Author: Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Medium Term Plan (1987 - 1991)
Author: Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Pedagogy of the Earth
Author: Carlos Hernandez
Publisher: Kumarian Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
* Includes the writings of Rachel Carson, David W. Orr, Leonardo da Vinci, Paul and Ann Ehrlich, Pablo Neruda, and Herbert Marcuse * A book of learning, joy, and transformation It is generally believed that in order to bring changes for a sustainable future, it is most important that all people are educated about the basic facts concerning ecology and development. Pedagogy of the Earth is a rare book of ideas, information, and inspiration from some of the world's finest ecologists, thinkers, scientists, poets, and philosophers. It is a book of learning, joy, and transformation for those who are endeavoring to build a sustainable and equitable world.
Publisher: Kumarian Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
* Includes the writings of Rachel Carson, David W. Orr, Leonardo da Vinci, Paul and Ann Ehrlich, Pablo Neruda, and Herbert Marcuse * A book of learning, joy, and transformation It is generally believed that in order to bring changes for a sustainable future, it is most important that all people are educated about the basic facts concerning ecology and development. Pedagogy of the Earth is a rare book of ideas, information, and inspiration from some of the world's finest ecologists, thinkers, scientists, poets, and philosophers. It is a book of learning, joy, and transformation for those who are endeavoring to build a sustainable and equitable world.
The Idea of Culture
Author: Terry Eagleton
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118724852
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Terry Eagleton's book, in this vital new series from Blackwell, focuses on discriminating different meanings of culture, as a way of introducing to the general reader the contemporary debates around it.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118724852
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Terry Eagleton's book, in this vital new series from Blackwell, focuses on discriminating different meanings of culture, as a way of introducing to the general reader the contemporary debates around it.
Can We Live Together?
Author: Alain Touraine
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804740432
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
In this book, a leading French social thinker grapples with the gap between the tendency toward globalization of economic relations and mass culture and the increasingly sectarian nature of our social identities as members of ethnic, religious, or national groups. Though at first glance, it might seem as if the answer to the question Can we live together? is that we already do live togetherwatching the same television programs, buying the same clothes, and even using the same language to communicate from one country to anotherthe author argues that in important ways, we are farther than ever from belonging to the same society or the same culture. Our small societies are not gradually merging into one vast global society; instead, the simultaneously political, territorial, and cultural entities that we once called societies or countries are breaking up before our eyes in the wake of ethnic, political, and religious conflict. The result is that we live together only to the extent that we make the same gestures and use the same objectswe do not communicate with one another in a meaningful way or govern ourselves together. What power can now reconcile a transnational economy with the disturbing reality of introverted communities? The author argues against the idea that all we can do is agree on some social rules of mutual tolerance and respect for personal freedom, and forgo the attempt to forge deeper bonds. He argues instead that we can use a focus on the personal life-projectthe construction of an active self or subjectultimately to form meaningful social and political institutions. The book concludes by exploring how social institutions might be retooled to safeguard the development of the personal subject and communication between subjects, and by sketching out what these new social institutions might look like in terms of social relations, politics, and education.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804740432
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
In this book, a leading French social thinker grapples with the gap between the tendency toward globalization of economic relations and mass culture and the increasingly sectarian nature of our social identities as members of ethnic, religious, or national groups. Though at first glance, it might seem as if the answer to the question Can we live together? is that we already do live togetherwatching the same television programs, buying the same clothes, and even using the same language to communicate from one country to anotherthe author argues that in important ways, we are farther than ever from belonging to the same society or the same culture. Our small societies are not gradually merging into one vast global society; instead, the simultaneously political, territorial, and cultural entities that we once called societies or countries are breaking up before our eyes in the wake of ethnic, political, and religious conflict. The result is that we live together only to the extent that we make the same gestures and use the same objectswe do not communicate with one another in a meaningful way or govern ourselves together. What power can now reconcile a transnational economy with the disturbing reality of introverted communities? The author argues against the idea that all we can do is agree on some social rules of mutual tolerance and respect for personal freedom, and forgo the attempt to forge deeper bonds. He argues instead that we can use a focus on the personal life-projectthe construction of an active self or subjectultimately to form meaningful social and political institutions. The book concludes by exploring how social institutions might be retooled to safeguard the development of the personal subject and communication between subjects, and by sketching out what these new social institutions might look like in terms of social relations, politics, and education.
