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Food is a contentious and emotive issue, subject to critiques from multiple perspectives. Alternative food movements - including the different articulations of local, food miles, seasonality, food justice, food knowledge and food sovereignty - consistently invoke themes around autonomy, sufficiency, cooperation, mutual aid, freedom, and responsibility. In this stimulating and provocative book the authors link these issues to utopias and intent...

In the years since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) childrens rights have assumed a central position in a wide variety of disciplines and policies. This handbook offers an engaging overview of the contemporary research landscape for those people engaged in the theory and practice of childrens rights. The volume consists of two parts with the first providing an insight into interdisciplinary approaches to chil...

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The notion of proof is central to mathematics yet it is one of the most difficult aspects of the subject to teach and master. In particular, undergraduate mathematics students often experience difficulties in understanding and constructing proofs. This text describes the nature of mathematical proof, explores the various techniques that mathematicians adopt to prove their results, and offers advice and strategies for constructing proofs. It wi...

The book defines a philosophical framework for place-based education, present research paradigms and methodologies adopted by the field and critique a range of pedagogical approaches. Drawing on a series of international and interdisciplinary case studies, chapters build on a theoretical framework with solid practice examples and strategies to locate learning in real-world communities and places. Written in an accessible style, each chapter is...

The book introduces a set of dimensions which can be used to describe structured products, such as, movement, number of names, number of assets, path dependency, etc.

This updated edition of the History of Art: A Student's Handbook introduces students to the kinds of practices, challenges, questions and writings they will encounter in history of art. Marcia Pointon conveys the excitement of Art History as a multi-faceted discipline addressing all aspects of the study of media, communication and representation. She describes and analyses different methods and approaches to the discipline, explaining their hi...

This volume explores how cognitive approaches to religion can shed light on classical concerns in biblical scholarship as well as uncover new questions and offer new methodologies.

Bringing together Ken and Yetta Goodman¿s key writings, this volume is organized around five central themes: research and theory on the reading process and written language development, teaching, curriculum and evaluation, the role of language, advocacy and the political nature of schooling.

Bridging environmental and Indigenous studies and drawing on critical geography, spatial theory, new materialist theory, and decolonizing theory, this volume examines the sometimes overlooked significance of place in social science research. The book explores how researchers come to terms - theoretically and practically - with place in the context of settler colonialism, globalization, and environmental degradation. It outlines a trajectory of...

A ground-breaking volume for the field of developmental psychology, this classic volume will remain an essential resource for any scholar who is interested in minority child development and engages in cross-cultural research and multidisciplinary methodologies.

This work draws together a rich tapestry of material across many different disciplines, covering the crucial relationship between medicine and law from the early apothecaries to the modern-day general practitioner. It presents an invaluable overview of the subject and offers vital background reading to anyone interested in medico-legal medicine.

In this landmark volume from 1976, Robert Crowder presents an organized review of the concepts that guide the study of learning and memory. The basic organization of the book is theoretical, rather than historical or methodological. Crowder presumes no prior knowledge of the subject matter on the part of the reader, technical terms are kept to a minimum, and he makes every effort to introduce them carefully when they first occur. It introduced...

The purpose of the book is to investigate parliaments¿ capacity to oversee government activities, policies and budget legislation. By analysing the survey data that the World Bank Institute in collaboration with the Inter-Parliamentary Union collected from 120 parliaments, Staphenhurst and Pelizzo show what tools are available to parliaments worldwide, which tools are more or less common, how oversight capacity can be estimated, how oversight ...

Research and applications of neurotechnology are expanding at a rapid pace, and are fostering. public concerns and debate about the ethical issues generated by such research and use. This second volume in the Advances in Neurotechnology series specifically addresses the neuroethical, legal, and social issues arising from the use of neurotechnology in national security and defense. Presenting an integrative perspective, leading international ex...