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Conversation Skills: Become a Master at Social Communication With Amazing Charisma (How to Use Storytelling in Your Communication to Gain Recognition)

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Would you like to learn how they outshine the best-looking people at a social gathering, hold them spellbound with their conversation skills, or make a powerful impact wherever they go?What is the one factor that separates regular people from these social superstars? It is called the charisma factor. The good news is that charisma or magnetism isn’t ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Would you like to learn how they outshine the best-looking people at a social gathering, hold them spellbound with their conversation skills, or make a powerful impact wherever they go?What is the one factor that separates regular people from these social superstars? It is called the charisma factor. The good news is that charisma or magnetism isn’t
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A Food Journey

If It Tastes Great, It’s Good for You

by Peter C Brenner ...

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7 hours 18 min

Discover the incredible story of food with “A Food Journey.” Peter Brenner takes you on a trip through time, starting from the simple meals of early humans to the diverse and exciting dishes of today. Explore how key events like the Agricultural Revolution and the spice trade shaped the world, and learn how ancient empires used grand feasts to show off their power and wealth. From the rise of ... Read more

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Discover the incredible story of food with “A Food Journey.” Peter Brenner takes you on a trip through time, starting from the simple meals of early humans to the diverse and exciting dishes of today. Explore how key events like the Agricultural Revolution and the spice trade shaped the world, and learn how ancient empires used grand feasts to show off their power and wealth. From the rise of
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Cities for People, Not for Profit

Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City

Edited by Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse, Margit Mayer ...

The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new impetus to the struggles of urban social movements emphasizing the injustice, destructiveness and unsustainability of capitalist forms of urbanization. This book contributes analyses intended to be ... Read more

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The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new impetus to the struggles of urban social movements emphasizing the injustice, destructiveness and unsustainability of capitalist forms of urbanization. This book contributes analyses intended to be
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Simulation Science

First International Workshop, SimScience 2017, Göttingen, Germany, April 27–28, 2017, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Marcus Baum, Gunther Brenner, Jens Grabowski, Thomas Hanschke, Stefan Hartmann, Anita Schöbel ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Clausthal-Göttingen International Workshop on Simulation Science, held in Göttingen, Germany, in April 2017.The 16 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on simulation and optimization in networks, simulation of materials, distributed simulations. ... Read more

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Clausthal-Göttingen International Workshop on Simulation Science, held in Göttingen, Germany, in April 2017.The 16 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on simulation and optimization in networks, simulation of materials, distributed simulations.
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Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

by Anthony M. Townsend ...

An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future.We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new "internet of things," and more people live in cities than in the countryside.In Smart Cities, urbanist and technology expert Anthony Townsend takes a broad ... Read more

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An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future.We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new "internet of things," and more people live in cities than in the countryside.In Smart Cities, urbanist and technology expert Anthony Townsend takes a broad
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Streetfight

Handbook for an Urban Revolution

by Janette Sadik-Khan, Seth Solomonow ...

Like a modern-day Jane Jacobs, Janette Sadik-Khan transformed New York City's streets to make room for pedestrians, cyclists, buses, and green spaces. Describing the battles she fought to enact change, Streetfight imparts wisdom and practical advice that other cities can follow to make their own streets safer and more vibrant.As New York City’s transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan ... Read more

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Like a modern-day Jane Jacobs, Janette Sadik-Khan transformed New York City's streets to make room for pedestrians, cyclists, buses, and green spaces. Describing the battles she fought to enact change, Streetfight imparts wisdom and practical advice that other cities can follow to make their own streets safer and more vibrant.As New York City’s transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan
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Radical Technologies

The Design of Everyday Life

by Adam Greenfield ...

A “tremendously intelligent and stylish” guide to the new technologies that are transforming our everyday lives, in ways both good and bad (Guardian)Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with ... Read more

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A “tremendously intelligent and stylish” guide to the new technologies that are transforming our everyday lives, in ways both good and bad (Guardian)Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with
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Edge City

Life on the New Frontier

by Joel Garreau ...

First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in 100 years in how they live, work, and play. The Edge City. ... Read more

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First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in 100 years in how they live, work, and play. The Edge City.
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Street Smart

The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars

by Samuel I Schwartz ...

On a Saturday morning in December 1973, a section of New York's West Side Highway collapsed under the weight of a truck full of asphalt. The road was closed, seemingly for good, and the 80,000 cars that traveled it each day had to find a new way to their destinations. It ought to have produced traffic chaos, but it didn't. The cars simply vanished. It was a moment of revelation: the highway had ... Read more

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On a Saturday morning in December 1973, a section of New York's West Side Highway collapsed under the weight of a truck full of asphalt. The road was closed, seemingly for good, and the 80,000 cars that traveled it each day had to find a new way to their destinations. It ought to have produced traffic chaos, but it didn't. The cars simply vanished. It was a moment of revelation: the highway had
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Rochdale Village

Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing

by Peter Eisenstadt ...

Series series American Institutions and Society
From 1963 to 1965 roughly 6,000 families moved into Rochdale Village, at the time the world's largest housing cooperative, in southeastern Queens County. The moderate-income cooperative attracted families from a diverse background, white and black, to what was a predominantly black neighborhood. In its early years, Rochdale was widely hailed as one of the few successful large-scale efforts to ... Read more

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From 1963 to 1965 roughly 6,000 families moved into Rochdale Village, at the time the world's largest housing cooperative, in southeastern Queens County. The moderate-income cooperative attracted families from a diverse background, white and black, to what was a predominantly black neighborhood. In its early years, Rochdale was widely hailed as one of the few successful large-scale efforts to
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Rediscovering the Center

by William H. Whyte, Paco Underhill ...

Named by Newsweek magazine to its list of "Fifty Books for Our Time."For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior, and city dynamics. City: Rediscovering the Center is the result of that research, a humane, often amusing view of ... Read more

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Named by Newsweek magazine to its list of "Fifty Books for Our Time."For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior, and city dynamics. City: Rediscovering the Center is the result of that research, a humane, often amusing view of
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Cities and Economies

by Yeong-Hyun Kim, John Rennie Short ...

Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
Cities and Economies explores the complex and subtle connections between cities and economies. The rise of the merchant city, the development of the industrial city and the creation of the service-dominated urban economy are all explored, along with economic globalization and its effects on cities in both developed and developing economies. This book provides a thorough examination of the role of ... Read more

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Cities and Economies explores the complex and subtle connections between cities and economies. The rise of the merchant city, the development of the industrial city and the creation of the service-dominated urban economy are all explored, along with economic globalization and its effects on cities in both developed and developing economies. This book provides a thorough examination of the role of
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