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John Langan has, in the last few years, established...

According to author Dorothy P. McKinley, our schools have taken away the spirit of our children by treating them as Xerox copies, focusing on duplication of a single ideal.

Instead, we should focus on helping individuals to discover and love their own uniqueness.

Inspired by Henry David Thoreau's wisdom about the power of natural encounters, the author's visionary educational method seeks to transform the planet by teaching individuals to reach inside of themselves to better see the world around them.

And in Mirror the World Through the Arts: Joyful Learning Through...

At each point in time, individuals make choices with respect to the acquisition, sale, and/or use of a variety of different goods. Such activity can be summarized by aggregate variables such as an economy's total production of various goods and services, the aggregate level of unemployment, the general level of interest rates, and the overall level of prices.

The focus of this book is on developing simple theoretical models that provide insight into the reasons for fluctuations in such aggregate variables. The models included explore how shocks or 'impulses' to the economy...

The major elements of environmental economics are clearly described and illustrated for the noneconomist in this timely work. Business practitioners, environmental scientists, planners and engineers, and students will gain a broad understanding of what economics may contribute to environmental assessment and decisionmaking. The presentation is largely nonmathematical.

Emphasizing critical assumptions and intuitive logic, this overview of the theoretical foundations allows readers from a variety of backgrounds to develop and apply tools needed to function effectively in the increasingly...

First published in 1957, 'Adventure in Play' is a report on one of the first experimental adventure playgrounds in the UK, funded by the National Playing Fields Association (now 'Fields in Trust'). An original idea of the Danish landscape architect, C.T. SOrenson, adventure playgrounds aimed to provide children with designated space to do what mattered to them, rather than to the adults for whom urban spaces were designed. The adventure playground pioneers saw adventure playgrounds as a potential solution to a fundamental problem in society, described by Mays as "the wide cleavage...