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0814333397
ISBN-13: 9780814333396

This new edition of Running Scared has a new Preface, a new last chapter, and has been revised throughout. The text responds to the absence of critical attention to male sexuality in film by bringing representations of phallic masculinity into the spotlight. In his analysis of films, novels, paintings, photographs, popular music, jokes, and videos, Peter Lehman investigates the patriarchal culture that keeps the male body and especially male genitals out of sight. Lehman documents the pervasive anxiety underlying images of the male body, arguing that attempts to keep male sexuality hidden in t

Author: Stacy Doris
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Keywords: poetry, series, contemporary, knot
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0820328138
ISBN-13: 9780820328133

"What follows occurs in a moment; a flash. It would detail a single tangibility if that did not entail all sensation." Stacy Doris charts the invisible, investigates the unborn, and describes everything not yet imagined. The tightly constructed verses of Knot weave imagery of decay and birth, science and culture: the warp and weft of cloth, digestion, wave particles, and a talking cat. Linguistic play abounds, and Doris presents us with a human double bind: to cling to the stability of the tangle or to participate in the circuits of entanglement.

Author: Olivia N. Saracho
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
Keywords: childhood, contemporary, education, perspectives, instruction, policy, language, literacy
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2004-07
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 1593111207
ISBN-13: 9781593111205

Language Policy and Literacy Instruction, Olivia N. Saracho and Bernard Spodek. Historical Perspectives in Language Policy and Literacy Reform, Olivia N. Saracho and Bernard Spodek. Second Language Issues in Early Literacy and Instruction, Elizabeth S. Pang and Michael L. Kamil.

Authors:Philippe G. Ciarlet, Philippe G. Ciarlet, Ta-Tsien L
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: mathematics, contemporary, applied, series, applications, geometry, theory, differential
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2008-05-06
List price: $101.00
ISBN-10: 9812771468
ISBN-13: 9789812771469

This book gives the basic notions of differential geometry, such as the metric tensor, the Riemann curvature tensor, the fundamental forms of a surface, covariant derivatives, and the fundamental theorem of surface theory in a self-contained and accessible manner. Although the field is often considered a classical one, it has recently been rejuvenated, thanks to the manifold applications where it plays an essential role. The book presents some important applications to shells, such as the theory of linearly and nonlinearly elastic shells, the implementation of numerical methods for shells,

Authors:Miguel, Mantero, Miguel, Mantero,
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
Keywords: language, contemporary, education, educational, contexts, studies, activity, dialogic, second, learning, culture, inquiry, identity
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2006-12-13
List price: $73.99
ISBN-10: 1593115407
ISBN-13: 9781593115401

This collection of research has attempted to capture the essence and promise embodied in the concept of "identity" and built a bridge to the realm of second language studies. However, the reader will notice that we did not build just one link. This volume brings to light the diversity of research in identity and second language studies that are grounded the notions of community, instructors and students, language immersion and study abroad, pop culture and music, religion, code switching, and media. The chapters reflect the efforts of contributors from Canada, Japan, Norway, New Zealand, t