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Designing, implementing, and operating a wireless sensor network involves a wide range of disciplines and many application-specific constraints. To make sense of and take advantage of these systems, a holistic approach is neededand this is precisely what Wireless Sensor Networks delivers.
Inside, two eminent researchers review the diverse technologies and techniques that interact in todays wireless sensor networks. At every step, they are guided by the high-level information-processing tasks that determine how these networks are architected and administered. Zhao and Guibas begin with the canonical problem of localizing and tracking moving objects, then systematically examine the many fundamental sensor network issues that spring from it, including network discovery, service establishment, data routing and aggregation, query processing, programming models, and system organization. The understanding gained as a resulthow different layers support the needs of different applications, and how a wireless sensor network should be built to optimize performance and economyis sure to endure as individual component technologies come and go.
·Written for practitioners, researchers, and students and relevant to all application areas, including environmental monitoring, industrial sensing and diagnostics, automotive and transportation, security and surveillance, military and battlefield uses, and large-scale infrastructural maintenance.
·Skillfully integrates the many disciplines at work in wireless sensor network design: signal processing and estimation, communication theory and protocols, distributed algorithms and databases, probabilistic reasoning, energy-aware computing, design methodologies, evaluation metrics, and more.
·Demonstrates how querying, data routing, and network self-organization can support high-level information-processing tasks.
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Not a good book........2007-07-09
This book provides you with lots of details required for beginners but there are better books available.
This book is written by two authors and you can clearly notice that. One author writes in a simple manner and other writes in a complicated way.
Bottom line is, this book might satisfy your needs but there are better books availabe other than this book.
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Intended to develop the essential selling skills needed to effectively market the broad range of credit and noncredit services banks now offer. Assist bankers in their roles as financial consultants to their customers. Updated and revised, it offers bankers a framework they can use to assess their sales effectiveness, improve their post-sales-call evaluation, and recover during a call.
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Nothing new.......2007-02-15
This book is a great disapointment. I heard a lot of Mrs Richardson work, I am on her news letter list and was a little too ansious to receive this book.
There is nothing new on her aproach, it is a not so well writen manual to apply sales techniques in the banking market. Somethig that any graduate can do after reading Dr Futrell's books or Spin Selling.
There is too much to explore in this teme. This sould bee a more compreensive work to be whorty.
Bankers in the Selling Role.......2006-03-14
Banking in the 1980's is a more fiercely competitive business than at any other time in history. Today's banking professional is expected to initiate sales and increase market share even as the number of competing banks and banking services spiral upward. In order to succeed in this intensely competitive enviroment, today's bankers must add the skills of a salesperson to their portfolio of financial expertise.
This compact "how to" guide - the first ever designed specifically for the banking profession - will help account and calling officers, product specialists, platform personnel, and management trainees develop the essential selling skills needed to effectively market the broad range of credit and noncredit services banks now offer. Drawing on her wide experience as a consultant to some of the leading banks in America, Linda Richardson shows you how to master a flexible, responsive approach to selling financial services - one that combines product knowledge with consultative selling skills. Using this approach, you'll be able to confidentlly plan your sales calls, recognise and respond to your customer's needs, and a sell financial relationship that will benefit your client and your organization.
--- from book's dustjacket
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Small Farm Animal Raising 101.......2001-03-23
Thear and Fraser have put together an excellent book, that is tragically out of print. Although written in 1980, its principles of raising one's own meat have not changed. The drawings and photographs are the best I've seen in any homesteading book. The book covers nearly any livestock or poultry you would want to raise, including instructions for shelter, breeding, and basic vetenarian care. If you can find this book anywhere, it will be well worth whatever price you pay!
small farmer's guide.......2000-11-25
this book is a great help to first time small scale farmers or people wanting these animals for pet it covers it all from breads to feed and shelter
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Membrane Fluidity In Biology: Volume 2-General Principles
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Paperback. This publication contains 21 papers presented at two symposia during the thirty-first COSPAR Scientific Assembly held in Birmingham, UK, during 1996. Papers reflect the following symposia themes: permanent changes in the ionosphere and middle atmosphere; electrodynamics of the low and subauroral middle atmosphere. For the first time, this single volume assembles a comprehensive collection of papers dealing with the long-term trends of various parameters in the Earth's near space environment, including new and emerging areas of research.
