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The Cooperative Extension Service A National Assessment

The Cooperative Extension Service A National Assessment

The Cooperative Extension Service a publicly supported educational agency is continually struggling to define its proper function and purpose in our changing society. Should its mission be broadly based or narrowly focused? Should staff members be generalists or specialists? Should its clients be primarily rural or urban farm or nonfarm? What role should Extension play in the information networks of the twenty-first century? Professors Warner and Christenson take a broad look at these and other questions concerning where the Extension Service has been how well it is doing and where it ought to go. Theirs is first the only comprehensive national survey that looks at the total Extension organization rather than at just one program area. Second it expresses the viewpoint of Extension clients and the public rather than that of the organization's staff; and third it combines outside survey information with data recorded in the Extension Management Information System (EMIS) and other routine agency reports. The authors evaluate among other things the extent of public awareness of the agency and its four major program areas (agriculture home economics 4-H and community development) determine the users and nonusers of the programs and the accessibility of programs to the general population identify the level of satisfaction with existing programs and outline priorities and policy issues for the future. | The Cooperative Extension Service A National Assessment

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Privatization and the Crisis of Agricultural Extension: The Case of Pakistan The Case of Pakistan

Privatization and the Crisis of Agricultural Extension: The Case of Pakistan The Case of Pakistan

This title was first published in 2003. he public sector plays a dominant international role in the provision of agricultural extension and services. This role has been the subject of much debate. Some argue for extension's privatization claiming that a market driven system provides the most rational and efficient means of information delivery. Based on extensive empirical research from the Punjab (Pakistan) this volume examines the comparative effectiveness of public and private extension services from the perspective of farmers. It also focuses on information from extension agents about their respective organizations and work environments. In so doing the book expands and elaborates on the practical considerations of privatization and information delivery. It then broadens out into a discussion of alternative means of extension delivery focusing on participatory approaches education theory and pluralism. | Privatization and the Crisis of Agricultural Extension: The Case of Pakistan The Case of Pakistan

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Privatization and the Crisis of Agricultural Extension: The Case of Pakistan The Case of Pakistan

Privatization and the Crisis of Agricultural Extension: The Case of Pakistan The Case of Pakistan

This title was first published in 2003. The public sector plays a dominant international role in the provision of agricultural extension and services. This role has been the subject of much debate. Some argue for extension's privatization claiming that a market driven system provides the most rational and efficient means of information delivery. Based on extensive empirical research from the Punjab (Pakistan) this volume examines the comparative effectiveness of public and private extension services from the perspective of farmers. It also focuses on information from extension agents about their respective organizations and work environments. In so doing the book expands and elaborates on the practical considerations of privatization and information delivery. It then broadens out into a discussion of alternative means of extension delivery focusing on participatory approaches education theory and pluralism. | Privatization and the Crisis of Agricultural Extension: The Case of Pakistan The Case of Pakistan

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Home Extension Design

Home Extension Design

This book is a practical guide for homeowners with checklists and guidance on how to make their project successful. Most people considering a significant alteration to their home have no experience or knowledge of the process that has to be followed to make their project successful and the consequences of things going wrong are serious. As with the first edition this fully-revised guide distils all of the practical information needed to run a project from dream to reality highlighting the pitfalls along the way and suggesting ways to avoid them. Peppered with inspirational case studies and giving indications of costs and timescales Home Extension Design 2e demystifies both the building process and all the surrounding issues to do with design sustainability budgeting planning regulations and the use of building contracts. This book is the essential go-to resource for reliable independent advice on how to set up and run a building project.

