Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
Book Description
Encyclopedia of world problems and human potential
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
Book Description
Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential
Author: Union of International AssociationsPublisher:
ISBN: 9783598111655
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 3160
Book Description
The destruction of wildlife habitats ... organized crime ... AIDS ... illiteracy ... acid rain -- these are among the 130,000 topics documented and discussed in the new edition of the Encyclopedia. But its truly unique goal is to present this complex set of issues in ways that facilitate an organized response. To this end, the book also focuses on the complex relationship between problems and society's own ideological relationship with these problems. How do human priorities and perceptions aggravate or enable problems? What are the established and alternative responses? The Encyclopedia contains over 158,000 cross-references between entries, an extensive 91,000 practical key term index, bibliographies, and full cross-referencing to the Yearbook of International Organizations. For anyone concerned with the world community, here are the means to explore and participate in today's most crucial endeavors.
Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential
Author: Union of International AssociationsPublisher:
ISBN: 9783598112256
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
Book Description
Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential: Actions, strategies, solutions
Author: Union of International AssociationsPublisher: De Gruyter Saur
ISBN: 9783598112270
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
The destruction of wildlife habitats ... organized crime ... AIDS ... illiteracy ... acid rain -- these are among the 130,000 topics documented and discussed in the new edition of the Encyclopedia. But its truly unique goal is to present this complex set of issues in ways that facilitate an organized response. To this end, the book also focuses on the complex relationship between problems and society's own ideological relationship with these problems. How do human priorities and perceptions aggravate or enable problems? What are the established and alternative responses? The Encyclopedia contains over 158,000 cross-references between entries, an extensive 91,000 practical key term index, bibliographies, and full cross-referencing to the Yearbook of International Organizations. For anyone concerned with the world community, here are the means to explore and participate in today's most crucial endeavors. A new addition to the work, Volume 3, Action -- Strategies -- Solutions, presents strategies for coping with world problems, with an emphasis on vicious self-sustaining cycles of problems.
Human Potential
Author: Marie AelesPublisher: K.G. Saur Verlag
ISBN: 9783111182872
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 949
Book Description
Human Potential. - 3. Ed. - 1991. - 949 S.
Author: Union of International AssociationsPublisher: K.G. Saur Verlag
ISBN: 9783111234373
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential
Author: Union of International AssociationsPublisher: De Gruyter Saur
ISBN: 9783598112263
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
The destruction of wildlife habitats ... organized crime ... AIDS ... illiteracy ... acid rain -- these are among the 130,000 topics documented and discussed in the new edition of the Encyclopedia. But its truly unique goal is to present this complex set of issues in ways that facilitate an organized response. To this end, the book also focuses on the complex relationship between problems and society's own ideological relationship with these problems. How do human priorities and perceptions aggravate or enable problems? What are the established and alternative responses? The Encyclopedia contains over 158,000 cross-references between entries, an extensive 91,000 practical key term index, bibliographies, and full cross-referencing to the Yearbook of International Organizations. For anyone concerned with the world community, here are the means to explore and participate in today's most crucial endeavors. Volume 2, Human Potential: Transformation and Values, contains 7,700 entries reflecting a spectrum of problem-solving approaches based on such human development issues as self-learning, creativity, and modes of awareness. The volume also focuses on specific religious beliefs, value systems, and thought patterns.
Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential: Actions, strategies, solutions
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
World Problems
Author: International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
Author: Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0081022964
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 7278
Book Description
International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Second Edition, Fourteen Volume Set embraces diversity by design and captures the ways in which humans share places and view differences based on gender, race, nationality, location and other factors—in other words, the things that make people and places different. Questions of, for example, politics, economics, race relations and migration are introduced and discussed through a geographical lens. This updated edition will assist readers in their research by providing factual information, historical perspectives, theoretical approaches, reviews of literature, and provocative topical discussions that will stimulate creative thinking. Presents the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage on the topic of human geography Contains extensive scope and depth of coverage Emphasizes how geographers interact with, understand and contribute to problem-solving in the contemporary world Places an emphasis on how geography is relevant in a social and interdisciplinary context