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Work-life integration
(The Irish Psychologist, 2007-05)
Work is an integral part of life. Human adaptation implies acquisition of the means to sustain life. But there is more to life than work: there is personal life, family life, and life within one's social network and culture ...
Cultivating thought-full and creative thinkers: A comment on quality merging Costa with Claxton et al.
(Elsevier, 2006-05-15)
The two keynote papers in the first issue of Thinking Skills and Creativity provide significant food for thought. Working to teach thinking skills and creativity is a real challenge. Many university professors shadow this ...
Divided attention in older but not younger adults is impaired by anxiety
(Taylor and Francis, 2003)
It has been hypothesized that the disruptive effects of negative emotional states, such as anxiety and depression, may contribute to poorer performance in older age. Some studies have reported that higher levels of anxiety ...
Alexander Kluge: Utopian Cinema
(Rodopi, 2007-10-01)
Alexander Kluge's films, television programmes and his other diverse activities contribute to a developed understanding of contemporary politics and culture. He took a version of creative critical theory into spheres of ...
Environmental arguing at a crossroads? Cultural diversity in Irish transport planning
(Peter Lang, 2008-03-28)
Environmental argument is 'about' far more than meets the eye. How people (mis)understand each other during environmental debates is affected by conflicts between values and ways of life which may not be directly connected ...
Introduction: Arguing about the Environment. What Difference Does Culture Make?
(Peter Lang, 2008)
In recent years environmental debate has moved from the margins of
public and political life to occupy a key position in discussions on the
political, social and economic prospects of the human world. Unprecedented
media ...
Going Local? Public Participation and Future Mobility in Ireland
(Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2007)
Recent changes in Ireland's economic and socio-political fabric have coincided with an increase in physical mobility, car dependency and long-distance commuting. National transport policies, prevailing land use patterns ...
The road to sustainable transport? Rural transport programmes and policies in Ireland
(Ashgate, 2009-07)
Today many rural dwellers in the Republic of Ireland depend on the private car to access services, employment, education, healthcare and recreation and thus shoulder a disproportionate share of the burden of insufficient ...
Imperial Geopolitics
(2009)
Suicide in Early Modern and Modern Europe
(Cambridge University Press, 2006-09)
This is a review of recent English- and German-language publications on suicide, both as an act and a subject of discourse, in the early and late modern periods. It argues that, while publications on the theme have increased ...