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  • Political Corruption in Bridgeport

    Scandal in the Park City

    by Rob Sullivan ...
    First incorporated in 1836, Bridgeport is notorious for a raucous political history that includes both liberating accomplishments and salacious scandals. From a state senator who spent several years in prison for racketeering to a mayor who was caught taking drugs while in office, Bridgeport has had its fair share of unlawful politicians. The political playground of the city has also seen ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Metaphysical City

    Six Ways of Understanding the Urban Milieu

    by Rob Sullivan ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    The Metaphysical City examines the metaphorical existence of the city as an entity to further understand its significance on urban planning and geography. It encourages an open-minded approach when studying cities so as to uncover broader connecting themes that may otherwise be missed.Case studies of New York, Paris, Cairo, Mumbai, Tokyo, and Los Angeles explore a metaphor specific to each city. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Twenty-First Century Urbanism

    A New Analysis of the City

    by Rob Sullivan ...
    This volume argues that the city cannot be captured by any one mode of analysis but instead is composed of the mobile, relational, efficient, sentient, and the phenomenological with all of them cast in new theoretical configurations and combined into one methodological entity. Rather than focusing on any one city or abstract analytical model, this book instead takes a multipronged theoretical and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Street Level: Los Angeles in the Twenty-First Century

    by Rob Sullivan ...
    In the latter part of the C20th, a series of seminal books were written which examined Los Angeles by the likes of Reyner Banham, Mike Davis, Edward Soja, Allen Scott, Michael Dear, Frederick Jameson, Umberto Eco, Bernard-Henri Levy, and Jean Baudrillard which have been hugely influential in thinking about cities more broadly. The debates which were generated by these works have tended to be very ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Introduction to Data Mining for the Life Sciences

    by Rob Sullivan ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Data mining provides a set of new techniques to integrate, synthesize, and analyze tdata, uncovering the hidden patterns that exist within. Traditionally, techniques such as kernel learning methods, pattern recognition, and data mining, have been the domain of researchers in areas such as artificial intelligence, but leveraging these tools, techniques, and concepts against your data asset to ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • The Geography of the Everyday

    Toward an Understanding of the Given

    by Rob Sullivan ...
    Anthropologists, psychologists, feminists, and sociologists have long studied the “everyday,” the quotidian, the taken-for-granted; however, geographers have lagged behind in engaging with this slippery aspect of reality. Now, Rob Sullivan makes the case for geography as a powerful conceptual framework for seeing the everyday anew and for pushing back against its “givenness”: its capacity to so ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Geography Speaks: Performative Aspects of Geography

    by Rob Sullivan ...
    Geography Speaks is an investigation of how geography is informed by speech act theory and performativity. Starting with a critical analysis of how J.L. Austin's speech act theory probed the permeability between fact and fiction, it then assesses oppositional interpretations by John Searle and Jacques Derrida, and in doing so, it explores the fictional aspects within scientific knowledge. The book ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • The Urban Revolution

    by Henri Lefebvre ...
    Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre’s first sustained critique of urban society, a work in which he pioneered the use of semiotic, structuralist, and poststructuralist methodologies in analyzing the development of the urban environment. Although it is widely considered a foundational book in contemporary thinking about the city, The Urban Revolution has never ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Cultural Geography

    by Mike Crang ...
    First Published in 1998. The so-called 'cultural tum' in contemporary geography has brought new ways of thinking about geography and culture, taking cultural geography into exciting new terrain to produce new maps of space and place. Cultural Geography introduces culture from a geographical perspective, focusing on how cultures work in practice and looking at cultures embedded in real-life ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The People, Place, and Space Reader

    Edited by Jen Jack Gieseking, William Mangold, Cindi Katz, Setha Low, Susan Saegert ...
    The People, Place, and Space Reader brings together the writings of scholars, designers, and activists from a variety of fields to make sense of the makings and meanings of the world we inhabit. They help us to understand the relationships between people and the environment at all scales, and to consider the active roles individuals, groups, and social structures play in creating the environments ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Posthuman Glossary

    Edited by Maria Hlavajova, Professor Rosi Braidotti ...
    Series series Theory in the New Humanities
    If art, science, and the humanities have shared one thing, it was their common engagement with constructions and representations of the human. Under the pressure of new contemporary concerns, however, we are experiencing a “posthuman condition”; the combination of new developments-such as the neoliberal economics of global capitalism, migration, technological advances, environmental destruction on ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Anthropology in Theory

    Issues in Epistemology

    Edited by Henrietta L. Moore, Todd Sanders ...
    This second edition of the widely praised Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology, features a variety of updates, revisions, and new readings in its comprehensive presentation of issues in the history of anthropological theory and epistemology over the past century.Provides a comprehensive selection of 60 readings and an insightful overview of the evolution of anthropological theoryRevised ... Read more

    $68.00 USD