mountain environments and communities

Ecological Research to Promote Social Change: Methodological

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Revenson, Tracey A. / D'Augelli, Anthony R., PUBLISHER: Springer, During the past quarter century, community psychologists have worked to make relevant contributions to human welfare in community settings and to effect social change. Working with and in schools, neighborhood organizations, religious institutions, social programs, and government agencies, the community psychologist has come to understand how social settings and social policy influence behavior and foster change that promotes individual health and well-being. Using a social ecological paradigm as their guiding framework, they focus on the interactions between persons and their environments, cultural diversity, and local empowerment for understanding organizational, community, and social change. Community psychologists have relied on multiple methods of obtaining data but more often, they have had to develop new methodologies or adapt existing ones. These innovative methods have been recorded in the American Journal of Community Psychology throughout the years of its history and have changed the way that researchers in the field have gathered data.

Moose

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jackson, Kevin, PUBLISHER: Reaktion Books, Its hooves were supposedly a cure for epilepsy; it is the mascot of the Seattle Mariners baseball team and the clothing company Abercrombie & Fitch; and its meat is a delicacy. The moose is a fascinating but elusive animal of the north, and its little-known natural history is the focus of Kevin Jackson's engaging new book. "Moose" explains moose's biological history and describes its natural environments around the world, including Canada, New England, Alaska, and Scandinavia, where the moose is the national animal of Sweden and Norway. Jackson considers why the moose is really an elk and an elk is a wapiti, and he also looks at the controversy behind the naming of the Irish Elk. "Moose" explores the animal's role in human history since the Stone Age, including the "alces" in Julius Caesar's history of the Gallic Wars and its influence on figures such as poet Ted Hughes and Theodore Roosevelt and his Bull Moose Party. "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show," a 150-foot statue being built in Sweden, and colorful moose lore all appear in this wide-ranging study, making this an essential read for naturalists and moose lovers alike.

Real Love for Real Life: The Art and Work of Caring

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ashworth, Andi, PUBLISHER: Shaw Books, Because we are made in the image of a creatively caring God, we reflect his love and concern when we respond to the distinct calling to care for families, neighbors, friends, and communities. As society grows increasingly technological, isolated, and lonely, those who take their caregiving gifts seriously can fill a tremendous void. In "Real Love for Real Life, " caregivers of all kinds can find the help and hope they need to fulfill their calling. Through personal illustrations, timely research, and thoughtful quotations, Andi Ashworth addresses the practicalities, philosophies, challenges, and joys of providing care in the relationships of home and community-leading readers to a greater understanding of the value and the validity of their call to be caregivers. With the encouraging hope and creative insights they'll find in these pages, they can serve others in more effective, more fulfilling ways-in the name of God.

Frommer's Banff & Jasper National Parks

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pashby, Christie, PUBLISHER: Frommer's, Frommer's Banff and Jasper National Parks is packed with all the facts, tips and descriptions you need to have perfect park vacation, in a pocket size guide: * The best strategies for seeing these amazing parks, whether you have a full week or just a few hours * Great places to stay both inside the parks and nearby, from luxurious hotels to scenic, secluded campgrounds * The best day-long or overnight hikes, plus mountain biking, golf, horseback riding, and skiing * Detailed, accurate maps, plus a fully illustrated nature guide to help you spot bighorn sheep, mountain goats, wildflowers, and more

Rib Cage

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Miller, Greg, PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press, Under the sway of the indelible storytelling culture of the South, Greg Miller has crafted poems from all that he hears and sees around him. Written in a language rarely heard in modern devotion, the poems in "Rib Cage" show old communities disintegrating, extended families dispersing, and people in economic or personal distress struggling for dignity and a clear sense of their predicaments. From plain speech to evocative lyricism, from free verse to hymnlike eloquence, Miller deftly gives a voice and a history to the places he creates, places that, in the end, expand to encompass all of humanity. Acquista Ora

Springs of Life: India's Water Resources

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pangare, Ganesh / Pangare, Vasudha / Das, Binayak, PUBLISHER: Academic Foundation, This exhaustive account of water in India documents the natural beauty of the country's bodies of water, the ways in which communities live and interact with water (particularly in turbulent ecosystems), the resilience of people living in water-stressed regions, and common sense solutions to local water problems. Detailing the past, present, and future of India's water resources, this unique book combines thorough research with a coffee-table style presentation with photographs that document the authors' extensive travels across the country.

