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This extensive work brings together a quarter century of the work of Marc Treib, taking in the cultural meaning of the designed landscape, the lives and work of the leading names in the field, and a remarkable geographical and temporal range.

An analysis of various practices of collaboration in planning and public policy. It presents a theory of collaborative rationality to overcome the challenges of complexity, fragmentation, uncertainty and global processes.

When people - alone or in groups - want to solve problems or improve their situation, they make plans. Horst Rittel studied this process of making plans and developed theories. This book collects the work of Rittel's within the framework of a discussion of Rittel's theories and philosophical influences.

In the colorblind era of Post-Civil Rights America, race is often wrongly thought to be irrelevant or, at best, a problem of racist individuals rather than a systemic condition to be confronted. This book interrupts this assumption by reaffirming a critical appreciation of the central role that race and racism still play in schools and society.

Despite changes in sovereignty and in religious thought, certain aspects of Iranian culture and identity have persisted since antiquity. This book examines the history of Iran from its ancient roots to the Islamic period, focusing on pre-Islamic Persian religions and literature and their influence upon later Muslim practices and precepts in Iran.

This book, first published in 1998, challenges the current implicit models used in alcohol problem prevention and demonstrates an ecological perspective of the community as a complex adaptive system, an appreciation and understanding of which offers an alternative approach to the prevention of alcohol dependence and alcohol-related problems.

Explores the legacy that Constantin Stanislavsky's system of actor-training has left on acting in the US. This title outlines the journey of Stanislavsky's theories through twentieth century American history, from the early US tours of the Moscow Art Theatre to the impact of The System on modern American acting.

Offers an analysis of the poetry and fiction of Afghanistan. This book demonstrates that, within the trajectory of the union between modern aesthetic imagination and politics, the modernist intervention enabled many contemporary poets and writers of fiction to resist the overt politicization of the literary field, without evading politics.

Exploring the relationship between cities and their cinematic portrayals in over a century of film, this book shows how notions of society inform and are influenced by the images we have come to know on screen.

Taking Weber's interpretations of capitalism and religion, this book re-examines a range of classical and contemporary texts to help explain the character of religion and spirituality in mature capitalist societies. It is intended for students and scholars of social theory, history, the sociology of religion and philosophy.

Can the internet solve the problem of mass education, and bring human beings to a level of community? This title agues that there is much in common between the disembodied, free floating web and Descartes' separation of mind and body. It includes a chapter on 'Second Life'.

Provides a theoretical defence of situated agency located in the historical context of British political science; compares their approach to British political science with others including, post-structural and institutional analysis; and more. This book is useful to those in political theory, public policy, British politics, and British history.

Containing five new essays which include post 1990 literature on exchange rate target zones and a discussion of the light shed by the gold standard on the European Monetary Union debate.

Undoing Gender addresses the regulation of sexuality and gender that takes place in psychology, aesthetics, and social policy.

Presents fundamental thinking about business organization and explores factors which impact the viability and growth of business enterprises. This book considers, in particular, the role of entrepreneurship, organizational learning, and business strategy - including licensing strategy.

Presents the art of advanced MOSFET modeling for integrated circuit simulation and design. This book provides the essential mathematical and physical analyses of the electrical, mechanical and thermal effects in MOS transistors relevant to the operation of integrated circuits.

The personal story of the life of a Caulbearer. Includes factual accounts of actual sessions where the souls of people who have passed on speak though the author.

Alongside China's vast material development, there came a change of its mental habits, largely affected by the technological revolution in the means of mass communication. This book shows how such a change has brought - and yet been brought by - a new form of pictorial thought, essentially sensuous and imagery, which is suggesting a possible future for the world. Today's China is different from what it used to be; the Maoist years appear, even to the official mind, an absurdity; and this difference is evident in the replacement of the Maoist mass-politics by what should be called "Moral politics", which is petty and personal. It is the moralizing practice that characterizes today's China, when the birth of so-called "ordinary people", taken as a collection of individual authors of their own private lives and personal stories, became an acknowledged social fact, proliferating in all kinds of mass media. This study traces the birth of "ordinary people" to the beginning of the century, when the reformation of the political in terms of personal dilemmas or moral groans began. From the beginning of this century, the moral content of Chinese politics is more and more fulfilled by such as problems of marriage or sexual affairs. In other words, this is participant observation of an affective change in the Chinese mind, where and when sociology became photographic, i.e. the photographer a natural sociologist, and the mold of Facebook or Wechat communication has reshaped the ideographic tradition of its writing system. This is yet another "Cultural Revolution" on the ruins of the Maoist revolution.

This book demonstrates how to solve for the velocity profile of the classic problems of fluid mechanics, starting with Navier-Stokes equation. It explains when it is appropriate to simplify a problem by neglecting certain terms through proper dimensional analysis.

Contains numerous results in 1-dimensional cellular automata. This title states that only 82 local rules, out of 256, suffice to predict the time evolution of any of the remaining 174 local rules from an arbitrary initial bit-string configuration.