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The book is an analysis of Greek Hellenistic literature with the help of conceptual tools of cultural studies and media theory. Its main aim is to describe the cultural process during which Greek authors in the 4th and 3rd centuries B.C. made the "textualization of experience", that is, transferred phenomenalistically understood qualities of human sensory experience to the categories characteristic for textual description – as far as possible for them. This process is shown by examples from the works of Xenophon, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Philitas of Kos and Archimedes. The author also tries to show some of the consequences that the phenomenon of the Hellenistic textualization of experience had for the later epochs of European culture.

Bioregionalism asks us to reimagine ourselves and the places where we live in ecological terms and to harmonize human activities with the natural systems that sustain life. As one of the originators of the concept of bioregionalism, Peter Berg (1937-2011) is a founding figure of contemporary environmental thought.The Biosphere and the Bioregion: Essential Writings of Peter Berg introduces readers to the biospheric vision and post-environmental genius of Berg. From books and essays to published interviews, this selection of writings represents Berg's bioregional vision and its global, local, ur

The Handbook of Research on Writing ventures to sum up inquiry over the last few decades on what we know about writing and the many ways we know it: How do people write? How do they learn to write and develop as writers? Under what conditions and for what purposes do people write? What resources and technologies do we use to write? How did our current forms and practices of writing emerge within social history? What impacts has writing had on society and the individual? What does it mean to be and to learn to be an active participant in contemporary systems of meaning? This cornerstone volum

Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Foreword; Table of contents; Introduction: Endangered languages and languages in danger; 1. Preliminary remarks; 2. Endangerment of languages and language ecology; 3. Why are endangered languages worth saving (Or what is lost when languages die)?; 4. Causes of language endangerment and disappearance: Language shift; 5. Language policy and linguistic human rights ; 6. Assessing ethnolinguistic vitality status; 7. Responses to language endangerment; 8. Critique of the endangered-languages movement; References.

Introduction to legal research and writing -- Legal authorities and how to use them -- Court decisions -- Digests and topical classification systems -- Validating -- Secondary authority -- Constitutions and statutes -- Legislative history -- Administrative materials and looseleaf services -- Commercial databases -- Practice rules -- Ethical rules -- Practitioner's materials -- Research strategy -- Getting ready to write -- Clear writing and editing -- Writing basics -- Case briefing and analysis -- The legal memorandum -- Questions presented and conclusions or brief answers -- Facts -- The IRAC method -- Synthesizing cases and authorities -- Outlining and organizing a memorandum -- Correspondence.

Introduction-- M. Lavoie& G. Zezza PART I: EARLY VIEWS ON THE STOCK-FLOW COHERENT APPROACH Inflation Accounting of Whole Economic Systems Time, Increasing Returns and Institutions in Macroeconomics PART II: STOCK-FLOW COHERENCE AND ECONOMIC THEORY An Important Inconsistency at the Heart of the Standard Macroeconomic Model Weaving Cloth from Graziani's Thread: Endogenous Money in a Simple (But Complete) Keynesian Model Macroeconomics without Equilibrium or Disequilibrium Kaleckian Models of Growth in a Coherent Stock-Flow Monetary Framework PART III: STOCK-FLOW COHERENCE AND ECONOMIC POLICY A Simple Model of Three Economies with Two Currencies: The Eurozone and the USA Maastricht and All That Fiscal Policy in a Stock-Flow Consistent Model Seven Unsustainable Processes: Medium-Term Prospects and Policies for the United States and the World Bibliography

Kwasi Wiredu is one of Africa's foremost philosophers, whose thinking on conceptual decolonization in contemporary African systems of thought is well known. Wiredu advocates a re-examination of current African epistemic formations in order to subvert unsavoury aspects of tribal cultures embedded in modern African thought. The author of this book argues that Wiredu's schematism falls short as a viable project and suggests that because of the very hybridity of postcoloniality, projects seeking to retrieve the precolonial heritage are bound to be marred at several levels. Language itself presents a major problem which Wiredu's thesis does not fully address. Additionally, the postcolonial milieu with its welter of social disarticulations presents numerous problems of its own to Wiredu's project of conceptual decolonisation. To buttress his argument, the author draws on postcolonial theory. (DÜI-Sbd)

