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31 produkter
Children, Place and Sustainability
Av Margaret Somerville, Monica Green
Inbunden, 2015
552 kr
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Through focusing on children's sustainability learning this book examines how school education can address the current environmental problems. It explores children's responses in literacy and language, arts-based approaches, and indigenous studies as well as scientific pedagogies to provide a …
Riverlands of the Anthropocene
Walking Our Waterways as Places of Becoming
Häftad, 2021
715 kr
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This is an invitation to readers to ponder universal questions about human relations with rivers and water for the precarious times of the Anthropocene. The book asks how humans can learn through sensory embodied encounters with local waterways that shape the architecture of cities and make global …
Water in a Dry Land
Place-Learning Through Art and Story
Inbunden, 2013
2749 kr
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Water in a Dry Land is a story of research about water as a source of personal and cultural meaning. The site of this exploration is the iconic river system which forms the networks of natural and human landscapes of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. In the current geological era of human …
Water in a Dry Land
Place-Learning Through Art and Story
Häftad, 2013
620 kr
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Water in a Dry Land is a story of research about water as a source of personal and cultural meaning. The site of this exploration is the iconic river system which forms the networks of natural and human landscapes of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. In the current geological era of human …
Do We Care?
Renewing Canada''s Commitment to Health
E-bok, 1999
837 kr
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One of Canada''s preeminent social thinkers, John Ralston Saul, begins the book with a harsh reminder that public policy can be successful only when driven by the humanistic principles which fueled its formulation. Once saving money becomes a goal in itself, rather than "something we do on the …
Death Talk
The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
E-bok, 2001
328 kr
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There are vast ethical, legal, and social differences between natural death and euthanasia. In Death Talk Margaret Somerville argues that legalizing euthanasia would cause irreparable harm to society''s value of respect for human life, which in secular societies is carried primarily by the …
Ethical Canary
Science, Society, and the Human Spirit
E-bok, 2004
257 kr
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Every day we hear news about medical or scientific breakthroughs and the complex ethical issues they raise. Feats that were never before possible, including cloning, genetically modifying food, mapping human chromosomes, and using animal organs for human transplants, have opened up a Pandora''s box …
Death Talk, Second Edition
The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
E-bok, 2014
271 kr
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Death Talk asks why, when our society has rejected euthanasia for over two thousand years, are we now considering legalizing it? Has euthanasia been promoted by deliberately confusing it with other ethically acceptable acts? What is the relation between pain relief treatments that could shorten …
Death Talk, Second Edition
The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
E-bok, 2014
271 kr
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Death Talk asks why, when our society has rejected euthanasia for over two thousand years, are we now considering legalizing it? Has euthanasia been promoted by deliberately confusing it with other ethically acceptable acts? What is the relation between pain relief treatments that could shorten …
Bird on an Ethics Wire
Battles about Values in the Culture Wars
E-bok, 2015
265 kr
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Our physical ecosystem is not indestructible and we have obligations to hold it in trust for future generations. The same is true of our metaphysical ecosystem - the values, principles, attitudes, beliefs, and shared stories on which we have founded our society. In Bird on an Ethics Wire, Margaret …
Bird on an Ethics Wire
Battles about Values in the Culture Wars
E-bok, 2015
271 kr
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Our physical ecosystem is not indestructible and we have obligations to hold it in trust for future generations. The same is true of our metaphysical ecosystem - the values, principles, attitudes, beliefs, and shared stories on which we have founded our society. In Bird on an Ethics Wire, Margaret …
Riverlands of the Anthropocene
Walking Our Waterways as Places of Becoming
Inbunden, 2020
2516 kr
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This is an invitation to readers to ponder universal questions about human relations with rivers and water for the precarious times of the Anthropocene. The book asks how humans can learn through sensory embodied encounters with local waterways that shape the architecture of cities and make global …
Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance
Av Margaret Somerville, Rob Anderson m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
501 kr
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This brand new title in the market-leading at a Glance series provides a highly-illustrated, visual introduction to the key concepts of population-level disease prevention. Accessible, double-page spreads help you understand and appreciate the determinants of health which impact on healthcare …
Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance
Av Rob Anderson, K. Kumaran m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
512 kr
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This brand new title in the market-leading at a Glance series provides a highly-illustrated, visual introduction to the key concepts of population-level disease prevention. Accessible, double-page spreads help you understand and appreciate the determinants of health which impact on healthcare …
Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance
Av Margaret Somerville, K. Kumaran m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
497 kr
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First Prize in Public health in the 2017 BMA Medical Book AwardsPublic Health and Epidemiology at a Glance is a highly visual introduction to the key concepts and major themes of population health. With comprehensive coverage of all the core topics covered at medical school, it helps students …
Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance
Av Rob Anderson, K. Kumaran m. fl.
