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  • Liquid City

    Megalopolis and the Contemporary Northeast

    by John Short ...
    Megalopolis was the name given to a Peloponnesian city that was founded around 371- 368 BCE. Though planned on a grand scale, the city failed to realize the dreams of the founders, and it declined by the late Roman period. In 1957, the renowned geographer Jean Gottman applied the term in his description of the densely populated area of the northeastern United States that includes the cities of ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Alabaster Cities

    Urban U.S. since 1950

    by John Short ...
    Series series Space, Place and Society
    With keen insight and exhaustive research John Rennie Short narrates the story of urban America from 1950 to the present, revealing a compelling portrait of urban transformation. Short chronicles the steady rise of urbanization, the increasing suburbanization, and the sweeping metropolitanization of the U.S., uncovering the forces behind these shifts and their consequences for American communities ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Those Ghosts: A Life in Poems

    by John Short ...
    A mesmerising summer welcomes the reader into this collection and holds them for a journey that spans several decades. There is music – languid and harmonious, a fresh youthfulness, and time is a metronome that strikes through lustrous landscapes and characters of varying personalities. A steady, companionable read on a journey of one's own or at home.– Victoria Ekpo ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Magic Lantern Empire

    Colonialism and Society in Germany

    by John Phillip Short ...
    Magic Lantern Empire examines German colonialism as a mass cultural and political phenomenon unfolding at the center of a nascent, conflicted German modernity. John Phillip Short draws together strands of propaganda and visual culture, science and fantasy to show how colonialism developed as a contested form of knowledge that both reproduced and blurred class difference in Germany, initiating the ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Housing and Residential Structure

    Alternative Approaches

    by John Short, Keith Bassett ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1980, Housing and Residential Structure was written to take stock of the many changes that had recently taken place in explanatory approaches to housing markets and residential structure.The book is divided into three parts. Part One focuses on the demand-orientated approaches of human ecology and neo-classical economics. Part Two discusses the institutional approaches with ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • Insurrection

    What the January 6 Assault on the Capitol Reveals about America and Democracy

    by John Rennie Short ...
    Insurrection offers a profound and incisive analysis of the underlying factors that culminated in the assault on Washington’s Capitol on that fateful day in January 2021. Going far beyond journalistic accounts, the book delves into structural trends within the United States, providing a broader and deeper context for comprehending the magnitude of the uprising. It explores the crisis of democracy, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Cities and Suburbs

    New Metropolitan Realities in the US

    by Bernadette Hanlon, John Rennie Short, Thomas Vicino ...
    This book is a systematic examination of the historical and current roles that cities and suburbs play in US metropolitan areas. It explores the history of cities and suburbs, their changing dynamics with each other, their growing diversity, the environmental consequences of their development and finally the extent and nature of their decline and renewal.Cities and Suburbs: New Metropolitan ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

  • The Viking Cup

    International Hockey : A Small College Town Scores Big Time

    by LeRoy Johnson, BEd MEd, John Short ...
    How does a small college in a rural Alberta city of just over 12,000 people become host to the finest hockey players in the world? Now a part of the University of Alberta, Camrose Lutheran College was challenged to compete against larger city colleges. Through persistence in following a vision, the school and the community embraced the potential of the Viking Cup in 1980, opening their doors to ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Geopolitics

    Making Sense of a Changing World

    by John Rennie Short ...
    In this cogent introduction to the state of contemporary geopolitics, Short provides an understanding of the basic themes of geopolitics and an overview of geopolitical issues around the globe. His regional approach to the study of the power relations between states is framed by a discussion of critical and popular geopolitical analysis. ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Gridiron Wisdom

    A Playbook for Leadership

    by Ron McIntyre, BA, BEd, John Short, Rod Macleod ...
    Competitiveness. Leadership. Inclusiveness. Discipline. Dedication to community. Together, these traits form the blueprint for teams that not only win, but transcend sport and develop a purpose to keep on winning for the good of the communities that surround and support them. Alberta’s reputation in Canadian football was built uponthis foundation.Through countless hours of intimate interviews and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Housebuilding, Planning and Community Action

    The Production and Negotiation of the Built Environment

    by John R. Short, Stephen Fleming, Stephen J. G. Witt ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1986, Housebuilding, Planning and Community Action was written as an examination of the conflicts and tensions resulting from private sector housing growth in Central Berkshire, part of Britain’s ‘Silicon Valley’ along the M4 motorway.The book provides a detailed consideration of the various ‘actors’ and their interactions and explores the fight from Community groups and parish ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • The North Americans of Antiquity: Their Origin, Migrations, and Type of Civilization Considered

    by John Thomas Short ...
    ON that eventful morning nearly four centuries ago, when the spell of uncertainty and mystery which enshrouded the Atlantic was broken, and the darkness of the deep vanished with the darkness of the night, the illustrious admiral discovered a world populated with beings like himself. They were male and female, with all the physical characteristics common to the rest of mankind, and differed from ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus