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Startup Cities: Why Only a Few Cities Dominate the Global Startup Scene and What the Rest Should Do About It
Startup Cities: Why Only a Few Cities Dominate the Global Startup Scene and What the Rest Should Do About It
This book offers a comprehensive model for explaining the success and failure of cities in nurturing startups, presents detailed case studies of how participants in that model help or hinder startup activity, and shows how to apply these lessons to boost local startup activity.

Startup Cities explains the...

Making Smart Cities More Playable: Exploring Playable Cities (Gaming Media and Social Effects)
Making Smart Cities More Playable: Exploring Playable Cities (Gaming Media and Social Effects)

This book explores the ways in which the broad range of technologies that make up the smart city infrastructure can be harnessed to incorporate more playfulness into the day-to-day activities that take place within smart cities, making them not only more efficient but also more enjoyable for the people who live and work within their...

Freedom and Evolution: Hierarchy in Nature, Society and Science
Freedom and Evolution: Hierarchy in Nature, Society and Science
The book begins with familiar designs found all around and inside us (such as the ‘trees’ of river basins, human lungs, blood and city traffic). It then shows how all flow systems are driven by power from natural engines everywhere, and how they are endlessly shaped because of freedom. Finally, Professor Bejan explains...
Persistent Creativity: Making the Case for Art, Culture and the Creative Industries (Sociology of the Arts)
Persistent Creativity: Making the Case for Art, Culture and the Creative Industries (Sociology of the Arts)

Recent years have seen the increasing valuation and promotion of ‘creativity’. Future success, we are often assured, will rest on the creativity of our endeavours, often aligned specifically with ‘cultural’ activity. This book considers the emergence and persistence of this pattern, particularly with regards...

Batman and Ethics
Batman and Ethics

Batman has been one of the world’s most beloved superheroes since his first appearance in Detective Comics #27 in 1939. Clad in his dark cowl and cape, he has captured the imagination of millions with his single-minded mission to create a better world for the people of Gotham City by fighting crime, making use of expert...

Krishna's Lineage: The Harivamsha of Vyasa's Mahabharata
Krishna's Lineage: The Harivamsha of Vyasa's Mahabharata
Forming the final part of the Sanskrit Mahabharata, the Harivamsha's main business is to supply narrative details about the great god Vishnu's avatar Krishna Vasudeva, who has been a comparatively minor character in the previous parts of the Mahabharata, despite having taken centre stage in the Bhagavad...
At the Wilderness Edge: The Rise of the Antidevelopment Movement on Canada's West Coast (Volume 11)
At the Wilderness Edge: The Rise of the Antidevelopment Movement on Canada's West Coast (Volume 11)
Vancouver prides itself on being a green city, and the west coast is known for its active environmental protest culture. But the roots of this mentality reach far beyond the founding of organizations such as Greenpeace. Small campaigns led by local community groups from the 1960s onward left a lasting impact on the region. At the...
Fodor's London 2019 (Full-color Travel Guide)
Fodor's London 2019 (Full-color Travel Guide)

Written by locals, Fodor’s London 2019 is the perfect guidebook for those looking for insider tips to make the most out their visit to London and the surrounding areas. Complete with detailed maps and concise descriptions, this London travel guide will help you plan your trip with ease. Join Fodor’s in exploring...

Street Art and Democracy in Latin America (Studies of the Americas)
Street Art and Democracy in Latin America (Studies of the Americas)
This book explores street art’s contributions to democracy in Latin America through a comparative study of five cities: Bogota (Colombia), São Paulo (Brazil), Valparaiso (Chile), Oaxaca (Mexico) and Havana (Cuba). The author argues that when artists invade public space for the sake of disseminating rage, claims or statements, they...
Location-Based Gaming: Play in Public Space
Location-Based Gaming: Play in Public Space
Location-based games emerged in the early 2000s following the commercialisation of GPS and artistic experimentation with ‘locative media’ technologies. Location-based games are played in everyday public spaces using GPS and networked, mobile technologies to track their players’ location. This book traces the...
Sensor Technologies: Healthcare, Wellness and Environmental Applications (Expert's Voice in Networked Technologies)
Sensor Technologies: Healthcare, Wellness and Environmental Applications (Expert's Voice in Networked Technologies)

Sensor Technologies: Healthcare, Wellness and Environmental Applications explores the key aspects of sensor technologies, covering wired, wireless, and discrete sensors for the specific application domains of healthcare, wellness and environmental sensing.  It discusses the social, regulatory, and design...

Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion
Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion

"A perfect time to look at the ethos of black hair in America ? and the perfect person to do it is Tanisha Ford" ?Changing America

"Everyone from the shopaholic to the clearance rack queen will see themselves in [Ford's] pages." ?Essence

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