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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2008The culture of toleration in diverse societies
Reasonable tolerance
by Catriona McKinnon, Dario Castiglione
The idea of toleration as the appropriate response to difference has been central to liberal thought since Locke. Although the subject has been widely and variously explored, there has been reluctance to acknowledge the new meaning that current debates on toleration have when compared with those at its origins in the early modern period and with subsequent discussions about pluralism and freedom of expression. This collection starts from a clear recognition of the new terms of the debate. It recognises that a new academic consensus is slowly emerging on a view of tolerance that is reasonable in two senses. Firstly of reflecting the capacity of seeing the other's viewpoint, secondly on the relatively limited extent to which toleration can be granted. It reflects the cross-thematic and cross-disciplinary nature of such discussions, dissecting a number of debates such as liberalism and communitarianism, public and private, multiculturalism and the politics of identity, and a number of disciplines: moral, legal and political philosophy, historical and educational studies, anthropology, sociology and psychology. A group of distinguished authors explore the complexities emerging from the new debate. They scrutinise, with analytical sophistication, the philosophical foundation, the normative content and the broadly political implications of a new culture of toleration for diverse societies. Specific issues considered include the toleration of religious discrimination in employment, city life and community, social ethos, publicity, justice and reason and ethics. The book is unique in resolutely looking forward to the theoretical and practical challenges posed by commitment to a conception of toleration demanding empathy and understanding in an ever-diversifying world. ;
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Clinical psychologyCultural and Ethnic Diversity
How European Psychologists Can Meet the Challenges
by Alexander Thomas
Culture and diversity are both challenge and opportunity. This volume looks at what psychologists are and can be doing to help society meet the challenges and grasp the opportunities in education, at work, and in clinical practice. The increasingly international and globalized nature of modern societies means that psychologists in particular face new challenges and have new opportunities in all areas of practice and research. The contributions from leading European experts cover relevant intercultural issues and topics in areas as diverse as personality, education and training, work and organizational psychology, clinical and counselling psychology, migration and international youth exchanges. As well as looking at the new challenges and opportunities that psychologists face in dealing with people from increasingly varied cultural backgrounds, perhaps more importantly they also explain and discuss how psychologists can deepen and acquire the intercultural competencies that are now needed in our professional lives. Target Group: psychotherapists / clinical psychologists / mental health professionals
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Humanities & Social SciencesAffirmative Counseling for Transgender and Gender Diverse Clients
by lore m. dickey, Jae A. Puckett
A how-to guide to affirmative counseling with transgender clients• Presents the best evidence-basedcare• Instructions for strategies to improveinclusivity• Illustrated with case studies• Printable tools for clinical use This volume provides fundamental and evidence-based information on working with transgender and gender diverse people in mental health services. The authors, who are experts in the field, outline the key qualities of affirming mental health services, as well as explore strategies for improving inclusivity and what evidence-based care with trans clients looks like. They also provide insight into current topics, such as working with youth, the harmful and ill-advised approach known as rapid onset gender dysphoria, and whether and how autism is a co-occurring diagnostic concern. Practitioners will find the printable resources provided invaluable for their clinical practice, including sample letters of support for trans clients who are seeking gender affirming medical care. For:• clinical psychologists• psychiatrists• psychotherapists• family practitioners• counselors• students
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Literature & Literary Studies2005Window that Flies
by Vasyl Holoborodko
The first and the most diverse edition of the selected works of the famous poet, laureate of the Shevchenko National Literary Prize of Ukraine collected under the title “The Window that Flies”. It includes all the best that was written by the author on the eve of his sixtieth birthday. The ancient world of native mythology and fairy tales comes to life in the work of the most prominent post-sixties poet Vasyl Holoborodko. Probably, this search for something nationally specific, which stretched on for years continues to this day.
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Children's & YAApril 2024Smart Pickings
2nd Edition
by Lynne Bianchi
Smart Pickings (2nd Edition) further engages young readers with the world of science. It promotes talk between children, their classmates, teachers, parents, family and friends. The book introduces a range of diverse and inspirational scientists who have or are making a difference through their innovations and research. A book to encouraging us all to wonder, ask questions and ask 'Who are they?', 'How might I be like them?'
