Download or read book The Co Housing Phenomenon written by Emanuele Giorgi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents 50 case studies of contemporary co-housing projects spread all over the world to show how communities of shared living have become a global phenomenon that can serve as a tool to promote social and urban sustainability. By presenting evidence that shared housing experiences are capable of revitalizing sterile urban fabrics and promoting social sustainable practices, the volume situates co-housing experiences as microscale responses to the macroscale challenges posed by environmental degradation and the decline of communitarian ways of living. The volume also reviews the most famous typologies of shared living in different parts of the world across human history. By analyzing historical experiences in different regions of Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania, the author shows that living together is part of a historical culture of sharing that is being rediscovered all over the world by people who activate public spaces, work in shared offices or live in contractual communities. The Co-Housing Phenomenon – Environmental Alliance in Times of Changes will be of interest to both professionals and scholars involved in urban design, urban planning and architecture, especially those in the field of sustainable urbanism. It will also be a valuable resource for public agents and civil society organizations dealing with housing, social, environmental and sustainability policies.

Download or read book Keynes Hayek The Clash that Defined Modern Economics written by Nicholas Wapshott and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I defy anybody—Keynesian, Hayekian, or uncommitted—to read [Wapshott’s] work and not learn something new.”—John Cassidy, The New Yorker As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend when others would not. He met his opposite in a little-known Austrian economics professor, Freidrich Hayek, who considered attempts to intervene both pointless and potentially dangerous. The battle lines thus drawn, Keynesian economics would dominate for decades and coincide with an era of unprecedented prosperity, but conservative economists and political leaders would eventually embrace and execute Hayek's contrary vision. From their first face-to-face encounter to the heated arguments between their ardent disciples, Nicholas Wapshott here unearths the contemporary relevance of Keynes and Hayek, as present-day arguments over the virtues of the free market and government intervention rage with the same ferocity as they did in the 1930s.

Download or read book We Are Human Angels written by Human Angels and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a human angel? Find out why this course can change your life.Have you always suffered because of your sensitivity? Have you always had the feeling of being out of place here on earth? Have you, from the very beginning, believed to be born for a greater purpose even though you did not know until now which one it could be? By taking this course you will find all of the answers to the most profound questions about who you are and the meaning of your presence here on earth. You will learn how to manage your intense sensitivity as a Human Angel and how to make the best use of it in helping others. "The 7 Keys to overcome the ego" and "The 7 keys to live with the heart in service to the Oneness" are the titles of the two parts of this course. Fourteen chapters to change your life forever, to guide you, step by step, on your journey in overcoming the ego and suffering, until the fulfilment of your true nature as a Human Angel. Within the pages of this book, you will find out that what seemed to be a burden weighing heavily on your shoulders over the years, were simply your wings.The book phenomenon of the web.The book We are Human Angels, with its unique story, is the book phenomenon of the web. It is a self-published book, and is only available online. Because of this, We are Human Angels has not been given the usual promotion and marketing efforts that publishing houses normally carry out with their newest releases. Nevertheless, in a very short time after its publication many readers of different nationalities, driven by the deep wish to share its message, spontaneously started to contact the authors offering to translate the book into their native languages. We are Human Angels can now count on many different translations (and other translations are yet to come) and has become the benchmark for the steadily increasing community of Human Angels in the world.

Download or read book The Impact of Overbuilding on People and the Planet written by David A. Ness and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the status quo where profligate building and urban development is described as ‘green’ and ‘low carbon’, exposing a number of ‘elephants in the big green room’ that severely impact upon society and the environment. It questions the ethics, equity and sustainability of continued growth of the building stock in industrialized contexts amid diminishing demand, whilst the developing world is deprived of basic resources and infrastructure. Even a ‘circular’ built environment may not go far enough, when dramatic reduction in consumption of resources is required to meet ‘sufficient’ service levels. More socio-economic value may be derived from built resources by their stewardship, adaptation, reuse and equitable sharing, while ameliorating the adverse impacts of overconsumption. By taking a wider perspective of a sustainable built environment, the text—illustrated by case studies from the Olympics and nine countries—reframes the policy debate and reforms current approaches through a new theory and manifesto. It will appeal to policy makers, architects, urban designers, educators, students and green building practitioners.