Intro -- Content -- Preface: The Work of Lucius Burckhardt -- Urban Planning and Democracy (1957) -- Ulm Anno 5. The Curriculum of the Ulm School of Design (1960) -- Building-A Process with No Obligations to Heritage Preservation (1967) -- On the Value and Meaning of Urban Utopias (1968) -- From Design Academicism to the Treatment of Wicked Problems (1973) -- Who Plans the Planning? (1974) -- Family and Home-Two Adaptable Systems (1975) -- Urban Design and Its Significance for Residents (1975) -- Gardening-An Art and A Necessity (1977) -- Why Is Landscape Beautiful? (1979) -- On the Design of Everyday Life (1979) -- Design Is Invisible (1980) -- Dirt (1980) -- What Is Livability? On Quantifiable and Invisible Needs (1981) -- The Night Is Man-made (1989) -- Architecture-An Art or A Science? (1983) -- A Critique of the Art of Gardening (1983) -- Fake: The Real Thing (1987) -- Aesthetics and Ecology (1990) -- A Walk in Second Nature (1992) -- The Sermon (1994) -- Strollological Observations on Perception of the Environment and the Tasks Facing Our Generation (1996) -- Wasteland As Context. Is There Any Such Thing As The Postmodern Landscape? (1998) -- On Movement and Vantage Points- the Strollologist's Experience (1999) -- Biography -- Bibliography -- Index

Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz was an extraordinary figure on the Polish political scene at the turn of the 20th century. A Marxist and patriot, academic and politician, Kelles-Krauz was most known for his efforts to reconcile the needs of the nation with international socialism. This volume, however, offers a selection of his writings centred on the history of ideas, published for the first time in English. Kelles-Krauz's works, while Marxist at heart, linked ideas stemming from the concepts of German idealists, French positivists, as well as contemporary sociologists who offered a bridge between research on individuals and the workings of social systems. Kelles-Krauz, however, repeatedly transcended Marxist tenets, focusing on the construction of traditions, social norms, and the social role of art

The most popularised concept in the economics of innovation literature has been the national system of innovation (NSI). It was in the late 1980s that the concept that Frederik List coined as the ëNational Political Economy of Productioní took off again with different thinkers writing about the peculiarities and distinctions of the Japanese, American, British, German, East Asian Tigers and other varieties of system construction. Freeman defines National System of Innovation as ëthe network of institutions in the public and private sectors whose activities and interactions initiate, import, mod

Front -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1. AN INTRODUCTION TO READING THE WORLD'S SCRIPTS -- 2. SCRIPTS AND WRITING SYSTEMS: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- 3. OPTIMAL ORTHOGRAPHIES -- 5. THE CREE SYLLABARY AND THE WRITING SYSTEM RIDDLE: A PARADIGM IN CRISIS -- 7. ORTHOGRAPHY AND READING IN KANNADA: A DRAVIDIAN LANGUAGE -- 10. SCRIPT FACTORS THAT AFFECT LITERACY: ALPHABETIC VS. LOGOGRAPHIC LANGUAGES -- 12. DIFFERENTIAL PROCESSING OF CONTENT WORDS AND FUNCTION WORDS: CHINESE CHARACTERS VS. PHONETIC SCRIPTS -- 14. ASYMMETRIES BETWEEN READING AND WRITING FOR JAPANESE CHILDREN -- 16. WRITING SYSTEMS AND ACQUISITION OF READING IN AMERICAN, CHINESE, AND JAPANESE FIRST-GRADERS -- 17. BRAHMI SCRIPTS, ORTHOGRAPHIC UNITS AND READING ACQUISITION -- 18. ORTHOGRAPHIC AND COGNITIVE PROCESSING IN LEARNING TO READ ENGLISH AND HEBREW -- 19. SCRIPT DIRECTIONALITY AFFECTS NONLINGUISTIC PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM HINDI AND URDU -- AUTHOR INDEX

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 to anyone trying to understand how to think systemically and to act and interact effectively in situations experienced as complex, messy and changing. While mainly concerned with professional praxis, where theory and practice inform each other, there is much here that can apply at a personal level. This book offers conceptual tools and suggestions for new ways of being and acting in the world in relation to each other, that arise from both old and new understandings of communities, learning and systems. Starting with twentieth century insights into social learning, learning systems and appreciative systems from Donald Schön and Sir Geoffrey Vickers, the book goes on to consider the contemporary traditions of critical social learning systems and communities of practice, pioneered by Richard Bawden and Etienne Wenger and their colleagues. A synthesis of the ideas raised, written by the editor, concludes this reader. The theory and practice of social learning systems and communities of practice appear to have much to offer in influencing and managing systemic change for a better world. Chris Blackmore is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental and Development Systems at the Open University. She develops open learning courses in systems and in environmental decision making at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her main research area, in which she has a range of publications, is in learning systems and communities of practice for environmental decision making, including issues of social learning, systems thinking, systemic change, sustainability and responsibility.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, there was a growing interest in family therapy as a potent tool for helping to bring about change and growth in many families whose lives had become stagnant, joyless or self-destructive. As it became more popular as a method of social work intervention, demands for training opportunities for professional workers increased. Despite this, however, there was very little writing on the subject produced in Britain at the time. Originally published in 1976 this practical text was aimed at the growing number of social workers who were anxious to add family ther