Contemporary Urban Planning, 12e provides students with an unvarnished and in‑depth introduction to the historic, economic, political, legal, ideological, and environmental factors affecting urban planning today.Planning is a highly political activity. Urban and regional planning decisions often involve large sums of money, both public and private, with the potential to deliver large benefits to some and losses to others. The extensively revised edition of this beloved tex...

A proper understanding of intelligibility is at the heart of effective pronunciation teaching, and with it, successful teaching of speaking and listening. Far from being an optional 'add-it-on-if-we-have-time' language feature, pronunciation is essential because of its tremendous impact on speech intelligibility. Pronunciation dramatically affects the ability of language learners to make themselves understood and to understand the speech of others. But not all elements of pronunciation are...

Brother against Brother: 140 Civil War Memoirs assembles a vast documentary chorus from the American Civil War, illuminating combat, command, captivity, nursing, naval service, campaigning, and the unsettled moral terrain of national rupture. Ranging from terse battlefield recollection and military analysis to reflective autobiography and eyewitness narrative, the volume preserves the varied registers through which participants made meaning of war. Accounts of major operations stand beside...

140 Civil War Journals, Diaries and Memoirs assembles an expansive documentary chorus from the American Civil War, joining battlefield recollections, camp journals, prison narratives, naval observations, military analysis, and retrospective memoir. Its range of forms preserves the uneven textures of lived history: immediate diary entries register uncertainty and exhaustion, while later accounts impose narrative shape on campaigns, command, captivity, and survival. Accounts of marching, com...

100+ Civil War Soldier Memoirs assembles a capacious, often conflicting archive of lived experience from the American Civil War. Ranging from battlefield recollection, campaign narrative, naval observation, prison testimony, and partisan chronicle to retrospective meditation, these memoirs reveal how war was recorded in both immediate sensory detail and later acts of remembrance. Accounts of celebrated operations stand beside less familiar episodes of marching, illness, comradeship, comman...

This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers will encounter artists, psychologists, social workers, part-time priests, healers, and librarians as well as charlatans, hucksters, profiteers, and rabble-rousers—all whose lives reflect changes...

In this classic writing on non-duality, John Levy addresses the question which has always puzzled humankind : 'What am I?'Levy enlists the aid of the essential doctrine of Vedanta, 'the end of knowledge,' and its highest aspect of Advaita, or Non-Duality:"When I say I own a house I don't imply that I am a house. On the contrary, I cannot possibly be one. The sense of possessing a house is in no way different from the sense of possessing a mind or a body. A body, like a house,...

An EBook on how to develop great abs and an overall more toned and flatter stomach. It covers all the areas such as exercise, nutrition,supplementation, and mindset for developing a great midsection. Learn the real truth to getting a great six pack and flatter stomach by learning all the components needed to develop a great body. Seriously, who can you trust anymore in the Health and Fitness Industry? If everyone had 6 pack abs, people wouldn’t waste so much money on useless products that ...

Would you believe that high-tech teams often work best when you, the manager, 'Get Out of the Way'? Though you may have once been a member of a product development team yourself, as a manager at a high-tech organization you have most likely found that your role, focus, and responsibilities are very different from those as a technologist.As a manager, you're personally under the gun to lead and inspire your development team to produce innovative and customer-relevant products on time. And y...

Sociological research is hard enough already—you don't need to make it even harder by smashing about like a bull in a china shop, not knowing what you're doing or where you're heading. Or so says John Levi Martin in this witty, insightful, and desperately needed primer on how to practice rigorous social science. Thinking Through Methods focuses on the practical decisions that you will need to make as a researcher— where the data you are working with comes from and how...

We have many histories of social theory—what different authors attempted to do as they responded to previous theories. But we know precious little about how they did this in structural terms—what scaffolding they adopted and adapted to make their claims. Yet today’s social thoughts largely employ structures passed down from previous generations, structures that were developed to solve problems that are no longer ours.In The True, the Good, and the Beautiful, John Levi Mart...

Pragmatist thought is central to sociology. However, sociologists typically encounter pragmatism indirectly, as a philosophy of science or as an influence on canonical social scientists, rather than as a vital source of theory, research questions, and methodological reflection in sociology today.In The New Pragmatist Sociology, Neil Gross, Isaac Ariail Reed, and Christopher Winship assemble a range of sociologists to address essential ideas in the field and their historica...