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Theology and Urban Sustainability (SpringerBriefs in Geography)

Springer, 2019

Even though theology does provide interesting and important contributions to ethics that laid the foundation of our modern societies, this book looks at exploring how theology has impacted on urban morphology and has led to questionable unsustainable practices which impacts on both climate and societal living standards. This is seen as being...

Fully Grown: Why a Stagnant Economy Is a Sign of Success

University of Chicago Press, 2020

Most economists would agree that a thriving economy is synonymous with GDP growth. The more we produce and consume, the higher our living standard and the more resources available to the public. This means that our current era, in which growth has slowed substantially from its postwar highs, has raised alarm bells. But should it?...

Nature Driven Urbanism (Contemporary Urban Design Thinking)

Springer, 2019

This book discusses the way that a nature-driven approach to urbanism can be applied at each of the urban scales; architectural design, urban design of neighborhoods, city planning and landscape architecture, and at the city and regional scales. At all levels nature-driven approaches to design and planning add to the quality of...

The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism

Bloomsbury Reference, 2020

"More than just a story of an abiding cultural preoccupation, The Longing For Less peels back the commodified husk of minimalism to reveal something surprising and thoroughly alive." -Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing

"Thoughtful and absorbing . . . A superb outing...

Elderhood (Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life)

Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
A New York Times Bestseller
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
Winner of the WSU AOS Bonner Book Award

As revelatory as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal,...

Questions I Am Asked About The Holocaust

Scribe Publications, 2019

One of the few remaining living Holocaust survivors answers the questions children ask her

“There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer.”

Hédi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis snatched her family from their home...

Crowds in Equations: An Introduction to the Microscopic Modeling of Crowds (Advanced Textbooks in Mathematics)

World Scientific Publishing, 1970

The book contains self-contained descriptions of existing models, accompanied by critical analyses of their properties both from a theoretical and practical standpoint. It aims to develop 'modeling skills' within the readers, giving them the ability to develop their own models and improve existing ones. Written in connection...

Employee to Entrepreneur: How to Earn Your Freedom and Do Work that Matters

John Wiley & Sons, 2019

Make the leap and become an entrepreneur today

Are you living for the weekend? Are you dissatisfied at work? Are you itching to do something that is important to you? How can you avoid the pitfalls that many first-time entrepreneurs have fallen into? How do you explore whether entrepreneurship is right for you...

An Anthropology of Marxism

The University of North Carolina Press, 2019

An Anthropology of Marxism offers Cedric Robinson's analysis of the history of communalism that has been claimed by Marx and Marxists. Suggesting that the socialist ideal was embedded both in Western and non-Western civilizations and cultures long before the opening of the modern era and did not begin with or depend on the...

From Russia with Code: Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times

Duke University Press, 2019

While Russian computer scientists are notorious for their interference in the 2016 US presidential election, they are ubiquitous on Wall Street and coveted by international IT firms and often perceive themselves as the present manifestation of the past glory of Soviet scientific prowess. Drawing on over three hundred...

Proceedings of the 4th International Congress of Automotive and Transport Engineering (AMMA 2018) (Proceedings in Automotive Engineering)

Springer, 2018

We now live in the most interesting and by far the most dynamic period ever since the automobile was invented. The industrial revolution, the Internet era, the digital world all collide with the most beloved not living member of our families, the automobile.

We, the automotive engineers, now have...

The Marxian Legacy: The Search for the New Left (Political Philosophy and Public Purpose)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

The Marxian Legacy, first published in 1977 and released in a second edition in 1988, was and remains distinct in its view of Marxian theory as 'critique, ' aware of its own origins and limitations and self-conscious about its own historical rootedness in changing social and political conditions. This new and...

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