Average customer rating:
- Great Gift Book For Flower Growers/Poets/Photographers/children of all ages
- beauty and vibrancy
- Flower Power
|
Fleurish
Veronica D'Orazio
Manufacturer: Sasquatch Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
 Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions
| Photography
| Arts & Photography
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Photography
| Arts & Photography
| Subjects
| Books
Nature & Wildlife
| Photography
| Arts & Photography
| Subjects
| Books
Photo Essays
| Photography
| Arts & Photography
| Subjects
| Books
General
| How-to
| Photography
| Arts & Photography
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Flowers
| Gardening & Horticulture
| Home & Garden
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Gardening & Horticulture
| Home & Garden
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 1570614385 |
Book Description
Garden photographer Ilona brings a fresh, artful approach to capturing flowers on film with an up-close perspective that transforms even the most common blooms into stunning beauties. Vibrant photographs show off 150 different flowers, organized to reveal the complete circle of nature's palette — white to pink to red to orange to yellow — all the way around to deeply vivid hues of blue. An appendix with thumbnail images offers horticultural notes for gardeners.
Customer Reviews:
Great Gift Book For Flower Growers/Poets/Photographers/children of all ages.......2006-11-05
Combining the artistic photos of Ilota and the beauty of poetry by Veronica made a rich experience for me and all the people whom I have shared the book. A two and a half year old picked this book up from the coffee table and flipped through every page very deliberately! My friends who are painters and garden enthusiasts and writers all have liked the book very much and inquired where I found it. Amazon.com! Having enjoyed a vacation in Idaho introduced me to Ilona at her website [...].What a talented insightful perspective, Ilona! Share this beautiful book with people on your list to inspire.
beauty and vibrancy.......2006-08-04
Beautiful, colorful, vibrant close-ups of flowers. A woman's book for certain.
Flower Power.......2005-03-19
Immerse yourself in Fleurish and you will never again casually dismiss the marigolds bobbing like pompoms on your deck or the hydrangea hiding out in the shady corner of your yard. Fleurish combines stunning photography by Ilona with evocative text by Veronica D'Orazio. The mix is sensual and playful - escape at its best. Ilona's achingly beautiful close-up photos of gardenia, calla lily, daffodil, sunflower, poppy, hibiscus, rose, orchid, clematis, delphinium (and more) march you through the color spectrum from white to amethyst with every variation in between. Veronica's prose accompanies with poetic precision, covert and overt sensuality, and a message or two about the parallels between the flora and the human of the species. This is a book for poets, romantics, artists, nature lovers, and, of course, gardeners.
Book Description
Urban parks such as New York City's Central Park provide vital public spaces where city dwellers of all races and classes can mingle safely while enjoying a variety of recreations. By coming together in these relaxed settings, different groups become comfortable with each other, thereby strengthening their communities and the democratic fabric of society. But just the opposite happens when, by design or in ignorance, parks are made inhospitable to certain groups of people.
This pathfinding book argues that cultural diversity should be a key goal in designing and maintaining urban parks. Using case studies of New York City's Prospect Park, Orchard Beach in Pelham Bay Park, and Jacob Riis Park in the Gateway National Recreation Area, as well as New York's Ellis Island Bridge Proposal and Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park, the authors identify specific ways to promote, maintain, and manage cultural diversity in urban parks. They also uncover the factors that can limit park use, including historical interpretive materials that ignore the contributions of different ethnic groups, high entrance or access fees, park usage rules that restrict ethnic activities, and park "restorations" that focus only on historical or aesthetic values. With the wealth of data in this book, urban planners, park professionals, and all concerned citizens will have the tools to create and maintain public parks that serve the needs and interests of all the public.
Customer Reviews:
Cultural diversity in urban park planning.......2006-03-19
Urban parks provide important public spaces which invite different groups to meet and relax, strengthening community interactions - but at times parks become inhospitable to different groups. Cultural diversity should be the key goal in designing urban parks, the authors maintain: RETHINKING URBAN PARKS: PUBLIC SPACE AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY uses case studies of selected New York and Philadelphia parks to identify common problems and how parks may be used to manage cultural diversity. Chapters survey limiting factors to park use, ethnic activities, and restoration project goals. College-level students of urban planning and public space access will find this essential to understanding how cultural needs interact with urban park design and use.