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Back Rehabilitation Core Stability Re-examined

Back Rehabilitation Core Stability Re-examined

Low back pain affects most of us at some time and exercise is key to both its prevention and treatment. Critically appraising work from several approaches to produce an integrated practical approach suitable for day-to-day clinicians and personal trainers this essential guide looks at the science and practice of designing and teaching the best exercise programmes for this common condition. Learn: Vital client assessment skills Which exercises to use and why The most effective teaching methods How to structure and progress a full back pain management programme Aimed at student therapists and clinical exercise teachers as well as trainers planning exercise programmes for subjects recovering from low back pain Back Rehabilitation is essential reading for therapists and exercise academics and professionals of all types. | Back Rehabilitation Core Stability Re-examined

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Resilient Post Disaster Recovery through Building Back Better

Resilient Post Disaster Recovery through Building Back Better

Building Back Better (BBB) has been a popular slogan in disaster recovery efforts around the world including the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami the 2009 Samoan Tsunami the 2010 Haiti Earthquake and the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. BBB has recently been identified as one of four priorities of action for disaster risk reduction globally in the next 15 years by the United Nations Sendai Framework. However there has consistently been a mismatch and confusion in the interpretation of the phrase and what BBB encapsulates which has made proper implementation difficult and unsuccessful at times. This book explains the concept of Building Back Better as an innovative holistic approach to rebuilding a community following a disaster event in order to develop resilience. It begins by exploring the background development and definitions of BBB. The theory behind establishing BBB as a holistic concept is explained and the internationally recognised BBB Framework developed by the authors is introduced and described. Each of the components of the Framework are explained in detail with findings from international research and case studies from the US Haiti Indonesia Samoa Sri Lanka Vanuatu Gaza China Australia UK and New Zealand providing practical recommendations for implementation in recovery projects. There is a focus on the translation of BBB theory into practice to assist implementers to use the BBB Framework and BBB Indicators introduced in this book as an effective tool to plan and implement disaster recovery projects. This publication can be used as a handbook by government non-governmental and private industry practitioners to prepare for and implement post disaster recovery projects that benefit and strengthen local communities and as a core text on international Disaster and Energy Management courses. | Resilient Post Disaster Recovery through Building Back Better

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Acting for the Camera: Back to One

Acting for the Camera: Back to One

Acting for the Camera: Back to One is a how to book with practical steps to achieve a professional performance on camera. The book focuses on four distinct areas: how to prepare the character how to execute the technical responsibilities that will assist the editor in creating the on-camera performance in post-production tips from industry professionals and how to create effective self-tape auditions. Part One: The Character’s World is packed with tools to analyze the script and fully prepare the character before arriving on set. Part Two: The Actor’s World focuses on developing technical acting skills for the camera that assist the pre- and post-production teams to create a dynamic on-screen performance. In Part Three: The Professional World industry professionals provide tips from inside the film/TV audition room and how to navigate a career in the acting business. The final section Part Four: Self-Tape Like a Pro outlines how to build a self-tape studio in the privacy of your own home and submit high-quality self-tape auditions that will help you stand out from the competition. Written for students enrolled in Acting for the Camera courses Acting for the Camera: Back to One explores techniques that can be practiced and mastered by actors of all levels from the moment they audition for the part through to when they hear that director call cut!

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The Future of Teaching And the Myths That Hold It Back

The Future of Teaching And the Myths That Hold It Back

It’s time for the educational slugfest to stop. ‘Traditional’ and ‘progressive’ education are both caricatures and bashing cartoon images of each other is unprofitable and unedifying. The search for a new model of education – one that is genuinely empowering for all young people – is serious and necessary. Some good progress has already been made but teachers and school leaders are being held back by specious beliefs false oppositions and the limited thinking of orthodoxy. Drawing on recent experience in England North America and Australasia but applicable round the world The Future of Teaching clears away this logjam of bad science and slack thinking and frees up the stream of much-needed innovation. This timely book aims to banish arguments based on false claims about the brain and poor understanding of cognitive science reclaim the nuanced middle ground of teaching that develops both rigorous knowledge and ‘character’ and lay the foundations for a 21st-century education worthy of the name. | The Future of Teaching And the Myths That Hold It Back

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Bringing the People Back In State Building from Below in the Nordic Countries ca. 1500-1800

