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1. Architecture & Design versus Consumerism

   How Design Activism Confronts Growth

   By Ann Thorpe

   The mentality that consumerism and economic growth are cure-alls is one of the biggest obstacles to real sustainability, but any change seems impossible, unthinkable. Our contemporary paradox finds us relying for our well being on consumer-driven economic growth that we actually can’t afford — not...

   To Be Published July 19th 2012 by Routledge
2. Culture and Processes of Adult Learning

   Edited by Richard Edwards, Ann Hanson, Mary Thorpe

   The authors provide a variety of perspectives on the conceptualisation of adult learning, drawing on sociology, psychology, adult education and applied research into how adults experience learning. Bringing together a number of major contributions to current debates about what learning during...

   Published December 2nd 1992 by Routledge