America's Undeclared War: What's Killing Our Cities and How

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lazare, Daniel, PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), "I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man," wrote Thomas Jefferson in , sounding a note that has echoed throughout American history. In this bracing reexamination, Daniel Lazare traces the progress of America's unwavering war on its cities and looks at the profound consequences. From Jefferson through Henry Ford and Franklin Roosevelt to the present, we have labored to wither our cities, simultaneously fouling our air and our landscape, depleting our energy resources to feed our automobiles and neglecting any form of community other than hollow, homogenous suburbs. And yet the average American has a smaller share of the country's wealth than the average European and less opportunity to improve his or her lot. Provocative and enlightening, America's Undeclared War exposes a prejudice both fundamental and destructive to American culture. With a mordant wit and a refreshing clarity, Lazare offers a vision that can re-invigorate us, our communities, and our future.

The Saloon on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: West, Elliott, PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press, Elliott West's careful analysis of the role and development of the saloon as an institution on the mining frontier provides unique insights into the social and economic history of the American West. Drawing on contemporaneous newspapers and many unpublished firsthand accounts, West shows that the physical evolution of the saloon, from crude tents and shanties into elegant establishments for drinking and gaming, reflected the growth and maturity of the surrounding community.

Choose Florida for Retirement: Retirement Discoveries for

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gollattscheck, James, PUBLISHER: Globe Pequot Press, Retirement can be a time of growth, or adventure, or complete and utter relaxation. Where you spend your retirement years, no matter how you may define them, has to be a place that fulfills your desires and meets your changing needs. Choose Florida has many communities that are ideal for retirees of every stripe. Descriptions of scenic, vibrant places, as well as essential information about the resources and activities available in these areas, allow you to make an informed decision about selecting Florida as your ideal location to enjoy an affordable, active, and safe retirement.

Mentoring and Supervision in Healthcare

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gopee, Neil, PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), This practical and accessible book examines the knowledge base, skills and attitudes required for mentoring in the context of healthcare. Revised and updated to take account of the latest developments in healthcare, the text explores theories and research on mentoring by analysing their strengths and weaknesses. To complement his analytical style, Neil Gopee has introduced more interactive features to emphasise the application of theories and principles to various clinical settings. He also draws on the most recent standards and competencies for mentors and supervisors, and examines how they can be applied in day-to-day mentoring and clinical practice activities. Key features include: - Comprehensive content - examines learning styles; different learning environments; evidence-based care; principles of assessment; the mentor's leadership; evaluation of teaching. - Practice-oriented - case studies offer links to 'real-life' and the chapters provide effective frameworks for mentoring in practice. - Interactive - activities and think points encourage the reader to explore and apply concepts to their practice and roles. - Up-to-date - firmly based on current knowledge in the field. Mentoring and Supervision in Healthcare is a core text for mentor preparation courses in nursing, midwifery and across the healthcare sector. It supports learning and ongoing professional development for all healthcare professionals.

Multimedia and Imaging Databases

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Khoshfian, Setrag / Khoshafian / Khoshafian, Setrag, PUBLISHER: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Affordable and mainstream manipulation of multimedia data types will lead to tremendous growth in imaging and multimedia data in general computing environments. Multimedia and imaging applications can now provide benefits to common business applications by integrating voice, sound, images, animation and digitized video. Ultimately, it will be possible to convert all information that is currently stored on paper, video and film into a digitized environment. This will allow users to organize, search and route multimedia objects over local and wide area networks in real time. The authors' introductory level presentation of this new class of data types supplies the database technology required for effective manipulation and storage. Multimedia and database experts, Khoshafian and Baker aptly illustrate the ability of multimedia database systems to concurrently share, access, and query large collections of multimedia information. They introduce the elemental concepts of object and relational databases and then apply them to multimedia and imaging databases. Fundamental database topics discussed include querying, transaction support, recovery, security, and storage. This book provides information essential to the incorporation of multimedia databases that will improve the quantity and quality of information manipulated by computer users in many areas including medicine, computer aided design, and information retrieval systems.

Connecting

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Crabb, Larry / Crabb, Lawrence J., PUBLISHER: Thomas Nelson Publishers, In this groundbreaking work, Larry Crabb shows readers how to build intimate, healing connections with others-mini-communities where God's power to heal souls is quickened and released through individuals' compassionate, authentic relationships with others.

Vancouver

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kyi, Tanya Lloyd, PUBLISHER: Whitecap Books, Surrounded by mountains and ocean, Vancouver is a juxtaposition of steel skyscrapers with old growth forest, towering coast mountains with the Pacific Ocean. It began as a nineteenth-century mill town, boomed with prospectors and adventurers during the Klondike gold rush, and hosted millions of visitors at the World Exposition. Today, Canada's third largest city is a thriving centre for international trade. Filmmakers flock to local sites and executives from Europe and Asia book downtown hotels. For travelers, Vancouver offers sports events and cultural performances as well as unequalled recreation. Visitors and locals alike can stroll through Stanley Park, ski nearby peaks or sail in English Bay. About the "Canada" series: As expansive as Canada itself, this outstanding series captures outstanding views of panoramic landscapes, brilliant city skylines, and picturesque communities. Each volume focuses on a city or province and features 96 pages and 70 stunning images by internationally renowned photographers, plus descriptive captions.