Download or read book The Development of Capitalism in Russia written by Vladimir I. Lenin and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS The Development of Capitalism in Russia The Theoretical Mistakes of the Narodnik Economists The Differentiation of the Peasantry The Landowners' Transition from Corvée to Capitalist Economy The Growth of Commercial Agriculture The First Stages of Capitalism in Industry Capitalist Manufacture and Capitalist Domestic Industry The Development of Large-Scale Machine Industry The Formation of the Home Market

Download or read book Prosperity Without Growth written by Tim Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim Jackson, a top sustainability adviser to the UK government, makes a compelling case against continued economic growth in developed nations. He provides a vision of how human society can flourish, within the ecological limits of a finite planet.

Download or read book A Safe and Just Space for Humanity Can we live within the doughnut written by Kate Raworth and published by Oxfam. This book was released on with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery since 1871 written by Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Ever since the Industrial Revolution of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, industrialization has been the key to modern economic growth. The fact that modern industry originated in Britain, and spread initially to north-western Europe and North America, implied a dramatic divergence in living standards between the industrial North (or 'West') and a non-industrial, or even de-industrializing, South (or 'Rest'). This nineteenth-century divergence, which had profound economic, military, and geopolitical implications, has been studied in great detail by many economists and historians. Today, this divergence between the 'West' and the 'Rest' is visibly unravelling, as economies in Asia, Latin America and even sub-Saharan Africa converge on the rich economies of Europe and North America. This phenomenon, which is set to define the twenty-first century, both economically and politically, has also been the subject of a considerable amount of research. Less appreciated, however, are the deep historical roots of this convergence process, and in particular of the spread of modern industry to the global periphery. This volume fills this gap by providing a systematic, comparative, historical account of the spread of modern manufacturing beyond its traditional heartland, to Southern and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, or what we call the poor periphery. It identifies the timing of this convergence, finding that this was fastest in the interwar and post-World War II years, not the more recent 'miracle growth' years. It also identifies which driving forces were common to all periphery countries, and which were not.

Download or read book The Light Years written by Elizabeth Jane Howard and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “dazzling” novel follows a family of English aristocrats as their country teeters on the brink of World War II (Penelope Fitzgerald). As war clouds gather on the distant horizon, Hugh, Edward, and Rupert Cazalet, along with their wives, children, and loyal servants, prepare to leave London for their annual pilgrimage to the family’s Sussex estate. There, they will join their parents, William and Kitty, and sister, Rachel, at Home Place, the sprawling retreat where the three brothers hope to spend an idyllic summer of years gone by. But the First World War has left indelible scars. Hugh, the eldest of his siblings, was wounded in France and is haunted both by recurring nightmares of battle and the prospect of another war. Edward adores his wife, Villy, a former dancer searching for meaning in life, yet he’s incapable of remaining faithful to her. Rupert desires only to fulfill his potential as a painter, but finds that love and art cannot coexist. And devoted daughter Rachel discovers the joys—and limitations—of intimacy with another woman. A candid portrait of British life in the late 1930s and a sweeping depiction of a world on the brink of war, The Light Years is a must-read for fans of Downton Abbey. Three generations of the Cazalet family come to unforgettable dramatic life in this saga about England during the last century—and the long-held values and cherished traditions that would soon disappear forever.

Download or read book Financial Innovation and Resilience written by Lilia Costabile and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Ignazio Visco, Governor of the Bank of Italy, says in his Foreword, all economic policy makers today need to re-examine our history to help them confront the challenges of today. This edited volume focuses specifically on the theme of financial innovation and how financial resiliency was achieved in Naples. To highlight both the achievements of the public banks of Naples and their lessons for financial resiliency, the book focuses on financial crises and how they were overcome in Naples in contrast to other European financial systems. The first section focuses on the development of the public banks unique to Naples. The second section compares those with other banking systems and how they responded to the same shock in 1622, caused by the full mobilization of European belligerents to finance their efforts in the Thirty Years War. The next section compares lessons learned in the rest of Europe over the next century and a half. The final section comes back to original start of the narrative arc to suggest ways that today’s policymakers and thinkers could use the historical experience of the public banks of Naples to deal better with the ongoing problems stemming from the financial crisis of 2007-08.

