Why do modern cities, suburbs, and industrial and farming landscapes all tend to look alike despite their regional settings? In this provocative and generously illustrated book, a landscape architect
This is the first book to really make sense of the dizzying array of information that has emerged in recent decades about earthquakes. Susan Hough, a research seismologist in one of North America's mo
The health care industry in the U.S. is peculiar. We spend close to 18% of our GDP on health care, yet other countries get better results?and we don't know why. To date, we still lack widely accepted
The health care industry in the U.S. is peculiar. We spend close to 18% of our GDP on health care, yet other countries get better results—and we don't know why. To date, we still lack widely accepted
The only four-time champion of the hit ABC reality show Dancing With the Stars shares the lessons he's learned on and off the dance floor that helped him embrace and overcome daily challenges, along w
Hough (social history, U. of Maine) tells the stories of rural white unwed mothers from Maine and Tennessee who, beginning during the 1870s, took advantage of the increased access to urban areas to fi
This fourth edition analyses the variety of ways in which people’s lives are threatened and how these threats can be neutralised. Traditional security studies subjects such as war, deterrence and terr
