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The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs

The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs

Here for the first time is a thoroughly interdisciplinary and international examination of Jane Jacobs’s legacy. Divided into four parts: I. Jacobs Urban Philosopher; II. Jacobs Urban Economist; II. Jacobs Urban Sociologist; and IV. Jacobs Urban Designer the book evaluates the impact of Jacobs’s writings and activism on the city the professions dedicated to city-building and more generally on human thought. Together the editors and contributors highlight the notion that Jacobs’s influence goes beyond planning to philosophy economics sociology and design. They set out to answer such questions as: What explains Jacobs’s lasting appeal and is it justified? Where was she right and where was she wrong? What were the most important themes she addressed? And although Jacobs was best known for her work on cities is it correct to say that she was a much broader thinker a philosopher and that the key to her lasting legacy is precisely her exceptional breadth of thought?

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The Metaphysics of Perfect Beings

The Metaphysics of Perfect Beings

The Metaphysics of Perfect Beings addresses the problems an Anselmian perfect being faces in contexts involving unlimited options. Recent advances in the theory of vagueness the metaphysics of multiverses and hyperspace the theory of dynamic or sequential choice the logic of moral and rational dilemmas and metaethical theory provide the resources to formulate the new challenges and the Anselmian responses with an unusual degree of precision. Almeida shows that the challenges arising in the unusual contexts involving unlimited options sometimes produce metaphysical surprise.

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New Perspectives on Marc-Antoine Charpentier

New Perspectives on Marc-Antoine Charpentier

The tercentenary of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's death in 2004 stimulated a surge of activity on the part of performers and scholars confirming the modern assessment of Charpentier (1643-1704) as one of the most important and inventive composers of the French Baroque. The present book provides a snapshot of Charpentier scholarship in the early years of the new century. Its 13 chapters illustrate not only the sheer variety of strands currently pursued but also the way in which these strands frequently intertwine and generate the potential for future research. Between them they examine facets of the composer's compositional language and process aspects of his performance practice and notation the contexts within which he worked and the nature of his legacy. The appendix contains a transcription of the inventory of Charpentier's manuscripts prepared when their sale to the Royal Library was negotiated in 1726 - an invaluable research tool as numerous chapters in the book demonstrate. The wide variety of topics covered here will appeal both to readers interested in Charpentier's music and to those with a broader interest in the music and culture of the French Baroque including aspects of patronage church and theatre. Far from treating his output in isolation this book places it in the wider context alongside such composers as Lully Lalande Marais François Couperin and Rameau; it also views the composer in relation to his Italian training. In the process the under-examined question of influence - who influenced Charpentier? whom did he influence? - repeatedly comes to the fore. The book's Foreword was written by H. Wiley Hitchcock shortly before he died. Hitchcock's own part in raising the profile of Charpentier and his music to the level of recognition which it now enjoys cannot be emphasized enough. Appropriately the volume is dedicated to his memory.

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Michael Freeman's Perfect ExposureThe Professional's Guide to Capturing Perfect Digital Photographs

Michael Freeman's Perfect ExposureThe Professional's Guide to Capturing Perfect Digital Photographs

This second edition of Michael Freeman’s best-selling Perfect Exposure continues the celebrated approach to understanding exposure by laying out the necessary decisions and sequences a photographer faces with absolute clarity and completely updated coverage of the latest powerful post-processing techniques. Choosing the exposure for a photograph is infinitely complex and one of photography's most absorbing paradoxes. Freeman clearly guides photographers in this book with a lucid and accessible method using unique workflow illustrations histograms and clear visual examples to explore the subtleties of the subject and enable you to shoot with confidence.

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The Good CityReflections and Imaginations

The Good CityReflections and Imaginations

Cities Allan B. Jacobs contends ought to be magnificent beautiful places to live. They should be places where people can be fulfilled where they can be what they can be where there is freedom love ideas excitement quiet and joy. Cities ought to be the ultimate manifestation of society’s collective achievements. Allan B. Jacobs is one of the world’s best known planners and urban design practitioners with a long and distinguished international career. Drawing on his professional experience of almost sixty years Jacobs guides the reader through the lessons he’s learnt as a planner and lover of cities.  Cities from Brazil Italy India Japan China and the US are featured. Written with a wonderfully engaging humorous tone and Jacobs’ own drawings The Good City transfers lessons on city design building and urban change to all those willing to help cities become the magnificent beautiful places they should be - and encourages all inhabitants to learn to appreciate and explore their own cities.