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During his distinguished scientific career, Alfred Saupe made important contributions to liquid crystal research, laying the groundwork on which much of the current knowledge and research in the physics of liquid crystals is based. This volume features papers presented by Prof. Saupe's colleagues, students and friends at a festschrift in honor of his 70th birthday. In addition, a selection of Prof. Saupe's articles are reprinted in the original German and in English translation, offering the reader a unique opportunity to see both the early work of this important scientist and widespread effect of that work on later discoveries in liquid crystal physics.
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Key figure in Liquid Crystals.......2004-07-02
In 1958 Alfred Saupe wrote the first of many seminal papers on the physics of liquid crystals. The best known of his results is the Maier-Saupe theory of liquid crystal phase formation. Ever since, he has been one of the towering figures in this field. This book is a collection of papers in his honour.
Please note that there is some deliberate duplication in the text. Several of Saupe's papers are printed in the original German, with accompanying English translations. Papers by other authors are of recent vintage, and demonstrate the vast strides in the field, as well as the industrial importance of the subject.
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Under the Frog follows the adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the anti-Soviet uprising of 1956. In this spirited indictment of totalitarianism, the two improbable heroes, Pataki and Gyuri, travel the length and breadth of Hungary in an epic quest for food, lodging, and female companionship.
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can it get any better?.......2007-04-15
I just picked up the book from Goodwill - just read the back cover and did not know what to expect - once I started reading the book there was no stopping - I could not stop laughing and sometimes crying at the same time. My attention was increased by the fact that I know somebody who took part in some of these events - but now he is extremely successful businessman in US and one of my good friends.
Tibor Fischer is flamboyant in describing the trying times of Hungary, just after World War II, during the Russian occupation (somewhat) - but the surprising part is the wit, satire and pan - which help us to see beyond the unimaginable tragedy of the destruction of a country and the fast death of a vibrant society under communism.
The protagonist Gyuri, a twenty something basketball player describes some of experiences in war torn Hungary in between December 1944, as the Germans are starting to retreat and the Red army is marching forward and October 1956 as the Russian tanks are again rumbling in Budapest. Hungary had turned into an orgy of atrocities - its darkness everywhere but Fischer shows the darkness in a light of wit without cynicism - the society falls apart, families perish and Gyuri loses his friends one after another. Fischer's description of the Hungarian society under siege is vivid. I promise you will love it
Powerful, humorous and brilliant.......2006-12-09
Written in a style that shares an awful lot with Joseph Heller's Catch 22, Fischer chronicles life in post (and partly mid) World War II Hungary. Since what I know about Hungary can fill a thimble, it proved to even be partly educational.
The book chronicles the story of Gyuri and Pataki, friends who wind up playing basketball together in Soviet era Hungary, but the two young men seem to spend a lot more time endeavoring to get laid (a cinch for Pataki, but a bit of challenge for Gyuri) doing their best to shirk off anything that smells like responsibility and in general keep from going mad in a world that seems to be rapidly disintegrating into insanity.
In an episodic fashion the reader is introduced to a host of brilliantly crafted and hysterical characters, each one more vivid than the next. This is a world where the fate of a village can hinge upon an eating contest.
