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In Search of the Cannibal King
It all began when Nanine laid eyes on an old newspaper article titled Yankee Cannibal King… Nanine’s quest to learn the true story that inspired the fantastical article led her on a global adventure, eventually landing her on the Marquesas Islands. On her journey, she discovered missionary descendants and oral storytellers. Each discovery brought her closer to John Rumell’s life and decision to live in a culture that practiced cannibalism and engaged in tribal wars. Had it been his love for a native princess that led Rumell to leave the Western world and subject himself to painful tribal tattooing, or another reason? After sixty years of investigating detailed letters, diaries, and eyewitness accounts that revealed her ancestor’s life among savages, Nanine is ready to share this incredible story. Experience the nearly unchanged French Polynesia Islands Nanine researched to bring readers the incredible tale of the Cannibal King. Read more$0.00$4.99 -
Regulating Coastal Zones
Regulating Coastal Zones addresses the knowledge gap concerning the legal and regulatory challenges of managing land in coastal zones across a broad range of political and socio-economic contexts. In recent years, coastal zone management has gained increasing attention from environmentalists, land use planners, and decision-makers across a broad spectrum of fields. Development pressures along coasts such as high-end tourism projects, luxury housing, ports, energy generation, military outposts, heavy industry, and large-scale enterprise compete with landscape preservation and threaten local history and culture. Leading experts present fifteen case studies among advanced-economy countries, selected to represent three groups of legal contexts: signatories to the 2008 Mediterranean ICZM Protocol, parties to the 2002 EU Recommendation on Integrated Coastal Zone Management, and the USA and Australia. This book is the first to address the legal-regulatory aspects of coastal land management from a systematic cross-national comparative perspective. By including both successful and less-effective strategies, it aims to inform professionals, graduate students, policy makers, and NGOs of the legal and socio-political challenges as well as the better practices from which others could learn. Read more$0.00$56.95 -
Vienna
This book explores and debates the urban transformations that have taken place in Vienna over the past 30 years and their consequences in policy fields such as labour and housing, political and social participation and the environment. Historically, European cities have been characterised by a strong association between social cohesion, quality of life, economic ambition and a robust State. Vienna is an excellent example for that. In more recent years, however, cities were pressured to change policy principles and mechanisms in the context of demographic shifts, post-industrial transformations and welfare recalibration which have led to worsened social conditions in many cities. Each chapter in this volume discusses Vienna’s responses to these pressures in key policy arenas, looking at outcomes from the context-specific local arrangements. Against a theoretical framework debating the European city as a model of inclusion and social justice, authors explore the local capacity to innovate urban policies and to address new social risks, while paying attention to potential trade-offs. The book questions and assesses the city’s resilience using time series and an institutional analysis of four key dimensions that characterise the European city model within the context of post-industrial transition: redistribution, recognition, representation and sustainability. It offers a multiscalar perspective of urban governance through labour, housing, participatory and environmental policies, bringing together different levels and public policy types. Vienna: Still a Just City? is aimed at academics, researchers and policy-makers in urban studies, including urban sociology, ecology, geography and welfare. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Read more$0.00$24.95 -
Tunnelling
Tunnelling has become a fragmented process, excessively influenced by lawyers’notions of confrontational contractual bases. This prevents the pooling of skills, essential to the achievement of the promoters’ objectives. Tunnelling: Management by Design seeks the reversal of this trend. After a brief historical treatment of selected developments, th Read more$0.00$52.95 -
Amsterdam. Lights & Shadows
Una città e un tema: “Lights & Shadows”. Non solo un tema letterario ma anche simbolico, come si vedrà dalle immagini proposte. Un’immagine da sola non esprime una narrazione, ma diverse immagini accostate fra loro si, perché il “lettore” può immaginare un filo che le leghi. Non è detto che questo filo sia lo stesso pensato dall’autore. Ma è giusto che sia così, perché i racconti possibili, partendo da immagini che possono esprimere un senso toccando il vissuto o l’immaginario del “lettore”, sono infiniti. Con questo tema l’autore propone quindi un “gioco” al “lettore”: giocare con la propria immaginazione, i propri ricordi reali di luoghi che potrebbe aver visitato (o abitato), le proprie aspettative. Questo “gioco” è possibile solo se la raccolta di immagini esprime una forza intrinseca. Ma la parola e il giudizio ora spettano solo a chi “leggerà” questo libro di fotografie. Read more$0.00$52.95 -
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Care and the City
