The New Arab Urban: Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress, Paperback - Harvey Molotch

DescriptionCities of the Arabian Peninsula reveal contradictions of contemporary urbanization The fast-growing cities of the Persian Gulf are, what...

View "Public Restrooms": A Photo Gallery in The Atlantic Monthly.So much happens in the public toilet that we never talk about. Finding the right d...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 312Collection: King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies SeriesPublication date: 202...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 312Collection: King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies SeriesPublication date: 202...

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With contributions from an international range of established and emerging scholars drawing upon real world examples, this title is the first to us...

From Australia to North America, we need to rethink how our cities resist environmental change in the age of climate catastropheIllustrations: 3 Ta...

Reducere. THIS BOOK DOESN'T CONTAIN ANY ARABIC LETTERS ALL ARABIC WORDS IN THIS BOOK WERE WRITTEN IN ENGLISH-TRANSLITERATION Have you always wanted to learn ...

Underground City explores how new ideas and technologies are transforming the ways we build and inhabit underground space and how these innovations...

Combining empirical and theoretical approaches from a range of disciplines, Linguistic Identities in the Arab Gulf States examines current issues s...

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This book studies the micro-variation in the syntax of negation of Southern Levantine, Gulf and Standard Arabic. By including new and recently publ...

The Gulf Arab states became rich by accident. Their golden ticket to modernity was oil, which has become the lifeblood of their social and economic...

In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history ...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Zoltan (Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professor of Government, Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Pro...

Urban experts consider the future of night-time economies' governance during the pandemic and beyond in this scholarly and accessible guide. They u...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): David SmailNumber of pages: 250Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 154 x 230 x 21Cover type: Paperback / so...

DescriptionThis book provides an overview of the military forces, and their antecedents, of the Arabian Gulf States. Most were British Protected St...

Examining the triangular relationship between Iran, Britain and the Gulf Arab shaykhdoms, this is the first book to investigate the origins of the ...

Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Goeran TherbornIllustration(s): 8pp b&w plate sectionNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 130 x 1...

Reducere. We know racism is entrenched in our systems and institutions, but what about our cities and public spaces?In The Diaspora of Belonging, author Jay ...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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Reducere. What if divided neighborhoods were causing public health problems? What if a new approach to planning and design could tackle both the built enviro...

Reducere. In this book, Birol Başkan explains the variation in attitudes and approaches towards the Muslim Brotherhood across 5 Gulf States: Bahrain, Kuwait,...

Discover a new and effective way to learn the Arabic of the Arabian Gulf. With 14 units covering the four key skills of reading, writing, speaking ...

Who makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities? This book powerfully shows that city-making is a social process...

This is the first comprehensive analysis of the Middle Eastern political economy in response to the oil price decline in 2014. The introduction and...

Warfare in the twenty-first century goes well beyond conventional armies and nation-states. In a world of diffuse conflicts taking place across spr...

Exploring the national security implications of the Gulf states' reliance on desalination plants, this book provides the first systematic and compr...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Cristina MaximIllustration(s): 27 Line drawings, black and white; 44 Halftones, black and white; 16 Table...

Reducere. For every dollar owned by the average white family in the United States, the average family of color has less than a dime. Why do people of color h...

Reducere. Book of the YearHow did the preaching of a peasant carpenter from Galilee spark a movement that would grow to include over two billion followers? W...

As cities from Cape Town to La Paz face acute water shortages, citizens need to know how urban water systems evolved to understand their vulnerabil...