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Paperback. Condition: New. Education for SustainableDevelopment in the Caribbean: Pedagogy, Processes and Practices offers a unique perspective on educational approaches to creating asustainable world. Lorna Down and Therese Ferguson complement their theoreticaldiscussions with practical, "real world" engagements. Case studies and currentresearch ground teaching and learning for sustainability and enable diversecommunities of learners, inside and outside of classrooms, to transform theirsocieties.Withits emphasis on the crucial role of education for the transformation to apeaceful, just, inclusive and environmentally sustainable world, this book is avaluable resource for students, lecturers and researchers working in educationfor sustainable development across disciplines. It also is a significant textfor those working in community-based, non-governmental and intergovernmentalfields.Education for SustainableDevelopment in the Caribbean: Pedagogy, Processes and Practices effectively addresses global sustainable development goals, thechallenges of the climate crisis, environmental degradation, and social and economicinjustices. In exploring and critically examining educational approaches torevisioning and transforming humanity's relationships with self, others and theenvironment, Down and Ferguson distil what it means to educate forsustainability and to educate for the care and respect for all of life.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st American edition, [1st printing] ; 190 pp. ; 20 cm. ; ISBN: 067942007X :; 9780679420071; LCCN: 92-54475 ; LC: PR6073.I558; Dewey: 823/.914 ; OCLC: 27375575 ; Lambda Literary Award, 1993 ; "The interesting thing about a knot is its formal complexity. Even the simplest pedigree knot, the trefoil, with its three roughly symmetrical lobes, has mathematical as well as artistic beauty. For the religious, Kind Solomon's knot is said to embody the essence of all knowledge. For carpet makers and cloth weavers all over the world, the challenge of the knot lies in the rules of its surprises. Knots can change but they must be well-behaved. An informal knot is a messy knot. Louise and I were held by a single loop of love. The cord passing round our bodies had no sharp twists or sinister turns. Our wrists were not tied and there was no noose about our necks. In Italy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries a favourite sport was to fasten two fighters together with a strong rope and let t hem beat each other to death. Often it was death because the loser couldn't back off and the victor rarely spared him. The victor kept the rope and tied a knot in it. He had only to swing it through the streets to terrify money from passers-by."--excerpt ; " .chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman" ; black cloth with metallic red lettering, in photographic illustrated dustjacket ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Occupational Stress Injuries: Operational and Organizational Stressors Among Public Safety Personnel. Book.

Paperback. Condition: New. This book explores the stress faced by public safety professionals across an array of occupational fields, such as police, correctional officers, paramedics, and firefighters.Bringing together leading scholars from around the world, it showcases cutting-edge quantitative and qualitative research from across three continents and multiple regions within six countries, introduces key concepts related to occupational and organizational stressors, and provides an overview of the state of current research in key topic areas. Those who have yet to be exposed to the concepts associated with occupational stress injuries, or to the range of theories and methodologies, will be provided with an informative introduction to this topic. It explores the state of current literature on this topic, identifies gaps in our knowledge and approaches to understanding the relationship between occupational stressors and different outcomes, and provides potential responses for reducing or ameliorating occupational stressors experienced by public safety personnel.Aimed at students, academic researchers, public safety practitioners, law enforcement analysts, and public policy-makers, this book will appeal to readers who have some knowledge in this area and are interested in learning more about new and emerging research, as well as those who are well-versed on this topic.…

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