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Young Chinese and new millennium urban China Young Chinese and new millennium urban China Alex Cockain "This book examines the condition of being a young person in China and the way in which changes in various dimensions of urban life have affected Chinese youths' quest to understand themselves."--Pub… OL15980714W
Flâneuse Flâneuse Lauren Elkin In *Flâneuse*, Lauren Elkin creates a mosaic of what urban settings have meant to women, charting through literature, art, history, and film the sometimes exhilarating, sometimes fraught relationshi… OL18004837W
Immigrants, integration and cities Immigrants, integration and cities Contains a selection of papers prepared for an experts' meeting held in Paris, March 18-19, 1996, for the purpose of providing a better understanding of the relationship between immigration and urban… OL18298574W
Air quality in urban environments Air quality in urban environments R. E. Hester,Roy M. Harrison This comprehensive volume deals with the basic science of urban air pollution in relation to the sources and concentrations, and the atmospheric chemical and physical processes which determine those … OL18349018W
The politics of resentment The politics of resentment Katherine J. Cramer "Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession. In a time of rising inequality, Wa… OL20045149W
Imaginary cities Imaginary cities Darran Anderson 1 online resource (570 pages) OL20052786W
In Search of Middle Indonesia In Search of Middle Indonesia G. van Klinken The middle classes of Indonesia OL20932095W
The book of Ezekiel and Mesopotamian city laments The book of Ezekiel and Mesopotamian city laments Donna Lee Petter "I am arguing that the Mesopotamian city lament genre likely affected the composition of the book of Ezekiel....The book of Ezekiel might be viewed as a prophetic reuse of this ancient lament genre, … OL20954338W
Downtown Canada Downtown Canada Justin D. Edwards "Downtown Canada is a collection of essays that addresses Canada as an urban place. The contributors focus their attention on the writing of Canada's cities - including Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Mo… OL21204893W
Affective trajectories Affective trajectories Hansjörg Dilger,Marian Burchardt,Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon,Astrid Bochow "This volume is the first of its kind to focus comparatively on the mutual and highly complex entwinements between religion, affect, emotion, and sentiment in urban and global Africa in the early 21s… OL21242408W
Von Stadt zu Stadt in Österreich Von Stadt zu Stadt in Österreich Gerhard Stenzel Vergangenheit und Gegenwart sämtlicher österreichischer Städte. OL24157281W
Associational life in African cities Associational life in African cities Arne Tostensen,Inge Tvedten,Mariken Vaa The 17 essays in this volume focus on the multitude of voluntary associations to have emerged in African cities in recent years. Recurrent themes include the contexts in which people have organised t… OL24441602W
Hagard Hagard Lukas Bärfuss 173 Seiten 21 cm OL25871053W
Chaos in Drummelo Chaos in Drummelo Lilli L'Arronge Als Daan zijn bananenschil achteloos op straat gooit, waarschuwt een meisje hem voor de gevolgen. Daan begint te fantaseren over wat zijn bananenschil allemaal kan veroorzaken. Oblong prentenboek met… OL26176633W
Addis Berner Bär weiß nicht, wo er ist Addis Berner Bär weiß nicht, wo er ist Joel Stewart Wie aufregend ist die Stadt: Addis Berner Bär kommt mitten im Winter in eine fremde Stadt, wo ihm alles gross, schnell und laut vorkommt. Allmählich wird er mit seiner neuen Umgebung vertraut. Auf se… OL27273952W
Sprawl Sprawl Robert Bruegmann As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to ca… OL3274625W
The Kindness of Strangers The Kindness of Strangers Marc Freedman The Kindness of Strangers tells the story of a group of concerned adults who mentor inner-city youth. It describes what volunteers can do to ameliorate the conditions of young people living in povert… OL3901654W
Life in a medieval city Life in a medieval city Frances Gies,Joseph Gies Recreates the life of the rich and poor family, the housewife, businessman, doctor, scholar, clergy, artist, and writer of the Middle Ages, with insights into many customs and traditions of the perio… OL6552652W
Nineteenth-century cities Nineteenth-century cities Yale Conference on the Nineteenth-Century Industrial City New Haven 1968.,Richard Sennett,Stephen Thernstrom,Stephan Thernstrom Research on the frontiers of urban studies was the subject of a conference on nineteenth-century cities held in November 1968 at Yale University. These papers from the conference attempt to define wh… OL7212453W
Noise Control in Industry Noise Control in Industry Sound Research Industrial noise is a major health hazard: a hazard which after the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, management cannot neglect. This practical handbook examines in detail the measurement, isolatio… OL8106535W
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