Download or read book Worldproof Leadership written by Aynur Doğan and published by CCBS Press. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offer an intercultural benchmark on local leadership practices in no less than twenty-one countries. Our world is internationalising at a fast pace, and more and more of us choose to find work elsewhere. This title gifs insights around cultural aspects of leadership through country-specific literature research. This quantitative research was strengthened by a global online survey about leadership (CCBS Survey, 2018). In total over 2,700 qualified respondents participated. Text copyright: Adi Hendriks; Agnes So; Aikò Dreesen; Alessandra Neerincx; Alessandro Asproso; Alexandra Rossman; Amy Bosschieter; Anna van den End; Arash Seyfollahi; Arwin Naziri; Ashley Scheenloop; Bastian Lamers; Blawal Tariq; Brandon Rustenberg; Brian Torres Rojas; Bryan van de Groep; Chakib Boulachioukh; ChihHsin Lu (魯直欣）; Daan Kossen; Dania El Harmouch; Dave Dekker; Davis Koffie Uesugi; Doeun Park (박도은); Efrim van Barneveld; Elias Karlström; Elisabetta Ghermandi; Elizabeth Zakharova; Esmeralda Brank; Eva McLaughlin; Fabiana Krüger; Floor Buikema; Giulia Nasti; Hans Badu; Ivan Tsjarachtsants; Jamil de Heer; Jan van den Berg; Jasmijn van Beekum; Jasper van Lente; Jeremy Alberts; Jermaine Jonke; Jeroen van de Weerd; Jevon Ribbens; Jiyeon Seo (서지연); Joey Agterberg; Jo-Mairro Burnet; Jordan Simpson; Jossy Valenzuela Morillo; Julia van Winden; Kasane Bos; Kieran Taylor; Kirsty Czaszewicz; Kristiane Ochaeta; Kylian Kherbache; Lars Eijman; Lea Alejandrino; Leon van Helden; Leon Zeeuw; Loula van der Sande; Maggie Shen Yingjie (沈颖杰); Mairead Carter; Marius de Best; Martijn Awater; Mats Grobben; Mattijn Dam; Maurice Boukhrass; Maxime Woerdeman; Melanie Straatman; Menno de Baas; Michael Spiegelhoff; Michel Bouman; Michelle Heitmann; Mirre van Wesemael; Mo Soran; Mohammed El Bouhdifi ( )ﺪﻤﺤﻣ ﻲﻔﻳﺪﺤﺒﻟﺍ ; Nicky van der Zwaan; Niek Stoilov; Olga Maciejewska; Ornela Segunda; Quỳnh Nguyễn Phạm; Rick Springer; Rik Visser; Robbin Hegeman; Robin Smid; Roma Kisoenpersad; Ruben Siekman; Sahline Schaaf; Saman Aziz; Sander de Vos; Sarah-Lena Reindl; Savannah van der Ploeg; Shannon Pereira Sanches; Shirley Esquivel Nuñez; Souhaila Bousmara; Stijn Wichary; Sunny Byun; Sven Dooijeweerd; Tarık Ceylan; Thijs Keuchenius; Thom Slief; Thomas de Vijlder; Tiago Salvador Cabrita; Ties Visser; Tim Hofma; Tim Koper; Timo Winkel; Tugba Güler; Vania Vargas Gallardo; Vay Melis; Vladyslav Zhyhalko (Жигалко Владислав); William Kallur; Xiaowen Shirley Chen (陈霄雯); Yannick Draaijer; Yannick Kuijpers; Yasmin Ehrhardt; Yelyzaveta Zakharova (Елизавета Захарова); Yıldız Cincil; Yorick Verhagen and Youssef Eisawi. Final editors: Aynur Doğan, Sander Schroevers, Natalia Kempny, Kalin Tsanov and Isabella Venter.

