Altamira Press: 384 books
Financing Nonprofits
Putting Theory into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2006
Nonprofits often struggle financially, overwhelmed by the need to muster a complex combination of income streams that range from grants and government funding to gifts-in-kind and volunteer labor. Financing Nonprofits draws upon a growing body of scholarship in economics and organizational theory...
Gaining Access
A Practical and Theoretical Guide for Qualitative Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Gaining access is a critical part of doing research, not only because one must 'get in' in order to gain information, but also because the quality of access affects what information is available to the researcher. Despite its importance, the literature on qualitative methods has not yet provided an...
Computing Our Way to Paradise?
The Role of Internet and Communication Technologies in Sustainable Consumption and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Rattle's new book challenges key assumptions concerning the role of Internet and communication technologies (ICTs) in globalization processes. The author argues that while globalization is predicated upon a strong, extensive, and interconnected global ICT network of products, processes, and services,...
by Bob Beatty, Cherie Cook, Elizabeth Merritt
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Small museums face the same challenges as large museums on a tighter budget and with fewer resources. Navigating these obstacles requires strong leadership and effective governance. The creation and use of planning documents and a clear mission and vision are essential to pursuing the long-term health...
Class Questions
Feminist Answers
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2005
Class is a particularly troublesome issue in the United States and other rich capitalist societies. In this feminist analysis of class, noted sociologist Joan Acker examines and assesses feminist attempts to include white women and people of color in discussions of class. She argues that class processes...
by Peter Jacques
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2006
Jacques offers a unique analysis of the connections between global marine and atmospheric science to global political phenomena. He shows how human survival is intricately linked to the sustainability of the world ocean, a singular connected body of regional oceans that is by definition a global resource...
Global Visions, Local Landscapes
A Political Ecology of Conservation, Conflict, and Control in Northern Madagascar
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
In her new book, Gezon argues that local events continuously redefine and challenge global processes of land use and land degradation. She challenges analytical distinctions between separate 'local' and 'global' spaces, rather proposing that the global is one aspect of the local, to the extent that...
New Directions in Anthropology and Environment
Intersections
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2002
Carole L. Crumley has brought together top scholars from across anthropology in a benchmark volume that displays the range of exciting new work on the complex relationship between humans and the environment. Continually pursuing anthropology's persistent claim that both the physical and the mental...
Confronting Environments
Local Understanding in a Globalizing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2004
Carrier and his group of international researchers tackle the complex factors affecting people's understandings of their environment-not just the natural environment, but landscapes shaped by humans, and their social contexts. The authors consider the impact of local events, such as tourism or environmental...
World in Motion
The Globalization and the Environment Reader
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
The essays collected in World in Motion all address the same issue: The global paradox that modern prosperity has entailed extreme environmental degradation. Gary M. Kroll and Richard H. Robbins present readings covering all principal viewpoints on this matter, from the neoliberal belief that environmental...
Ethnic Identity
Problems and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2006
In this thoroughly revised fourth edition, with ten new chapters, the editors provide thought-provoking discussions on the importance of ethnicity in different cultural and social contexts. The authors focus especially on changing ethnic and national identities, on migration and ethnic minorities,...
The Unemployed Man and His Family
The Effect of Unemployment Upon the Status of the Man in Fifty-Nine Families
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2004
In The Unemployed Man and His Family, noted sociologist and feminist Mirra Komarovsky poses the question: what happens to the authority of the male head of the family when he fails as a provider? Between 1935 and 1936, Komarovsky interviewed 59 families in 1935-36 in which the male had been unemployed...
Thriving in the Knowledge Age
New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2006
In Thriving in the Knowledge Age, John Falk and Beverly Sheppard argue that museums require a radically new business model to survive the transition into the knowledge age. Only by shifting towards more personalized and community-based learning experiences can museums reverse the declining attendance...
by Bob Beatty, Stephen Hague, Laura Keim
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Programs, tours and exhibits are the meat-and-potatoes of what most museums do to meet their missions to educate the public. Interpretation helps make small museums compelling so that the public understands that they are more than a repository of dusty objects. This book considers researching and...