Michael Peter Smith: 26 books
by Michael Peter Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
In his second book, “Musings of a Modern Romantic”, Michael Peter Smith shares his latest poetry, once again taking you into the mind of a man who is a hopelessly incurable romantic. His goal as a poet is to illicit a response or bring out feelings from within that will touch your heart and move...
by Michael Peter Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
For over three decades, urban theorist Michael Peter Smith has engaged in constructing innovative theories on central research questions in urban studies. This book brings together his views on the state of urban theory, sorting out the changing strengths and weaknesses in the field. Smith refocuses...
Marginal Spaces
Ser Volume 5
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
The literature on modernist and postmodernist urban development is abundant, yet few researchers have taken up the challenge of studying the areas hi which marginalized people live as sources of resistance to continued modernization. In Marginal Spaces, Michael Smith has assembled case studies combining...
Transnationalism from Below
Comparative Urban and Community Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Expansion of transnational capital and mass media to even the remotest of places has provoked a spate of discourse on transnationalism. A core theme hi this debate is the penetration of national cultures and political systems by global and local driving forces. The nation-state is seen as weakened...
Reinventing Detroit
The Politics of Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This book addresses the questions of what went wrong with Detroit and what can be done to reinvent the Motor City. Various answers to the former-deindustrialization, white flight, and a disappearing tax base-are now well understood. Less discussed are potential paths forward, stemming from alternative...
City and Nation
Rethinking Place and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This compendium offers a textured historical and comparative examination of the significance of locality or "place," and the role of urban representations and spatial practices in defining national identities. Drawing upon a wide range of disciplines - from literature to architecture and...
Schatten über Innsmouth
Neue Erzählungen
Language: German
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Inspiriert von H. P. Lovecrafts klassischer Erzählung ?Der Schatten über Innsmouth? wagen sich 16 moderne Meister des Schreckens noch einmal an die Küste New Englands in das verfluchte Fischerdorf Innsmouth mit seinen abscheulichen, nicht ganz menschlichen Bewohnern .... Inhalt: Stephen Jones:...
The Rolling Stones
Sociological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
The Rolling Stones: Sociological Perspectives, edited by Helmut Staubmann, draws from a broad spectrum of sociological perspectives to contribute both to the understanding of the phenomenon Rolling Stones and to an in-depth analysis of contemporary society and culture that takes The Stones a starting...
Factor Five
Transforming the Global Economy through 80% Improvements in Resource Productivity
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
When first published in 1997, Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use by renowned economic and engineering experts Ernst von Weizsäcker, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins, transformed how economists, policy makers, engineers, entrepreneurs and business leaders thought about innovation...
Whole System Design
An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Whole System Design is increasingly being seen as one of the most cost-effective ways to both increase the productivity and reduce the negative environmental impacts of an engineered system. A focus on design is critical, as the output from this stage of the project locks in most of the economic and...
Cooperation in the Multi-Ethnic Classroom (1994)
The Impact of Cooperative Group Work on Social Relationships in Middle Schools
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
First published in 1994, this book describes how cooperative group work can enhance relationships in the classroom, reduce prejudice and alleviate problems of victimisation and peer rejection. It combines quantitative experimental analysis with detailed case studies; considers the impact of the family...
Dead Man's Hand
Crime Fiction at the Poker Table
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2007
Hit the jackpot with stories from Michael Connelly, Laura Lippman, Walter Mosley, Alexander McCall Smith, and more superstars of mystery.
In “One Dollar Jackpot,” Michael Connelly’s curmudgeonly Harry Bosch finds himself going toe-to-toe with a professional poker player. Jeffery Deaver...
by Peter David, Esther Friesner, Diane Carey
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2002
Like a strand of mutating DNA, a deadly conspiracy winds its way through the Alpha Quadrant, even as it stretches across several years of Starfleet history. This special omnibus volume contains the entire bestselling saga-by some of Star Trek's most popular authors:
Book One: Infection
John Gregory...
Sound as Popular Culture
A Research Companion
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Scholars consider sound and its concepts, taking as their premise the idea that popular culture can be analyzed in an innovative way through sound.
The wide-ranging texts in this book take as their premise the idea that sound is a subject through which popular culture can be analyzed in an...
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