Bringing the People Back In State Building from Below in the Nordic Countries ca. 1500-1800

The formation of states in early modern Europe has long been an important topic for historical analysis. Traditionally the political and military struggles of kings and rulers were the favoured object of study for academic historians. This book highlights new historical research from Europe’s northern frontier bringing ‘the people’ back into the discussion of state politics presenting alternative views of political and social relations in the Nordic countries before industrialisation. The early modern period was a time that witnessed initiatives from people from many groups formally excluded from political influence operating outside the structures of central government and this book returns to the subject of contentious politics and state building from below. | Bringing the People Back In State Building from Below in the Nordic Countries ca. 1500-1800

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Glocal Languages and Critical Intercultural Awareness The South Answers Back

Glocal Languages and Critical Intercultural Awareness The South Answers Back

This volume provides a new perspective on prevailing discourses on translanguaging and multilingualism by looking at ‘glocal’ languages local languages which have been successfully globalized. Focusing on European languages recreated in Latin America the book features examples from languages underexplored in the literature including Brazilian Portuguese Amerinidian poetics and English Spanish Portuguese outside Europe as a basis for advocating for an approach to language education rooted in critical pedagogy and post-colonial perspectives and countering hegemonic theories of globalization. While rooted in a discussion of the South the book offers a fresh voice in current debates on language education that will be of broader interest to students and scholars across disciplines including language education multilingualism cultural studies and linguistic anthropology. | Glocal Languages and Critical Intercultural Awareness The South Answers Back

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The Regulation of Air Transport From Protection to Liberalisation and Back Again

The Regulation of Air Transport From Protection to Liberalisation and Back Again

The regulation of modern civil aviation can be traced back to the later years of the Second World War. An intense debate about the future regulatory regime resulted in a compromise which to this day essentially dictates the structure of the global airline industry. Further progress towards ‘normalising’ the industry appears to be slowing down and perhaps even going into reverse. Without an understanding of the development of regulation it is not possible to understand fully the industry’s current problems and how they might be resolved. Many books have been written about the development of international air transport covering deregulation privatisation the emergence of new business models among other things but few if any have taken a broad view of the trends which have determined the industry’s current structure. The Regulation of Air Transport charts the development of aviation from the end of the Second World War to the present day following the key trends and disruptive forces. It provides an overview of what has determined the industry’s current structure the problems still facing the industry and the ways in which it could develop in the future. This wide-ranging study is important reading for both professionals and academics within the aviation field as well as anyone interested in the broader development of economic regulation. | The Regulation of Air Transport From Protection to Liberalisation and Back Again

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Man and Natural Resources An Agricultural Perspective

Man and Natural Resources An Agricultural Perspective

Originally published in 1975 yet prophetic in its wisdom this book deals with major aspects of man’s ecological destruction in an industrial framework. As well as discussing the destruction of forests by early civilizations the book examines the rate and extension of environmental deterioration in more recent times and the importance of the integrated ‘feed-back’ controls which maintain stability in the ecosphere of which humankind forms a part. Examining the role of entropy energy quanta and indeterminacy in overthrowing both science and economic theory the book provides examples from the 20th Century of the uncontrolled demands for energy and material resources as well as of increasing toxic hazard in the biosphere. | Man and Natural Resources An Agricultural Perspective

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US Counterterrorism and the Human Rights of Foreigners Abroad Putting the Gloves Back On?

US Counterterrorism and the Human Rights of Foreigners Abroad Putting the Gloves Back On?

This book examines why the United States has introduced safeguards that are designed to prevent their counterterrorism policies from causing harm to non-US citizens beyond US territory. It investigates what made US policymakers take steps to put the gloves back on through five case studies on the emergence of such safeguards related to the right not to be tortured the right not to be arbitrarily detained the right to life (in connection with targeted killing operations) the right to seek asylum (in connection with refugee resettlement) and the right to privacy (in connection with foreign mass surveillance). The book exposes two mechanisms – coercion and strategic learning – which explain why the United States has introduced what the authors refer to as extraterritorial human rights safeguards thus demonstrating that the emerging norm that states have human rights obligations towards foreigners beyond their borders constrains policy choices. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of human rights counterterrorism US foreign policy human rights law and more broadly to political science and international relations. The Open Access version of this book available at: http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | US Counterterrorism and the Human Rights of Foreigners Abroad Putting the Gloves Back On?

