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Winning the Needed Change
IOS Press 2009; US$ 104.00Presents the outcome of long deliberations and systematic exchanges among the several members of a truly global team. This title shows a diversity of viewpoints and makes no claim to finality. It represents an effort to carry the debate, which started with the establishment of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS). more...
Sleeping Naked Is Green
Wiley 2009; US$ 19.95No one likes listening to smug hippies bragging about how they don't use toilet paper, or worse yet, lecturing about the evils of plastic bags and SUVs. But most of us do want to lessen our ecological footprint. With this in mind, Farquharson takes on the intense personal challenge of making one green change to her lifestyle every single day for a... more...
Almost Green
Greystone Books 2009; US$ 17.95In Almost Green , James Glave demonstrates that the journey along the path to a greener life is not always easy but is frequently hilarious and always enlightening. Glave ?a writer and stay-at-homedad?describes his experiences building a green writing studio in the front yard of his home on Bowen Island, British Columbia, a not-so-green paradise... more...
Umweltpolitische Mündigkeit: Kompetenzorientierte Effekte umweltbildender Maßnahmen
Diplomica Verlag 2012; US$ 37.73Hauptbeschreibung Umweltpolitische Bildung zielt darauf ab, Schüler zu umweltverantwortlichem Handeln zu motivieren und zu befähigen. Fachkompetenz, Bewusstseinsausprägung, Urteilsfähigkeit und Handlungsorientierung werden in diesem Zusammenhang durch Kommunikations- und Bildungsprozesse entwickelt. Der damit verbundene Lernprozess vollzieht sich... more...
Why care for Nature?
Springer 2006; US$ 149.99What inspires us humans to take responsibility for the natural environment? How do we familiarise children with environmental responsibility? This book looks at a comprehensive inquiry into the ethical and politico-philosophical dimensions of environmental education. It discusses two sources of inspiration and responsibility in particular. more...
Contentious Geographies
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 124.95The human-environment relationship is one of the most pressing concerns of the twenty-first century. Bringing together a range of global case studies to illustrate the broad range of current theories on this relationship, this book presents significant cutting-edge research into the continuing (re)definition of political ecology as it relates to environmental... more...
Harmony
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 15.99For the first time, His Royal Highness Charles, the Prince of Wales, shares his views on how mankind?s most pressing modern challenges are rooted in our disharmony with nature. In the vein of Al Gore?s An Inconvenient Truth and Van Jones? Green Collar Economy , Prince Charles presents the compelling case that solutions to our most dire crises?from... more...
Green Tea Living
Stone Bridge Press 2012; US$ 14.95Homespun wisdom from Japan updated for today's "green lifestyle" choices. more...
On Extinction
Counterpoint 2012; US$ 28.00Realizing the link between her own estrangement from nature and the cultural shifts that led to a dramatic rise in extinctions, award-winning writer Melanie Challenger travels in search of the stories behind these losses. From an exploration of an abandoned mine in England to an Antarctic sea voyage to South Georgia's old whaling stations, from a... more...
Adaptive and Maladaptive Aspects of Developmental Stress
Springer 2011; US$ 169.99Since the very early stages of life, we all experience some form of stress. Stressors can be mild to severe and can range from unsuccessfully longing for maternal milk in infancy, to recklessly wiggling on a motorbike to be on time to watch the NBA finals on TV, to breaking up a relationship. All those events that we call stress have the... more...









