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Designing Healthy Communities: Designing, Planning, And Building For Healthy Communities
Designing Healthy Communities, the companion book to the acclaimed public television documentary, highlights how we design the built environment and its potential for addressing and preventing many of the nation's devastating childhood and adult health concerns. Dr. Richard Jackson looks at the root... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Earth Science for Civil and Environmental Engineers
This carefully targeted and rigorous new textbook introduces engineering students to the fundamental principles of applied Earth science, highlighting how modern soil and rock mechanics, geomorphology, hydrogeology, seismology and environmental geochemistry affect geotechnical and environmental prac... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities
In Urban Sprawl and Public Health, Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson, three of the nation's leading public health and urban planning experts explore an intriguing question: How does the physical environment in which we live affect our health? For decades, growth and development in ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
Making Healthy Places
This book provides a far-reaching follow-up to the pathbreaking Urban Sprawl and Public Health, published by Island Press in 2004. That book sparked a range of inquiries into the connections between constructed environments, particularly cities and suburbs, and human health. Since then, numerous stu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-being, and Sustainability
by Richard J. Jackson • Andrew L. Dannenberg • Howard Frumkin • Emil Malizia • Arthur Wendel • Robin Fran AbramsThe environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we have constructed... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1984 -
Reinventing Civil Society: The Emerging Role of Faith-Based Organizations
This guide concentrates on resources that are useful, in an easy-to-use format to enable architects, designers and engineers to access a wealth of knowledge. Information allows users to find, evaluate and contact the resources that can save time and money in day-to-day practice.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Management and Business Research
Get 24 months FREE access to an interactive eBook when purchasing the paperback* The Sixth Edition continues to give students a comprehensive overview of what is needed to carry-out successful and effective research, with practical hands-on guidance on how to conduct a dissertation project or rese... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Management and Business Research
Get 24 months FREE access to an interactive eBook when purchasing the paperback* The Sixth Edition continues to give students a comprehensive overview of what is needed to carry-out successful and effective research, with practical hands-on guidance on how to conduct a dissertation project or rese... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Psychology: A Concise Introduction
This exceptionally concise volume offers a rich survey of the field’s fundamental research and concepts. The text also includes a robust media and supplements package for instructors and students, including LaunchPad. Richard Griggs has updated the book throughout, especially in the chapters on neu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Addressing Emerging Trends to Support the Future of Criminal Justice: Findings of the Criminal Justice Technology Forecasting Group
The Criminal Justice Technology Forecasting Group (CJTFG) deliberated on the effects that major technology and social trends could have on criminal justice in the next two to five years and identified potential responses. This report captures the results of the group’s meetings and initiatives, pres... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Dark Origins: Arkham Horror: The Collected Novellas, Vol. 1 (Arkham Horror)
The Ancient Ones are coming to consume our world, and only the bold investigators of Arkham Horror stand in their way, in this chilling collection of eldritch novellas.Hour of the Huntress by Dave Gross – the mysterious disappearance of dilettante Jenny Barnes&’ beloved sister triggers a frantic sea... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Reframing Disability?: Media, (Dis)Empowerment, and Voice in the 2012 Paralympics (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society #41)
The London 2012 Paralympic Games - the biggest, most accessible and best-attended games in the Paralympics' 64-year history - came with an explicit aim to "transform the perception of disabled people in society," and use sport to contribute to "a better world for all people with a disability." This ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Fostering Innovation in Community and Institutional Corrections: Identifying High-Priority Technology and Other Needs for the U.S. Corrections Sector
by Richard Silberglitt • Brian A. Jackson • Brian G. Chow • John S. Hollywood • Dulani Woods • Joe Russo • George B. Drake • John S. Shaffer • Mikhail ZaydmanGiven the challenges posed to the U. S. corrections sector, such as tightened budgets and increasingly complex populations under its charge, it is valuable to identify opportunities where changes in tools, practices, or approaches could improve performance. In this report, RAND researchers, with t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture: How a Redneck Helped Invent Political Consulting (Media & Public Affairs)
by Eliza Richards • Betsy Erkkila • J. Gerald Kennedy • Leland S. Person • Jerome McGann • Scott Peeples • Jennifer Rae Greeson • Maurice Lee • Anna Brickhouse • Leon JacksonEdgar Allan Poe (1809--1849) has long occupied the position of literary outsider. Dismissed as unrepresentative of the main currents of antebellum culture, Poe commented incisively -- in fiction and nonfiction -- on nationalism, science, materialism, popular taste, and cultural ideology. Opposing th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Antidemocracy in America: Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk (Public Books Series)
by Saskia Sassen • Pedro Noguera • Judith Butler • Craig Calhoun • Wendy Brown • Thomas J. Sugrue • Douglas S. Massey • Fred Turner • Margaret Levi • William Julius Wilson • Linda Gordon • Richard Sennett • Steven Lukes • Michelle Jackson • Victor Pickard • Patrick Sharkey • Philip Gorski • David B. Grusky • Jefferson Cowie • Scott J. Shapiro • Lisa Wade • Jack Halberstam • Oona A. Hathaway • Daniel Aldana Cohen • Shamus Khan • Alina Das • Michelle Wilde Anderson • Gretchen Blake • Richard Shrum • Tanya Marie Luhrmann • Harel. Shapira • Ashley Farmer • Professor of Sociology Michele LamontOn Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences dras... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Sick of the System: Why the COVID-19 recovery must be revolutionary
by John Clarke • Richard Swift • Emma Jackson • Justin Piché • Alberto Toscano • Jamie Swift • Harry Glasbeek • Gary Kinsman • Kai Cheng Thom • Robyn Maynard • Andrew Jackson • Anita Girvan • James T. Brophy • Nicole Marie Burton • Hugh Goldring • Dallas Hunt • El Jones • Margaret M. Keith • Julie S. Lalonde • Wayne Lewchuk • Jane E. McArthur • Alexander McClelland • Karen Messing • Elaine Power • Gina StarblanketFamilies left grieving; small businesses shuttered; communities in lockdown; precarious workers set adrift; health care workers stressed beyond endurance. The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world to its core. But the cracks already ran deep. Featuring essays on poverty, health care, incarceratio... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1977 -
Dark Minds: A Charity Collection of Short Stories from Some of Your Favourite Authors
by David Evans • Alex Shaw • April Taylor • Louise Jensen • Stephen Edger • A. S. King • S. E. Lynes • Paul Gitsham • Lisa Hall • Alex Walters • Lucy V. Hay • Ross Greenwood • Betsy Reavley • Emma Pullar • Anita Waller • Tara Lyons • Mark L. Fowler • Jane E. James • Bernie Steadman • Nick Jackson • B. A. Morton • Richard T. Burke • Tony R. Cox • Jt Lawrence • Ron Nicholson • Ka Richardson • A. J. Sendall • Pete Adams • L J Ross • Paul D. Brazill • Joel Hames • Simon Maltman • Jim Ody • Steve Dunne • Peter Best • Tess Makovesky • M. A. Comley • Roz White • Charlie Flowers • Hannah Haq • Jenna-Leigh GoldingA collection of short stories from some of your favourite authors Do you think you know darkness? Think again. Bloodhound Books presents Dark Minds – a collection of stories by authors who have come together to produce an anthology that will lure, tantalise and shock its readers. What took place ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023