Under the Frog would be a good book if all it was a comic adventure of two sometimes professional basketball players in post-war Hungary, but Fischer isn't content in telling a story that's all fluff. These are, after all, some very serious and scary times, and the author doesn't pull any punches in order to write a light-hearted tale. The book is as serious as it is funny, is downright heartbreaking in parts. In fact, the book is a lot like life, which it seems is never all serious, and never all laughs.
brilliant.......2004-09-02
Following footsteps of great english satirist, Fischer writes the marvelous book, that trembles with irony, that cries in agony, that shatters the reality of pink glasses and shows to all of you who still live in utopia, how life in communsim was really like. Mind you, this is not the political novel so do not be alarmed from the beggining. This is the novel of humans and peculiar way of interpreting the rules, way that people on balcan mastered in so great a scale that no one can outmatch them anymore. If you want great life, and something to think over, this is the book for you.
FIVE STARS NONETHELESS..........2004-08-24
I have yet to read your novel sir; but since so many critics hand out negative reviews without having read the damn book, I figured it was high time someone who had not read a book gave one a glowing review.
Remember me if I am ever up for the Man Booker, and you are still a judge.
Read Under the Frog. I gave it a full five stars!
(Publishers may not know how to work the graft and corruption--but have faith Mr. Fischer--some of us still do.)
Sorry for the cliche, but you'll laugh & you'll cry..........2004-06-11
I don't remember how I came across this book in the first place, but by the second page I was laughing out loud, read the whole thing in one sitting and immediately went back to the beginning and started reading again.
Why's it so good?
First of all, it's packed with Fischer's unique sense of humor. Read the first couple sample pages; if you're not laughing, you probably won't enjoy the rest of the book. The humor is black, definitely. But there's a good chance you'll be laughing HARD nonetheless. Pranks, absurd situations, physical comedy, and wicked wordplay rule the roost.
Second of all, it's dead serious. The book is about communism and the attempted revolution in Hungary in 1956. If you want to see the absurdity and insanity of the communist system as it looked from the inside at that time, Fischer delivers. It is fascinating, shocking, and it would be unbelievable if the author didn't make it so very believable.
I haven't seen anyone mention it, but Under the Frog reads a lot like Kurt Vonnegut's best work (Slaughterhouse V or Cat's Cradle). For me, though, Fischer's book has a lot more reread value -- neither the humor nor the horror has grown thin over the many times I've read it. Highest recommendation.
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- The very best history of DBP ever written
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- The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam
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A highly acclaimed, well-written, and flawlessly researched history of the battle that doomed the French Empire and led America into Vietnam.
In December 1953 the French army occupying Vietnam challenged the elusive Vietnamese army to engage in a decisive battle. When French paratroopers landed in the jungle on the border between Vietnam and Laos, the Vietnamese quickly isolated the French force and confronted them at their jungle base in a small place called Dien Bien Phu. The hunters-the French army-had become the hunted, desperately defending their out-gunned base. The siege in the jungle wore on as defeat loomed for the French. Eventually the French were depleted, demoralized, and destroyed. As they withdrew, the country was ominously divided at U.S. insistence, creating the short-lived Republic of South Vietnam for which 55,000 Americans would die in the next twenty years.
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The very best history of DBP ever written.......2007-09-24
T. E. Lawrence wrote that amateurs do something because they love to, and professionals because they must. We can thank the muses that Martin Windrow is a self-described amateur, because this work bears all the hallmarks of serious and loving craftsmanship. He places both the war, and the battle in context, he casts a glaring light upon some of its myths, and he gives serious attention to the technical aspects of the battle that the great majority of military professionals would otherwise miss, such as the state of Viet Minh artillery tactics and doctrine. Were Fall still alive and writing, Windrow would still have outclassed him. Anything and everything you want or need to know about the battle for Dien Bien Phu is here. The very best military history I've read in English in a very long time. Bravo!
simply excellent.......2007-08-21
the book just kind of grabbed me, twice.
first when i saw it on the library shelf, i read "hell in a very small place" many years ago and have a continuing interest in vietnam and america's involvement there.
the second time is when i started reading it, it reads like an excellent detective story, i sat and sat and finished it at one sitting, not a small feat considering it is over 700 pages long. This style is the first very notable characteristic.