Book Description
The basic premise of this book is simple--it brings together early childhood and cultural studies professionals who are willing to provide a kaleidoscope of views capable of challenging the sanctity of the early childhood western lens. Marianne Block, Hedy Chang, Amos Hatch, Henry Giroux, Jan Jipson, Joe Kincheloe, Shirley Kessler, Sally Lubeck, Shirley Steinberg, Beth Blue Swadener, Nila Rinehardt, and Lourdes Diaz Soto call for a move toward the critical, toward the multicultural, toward the dialogic, toward the feminist, toward the personal, with the others, with the silenced, and in solidarity with multiple players.
Average customer rating:
|
Carrots, Sticks, and Ethnic Conflict: Rethinking Development Assistance
Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
Policy & Current Events
| Popular Economics
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Development & Growth
| Economics
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Economic Policy & Development
| Economics
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Small Business & Entrepreneurship
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Politics
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Relations
| International
| Politics
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Anthropology
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Political Science
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Federal Government
| Levels of Government
| Political Science
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0472089277 |
Book Description
Development assistance employs carrots and sticks to influence regimes and obtain particular outcomes: altered economic policies, democratization, relief of suffering from catastrophes. Wealthy nations and international agencies such as the World Bank justify development assistance on grounds of improving the global human condition. Over the last forty years, however, ethnic conflict has increased dramatically. Where does ethnic conflict fit within this set of objectives? How do the resources, policy advice, and conditions attached to aid affect ethnic conflict in countries in which donors intervene? How can assistance be deployed in ways that might moderate rather than aggravate ethnic tensions?
These issues are addressed comparatively by area specialists and participant-observers from development assistance organizations. This book is the first systematic effort to evaluate this dimension of international affairs--and to propose remedies. Case studies include Russia, Ecuador, Sri Lanka, and Kenya, with references to many other national experiences.
Cross-cutting chapters consider evolution of USAID and the World Bank's policies on displacement of people by development projects, as well as how carrots and sticks may affect ethnic dynamics, but through different mechanisms and to varying degrees depending on political dynamics and regime behaviors. They show that projects may also exacerbate ethnic conflict by reinforcing territoriality and exposing seemingly unfair allocative principles that exclude or harm some while benefiting others.
For students of international political economy, development studies, comparative politics, and ethnic conflict, this book illuminates a problem area that has long been overlooked in international affairs literature. It is essential reading for staff members and policymakers in development assistance agencies and international financial institutions.
Milton J. Esman is the John S. Knight Professor of International Studies, Emeritus, and Professor of Government, Emeritus, at Cornell University.
Ronald J. Herring is Director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell, the John S. Knight Professor of International Relations, and Professor of Government at Cornell University.
Book Description
Martin Khor's practical proposals offer action agendas to Third World governments as they are faced with globalization. Khor explains the economic globalization process, showing how it is failing to either increase economic growth or decrease poverty. A critique of Western governments for their domination of the international policy process ensues, where Khor exposes the flaws in the "one size fits all" policy prescriptions of the World Bank, IMF, and WTO. Arguing that Third World countries need room to maneuver, this book proposes innovative and realistic policies.
Customer Reviews:
Available in Canada from Fernwood Publishing for $19.95.......2003-11-27
Read it, learn it. The impact is too large to ignore, and Khor offers an authoritative interpretation of the impacts of globalisation. (Khor also writes for UNDP and UNCTAD at request, and works extensively with the third world network and the North South institute). He knows his stuff.
