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This text offers a detailed record of one of the world's oldest environmental pressure groups. It raises questions about the capacity of pressure groups to influence policy, and finally it assesses the campaing as a major factor in the emergence of modern town and planning, and as a backdrop against which to examine current issues.

This volume grew out of an international conference which was held in June 2009 at McGill University, in honour of Professor Peter Russell. It contains 19 refereed articles, essentially all in the area of affine algebraic geometry and, more specifically, in the following subjects: automorphisms and group actions, surfaces, embeddings of certain rational curves in the affine plane, and problems in positive characteristic geometry.

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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the interaction between the planning systems and property markets in 17 key European cities.

This book takes an international perspective on the links between land use, development and transport and present the latest thinking, the theory and practice of these links.

Federal and state laws mandate that schools provide effective instruction and intervention for students who struggle with academic learning in many instances due to a weakness in one or more aspects of memory or of memory capabilities. Filled with dozens of practical, effective, evidence-based memory interventions, this workbook includes numerous methods and strategies, such as chunking, organization, keyword, self-testing, rehearsal, and mnem...

Describes how MR imaging is used to track stem cells as they repair damaged tissue in the body. This book provides a comprehensive overview of cell therapy imaging, ranging from the basic biology of cell therapeutic choices to the preclinical and clinical applications of cell therapy.

Covers a broad spectrum between basic and advanced complex variables on the one hand and between theoretical and applied or computational material on the other. With careful selection of the emphasis put on the various sections, examples, and exercises, the book can be used in a course for undergraduate mathematics majors, a course for engineering or physics majors, or a course for first-year mathematics graduate students.

This book charts the course of successive issues and campaigns - including the reconstruction of Britain's war-torn cities, to the introduction of green belts and new towns.

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This book offers a theoretical rationale for the emerging presentist movement in Shakespeare studies and goes on to show, in a series of close readings, that a presentist Shakespeare is not an anachronism. Relying on a Brechtian aesthetic of "naïve surrealism" as the performative model of the early modern, urban, public theater, James O¿Rourke demonstrates how this Brechtian model is able to capture the full range of interplays that could take...

Cutting across countries, genres, and time periods, this volume explores topics ranging from hip hop's influence on Maasai identity in current day Tanzania to jazz in Bulawayo during the interwar years, using music to tell a larger story about the cultures and societies of Africa.

One surprising outcome of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904¿1905 was that, although Russia was humiliatingly defeated, by 1916 Russia and Japan had become allies. This book provides a detailed analysis of how this remarkable turnaround came about, and charts diplomatic developments, explores how Japanese and Russian thinking evolved, and assesses the wider international impact of the new alliance.

Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of narrative have represented cultural modernity, political idealism and architectural innovation. This book explores the diverse and fascinating relationships between literature, architecture and modernity and considers how they have shaped the worl...

Based on a critical appraisal of the constructivist approach in European studies, this volume introduces a new political sociology approach focused on actors.

This volume introduces the problem of dogmatism broadly, explores the nature and nuances of dogmatic thinking from various disciplinary perspectives, and applies the gleaned insights to what is known about creativity and the education of creative young minds.

Public Health in the British Empire addresses the work of intermediary and subordinate personnel in relation to public health in the British empire. These individuals were not only essential for putting public health policy into practice, but could also impact its formation. They constitute one of the most important, and understudied topics in the history of British colonial medicine.

This book investigates the changing relationship between language and citizenship in contemporary Japan. The essays collected here discuss the manner in which linguistic diversity calls into question the traditional view of a Japanese citizen as a first-language speaker of Japanese, and what the relationship between language and citizenship might henceforth be.