Conde' Nast Johansens Recommended Hotels, Inns and Resorts -

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Warren, Andrew, PUBLISHER: Conde' Nast Johansens, The only guide to independent hotels, mountain retreats, island resorts and country ranches for North America, South America, Bermuda, the Caribbean, Mexico and the Pacific. Features over 300 properties including many secret hideaways.

Walk for Your Life!: Restoring Neighborhood Walkways to

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Demers, Marie / Hill, James O., PUBLISHER: Vital Health Publishing, With obesity at an-all time high, America's children developing into medicated, overweight couch potatoes, and the looming fuel crisis, we need to look at what we can do to improve our societal situation. This thought-provoking book calls for the restoration of a walkable environment as the starting point of a solution to these pressing issues. Topics include: ? The Value of Walking and the Price of Not Walking ? Urban Sprawl and Automobile Dependence ? Underestimating the Problem of the Sedentary Lifestyle ? Children: an Endangered Species, The Older Pedestrian and Taxi Moms ? Driving Fatalities - 2.7 times more frequent than U.S. murders ? Commuting Stress, Air Pollution, and the Neglect of Public Transit ? The Decline in Walking ? Traffic and the Destruction of the Landscape ? Physical Inactivity and Health ? The Cost of Institutionalized Obesity ? Walking Prescriptions ? Creating Safe, Walkable Environments

Saracens and the Making of English Identity

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bly, Calkin Siobhain / Bly Calkin, Siobhain / Calkin, Siobhain Bly, PUBLISHER: Routledge, This book explores the ways in which discourses of religious, racial, and national identity blur and engage each other in the medieval West. Specifically, the book studies depictions of Muslims in England during the s and argues that these depictions, although historically inaccurate, served to enhance and advance assertions of English national identity at this time. The book examines Saracen characters in a manuscript renowned for the variety of its texts, and discusses hagiographic legends, elaborations of chronicle entries, and popular romances about Charlemagne, Arthur, and various English knights. In these texts, Saracens engage issues such as the demarcation of communal borders, the place of gender norms and religion in communities' self-definitions, and the roles of violence and history in assertions of group identity. Texts involving Saracens thus serve both to assert an English identity, and to explore the challenges involved in making such an assertion in the early fourteenth century when the English language was regaining its cultural prestige, when the English people were increasingly at odds with their French cousins, and when English, Welsh, and Scottish sovereignty were pressing matters.

Mountain Goats

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Staub, Frank, PUBLISHER: Lerner Publications, With full-color, breathtaking photos and easy-to-read texts, each book in this series describes the life cycle of a plant or animal. Including a special note for adults to help reading be an interactive experience, these titles are especially useful for preschools, reading hours, Chapter One programs, primary classrooms, and upper-elementary reluctant readers. Supports the national science education standards Unifying Concepts and Processes: Systems, Order, and Organization; Unifying Concepts and Processes: Constancy, Change, and Measurement; Unifying Concepts and Processes: Form and Function; Science as Inquiry; and Life Science as outlined by the National Academics of Science and endorsed by the National Science Teachers Association.

Secret Seahorse

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Blackstone, Stella / Beaton, Clare, PUBLISHER: Barefoot Books, The watery world of the coral reef is explored in this hide-and-seek adventure from best-selling duo Stella Blackstone and Clare Beaton. Follow an elusive seahorse as he swims through different underwater environments, meeting a colorful kaleidoscope of sea creatures - including sea anemones, crabs, starfish, eels and octopuses - along the way. Containing five pages of educational information, including facts about the coral reef, sea creatures and the lifecycle of seahorses, while introducing children to underwater vocabulary, Secret Seahorse is an ideal present for children who are fascinated by the mysterious landscape that exists under the sea. The hide-and-seek theme featured throughout invites the reader to hunt the seahorse on every page, encouraging interaction with the text and illustrations to ensure this book will become a well-thumbed favorite.

