Nik: 181 books
French Phrases Vol.4: English & French
French Phrases, #4
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
French Phrases Vol.4: English & French THIS EDITION: French Phrases seeks to bridge the gap between knowing individual words and knowing how to create or understand sentences. Sentences are phrases or a combination of phrases, and phrases are a combination of words. The simplest...
Community-Based Urban Development
Evolving Urban Paradigms in Singapore and Seoul
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
The book compares different approaches to urban development in Singapore and Seoul over the past decades, by focusing on community participation in the transformation of neighbourhoods and its impact on the built environment and communal life. Singapore and Seoul are known for their rapid economic...
Lonesome Poplar Tree
Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Though Murn’s oeuvre ranges from erotic pieces to poems about the countryside, from atmospheric and reflective to narrative poems, the boundaries between these categories are often blurred. His most acclaimed works are his countryside lyric poems and atmospheric pieces. The former, seemingly echoing...
Pain, Pride, and Politics
Social Movement Activism and the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Pain, Pride, and Politics is an examination of diasporic politics based on a case study of Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada, with particular focus on activism between December 2008 and May 2009. Amarnath Amarasingam analyzes the reactions of diasporic Tamils in Canada at a time when the separatist Tamil...
by Nik Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Ever since Paul Cohen's spectacular use of the forcing concept to prove the independence of the continuum hypothesis from the standard axioms of set theory, forcing has been seen by the general mathematical community as a subject of great intrinsic interest but one that is technically so forbidding...
The Priority of Injustice
Locating Democracy in Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This original and ambitious work looks anew at a series of intellectual debates about the meaning of democracy. Clive Barnett engages with key thinkers in various traditions of democratic theory and demonstrates the importance of a geographical imagination in interpreting contemporary political change.
Debates...
French Phrases Vol.2: English & French
French Phrases, #2
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
French Phrases Vol.2:English & FrenchTHIS EDITION:French Phrases seeks to bridge the gap between knowing individual words and knowing how to create or understand sentences. Sentences are phrases or a combination of phrases, and phrases are a combination of words. The simplest phrases...
Relational Poverty Politics
Forms, Struggles, and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
This collection examines the power and transformative potential of movements that fight against poverty and inequality. Broadly, poverty politics are struggles to define who is poor, what it means to be poor, what actions might be taken, and who should act. These movements shape the sociocultural...
The Politics of the Encounter
Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The Politics of the Encounter is a spirited interrogation of the city as a site of both theoretical inquiry and global social struggle. The city, writes Andy Merrifield, remains "important, virtually and materially, for progressive politics." And yet, he notes, more than forty years have passed since...
They Saved the Crops
Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
At the outset of World War II, California agriculture seemed to be on the cusp of change. Many Californians, reacting to the ravages of the Great Depression, called for a radical reorientation of the highly exploitative labor relations that had allowed the state to become such a productive farming...
Black, White, and Green
Farmers Markets, Race, and the Green Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Farmers markets are much more than places to buy produce. According to advocates for sustainable food systems, they are also places to “vote with your fork” for environmental protection, vibrant communities, and strong local economies. Farmers markets have become essential to the movement for...
The Problem of Space Travel
The Rocket Motor
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Herman Potocnik Noordung’s ‘Inhabitable Wheel’.
In 1929, an Austro-Hungarian - Slovene called Herman Potocnik published a book under the pseudonym of ‘Noordung’. The book was Das Problem der Befahrung des Weltraums (The Problem of Space Travel). It was the first book to devote most...
Open Borders
In Defense of Free Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Border control continues to be a highly contested and politically charged subject around the world. This collection of essays challenges reactionary nationalism by making the positive case for the benefits of free movement for countries on both ends of the exchange. Open Borders counters the knee-jerk...
Evolution Inclusions and Variation Inequalities for Earth Data Processing I
Operator Inclusions and Variation Inequalities for Earth Data Processing
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Here, the authors present modern mathematical methods to solve problems of differential-operator inclusions and evolution variation inequalities which may occur in fields such as geophysics, aerohydrodynamics, or fluid dynamics. For the first time, they describe the detailed generalization of various...