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Sufism and the Perfect Human From Ibn ‘Arabī to al-Jīlī

Sufism and the Perfect Human From Ibn ‘Arabī to al-Jīlī

Studying the history of the notion of the ‘Perfect Human’ (al-insān al-kāmil) this book investigates a key idea in the history of Sufism. First discussed by Ibn ‘Arabī and later treated in greater depth by al-Jīlī the idea left its mark on later Islamic mystical metaphysical and political thought from North Africa to Southeast Asia up until modern times. The research tells the story of the development of that idea from Ibn ‘Arabī to al-Jīlī and beyond. It does so through a thematic study based on close reading of primary sources in Arabic and Persian of the key elements of the idea including the idea that the Perfect Human is a locus of divine manifestation (maẓhar) the concept of the ‘Pole’ (quṭb) and the ‘Muhammadan Reality’ (al-ḥaqīqah al-Muhammadiyyah) and the identity of the Perfect Human. By setting the work of al-Jīlī against the background of earlier Ibn ‘Arabian treatments of the idea it demonstrates that al-Jīlī took the idea of the Perfect Human in several new directions with major consequences for how the Prophet Muhammad – the archetypal Perfect Human – was viewed in later Islamic thought. Introducing readers to the key Sufi idea of the Perfect Human (al-insān al-kāmil) this volume will be of interest to scholars and students interested in Sufism Islam religion and philosophy. | Sufism and the Perfect Human From Ibn ‘Arabī to al-Jīlī

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Perfect 800 SAT Math Advanced Strategies for Top Performance

Perfect 800 SAT Math Advanced Strategies for Top Performance

Getting into the nation's most competitive universities requires more than a good SAT score—it requires a perfect score. Perfect 800: SAT Math: Gives advanced students the tools needed to master the SAT math test. Includes 250+ problems two complete practice tests and 25 logic games. Covers arithmetic concepts algebra geometry trigonometry and more. Emphasizes critical thinking and analytic skills over memorization and trial and error. This updated 2021 edition offers exposure to a wide range of degrees of difficulty in a holistic approach that allows students to experience the real thing including the impact of time constraints on their performance. This book ensures optimal usage of time and maximizes the pace of progress as students prepare for the all-important test. The book contains one complete practice test and a second practice test is downloadable from www. routledge. com/9781646321049. Grades 9-12 | Perfect 800 SAT Math Advanced Strategies for Top Performance

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Describing Archival MaterialsThe Use of the MARC AMC Format

Describing Archival MaterialsThe Use of the MARC AMC Format

Here is an informative new volume that celebrates the increasing use and influence of the MARC format for Archives and Manuscript Control (AMC). As the format and its companion the online archival catalog gain acceptance among archivists several major issues evolve including the adoption and adaptation of standards for archival control data and the acceptance of archival control techniques for use in library collections. This is an important volume for library cataloguers who in order to make use of the archival control techniques embodied in the AMC format must be familiar with basic techniques of archival collections management and archivists who might need basic instruction in relevant library cataloging techniques.Describing Archival Materials presents the principles and techniques that describe the control of both textual and non-textual materials. Each chapter where appropriate contains examples of AMC records to illustrate various techniques. In examining control of textual materials the authors: outline the requisite details of archival description including the construction of finding aids and the representation of archival collections in catalogs according to the recognized standard APPM explain the concepts of intellectual responsibility and the basic concepts of choice and formulation of access points derived directly from AACR2 provide an archival translation of basic indexing concepts such as subject analysis and indexing depth all written within the context of LCSH explore the concepts of authority control of both names and subjects consider design issues that contributed to the construction of the format and focus on appropriate methods of content designation for archival descriptions discuss the development of archival information systems in particular focusing on archival management features and problems inherent in attempts to design systems that integrate archival and bibliographic recordsThree chapters also highlight archival control of nontextual materials--visual images (photographs and films) sound recordings and cartographic materials.

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Parliamentary DemocracyIs There a Perfect Model?

Parliamentary DemocracyIs There a Perfect Model?

This title was first published in 2001. With the collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe the legitimacy of one-party and often one-person rule in other parts of the world has been fundamentally challenged. It appears that for the first time parliamentary democracy has become the universally accepted model to adopt or to be perfected. Newer democracies have started to build the institutions and capacity necessary to sustain democracy while established democracies continue to refine their democracy sometimes introducing full-scale reforms. This book examines whether elements of the perfect democracy can be identified and how democratic structures and practices can be improved.

