Envisioning The World

Author : Sandra Holtgreve
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839455294
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Envisioning the World: Mapping and Making the Global written by Sandra Holtgreve and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The »global« is permanently made and remade by how it is envisioned in political projects, in language, and in literature. Through a range of case studies, this book shows how practices of referring to the world actually constitute the global in its many facets. It aims to provide a sense in readers of how the global is not something »out there«, but that it is embedded in a wide range of the seemingly »everyday«. The contributions appeal to a readership from a background in Sociology, History, Political Science, Literary Studies, and Social Work.

Author : Michael Carroll
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588346919
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Envisioning Exoplanets written by Michael Carroll and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come along for the captivating hunt for planets like our own Envisioning Exoplanets traces the journey of astronomers and researchers on their quest to explore the universe for a planet like Earth. Exoplanets--worlds beyond our solar system--were once dismissed as science fiction. But now, with more than 4,000 confirmed exoplanets, countless possibilities exist for what remains to be uncovered in the universe. This book follows the exhilarating progression of exoplanet research from its earliest stages operating on the fringes of scientific research to the newest developments of renowned agencies around the world searching for planets capable of hosting life. Featuring provocative questions about the universe and more than 200 remarkable illustrations from Michael Caroll, Ron Miller, and other key members of the International Association of Astronomical Artists, Envisioning Exoplanets is an intergalactic visual voyage.

Author : Pamela McVay
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 13 : 9780073534657
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Envisioning Women in World History: 1500-Present written by Pamela McVay and published by McGraw-Hill Education. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of McGraw-Hill's Explorations in World History series, this brief and accessible volume examines the evolving roles of women in modern history, how major world historical processes changed women's lives, and how women in turn influenced history. Within the distinct time period covered in each of chapters, the authors explores a variety of issues impacting the everyday lives of ordinary women, including life-cycle, sexuality, education, class, politics, and economics. The book's brevity makes it an excellent companion text for students in world history, women’s history, introductory sociology and anthropology courses, and women’s studies courses.

Author : Sandra Halperin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135927979
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Re-Envisioning Global Development written by Sandra Halperin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-Envisioning Global Development offers an original conceptualisation of capitalist development from its origins to the present day. Most approaches to understanding contemporary development assume that industrial capitalism was achieved through a process of nationally organised economic growth, and that in recent years its organisation has become increasingly trans-local or global. However, Halperin shows that nationally organised economic growth has rarely been the case – it has only recently come to characterise a few countries and for only a few decades. This innovative text elaborates an alternative ontology and way of thinking about global development during the last two centuries – one linked, not to nations and regions, but to a set of essentially trans-national relations and connections. It argues that capitalist development has, everywhere and from the start, involved—not whole nations or societies–but only sectors or geographical areas within states. By bringing this aspect of historically ‘normal’ capitalist development into clearer focus, the book clarifies the specific conditions and circumstances that enabled European economies to pursue a more broad-based development following World War II, and what prevented a similar outcome in the contemporary ‘third world’. It also clarifies the nature, spatial extent, and circumstances of current globalising trends. Wide-ranging and provocative, this book is required reading for advanced level students and scholars in development studies, development economics and political science.

Author : Astrid Böger
Publisher : Campus Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783593387901
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Envisioning the Nation written by Astrid Böger and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Although designed to showcase world cultures in peaceful competition and cooperation, the world expositions of the 19th and early 20th centuries also promoted American nationalism and exceptionalism, recasting world history from an American point of view" résumé de l'éditeur.

Author : Lester W. Milbrath
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438413084
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Envisioning a Sustainable Society written by Lester W. Milbrath and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1989-11-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evidence is increasingly persuasive. We are changing the way our planet's physical systems work—irrevocably. These changes are global and interconnected and unavoidable. They are upon us already, making it virtually impossible for any modern society to continue its present trajectory of growth. This book provides a penetrating analysis of how we have come to this point, of why science and technology will fail to solve these problems, and of how we as a society must change in order to avoid ecological catastrophe. The scope is broad, the urgency of the message is impossible to ignore.

Author : Noel B. Salazar
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845456610
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Envisioning Eden written by Noel B. Salazar and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As tourism service standards become more homogeneous, travel destinations worldwide are conforming yet still trying to maintain, or even increase, their distinctiveness. Based on more than two years of fieldwork in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and Arusha, Tanzania, this book offers an in-depth investigation of the local-to-global dynamics of contemporary tourism. Each destination offers examples that illustrate how tour guide narratives and practices are informed by widely circulating imaginaries of the past as well as personal imaginings of the future.

Author : Karlson Preuß
Publisher : Transcript Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783837655292
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Envisioning the World written by Karlson Preuß and published by Transcript Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "global" is permanently made and remade by how it is envisioned in political projects, in language, and in literature. Through a range of case studies, this book shows how practices of referring to the world actually constitute the global in its many facets. It aims to provide a sense in readers of how the global is not something"out there", but that it is embedded in a wide range of the seemingly "everyday". The contributions appeal to a readership from a background in Sociology, History, Political Science, Literary Studies, and Social Work.

Author : Donella Hager Meadows
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780930031626
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Limits written by Donella Hager Meadows and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Costanza
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814546909
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating A Sustainable And Desirable Future: Insights From 45 Global Thought Leaders written by Robert Costanza and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major challenge for the current generation of mankind is to develop a shared vision of a future that is both desirable to the vast majority of humanity and ecologically sustainable. Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future offers a broad, critical discussion on what such a future should or can be, with global perspectives written by some of the world's leading thinkers, including: Wendell Berry, Van Jones, Frances Moore Lappe, Peggy Liu, Hunter Lovins, Gus Speth, Bill McKibben, and many more.