Author: Kaitlin Payne Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc. ISBN: Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 19
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Camille Pepper loves to build and fix! Although small, her toolbox is filled with everything she needs--from bolts to goggles. Today, she's found an old friend in need of some repairs. Camille is ready to help, but Mr. Robot isn't too sure. She doesn't waste a moment getting to work, and in no time at all, Mr. Robot has something to smile about.
Author: Corcoran Gallery of Art Publisher: Lucia Marquand ISBN: 9781555953614 Category : Painting Languages : en Pages : 0
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This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.
Author: Gill Kernick Publisher: Do Sustainability ISBN: 1913019306 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 270
Book Description
The Grenfell Tower tragedy was the worst residential fire in London since World War II. It killed seventy-two people in the richest borough of one of the wealthiest countries in the world. Like other catastrophic events before it and since, it has the power to bring about lasting change. But will it? The historical evidence is weighed against ‘lessons being learned’ in a meaningful or enduring way. In an attempt to understand why, despite enormous efforts, we persistently fail to learn from catastrophic events, this book uses the details of the Grenfell fire as a case study to consider why we don’t learn and what it would take to enable real systemic change. The book explores the myths, the key challenges and the conditions that inhibit learning, and it identifies opportunities to positively disrupt the status quo. It offers an accessible model for systemic change, not as a definitive solution but rather as a framework to evoke reflection, enquiry and proper debate. Catastrophe and Systemic Change is a must-read book for a wide range of readers including those interested in change management, leadership, policy-making, law, housing, construction and public safety.
Author: Leah Zani Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 1478005262 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 184
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Half a century after the CIA's Secret War in Laos—the largest bombing campaign in history—explosive remnants of war continue to be part of people's everyday lives. In Bomb Children Leah Zani offers a perceptive analysis of the long-term, often subtle, and unintended effects of massive air warfare. Zani traces the sociocultural impact of cluster submunitions—known in Laos as “bomb children”—through stories of explosives clearance technicians and others living and working in these old air strike zones. Zani presents her ethnography alongside poetry written in the field, crafting a startlingly beautiful analysis of state terror, authoritarian revival, rapid development, and ecological contamination. In so doing, she proposes that postwar zones are their own cultural and area studies, offering new ways to understand the parallel relationship between ongoing war violence and postwar revival.
Author: Deb Strain Publisher: Landauer (IA) ISBN: 9781890621445 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 100
Book Description
Holiday homes come alive with Deb Strain's bright cheerful tributes to family and friendship. Snow Friends features favorite, frolicking snowmen translated into soft projects such as a large panel wall quilt, a table top skirt, a charming table runner and a bed quilt with snow people sitting on checkerboard moons.
Author: Clancy Wilmott Publisher: ISBN: 9789462984530 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book argues for a theory of mobile mapping, a situated and spatial approach towards researching how everyday digital mobile media practices are bound up in global systems of knowledge and power. Drawing from literature in media studies and geography -- and the work of Michel Foucault and Doreen Massey -- it examines how geographical and historical material, social, and cultural conditions are embedded in the way in which contemporary (digital) cartographies are read, deployed, and engaged. This is explored through seventeen walking interviews in Hong Kong and Sydney, as potent discourses like cartographic reason continue to transform and weave through the world in ways that haunt mobile mapping and bring old conflicts into new media. In doing so, Mobile Mapping offers an interdisciplinary rethinking about how multiple translations of spatial knowledges between rational digital epistemologies and tacit ways of understanding space and experience might be conceptualized and researched.
Author: Dilip Nandwani Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319069047 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 400
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Sustainable horticulture is gaining increasing attention in the field of agriculture as demand for the food production rises to the world community. Sustainable horticultural systems are based on ecological principles to farm, optimizes pest and disease management approaches through environmentally friendly and renewable strategies in production agriculture. It is a discipline that addresses current issues such as food security, water pollution, soil health, pest control, and biodiversity depletion. Novel, environmentally-friendly solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from sciences as diverse as agronomy, soil science, entomology, ecology, chemistry and food sciences. Sustainable horticulture interprets methods and processes in the farming system to the global level. For that, horticulturists use the system approach that involves studying components and interactions of a whole system to address scientific, economic and social issues. In that respect, sustainable horticulture is not a classical, narrow science. Instead of solving problems using the classical painkiller approach that treats only negative impacts, sustainable horticulture treats problem sources.
Author: Robert Borofsky Publisher: ISBN: 9781732224131 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 372
Book Description
The book uses anthropological methods and insights to study the practice of anthropology. It calls for a paradigm shift, away from the publication treadmill, toward a more profile-raising paradigm that focuses on addressing a broad array of social concerns in meaningful ways.
Author: Kaitlin Payne
Author: Corcoran Gallery of Art
Author: Gill Kernick
Author: Warren Kirk
Author: Leah Zani
Author: Deb Strain
Author: Clancy Wilmott
Author: Dilip Nandwani
Author: Robert Borofsky
Author: McGraw-Hill Education