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Introductory Sports Engineering and Technology

by Tom Allen, Nick Emerson, John Hart, Stefan Schwanitz ...

Introductory Sports Engineering and Technology provides a fundamental primer to the world of Sports Engineering and Technology, including the key themes that dominate design and practice. The text has been created to provide a comprehensive overview of key principles and is developed from established and recognised education providers.This new text includes case studies and worked examples to ... Read more

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Introductory Sports Engineering and Technology provides a fundamental primer to the world of Sports Engineering and Technology, including the key themes that dominate design and practice. The text has been created to provide a comprehensive overview of key principles and is developed from established and recognised education providers.This new text includes case studies and worked examples to
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Creative Construction

Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond

by Heide Lutosh, James Muldoon, Samuel Decker, Jakob Heyer, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Elena Hofferberth, Cédric Durand, Matthias Schmelzer, Matthias Neumann, Gabriele Winker, Dougie Booth, Rabea Berfelde, Philipp Möller, Nancy Fraser, Samia Mohammed, Stefan Meretz, Simon Sutterlütti, Evgeny Morozov, Eva von Redecker, Audrey Laurin-Lamothe, Frédéric Legault, Simon Tremblay-Pepin, Simon Schaupp, Kohei Saito ...

Series series Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century
Democratic planning allows us to effectively address the multiple crises of our time through cooperative modes of collective coordination. Given the destructive consequences of contemporary capitalism, such a structural alternative to market economies is needed more than ever.This accessible work examines various approaches that theorise, practise and nurture a creative construction towards ... Read more

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Democratic planning allows us to effectively address the multiple crises of our time through cooperative modes of collective coordination. Given the destructive consequences of contemporary capitalism, such a structural alternative to market economies is needed more than ever.This accessible work examines various approaches that theorise, practise and nurture a creative construction towards
... Read more
At War

The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

by David Kieran, Edwin A. Martini, Sahr Conway-Lanz, Stefan Aune, Nick Witham, Mark R. Wilson, Jennifer Mittelstadt, Christopher Hamner, Wilbur J. Scott0, Jana K. Lipman1, Christine Knauer2, Kara Dixon Vuic3, John M. Kinder4, Richard P. Tucker5, Susan L. Carruthers6, Bonnie M. Miller7, Scott Laderman8, Katherine Ellison9, William Watson0, G. Kurt Piehler1 ...

Series series War Culture
The country’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its interventions around the world, and its global military presence make war, the military, and militarism defining features of contemporary American life. The armed services and the wars they fight shape all aspects of life—from the formation of racial and gendered identities to debates over environmental and immigration policy. Warfare and the ... Read more

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The country’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its interventions around the world, and its global military presence make war, the military, and militarism defining features of contemporary American life. The armed services and the wars they fight shape all aspects of life—from the formation of racial and gendered identities to debates over environmental and immigration policy. Warfare and the
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Ripper [Dramatized Adaptation]

by Stefan Petrucha ...

Narrated by A Full Cast, Scott McCormick, Chris Stinson, Christopher Walker, Dani Stoller, Paul Reisman, Jonathon Church, Matthew Schleigh, Matthew Bassett, Carolyn Kashner, Nick DePinto, Marni Penning, Steven Carpenter, Faith Potts, Gary Telles, Scott Graham, Andy Brownstein, Lynette Rathnam, David Jourdan, Todd Scofield, Michael John Casey, Bill Gillett, Yasmin Tuazon, Ken Jackson, Jessica Lauren Ball, Colleen Delany, Sasha Olinick, Tia Shearer, Terence Aselford ...

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You thought you knew him. You were dead wrong.Carver Young dreams of becoming a detective, despite growing up in an orphanage with only crime novels to encourage him. But when he is adopted by Detective Hawking of the world famous Pinkerton Agency, Carver is given not only the chance to find his biological father, he finds himself smack in the middle of a real life investigation: tracking down a ... Read more

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You thought you knew him. You were dead wrong.Carver Young dreams of becoming a detective, despite growing up in an orphanage with only crime novels to encourage him. But when he is adopted by Detective Hawking of the world famous Pinkerton Agency, Carver is given not only the chance to find his biological father, he finds himself smack in the middle of a real life investigation: tracking down a
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Companies, Cultures, and the Region

Interactions and Outcomes

Edited by Nick Clifton, Stefan Gartner, Dieter Rehfeld ...

Europe has its strength in regional cultural diversity. However, current debates surrounding globalisation and the integration of markets tend to focus on the homogenisation of cultures, whilst the emergence of vital and innovative regional cultures has typically been neglected. This edited collection addresses this gap, considering relevant questions such as how strategies, orientations, values ... Read more

$40.99 USD

Europe has its strength in regional cultural diversity. However, current debates surrounding globalisation and the integration of markets tend to focus on the homogenisation of cultures, whilst the emergence of vital and innovative regional cultures has typically been neglected. This edited collection addresses this gap, considering relevant questions such as how strategies, orientations, values
... Read more

The Creative Capital of Cities

Interactive Knowledge Creation and the Urbanization Economies of Innovation

by Stefan Krätke ...

