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Product Description: Devising a workable housing policy in a country with apparently insurmountable housing problems, presents a great challenge. With the help of an award from UN-HABITAT, Zambian authorities attempted to do just this, in a process which is an ideal candidate for scrutiny...read more

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9781607505662 | Ios Pr Inc, June 15, 2010, cover price $116.00 | About this edition: Devising a workable housing policy in a country with apparently insurmountable housing problems, presents a great challenge.

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9781610352178 | Quill Driver Books, October 1, 2014, cover price $14.95

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9781522658832 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, May 24, 2016), cover price $9.99

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Product Description: This unique volume presents the achievements of the land, sea and air transport industry of Singapore in the last 50 years after Singapore gained its independence in 1965. It provides a comprehensive overview of Singapore's progress in transportation from a typical third world system in the 1960s to one that is currently in the top league globally in all aspects of passenger and freight transportation...read more
By Tien Fang Fwa (editor)

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9789814651592 | World Scientific Pub Co Inc, April 30, 2016, cover price $78.00 | About this edition: This unique volume presents the achievements of the land, sea and air transport industry of Singapore in the last 50 years after Singapore gained its independence in 1965.

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9789814667456 | World Scientific Pub Co Inc, June 30, 2016, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: This unique volume presents the achievements of the land, sea and air transport industry of Singapore in the last 50 years after Singapore gained its independence in 1965.

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9781156207079 | General Books, July 26, 2010, cover price $7.58

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Provides a close-up look at one of the world's most coveted addresses, the apartment building at 740 Park Avenue that was constructed by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's grandfather and has housed many of the rich and famous.

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9780385512091 | Broadway Books, October 18, 2005, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Provides a close-up look at one of the world's most coveted addresses, the apartment building at 740 Park Avenue that was constructed by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's grandfather and has housed many of the rich and famous.

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9780767917445 | Broadway Books, October 10, 2006, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Provides a close-up look at one of the world's most coveted addresses, the apartment building at seventy-four Park Avenue that was constructed by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's grandfather and has housed the Bouviers, Rockefellers, Saul Steinberg, Ronald O.

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9780307418760 | Broadway Books, December 18, 2007, cover price $16.95

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9781157185376 | General Books, July 26, 2010, cover price $7.82

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Product Description: This book argues that abusive punishments are particularly deeply rooted in authoritarian states and in some Western countries such as Britain and the USA, from which they have been exported over past centuries. The book surveys a variety of psychological, physically constraining, custodial, corporal and capital punishments...read more

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9780333648452 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 18, 1998, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: This text argues that abusive punishments are particularly deeply rooted in authoritarian states and in some Western countries such as Britain and the USA, from which they have been exported over past centuries.

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9780333648469 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 18, 1998, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: This book argues that abusive punishments are particularly deeply rooted in authoritarian states and in some Western countries such as Britain and the USA, from which they have been exported over past centuries.

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Product Description: The theory, vision, and implementation of a multidisciplinary collaborative approach to social learning The academy is often described as an ivory tower, isolated from the community surrounding it. Presenting the theory, vision, and implementation of a socially engaged program for the Department of Human and Organizational Development (HOD) in Peabody's College of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University, Academics in Action! describes a more integrated model wherein students and faculty work with communities, learn from them, and bring to bear findings from theory and research to generate solutions to community problems...read more
By Sandra L. Barnes (editor), Lauren Brinkley-rubinstein (editor), Bernadette Doykos (editor), Nina C. Martin (editor) and Allison McGuire (editor)

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9780823268801 | Fordham Univ Pr, January 4, 2016, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The theory, vision, and implementation of a multidisciplinary collaborative approach to social learning The academy is often described as an ivory tower, isolated from the community surrounding it.

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9780415704748, titled "Access, Property and American Urban Space" | Routledge, March 14, 2016, cover price $145.00

Product Description: IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields. Some of the areas we publish in: -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and information systems -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All aspects of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The knowledge economy -Urban studies -Arms control -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Science...read more
By J. Verbeke (editor)

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9789040722165 | Ios Pr Inc, January 1, 2001, cover price $51.00 | About this edition: IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields.

