Given how the field is presented — reflecting research carried out on different scales, reaching from local to global as well as from past to present and future — and due to the way the book is structured, it is suitable for classroom use, as a primer, and also as an overview of how Social Ecology evolved, right up to its current research frontiers.
Heggarty P. Author : P. The modern world began with the clash of civilisations between Spaniards and native Americans. Their interplay and struggles ever since are mirrored in the fates of the very languages they spoke. The conquistadors wrought theirs into a new 'world language'; yet the Andes still host the New World's greatest linguistic survivor, Quechua.
Historians and linguists see this through different - but complementary - perspectives. This book is a meeting of minds, long overdue, to weave them together. It ranges from Inca collapse to the impacts of colonial rule, reform, independence, and the modern-day trends that so threaten native language here with its ultimate demise. Fisher John R. Author : John R. Stein Stanley J.
Author : Stanley J. The years covered by this book marked the era of commercial capitalism, bridging late medieval and modern times. In , Spain brought American silver back home across the Atlantic in exchange for European goods. Spanish colonialism, the authors suggest, was the cutting edge of the early global economy. By then, despite its efforts, Spain could no longer compete with England and France in the international economy.
Silver, Trade, and War is about markets, national rivalries, diplomacy, conflict, and the advancement or stagnation of states. Pearce A. Author : A. Integrating the political and governmental histories of Spain and the American colonies, this book focuses on the political and governmental history of the Viceroyalty of Peru during the 'early Bourbon' period and provides a new interpretation of the period's broader significance within Spanish American history.
Preston David A. Author : David A. Provides an up-to-date analysis of many aspects of Latin America through a series of short essays, written by experienced geographers.
Bobb Bernard E. Author : Bernard E. He governed a key area at a significant time. Part of you longs to do more of it. Part of you loves to find reasons why you don't quite ever get to it. The goal? To have the best possible balance between Good Work and Great Work. The key thing is they are beyond 'business as usual'; they are what I call breakthrough actions. They represent the great work. Once you have your ten, try to rank them in order of most You might be able to sell more services to existing clients, or they might be able to offer you introductions to prospective new clients.
They assume that doing good work automatically leads to more opportunities and referrals. Imagine a graph with work on one axis and rest on the other.
When we work at managing our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual energy, we basically increase our skill set and increase our adaptability and ability to do more great My previous book Do More Great Work had as its foundation the principle that it's not enough just to get things done.
Do More Great Work. Easy to say, much harder to do. The idea here is to demonstrate how little time it can take for you to make some significant progress on your important work. Right now I just need a job. I need to eat! That's the first, short-term step. But the day will come when you'll want to do more than just eat. All choices will have advantages and disadvantages, and you may in effect end up choosing between two good things.
A great career will stimulate you to dig deep and do the best work you are capable of doing. It won't be a job where you show up and then watch the clock until you can go home and do something more interesting and appealing in your A great example of concreteness is the tool Asana.
In his book Do More Great Work. Michael Bungay Stanier offers the best influences exercise I've come across. Think of eight heroes—role models you think are inspiring for one Child welfare workers who are exhausted yet satisfied with their jobs: How do they do it? Do More Great Work Kashdan, Robert Biswas-Diener Skip to content. In fifteen exercises, Do More Great Work shows how you can finally do more of the work that pushes you forward, stretches your creativity, and truly satisfies you.
Do More Great Work will not only help you identify what the Great Work of your life is, it will tell you how to do it. And the best part—he makes it easy and fun. The Art Rules is a practical, operational guide for visual artists that demystifies the art world and will enable you to find success on your own terms. Filling a major void, The Art Rules gives you the tools you need to realize your potential as a professional artist.
Klein shows success is not particularly complicated, but it is rarely taught, shared, or demonstrated for the visual artist. This book does precisely that. Are you drowning in constant emails, phone calls, paperwork, interruptions and meeting actions? Keller is a. Faire la guerre, maintenir la paix : les nouveaux enjeux militaires. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and American Dervish: an immigrant father and his son search for belonging — in post-Trump America, and with each other.
Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home. Akhtar attempts to make sense of it all through the lens of a story about one family, from a heartland town in America to palatial suites in Central Europe to guerrilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan, and spares no one — least of all himself — in the process.
Get it in epub, pdf , azw, mob, doc format. At this time, the Dominican Republic is trying to recover from decades of domination of dictator Raphael Trujillo, who had been assassinated in Neal has an early meeting with Dominican President Juan Bosch.
Shortly after that, Bosch is overthrown by Neals Dominican boss. The U. Before this evacuation takes place, Neal becomes seriously ill and is evacuated to the U.
Army hospital in Puerto Rico. Jo Ann accompanies Neal because of the seriousness of his illness. Meanwhile, back in the Dominican Republic, the Americans are evacuated by boat, leaving little nine months old Linda in the Creighton house in Santo Domingo alone with the two maids. Jo Ann returns to reclaim her daughternow not an easy process. The next stop for the Creightons is the Panama Canal Zone.
They are soon caught up in the serious anti-US riots of January 9, and are lucky to escape without injury. At work, Ne. In difficult moments of human contact, explored from childhood through old age, this collection provides a window into the kindness all people seek in moments of sorrow. The dynamic mix of characters in these stories, know much about sorrow.
They know it in the burden of a wife looking after her war-damaged husband and the son who confronts her more than 35 years after she abandons them. They know it in the struggle to hide from violence of the world, even though violence finds them.
But they do know kindness, too. They know it in the unspoken understanding between a young man and his elderly aunt in the aftermath of a violent murder. They know it in small gestures between friends, and even strangers, after a sudden death, as well as through the unexpected connections found on the other end of the phone or a shared meal.
Life as a transcendent principle. It seems to me that a reliable test of whether we have lived worthwhile lives is this: is the world a better place for my having lived in it? It is an emotional autobiography that starts with his own birth and gives a character sketch of his mother and father and his upbringing in Portugal, with a two year period in Canada, and takes the reader through to the age of 45 by which time he was a qualified psychoanalyst, married with two sons and, at the time, living in London.
This sounds like the story of a peaceful journey from childhood through to his chosen career in adulthood. However, the author takes the reader through the period of his earlier career in the Church in a parish in the East End of London and the turbulent period of change that led him to take leave of this first career, seek psychoanalysis and finally to become a psychoanalyst himself.
This is an engaging book that charts the emotional storms and the ups and downs that beset the life's journey of a well-known psychoanalyst. Her struggles have been many — fear, depression, surgery, learning to use what "moving parts" remained after her diving accident when she was just nineteen. But perhaps her toughest challenge has been to be and be seen as a useful, active individual. But really, taking that moment to breathe, to rest, to feel the gift of each moment in a whole new way.
As we begin to discover ourselves anew, we see things about us we never knew were there. We see maybe that we are funny, might know more than we think, might have a better idea.
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