Download or read book The Philosophy of Antonio Negri Volume One written by Timothy S. Murphy and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2005 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outstanding contributors include Pierre Macherey, Charles Wolfe, Alex Callinicos and Judith Revel

Download or read book An Unlikely Union written by Paul Moses and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They came from the poorest parts of Ireland and Italy, and met as rivals on the sidewalks of New York. In the nineteenth century and for long after, the Irish and Italians fought in the Catholic Church, on the waterfront, at construction sites, and in the streets. Then they made peace through romance, marrying each other on a large scale in the years after World War II. An Unlikely Union unfolds the dramatic story of how two of America's largest ethnic groups learned to love and laugh with each other in the wake of decades of animosity. The vibrant cast of characters features saints such as

Download or read book Natural Capitalism written by Paul Hawken and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are no more reespected voices in the environmental movement than these authors, true counselors on the direction of twenty-first-century business. With hundreds of thousands of books sold worldwide, they have set the agenda for rational, ecologically sound industrial development. In this inspiring book they define a superior & sustainable form of capitalism based on a system that radically raises the productivity of nature's dwindling resources. Natural Capitalism shows how cutting-edge businesses are increasing their earnings, boosting growth, reducing costs, enhancing competitiveness, & restoring the earth by harnessing a new design mentality. The authors offer dozens of examples of businesses that are making fourfold or even tenfold gains in efficiency, from self-heating & self-cooling buildings to 200-miles-per-gallon cars, while ensuring that workers aren't downsized out of their jobs. This practical blueprint shows how making resources more productive will create the next industrial revolution

Download or read book A Lotus Trail written by Tara Gardiner and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I woke, in the nude, surrounded by empty beer bottles and five naked men, with no idea how I got there". After a childhood accident left her permanently disabled, Tara Gardiner spent decades searching for happiness. For 20 years, she backpacked through North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia, on a fruitless hunt for meaning. The life and soul of every party, ready for any adventure her damaged knee would permit, she lived life to the full. So why were her fleeting moments of joy marred by illness, hangovers, memory gaps, physical and sexual assault - and shame? Finally, in a desperate attempt to avoid the knee replacement her doctors said was essential, Tara tried a new path. Returning to India after 18 years, she swapped drink, drugs and anonymous sex for yoga, study and Tibetan Buddhism. And as she began to find, inside herself, the contentment she sought, a chance encounter in India's poorest state directed her to her life's purpose. Populated with a cast of colourful characters, A Lotus Trail is the story of one woman's quest for self-discovery. It will take you on an inspiring journey from desperation to transformation, and show you that anything is possible.

Download or read book Sustainable Building for a Cleaner Environment written by Ali Sayigh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains selected papers presented during the bi-annual World Renewable Energy Network’s Med Green Forum aimed at the international community as well as Mediterranean countries. This forum highlights the importance of growing renewable energy applications in two main sectors: Electricity Generation and the Sustainable Building Sector. In-depth chapters highlight the most current research and technological breakthroughs, covering a broad range of renewable energy technologies and applications in all sectors – for electricity production, heating and cooling, agricultural applications, water desalination, industrial applications and for the transport sectors.

Download or read book The Leap of Faith written by Sven H. Steinmo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-25 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Why are citizens in some countries more willing to pay taxes than in other countries? This book examines the history of the relationship between citizens and their states in five countries, (Sweden, Britain, Italy, Romania, and the United States), and demonstrates how and why people in in some countries have come to trust the government with their money while in other countries they do not. The book explores the evolution of this relationship in detail, in each case showing how some governments developed the fiscal and technical capacity to tax their citizens fairly and deliver public services efficiently. In short, how and why some countries became more trustworthy than others. The volume concludes by examining the implications of these five cases for developing countries today and the lessons that can be learned.