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Evaluates the state of knowledge of the relationship between urbanization and economic growth. This title identifies insights and policy levers to help countries make urbanization work as part of a national growth strategy. It intends to create an understanding of the role of urbanization in growth.

The art of David Cox, a major figure in landscape painting.

In "The Fall of Troy, " acclaimed novelist and historian Peter Ackroyd creates a fascinating narrative that follows an archaeologist's obsession with finding the ruins of Troy, depicting the blurred line between truth and deception.Obermann, an acclaimed German scholar, fervently believes that his discovery of the ancient ruins of Troy will prove that the heroes of the "Iliad, " a work he has cherished all his life, actually existed. But Sophi...

During the run-up to the 1888 presidential election, Americans flocked to party rallies, marched in endless parades, and participated zealously in the political process. This book shows how this presidential contest not only exemplified Gilded Age politics but also marked a major shift from divisive sectional rhetoric to voters' economic concerns.

Gérard Blitz hat in diesem Taschenbuch die unermessliche Fülle des Yogaweges von Patanjali in den wesentlichen Aussagen zusammengefasst. Vor allem stellt er heraus, dass die persönliche Erfahrung der Einheit zum Wesen des Yoga führt, in dem der Zustand der Zerstreuung des Geistes in einen Zustand des inneren Gleichgewichts, des inneren Gesammeltseins, der Ausgeglichenheit, der Ruhe und des Friedens verwandelt wird. Für den Autor ist das Mittel...

In this haunting, richly woven novel of modern life in Japan, the author of the acclaimed debut One for Sorrow explores the ties that bind humanity across the deepest divides. Here is a Murakamiesque jewel box of intertwined narratives in which the lives of several strangers are gently linked through love, loss, and fate. On a train filled with quietly sleeping passengers, a young man's life is forever altered when he is miraculously seen by a...

Meet Santa's newest helper: his cousin Pancho, a farmer living down in South Texas. Pancho was once a mariachi singer. One night his "primo" Santa Claus showed up and asked for help along the US/Mexico border. And then, "poof, " Santa transformed Pancho into the resplendent Charro Claus. Full color.

Percival Everett enriches the ranks of Chris Abani's Black Goat poetry series.

All original stories from Paris' finest authors, all translated from French.

The Akashic Noir Series moves fearlessly to the city hosting the European/Asian divide.

The only book to deal specifically with the European insurance industry and the Holocaust.

A luminous second novel from prize-winning Appalachian author is the selection for the 2007 Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature.

A vivid dissection of the state of women's rights in a "post-feminist" age.

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John Straley crafts here a collection of poems that pay homage to his home of the Pacific Northwest and southeastern Alaska. His narrative poetry is infused with sharp wit and delicate details, as he meditates on the natural world of the Pacific coastline and its rhythmic seasonal patterns, cycles of rain, and rich abundance of earth. Straley intertwines the personal and political to create elegies of refreshing honesty and universal scope, ma...

In articulating new ways of viewing urban areas and how they develop over time, Peter Bosselmann offers a stimulating guidebook for students and professionals engaged in urban design, planning, and architecture. By looking through Bosselmann's eyes (aided by his analysis of numerous color photos and illustrations) readers will learn to "see" cities anew. His hope is that, with the fresh vision he offers, readers will be empowered to offer inve...

In articulating new ways of viewing urban areas and how they develop over time, Peter Bosselmann offers a stimulating guidebook for students and professionals engaged in urban design, planning, and architecture. By looking through Bosselmann's eyes (aided by his analysis of numerous color photos and illustrations) readers will learn to "see" cities anew. His hope is that, with the fresh vision he offers, readers will be empowered to offer inve...

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In "The Enemy Within, " Gilbert D. Chaitin deepens our understanding of the nature and sources of culture wars during the French Third Republic. The psychological trauma caused by the Ferry educational reform laws of 1880-1882, which strove to create a new national identity based on secular morality rather than God-given commandments, pitted Catholics against proponents of lay education and gave rise to novels by Bourget, Barres, A. France, an...

The parables of Jesus are puzzling sayings and stories with world-transforming potential. Parables for Preachers offers an understanding of how parables work and a fresh variety of possible meanings not only for Jesus' original audience and for the early Christians for whom Matthew, Mark, and Luke wrote but also for contemporary Christians as well. The Gospel parables are analyzed in the order in which they appear in the Lectionary, making thi...