Strategic Management
Author: Fred R. David
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780136015703
Category : Business planning
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
KEY BENFIT:David's Strategic Managementoffers a skills-oriented, practitioner perspective that has been updated with modern cases to reflect current research and strategy. This text covers strategy formulation issues such as business ethics, global vs. domestic operations, vision/mission, matrix analysis, partnering, joint venturing, competitive analysis, and includes a brand new cohesion case on the Walt Disney Company. For management professionals, small business owners and others involved in business.
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780136015703
Category : Business planning
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
KEY BENFIT:David's Strategic Managementoffers a skills-oriented, practitioner perspective that has been updated with modern cases to reflect current research and strategy. This text covers strategy formulation issues such as business ethics, global vs. domestic operations, vision/mission, matrix analysis, partnering, joint venturing, competitive analysis, and includes a brand new cohesion case on the Walt Disney Company. For management professionals, small business owners and others involved in business.
The Cultural Contradictions Of Capitalism
Author: Daniel Bell
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 9780465014996
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
With a new afterword by the author, this classic analysis of Western liberal capitalist society contends that capitalism—and the culture it creates—harbors the seeds of its own downfall by creating a need among successful people for personal gratification—a need that corrodes the work ethic that led to their success in the first place. With the end of the Cold War and the emergence of a new world order, this provocative manifesto is more relevant than ever.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 9780465014996
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
With a new afterword by the author, this classic analysis of Western liberal capitalist society contends that capitalism—and the culture it creates—harbors the seeds of its own downfall by creating a need among successful people for personal gratification—a need that corrodes the work ethic that led to their success in the first place. With the end of the Cold War and the emergence of a new world order, this provocative manifesto is more relevant than ever.
The Livelihood of Man
Author: Karl Polanyi
Publisher: New York : Academic Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The place of the economy in society; Trade, markets, and money in ancient greece;
Publisher: New York : Academic Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The place of the economy in society; Trade, markets, and money in ancient greece;
Intergovernmental Conference on Environmental Education, Tbilisi (USSR) 14-26 October 1977
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Critique of Modernity
Author: Alain Touraine
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9781557865311
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
For over two hundred years, the notion of modernity has dominated Western social thought. Yet as we approach the end of the millenium, we find the concept under seige: constantly being challenged, rejected or refined. In Critique of Modernity d, Alain Touraine, one of our leading social thinkers, offers an outstanding analysis and reinterpretation of the modern for the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9781557865311
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
For over two hundred years, the notion of modernity has dominated Western social thought. Yet as we approach the end of the millenium, we find the concept under seige: constantly being challenged, rejected or refined. In Critique of Modernity d, Alain Touraine, one of our leading social thinkers, offers an outstanding analysis and reinterpretation of the modern for the twenty-first century.
Power in the Global Age
Author: Ulrich Beck
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745694535
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This brilliant new book by one of Europe's leading social thinkers throws light on the global power games being played out between global business, nation states and movements rooted in civil society. Beck offers an illuminating account of the changing nature of power in the global age and assesses the influence of the ever-expanding counter-powers. The author puts forward the provocative thesis that in an age of global crises and risks, a politics of "golden handcuffs" - the creation of a dense network of transnational interdependencies - is exactly what is needed in order to regain national autonomy, not least in relation to a highly mobile world economy. It is imperative that the maxim of nation-based realpolitik - that national interests have necessarily to be pursued by national means - be replaced by the maxim of cosmopolitan realpolitik. The more cosmopolitan our political structures and activities, Beck suggests, the more successful they will be in promoting national interests, and the greater our individual power in this global age will be.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745694535
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This brilliant new book by one of Europe's leading social thinkers throws light on the global power games being played out between global business, nation states and movements rooted in civil society. Beck offers an illuminating account of the changing nature of power in the global age and assesses the influence of the ever-expanding counter-powers. The author puts forward the provocative thesis that in an age of global crises and risks, a politics of "golden handcuffs" - the creation of a dense network of transnational interdependencies - is exactly what is needed in order to regain national autonomy, not least in relation to a highly mobile world economy. It is imperative that the maxim of nation-based realpolitik - that national interests have necessarily to be pursued by national means - be replaced by the maxim of cosmopolitan realpolitik. The more cosmopolitan our political structures and activities, Beck suggests, the more successful they will be in promoting national interests, and the greater our individual power in this global age will be.