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Product Description: Robert Angus Smith (1817-1884) was a Scottish chemist and a leading investigator into what came to be known as 'acid rain'. This study of his working life, contextualized through discussion of his childhood, education, beliefs, family, interests and influences sheds light on the evolving understanding of sanitary science during the nineteenth century...read more

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9781409457756, titled "Acid Rain and the Rise of the Environmental Chemist in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Life and Work of Robert Angus Smith" | Ashgate Pub Co, April 28, 2014, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Robert Angus Smith (1817-1884) was a Scottish chemist and a leading investigator into what came to be known as 'acid rain'.

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Product Description: How can action research further new research orientations towards sustainability? This book, empirically situated in the field of upstream public engagement, involving local residents, researchers and practitioners in bottom-up processes deliberating on urban sustainability, answers this question by analysing processes of social learning...read more

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9781472442826 | Ashgate Pub Co, February 10, 2015, cover price $109.95 | About this edition: How can action research further new research orientations towards sustainability?

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A critical analysis of the American legal progession's values, attitudes, and practices in this century, examining its elitist response to social change and the structuring of the profession according to political and economic status rather than legal need. Biliog

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9780195019391, titled "Unequal Justice: Lawyers and Social Change in Modern America" | Oxford Univ Pr, January 22, 1976, cover price $29.95 | also contains Unequal Justice: Lawyers and Social Change in Modern America | About this edition: A critical analysis of the American legal progession's values, attitudes, and practices in this century, examining its elitist response to social change and the structuring of the profession according to political and economic status rather than legal need.

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Product Description: Historical experience in many Sub-Saharan African countries demonstrates that an alternative approach to conventional land administration methods is required to appropriately secure tenure and administer land rights in customary areas...read more

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9781607507468 | Ios Pr Inc, April 15, 2011, cover price $94.00 | About this edition: Historical experience in many Sub-Saharan African countries demonstrates that an alternative approach to conventional land administration methods is required to appropriately secure tenure and administer land rights in customary areas.

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9780822359531, titled "Addicted. Pregnant. Poor" | Duke Univ Pr, October 30, 2015, cover price $94.95

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9780822359968, titled "Addicted. Pregnant. Poor" | Duke Univ Pr, October 27, 2015, cover price $25.95

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Product Description: Homelessness in America has grown from a minor problem in isolated areas of a few big cities into a near epidemic. Today, scarcely any American city of any appreciable size lacks homeless people. Homeless shelters and programs have become as essential and as commonplace as police protection or water and sewage treatment...read more

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9780202303642 | Aldine De Gruyter, September 1, 1989, cover price $50.95 | About this edition: Describes the nature of homelessness, its multiple causes, and its demographic, economic, sociological, and social policy antecedents.

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9780202362571 | Aldine De Gruyter, February 28, 2009, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Homelessness in America has grown from a minor problem in isolated areas of a few big cities into a near epidemic.
9780202303659 | Aldine De Gruyter, November 1, 1989, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Describes the nature of homelessness, its multiple causes, and its demographic, economic, sociological, and social policy antecedents.

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Product Description: For all those who're interested in Urban Studies, this book will provide comprehensive knowledge. Contemporary innovative concepts and case studies revolving around Urban Studies have been presented in this book. All the ongoing trends in this field from all over the world have been incorporated here...read more

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9781632400314 | Ingram Pub Services, February 16, 2015, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: For all those who're interested in Urban Studies, this book will provide comprehensive knowledge.

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9780374533519 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 18, 2012, cover price $18.00

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Product Description: Princeton, New Jersey, a town typical of the affluent suburbs arising in so many communities today, is surveyed by a team of urban affairs experts. Housing problems are studied in light of their political and economic implications.

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9780878550067 | Rutgers Univ Center for Urban, January 1, 1971, cover price $55.95 | About this edition: Princeton, New Jersey, a town typical of the affluent suburbs arising in so many communities today, is surveyed by a team of urban affairs experts.

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