university of virginia press apr 2025 (4 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An American Eyewitness in Vietnam at the End of War and Beginning of Peace.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Based largely on oral histories, How College Presidents Succeed weaves together the stories of three college presidents, each a member of the same Virginia family, to draw out what makes for good and effective university leadership. For most of the past six decades, one or another of them (sometimes two simultaneously) have dealt with the challenges of leading varied institutions in a growing, politically and demographically evolving state embedded within an equally changing and complex national, economic, and cultural environment for higher education. In particular, each of the three dealt with issues of race and racial reckoning particular to their times and places. Working from more than one hundred hours of oral history interviews, political scientist Michael Nelson uses these conversations to reflect on the concept of leadership in higher education, while providing contextual material from archival sources, news accounts, and documents relating to their presidencies. Includes a foreword by former defense secretary Robert M. Gates and an afterword by former secretary of state James A. Baker III'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Refocusing on human inhabitants in landscape architecture Landscape architecture is at a crossroads. The ability to draw upon interdisciplinary perspectives and generate insights from the combined vantage points of design, environmental studies, and the social sciences puts it in a prime position to address the most pressing issues of our time, such as climate change and social inequality. Its current reliance on digital and technological solutions, however, has increasingly caused landscape architects to lose sight of the ways in which humans actually use spaces. And while landscapes are designed all over the world, the discipline remains inordinately centered on the Global North. Landscape Fieldwork alters that long-standing paradigm through real-life examples that provide tools for practitioners to engage more deeply with multidimensional, diverse landscapes and the communities that create, live in, and use them.