A pioneering urban economist offers fascinating, even inspiring proof that the city is humanity's greatest invention and our best hope for the future. "A pioneering urban economist presents a myth-shattering look at the majesty and greatness of cities. America is an urban natio…
A pioneering urban economist offers fascinating, even inspiring proof that the city is humanity's greatest invention and our best hope for the future.
"This completely revised edition provides a synthesis of the forces that shaped the evolution of the human growth pattern, the biocultural factors that direct its expression, the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that regulate individual development, and the biomathematical approa…
Bäume gehören zu den größten und faszinierendsten Lebewesen. In alten Kulturen und Religionen wurden sie als Sitz der Götter oder übernatürlicher Wesen verehrt. Noch heute beeindruckt der Anblick imposanter Buchen und mächtiger Eichen. Manche Bäume blicken auf eine mehr als taus…
Comprehensive sourcebook of reference data for health professionals involved in evaluating people with abnormal features or syndromes. It includes many graphs, tables, and charts needed by clinicians to define normal patterns of growth and provides standards of comparison for po…
Despite predictions that the contemporary world with its secular trends would eventually turn religion into an anachronism, at no time in modern history has religion been more vibrant and intense than now. In Sacred Tensions, Raymond L. M. Lee and Susan E. Ackerman consider this…