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Focusing from the perspective of the user, Urban Mobility Design
investigates how designed mobility and design processes can respond
to and drive the emerging social and technological disruptions in
the passenger transport sector. Profound technological advances are
changing the mobility expectations of city populations around the
world. Transportation design is an under represented research area
of urban transportation planning. Urban Mobility Design addresses
this gap, providing research-based analysis on current and future
needs of urban transportation passengers. The book examines
mobility from a uniquely multidisciplinary perspective, involving a
variety of innovative design and transportation planning
approaches.
The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together
thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning
nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance
poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry
as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, 'confessional'
poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats,
and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry. Its reputable host of contributors
approach American poetry from perspectives as diverse as the poetry
itself. The result is a Companion concise enough to be read with
pleasure yet expansive enough to do justice to the many traditions
American poets have modified, inaugurated, and made their own.
Affecting 20 to 30 % of children under the age of five, sleep
disorders can seriously affect a child's health. This authoritative
guide illustrates the consequences of sleep disordered breathing
and offers a state-of-the-art overview of methods to identify,
diagnose, and treat sleep disorders in children. Covering the
latest research related to the medical and surgical management of
disease, high-risk groups, psychosocial effects, and the
examination of sleep study results, this source helps practitioners
understand normal sleep patterns, recognize common sleep
conditions, and implement appropriate care protocols for optimum
patient health.
The Sports Rehabilitation Therapists' Guidebook is a well-equipped,
comprehensive, practical, evidence-based guide that seeks to assist
both students and graduate sport practitioners. The book is
designed to be a quick-reference book during assessment and
treatment planning, giving instant access to figures and case
scenarios. It introduces evidence-based practice in all principal
areas of sport rehabilitation such as anatomy, musculoskeletal
assessment, pitch-side care, injury treatment modalities and
exercise rehabilitation principles and related areas, and is
designed to be more flexible than the usual single-focus books. It
is written by a team of expert contributors offering a systematic
perspective on core concepts. The book can be used as a guide in
each stage of the sport rehabilitation process and it is an asset
for sport clinical practitioners such as sport rehabilitators,
sport therapists, personal trainers, strength and conditioning
coaches, as well as for students on these and related courses in
their daily practice on core clinical placements such as a
clinic/sporting environment, pitch side and university.
The Trans-Canada, the world’s longest national highway, comes to
life in words and pictures. Russia has the Trans-Siberian Highway,
Australia has Highway 1, and Canada has the Trans-Canada Highway,
an iconic road that stretches almost 8,000 kilometres across six
time zones. In the summer of 2012, on the highway’s 50th
birthday, Mark Richardson drove its entire length to find out how
the road came to be and what it’s now become. In his daily
account of the 10-week road trip, originally published as a blog on
macleans.ca, he follows the original "pathfinders" Thomas Wilby and
Jack Haney, who tried to drive across the country before there were
enough roads, he discovers the diverse places along the highway
that contribute to the country’s character, and he meets the
people who make the Trans-Canada what it is today – the road that
connects a nation.
For the fifteenth anniversary of its publication, this revised
edition features a new introduction from the author on the state of
the church and its "radical welcome" today, along with new
reflections on how it continues to reshape the church. This book is
at once a theological, inspirational, and practical guide for
congregations that want to move beyond diversity and inclusion to
present a vision for the church of the future: one where the gifts,
voices, and power of marginalized groups bring new life to the
mainline church. Based on two years of work and over 200 interviews
with people in congregations all around the United States-in urban,
suburban, and rural settings-it asks the question: How do we face
our fears and welcome transformation in order to become God's
radically welcoming people? Each chapter introduces a particular
congregation and the challenges it faced, and lays out the
theological underpinnings of tackling fears head-on to embrace
change as a welcome part of community life. This new edition
features essays from Michael B. Curry, Mark Bozzuti-Jones, Jennifer
Baskerville-Burrows, and Mark Richardson.
Addressing fundamental questions about life, death and the universe Science and the Spiritual Quest: New Essays by Leading Scientists examines the ways in which scientists negotiate the complex frontiers between their scientific and religious beliefs. Distinguished cosmologists, physicians, biologists and computer scientists of different faiths explore the connections between the domain of science and the realms of ethics, spirituality and the divine. Through essays and frank interviews, they offer honest, stimulating, and often intensely personal thoughts about life's most impenetrable mysteries. This unique volume presents radical new approaches to the religion/science debate and highlights the continued importance of the 'spiritual quest' in a world transformed by the developments of science.
Addressing fundamental questions about life, death and the universe Science and the Spiritual Questexamines the ways in which scientists negotiate the complex frontiers between their scientific and religious beliefs. Distinguished cosmologists, physicians, biologists and computer scientists of different faiths explore the connections between the domain of science and the realms of ethics, spirituality and the divine. Through essays and frank interviews, they offer honest, stimulating, and often intensely personal thoughts about life's most impenetrable mysteries. This unique volume presents radical new approaches to the religion/science debate and highlights the continued importance of the 'spiritual quest' in a world transformed by the developments of science.
