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  • The Living City

    Why Cities Don't Need to Be Green to Be Great

    by Des Fitzgerald ...
    A sociologist explores why “green cities” won’t fix everything—and urges us to celebrate urban life as it isEverywhere you look, cities are getting greener. The general assumption is clear: if something is unhealthy or bad about urban life today, then nature holds the cure. However, argues sociologist Des Fitzgerald, green spaces are not the panacea that people think.In The Living City, Fitzgerald ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Tracing Autism

    Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and the Affective Labor of Neuroscience

    by Des Fitzgerald ...
    Series series In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science
    In Tracing Autism, Des Fitzgerald offers an up-close account of the search for a neurological explanation of autism. As autism has gained cultural prominence with more diagnoses and more controversy, its biological causes remain elusive.Through in-depth interviews with neuroscientists, psychologists, and psychiatrists, Fitzgerald examines what it means to do scientific research in the ambiguous ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Urban Brain

    Mental Health in the Vital City

    by Nikolas Rose, Des Fitzgerald ...
    Bridging the social and life sciences to unlock the mystery of how cities shape mental health and illnessMost of the world’s people now live in cities and millions have moved from the countryside to the rapidly growing megacities of the global south. How does the urban experience shape the mental lives of those living in and moving to cities today? Sociologists study cities as centers of personal ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society

    Edited by Maurizio Meloni, John Cromby, Des Fitzgerald, Stephanie Lloyd ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This comprehensive handbook synthesizes the often-fractured relationship between the study of biology and the study of society. Bringing together a compelling array of interdisciplinary contributions, the authors demonstrate how nuanced attention to both the biological and social sciences opens up novel perspectives upon some of the most significant sociological, anthropological, philosophical and ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ian Thompson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Landscape architecture plays an important role in shaping the places in which we live and work. But what is it? Landscape architects are involved, amongst other things, in the layout of business parks, the reclamation of derelict industrial sites, the restoration of historic city parks, and the siting and design of major pieces of infrastructure such as motorways, dams, power stations, and flood ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • From What Is to What If

    Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want

    by Rob Hopkins ...
    “Big ideas that just might save the world”—The GuardianThe founder of the international Transition Towns movement asks why true creative, positive thinking is in decline, asserts that it's more important now than ever, and suggests ways our communities can revive and reclaim it.In these times of deep division and deeper despair, if there is a consensus about anything in the world, it is that the ... Read more

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  • Home

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Allen Fox ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Thoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are becoming problematic. Both internationally and within countries, populations are constantly on the move, seeking better opportunities and living conditions, or an escape from violence and war. In spite ... Read more

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  • Embracing Uncertainty

    How writers, musicians and artists thrive in an unpredictable world

    by Margaret Heffernan ...
    Most people hate and fear uncertainty. It causes such stress and anxiety that we often choose certain surrender over doubt, becoming passive, dependent, addicted—and more anxious than ever. Doubling down on the certainties promised by technology and micro-management only makes things worse, leaving no opportunity for innovation, adaptation or invention.Artists live with uncertainty constantly—but ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Extra/Ordinary

    Craft and Contemporary Art

    by M. Anna Fariello, Dennis Stevens, Louise Mazanti, Paula Owen ...
    Contemporary artists such as Ghada Amer and Clare Twomey have gained international reputations for work that transforms ordinary craft media and processes into extraordinary conceptual art, from Amer’s monumental stitched paintings to Twomey’s large, ceramics-based installations. Despite the amount of attention that curators and gallery owners have paid to these and many other conceptual artists ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • History through material culture

    by Leonie Hannan, Sarah Longair ...
    Series Book 1 - IHR Research Guides
    History through material culture is a unique, step-by-step guide for students and researchers who wish to use objects as historical sources.Responding to the significant, scholarly interest in historical material culture studies, this book makes clear how students and researchers ready to use these rich material sources can make important, valuable and original contributions to history.Written by ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Building and Dwelling

    Ethics for the City

    by Richard Sennett ...
    **A reflection on the past and present of city life, and a bold proposal for its future“Constantly stimulating ideas from a veteran of urban thinking.”—Jonathan Meades, The Guardian**In this sweeping work, the preeminent sociologist Richard Sennett traces the anguished relation between how cities are built and how people live in them, from ancient Athens to twenty-first-century Shanghai. He shows ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

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  • The Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics

    Redefining Ethics for the Twenty-First Century Museum

    Edited by Janet Marstine ...
    Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics is a theoretically informed reconceptualization of museum ethics discourse as a dynamic social practice central to the project of creating change in the museum. Through twenty-seven chapters by an international and interdisciplinary group of academics and practitioners it explores contemporary museum ethics as an opportunity for growth, rather than a burden of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD