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A guide to methods in analytical political theory, offering concrete advice and clear examples of good and bad practice.
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Offering a real-world resource parents can use to teach their kids about the greatness of America's past, and the important role each individual plays in this democracy, this practical guide offers information parents can use to make patriotism part of their family's daily life.
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How do we help students work effectively with others from diverse cultural backgrounds? How do we help them understand the world? How do we prepare them for work and life in an era of globalization, volatility, and uncertainty? Empowering Global Citizens offers educators and parents compelling answers to those questions. This book presents The World Course, a curriculum on global citizenship education designed to equip students with the competencies they need to thrive and contribute to sustainable development in an era of globalization. Drawing on curriculum mapping this book offers a coherent and rigorous set of instructional units to support deep learning of twenty-first-century competenc...
Research by art critic Herner who has studied the personal archives of Siqueiros (b. Mexico 1896-1974) for more than 10 years. With a journalist style, the author presents the artistic discourse of one of the greatest muralists of the 20th century, discovering through his manuscripts, notes and published critical texts the complex man.
Architects reveal the keys to Architecture in their drawings, their floor plans, sections and also in their writings. It is important to appreciate the concise texts of Mies Van der Rohe or the more passionate expressions of Le Corbusier. And that is how I would like these texts, published here today, to be understood. Alberto Campo Baeza (born Valladolid, Spain, 1946) is one of the most important architects of the modern period. The Built Idea presents a series of seminal texts in which he conveys his most deeply-held architectural ideas and convictions, exploring and explaining his foundational influences and subjects such as the importance of light, the work of his contemporaries, and the...
Una vez más la botadura de un barco lleno de ideas, de ideas expresadas a través de las palabras de los textos que conforman un libro. Un libro lleno de ideas transmitidas a través de los escritos claros de un conjunto de profesores y de arquitectos invitados a las clases de la Escuela TS de Arquitectura de Madrid. Todos ellos, los profesores que colaboran con el autor y los invitados, son extraordinariamente valiosos. Y todos ellos han elaborado unos textos certeros. Se ha querido respetar en el caso de los extranjeros la lengua original, para dar fe de universalidad. La estructura no sólo soporta, no sólo aguanta, sino que resuena, suena como un instrumento musical cuando es acordado ...
In his introductory essay to this survey of Alberto Campo Baeza's projects and finished buildings, Antonio Pizza begins by listing the influences on the Spanish architect's career since 1971, the year in which he graduated from the Escuela de Arquitectura de Madrid. In particular, Pizza rightly draws attention to the importance of what Campo Baeza learned from Alejandro de la Sota, one of the most gifted of Spain's postwar architects.