Your Search Results
-
-
Agriculture & International Development
Textbooks, research and professional titles in Agriculture and International Development
View Rights Portal
-
Promoted Content
Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2025Formulating development
How Nestlé shaped the aid industry
by Lola Wilhelm
In the 1970s, Nestlé became a lightning rod for criticism against the food industry's negative impacts on humans and their environment, especially in the Global South. But what has so far eluded historical scrutiny is that the picture was more nuanced. This book tells the exclusive story of how the Swiss food giant, and more broadly corporate capitalism, have shaped the aid industry since the late nineteenth century. It follows Nestlé's bid for a share of the humanitarian market brokered by the Red Cross in wartime Europe, of its clinical trials in Swiss and Senegalese maternities, and of its agricultural modernisation schemes in Mexico, India, and the Ivory Coast. Based on extensive research in the firm's own historical archives and the records of national and international aid agencies, the volume interrogates the legacies of this long history for international development today.
-
Promoted Content
April 2022Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
by Eifert, Georg H.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) aims to teach people to face emotional problems openly with mindfulness and compassion while pursuing what they truly care about in their lives. The book provides an introduction to the principles and methods of ACT and presents therapeutic strategies across disorders. ACT is not primarily about eliminating and controlling symptoms, but about developing greater psychological flexibility through learning mindful acceptance. Using numerous examples, the book describes how clients can learn to respond with greater kindness to their unwanted inner experience, to gently deal with their emotional and thought barriers, and to focus on committed life-goal-oriented action. Numerous experiential exercises, metaphors, mindfulness techniques, and behavioral activation methods are presented for this purpose. In addition, this new edition of the book provides information on current effectiveness evidence and developments in ACT, e.g. promoting self- compassion. For:• psychotherapists• psychiatrists• clinical psychologists• students and teachers in psychotherapeutictraining, furthertraining, and continuing education
-
Trusted Partner
Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2020Toleration, power and the right to justification
by Rainer Forst, Bert van den Brink, Anthony Laden, Peter Niesen, David Owen
-
Trusted Partner
PsychologyACT: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
With ACT Questionnaires for Clinical Assessment, 100 Questions
by Paolo Moderato, Giovambattista Presti, Francesco dell’Orco
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a psychotherapeutic intervention based on experimental evidence. Its goal is to help people implement concrete behaviors in accordance with their values even in the presence of diffcult or interfering events. The authors clearly describe how ACT works and provide useful guidance for clinical practice. Soon the concepts of fusion and defusion become familiar and the Hexafex a way of thinking rather than appearing as a mere scheme. Acceptance and commitment replace refusal and renunciation: this is the innovative therapeutic challenge of ACT. This manual, enriched with metaphors and exercises that can be used in a therapeutic session, is intended for reading by specialists by tackling the themes of this approach with rigor and depth, taking the reader step by step into the heart of ACT. The appendix contains seven ACT questionnaires for clinical assessment.
-
Trusted Partner
Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Sex, politics and empire
A postcolonial geography
by Richard Phillips
Colonial governments, institutions and companies recognised that in many ways the effective operation of the Empire depended upon sexual arrangements. For example, nuclear families serving agricultural colonization, and prostitutes working for single men who powered armies and plantations, mines and bureaucracies. For this reason they devised elaborate systems of sexual governance, such as attending to marriage and the family. However, they also devoted disproportionate energy to marking and policing the sexual margins. In Sex, Politics and Empire, Richard Phillips investigates controversies surrounding prostitution, homosexuality and the age of consent in the British Empire, and revolutionises our notions about the importance of sex as a nexus of imperial power relations.
-
Trusted Partner
Teaching, Language & ReferenceFebruary 2012Workers, state and development in Brazil
Powers of labour, chains of value
by Benjamin Selwyn
How do changing class relations contribute to processes of capitalist development? Within development studies the importance of class relations is usually relegated to lesser status than the roles of states and markets in generating and allocating resources. This book argues that the changing class relations are central to different patterns of capitalist development and that processes and outcomes of class struggle co-determine the form that development takes. Workers, State and Development in Brazil, nominated for the International Political Economy Group (IPGG) Book Prize 2013 and now available in paperback, illuminates these claims through a detailed empirical investigation of class dynamics and capitalist development in North East Brazil's São Francisco valley. It details how workers in the valley's export grape sector have won significant concessions from employers, contributing to a progressive pattern of regional capitalist development. The book will appeal to students and researchers interested in processes of capitalist development, agrarian political economy and international political economy. ;
-
Trusted Partner
-
Trusted Partner
PsychologyYay, I’m Having a Baby Brother or Sister!
by Stefanie Rietzler, Fabian Grolimund
A sibling? Duck Merle is about to haveeight! No wonder she’s so excited!She happily makes a mobile with Dad.When the chicks finally hatch, Merle isenchanted. In the hustle and bustle ofeveryday family life, Merle discovershow nice it is to cuddle with the littleones, help mum and dad with nappychanging and feeding, make her siblingslaugh and take good care of them.And luckily, there’s enough room forthem all in mummy and daddy’s heartsand on their laps!A sensitive read-aloud story about theadventure of becoming a big sibling,the happiness of still being allowed tobe small when you’re big, and all thebeautiful aspects of a strong sibling relationship– from the very beginning.