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2018The culture of toleration in diverse societies
by Catriona McKinnon, Dario Castiglione
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2019Diversity Competence
Cultures Don’t Meet, People Do
by Edwin Hoffman, Arjan Verdooren
In today's world many people live, learn and work in international and multicultural environments. Intercultural communication has become an important topic in many fields of work and study. Given the complexities of globalization, knowledge of cultures and cultural differences is rarely sufficient. In this book, interpersonal communication forms the point of departure: the meeting of people, not of cultures. The authors describe what diversity competence entails: which processes, challenges and skills are relevant in a 'superdiverse' world. They demonstrate how the TOPOI model offers an inclusive, communicative approach to analyzing and addressing potential miscommunication. - Addresses controversial topics frankly and clearly without being simplistic. - Discusses theory from several different fields. - Case studies provide practical examples and guidelines. - Companion website with extra case studies and study assignments. The target audience for Diversity Competence includes students, educators and professionals in the fields of communication and media, business, management and leadership, governance and international relations and cooperation.
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Agronomy & crop productionMay 1995Collecting Plant Genetic Diversity
Technical Guidelines
by Kevin Eatwell, Gidona Goodman, Emma Keeble, Anna Meredith, Joanna Hedley. Edited by Luigi Guarino, V R Ramanatha Rao, Robert Reid.
The case for conserving biodiversity is well established on economic as well as scientific grounds. Biodiversity is essential for sustainable development, adaptation to a changing environment and the continued functioning of the biosphere - indeed, to human survival itself. Plant breeders are dependent upon the availability of a large pool of diverse genetic material represented by local races and wild relatives, since in themselves modern crop varieties provide too restricted a genepool for further breeding. Without the ability to draw from a diverse genetic reservoir, further improvement may not be possible. It is therefore essential that guidance is available on collecting plant germplasm. In recent years it has become evident that there is no single publication that provides the prospective collector of plant germplasm with generic as well as specific, and theoretical as well as practical, information. It was to fill this gap that the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI), together with FAO, IUCN and UNEP, cooperated to produce this book. The volume is a comprehensive reference work and is aimed at both new and experienced collectors as well as those with a general interest in plant genetics, breeding and biodiversity.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2016Schools and the politics of religion and diversity in the Republic of Ireland
by Karin Fischer
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2013Diversity management in Spain
New dimensions, new challenges
by Ricard Zapata-Barrero
In the current European dilemma as to whether to increase diversity policies or move towards an assimilationist policy, it is difficult to know what the Spanish approach is. This book argues that Spain represents a context of "multiple diversity", where two frameworks interact: an old, unresolved one, arising from democratic transition, and a new one due to immigration. This explains the Spanish practical approach, where the recent past plays the role of an iron cage, limiting institutional innovation and change. The author proposes a heuristic model, to better understand the "Spanish laboratory of diversities". In order to go through these steps, the author analyses three case studies, coming from the political/social agenda: education, workplace, and political rights. At the end, the reader will have an empirically informed and theoretically founded overview on how Spain is managing diversity. This book is timely for a wide range of academic and professional readers. ;
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September 2020Groß genug, die Welt zu retten
Zwölf wahre Geschichten für kleine Weltretter | Kinderbuch ab 4 Jahre
by Loll Kirby, Adelina Lirius, Conny Lösch, Anna Taylor
Der neunjährige Felix aus Deutschland hat gemeinsam mit seiner Organisation schon mehrere Millionen Bäume gepflanzt. Shalise aus Australien, elf Jahre alt, sammelt Müll am Strand und erklärt anderen, wie sie helfen können, unsere Meere sauber zu halten. Eunita aus Kenia, neun, hat in ihrer Heimatstadt einen Gemeinschaftsgarten angelegt. Sie informiert dort Kinder und Erwachsene über Blütenbestäubung und die Bedeutung von Insekten. Der zwölfjährige Nikita hat in seiner Schule in der Ukraine die Abfalltrennung und die Kompostierung von Biomüll eingeführt. Loll Kirby erzählt von zwölf Jungen und Mädchen aus der ganzen Welt, die sich für unseren Planeten einsetzen. Die bunten, lebendigen Illustrationen von Adelina Lirius laden dazu ein, die Natur zu erkunden, und begeistern Kinder dafür, selbst etwas gegen Klimawandel und Umweltzerstörung zu unternehmen.
