Are women equal? Do women have equal rights? Have women's campaigns for justice, access to law, property ownership and child custody rights, and rights to bodily and psychic integrity, won women advances? When women fought for the right to vote, to be on juries, to be independent beings entitled to jobs, income, equal pay and the right to industrial action, did Magna Carta mean anything? Albeit…
Ana's Voice: It's All About the Journey -- Kay's Voice: Never in My Wildest Dreams -- Sharon and Mary's Voices: Sisterhood - The Journey -- Tonia's Voice: From the Dirt Roads to the Ivory Tower -- Marcy's Voice: The Road Less Traveled -- Linda's Voice: Life Events Don't Define You - You Do! -- Elizabeth's Voice: Those Who Came Before Us - Jane Wheeler Boling -- Ali's Voice: Pathways toward Bala…
Chapter 1 Teacher Education Research and the Policy Reform Agenda -- Chapter 2 Reform and the Reconceptualisation of Teacher Education in Australia -- Chapter 3 Innovation and Transformation of Initial Teacher Education: Employer and Graduate Perspectives -- Chapter 4 Digital Credentialing: Does it offer a Meaningful Response to Initial Teacher Education Reform? -- Chapter 5 Innovating in First…
Author's Note -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Three Waves That Are Changing Cities Forever -- Urban Design Responses to the Three Great Waves -- Rule One: See the City as a System -- Rule Two: Recognize Patterns in Urban Environments -- Rule Three: Apply Lighter, Greener, Smarter Infrastructure -- Rule Four: Strengthen Social Resilience through Affordable Housing Design -- Rule Five: …
Note from the Publisher -- Foreword by Andrés Duany -- Preface by Lynn Richards -- Part 1. My Kind of Town -- Part 2. The Cavaliers vs. the Roundheads -- Part 3. Continuity and Context -- Part 4. Bouquets and Brickbats -- Part 5. Sustainability and Tradition -- Part 6. On Christopher Alexander’s Athena Award -- Part 7. Urbanism in Late Stage Capitalism -- Part 8. Lean Urbanism: Making Small …
Concept of wave nature of dissipative processes of fractal structuring and of the Earth forming -- Fractal hierarchies of the Earth’s dissipative structures – a new paradigm of theoretical and practical geology -- Conclusion.This volume describes physical, formal mathematical and exterior (morpho-structural) manifestations of wave dynamics of the Earth, defining both its deep structural ima…
Part 1 – Overview on volcanic unrest -- Significance of unrest -- Past experiences -- Part 2 - Geophysical and geochemical insights on unrest and precursory activity -- Volcano Seismology: detecting unrest in wiggly lines -- Volcano geodesy and multiparameter investigations -- Volcanic gases and low temperature volcanic fluids -- MONITORING CAPACITY: obvious and hidden problems -- Part 3 – …
Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Natural and socio-economic conditions -- Chapter 3 The hosts and vectors of natural focal diseases -- Chapter 4 The spread of primary natural focal diseases -- Chapter 5 Territorial organization of sanitary and epidemiological services -- Conclusion -- Authors -- Bibliography -- Maps, illustrations and photo credits. .This book is the first scienti…
Introduction -- Museum Necropoleis of Saint Petersburg. A Brief History -- Stone Materials of the Necropoleis Monuments -- Outdoor Environment of the Monuments in the Necropoleis -- Decay of the Monuments -- Changes in the Necropoleis Monuments’ Status Over Time -- Monitoring of the State of Stone and Bronze Monuments -- Methods of Monument Protection from Damages and their Performance -- Con…