Average customer rating:
|
Rethinking Indian Political Institutions (Anthem South Asian Studies)
Manufacturer: Anthem Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
India
| Asia
| History
| Subjects
| Books
| Ancient
General
| World
| History
| Subjects
| Books
Political Parties
| Politics
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Globalization
| Politics
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
International Security
| Freedom & Security
| Politics
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Political Science
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 1843310805 |
Customer Reviews:
Book Summary.......2006-09-21
Modern India is emerging as a global power within which the Indian state plays a critical role in delivering economic development and maintaining the integrity and unity of society. By drawing upon informed essays from scholars and researchers engaged in the field, this volume provides critical, empirical and conceptual insights into state-society relationships over issues as diverse as cable TV networks, urban planning, garbage collection, economic liberalization, coalition politics, provincial political rhetoric, individual rights and political participation, and the management of village and municipal councils.
In an era dominated by news of state failures in many Asian and African countries, the political institutions of the Indian state present an unusual combination of flexibility and stability. Within a democratic system, they enable the state to absorb and respond to popular pressures while winning public support for radical solutions to pressing social problems. Stretching from the centre down to the village, these institutions form a labyrinthine structure, occasionally harmonious but often the arena of intense economic, social and political conflict, the outcome of which will prove vital for India?s hopes of future growth and development.
This book is an invaluable reading for students across the disciplines of history, sociology, politics and government, as well as to development practitioners, policy makers, and readers keen to learn more about recent innovations in the theory and practice of governance in India.
Contributors:
Dr Bharat Dahiya: completed his Ph.D. on Self-help civil society, political conflicts and environmental services in Chennai, India, at Cambridge University and is currently working in the Urban Development Unit of the World Bank; Dr Evelin Hust is the representative of the South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg in New Delhi; Dr Sumi Madhok is Mellon Research Fellow, Department of Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; Dr Jos Mooij is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Social Studies, the Hague; Dr Veena Naregal , is Sir Ratan Fellow, Institute for Economic Growth, New Delhi; Bhavana Padiyath is a journalist and researcher, who has served as a correspondent for two of India's leading English dailies, the Times of India and the Indian Express; Dr Pamela Price is Professor of South Asian history at the University of Oslo; Dr Sanjay Ruparelia completed his Ph.D. at Cambridge University and is now a member of the Political Science department at the New School University, New York; Dr. Crispin Bates is senior lectuer in modern South Asian History and Director of the Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh; Dr Subho Basu is presently an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University.
Average customer rating:
|
From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture
Helena Norberg-Hodge ,
Peter Goering , and
John Page
Manufacturer: Zed Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
General
| Popular Economics
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Sustainable Development
| Economics
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Natural Resources
| Economics
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Hospitality, Travel & Tourism
| Industries & Professions
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Politics
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Environmental Science
| Earth Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Agricultural Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Agricultural Sciences
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
Environmental Science
| Earth Sciences
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Arts & Photography
| Subjects
| Books
Similar Items:
-
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
-
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
ASIN: 1856499936 |
Book Description
Modern industrial agriculture is in crisis. In our obsession with 'efficiency' and short-term profit, we are losing all real connection with the natural world. As a result, the dream of global abundance promised by the introduction of chemical fertilisers, pesticides and hybrid seeds is becoming a nightmare of health risks, degraded land and ailing communities. The way we produce our food is destructive and quite simply unsustainable.
From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture sets the decline of agriculture within the broader context of industrialisation as a whole, and explores some of the fundamental principles which underlie the 'growth-at-any-cost' thinking of modern society. At the same time, it documents the growing public distrust of conventional agricultural practices, and highlights some of the most promising alternatives leading to more sane, environmentally healthy ways of producing food.
This book is a valuable reference for those concerned with the future of agriculture - in the industrialised countries as well as in the South, where agricultural development continues to be modelled on the industrial ideal.
Book Description
This important new collection tackles the failure of neoliberal reform to generate long-term growth and reduce poverty in many developing and transition economies.
As dramatically demonstrated in the collapse of the WTO's Seattle talks, there is increasing dissatisfaction, in both developing and developed countries, with the emerging neoliberal global economic order. The resignations of Joseph Stiglitz and Ravi Kanbur from the World Bank emphasize that this disillusionment with the orthodoxy now exists at the very heart of the establishment.
Yet the increasing demand for an alternative to this orthodoxy is not being met. Over the last few decades, the older generation of development economists have been edged out of most major universities, particularly in the USA. The situation in most developing countries is even worse: although there is more demand for alternatives to orthodox development economics, these countries have even less capability to generate such alternatives.
