Conflicts. 15 masterpieces of struggle and conflict : with exercises to make you think.

Contiene quince historias de alta calidad literaria con distintos niveles de lectura. Los ejercicios han sido especialmente diseñados para animar a: pensar, contar acerca de la historia, manejar las nuevas palabras de vocabulario, identificar los elementos narrativos, saber leer críticamente.

War and conflict.

Forma parte de una serie que estudia la relación entre el arte y temas, situaciones, sentimientos e ideas que han alcanzado gran relevancia universal a lo largo de diferentes épocas y culturas y que se han plasmado en medios de expresión que incluyen fotografía, pintura, escultura, textiles y cine. Ayuda a saber interpretar las obras y estilos artísticos y entender el momento histórico en que fueron creados. Este volumen se centra en las obras de arte inspiradas e influidas por la guerra, desde la antigüedad hasta el presente, ya que los artistas han creado desde siempre imágenes de guerreros, de líderes valientes y de paisajes asolados por batallas.

Colonisation and conflict, 1750-1990.

Es la etapa de desarrollo y expansión del Imperio Británico, de las guerras napoleónicas, de la revolución industrial y de todos los cambios sociales y económicos derivados de ella; también, es la época del largo reinado de Victoria y del estallido de las dos guerras mundiales. Además de actividades y secciones de evaluación, proporciona fuentes históricas para ayudar a los alumnos en la investigación y a descubrir la historia por sí mismos.

Cooperative conflict-solving during adolescence : relationships with cognitive-behavioural and predictor variables. 'Resolución de conflictos cooperativa durante la adolescencia : relaciones con variables cognitivo-conductuales y predictores'.

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Antecedents of the attitude towards inter-group reconciliation in a setting of armed conflict

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Conflict and coexistence : research with 15-16 year old secondary school pupils in a Seville suburb

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Managing land-use conflict around urban centres: Australian poultry farmer attitudes towards relocation

In analysing the release of agricultural land to urban development, the urban fringe literature has not focused on whether farmers are able to relocate from the urban fringe to remoter rural areas. Through interviews with representatives from the poultry industry in two Australian states, this paper identifies that poultry farm relocation strategies are constrained by off-farm economic relations, the land-use planning system and financial considerations. Closely aligned to these constraints on relocation is the on-going process of poultry farm intensification, which is seen as presenting rising problems for land-use management around expanding metropolitan centres in Australia. Of particular concern is the potential for amenity complaints and associated land-use conflicts, which have not been comprehensively investigated. Recognising that existing environmental and land-use planning controls are ineffective in producing amicable solutions when conflict involving poultry farming is at its most intense, the paper calls for improvements to the regulatory system, including greater consideration for how the process of relocation can be encouraged. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Remaking place and securitising space: Urban regeneration and the strategies, tactics and practices of policing in the UK

Urban regeneration programmes in the UK over the past 20 years have increasingly focused on attracting investors, middle-class shoppers and visitors by transforming places and creating new consumption spaces. Ensuring that places are safe and are seen to be safe has taken on greater salience as these flows of income are easily disrupted by changing perceptions of fear and the threat of crime. At the same time, new technologies and policing strategies and tactics have been adopted in a number of regeneration areas which seek to establish control over these new urban spaces. Policing space is increasingly about controlling human actions through design, surveillance technologies and codes of conduct and enforcement. Regeneration agencies and the police now work in partnerships to develop their strategies. At its most extreme, this can lead to the creation of zero-tolerance, or what Smith terms 'revanchist', measures aimed at particular social groups in an effort to sanitise space in the interests of capital accumulation. This paper, drawing on an examination of regeneration practices and processes in one of the UK's fastest-growing urban areas, Reading in Berkshire, assesses policing strategies and tactics in the wake of a major regeneration programme. It documents and discusses the discourses of regeneration that have developed in the town and the ways in which new urban spaces have been secured. It argues that, whilst security concerns have become embedded in institutional discourses and practices, the implementation of security measures has been mediated, in part, by the local socio-political relations in and through which they have been developed.

Laurentide ice streaming on the Canadian Shield: A conflict with the soft-bedded ice stream paradigm?

Elucidating the controls on the location and vigor of ice streams is crucial to understanding the processes that lead to fast disintegration of ice flows and ice sheets. In the former North American Laurentide ice sheet, ice stream occurrence appears to have been governed by topographic troughs or areas of soft-sediment geology. This paper reports robust evidence of a major paleo-ice stream over the northwestern Canadian Shield, an area previously assumed to be incompatible with fast ice flow because of the low relief and relatively hard bedrock. A coherent pattern of subglacial bedforms (drumlins and megascalle glacial lineations) demarcates the ice stream flow set, which exhibits a convergent onset zone, a narrow main trunk with abrupt lateral margins, and a lobate terminus. Variations in bedform elongation ratio within the flow set match theoretical expectations of ice velocity. In the center of the ice stream, extremely parallel megascalle glacial lineations tens of kilometers long with elongation ratios in excess of 40:1 attest to a single episode of rapid ice flow. We conclude that while bed properties are likely to be influential in determining the occurrence and vigor of ice streams, contrary to established views, widespread soft-bed geology is not an essential requirement for those ice streams without topographic control. We speculate that the ice stream acted as a release valve on ice-sheet mass balance and was initiated by the presence of a proglacial lake that destabilized the ice-sheet margin and propagated fast ice flow through a series of thermomechanical feedbacks involving ice flow and temperature.