GBP 130.00
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Revival: Genre and Void (2003) Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir

Revival: Genre and Void (2003) Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir

This book was first published in 2003: Developing a reading of some of Beauvoir's and Sartre's most influential writings in philosophy Max Deutscher explores contemporary philosophy in the light of the phenomenological tradition within which Being and Nothingness and The Second Sex occurred as striking events operating on the border of the modern and the post-modern. Deutscher traces the shifts of genre that produce their gendered philosophies and responds in terms of contemporary experience to the mood and the arguments of their works. Drawing upon the writings of two contemporary critics in particular - Michele Le D“uff and Luce Irigaray - Deutscher reworks this part of philosophy's history in order to advance thinking in contemporary philosophy generate renewed philosophical reflection on consciousness freedom and one's relation to others and to return a look still cast in our direction from an earlier time. | Revival: Genre and Void (2003) Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir

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More than Bouncing Back Examining Community Resilience Theory and Practice

More than Bouncing Back Examining Community Resilience Theory and Practice

As the concept of community resilience moves from the margins of practice and theoretical research to more mainstream scholarship critical issues of conceptualization and use emerge. This is particularly true at the intersection of community development practice and community resilience theory. This book teases out limitations with current conceptualizations of community resilience offers enhanced and alternative conceptualizations and presents compelling case studies of new conceptualizations in action. This book is a starting place for scholarly conversations about the role of community resilience in community development practice. The frameworks presented here will continue to gain more support in academic and non-academic arenas as resilience rhetoric increases in popularity. However it is crucial for community practitioners to use these frameworks to actively cultivate resilience in their communities by building adaptive capacity in systematic ways. To move the field of community resilience forward it is critical to understand the nuances of context and conditions in communities and how broader conceptualizations of resilience account for and utilize context to build adaptive capacity. This book was originally published as a special issue in the journal Community Development. | More than Bouncing Back Examining Community Resilience Theory and Practice

GBP 130.00
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Diseases of Commercial Crops and Their Integrated Management

Diseases of Commercial Crops and Their Integrated Management

This volume compiles information on different aspects of diseases of commercial crops and their management. It contains 17 chapters based on different crops contributed by various authors. The book will be helpful for the students pursuing their degree in Agricultural Sciences growers teachers extension personnel and fellow researchers in their respective fields. | Diseases of Commercial Crops and Their Integrated Management

GBP 77.99
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Getting Over OCD A 10-Step Workbook for Taking Back Your Life

Getting Over OCD A 10-Step Workbook for Taking Back Your Life

Thoroughly updated based on the latest science this empowering workbook gives you the skills to overcome obsessional thoughts and compulsive behaviors-and live a freer happier life. Leading OCD specialist Dr. Jonathan Abramowitz presents a step-by-step program grounded in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) the most effective treatment for the disorder. Vivid stories and numerous practical tools (which you can download and print for repeated use) help you: *Understand how OCD affects your mind and body. *Develop a customized plan for change. *Find relief from distressing intrusive thoughts. *Confront the situations you avoid-and discover a new sense of safety. *Break free of compulsive rituals. *Reduce anxiety and improve your relationships. The second edition is revised throughout with cutting-edge strategies for coping with unwanted thoughts that can't be eliminated completely plus new learning techniques drawn from brain research. Ready to get over OCD? Your journey starts here. | Getting Over OCD A 10-Step Workbook for Taking Back Your Life

GBP 19.99
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High Street How our town centres can bounce back from the retail crisis