"Rethinking Development Economics" is intended to fill this gap. It addresses key issues in development economics, ranging from macroeconomics, finance and governance to trade, industry, agriculture and poverty. Bringing together some of the foremost names in the field, this comprehensive and timely collection constitutes a critical staging-post in the future of development economics.
Customer Reviews:
A Graduate Student.......2006-08-06
This book has revolutionized my understanding of economics of development in the sense that it provides irrefutable evidence against the neoliberal economics, the dominant economic doctrine of the 90s, and proposes sound alternatives to overcome the current development crises in developing countries. It is a must for anyone interested in development economics who wants to look beyond the orthodox theories and grasps the failure of neoliberal reforms that are sometimes based on faulty economic logic intended to fit populist demands.
Average customer rating:
- Well meaning but smug book
|
Except-Africa: Remaking Development, Rethinking Power
Emery Roe
Manufacturer: Transaction Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
Policy & Current Events
| Popular Economics
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Popular Economics
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Development & Growth
| Economics
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Economic Policy & Development
| Economics
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Politics
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
History
| Sociology
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Communities
| Sociology
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Urban Planning & Development
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
African Studies
| Africa
| History
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 1560003995 |
Customer Reviews:
Well meaning but smug book.......2006-05-01
The point of this book seems that the reason Africa doesn't develop is because people, particularly planners/managers don't have the right kind of narratives (that is, stories)about Africa. With the guidance of Professor Roe, you will learn to believe in and tell other stories, which hopefully will guide theory and practice to participatory development. Let us hope so. The author tells us modestly that chapter 4 (about a British consultant in Africa named Leach) is "the finest piece I have written." So, there it is, if you want his finest, this is a good reason to buy the book. The authors says that this is not only his first book on Africa, but his last. His message is presumably too powerful, and the taint of expatriate expertise too negative, for a repeat performance. If one can get past the author's self-serving smugness, as well as the book's repetitiveness, there is actually something of value here.
Average customer rating:
|
Rethinking The Third World: Contributions Towards A New Conceptualization
Rosemary Galli
Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
Economic Policy & Development
| Economics
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Politics
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Cultural
| Anthropology
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Political Science
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
All Titles
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
Business & Investing
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
Nonfiction
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
ASIN: 0844817120 |
Book Description
Was it mere chance that the most successful economies of the second half of the twentieth century were all found in East and Southeast Asia, a region of world consumed by confrontation and conflict? In this important contribution to understanding both the Asian economic miracle and the 1997-8 crisis, Richard Stubbs provides a systematic assessment of the main explanations to date,nbsp;offering his own original analysis which emphasizes the role played by the Cold War and the general geopolitical context.
Books:
- Flora: A Gardener's Encyclopedia
- FOCKE WULF FW 190: From 1940 - 1945 (Planes and Pilots S.)
- Gardening with Clematis: Design and Cultivation
- Graphic Design Solutions, Third Edition
- Great American Quilts/Book 2 (Great American Quilts)
- Growing Orchids in Your Garden
- Hartmann's Plant Science: Growth, Development, and Utilization of Cultivated Plants (4th Edition)
- Hear Me Roar: Women, Motorcycles and the Rapture of the Road, New Ed.
- Helen Philipps' Cross Stitch Garden Notebook: With Ideas for Using Charms and Buttons to Enhance Your Cross Stitch Embroidery
- Holidays at Home (Gooseberry Patch)
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- How to Read Lacan
- All New Square Foot Gardening
- The Stories of J.F. Powers
- The World War II Bookshelf: 50 Must-Read Books: Fifty Must-Read Books
- Weird Ideas That Work: 11 1/2 Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation
- Atom-Photon Interactions: Basic Processes and Applications
- A Dictionary of Ecology
- Bad Boy Ballmer: The Man Who Rules Microsoft
- Ten Steps to a Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation System: A Handbook for Development Practition
- The World Trade Organization in the New Global Economy: Trade and Investment Issues in the New Mille
