Cities in Relations

This highly original introduction to ancient Greece uses the history of eleven major Greek cities to illuminate the most important and informative ...

"With a single announcement from a herald, all the cities of Greece and Asia had been set free; only an intrepid soul could formulate such an ambit...

Reducere. DescriptionThe New Guardians: Policing in America's Communities for the 21st Century embodies nearly forty years of experience in law enforcement i...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its oppressiv...

Reducere. ". . . frank, marvelously descriptive, and heart-warming . . . " --Major General (USA, Ret) Gordon B. "Skip" Davis, Deputy Assistant Secretary Gene...

Mondegreen tells the story of a refugee from Ukraine's Donbas region who has escaped to Kyiv at the onset of the Ukrainian-Russian war. Written in ...

Reducere. Robert Kennedy, director of the National Park Service, analyzes the discovery of North America and the loss of ancient civilization, from the citie...

Reducere. Do you want to read A Tale of Two Cities? If so then keep reading... Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, it tells the story of a fam...

Whenever a collection of Marx's works is published, a few questions inevitably arise. Is Marx still relevant today? Do we still have something to g...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Decline of the West Volume II: Perspectives of World-History By Oswald Spengler Contents I-Origin and Language--The Cosmic and the M...

Reducere. Memphis has been an important city for African Americans in the South since the Civil War. They migrated from within Tennessee and from surrounding...

Reducere. The cities of West Africa's Middle Niger, only recently brought to the world's attention, make us rethink the 'whys' and the 'wheres' of ancient ur...

Reducere. Cities are so common today that we cannot imagine a world without them. More than half of the world's population lives in cities, and that proporti...

Reducere. Rabun M. Taylor offers the first comprehensive survey of ancient Naples in the English language, tracing the history of the city from its origins i...

In our urban world, cities are where most of us experience how our economies and societies are organised and the inequalities which result. This te...

Reducere. The West and the World engages students and provokes discussion by presenting the past through the prism of current and perennial issues. Interpret...

Mondegreen tells the story of a refugee from Ukraine's Donbas region who has escaped to Kyiv at the onset of the Ukrainian-Russian war. Written in ...

Reducere. China has undergone a remarkable process of urbanization, but a significant portion of its citizens still live in rural villages. To gain better ac...

Using a unique analytical framework based on host-stranger relations, this book explores the response of cities to the arrival and settlement of la...

Why do autocrats build spectacular new capital cities? In The Geopolitics of Spectacle, Natalie Koch considers how autocratic rulers use "spectacul...

Reducere. Rabun M. Taylor offers the first comprehensive survey of ancient Naples in the English language, tracing the history of the city from its origins i...

The papers in Karia and the Dodekanese Vol. I focus on regional developments and interregional relations in western Asia Minor and the Dodekanese d...

Reducere. Since 'The Social Logic of Space' was published in 1984, Bill Hillier and his colleagues at University College London have been conducting research...

DescriptionThe Arab-Palestinian community, which constitutes 20 percent of Israel's population, is an ethnic minority living mainly in ethnically h...

This volume uncovers the relations between globalization and dirty dealings in urban settings, focusing on some capital cities and on the relations...

This book explores cities and intra-regional relational dynamics to challenge common representations of urban development 'success' and 'failure'. ...