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This book will speak to the new human epoch, the Urban Age. A majority of humanity now lives for the first time in cities. The city, the highest invention of the modern age, is now the human heartland. And yet the same process that...

Explaining the connection between physical and strategic design, this book proposes an aesthetic connection between two equal aspects of architectural design: the Real and the Ideal. Addressing architectural thinkers from the broad realms of academia and practice, it is suitable either as a seminar...

As the analysis of big datasets in sports performance becomes a more entrenched part of the sporting landscape, so the value of sport scientists and analysts with formal training in data analytics grows. Sports Analytics: Analysis, Visualisation and Decision Making in Sports Performance provides...

Urban problems and their resolution represent one of the major challenges for planners and decision makers in the modern world. This is an essential reference guide to social, economic and environmental problems in urban areas, which is of great value to students of planning,...

This volume, first published in 2000, presents a classical approach to the foundations and development of the geometry of vector fields, describing vector fields in three-dimensional Euclidean space, triply-orthogonal systems and applications in mechanics.Author: Yu AminovISBN-10: 0415706858ISBN-13: 9780415706858Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/24/2013Pages: 172Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.81lbsSize:...

The book presents a rich and surprising account of the recent history of the north Indian city of Banaras. Supplementing traditional accounts, which have focused upon the city's religious imaginary, this volume brings together essays written by acknowledged experts in north Indian culture and...

When a city wins the right to hold the Olympics, one of the oft cited advantages to the region is the catalytic effect upon the urban and transport projects of the host cities. However, with unparalleled access to documents and records, Eva Kassens-Noor questions...

This absorbing look at political philosophy asks you to climb inside the heads of the major political philosophers. This lively and engaging book is appropriate for any student taking a course in political thought.Author: Alan HaworthISBN-10: 0415685362ISBN-13: 9780415685368Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/05/2012Pages: 342Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.45lbsSize:...

In the fourth edition of this accessible and comprehensive book, Bryan Lask and Rachel Bryant-Waugh build on the research and expertise of the previous three editions. First published in 1993, this was the first book of its kind to explore eating disorders in children...

This book is about mutual influences of thinking about economic development in China and in the West, from the 18th century until the present. Its chapters are contributed by development economists and historians of thought from China and other parts of the world. Author:...

This book identifies and discusses the changes that integrated marketing communication (IMC) has meant to the marketplace, how they have occurred and what they mean for all types of marketers around the world. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal...

Critical reflection enables practitioners - especially those within health and social care -to theorise from their own practice, improving and developing their work and practising both creatively and professionally.This book provides an accessible overview of the influential Fook/Gardner Critical Reflection framework for students, researchers...

The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new impetus to the struggles of urban social movements emphasizing the injustice, destructiveness and unsustainability of capitalist forms of...

This book is a unique study of the politics of water supply infrastructures in three metropolitan cities in contemporary India - Bangalore, Chennai and Kochi. It examines the process of change in water supply infrastructure initiated by notable Public Private Partnership's efforts in these...

This book examines the healthcare experience of the most developed countries in Asia (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore) and compares this with four of the most important health care systems in Europe (UK, France, Germany and Italy). Author: Christian AspalterISBN-10: 041567168XISBN-13: 9780415671682Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage:...

Presenting diverse case studies of contemporary sustainable urban practice from Europe, Africa, India, South America, the USA and Australia, this book offers the reader a fantastic wealth of practical material from a range of internationally renowned authors. Each practical case study has addressed issues...

What is the role of the mathematics specialist?What is deep subject knowledge in mathematics?What sort of pedagogical knowledge does a mathematics specialist need?How can you best support your colleagues to improve mathematics teaching and learning?Becoming a Primary Mathematics Specialist Teacher helps you explore the...

Climate change is the single most important global environmental and development issue facing the world today and has emerged as a major topic in tourism studies. Climate change is already affecting the tourism industry and is anticipated to have profound implications for tourism in...

Now in a fully updated and revised new edition, this is still the only up-to-date, practical guide to the use of technology in sport and exercise biomechanics. It includes detailed explanations of the key theory underlying biomechanics testing and measurement, along with advice on...

Understanding Cities is richly textured, complex and challenging. It creates the vital link between urban design theory and praxis and opens the required methodological gateway to a new and unified field of urban design. Using spatial political economy as his most important reference point,...

This new edition of Karen O'Reilly's popular Ethnographic Methods provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the technical, practical and philosophical issues that arise when employing traditional and innovative research methods in relation to human agents. Using a wide range of case studies and...

First published in 1975, this guide to economic policy outlines an economic philosophy for reform for the 'intelligent radical' who seeks to address the issues of liberty and equality within society. Among other issues, the book looks at policies to control inflation, to maintain...

Examining the world of popular healing in South Asia, this book looks at the way that it is marginalised by the state and medical establishment while at the same time being very important in the everyday lives of the poor. It describes and analyses...

The papers presented in this volume represent ten years of involvement of a group of eight core therapists, working originally with approximately forty families of women who were pregnant and widowed in the attacks of September 11, 2001. This book was originally published as...

An ever increasing number of codes of conduct, disciplinary bodies, ethics committees and bureaucratic policies now prescribe how health professionals and health researchers relate to their patients. In this book, Mark Henaghan argues that the result of this trend towards heightened regulation has been...

Studying English Literature and Language is unique in offering both an introduction and a companion for students taking English Literature and Language degrees. Combining the functions of study guide, critical dictionary and text anthology, this is a freshly recast version of the highly acclaimed...

