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This book offers a critical reflection on the ways in which
migration has shaped Australia's cities, especially over the past
twenty years. Australian cities are among the world's most
culturally diverse and are home to most of the nation's population.
This edited collection brings together contemporary research
carried out by scholars across a range of diverse disciplines, all
of whom are concerned with the intersections between migration and
urban change. The chapters are organised under three sections:
demographic, settlement and environmental transitions; urban form
and housing transitions; and socio-cultural transitions. Drawing on
diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, the chapters
engage with a range of factors and influences affecting migration
and urban development. This book will be of special interest to
scholars and practitioners in the disciplines of sociology, urban
planning, geography, public policy and environmental
sustainability.
Formidable challenges confront Australia and its human
settlements: the mega-metro regions, major and provincial cities,
coastal, rural and remote towns. The key drivers of change and
major urban vulnerabilities have been identified and principal
among them are resource-constraints, such as oil, water, food,
skilled labour and materials, and carbon-constraints, linked to
climate change and a need to transition to renewable energy, both
of which will strongly shape urban development this century.
Transitions identifies 21st century challenges to the resilience
of Australia s cities and regions that flow from a range of global
and local influences, and offers a portfolio of solutions to these
critical problems and vulnerabilities. The solutions will require
fundamental transitions in many instances: to our urban
infrastructures, to our institutions and how they plan for the
future, and perhaps most of all to ourselves in terms of our
lifestyles and consumption patterns.
With contributions from 92 researchers all leaders in their
respective fields this book offers the expertise to chart pathways
for a sustainability transition."
This important collection brings together contributions from an
impressive group of scholars to comprehensively examine Franklin D.
Roosevelt's response to the Holocaust. Addressing the severe
critiques of FDR that arose after the war and what some see as his
failure to stop the genocide of Europe's Jewish community, the book
looks at his policies between 1933 and 1942, his rescue efforts
during the war, and the possibility for future research and
analysis. This is the definitive resource on a pivotal issue in
American history.
Which Way Does Your Desk Face? Early in my tenure as a medical
neuroscience course director, I started receiving comments on
student evaluations stating that I was "unapproachable." For the
ten years prior to becoming the course director I taught full-time
in the gross anatomy course and gave lectures in the medical
neuroscience, histology and embryology courses. This amounted to
over 130 student contact hours per year, during which time I had
not received negative comments concerning "approachability." At the
start of my third year as the medical neuroscience course director,
I asked Dr. P- rick Tank, who was, and still is, the gross anatomy
course director, why I was g- ting such comments. He looked up at
me while I was standing in his office do- way and simply said,
"Which way does your desk face?" He then explained to me how he had
arranged his office so that when he sat at his desk he faced the
door to give students his immediate attention when they came to see
him. My desk and chair faced the window, putting my back to the
students. He stated that while my office arrangement avoided
annoying refl- tions on my computer monitor, it sent an unintended
message to the students that I did not consider them a priority.
Once I moved my desk so that my chair faced the door the perception
of me as being unapproachable was resolved.
What did Franklin Delano Roosevelt know about the Holocaust and
what did he do to try to prevent it? This question has proven to be
one of the thorniest inquiries ever made into the progress of FDR's
presidency. In 1993, some of the world's most outstanding scholars
of the Holocaust and of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency came
together to discuss this still explosive subject. This collection
of original pieces and anthologized articles grew out of the
discussions held during two successive days at the Roosevelt
Library in Hyde Park, New York. The contributors take a hard look
at Roosevelt's reaction to the Holocaust, offering a timely and
thought-provoking study that will be indispensable reading for
anyone interested in either the FDR presidency or the Holocaust.
Unmatched in the quality of its world-renowned contributors, "A
Companion to the Philosophy of Science" serves as both a course
text and a reference book across the broad spectrum of issues of
concern in the philosophy of science.
Taken as a whole, the volume provides an unparalleled survey of
all the topical areas, major methods, and stances in the philosophy
of science. With entries on important figures in the history of the
philosophy of science, as well as a comprehensive account of areas
of contemporary interest, this Companion is the most authoritative
resource guide available in the philosophy of science.
This open access book outlines new concepts, development models,
governance and implementation processes capable of addressing the
challenges of transformative urban regeneration of cities at
precinct scale.
This open access book outlines new concepts, development models,
governance and implementation processes capable of addressing the
challenges of transformative urban regeneration of cities at
precinct scale.
Artillery played an important and perhaps decisive role in the July
1863 battle of Gettysburg. Although many hundreds of books have
been published on the battle, very few have focused more than a few
paragraphs or a sprinkling of entries on the "long arm" and its
role in the battle. This gap is finally filled by George Newton's
Silent Sentinels: A Reference Guide to the Artillery of Gettysburg.
Now in paperback, Newton's well-written and illustrated study was
designed to be of use to both the casual battlefield visitor and
the serious Civil War scholar. The former will use Silent Sentinels
to learn more about the campaign in general, the role of artillery
in Civil War battles, and how it was used on the battlefield at
Gettysburg. They will also use it to learn how to identify
different types of artillery, and tour a wide variety of
artillery-related sites from Oak Hill in the north to a solitary
gun well south of the Peach Orchard. More experienced Civil War
students will find Silent Sentinels' extensive primary sources,
diagrams, appendices of numbers and losses, and informative
discussion of artillery organization and tactics an indispensable
reference resource. Silent Sentinels opens with a general overview
of the campaign and a wide-ranging discussion of 19th century
artillery, the gun types used at Gettysburg, the equipment needed
to operate the guns, how they were organized in each army, and the
tactics employed by both Union and Confederate artillerymen. The
chapter-long and wide-ranging tour included in this book guides
readers to a variety of fascinating sites with enough detail to
interest even the most jaded Gettysburg historian. This outstanding
and useful historical guide includes detailed endnotes, a
bibliography, and an index. Readers can peruse and enjoy this
versatile study from the comfort of an easy chair or while walking
the magnificent Pennsylvania field.
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