-
Trusted Partner
Children's & YAThe Enchanting Three (1). Hoggs and Bear Courage
by Stefanie Dahle
Hoggs the bear would love to be brave. But he is afraid of spiders and ghosts. And so Hoggs and his best friend Poki the skunk decide to go on an adventure in order to practise being brave. They head for the abandoned witch’s house behind the bee field. Ugh, it’s certainly ghostly! In fact there’s a kettle bubbling quite scarily…”Anybody there?” asks Hoggs cautiously. Yes! Fips the rabbit urgently needs help. And – whoosh! – suddenly the friends find themselves right in the middle of a stormy but magical adventure…
-
Trusted Partner
Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2008The culture of toleration in diverse societies
Reasonable tolerance
by Catriona McKinnon, Dario Castiglione
The idea of toleration as the appropriate response to difference has been central to liberal thought since Locke. Although the subject has been widely and variously explored, there has been reluctance to acknowledge the new meaning that current debates on toleration have when compared with those at its origins in the early modern period and with subsequent discussions about pluralism and freedom of expression. This collection starts from a clear recognition of the new terms of the debate. It recognises that a new academic consensus is slowly emerging on a view of tolerance that is reasonable in two senses. Firstly of reflecting the capacity of seeing the other's viewpoint, secondly on the relatively limited extent to which toleration can be granted. It reflects the cross-thematic and cross-disciplinary nature of such discussions, dissecting a number of debates such as liberalism and communitarianism, public and private, multiculturalism and the politics of identity, and a number of disciplines: moral, legal and political philosophy, historical and educational studies, anthropology, sociology and psychology. A group of distinguished authors explore the complexities emerging from the new debate. They scrutinise, with analytical sophistication, the philosophical foundation, the normative content and the broadly political implications of a new culture of toleration for diverse societies. Specific issues considered include the toleration of religious discrimination in employment, city life and community, social ethos, publicity, justice and reason and ethics. The book is unique in resolutely looking forward to the theoretical and practical challenges posed by commitment to a conception of toleration demanding empathy and understanding in an ever-diversifying world. ;
-
Trusted Partner
The ArtsMay 2021Development, architecture, and the formation of heritage in late twentieth-century Iran
A vital past
by Ali Mozaffari, Nigel Westbrook
This book analyses the use of the past and the production of heritage through architectural design in the developmental context of Iran, a country that has endured radical cultural and political shifts in the past five decades. Offering a trans-disciplinary approach toward complex relationship between architecture, development, and heritage, Mozaffari and Westbrook suggest that transformations in developmental contexts like Iran must be seen in relation to global political and historical exchanges, as well as the specificities of localities. The premise of the book is that development has been a globalizing project that originated in the West. Transposed into other contexts, this project instigates a renewed historical consciousness and imagination of the past. The authors explore the rise of this consciousness in architecture, examining the theoretical context to the debates, international exchanges made in architectural congresses in the 1970s, the use of housing as the vehicle for everyday heritage, and forms of symbolic public architecture that reflect monumental time.