Painless Windows: A Handbook for SAS Users

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gilmore, Jodie, PUBLISHER: SAS Publishing, What's new with SAS 9.1 software running under the Windows operating environments? Gilmore introduces and clearly explains the functionality of SAS features including the SAS Explorer interface, Output Delivery System (ODS), Help interface, results window, windowing features, and SAS data library and file management features. She also walks you through the process of editing files, submitting code, printing, adjusting the windowing environment (colors, fonts, and so on), editing startup files (Config.SAS and Autoexec.SAS), using batch mode, using DDE and Ole, using SAS/Connect software, plus a whole lot more This book is packed with screen captures, step-by-step instructions, and clear explanations to help you find and accomplish each task. Written for every SAS programmer starting out in the Windows environment Topics addressed in the book include enhanced coverage of the SAS Output Delivery System; a tutorial on using the SAS Enhanced Editor; expanded coverage of using DDE and Microsoft Word; and an overview of using Enterprise Guide.

Canada's Economic Apartheid: The Social Exclusion of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Galabuzi, Grace-Edward, PUBLISHER: Canadian Scholars Press, Canada's Economic Apartheid calls attention to the growing racialization of the gap between rich and poor. Despite the dire implications for Canadian society, the rift is increasing with minimal public and policy attention. The myths about the economic performance of Canada's racialized communities that are used to deflect public concern and to mask the growing social crisis are challenged in this relevant work. Dr. Galabuzi points to the role of historical patterns of systemic racial discrimination as essential in understanding the persistent over-representation of racialized groups in low-paying occupations. While Canada embraces globalization and romanticizes cultural diversity, there are persistent expressions of xenophobia and racial marginalization that suggest a continuing political and cultural attachment to the concept of a White, settled society.

Social Linguistics and Literacies: Ideology in Discourses

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gee, James Paul, PUBLISHER: Taylor & Francis Group, This fully-updated new edition engages with topics such as orality and literacy, the history of literacy, the uses and abuses of literacy in that history, the analysis of language as cultural communication, and social theories of mind and meaning, among many other topics. It represents the most current statement of a widely discussed and used theory about how language functions in society, a theory initially developed in the first edition of the book, and developed in this new edition in tandem with analytic techniques for the study of language and literacy in context, with special reference to cross-cultural issues in communities and schools. Built around a large number of specific examples, this new edition reflects current debates across the world about education and educational reform, the nature of language and communication, and the role of sociocultural diversity in schools and society. One of the core goals of this book, from its first edition on, has been to develop a new and more widely applicable vision of applied linguistics. It will be of interest to researchers, lecturers and students in education, linguistics, or any field that deals with language, especially in social or cultural terms.

Invisible No More: Understanding the Disenfranchisement of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Noguera, Pedro / Hurtado, Aa-Da / Fergus, Edward, PUBLISHER: Routledge, This groundbreaking interdisciplinary volume provides a comprehensive picture of Latino males in the US today and sets the direction of future research and policy intervention. While research on men and masculinity has increased substantially in recent years, very little of the new research has focused upon the status of Latino men or on the ways in which cultural and structural systems of patriarchy within Latino communities have been affected by the experiences of Latino men in American society. This collection, edited by renowned scholars Pedro Noguera, Aida Hurtado and Edward Fergus, brings together current research on education, health, criminal justice, mental health and employment. By drawing attention to the challenges facing this segment of the population the volume collectively establishes the first empirical basis for finding solutions to these problems.

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Making Them Like Us: Peace Corps Volunteers in the s

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Fischer, Fritz, PUBLISHER: Smithsonian Books, Based on newly available records, Making Them Like Us describes how many Peace Corps volunteers who served during the agency's first decade became alienated from the lofty aims and liberal ideology of their leaders and revised their goals to fit the specific needs of their host communities, returning to the United States with a more pragmatic, nuanced perspective on how cultures interact.

The Gospel According to Matthew

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Reid, Barbara E., PUBLISHER: Liturgical Press, Comprehensive and understandable, the New Collegeville Bible Commentary series brings the timeless messages and relevance of the New Testament to today's readers. With recent scholarship, this series provides vital background and addresses important questions such as authorship and cultural context. The New Collegeville Bible Commentary includes New American Bible translation and will appeal to preachers, teachers, Bible study groups, and Bible readers. The Gospel of Matthew carries important lessons on the formation of community and of Jesus as authoritative Teacher--lessons that helped the early believers relate to both the Jewish and Christian communities of which they were composed. The Gospel According to Matthew provides Gospel text (New American Bible translation) along with Barbara E. Reid's commentary, to aid in the interpretation and use of this Gospel today. As Reid demonstrates, this Gospel continues to bring vision and hope to Christians throughout the ages. Reid stresses the importance of the Gospel of Matthew as the first book in the New Testament, possibly the first written Gospel, and the one most often used in the early church. Providing both the text and commentary, Reid addresses important questions such as the author's identity and sources, setting and Gospel translation.

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