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Tropical Deforestation(1996)Focusses on the humans who regularly inhabit severely damaged forest areas, offering a variety of opinions rather than purely the negative effects of the locals who "slash and burn" the forests. This book touches on themes of biological and forest ecologyVezava: Mehka61,40 € -
Spatial Optimization for Managed Ecosystems(1998) HOF, JOHN,BEVERS, MICHAELThis book presents ideas and methods for directly optimizing the spatial layout of the landscape features in which an ecosystem functions. There is rich discussion of wildlife habitat issues as well as chapters on recreation, timber management, water runoVezava: Trda172,27 €
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Eco-Wars(1999) LIBBY, RONALD T.Can single-issue interest groups win the wars they wage in the political arena against big business in America? The author examines how these social interest groups confront powerful industries and asserts that viable strategies are available to those whoVezava: Trda155,73 €
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Global Construction of Gender(1999) PRUGL, ELISABETHExplores the debates and rhetoric surrounding home-based workers that have taken place in global movements and multilateral organizations since the early 1900s. This title describes the rules that have separated home and work and, in the process, createdVezava: Trda130,92 €
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Indians, Markets, and Rainforests(2001) GODOY, RICARDOGodoy investigates five lowland Amerindian societies of tropical Latin America-all of which are experiencing deep changes as they modernize-to discover the results of a market economy on both indigenous peoples and the conservation of tropical rainforestVezava: Trda155,73 €
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Water from Heaven(2003) KANDEL, ROBERTCovering a vast array of scientific fields and recent discoveries, this book tracks a remarkable substance in its liquid, solid, and gaseous states as it cycles through the seas, the atmosphere, land, icecaps and under the earth. Robert Kandel describes wVezava: Trda121,28 €
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Globalizing the Streets(2008)From Rio de Janeiro to London, Medellin to Moscow and New York City, organized street youth share the common distinction of being the children of the recently arrived and established poor, the product of a surplus working class, and minorities. This workVezava: Trda137,81 €
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Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction(2005) DICKSON-CARR, DARRYLFrom Ishmael Reed and Toni Morrison to Colson Whitehead and Terry McMillan, this is a guide to contemporary African American literature. It presents information about the major authors, texts, movements, and ideas that have shaped contemporary African AmeVezava: Trda110,25 €
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Columbia Guide to Asian American Literature Since 1945(2006) HUANG, GUIYOU (KENNEDY HALL 209)Presenting an historical overview of major developments, this is a comprehensive A-to-Z guide to major Asian American writers and their works. It covers Canadian and US writers with cultural and ethnic origins in East Asia, South Asia, and the Pacific IslVezava: Trda101,15 €
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Trauma Transformed(2007)Offers approaches necessary for successful and empowering interventions across the trauma spectrum. This book provides insight into the psychological and spiritual resources practitioners need to help victims move forward and improve upon their circumstanVezava: Trda155,73 €
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Ecosystem Approach(2008) WALTNER-TOEWS, DAVID (UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH),KAY, JAMES (DECEASED),LISTER, NINA-MARIE (RYERSON POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY)Vezava: Trda172,27 €
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Poetry and Animals(2018) OERLEMANS, ONNOOnno Oerlemans explores a broad range of English-language poetry about animals from the Middle Ages to the contemporary world. Through careful readings of dozens of poems, Oerlemans demonstrates how poetry can sensitize us to the moral standing of animalsVezava: Trda81,81 €
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Keeping Out the Other(2008)America's reputation for open immigration has always been accompanied by a desire to remove or discourage the migration of "undesirables." But restrictions placed on immigrants, along with an increase in detentions and deportations, point to a more worryiVezava: Trda137,81 €
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Struggle for Sustainability in Rural China(2009) TILT, BRYAN (OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY)Vezava: Trda137,81 €
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New Strategies for Social Innovation(2014) ANDERSON, STEVEN GThis book is the first to assess emerging market-based social change approaches comparatively, focusing specifically on social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, fair trade, and private sustainable developmentVezava: Trda150,22 €
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Everyone Dies Young(2016) AUGE, MARCWith an ethnologist's understanding of construct and practice, Marc Auge proves age is unrelated to the development of consciousness, desire, and representations of the self. In bold, eye-opening strokes, he isolates age as a physical marker and casts oneVezava: Mehka24,22 €
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Assessing Empathy(2017) SEGAL, ELIZABETH,GERDES, KAREN,LIETZ, CYNTHIA,WAGAMAN, M. ALEX,GEIGER, JENNIFERIn Assessing Empathy, Elizabeth A. Segal and colleagues marshal years of research to present a comprehensive definition of empathy, one that links neuroscientific evidence to human service practiceVezava: Trda121,28 €