Care and the City is a cross-disciplinary collection of chapters examining urban social spaces, in which caring and uncaring practices intersect and shape people’s everyday lives. While asking how care and uncare are embedded in the urban condition, the book focuses on inequalities in caring relations and the ways they are acknowledged, reproduced, and overcome in various spaces, discourses, and practices. This book provides a pathway for urban scholars to start engaging with approaches to conceptualize care in the city through a critical-reflexive analysis of processes of urbanization. It pursues a systematic integration of empirical, methodological, theoretical, and ethical approaches to care in urban studies, while overcoming a crisis-centered reading of care and the related ambivalences in care debates, practices, and spaces. These strands are elaborated via a conceptual framework of care and situated within broader theoretical debates on cities, urbanization, and urban development with detailed case studies from Europe, the Americas, and Asia. By establishing links to various fields of knowledge, this book seeks to systematically introduce debates on care to the interconnecting fields of urban studies, planning theory, and related disciplines for the first time. Read more$0.00$52.95 -
The Frightened Land
An investigation into the spatial politics of separation and division in South Africa, principally during the apartheid years, and the effects of these physical and conceptual barriers on the land. In contrast to the weight of literature focusing on post-apartheid South Africa, the focus of this book includes the spatial, political and cultural landscape practices of the apartheid government and also refers to contemporary work done in Australia, England and the US. It probes the uncertainty and ambiguity of identities and cultures in post-apartheid society in order to gain a deep understanding of the history that individuals and society now confront. Drawing on a wealth of research materials including literature, maps, newspapers, monuments, architectural drawings, government legislation, tourist brochures, political writing and oral histories, this book is well illustrated throughout and is a unique commentary on the spatial politics of a time of enormous change. Read more$0.00$52.95 -
Post-socialist Urban Infrastructures
Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures critically elaborates on often forgotten, but some of the most essential, aspects of contemporary urban life, namely infrastructures, and links them to a discussion of post-socialist transformation. As the skeletons of cities, infrastructures capture the ways in which urban environments are assembled and urban lives unfold. Focusing on post-socialist cities, marked by neoliberalisation, polarisation and hybridity, this book offers new and enriching perspectives on urban infrastructures by centering on the often marginalised aspects of urban research—transport, green spaces, and water and heating provision. Featuring cases from West and East alike, the book covers examples from Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Germany, Russia, Georgia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Tajikistan, and India. It provides original insights into the infrastructural back end of post-socialist cities for scholars, planners and activists interested in urban geography, cultural and social anthropology, and urban studies. Read more$0.00$69.95 -
Experimenting for Sustainable Transport
Technological change is a central feature of modern societies and a powerful source for social change. There is an urgent task to direct these new technologies towards sustainability, but society lacks perspectives, instruments and policies to accomplish this. There is no blueprint for a sustainable future, and it is necessary to experiment with alternative paths that seem promising. Various new transport technologies promise to bring sustainability benefits. But as this book shows, important lessons are often overlooked because the experiments are not designed to challenge the basic assumptions about established patterns of transport choices. Learning how to organise the process of innovation implementation is essential if the maximum impact is to be achieved – it is here that strategic niche management offers new perspectives. The book uses a series of eight recent experiments with electric vehicles, carsharing schemes, bicycle pools and fleet management to illustrate the means by which technological change must be closely linked to social change if successful implementation is to take place. The basic divide between proponents of technological fixes and those in favour of behavioural change needs to be bridged, perhaps indicating a third way. Read more$0.00$69.95 -
Flowscapes
Flowscapes explores concepts, methods and techniques for design-related research on landscape infrastructures. Their main objective is to engage environmental and societal issues by means of integrative and design oriented approaches. Through focusing on interdisciplinary design-related research of landscape infrastructures they provide important clues for the development of spatial armatures that can guide urban and rural development and have cultural and civic significance. The geographical context of the papers covers Europe, Africa, Asia and Northern America. Read more$0.00$40.00 -
Greening the Greyfields
This open access book outlines new concepts, development models, governance and implementation processes capable of addressing the challenges of transformative urban regeneration of cities at precinct scale. Read more$0.00$49.99 -
