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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
The Christian Century
Author: Out of Place
Author: Michael HoughPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300052237
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Hough argues that the monotony of the modern landscape is a reflection of society's indifference to the diversity inherent in ecological systems and in human communities. He uses world-wide case studies to show how built areas work and how designers can maintain the identities of different places.
Postmodernity
Author: David LyonPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816632275
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
In the second edition of this highly successful text, postmodernity is seen as the social condition of the twenty-first century, in which some of the most familiar features of the modern world are not only called into question, but actually undermined by novel trends. The key carriers of the postmodern--new technologies and consumerism--emerged in thoroughly modern contexts, but so profoundly affect everyday social life that modernity itself is changing shape. Postmodernity is a way of describing a new society-in-the-making without supposing that modernity has been entirely left behind. While some dub these changes as "high" or "late" modern, this book argues that "postmodernity" best captures today's transformations or modernity.
Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s
Author: Lucy RobinsonPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526167263
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Now that’s what I call a history of the 1980s tells the story of eighties Britain through its popular culture. Charting era-defining moments from Lady Diana’s legs and the miners’ strike to Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage and Adam and the Ants, Lucy Robinson weaves together an alternative history to the one we think we know. This is not a history of big geopolitical disasters, or a nostalgic romp through discos, shoulder pads and yuppie culture. Instead, the book explores a mashing together of different genres and fan bases in order to make sense of our recent past and give new insights into the decade that defined both globalisation and excess. Packed with archival and cultural research but written with verve and spark, the book offers as much to general readers as to scholars of this period, presenting a distinctive and definitive contemporary history of 1980s Britain, from pop to politics, to cold war cultures, censorship and sexuality.
The Uneasy Eighties
Author: Arthur J. CordellChanging Maps
Author: Steven A. RosellPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780886292645
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
How can we organize and govern ourselves successfully in a world of rapid change and increasing interconnection? This book reports the findings of a round table of senior Canadian government officials and private sector executives, exploring fundamental changes in the economy, in culture and values and in the social contract that characterize the emergence of a global information society.
Christian Education
Author: Theory in Landscape Architecture
Author: Simon R. SwaffieldPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812218213
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Basic theoretical texts for landscape architects.
ReThinking DisAbility
Author: René GadaczPublisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 9780888642608
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This volume provides case studies of the contemporary independent living/disabled consumer movement from the perspective of New Social Movement theory. It describes the organizational strategies by which disabled people pursue the goal of integrated community living, and focuses on the work of several movement organizations.
Media, Structures, and Power
Author: Robert E. BabePublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802098606
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Containing introductions and contributions by other prominent scholars, this volume situates Babe's work within contemporary scholarship and underscores the extent to which he is one of Canada's most prescient thinkers.