Fully updated, this new edition provides an introduction to normal, healthy physical development for all professionals who specialise in working with children. The author, an experienced nurse teacher, guides the reader through the key changes in body systems and functions from embryo to birth...

Design of Electrical Services for Buildings aims to provide a basic grounding for students and graduates in the field.Author: Barrie RigbyISBN-10: 0415310822ISBN-13: 9780415310826Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/13/2005Pages: 336Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.38lbsSize: 9.58h x 6.24w x 0.90d

Unique in their broad-based coverage the twelve essays in this book provide a fresh look at some central aspects of Roman culture and society.Author: Janet HuskinsonISBN-10: 0415212855ISBN-13: 9780415212854Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/25/1999Pages: 400Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.26lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.88d

This important text offers a full and detailed account of how to use discourse analysis to study foreign policy. It provides a poststructuralist theory of the relationship between identity and foreign policy and an in-depth discussion of the methodology of discourse analysis. Part I...

Articles examine the musical in relation to its generic form and conventions, the relationship between narrative and spectacle, gender and feminist analysis, camp production and reception, stardom, and the representation of race and ethnicity. Includes essays by: Rick Altman, Lucie Arbuthnot and Gail Seneca,...

This completely revised and updated second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to using play to communicate with troubled or traumatized children and their families, and to heal emotional damage. The book gives examples of good practice in different settings and situations.Drawing on psychodynamic, systemic...

This handbook brings together authoritative contributions from leading mental health researchers, educators and practitioners to provide a comprehensive text for community mental health nurses in training and practice. In thirty-three chapters it covers a wide range of topics, from the history of the profession...

In a culture where institutional religion is in decline there is a pressing need for new theological strategies. Andrew Shanks argues for a fresh 'theological poetics', providing an eloquent first step towards meeting these needs and an alternative strategy for reconciling Christian theology with...

Integrating critical and feminist psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, this text offers a distinct perspective of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a clinical and social phenomenon.The book draws upon interviews carried out in field settings to examine the true individual and social costs of being...

This book outlines the fundamentals of feminist and psychoanalytic theory, introducing the key thinkers and providing clear commentary. In the second section, the theory is demonstrated by an anthology of seminal essays.Author: Rosalind MinskyISBN-10: 0415092205ISBN-13: 9780415092203Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/14/1995Pages: 334Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 9.26h x...

In this "laugh-out-loud funny" book (Hank Green, New York Times bestselling author), social media star and comedian Josh Sundquist takes readers on his hilarious journey to the fringes of viral stardom to discover if it's possible to be both very famous and very happy...

Irish Ethnologies gives an overview of the field of Irish ethnology, covering representative topics of institutional history and methodology, as well as case studies dealing with religion, ethnicity, memory, development, folk music, and traditional cosmology. This collection of essays draws from work in multiple...

The central theme in any history of texts and books must be that of change and renewal: Parchment that is written on, in one set of circumstances in late antiquity, may in the Early Middle Ages be scraped clean and written on again, leaving...

Temperature affects everything. It influences all aspects of the physical environment and governs any process that involves a flow of energy, setting boundaries on what an organism can or cannot do. This novel textbook reveals the key principles behind the complex relationship between organisms...

A first-of-its-kind guide to the 400-year-old spirit, including its history, resurgence, and 35 recipes for cocktails and sweet and savory dishes. Created as a medicinal elixir in the 1700s and still made exclusively by Carthusian monks in the French Alps from a secret recipe,...

Featuring the original cover, foiled edges and case, a silk ribbon, full-color endsheets, and all-new exclusive art!How many loves do you get in a lifetime? And are Magnolia and BJ each other's one and only? It's been nearly a year since everything happened between...

This book uses Édouard Glissant's concept of the transfer and the transplant to examine Jacques Derrida and Albert Memmi's distinctive relationships to French colonialism. Both the transfer and the transplant undertake the work of reconciling oneself with the place of first habitation, the process...

Presents biographical details of nearly 800 engineers of the Victorian era (1830-1890) - golden age of engineering. This book outlines the lives of these engineers and lists the works for which they were responsible, and provides indexes of names and places. It is suitable...

A godtouched arbiter of justice and his prickly new conscript unravel a conspiracy that could bring down everything they stand for in the first of a clever and cutting queer epic fantasy series about autonomy, justice, and trauma for fans of Martha Wells and...

Author: William D. Phillips Jr,Carla Rahn PhillipsISBN-10: 1009779788ISBN-13: 9781009779784Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/09/2026Pages: 497Format: Hardcover

Joseph Ibn Kaspi (c. 1280-1345) was born in Provence and spent time in Egypt and Spain. His works include commentaries on the Hebrew Bible as well as epitomes of works by Plato and Aristotle. A recurring theme in Ibn Kaspi's work is the compatibility...

A reexamination of British engagement with Iberia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Using extensive archival and printed sources left by contemporary travelers, No Country for Travellers? explores the rise and nature of British travel to Spain and Portugal in the late eighteenth and...

Join Yasmine on her adventures, traveling all across the globe with her mother, an ambassador for world adoption; Majid, her handsome protector and tutor; Hiram, her cat soul mate; and Jinn Jinn, her grumpy genie-in-training. On her tenth birthday, Yasmine leaves her palace in...

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Author: Edward William LaneISBN-10: 0415245249ISBN-13: 9780415245241Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/23/2000Pages: 290Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 8.78h x 6.40w x 1.08d