not only is the writing excellent, but the author is one of those people who you can imagine talking to. he appears to a military historian from his amazon authors page. writing since the 1970's with an accent on french and the foreign legion. But this book looks like a long term research project and literally a work of love. the detail and interest he displays puts it in a class almost by itself. the only other military history that i've been this impressed by is the boer war by pakenham. The research and simply put love that went into this book is evident thoughout and is a second notable item.
there is something else that makes it outstanding, several places he shows some very unique and well thought out ideas. they are just snatches of his worldview: some pages about the wounds caused by military bullets, a couple of places where he talks about the relationships between politicians and military leaders, and his discussion about how men fight for their buddies next to them, not geopolitical big things. There are just a few of these rather tantilizing glimpses, enough to make me look for more of his books. This disclosure of the man behind the work and his ideas developed from a lifetime of study in history is remarkable and the 3rd item i wish to point out.
I'd not a fan of military histories, nor an i particularly interested in the genre. But i do like his writing. I find the careful analysis of what happened, what lead up to it, how people responded fascinating and as yesterday proved, somewhat addictive. There is an overwhelming number of names, who went where and fought whom, etc, those datum that make up military history, but it is not so bad that it bores or obscures the ideas. He is a very careful documenter of the facts, desirous of completeness and setting the historical record straight. All elements which appear strongly in the book.
There is another thing remarkable about the book and it's author, a desire to look at the facts and the events and truly learn from them. To see this part of our world, a somewhat dark one, filled with the dead and lost, and remember them not just for their sacrifices but what these things have to teach us about ourselves and the societies we find ourselves in. and the first place to find the meaning of events is to get them right, to be factual and see what happened and propose why. something that this book does in a uniquely interesting and useful way.
i sure wish the militaries of the world had more thoughtful people like this author, either in their general staffs or in their officer universities. perhaps a significant dose of reality and history is what more of our military leaders need before embarking on disastrous campaigns.
5 stars for effort, but 2 stars for readability.......2007-07-25
I must say that the author did an excellent job if he intended this book to be a record of the day to day action on all theaters of engagement between the French and the Viet Minh.
Because of the excessive level of detail, the book is very diffcult to read and appreciate. It is a mind numbing experience.
Read this only if you wish to know in detail the horrible sufferings that that combatants on either side faced in a senseless war. Otherwise you will be better off with just a summary.
The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam.......2007-02-05
This is a superb and well constructed book and is by far one of the best accounts of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu that has been written. The author gives the reader a great insight to the formation of the Viet Minh and their rise to become a formidable fighting force whose journey to power led to the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu.
The book is well balanced and very readable. It gives a well presented account of the battle and how it unfolded and also shows how, although the French were defeated, at some stages of the fighting, victory could have gone either way with the staggering battle casualties suffered by the Viet Minh.
He also deals with the communist purges in the north after the French had been defeated and the division of the country into North and South Vietnam.
This fine book would not be out of place on the bookshelf of anyone interested in the military campaigns of Vietnam.
A Maginificant Account of an Epic Battle.......2006-12-19
A gripping account of how, in 1953-54, the Vietminh laid seige to the French forces in the valley of Dien Bien Phu. The book is mesmerising in its honest detail, and confident in its vision and truth. Over 20 detailed maps bring vividly to life every stage of the battle; the reader gets an excellent sense of the topography and tactics of the antagonists.
Windrow explains everything: how many packets of rice a Vietminh soldier carried; the complicated science of gunnery; the difficulties of air-borne aid operations; life in the trenches; the trajectory of bullets inside the body; the chilling variety of ways soldiers can die from artillery and mortar fire. This - together with his deft character sketches - creates an epic drama of an epic battle. The French forces had the advantage of aircraft and entrenched positions, but once these were neutralised by General Giap's AA guns and overwhelming numbers, the French became the underdogs. That they were able to hold out as long as they did is truly remarkable, and they are rightly honoured in French military history.