Series Book 79 - IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
This book challenges the new urban growth concepts of the creative class and creative industries from a critical urban theory perspective.Critiques Richard Florida's popular books about cities and the creative classPresents an alternative approach based on analyses of empirical research data concerning the German urban system and the case study regions**,** Hanover and BerlinUnderscores that the ... Read more

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This book challenges the new urban growth concepts of the creative class and creative industries from a critical urban theory perspective.Critiques Richard Florida's popular books about cities and the creative classPresents an alternative approach based on analyses of empirical research data concerning the German urban system and the case study regions**,** Hanover and BerlinUnderscores that the
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The Indispensable Zinn

The Essential Writings of the "People's Historian"

by Howard Zinn, Alice Walker ...

A "well-chosen anthology of the radical historian's prodigious output," from A People's History of the United States and lesser known sources ( Kirkus Reviews).When Howard Zinn died in early 2010, millions of Americans mourned the loss of one of the nation's foremost intellectual and political guides; a historian, activist, and truth-teller who, in the words of the New York Times's Bob Herbert, ... Read more

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A "well-chosen anthology of the radical historian's prodigious output," from A People's History of the United States and lesser known sources ( Kirkus Reviews).When Howard Zinn died in early 2010, millions of Americans mourned the loss of one of the nation's foremost intellectual and political guides; a historian, activist, and truth-teller who, in the words of the New York Times's Bob Herbert,
... Read more
Co-Production and Co-Creation

Engaging Citizens in Public Services

Edited by Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere, Trui Steen ...

Co-production and co-creation occur when citizens participate actively in delivering and designing the services they receive. It has come increasingly onto the agenda of policymakers, as interest in citizen participation has more generally soared. Expectations are high and it is regarded as a possible solution to the public sector’s decreased legitimacy and dwindling resources, by accessing more ... Read more

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Co-production and co-creation occur when citizens participate actively in delivering and designing the services they receive. It has come increasingly onto the agenda of policymakers, as interest in citizen participation has more generally soared. Expectations are high and it is regarded as a possible solution to the public sector’s decreased legitimacy and dwindling resources, by accessing more
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Conceptualizing Capitalism

Institutions, Evolution, Future

by Geoffrey M. Hodgson ...

"Erudite and thought-provoking. . . . a stimulating, historically grounded exploration of the subject . . . rewarding." — Financial TimesA few centuries ago, capitalism set in motion an explosion of economic productivity. Markets and private property had existed for millennia, but what other key institutions fostered capitalism's relatively recent emergence?With Conceptualizing Capitalism, ... Read more

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"Erudite and thought-provoking. . . . a stimulating, historically grounded exploration of the subject . . . rewarding." — Financial TimesA few centuries ago, capitalism set in motion an explosion of economic productivity. Markets and private property had existed for millennia, but what other key institutions fostered capitalism's relatively recent emergence?With Conceptualizing Capitalism,
... Read more
Breach of Trust

How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country

by Andrew J. Bacevich ...

Series series The American Empire Project
This New York Times bestseller is a blistering critique of the gulf between America's soldiers and the society that sends them off to war.In Breach of Trust, Andrew J. Bacevich takes stock of the separation between Americans and their military, tracing its origins to the Vietnam era and exploring its pernicious implications: a nation with an abiding appetite for war waged at enormous expense by ... Read more

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This New York Times bestseller is a blistering critique of the gulf between America's soldiers and the society that sends them off to war.In Breach of Trust, Andrew J. Bacevich takes stock of the separation between Americans and their military, tracing its origins to the Vietnam era and exploring its pernicious implications: a nation with an abiding appetite for war waged at enormous expense by
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Be Creative

Making a Living in the New Culture Industries

by Angela McRobbie ...

In this exciting new book Angela McRobbie charts the ‘euphoric’ moment of the new creative economy, as it rose to prominence in the UK during the Blair years, and considers it from the perspective of contemporary experience of economic austerity and uncertainty about work and employment.McRobbie makes some bold arguments about the staging of creative economy as a mode of ‘labour reform’; she ... Read more

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In this exciting new book Angela McRobbie charts the ‘euphoric’ moment of the new creative economy, as it rose to prominence in the UK during the Blair years, and considers it from the perspective of contemporary experience of economic austerity and uncertainty about work and employment.McRobbie makes some bold arguments about the staging of creative economy as a mode of ‘labour reform’; she
... Read more
Inventing the Future

Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

by Nick SRNICEK, Alex Williams ...

This major new manifesto offers a “clear and compelling vision of a postcapitalist society” and shows how left-wing politics can be rebuilt for the 21st century (Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism)Neoliberalism isn’t working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite ... Read more

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This major new manifesto offers a “clear and compelling vision of a postcapitalist society” and shows how left-wing politics can be rebuilt for the 21st century (Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism)Neoliberalism isn’t working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite
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