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Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding
2015 || Paperback || Roger Mac Ginty || Taylor & Francis
This new Routledge Handbook offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the meanings and uses of the term peacebuilding, and presents cutting-edge debates on the practices conducted in the name of peacebuilding. The term peacebuilding has had remarkable staying power. Other terms, such as conflict resolution have waned in popularity, while the acceptance and use of the term peacebuilding has grown to the extent that it is the hegemonic and over-arching term for many forms of mediatio...
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos / 2nd Edition
With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering
2015 || Paperback || Steven H. Strogatz || Taylor & Francis
This textbook is aimed at newcomers to nonlinear dynamics and chaos, especially students taking a first course in the subject. The presentation stresses analytical methods, concrete examples, and geometric intuition. The theory is developed systematically, starting with first-order differential equations and their bifurcations, followed by phase plane analysis, limit cycles and their bifurcations, and culminating with the Lorenz equations, chaos, iterated maps, period doubling, renormalizatio...
Key Issues in Historical Theory
2015 || Paperback || The Netherlands) Herman (Leiden University Paul || Taylor & Francis
Key Issues in Historical Theory is a fresh, clear and well-grounded introduction to this vibrant field of inquiry, incorporating many examples from novels, paintings, music, and political debates. The book expertly engages the reader in discussions of what history is, how people relate to the past and how they are formed by the past. Over 11 thematically-based chapters, Herman Paul discusses subjects such as:history, memory and traumahistorical experience and narrativemoral and political dime...
Teaching Secondary Science / 4th edition
Constructing Meaning and Developing Understanding
2015 || Paperback || Keith Ross e.a. || Taylor & Francis
The fourth edition of Teaching Secondary Science has been fully updated and includes a wide range of new material. This invaluable resource offers a new collection of sample lesson plans and includes two new chapters covering effective e-learning and advice on supporting learners with English as a second language. It continues as a comprehensive guide for all aspects of science teaching, with a focus on understanding pupils alternative frameworks of belief, the importance of developing or cha...
The Routledge Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course
Crossing Cultural Boundaries
2015 || Paperback || Kunshan Carolyn Lee e.a. || Taylor & Francis
The Routledge Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course: Crossing Cultural Boundaries is an innovative multimedia course for advanced students of Chinese. Written by a team of highly experienced instructors, the book offers advanced learners the opportunity to consolidate their knowledge of Chinese through a wide range of activities designed to build up both excellent language skills and cultural literacy. Divided into four thematic units covering popular culture, social change, cultural traditions,...
Sustainable Development / 2nd edition
2015 || Paperback || UK) Susan (Cardiff University Baker || Taylor & Francis
The current focus on sustainable development opens up debates surrounding our relationship with the natural world, about what constitutes social progress and about the character of development, both in the Global North and the Global South. The promotion of sustainable futures is taking on a new urgency in the context of climate change and biodiversity loss. This concise and accessible text explores how the international community is responding to the challenge of sustainable development.
It ...
Managing Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation
2015 || Paperback || Paul Trott e.a. || Taylor & Francis
Managing Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation is the first textbook for non-business based entrepreneurship courses, focussed on students with a background in science and technology. Its comprehensive, rigorous and yet accessible approach originates from the authors considerable experience mentoring students as they turn their technological ideas into real-life business ventures.
The text is separated into three parts providing a roadmap for successful entrepreneurial projects:Part I fo...
Engaging Minds: Cultures of Education and Practices of Teaching
Cultures of Education and Practices of Teaching
2015 || Paperback || Brent Davis e.a. || Taylor & Francis
Engaging Minds: Cultures of Education and Practices of Teaching explores the diverse beliefs and practices that define the current landscape of formal education. The 3rd edition of this introduction to interdisciplinary studies of teaching and learning to teach is restructured around four prominent historical moments in formal education: Standardized Education, Authentic Education, Democratic Citizenship Education, Systemic Sustainability Education. These moments serve as the foci of the four...
Social Groups in Action and Interaction / 2nd edition
A Psychology Press Book
2015 || Paperback || Stangor || Taylor & Francis
Social Groups in Action and Interaction reviews and analyzes the human group as it operates to create both social good and, potentially, social harm. It summarizes current knowledge and contemporary research, with real-world examples in succinct yet engaging chapters, to help students understand and predict group behavior. Unlike other texts, the book considers a wide range of topics such as conformity, leadership, task performance, social identity, prejudice, and discrimination from both an ...
Trask's Historical Linguistics / 3rd edition
2015 || Paperback || Robert McColl Millar e.a. || Taylor & Francis
Trask's Historical Linguistics, Third Edition, is an accessible introduction to historical linguistics - the study of language change over time. This engaging book is illustrated with language examples from all six continents, and covers the fundamental concepts of language change, methods for historical linguistics, linguistic reconstruction, sociolinguistic aspects of language change, language contact, the birth and death of languages, language and prehistory and the issue of very remote re...