High Street How our town centres can bounce back from the retail crisis

The high street is in crisis. How did we get here and what happens next? The global pandemic has made the crisis immeasurably worse but it wasn’t the cause. The crisis was already raging in 2019 with thousands of store closures. Large retailers became complacent and failed to respond to changing consumer behaviour. Town centres are the victims of these changes rather than the cause of them. To understand the current crisis and how it might be addressed this book takes a long view of retailing based on a hundred case studies. It looks at the way town centres responded to previous crises and explores current trends affecting town centres and how places are responding. The message is optimistic: adaptable town centres can once more become the diverse characterful independent places that existed before they were homogenised by big retail. Explore the past – understand the present – find a better future. | High Street How our town centres can bounce back from the retail crisis

GBP 40.00
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The Politics of Time in China and Japan Back to the Future

The Politics of Time in China and Japan Back to the Future

Drawing on a wide range of texts and using an interdisciplinary approach this volume shows how Chinese and Japanese intellectuals mobilized the past to create a better future. It is especially significant today given a world where amidst tensions within Asia and the rise of China East Asian intellectuals and governments constantly find new political meanings in their traditions. The essays illuminate how throughout Chinese and Japanese history thinkers constantly weaved together nationalism internationalism and a politics of time. This volume explores a broad range of subjects such as premodern and early modern attempts to conjure a politics of Confucianism twentieth-century Japanese Marxist interpretations of Buddhism and Japanese and Chinese endeavors to imagine a new world order. In sum this book shows us why understanding East Asian pasts are essential to making sense of ideological trends in contemporary China and Japan. For example without understanding Confucianism and how modern intellectuals in China grappled with this body of thought we would be unable to make sense of the Chinese government’s current promotion of the Chinese classics. This book will interest students and scholars of political science history Asian studies sociology and philosophy. | The Politics of Time in China and Japan Back to the Future

GBP 130.00
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Al Jazeera and the Global Media Landscape The South is Talking Back

Al Jazeera and the Global Media Landscape The South is Talking Back

This book analyzes how and why Al Jazeera English (AJE) became the channel of choice to understand the massive protests across the Arab world 2011. Aiming to explain the ‘Al Jazeera moment ’ it tracks the channel’s bumpy road towards international recognition in a longitudinal in-depth analysis of the channel’s editorial profile and strategies. Studying AJE from its launch in mid-November 2006 to the ‘Arab Spring’ it explains and problematizes the channel’s ambitious editorial agenda and strategies examines the internal conflicts practical challenges and minor breakthroughs in its formative years. The Al Jazeera-phenomenon has received massive attention but it remains under-researched. The growth of transnational satellite television has transformed the global media landscape into a complex web of multi-vocal multimedia and multi-directional flows. Based on a combination of policy- production- and content analysis of comprehensive empirical data the book offers an innovative perspective on the theorization of global news contra-flows. By problematizing the distinctive characteristics of AJE it examines the strategic motivation behind the channel and the ways in which its production processes and news profile are meant to be different from its Anglo-American competitors. These questions underscore a central nexus of the book: the changing relationship between transnational satellite news and power. | Al Jazeera and the Global Media Landscape The South is Talking Back

GBP 44.99
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The Meaning of Rehabilitation and its Impact on Parole There and Back Again in California

The Meaning of Rehabilitation and its Impact on Parole There and Back Again in California

This book queries the concept of rehabilitation to determine how on a legislative and policy level the term is defined as a goal of correctional systems. The book explores what rehabilitation is by investigating how at different moments in time its conceptualization has shaped and been shaped by shifting norms practices and institutions of corrections in California. The author calls for a rethinking of theoretical understandings of the corrections system generally and parole system specifically and calls for an expansion in the questions asked in reintegration studies. The book is designed for scholars seeking to better understand the relationship between correctional systems and rehabilitation and the full scope of rehabilitation as a legislative goal and is also suitable for use as teaching tool for historical textual and interviewing methods. | The Meaning of Rehabilitation and its Impact on Parole There and Back Again in California

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