Mapping society : the spatial dimensions of social cartography

From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth’s famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth-century Asmara, to a map of wealth disparities in the banlieues of twenty-first-century Paris, Mapping Society traces the evolution of social cartography over the past two centuries. In this richly illustrated b…

Renewable : the world-changing power of alternative energy

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9780312643751

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294 p. ; 25 cm.

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The future : six drivers of global change

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come. Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history. With the same passion he brought to the challenge of climate change, and with his …

The tipping point : Bagaimana hal-hal kecil berhasil membuat perbedaan besar

Tipping Point adalah saat ajaib ketika suatu ide, perilaku, pesan, dan produk menyebar seperti wabah penyakit menular. Sama seperti satu orang sakit dapat menyebabkan epidemi flu, begitu pula sentilan yang disasar dengan tepat dapat menyebabkan terjadinya tren fesyen, popularitas sebuah produk baru, atau menurunnya tingkat kriminalitas secara drastis. Di buku bestseller ini, Malcolm Gladwell me…

Communication and social change : a citizen perspective

How do the communication practices of governments, NGOs and social movements enhance opportunities for citizen-led change? In this incisive book, Thomas Tufte makes a call for a fundamental rethinking of what it takes to enable citizens’ voices, participation and power in processes of social change. Drawing on examples ranging from the Indignados movement in Spain to media activists in Brazil…

Social entrepreneurship : what everyone needs to know

In development circles, there is now widespread consensus that social entrepreneurs represent a far better mechanism to respond to needs than we have ever had before--a decentralized and emergent force that remains our best hope for solutions that can keep pace with our problems and create a more peaceful world.David Bornstein's previous book on social entrepreneurship, How to Change the World,…