-
Trusted Partner
Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2015Health Impact Assessment and policy development
The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
by Monica O'Mullane
It is an accepted convention that non-health sector policies and strategies impact on population health. An instrument and approach, Health Impact Assessment (HIA), seeks to assess the health impacts of projects, programmes and policies in a systematic way. The ultimate goal of HIA is to inform public policy processes of these impacts. This book provides for the first time an analysis of how and why HIAs informed local policy development in both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland. An original theoretical framework was used as the analytical lens for this exploration, drawing from the fields of political and social sciences, and public health. The HIA projects were conducted on traffic and transport, Traveller accommodation, urban redevelopment and air quality. This conceptually-grounded guide draws from the disciplines of the political and social sciences and public health, and will appeal to academics, students and practitioners in these fields as well as policy-makers and planners at local and national government levels. ;
-
Trusted Partner
Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2014Transforming conflict through social and economic development
Practice and policy lessons from Northern Ireland and the Border Counties
by Sandra Buchanan
Transforming conflict through social and economic development examines lessons learned from the Northern Ireland and Border Counties conflict transformation process through social and economic development and their consequent impacts and implications for practice and policymaking, with a range of functional recommendations produced for other regions emerging from and seeking to transform violent conflict. It provides, for the first time, a comprehensive assessment of the region's transformation activity, largely amongst grassroots actors, enabled by a number of specific funding programmes, namely the International Fund for Ireland, Peace I, II and III and INTERREG I, II and IIIA. These programmes have been responsible for a huge increase in grassroots practice which to date has attracted virtually no academic analysis; this book seeks to fill this gap. In focusing on the politics of the socioeconomic activities that underpinned the elite negotiations of the peace process, key theoretical transformation concepts are firstly explored, followed by an examination of the social and economic context of Northern Ireland and the border counties. The three programmes and their impacts are then assessed before considering what policy lessons can be learned and what recommendations can be made for practice. This is underpinned by a range of semi-structured interviews and the author's own experience as a project promoter through these programmes in the border counties for more than a decade. The book will be essential reading for students, practitioners and policymakers in the fields of peace and conflict studies, conflict transformation, peacebuilding, post-agreement reconstruction and the political economy of conflict and those interested in contemporary developments in the Northern Ireland peace process. ;
-
Trusted Partner
January 2022Konrad oder Das Kind aus der Konservenbüchse
by Christine Nöstlinger, Annette Swoboda
Mit Kindern hat Frau Bartolotti nicht viel am Hut. Darum fällt sie aus allen Wolken, als sie mit der Post einen Sohn geschickt bekommt: Konrad aus der Konservenbüchse. Er ist schrecklich ordentlich und nahezu perfekt und Frau Bartolotti ist sehr chaotisch. Aber dann gewinnt Frau Bartolotti Konrad so lieb, dass sie ihn gar nicht wieder hergeben will – auch wenn die unheimlichen Menschen aus der Konservenfabrik schon nach ihm suchen … Christine Nöstlingers Welterfolg - der österreichische Kinderbuch-Klassiker für Kinder ab 6 Jahren, zum Vorlesen und Selberlesen. Bestens geeignet für Lesemuffel durch die lustige und unkonventionelle Geschichte über eine exzentrische Mutter und ihren braven Adoptivsohn. Begeistert auch erwachsene Leser, für die das Werk häufig eine geliebte Kindheitserinnerung ist.
-
Trusted Partner
Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2025Fertile expectations
The politics of involuntary childlessness in twentieth-century France
by Margaret Cook Andersen
An engaging history of motherhood, demography, and infertility in twentieth-century France, this book explores fraught political and cultural meanings attached to the notion of an "ideal" family size. When statistics revealed a sustained drop in France's birthrate, pronatalist activists pushed for financial benefits, propaganda, and punitive measures to counter declining fertility. Situating infertility within this history, the author details innovations in fertility medicine, cultural awareness of artificial insemination, and changing laws on child adoption. These practices offered new ways of responding to infertility and formed part of a growing expectation of being able to control one's fertility and family size. This book presents the political and cultural context for understanding why private questions about when to start a family, how many children to have, and how to cope with involuntary childlessness, evolved and became part of state demographic policies.
-
Trusted Partner
Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2024Egypt and the rise of fluid authoritarianism
Political ecology, power and the crisis of legitimacy
by Maria Gloria Polimeno
Egypt and the rise of fluid authoritarianism focuses on the struggle of the post-2013 political authorities for internal political legitimacy after the crisis following the 2013 coup d'état. It explores the microstructural and macro-systemic dynamics of leadership, power, protests and the authority-making process in political systems. These cannot simply be defined as structural, political, social and economic projections of the authoritarianism of the past, but rather as a rupture with that past. The book offers a complex, ground-breaking socio-political and economic analysis into how the forging of an internal political legitimacy claim has eventually modified the regime in Egypt along the authoritarian spectrum, turning into a fluid autocracy closer to a non-exclusivist personalist regime. This shift had implications that resonated both politically and economically.
-
Trusted Partner
-
Trusted Partner
Children's & YAJuly 2021Die Wolkenponys - Das Geheimnis der Edelsteine (Band 1)
by Barbara Rose
The Magic Cloud Ponies - The Secret of the Diamonds (Vol.1) Four Hooves full of Magic Lotti, her parents and her sister have just moved to Wetterstein, because they have inherited Grandma Luna's big beautiful house. When Lotti moves into her new room, she finds a thick book on the shelf - the book of magical ponies. And just as she is about to open it, a dainty little bracelet with four precious stones on it falls out. Shortly thereafter, an unknown pony appears at the horse farm to which Lotti's older sister Paula has dragged her. It won't let anyone touch it - except Lotti. And then the pony starts talking to her! The pony is called Whirlwind because it comes from a magical land, the land of Light Blue. And this land is in great danger. Only Lotti, who is magically connected to Whirlwind and his three siblings by the bracelet, can help now.
-
Trusted Partner
Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2020Political theologies and development in Asia
by Giuseppe Bolotta, Philip Fountain, R. Michael Feener
-
Trusted Partner
Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2018Sex, politics and empire
by Richard Phillips, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, Caroline Wilding