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Hasia R. Diner
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"Diner has neither idolized nor debunked the Jewish leaders who sought to help blacks achieve a better life. What she has done, and this should be a model for others writing ethnic history, is to examine the complexities that motivated one group of individuals to help another." -- Labor History
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ASIN: 0300073593 |
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This is the first published biography of the remarkable Joseph Leidy (1823-91), a scientist of astonishing achievement and breadth of interests. A man who seemed to know everything, Leidy was-among many other things-the foremost human anatomist of his time, the first truly productive microscopist, the father of American protozoology and parasitology, and the founder of American invertebrate paleontology.
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A carefully researched and well-written account of a forgotten genius.......2006-08-26
An outstanding account. Another reviewer has complained that there is relatively little here about Leidy himself, but the book is filled with accounts and stories of Leidy, his fears, his struggles, his hopes, and his triumphs -- there is much here about Leidy 'the man'. True, there is also much here about science in America during Leidy's life, which I found fascinating. This is a carefully researched book, with copious notes and references, and dense with facts and supporting historical perspectives. It is not a leisurely read, but a very rewarding one. Thank you, Dr. Warren, for such a fine effort.
A marginal biography of a great man.......1999-12-09
Most readers of this book who are familiar with Joseph Leidy and his work will be disappointed. The biography offers an ear full about the scientific climate during the late 1800's of America, but relatively little about, Joseph Leidy, himself. Throughout the book the author laments the fact that Leidy was not an experimental biologist or theorist, and overlooks Leidy's talents as a descriptive biologist, geologist, and (what he is most known for) paleontologist. This book, even, lacks a bibliography of Joseph Leidy's writings. I would suggest anyone to read Joseph Leidy's original words. Hopefully we don't have to wait another 150 years for the next biography to be published.
An absorbing account of the life of a Victorian scientist........1999-01-21
This book is required reading for anyone interested in natural history or the academic and scientific climate of 19th century Philadelphia. Leidy, a man of immense distinction in his time, was virtually forgotten in this century. Warren has given us an absorbing account of the life and times of this eminent Victorian, and in doing so has restored him to the stature he deserves as "The Last Man Who Knew Everything."
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Joseph Leidy: The Last Man Who Knew Everything
Leonard Warren
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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ASIN: B000ORYH94 |
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Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist
Mitchell Thomashow
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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ASIN: 0262700638 |
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Mitchell Thomashow, a preeminent educator, shows how environmental studies can be taught from different perspective, one that is deeply informed by personal reflection. Through theoretical discussion as well as hands-on participatory learning approaches, Thomashow provides concerned citizens, teachers, and students with the tools needed to become reflective environmentalists.
What do I know about the place where I live? Where do things come from? How do I connect to the earth? What is my purpose as a human being? These are the questions that Thomashow identifies as being at the heart of environmental education. Developing a profound sense of oneself in relationship to natural and social ecosystems is necessary grounding for the difficult work of environmental advocacy. In this book he provides a clear and accessible guide to the learning experiences that accompany the construction of an "ecological identity": using the direct experience of nature as a framework for personal decisions, professional choices, political action, and spiritual inquiry.
Ecological Identity covers the different types of environmental thought and activism (using John Muir, Henry David Thoreau, and Rachel Carson as environmental archetypes, but branching out into ecofeminism and bioregionalism), issues of personal property and consumption, political identity and citizenship, and integrating ecological identity work into environmental studies programs. Each chapter has accompanying learning activities such as the Sense of Place Map, a Community Network Map, and the Political Genogram, most of which can be carried out on an individual basis.
Although people from diverse backgrounds become environmental activists and enroll in environmental studies programs, they are rarely encouraged to examine their own history, motivations, and aspirations. Thomashow's approach is to reveal the depth of personal experience that underlies contemporary environmentalism and to explore, interpret, and nurture the learning spaces made possible when people are moved to contemplate their experience of nature.
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Sound but not artful prose.......2005-03-19
Mitchell Thomashow has written a thought-provoking book. I had trouble getting through it, in part because I kept putting it down to think about what I had just read.
