Subject(s): Sustainable architecture | Architecture -- Environmental aspects Summary: "Fundamentals of Integrated Design for Sustainable Building offers an introduction to green building concepts as well as design approaches that reduce and can eventually eliminate the need for fossil fuel use in buildings while also conserving materials, m

Subject(s): Obama, Barack | Post-racialism -- United States | United States -- Politics and government -- 2009- | United States -- Race relations Political aspects Summary: "The 2008 presidential election was celebrated around the world as a seminal moment in U.S. political and racial history. White liberals and other progressives framed th

Subject(s): Spain -- History -- 20th century Summary: "This is a much-needed new overview of Spanish social and political history which sets developments in twentieth-century Spain within a broader European context. Julián Casanova, one of Spain's leading historians, and Carlos Gil Andrés chart the country's experience of democrac

Subject(s): Political sociology | Hegemony | Democracy Summary: "Chantal Mouffe's writings have been innovatory with respect to democratic theory, Marxism and feminism. Her work derives from, and has always been engaged with, contemporary political events and intellectual debates. This sense of conflict informs both the methodological a

Subject(s): English language -- Congresses -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- Asia | Education and state -- Congresses -- Asia | Conference proceedings, published Summary: "Continuing on from the previously published Primary School English-Language Education in Asia: From Policy to Practice (Moon & Spolsky, 2012), this book compiles t

Subject(s): Learning | Early childhood education Summary: "The characteristics of effective learning -- playing and exploring, active learning and creating and thinking critically -- underpin young children's learning and development and are central to the revised Early Years Foundation Stage. Practitioners need to be confident of plann

Subject(s): Success | Self-realization | Self-actualization (Psychology) Summary: "Raise the bar to become the best version of you-and have fun doing it. As a cognitive neuroscientist, anthropologist, and entrepreneur, Bob Deutsch has spent a lifetime studying people. What he has found is that most of us set the bar too low in our lives, bo

Subject(s): Barrow, Mare (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Teenage girls -- Fiction | Ability -- Fiction | Blood -- Fiction | Princesses -- Fiction | Government, Resistance to -- Fiction Summary: Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood -- those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities

Subject(s): Furniture making -- Amateurs' manuals | Furniture design -- Amateurs' manuals | Do-it-yourself work Summary: Featuring 30 designs by leading designer-makers from around the world DIY Furniture shows you how to use simple techniques to make stunning designer furniture from scratch. All the projects can be easily assembled usi

Subject(s): Special education | Inclusive education | Early childhood education Summary: Filled with research about all aspects of educating young children with special needs, this book discusses key approaches and tools needed to provide an optimal setting for young exceptional children with special needs and their families Holdings:&