Roger A Hart

Quality Handbook for the Architectural, Engineering, and Construction Community

Men in the Air

English Life in the Nineteenth Century

Witchcraft

English Life in Chaucer's Day

English Life in Tudor Times

Battle of the Spanish Armada

Maori Legends

The Universe Wants to Play: The Anomalist 12: A Nonfiction Anthology

Anthology co-editors Patrick Huyghe and Dennis Stacey chose Hakim Bey's wonderful phrase "The Universe Wants to Play" as the unifying theme for the articles in this volume, the 12th of The Anomalist journal. Since it began publishing in 1994, this highly praised nonfiction anthology has had as its f...

Cities for Children: Children's Rights, Poverty and Urban Management

Urban authorities and organizations are responsible for providing the basic services that affect the lives of urban children. Cities for Children is intended to help them understand and respond to the rights and requirements of children and adolescents. It looks at the responsibilities that authorit...

Children, Citizenship and Environment: Nurturing a Democratic Imagination in a Changing World

Children growing up today are confronted by four difficult and intersecting challenges: dangerous environmental change, weakening democracies, growing social inequality, and a global economy marked by unprecedented youth unemployment and unsustainable resource extraction. Yet on streets everywhere, ...

The Environment For Children

Each year, millions of children die of environmental causes and many more suffer serious illness or injury. Children are often the most vulnerable to the condition of their environment - and their health is an index of its quality - but their wellbeing is rarely given priority by governments or aid ...

The Phaselock Code: Through Time, Death and Reality: The Metaphysical Adventures of Man

ONE MAN'S REMARKABLE SEARCH FOR THE ULTIMATE TRUTHS OF OUR WORLD For Professor Roger Hart, life truly began after he almost lost his -- in a horrific fall off the slopes of Mount Everest that he miraculously survived. This near-death experience sparked a desire in him to devote his studies to the v...

The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra

A monumental accomplishment in the history of non-Western mathematics, The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra explains the fundamentally visual way Chinese mathematicians understood and solved mathematical problems. It argues convincingly that what the West "discovered" in the sixteenth and seventeent...

Children's Participation: The Theory and Practice of Involving Young Citizens in Community Development and Environmental Care

People's relationship to nature is the greatest issue facing the world at the turn of the millennium, and all over the world young people have shown enormous enthusiasm for environmental action. Many countries are radically reassessing both the role of citizens in managing their environment and the ...

Imagined Civilizations: China, the West, and Their First Encounter

Accounts of the seventeenth-century Jesuit Mission to China have often celebrated it as the great encounter of two civilizations. The Jesuits portrayed themselves as wise men from the West who used mathematics and science in service of their mission. Chinese literati-official Xu Guangqi (1562–1633),...