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President Barack ObamaA More Perfect Union

President Barack ObamaA More Perfect Union

Barack Obama's "improbable quest" has become a fact of American life and a benchmark in American history. Striving now toward "a more perfect union " Obama and the nation confront obstacles unforeseen at the outset of the 2008 electoral campaign. John K. Wilson tracks the sweep of this progress from the beginning of Obama's political career through his move into the White House. With his critical journalistic eye and his sympathetic "native son" perspective Wilson shows us a side of Obama we haven't seen as well as a view of the media we need to understand-even more now as the Obama administration begins to govern. The paperback edition of this popular book includes a new introduction updates throughout and two new chapters on the electoral victory and the transition from campaigning into governing. New photos and new insights include a focus on the continued importance of race in American politics.

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Eisenhower at Columbia

Eisenhower at Columbia

From the beginning of World War II until he left the White House in early 1961 Dwight David Eisenhower played a leadership role on the world stage. This was longer than any American since George Washington Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. His Columbia presidency was part of this period yet the story has not been told. Scholars have repeated earlier critical contemporary assessments and largely dismissed or ignored that part of his career. Jacobs seeks to answer many of the open-ended questions about Eisenhower's tenure as successor to Nicholas Murray Butler whom many consider the greatest university president of the century. Jacobs examines previously unused sources to analyze Eisenhower's leadership and accomplishments his goals and intentions and whether his presidency at Columbia generally considered a failure ever had a chance of succeeding.This insightful well-written volume covers the years that played such a vital role in Dwight D. Eisenhower's journey to the White House. Jacobs reviews Eisenhower's appointment as chief of staff after his return from Europe after V-E Day and concurrently looks at Columbia's difficulties in its troubled search for a president. He examines the deliberations on both sides before Eisenhower's acceptance of Columbia's presidency and the circumstances surrounding his arrival and installation. Jacobs covers Eisenhower's subsequent leave of absence and return to duty at the Pentagon as NATO commander and the impact of his extended absence from Columbia. He resigned on the eve of his inauguration as president of the United States. Jacobs recounts the hostility of campus liberal intellectuals who had increasingly resented Eisenhower's presidency and were offended by the New York Times's endorsement of Eisenhower over Adlai E. Stevenson for the 1952 presidential campaign. Jacobs views Eisenhower's years as university president as playing a significant role in preparing him for his White House years.A thorough assessment of Eisenhower's career on Morningside Heights is long overdue. Jacobs' insights on Eisenhower's presidency at Columbia will be of interest to Eisenhower's biographers college and university administrators American studies students and the general public curious about Eisenhower's public service as a civilian before he became U. S. president.

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A Perfect Union? Television and the Winning of Same-Sex Marriage

A Perfect Union? Television and the Winning of Same-Sex Marriage

On June 26 2015 Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy declared same-sex marriage is so ordered across the United States. The day will no doubt be remembered as a landmark shift in how U. S. society views and validates marriage and romantic relationships. But the shift would not have happened without an arguably more important but already forgotten shift four years earlier that saw unprecedented movement in public attitudes alongside record amounts of television representation of LGBQ relationships. Situated at this intersection of legislative attitudinal and representational change A Perfect Union? presents analyses of popular programmes such as Modern Family Grey’s Anatomy The Good Wife Glee Desperate Housewives and House in order to tackle crucial ethical questions regarding the impact of heterosexual knowledges on the rendering of same-sex relationships as relatable and respectable – portraits of heteronormativity that reproduce the masculine/feminine binary monogamous coupledom and the raising of children. Focusing on the connection between heteronormativity and government legitimacy Cory Albertson deftly examines television’s privileging of certain forms of relationships over others shedding light on the reproduction of everyday power relations within LGBQ relationships that hinge on issues of race sexuality class and gender. An engaging study of media constructions of same-sex relationships and the shaping of public expectations and attitudes A Perfect Union? is a must-read for scholars of sociology media and cultural studies and popular culture with interests in gender sexuality and the family. | A Perfect Union? Television and the Winning of Same-Sex Marriage

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The Art of Living Foundation Spirituality and Wellbeing in the Global Context