E-bok, 2016
558 kr
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First Prize in Public health in the 2017 BMA Medical Book Awards Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance is a highly visual introduction to the key concepts and major themes of population health. With comprehensive coverage of all the core topics covered at medical school, it helps students …
Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance
Av Rob Anderson, K. Kumaran m. fl.
E-bok, 2016
570 kr
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First Prize in Public health in the 2017 BMA Medical Book Awards Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance is a highly visual introduction to the key concepts and major themes of population health. With comprehensive coverage of all the core topics covered at medical school, it helps students …
Water in a Dry Land
Place-Learning Through Art and Story
E-bok, 2013
712 kr
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Water in a Dry Land is a story of research about water as a source of personal and cultural meaning. The site of this exploration is the iconic river system which forms the networks of natural and human landscapes of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. In the current geological era of human …
Water in a Dry Land
Place-Learning Through Art and Story
E-bok, 2013
712 kr
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Water in a Dry Land is a story of research about water as a source of personal and cultural meaning. The site of this exploration is the iconic river system which forms the networks of natural and human landscapes of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. In the current geological era of human …
Children, Place and Sustainability
Av Monica Green, Margaret Somerville
E-bok, 2016
757 kr
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Through focusing on children''s sustainability learning this book examines how school education can address the current environmental problems. It explores children''s responses in literacy and language, arts-based approaches, and indigenous studies as well as scientific pedagogies to provide a …
Riverlands of the Anthropocene
Walking Our Waterways as Places of Becoming
E-bok, 2020
790 kr
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This is an invitation to readers to ponder universal questions about human relations with rivers and water for the precarious times of the Anthropocene. The book asks how humans can learn through sensory embodied encounters with local waterways that shape the architecture of cities and make global …
Riverlands of the Anthropocene
Walking Our Waterways as Places of Becoming
E-bok, 2020
814 kr
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This is an invitation to readers to ponder universal questions about human relations with rivers and water for the precarious times of the Anthropocene. The book asks how humans can learn through sensory embodied encounters with local waterways that shape the architecture of cities and make global …
Work, Subjectivity and Learning
Understanding Learning through Working Life
Av Stephen Billett, Tara Fenwick m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1064 kr
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In recent year, efforts to understand learning for and throughout working life have moved away from a focus on workplace training to concerns about learning as a component and outcome of engaging in work and work-related activities and interactions. This shift acknowledges a broader set of …
Work, Subjectivity and Learning
Understanding Learning through Working Life
Av Margaret Somerville, Tara Fenwick m. fl.
E-bok, 2007
1418 kr
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In recent year, efforts to understand learning for and throughout working life have moved away from a focus on workplace training to concerns about learning as a component and outcome of engaging in work and work-related activities and interactions. This shift acknowledges a broader set of …
When Prayer Doesn't Work
Reimagining our understanding and expectations of prayer
Häftad, 2025
166 kr
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What if prayer is not about having the right words, but about noticing the sacred in washing dishes, the rhythm of breath, or the quiet sharing of tea with a friend?Margaret Somerville invites us to rediscover prayer as a way of living, not a formula to get right. With wisdom drawn from her Celtic …
Body/Landscape Journals
Häftad, 1999
202 kr
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Reading 'Body/Landscape Journals' is like falling through a fault-line, as we respond to poesis, both as poetry and as thought creation. From Pine Gap Women's Peace Camp and interactions with women across Australia, Margaret Somerville conjures up the landscape inhabited by both Indigenous and …
Work, Subjectivity and Learning
Understanding Learning through Working Life
Av Stephen Billett, Tara Fenwick m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
1064 kr
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In recent year, efforts to understand learning for and throughout working life have moved away from a focus on workplace training to concerns about learning as a component and outcome of engaging in work and work-related activities and interactions. This shift acknowledges a broader set of …
Ethical Canary
Science, Society, and the Human Spirit
Häftad, 2004
287 kr
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Demonstrates that society must set ethically acceptable limits on scientific advances
Ethical Imagination
Journeys of the Human Spirit
Häftad, 2008
245 kr
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Renowned ethicist Margaret Somerville tackles some of the most contentious issues of our time and proposes a brilliant new kind of ethical language and thought to help us deal with them. Somerville asks: What does it mean to be human today, when mind-altering scientific breakthroughs are …