Thomashow presents imaginative ways of teaching students of all ages and backgrounds to reflect upon their relationship to Nature, but he is not telling the story of any particular person's exploration, which I think would have been a more compelling way of conveying his ideas. Rather this is a textbook and is written mostly in the form of "assertion - information that backs up the assertion - summary of argument that backs up assertion" REPEAT. Thought-provking, but dry.
I found myself gliding through the personal passages wherein Thomashow describes is own realizations about his relationship to Nature and also breezing through the passages wherein in he gives you some background information on the personal perspectives and lives of his students. Only to come to a stuttering halt when he switches to expository mode.
There is something inorganic about the structure of the chapters. Background information about the diametrically opposed views of John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt (prevervation vs. conservation) does not lead smoothly into a discussion of who occupies those pole positions in the contemporary setting. Rather we get a quick once-over of the contemporary scene that claims that it's all much more complicated now. From there Thomashow proceeds to a description of a classroom exercise that forces students to think about the discrepancy between their own convictions and what position their profession forces them to take. All of this is interesting, but it does fit together neatly.
The reader will find a lot of really well thought out and clearly described teaching techniques here. The book seems largely intended for other teachers rather than for individuals who wish to reflect upon their own environmentalism in private.
Reflections of a Thoughtful Environmentalist.......2004-03-12
Author Mitchell Thomashow,Professor of Environmental Studies at Antioch New England Graduate School present a a scholarly perspective of what it really means to be a "Reflective Environmentalist." In presenting his case, he provides the reader with a solid historical foundation for Environmental Studies, including colorful biographical sketches of ecological pioneers such as Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, Rachael Carson,and David Brower. Thomashow integrates his own personal observations and revelations of the Natural World with his extensive teaching experiences, thus providing a varied and thoughtful perspective of what is means to establish, and re-create a unique "Ecological Identity."
Anyone who reads this book can not help but be inspired to delve further into the ecological literature...and especially to expand their knowledge to establish a deeper relationship with Nature. Well researched, interesting, and intellectualy stimulating! Elliott Maynard, Ph.D., President, Arcos Cielos Research Center, Sedona, Arizona.
Eco-Awakenings.......2000-09-25
Thoughtfully written, and carefully capturing the wonder of his learners --- and their nurturing teacher --- "Ecological Identity" is a superb book. Although the prose can be a little slow at times, the arguments are cogently presented and the style is generally helpful and lucid.
Beginners will enjoy this journey that Thomashow leads, and find the exercise well worthwhile. But this book is by no means only for the neophyte. Long-time environmentalists, eco-activists, or simply environmentally concerned readers will find a wealth of new insights each and every time they return. This is a book you will read again and still find small treasures and new directions to explore.
It's not easy being concerned for the environment or keeping a sustainable outlook life in a consumption-prone, techno-rah-rah society. Yet this is exactly the kind of contradiction swirling around and festering within each and every one of us. Learning to identify these contradictions, embrace them, and move beyond them is a formidable task. Explored so well in these chapters, Thomashow again and again strives to break through these contradictions. He leads the reader along on the quest to develop wider and wider circles of identification while simultaneously exploring one's individuality. The journey is a long one, but with guides like the author, it is a path well worth taking.
Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist.......1999-12-03
Clearly and concisely written, the author deftly probes psychology, sociology, and the multifaceted history of environmental thought, activism, and theory.
The book is a deeply compassionate, insightful discussion that helps environmentalists reflect upon their motivations and resolve internal struggles. A "must read" for all trying to balance realism and the accompanying pain of loss (when viewing the ecological destruction happening around us) with the optimism necessary to keep on fighting positively for societal change.
This book could serve as a guiding text for an environmental discussion group, or for opening communications and building community understanding and consensus in the face of conflict.
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Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist
Mitchell Thomashow
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OR1IU0 |
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Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist
Mitchell Thomashow
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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