Green Infrastructure: Linking Landscapes and Communities (Benedict Mark A.)(Paperback)

Green Infrastructure: Linking Landscapes and Communities (Benedict Mark A.)(Paperback)

With illustrative and detailed examples drawn from throughout the country, Green Infrastructure advances smart land conservation: large scale thinking and integrated action to plan, protect and manage our natural and restored lands. From the individual parcel to the multi-state region, Green

Landscape and Infrastructure: Reimagining the Pastoral Paradigm for the Twenty-First Century (Vickery Margaret Birney)(Paperback)

Landscape and Infrastructure examines the relationships between landscape painting and landscape design from the 17th century to the present, and contemporary infrastructure projects around the globe. These seemingly disparate subjects are united by a shared concern for the pastoral middle ground;

Green Infrastructure Planning: Reintegrating Landscape in Urban Planning (Mell Ian)(Pevná vazba)

This useful guide provides an essential introduction to green infrastructure for planners, landscape architects, engineers and

An Analysis of Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities (Xidias Jason)(Paperback)

Benedict Anderson's 1983 masterpiece Imagined Communities is a ground-breaking analysis of the origins and meanings of 'nations' and 'nationalism.' A book that helped reshape the field of nationalism studies, Imagined Communities also shows the critical thinking skills of interpretation and

The Benedictine Handbook (Marett-Crosby Anthony)(Pevná vazba)

This comprehensive manual is aimed especially at oblates and associates of Benedictine communities, those who regularly spend retreats or quiet days in Benedictine centres and all those who want to order their life to be more in tune with Benedictine spirituality. The book contains: the text of the

Nature of the City: Green Infrastructure from the Ground Up (Armour Tom)(Paperback)

This is a practical guide to delivering green infrastructure from the ground up and bringing nature in to the built environment. Exploring the process of delivery through an array of design approaches and case studies, it demystifies the concept and provides the tools for practical implementation -

A Life Beyond Boundaries: A Memoir (Anderson Benedict)(Paperback)

An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities Born in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was educated in England and finally found a home at Cornell University, where he immersed himself in the growing field of Southeast Asian

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Anderson Benedict)(Paperback)

This 'sparkling' and world-famous work examines what drives people to live, die, and kill in the name of nations--revealing the surprising origins and development of nationalism (The Guardian). The full magnitude of Benedict Anderson's intellectual achievement is still being appreciated and

Green Exercise: Linking Nature, Health and Well-being (Barton Jo)(Paperback)

The concept of Green Exercise has now been widely adopted and implies a synergistic health benefit of being active in the presence of nature. This book provides a balanced overview and synthesis text on all aspects of Green Exercise and integrates evidence from many different disciplines including

Green roads for water - guidelines for road infrastructure in support of water management and climate resilience (World Bank)(Paperback / softback)

Practical Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: Infrastructure as a Service, Autonomous Database, Managed Kubernetes, and Serverless (Jakbczyk Michal Tomasz)(Paperback)

Icons of England (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors bring their own special touch, presenting a refreshingly eclectic variety of personal icons, from pub

Barriers to Bankable Infrastructure: Incentivizing Private Investment to Fill the Global Infrastructure Gap (Moser Helen)(Paperback)

This report discusses the estimated $1 trillion annual global infrastructure gap and provides recommendations on how U.S. agencies and multilateral development banks can better incentivize private-sector investment in global

Independent Thinking on Restorative Practice: Building Relationships, Improving Behaviour and Creating Stronger Communities (Finnis Mark)(Paperback)

In Independent Thinking on Restorative Practice: Building relationships, improving behaviour and creating stronger communities, Mark Finnis shares a practical and inspiring introduction to the use of restorative practice in educational settings. For those educators who are uncomfortable with the

Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene (Hetherington Kregg)(Paperback)

Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene explores life in the age of climate change through a series of infrastructural puzzles-sites at which it has become impossible to disentangle the natural from the built environment. With topics ranging from breakwaters built of oysters,

Social Learning Systems and Communities of Practice (Blackmore Chris)(Paperback)

Social Learning Systems and Communities of Practice is a collection of classical and contemporary writing associated with learning and systemic change in contexts ranging from cities, to rural development to education to nursing to water management to public policy. It is likely to be of interest

Ethics (Spinoza Benedict De)(Paperback)

A profoundly beautiful and uniquely insightful description of the universe, Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics is one of the masterpieces of Enlightenment-era philosophy. Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work - an elegant, fully cohesive cosmology derived

Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern (Dinshaw Carolyn)(Paperback)

In Getting Medieval Carolyn Dinshaw examines communities--dissident and orthodox--in late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth-century England to create a new sense of queer history. Reaching beyond both medieval and queer studies, Dinshaw demonstrates in this challenging work how intellectual inquiry

Inhabitable Infrastructures: Science Fiction or Urban Future? (Lim Cj)(Paperback)

Inhabitable Infrastructures: Science fiction or urban future?, the follow up to Food City and Smartcities and Eco-Warriors, from one of the world s leading urban design and architectural thinkers, explores the potential of climate changerelated multi-use infrastructures that address the

The Theory of Ecological Communities (Mpb-57) (Vellend Mark)(Paperback)

A plethora of different theories, models, and concepts make up the field of community ecology. Amid this vast body of work, is it possible to build one general theory of ecological communities? What other scientific areas might serve as a guiding framework? As it turns out, the core focus of

Sense and Nonsense about Crime, Drugs, and Communities (Walker Samuel)(Paperback)

Samuel Walker's SENSE AND NONSENSE ABOUT CRIME, DRUGS, AND COMMUNITIES was one of the first books to challenge common misconceptions about crime, and the new Eighth Edition remains uniquely effective at doing so. Described as a 'masterful critique' of American policies on everything from crime

In a Harbour Green: Essays in Honour of Benedict Kiely (O'Brien George)(Pevná vazba)

Novelist, short-story writer, critic, memoirist, broadcaster and journalist: Benedict Kiely (1919-2007) was not only one of the best known but one of the most artistically and culturally distinctive men of letters of his day. His fascination with the island of Ireland, the myths and memories of its

Sexual Outsiders: Understanding BDSM Sexualities and Communities (Ortmann David M.)(Paperback)

Sexual Outsiders: Understanding BDSM Sexualities and Communities delves into the unique experiences of individuals in BDSM communities. While misunderstandings surrounding these communities prevail, BDSM sexuality cuts across race, gender, nationality, and sexual orientation. BDSM describes forms

The Last Green Valley (Sullivan Mark)(Paperback)

'Mark Sullivan has done it again The Last Green Valley is a compelling and inspiring story of heroism and courage in the dark days at the end of World War II.' --Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling authorFrom the author of the #1 bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky comes a new historical