Fifty miles north of San Francisco, the Sonoma Coast is far removed from city life. Nearly two-thirds of its coastline is state and county parks, the southern half featuring sandy beaches, coastal terraces, and the fishing port of Bodega Bay. North of the Russian River are wooded cliffs and rugged coves that are ideal for hiking and diving. The Sonoma Coast is home to people who treasure their small, independent communities and who work hard to provide both a livelihood and a unique cultur...

For built environment professionals, delivering socially impactful projects is more crucial and challenging than ever. This step-by-step guide provides an innovative approach to stakeholder engagement, empowering project teams to create meaningful social value through the stakeholder engagement process and build better projects.Socially Successful Projects in the built environment will help the reader understand the theory behind a reframed approach to stakeholder engageme...

Exam board: AQALevel & subject: GCSE SociologyFirst teaching: September 2017 First exams: June 2019Get your students engaging with the 2017 specification: all the knowledge and skills students need to succeed set out in clear, approachable lessons packed full of activities and support.The third edition of this trusted textbook has been fully updated to provide complete coverage of the 2017 AQA Sociology specification, with fresh, contemporary case studies, eng...

In this book, influential development practitioners reflect on their careers by writing letters of advice to their younger selves. Sharing their successes and failures, the challenges and barriers they have encountered, and the changes and continuities within their work, these deeply personal accounts provide an invaluable window into the world of development practice.The authors come from nearly 20 countries. They have held a rich mix of jobs across a range of sectors and organisa...

Drawing together the work of 12 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from 21 years of the Connections festival with a retrospective selection of plays.Featuring work by some of the most prolific playwrights of the 20th and 21st centuries, and together in one volume, the anthology offers young performers between the ages of 13 and 19 an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study.Each play has been specific...

Roses Amidst the Thorns" is a collection of poems which traces a couple's intimate, twenty-year relationship-their young, uninhibited love, their mature spiritual love, the breakdown of their love and the acceptance of the changes in their love. It is my hope by writing these poems to stimulate the reader in such a manner that they realize loving is universal. It is the most powerful force which governs the paths of our lives. At one time or another, we all move into similar phases within ...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.In an era where ‘social innovation’ is often used as a buzzword, this book challenges readers to rethink its true potential for addressing the systemic roots of our most pressing social and environmental crises.The authors present a practical and visionary approach to social innovation and provide a comprehensive set of tools and strategies for transformative change, rooted in a critical and emancipatory perspective....

The Parched Garden continues the journey of the couple from Roses Amidst the Thorn, now navigating the desolation of a broken relationship. Struggling with unanswered questions and God's silence, they remain spiritually connected yet divided by pride and pain. Instead of reaching for each other, they turn inward, searching for meaning in the wreckage-questioning the indifference of loved ones, the strength of their foundation, and whether reconciliation is possible. In this wilderness of t...

When the moon sails high in the arctic sky,Polar Cub asks, “Mama, why?”In this snuggly lullaby, a polar bear cub asks his mother a multitude of “why” questions before he falls asleep: Why is there a moon up in the sky? Why do we dream? Why are there stars in the sky? And why can’t we see the stars during the day? Finally, once she has explained everything to him, Mama ushers her little one off to sleep, explaining that she will sleep too—so she can dream about her dearest c...

In this program we explore the restoration of the feminine and the feminization of the restoration, with a dance, a Mam'on, a meditation, and a prayer with Nina Simons, Katsi Cook, Starhawk, Terry Tempest Williams, Marta Benevides, and Kirstin Wilson.

In "A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities," Pierre-Simon Laplace presents a foundational work that delves into the principles of probability theory and its philosophical implications. Written in 1814, this essay is characterized by Laplace's methodical literary style, integrating mathematical rigor with contemplative inquiry. Contextually, it emerged during the Enlightenment, a period marked by a growing fascination with rational thought and empirical evidence, positioning Laplace's work ...

Bringing together scholars from the areas of tourism, leisure and cultural studies, eco-humanities and tourism management, this book examines the emerging phenomenon of slow tourism. The book explores the range of travel experiences that are part of growing consumer concerns with quality leisure time, environmental and cultural sustainability, as well as the embodied experience of place. Slow tourism encapsulates a range of lifestyle practices, mobilities and ethics that are connected to s...