Rising energy prices and concerns about climate change are driving us towards a new kind of economy - a low-carbon economy. What will this low-carbon economy be like, and what does your business have to do to prosper in this new business environment? Larry Reynolds shows how successful organisations are already learning to be more energy efficient, manage their carbon footprint, adapt to climate change and become truly sustainable. As well as explaining how to future-proof your organisatio...

Some people live life for the sake of living. For others, the prospect of dying forces them to engage in life, to take an unsure journey with a certain end. The Last Letter is the story of life, death, love, and mayhem--and two very different journeys toward that certain end. Author Larry Reynolds is forced into the journey by the death at a young age of his long-time friend, Tracy McGuire. Tracy lives life without regard to cost or consequence, a stark contrast to the stable, predictable ...

Symbolic interactionsim is of major importance in contemporary sociology. In this study, three authorities in the field collaborate to define symbolic interactionism and to describe, and present criticism of, the interactionist perspective. The contributions of G.H. Mead, J. Dewey, C.H. Cooley, W.I. Thomas and other theorists to the interactionist viewpoint on human behaviour and social life are examined. There is a systematic discussion of the diverse schools of thought within the field, ...

Brain-Friendly Learning is not about techniques and gimmicks. It is far more than just putting on baroque music, or playing fun games. It's a movement rather than just a method; a movement to recover the real joy of learning that combines both sizzle and substance to every part of your training. This resource provides a blueprint for a new generation of accelerated learning methods. At its heart are five key principles: ¢ Keep it real ¢ Facilitate the flow ¢ Honour uniqueness ¢ Make it ric...

Building Towards TomorrowSense of wonder is the lifeblood of science fiction. When we encounter something on a truly staggering scale – metal spheres wrapped around stars, planets rebuilt and repurposed, landscapes re-engineered, starships bigger than worlds – the only response we have is reverence, admiration, and possibly fear at something that is grand, sublime, and extremely powerful.Bridging Infinity puts humanity at the heart of that experien...

Lawrence Centore Sr. was convicted in the 1968 murder of small time hoodlum Antonio "Tony Tash" Veneiro. The body of the victim was found in Hastings on Hudson but the slaying wasn't resolved for another seventeen years. In 1984 Centore Sr.'s son, Lawrence Jr., was denied gas licensing for two Westchester County service stations formerly operated by Mobil Oil. The licensing dilemma continued for months, following debate by Westchester executive and board members.

Examining the most frequently taught works by key writers of the American Renaissance, including Poe, Emerson, Fuller, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Jacobs, Stowe, Whitman, and Dickinson, this engaging and accessible book offers the crucial historical, social, and political contexts in which they must be studied. Larry J. Reynolds usefully groups authors together for more lively and fruitful discussion and engages with current as well as historical theoretical debates on the area...

Righteous Violence examines the struggles with the violence of slavery and revolution that engaged the imaginations of seven nineteenth-century American writers—Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville.These authors responded not only to the state terror of slavery and the Civil War but also to more problematic violent acts, including unlawful revolts, insurrections, riots, an...

This reader shows the rich history and wide contemporary application of symbolic interaction theory.

The 1960s were a golden age of science fiction—a decade when writers boldly imagined humanity’s future among the stars, explored the limits of technology, and questioned what it truly means to be human. 1960s Science Fiction 2 brings together 22 unforgettable stories from some of the era’s most imaginative minds.Journey to the far reaches of the solar system with Arthur C. Clarke’s At the End of the Orbit and Summertime on Icarus, where the wonders and da...

This volume, growing out of the celebrated turn toward history in literary criticism, showcases some of the best new historical work being done today in textual theory, literary history, and cultural criticism. The collection brings together for the first time key representativesfrom various schools of historicist scholarship, including leading critics whose work has helped define new historicism. The essays illuminate literary periods ranging from Anglo-Saxon to postmodern, a variety of l...

This collection presents critical and action-oriented approaches to addressing food systems inequities across places, spaces, and scales. With case studies from around the globe, Radical Food Geographies explores interconnections between power structures and the social and ecological dynamics that bring food from the land and water to our plates. Through themes of scale, spatial imaginaries, and human and more-than-human relationships, the authors explore ongoing efforts to co-construct mo...