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Unhealthy Housing
Unhealthy Housing presents an analysis of the research into the health implications of housing and the significance for legal regulation of housing conditions. Key experts present short papers, together with an overview to give an evaluation of the significance of housing on the health of occupiers. Read more$0.00$36.95 -
Critical Landscape Planning During the Belt and Road Initiative
This open access book traces the development of landscapes along the 414-kilometer China–Laos Railway, one of the first infrastructure projects implemented under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and which is due for completion at the end of 2021. Written from the perspective of landscape architecture and intended for planners and related professionals engaged in the development and conservation of these landscapes, this book provides history, planning pedagogy and interdisciplinary framing for working alongside the often-opaque planning, design and implementation processes of large-scale infrastructure. It complicates simplistic notions of development and urbanization frequently reproduced in the Laos–China frontier region. Many of the projects and sites investigated in this book are recent “firsts” in Laos: Laos’s first wildlife sanctuary for trafficked endangered species, its first botanical garden and its first planting plan for a community forest. Most often the agents and accomplices of neoliberal development, the planning and design professions, including landscape architecture, have little dialogue with either the mainstream natural sciences or critical social sciences that form the discourse of projects in Laos and comparable contexts. Covering diverse conceptions and issues of development, including cultural and scientific knowledge exchanges between Laos and China, nature tourism, connectivity and new town planning, this book also features nine planning proposals for Laos generated through this research initiative since the railway’s groundbreaking in 2016. Each proposal promotes a wider “landscape approach” to development and deploys landscape architecture’s spatial and ecological acumen to synthesize critical development studies with the planner’s capacity, if not naive predilection, to intervene on the ground. Ultimately, this book advocates the cautious engagement of the professionally oriented built-environment disciplines, such as regional planning, civil engineering and landscape architecture, with the landscapes of development institutions and environmental NGOs. Read more$0.00$49.99 -
30 Sat Questions You’ll See on Test Day
The SAT is one of the most important tests you’ll ever take, and nothing is worse than discovering your areas of weakness on test day. 30 Questions You’ll See on the SAT is a free SAT prep book that contains the most common questions that you’re almost guaranteed to see on test day. Whether you’ve been working through the College Board’s SAT prep book of 8 practice tests, or you haven’t yet done any SAT prep whatsoever, this eBook will help you diagnose your weaknesses so you can get one step closer to being ready for test day. FAQ WITH THE AUTHOR Q: How should I use this guide? A: Go through the 30 questions and see what concepts you’re getting wrong. No matter where you are in your journey of SAT prep, this guide is designed to provide you with feedback about your weaknesses. Focusing on your mistakes is key to bring your performance to the next level. There are detailed explanations to each problem, so when you get a question wrong, you can understand why you chose what you did, and learn from your mistake. Q: Will this book help me in my SAT Math prep? A: I wanted to focus on the most easily improvable concepts, so the questions focus only on Math and Writing and Language questions. Q: How did you decide what 30 question types to use? A: I’ve taken every SAT practice test available to me and categorized each question by concept. I cover all of these question types with my personal clients that pay me hundreds of dollars per hour to help them boost their scores. Q: What are other good resources I should be using in my prep? A: You always want to make sure your practice test sections are as authentic as possible, so if you aren’t using it already, make sure you get the College Board’s Official SAT Study Guide 2018. It has 8 practice tests and was put together by the makers of the SAT. If you already took all 8 practice tests in the College Board book, The Official ACT Prep Book 2018 by the test makers of the ACT has 4 practice tests that test extremely similar concepts (with the exception of the Science section). Read more$0.00$0.99 -
Curly Crow Goes Camping
Explore the great outdoors with Curly Crow as she discovers how to survive on her family camping trip! Curly Crow Goes Camping is an exciting and inspiring children’s book that will take readers along on a family camping trip full of adventure. Join Curly Crow as she learns how to survive in the wilderness, discovering natural food sources and foraging for supplies. An uplifting tale perfect for kids ages 4-8 years old! Check other Curly Crow Adventures including: Curly Crow Goes to the Beach Curly Crow Goes to School Curly Crow Goes to the Park Curly Crow Goes to the Balloon Festival (Fall, 2023) Curly Crow Gets a Haircut (Fall, 2023) Join the Curly Crow Book Club at curlycrow.com for more! Read more$0.00$4.99
