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Max Holleran is lecturer in social policy at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Tourism, Urbanization, and the Evolving Periphery of the European Union.
A fascinating account of the growing "Yes in My Backyard" urban movement
The exorbitant costs of urban housing and the widening gap in income inequality are fueling a combative new movement in cities around the world. A growing number of influential activists aren't waiting for new...
2582) Changing What's Normal
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Changing What's Normal is about changing our intention to one where everyone can win. Intention is another word for purpose.
If your intention or purpose is to co-create a world where everyone can win, to co-create change people can actually believe in, and make happen, then you will gain much from this book, providing you do your work.
Everything changes all the time. What was normal years ago, or even last week, is no longer so. Some things change...
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From Moment to Meaning: The Art of Scholar-Practitioner Inquiry is, grounded in the premise that context-embedded studies can yield important insights into the complexities of educational practice. For Scholar-Practitioners, such inquiries often arise when the routine course of events is, disrupted. The resulting disequilibrium precipitates a desire to understand what happened. Gaining such understanding entails a capacity for recollective, introspective,...
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The Urban Operational Plan (UOP) 2012-2020 of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) supports ADB developing member countries (DMCs) in expanding their urban economies, improving environmental sustainability, and making pro-poor investments through a 3E approach (Economy, Environment, and Equity). This case study on the Philippines is based on thematic areas of the National Urban Sustainability Assessment framework for developing strategic policy options...
2585) Restless Citizens
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Restless Citizens gives a unique insider's view of how the United Nations treats its employees. Written by Dr. Udoh E. Udom, a retired senior official in the World Health Organization, the book is a robustly critical but deeply informed view of all aspects of UN employment. Excerpted from the foreword by David Antill, School of Law, University of Leicester-UK Words: 60.
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Unos cuantos pensadores adelantados han caído en la cuenta de que ya no estamos viviendo en la era de la información, porque la información en sí misma no es la panacea o la solución, sino que, más bien, ha dado lugar a una sobrecarga de datos que provoca confusión y estrés. La que estamos viviendo ahora, nacida de la era de la información, es la era de la inteligencia.
Para mejorar nuestra manera de trabajar y gestionar empresas, y con la...
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Plongez sans attendre dans cet ouvrage afin d'en apprendre davantage sur l'économie parasitaire!
Pourquoi, depuis une quarantaine d'années, la plupart des pays développés voient-ils leurs performances économiques faiblir? La faute aux innovations technologiques, à la mondialisation, aux États trop interventionnistes? Les hypothèses sont nombreuses. Beat Bürgenmeier, professeur émérite d'économie, en propose ici une nouvelle: les fautifs,...
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Step aboard on a transformative journey through the pages of "Work to Wisdom: Essential Advice for Employees on Career and Retirement," a guide meticulously crafted to elevate your understanding of the professional world and equip you with essential insights for a fulfilling career and retirement. Here's why this book is a must-read: Unique Features:Global Perspective: Gain insights applicable to the global workforce. Understand the universal challenges...
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Make the complex task of creating a child-centered curriculum easier with the practical guidelines and ideas in this updated and expanded handbook. Learn how to sharpen your observation and documentation skills, set up your space, and transform your teaching to reflect children's interests and needs. Insightful classroom stories, assessment tools, checklists, comparative charts, and activities encourage new approaches and self-reflection as you plan...
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Three instructional coaches share more than 200 of the most helpful problem-solving strategies they've used in their decades-long work with teachers, administrators, and coaches.
The Instructional Coaching Handbook is not a new model of coaching. It addresses common hiccups that prevent productive coaching conversations from happening in the first place. From their thousands of annual school visits, the authors recognize that coaches frequently confront...
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This book will show you how to use Python to create graphic objects for technical illustrations and data visualization.
Often, the function you need to produce the image you want cannot be found in a standard Python library. Knowing how to create your own graphics will free you from the chore of looking for a function that may not exist or be difficult to use. This book will give you the tools to eliminate that process and create and customize your...
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Here's how to make purposeful system change happen!
The world faces a multitude of crises that demand transformative changes in how we live and do business. Yet a core question is...how to make purposeful transformation happen? Catalyzing Transformation shows the way through:
• Innovative organizing processes that anyone can use to catalyze purposeful whole system transformational change for a better world.
• How transformation catalysts work...
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A next-level teacher never settles for the status quo. Instead, they ignite students' passion for learning, and that enthusiasm spreads through the whole school. In Next-Level Teaching, Jonathan Alsheimer shows how educators can create school environments so exciting and electric that not only the students but even other teachers and administrators are inspired to greatness.
2594) The Scrum Guide Unfolds
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Scrum is based on a set core of values, principles, roles, and practices. This book sets to highlight these different aspects of Scrum. It is a good read to people new to Scrum and want to learn what it is all about. Experienced people who have used Scrum before will also find the information helpful as it dives deeper into the practices in Scrum.
This book is not meant to replace the Scrum Guide. It is a complementary resource meant to help teams...
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Using original empirical data, this book explores how local government officers and politicians negotiate 'difficult subjects' linked with community cohesion policy: diversity, inequality, discrimination, extremism, migration, religion, class, power and change. Winner of the BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2014
2596) Leadership 2030: The Six Megatrends You Need to Understand to Lead Your Company into the Future
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The tumultuous changes in the business world during the last decade have forced too many to focus on the short term, rushing to figure out how to produce quarterly profits in chaotic conditions. As a result, the longer view is often obscured, leaving businesses so busy fighting today's battles that they are completely unprepared for tomorrow's war.
The next cataclysmic wave is surging relentlessly ahead, demanding leaders who can steer their companies...
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Do you like your job? If your answer is no, you're not alone. Eighty percent of those who are, employed are unhappy in their career. In Be the DJ of Your Career, author Rodney Jenkins travels to places around the US to interview those happy in their profession to learn their secrets to mastering their jobs. Be the DJ of Your Career explores the intersection of self-knowledge and resourcefulness with interviews from people, who have tapped into their...
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An Essential Guide to Using the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct
Information and guidance to help you teach new and experienced educators about professional ethics and the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct.
Special Features of This New Edition
- Explains the needs of adult learners at different stages of professional development
- Details theories of moral development and their implications for ethical decision making
- Provides effective ways of teaching...
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Want to write novels that feel real enough to the reader to have been ripped from the headlines, whatever your genre? Think like a journalist. Journalists consult sources and reference materials to find realistic detail for their stories. But if you're a novelist - you have to build the reference source for your story world from scratch. Which is why you need to start setting rules and parameters with a STORY BIBLE OVERVIEW.
Get ready to get organized...
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This book provides crucial insight into the fight back against austerity by local authorities through emerging forms of municipal entrepreneurialism in housing delivery. Capturing this moment within its live context, the authors examine the ways that local authorities are moving towards increased financial independence based on their own activities to implement new forms and means of housebuilding activity. They assess these changes in the context...
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