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Smart Growth and Sustainable Transport in Cities By Amir Shakibamanesh, Mahshid Ghorbanian, Seyed Navid Mashhadi Moghadam
2019 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0367262231 | PDF | 11 MB
This book delves into the urban planning theory of "smart growth" to encourage the creation of smart cities, where compact urban spaces are optimized to create transit-oriented, pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly areas, with a clear focus on developing a sustainable, humanistic transport system. Over the last century, increased demographic changes and use of motor vehicles in the wake of "urbanization" led to the rapid expansion of cities, giving rise to economic, social and environmental problems. Sprawls and extension into natural areas caused a scattered urban context replete with empty spaces. This book provides an effective solution to this with an overview of the historical application of smart growth principles as a response to the issue of sprawling cityscapes, and sheds light on the theoretical information and methodologies used by cities to re-develop the urban landscape. It also encloses a checklist for practitioners and decision makers to inform the developmental process and integrate smart growth strategies into land use planning. This book effectively engages with the global problem of urban sprawl in cities and hence will be an asset to both urban planning professionals, and graduate and postgraduate students of urban studies and the related disciplines.
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Small Arms, Crime and Conflict: Global Governance and the Threat of Armed Violence By Owen Greene (editor), Nic Marsh (editor)
2011 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0415567009 | PDF | 3 MB
This book focuses on the use of small arms in violence and attempts by the state to govern the use and acquisition of these weapons. It is likely that hundreds of thousands of people are killed every year as a result of armed violence - in contexts ranging from war zones to domestic violence. This edited volume examines why these deaths occur, the role of guns and other weapons, and how governance can be used to reduce and prevent those deaths. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, ranging from anthropology through economics to peace and security studies, the book's main concern throughout is that of human security - the causes and means of prevention of armed violence. The first part of the book concerns warfare, the second armed violence and crime, and the last governance of arms and their (mis)-use. The concluding chapter builds on the contributors' key findings and suggests priorities for future research, with the aim of forming a coherent narrative which examines what we know, why armed violence occurs, and what can be done to reduce it. This book will be of much interest to students of small arms, security studies, global governance, peace and conflict studies, and IR.
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Rashauna Johnson, "Slavery's Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions "
English | ISBN: 1107591163 | 2018 | 258 pages | PDF | 8 MB
New Orleans is an iconic city, which was once located at the crossroads of early America and the Atlantic World. New Orleans became a major American metropolis as its slave population exploded; in the early nineteenth century, slaves made up one third of the urban population. In contrast to our typical understanding of rural, localized, isolated bondage in the emergent Deep South, daily experiences of slavery in New Orleans were global, interconnected, and transient. Slavery's Metropolis uses slave circulations through New Orleans between 1791 and 1825 to map the social and cultural history of enslaved men and women and the rapidly shifting city, nation, and world in which they lived. Investigating emigration from the Caribbean to Louisiana during the Haitian Revolution, commodity flows across urban-rural divides, multiracial amusement places, the local jail, and freedom-seeking migrations to Trinidad following the War of 1812, it remaps the history of slavery in modern urban society.
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Sinusoidal Three-Phase Windings of Electric Machines by Jonas Juozas Buksnaitis
English | PDF(True) | 2017 | 110 Pages | ISBN : 3319429299 | 3.1 MB
This book presents a thorough analysis of newly available sinusoidal three-phase windings in electrical machines, which provide many benefits over traditional windings, including energy savings, noise and vibration reduction, and reduced need for non-ferrous metals. The author's instruction on the implementation of this innovative optimization will be quite useful to researchers, developers and producers of electrical machines, as well as students mastering electromechanics.
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Peter Lorange, "Shipping Strategy: Innovating for Success"
English | ISBN: 0521761492 | 2009 | 294 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The shipping industry has an impact on each and every one of us every day. Ships transport the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the cars we drive, the materials used to build our homes, and the fuel that heats them. Yet traditional shipping companies - ones that combine various aspects of shipping under one organizational roof - are on the decline. They are gradually being replaced by new, more specialized companies with more strategic clarity and managerial focus. In Shipping Strategy Peter Lorange draws on his extensive experience in the shipping industry to show how companies can adapt to the fast-moving and volatile world of maritime business by devising strategies for future success, including specialization and innovation.
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Brinkley Messick, "Shari'a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0231178743, 0231178751 | PDF | pages: 522 | 6.1 mb
A case study in the textual architecture of the venerable legal and ethical tradition at the center of the Islamic experience, Sharīʿa Scripts is a work of historical anthropology focused on Yemen in the early twentieth century. There―while colonial regimes, late Ottoman reformers, and early nationalists wrought decisive changes to the legal status of the sharīʿa, significantly narrowing its sphere of relevance―the Zaydī school of jurisprudence, rooted in highland Yemen for a millennium, still held sway.
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Teela Sanders, "Sex Work: A Risky Business"
English | 2004 | pages: 215 | ISBN: 1843920824 | PDF | 4,6 mb
This is a richly detailed account of the way the sex industry works, and one of the few empirical studies that investigates the off street industry in Britain. The book seeks to advance a greater knowledge of the social organisation of the sex industry by uncovering the day-to-day activities of women involved in the indoor markets. What types of occupational risks do women experience in work of this kind? How do these hazards affect their personal lives? A key concern throughout the book is to assess whether women are passive victims of the circumstances of prostitution or whether they understand and calculate their responses to danger. Drawing upon both sociological and criminological theories, and on detailed research in the city of Birmingham, the author addresses these questions by estimating the rationality of those responses and by providing a measure of how women make sense of different risks. Sex Work: a risky business describes how women create complex psychological and emotional techniques to maintain their sanity while selling sex, and goes on to argue that the indoor sex markets in Britain have a distinct 'occupational culture' with a set of social norms, code of conduct and moral hierarchies that make it a high regulated workplace despite its illicit and sometimes illegal nature.
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Eileen P. G. Vining, "Seizures and Epilepsy in Children: A Comprehensive Guide "
English | ISBN: 1421445093 | 2022 | 368 pages | EPUB | 12 MB
The most comprehensive and practical guide available for caregivers of children who have seizures and epilepsy, now completely updated.
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Screenwriting Is Filmmaking: The Theory and Practice of Writing for the Screen By Brian Dunnigan
2020 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 1785006096 | EPUB | 5 MB
Develop your screenplay from idea to final draft. Apply the techniques of narrative, structure, and visual language. Build rounded and convincing characters. Craft compelling scenes through dialogue and sub-text. Move forward in personal and professional development. Maintain a meaningful and lasting creative practice.
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, "School Psychology for the 21st Century: Foundations and Practices"
English | ISBN: 1462549535 | 2022 | 334 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Now in a revised and updated third edition reflecting a decade of changes in the field, this leading text prepares new practitioners to support all students' academic, behavioral, and social-emotional success. The multiple roles and functions of the school psychologist are described and illustrated with vivid vignettes. Readers gain vital skills for planning and implementing evidence-based prevention and intervention efforts and collaborating to facilitate systems change. Guided by a problem-solving perspective, the book provides tools for effective, culturally responsive practice in today's diverse schools. End-of-chapter discussion questions and activities enhance learning.
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