Following a century of scientific revolutions including the
formation of relativity, quantum, and chaos theories, the picture
we hold of our world no longer resembles that of even recent
generations. How has this radically new outlook on the world
affected the profound religious quest of humankind? Has the vastly
different scientific picture established a new level of dialogue
between scientists and theologians? Has the revolution in science
impacted the goal or mission of contemporary theology? As the
interdisciplinary study of science and religion has been gaining
momentum in recent years, "Religion and Science" takes the pulse of
pertinent current research, emphasizing its historical,
methodological, and constructive dimensions. Part one examines the
interaction between science and religion in several periods since
the European Enlightenment. Part two is a two round debate over
similarities and differences between the methods of science and
religious studies--including theology. Part three is a unique
presentation of six lively and diverse case studies exemplifying
the dialogue between important theories in the natural sciences and
key religious topics.
As the interdisciplinary study of science and religion has been gaining momentum in recent years, Religion and Science takes the pulse of pertinent current research, emphasizing its historical, methodological, and constructive dimensions. Part One examines the interaction between science and religion in several periods since the European Enlightenment. Part Two is a two-round debate over similarities and differences between the methods of science and religious studies - including theology. Part Three is a unique presentation of six lively and diverse case studies exemplifying the dialogue between important theories in the natural sciences and key religious topics.
The Sports Rehabilitation Therapists' Guidebook is a well-equipped,
comprehensive, practical, evidence-based guide that seeks to assist
both students and graduate sport practitioners. The book is
designed to be a quick-reference book during assessment and
treatment planning, giving instant access to figures and case
scenarios. It introduces evidence-based practice in all principal
areas of sport rehabilitation such as anatomy, musculoskeletal
assessment, pitch-side care, injury treatment modalities and
exercise rehabilitation principles and related areas, and is
designed to be more flexible than the usual single-focus books. It
is written by a team of expert contributors offering a systematic
perspective on core concepts. The book can be used as a guide in
each stage of the sport rehabilitation process and it is an asset
for sport clinical practitioners such as sport rehabilitators,
sport therapists, personal trainers, strength and conditioning
coaches, as well as for students on these and related courses in
their daily practice on core clinical placements such as a
clinic/sporting environment, pitch side and university.
Released in October 1997, the "Flaming Lips' Zaireeka" was met with
some critical praise and more general puzzlement. The album comes
as four separate CDs intended for playback at the same time. Which
means, of course, that four CD players are required. And four amps.
And eight speakers. And at least four sets of hands to make them
all go. "Zaireeka" requires several people to get together for the
express purpose of listening to music; there's nothing to dance to
and nothing to look at. It's almost quaint, really. There was a
time when people sat together to listen to records; and, "Zaireeka"
celebrates this disappearing moment. It is, in other words, an
album that does away with the very thing that caused recorded music
become a phenomenon so quickly in the 1920s and helped it stay that
way ever since: it is not convenient. Ten years later, convenience
continues to drive the music business from the top-down and the
listening experience from the bottom up. Digital music has become
divorced from physical reality; with an MP3 file played on devices
using flash ROM, the whole thing happens without a single moving
part. Headphones, the sound delivery technology most in favor, blur
the borders between device and listener, all in complete isolation.
We're shoving the speakers into our ear canals; the music is
literally inside of us even before it's left the wire. And so, the
human experience of music in the developed world is proceeding
along two parallel lines: we're either retreating into a private
world of solitary consumption, or we hear music in the background,
in coffee shops or on commercials, where it is ambience, part of an
environment. Which is part of what makes "Zaireeka" even more
fascinating now than it was at the time of release. In addition to
being a fantastic album of imaginative psychedelic pop and arguably
the Flaming Lips' masterpiece, it was first the final shot fired in
the struggle for the rock album to maintain the centrality it had
enjoyed since the late 1960s. It defies segmentation. The effort it
takes to hear the record properly ensures that the music will be
listened to carefully. It's music that even the interested will
experience only a few times in their lives; it involves hard work.
So listening to "Zaireeka" is a rare event, and it's also a social
experience.
The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together
thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning
nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance
poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry
as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, 'confessional'
poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats,
and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry. Its reputable host of contributors
approach American poetry from perspectives as diverse as the poetry
itself. The result is a Companion concise enough to be read with
pleasure yet expansive enough to do justice to the many traditions
American poets have modified, inaugurated, and made their own.
This new critical volume offers a fresh, multifaceted assessment of
Robert Frost's life and works. Nearly every aspect of the poet's
career is treated: his interest in poetics and style; his role as a
public figure; his deep fascination with science, psychology, and
education; his peculiar and difficult relation to religion; his
investments, as thinker and writer, in politics and war; the way he
dealt with problems of mental illness that beset his sister and two
of his children; and, finally, the complex geo-political contexts
that inform some of his best poetry. Contributors include a number
of influential scholars of Frost, but also such distinguished poets
as Paul Muldoon, Dana Gioia, Mark Scott, and Jay Parini. Essays
eschew jargon and employ highly readable prose, offering scholars,
students, and general readers of Frost a broadly accessible
reference and guide.
This anthology collects writings by established and new writers
associated with Kyoto. The contents range widely from fiction to
non-fiction: an extract from a novel, a short story, and a fantasy;
articles on child-rearing, ceramics, the tokonoma, and the spirit
of rocks; contemporary free verse, poetry with a Taoist flavor, and
new translations of Basho. Also included are three winning entries
from the Writers in Kyoto Competition, and two longer pieces about
that giant of Japanology, Lafcadio Hearn, who continues to cast a
shadow more than a hundred years after his death. Rounding out the
anthology is an essay by Alex Kerr, leading commentator on
present-day Japan, together with illustrations by award-winning
designer, John Einarsen.
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