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Adventure Therapy: International Perspectives and Diverse ApproachesAuthor: Christine L. NortonPublisher: Common Ground PublishingPublication Date: May 20, 2015Number of Pages: 702 pagesBinding:...

Assessment in Creative Disciplines: Quantifying and Qualifying the AestheticAuthor: David ChasePublisher: Common Ground PublishingPublication Date: May 09, 2014Number of Pages: 180 pagesBinding:...

Being with: Essays in Poetics, Ecology, and the SensesAuthor: John Charles RyanPublisher: Common Ground PublishingPublication Date: Aug 18, 2014Number of Pages: 164 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

This edited book is the result of collaboration between five countries in the Asia Pacific Region. It is auspiced by Childwatch International, a global research network. It explores the...

Community Art: Creative Approaches to PracticeAuthor: Jill M. ChonodyPublisher: Common Ground PublishingPublication Date: Sep 19, 2014Number of Pages: 236 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Thankfully, another publication from the creative Queensland Community Development 'crowd'... Indeed, what would we do without them in a rather sedate and seemingly stagnant Australian publishing...

Is there anything beyond death? And is it worth having? This book begins with the latest science on the Near-death Experience, then explores the passage through physical death to the states of...

Research on brain development continues to reinforce the importance of the early years of life in determining long term outcomes, both for children, and for society. Increasing numbers of family...

This book is the first of its kind to specifically look at the issues of how disability is culturally placed and contextualized in different societies. Within, it covers a range of professional,...

The social arrangements with which we are familiar work fairly well for most of us most of the time. We work, we earn, we pay taxes. We engage professionals when we need their advice. We expect that...

Disability Sport: A Vehicle for Social Change?Author: Ian BrittainPublisher: Common Ground PublishingPublication Date: Jun 25, 2013Number of Pages: 206 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Michel Foucault once expressed his disagreement with the "breach" between social history and the history of ideas brought about by the assumption that the former is concerned with how people act...

EcopragmaticsAuthor: Edward T. WimberleyPublisher: Common Ground PublishingPublication Date: Nov 19, 2014Number of Pages: 330 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1612296122ISBN-13:...

Enough for All Forever is a handbook for learning about sustainability. It has been written specifically for educators: classroom practitioners; school and system administrators and managers; those...

This book is an important addition to the growing literature which addresses the issue of Australia's policies towards people seeking asylum. In the early stages of the Tampa crisis, the government...

Fighting: Intellectualising Combat SportsAuthor: Keith GilbertPublisher: Common Ground PublishingPublication Date: Apr 25, 2014Number of Pages: 424 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

From Stoke Mandeville to Sochi: A History of the Summer and Winter Paralympic GamesAuthor: Ian BrittainPublisher: Common Ground PublishingPublication Date: Apr 11, 2014Number of Pages: 330...

Gender-Linked Variation Across LanguagesAuthor: Yousif ElhindiPublisher: Common Ground PublishingPublication Date: Oct 25, 2013Number of Pages: 212 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

This book provides students and scholars with a collection of thought provoking contributions focusing on the nexus of globalization and responsibility. With a concise introduction to the...

Heroes or Zeros? the Media's Perceptions of Paralympic SportAuthor: Otto J. SchantzPublisher: Common Ground PublishingPublication Date: Nov 12, 2012Number of Pages: 272 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Sport is all about play and game, aesthetic and strength, passion and emotion, challenge and rivalry. But because sometimes players and fans look for a little extra help from God, gods, spirits or...

Information design empowers people to attain their goals. It is centred on users, based on evidence, and oriented to results. It contributes to a vast range of activities that people engage with...

Intercultural Mediation in Europe: Narratives of Professional TransformationAuthor: Eugenia ArvanitisPublisher: Common Ground PublishingPublication Date: Dec 19, 2014Number of Pages: 266...

Jockocracy: Queering Masculinity and SportAuthor: Christopher Moriss-RobertsPublisher: Common Ground PublishingPublication Date: Jul 19, 2013Number of Pages: 156 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Bringing together creative people to develop fresh, new, innovative ideas and to propel a business forward is challenging work. It isn't enough to simply follow policy and procedure, or to gently...

Leading Through Diversity: Transforming Managers Into Effective LeadersAuthor: Amine A. AyadPublisher: Common Ground PublishingPublication Date: Jan 25, 2013Number of Pages: 88 pagesBinding:...

Life in the Real World: How to Make Music Graduates EmployableAuthor: Dawn BennettPublisher: Common Ground PublishingPublication Date: Dec 10, 2012Number of Pages: 302 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Atwood is, needless to say, one of the most acclaimed authorial voices of our time: Atwoodian critics unite in saying that Margaret Atwood offers an intriguing and compelling body of writing as well...

In the midst of an epochal shift in the communications environment, rapid cultural change and transformations in knowledge, there is an urgent need for bold educational responses. While...

Museums and communities - what are the connections? Who leads and who follows? This book draws on the experiences of the author as the director of the Cobb+Co Museum in Toowoomba, Australia since its...