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  • Cities of Tomorrow

    An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design Since 1880

    by Peter Hall ...
    Peter Hall’s seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Now comprehensively revised, the fourth edition offers a perceptive, critical, and global history of urban planning and design throughout the twentieth-century and beyond.A revised and updated ... Read more

    $57.00 USD

  • Sex and Death

    Stories

    Edited by Sarah Hall, Peter Hobbs ...
    In this provocative and haunting collection of short stories, edited by two masters of the form, a diverse group of contemporary writers probes the nature and connection between two of the most powerful, exhilarating, and terrifying forces that define and shape the human experience."What else is there?"—Alice Munro, on why so much of her work deals with the twin themes of sex and death.The drive ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dead Friends Society

    Drew and her friends aren't like most college kids.They're dead.Murdered in 1998 by a masked killer known only as The Fireman, their spirits are trapped in Greywood House, desperate to escape...until Abbey and her family arrive.The new girl finds herself drawn to their haunting presence, which only makes things worse. Because the dead know what the living can't: The Fireman is coming back.And this ... Read more

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  • Making an Exhibition of Myself: the autobiography of Peter Hall

    The Autobiography of Peter Hall

    by Peter Hall ...
    The story of a railway worker's son who became one of the most powerful, outspoken and charismatic figures in European theatre. Sir Peter Hall has been director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, artistic director of Glyndebourne, and director of Britain's National Theatre from 1973 to 1988. He has directed over 150 productions of plays, operas and films, and now runs his own acclaimed theatre ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Polycentric Metropolis

    Learning from Mega-City Regions in Europe

    A new 21st century urban phenomenon is emerging: the networked polycentric mega-city region. Developed around one or more cities of global status, it is characterized by a cluster of cities and towns, physically separate but intensively networked in a complex spatial division of labour. This book describes and analyses eight such regions in North West Europe.For the first time, this work shows how ... Read more

    $189.99 USD

  • Fractured Communities

    Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions

    Series series Nature, Society, and Culture
    While environmental disputes and conflicts over fossil fuel extraction have grown in recent years, few issues have been as contentious in the twenty-first century as those surrounding the impacts of unconventional natural gas and oil development using hydraulic drilling and fracturing techniques—more commonly known as “fracking”—on local communities. In Fractured Communities, Anthony E. Ladd and ... Read more

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    In the Psychiatrist's Chair

    The renowned BBC Radio 4 interview series

    Unabridged

    7 hours 5 min

    Twelve editions of the groundbreaking BBC Radio 4 interview series presented by Dr Anthony Clare.A master of incisive interrogation, Dr Anthony Clare became renowned for In the Psychiatrist's Chair. From 1982 until 2001 he conducted in-depth interviews with prominent people from different walks of life, inviting them to answer penetrating questions about their lives and careers.These twelve shows ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Do You Want to Go to Jail Today?

    by Peter Hall ...
    Why you should be reading this book.To the victims of crime: Make no mistake about it, after reading this book, you will know beyond a reasonable doubt that prisoners in jail are suffering. Whether it is on the city, county, or state level, prisoners are living in a world that far extends the suffering they have inflicted upon you. Having this knowledge will never make up for your loss or ill ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Race, Ethnicity, and Multiculturalism

    Policy and Practice

    by Peter Hall ...
    Series series Missouri Symposium on Research and Educational Policy
    This book examines how teachers, administrators, and educational institutions contribute to racial and ethnic inequality and offers policy and practice suggestions for change. It reviews the literature, the national societal and cultural contexts, definitions of race and ethnicity, family influences, and then explores the topic in relation to teachers, classrooms, school programs, school ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Urban Future 21

    A Global Agenda for Twenty-First Century Cities

    Prepared for the World Commission on Twenty-First Century Urbanization Conference in Berlin in July 2000. This book is an entirely new and comprehensive review of the state of world urban development at the millennium and a forecast of the main issues that will dominate urban debates in the next 25 years. It is the most significant book on cities and city planning problems to appear for many years ... Read more

    $106.99 USD