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November 2022Rette die Welt mit deiner Idee
12 wahre Geschichten über Kinder, die eine nachhaltigere Zukunft gestalten | Zwölf wahre Geschichten für kleine Weltverbesser*innen | Kinderbuch ab 5 Jahren
by Rebecca Hui, Anneli Bray, Emilie Sievert
Mit acht Jahren begann Maya aus den USA, umweltfreundliche Mode zu machen. Im Alter von vierzehn Jahren erfand Reyhan aus Aserbaidschan einen cleveren Apparat, der aus Regentropfen grüne Energie gewinnt. Die Niederländerin Fabïenne kämpft gegen die Abholzung von Wäldern und für die Vermeidung von Papiermüll. Jefferson aus Kenia baut nachhaltig Obst und Gemüse an. Mit zwölf Jahren lernte Archie aus Australien, wie wichtig saubere Ozeane sind, und hilft nun, sie zu schützen. Welche Idee hast du für eine bessere Welt? Die Zukunft beginnt mit dir! Unsere Umwelt braucht dich: Schütze Wälder, Ozeane, Menschen mit deinen Ideen. Unternimm gleich heute etwas für morgen, denn du kannst den Unterschied machen. In diesem Buch erzählen dir zwölf Aktivist*innen, wie sie unsere Welt retten.
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April 2021Unswerving and Brave Divisional Commander Chen Shuxiang
by Zhi Zaifei, originally named Jiang Zhifei, is a writer, playwright, lyricist, and party history worker. He has published or released nearly 4 million words of various types of writings.
Based on the spirit of Xi Jinping's speech at the 2014 Political Work Conference of the People's Liberation Army, the author, in the pursuit of the ideal, meticulously collected historical materials on Chen Shuxiang, the commander of the 34th Divisionof the Central Red Army's Rear Guard, and spent several years crafting this historical novel.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2025Local government and democracy in Britain
by Neil Barnett, J. Chandler
Local government in the UK is in crisis. It is now neither local in terms of the geography and populations of its principle units, nor does it truly govern in these areas. As this book reveals, over the previous 200 years local government has moved from a system in which local interests held governance over localities to one in which central government and national and multi-national agencies such as corporate businesses hold governance over local and community decision-making. These changes seriously undermine the important role that local government can play in liberal democracy in the UK. The book explains the nature of local government today and asks if there is any possibility of change.
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Geography & the EnvironmentOctober 2024
History and Future of Plants, Planet and People
Towards a New Ecologically Sustainable Age in People’s Relationships With Plants
by Alan Hamilton, Pei Shengji
This fascinating book presents the experiences and pooled knowledge of two very different conservation scientists; Pei Shengji from Sichuan, China and Alan Hamilton from London, UK. They have been drawn together over many years through working on some of the same conservation projects and have discovered that they overlap in their ideas about the sorts of work that needs to be done and how it can best be carried out. The book describes some of their own experiences, set within the contexts of their varied careers and the development of their thinking. Plant conservation is crucial to the preservation of natural ecosystems, but conventional approaches have met with only limited success. The authors have concluded that plant conservationists need social allies - elements of society that have other primary concerns, but whose efforts, if successful, will bring benefits to plant conservation too. It is the state and condition of plants on the ground that ultimately matter in conserving ecosystems, and therefore it is the role of local people who interact directly with them which enables success. Ethnobotany is a key skill required of practical plant conservationists. Its techniques enable them to explore connections between people and plants, learn about local perspectives and establish relationships with the people upon whom conservation and sustainable development relies. This book: recommends how to advance plant conservation, based on real experiences. will inspire more people to become involved in plant conservation. demonstrates how the very different backgrounds of the authors have influenced the courses of their careers, but have enabled them to come to very similar conclusions about conservation practice. demonstrates the importance of geographically-based biocultural diversity, as a counterbalancing force to globalisation.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2021
Disciplined agency
Neoliberal precarity, generational dispossession and call centre labour in Portugal
by Patrícia Alves de Matos
Since the mid-2000s, the harsh reality of call centre employment for a generation of young workers in Portugal has been impossible to ignore. With its endless rows of small cubicles, where human agents endure repetitive telephone conversations with abusive clients under invasive modes of technological surveillance, discipline and control, call centre work remains a striking symbol of labour precarity, a condition particularly associated with the neoliberal generational disenchantment that 'each generation does better than its predecessor'. This book describes the emergence of a regime of disciplined agency in the Portuguese call centre sector. Examining the ascendancy of call centres as icons of precarity in contemporary Portugal, this book argues that call centre labour constitutes a new form of commodification of the labouring subject. De Matos argues that call centres represent an advanced system of non-manual labour power exploitation, due to the underestimation of human creativity that lies at the centre of the regimented structures of call centre labour. Call centres can only guarantee profit maintenance, de Matos argues, through the commodification of the human agency arising from the operators' moral, relational and social embedded agentive linguistic interventions of creative improvisation, decision-making, problem-solving and ethical evaluation.
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Forestry & related industriesJanuary 2000Forest Tourism and Recreation
Case Studies in Environmental Management
by Edited by Dr Xavier Font, John Tribe
The demand for ecotourism and outdoor recreation is increasing, and the pressures on land use are becoming more obvious. A large part of the experience of ecotourism and recreational landscape depends on the maintenance of forested land. Effective management of tourism and recreation in forests can provide extra income to help offset the costs of sustainable timber production and encourage biodiversity conservation.This multi-author book considers the compatibility between tourism, forestry and conservation, the management of natural resources and the involvement of stakeholders and the community. Issues are presented through case studies from a range of countries and topics covered include National Parks, peri-urban forestry and wilderness management, as well as practitioner-oriented contributions.
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January 2018Plant Diversity, Second Edition
by J. Phil Gibson and Terri R. Gibson, Series Editor: William G. Hopkins
Plants feed us, clothe us, provide us with the oxygen we breathe, and buffer our environment against change. In short, plants make life possible. Yet scientists estimate that more than 10 percent of the world's approximately 300,000 plant species are at risk of extinction, and huge swaths of tropical forests and other plant communities are being decimated daily. Plant Diversity, Second Edition surveys the world's plant diversity, from green algae through flowering plants, and presents the fascinating natural history and diversity of green plants in a taxonomic and evolutionary context. This title also asks and answers the questions: Why are there so many plant species in the world? And how can so many plants grow together in a given patch of prairie, forest, or wetland? Through the study of plant diversity, students will gain an appreciation of the natural world far beyond the classroom and the study of botany, to an understanding of how our actions impact the world around us. Plant Diversity, Second Edition is suitable as a supplementary text for a biology course or as recreational reading for the interested student.
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BiotechnologyDecember 2004Plant Diversity and Evolution
Genotypic and Phenotypic Variation in Higher Plants
by Edited by Robert J Henry
An understanding of plant diversity at both the genome and phenome level is important for both biodiversity conservation and plant breeding. Recent advances in genomics have also resulted in a growth of the subject of plant functional genomics. This book brings these areas together, by reviewing aspects of plant evolution as it relates to variation in plant genomes and associated variations in plant phenomes. Topics covered include chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes, reticulate evolution, polyploidy, population genetics within a species, the evolution of the flower, diversity in plant cell walls and in secondary metabolism, and the importance of plant diversity in ecology and agriculture.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2017Oceania under steam
Sea transport and the cultures of colonialism, c. 1870–1914
by Frances Steel
The age of steam was the age of Britain's global maritime dominance, the age of enormous ocean liners and human mastery over the seas. The world seemed to shrink as timetabled shipping mapped out faster, more efficient and more reliable transoceanic networks. But what did this transport revolution look like at the other end of the line, at the edge of empire in the South Pacific? Through the historical example of the largest and most important regional maritime enterprise - the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand - Frances Steel eloquently charts the diverse and often conflicting interests, itineraries and experiences of commercial and political elites, common seamen and stewardesses, and Islander dock workers and passengers. Drawing on a variety of sources, including shipping company archives, imperial conference proceedings, diaries, newspapers and photographs, this book will appeal to cultural historians and geographers of British imperialism, scholars of transport and mobility studies, and historians of New Zealand and the Pacific.