The Art of Living Foundation Spirituality and Wellbeing in the Global Context

The Hindu-derived meditation movement The Art of Living (AOL) founded in 1981 by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Bangalore has grown into a global organization which claims presence in more than 150 countries. Stephen Jacobs presents the first comprehensive study of AOL as an important transnational movement and an alternative global spirituality. Exploring the nature and characteristics of spirituality in the contemporary global context Jacobs considers whether alternative spiritualities are primarily concerned with individual wellbeing and can simply be regarded as another consumer product. The book concludes that involvement in movements such as AOL is not necessarily narcissistic but can foster a sense of community and inspire altruistic activity. | The Art of Living Foundation Spirituality and Wellbeing in the Global Context

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How to Create a Sustainable Food Industry A Practical Guide to Perfect Food

How to Create a Sustainable Food Industry A Practical Guide to Perfect Food

This book presents a practical guide to help businesses navigate the complex topics of sustainability in the food industry. The book takes you on a journey along the food value chain from farm to fork exploring key opportunities to increase positive impacts and circularity at each step of the journey. Written by a team of authors with decades of experience in the food industry and academia it provides guidance on how to analyse sustainability across the value chain and life cycle of a food product and how to design implement and communicate strategies to customers. Furthermore the book shows that there are not always straightforward solutions but rather choices and trade-offs that require an understanding of what is best suited to the product customers and business in question. It demystifies a variety of topics such as local sourcing regenerative agriculture plant-based protein and the environmental impact of meat production and draws on a wide range of case studies from across the globe to provide concrete real-world examples. While a perfect food system may not exist informed decisions can go a long way to reshape and transform the food industry as we know it. This book will be of great interest to professionals working in the food and agriculture industries as well as students and scholars of sustainable food systems and sustainable business. | How to Create a Sustainable Food Industry A Practical Guide to Perfect Food

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Economic and Political Contention in Comparative Perspective

Economic and Political Contention in Comparative Perspective

European and American specialists in economic and political processes move beyond earlier debates to look seriously systematically and innovatively at social change and protest with particular attention to the influence of economic change and variation on contentious politics. The essays take up two widely recognized but much contested questions in contentious politics: how threats and opportunities faced by potential participants in joint political action affect the likelihood character and consequences of that action; and how economic change and variation either a) constitute significant political threats and opportunities or b) shape responses to political threats and opportunities. Contributors: Maria Kousis Charles Tilly Marc Giugni Julie Berclaz Marc Steinberg Jeffery Broadbent Klaus Eder John K. Glenn Dieter Rucht Richard Hogan Maryjane Osa Cristina Corduneanu-Husi.

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Perfect Pairs 3-5 Using Fiction & Nonfiction Picture Books to Teach Life Science Grades 3-5

Perfect Pairs 3-5 Using Fiction & Nonfiction Picture Books to Teach Life Science Grades 3-5

Hands-on lessons can be fun and compelling but when it comes to life science they aren't always possible practical effective or safe. Children can't follow wolves as they hunt elk visit a prehistoric swamp or shrink down to the size of a molecule and observe photosynthesis firsthand. But they can explore a whole world of animals plants and ecosystems through the pages of beautifully illustrated science-themed picture books. Perfect Pairs which marries fiction and nonfiction picture books focused on life science helps educators think about and teach life science in a whole new way. Each of the twenty lessons in this book is built around a pair of books that introduces a critical life science concept and guides students through an inquiry-based investigative process to explore that idea-;from life cycles and animal-environment interactions to the inheritance of traits and the critical role of energy in our world. Each lesson starts with a Wonder Statement and comprises three stages. Engaging Students features a hands-on activity that captures student interest uncovers current thinking and generates vocabulary. The heart of the investigative process Exploring with Students spotlights the paired books as the teacher reads aloud and helps students find and organize information into data tables. Encouraging Students to Draw Conclusions shows students how to review and analyze the information they have collected. Bringing high-quality science-themed picture books into the classroom engages a broad range of students addresses the Performance Expectations outlined in the Next Generation Science Standards and supports the goals of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts. Even if you are science shy Perfect Pairs can help you become a more confident teacher whose classroom buzzes with curious students eager to explore their natural world. | Perfect Pairs 3-5 Using Fiction & Nonfiction Picture Books to Teach Life Science Grades 3-5

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Climate Change EthicsNavigating the Perfect Moral Storm

