The 21st century has been called the "century of the city." Unprecedented and uneven urban growth and expansion coupled with climate change have compounded concerns that current urbanization pathways are not sustainable. Calls for scholarship on urban sustainability among geographers cite strengths in both examining human-environment interactions and unravelling urbanization patterns and processes that positioned the discipline to make unique contributions to critical research needs. Geographic Perspectives on Urban Sustainability reflects on the contributions that geographers have made to urban sustainability scholarship on varied domains such as transportation, green infrastructure, and gentrification. Contributed chapters probe uniquely geographic perspectives on urban resilience, environmental justice, political ecology, and planning that arise from empirically integrating social and biophysical realms that arise from considering spatial dimensions of problems like scale- and place-based peculiarities of phenomena. This book will be of great value to scholars, students, and policymakers interested in Urban and City Planning, Political Ecology, and Sustainable Urbanism. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Urban Geography.

The 21st century has been called the "century of the city." Unprecedented and uneven urban growth and expansion coupled with climate change have compounded concerns that current urbanization pathways are not sustainable. Calls for scholarship on urban sustainability among geographers cite strengths in both examining human-environment interactions and unravelling urbanization patterns and processes that positioned the discipline to make unique contributions to critical research needs. Geographic Perspectives on Urban Sustainability reflects on the contributions that geographers have made to urban sustainability scholarship on varied domains such as transportation, green infrastructure, and gentrification. Contributed chapters probe uniquely geographic perspectives on urban resilience, environmental justice, political ecology, and planning that arise from empirically integrating social and biophysical realms that arise from considering spatial dimensions of problems like scale- and place-based peculiarities of phenomena. This book will be of great value to scholars, students, and policymakers interested in Urban and City Planning, Political Ecology, and Sustainable Urbanism. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Urban Geography.

The Financial Markets of Roman Egypt analyses some 4,367 financial transactions, leases, sales and loans, recorded on papyri in Roman Egypt in the period AD 1 to 350. The analysis of this remarkable body of information, the ancient equivalent of modern-day 'Big Data', helps us understand how ordinary people thought about some of the most important decisions they would make in their life: buying a house, lending their savings or renting land. Using innovative theories and techniques inspired by classics, mathematics and the financial markets, it brings out the differences and similarities of behaviours with modern and historical comparators. The book looks at risk and return for both asset holders - the landlords and lenders - and those dependent on the use of those assets - the tenants and borrowers. In particular it quantifies the risks facing families, including climate variability. Issues such as wealth concentration, social mobility and the role of the aged and women in the financial markets are addressed. The analysis presented expands our knowledge of the nature of the financial markets, and from that examination a sharper insight into the nature of the economy of the Roman world is gained, making it clear that there was no single "market" economy, but different sectors, some of which were driven by reciprocity/redistribution and others by financially rational judgements.

Mike Balmayne, a larger than life hard-working, hard-playing oil executive, plans a well-earned holiday with his wife but unwittingly gets entangled with some shady characters involved in international crime. After extricating himself from potential danger he returns to his oil business. Through a chain of events involving poor health and a bad choice of business partner, he loses the business he built up over years. His world and that of his family, collapses around him. Desperate situations sometimes require desperate solutions, which leads him back to his criminal connections. He hatches an ingenious but high-risk plan to recover his financial losses and take revenge on his business partner. However, his principal intent is to ensure that his actions do not cause any detriment to innocent people, and he plans on being able extricate himself on completion unscathed. To do this, he must play with and against the criminal elements and the authorities of several countries. Will he succeed?

On the 5th of August 2012, the Mars Lander Curiosity landed in Gale Crater renewing interest in the red planet. Mars One in the Netherlands plans to put the first humans on Mars in 2023. Thousands applied from around the world to be among the first humans on Mars. Cydonia is a sci-fi mystery and suspense novel that explores the controversial and highly debated region on Mars along with the mysteries of the planet itself. It delves into man's desire of establishing permanent colonies on Mars and the trials that go with this endeavor. However, a discovery of past Martian life and technologies quickly jeopardizes the colonists and those on Earth. The cast of characters fosters a suspenseful story line while biblical aspects convey the love God has for all mankind. Scott Kelly is the author of the sci-fi suspense Year Everything Changed published in 2012.

What would you do if your friend goes missing? While on a weekend kayaking trip, Nick and Ron wake to find that their three man trip suddenly become two. But the mystery deepens when they meet up with others on weekend getaways that also have similar stories. But things go from bad to worse when the government steps in. As people try to figure out what happened, there may be evidence in the form of a police interrogation video. Scott V Kelly has an MBA in Business and Financial Management from Keller Graduate School of Management. He has served honorably in the U.S. Army in the late 1990's. He has studied Bible prophecy, and the prophecies of various cultures.