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Ecological Engineering: Principles and Practice
CRC Press 2003; US$ 99.95Less expensive and more environmentally appropriate than conventional engineering approaches, constructed ecosystems are a promising technology for environmental problem solving. Undergraduates, graduate students, and working professionals need an introductory text that details the biology and ecology of this rapidly developing discipline, known as... more...
Kierkegaard's Instant
Indiana University Press 2007; US$ 36.00In Kierkegaard's Instant, David J. Kangas reads Kierkegaard to reveal his radical thinking about temporality. For Kierkegaard, the instant of becoming, in which everything changes in the blink of an eye, eludes recollection and anticipation. It constitutes a beginning always already at work. As Kangas... more...
Linguistic Genocide in Education--or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights?
Taylor and Francis 2000; US$ 109.95In this powerful, multidisciplinary book, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas shows how most indigenous and minority education contributes to linguistic genocide according to United Nations definitions. Theory is combined with a wealth of factual encyclopedic information and with many examples and vignettes. The examples come from all parts of the world and try to... more...
Forest Inventory
Springer 2006; US$ 54.99Developed as a forest inventory textbook for students and also serves as a handbook for practical foresters. This book is divided into four sections, and it deals with sampling issues. Most applications involve remote sensing technology of some sort, and this work also deals with the use of remote sensing material for this purpose. more...
Social Policy and Economic Development in the Nordic Countries
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 135.00This volume examines the relationship between Nordic social policy and economic development from a comparative perspective. It identifies the driving forces behind the development of the Nordic welfare model and the problems and dilemmas the model is facing at present. The book also traces the link between democratization and social policy, drawing... more...
Multilingual Education and Sustainable Diversity Work
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 49.95This very original, inspirational book globalises our understanding of languages in education and changes our understanding of bilingual and multilingual education from something mostly western to being truly transnational: it spotlights the small, celebrates African and Asian cases of multilingual classrooms and demonstrates that such education... more...
Reshaping Your Business with Web 2.0
McGraw-Hill Education 2008; US$ 39.99A guide to maximizing Web 2.0 technologies to transform business processes From blogs to social networks, Web 2.0 technologies and behaviors have brought about enormous changes in the way consumers interact with the Web and each other. Written by a team of experts from the Web 2.0 community and Oracle Corporation, this book provides a blueprint... more...
Direct and Inverse Problems in Wave Propagation and Applications
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 112.00This book is thethird volume of three volume series recording the "Radon Special Semester 2011 on Multiscale Simulation & Analysis in Energy and the Environment" taking place in Linz, Austria, October 3-7, 2011. The volume surveys recent developments in the analysis of wave propagation problems. The topics covered include aspects of the forward problem... more...
Linguistic Human Rights
De Gruyter 1994; US$ 182.00Only a few hundred of the world's languages have any kind of official status, and it is only speakers of official languages (speakers of dominant majority languages) who enjoy all linguistic human rights. As many of the collected papers in this book document, most linguistic minorities are deprived of these rights. This volume describes what linguistic... more...
Imagining Multilingual Schools
Multilingual Matters 2006; US$ 59.95Presenting visions of multilingual school, this book examines the pedagogical, socio educational, and socio political issues that impact on their development and success. It considers issues of multilingual schooling in different countries and for diverse populations and groups, while taking into account the global pressures of the 21st century. more...