Climate Change EthicsNavigating the Perfect Moral Storm

Climate change is now the biggest challenge faced by humanity worldwide and ethics is the crucial missing component in the debate about what to do about this enormous threat. This book examines why thirty-five years of discussion of human-induced warming has failed to acknowledge fundamental ethical concerns and subjects climate change’s most important policy questions to ethical analysis. This book examines why ethical principles have failed to gain traction in policy formation and recommends specific strategies to ensure that climate change policies are consistent with ethical principles. Because climate change is a global problem that requires a global solution and given that many nations refuse participation due to perceived inequities in proposed international solutions this book explains why ensuring that nations sub-national governments organizations businesses and individuals acknowledge and respond to their ethical obligations is both an ethical and practical mandate. This book is the first of its kind to go beyond a mere account of relevant ethical questions to offer a pragmatic guide on how to make ethical principles influential in formulating the world’s response to climate change. Written by Donald A. Brown a leading voice in the field it should be of interest to policy makers and those studying environmental policy climate change policy international relations environmental ethics and philosophy.

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The Perfect Genre. Drama and Painting in Renaissance Italy

The Perfect Genre. Drama and Painting in Renaissance Italy

Proposing an original and important re-conceptualization of Italian Renaissance drama Kristin Phillips-Court here explores how the intertextuality of major works of Italian dramatic literature is not only poetic but also figurative. She argues that not only did the painterly gaze so prevalent in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century devotional art portraiture and visual allegory inform humanistic theories practices and themes it also led prominent Italian intellectuals to write visually evocative works of dramatic literature whose topical plots and structures provide only a fraction of their cultural significance. Through a combination of interpretive literary criticism art historical analysis and cultural and intellectual historiography Phillips-Court offers detailed readings of individual plays juxtaposed with specific developments and achievements in the realm of painting. Revealing more than historical connections between artists and poets such as Tasso and Giorgione Mantegna and Trissino Michelangelo and Caro or Bruno and Caravaggio the author locates the history of Renaissance art and drama securely within the history of ideas. She provides us with a story about the emergence and eventual disintegration of Italian Renaissance drama as a rigorously philosophical and empirical form. Considering rhetorical philosophical ethical religious political-ideological and aesthetic dimensions of each of the plays she treats Kristin Phillips-Court draws our attention to the intermedial conversation between the theater and painting in a culture famously dominated by art. Her integrated analysis of visual and dramatic works brings to light how the lines and verses of the text reveal an ongoing dialogue with visual art that was far richer and more intellectually engaged than we might reconstruct from stage diagrams and painted backdrops.

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Thurgood MarshallRace Rights and the Struggle for a More Perfect Union

Thurgood MarshallRace Rights and the Struggle for a More Perfect Union

Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court from 1967 to 1991. He was the first African American to hold that position and was one of the most influential legal actors of his time. Before being appointed to the Supreme Court by President Lyndon Johnson Marshall was a lawyer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Federal Judge (1961-1965) and Solicitor General of the United States (1965-1966). Marshall won twenty-nine of thirty-two cases before the Supreme Court – most notably the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education which held segregated public schools unconstitutional. Marshall spent his career fighting racial segregation and legal inequality and his time on the court establishing a record for supporting the "voiceless American." He left a legacy of change that still affects American society today. Through this concise biography accompanied by primary sources that present Marshall in his own words students will learn what Marshall did (and did not do) during his life why those actions were important and what effects his efforts had on the larger course of American history.

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Gender and Agrarian Reforms

Gender and Agrarian Reforms

The redistribution of land has profound implications for women and for gender relations; however gender issues have been marginalised from both theoretical and policy discussions of agrarian reform. This book presents an overview of gender and agrarian reform experiences globally. Jacobs highlights case studies from Latin America Asia Africa and eastern Europe and also compares agrarian and land reforms organised along collective lines as well as along individual household lines. This volume will be of interest to scholars in Geography Women’s Studies and Economics.

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Evolutionary Economics

Evolutionary Economics

This two-volume work is intended to map the theoretical heartland of the institutionalist perspective on political economy. Volume I "Foundations of Institutional Thought" identifies the origins of institutional economics and explores the primary analytical tools in its development. The papers included in Volume II "Institutional Theory and Policy" consider basic economic processes institutions for stabilizing and planning economic activities the role of power and accountability and emerging global interdependence. Marc R. Tool is the editor of "Journal of Economic Issues".

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