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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Metropolitan Metamorphosis and Development
Author: Metropolitan Metamorphosis and Development
Author: A Conceptual Framework for Strategic Areal Development in Managing Metropolitan Metamorphosis and Development
Author: Peter HallPublisher:
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Metropolitan Metamorphosis
Author: Francis Henry TaylorMetropolitan Metamorphosis
Author: Saint Louis County (Mo.). Planning CommissionPublisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
UNCRD Newsletter
Author: Mechanisms of Life History Evolution
Author: Thomas FlattPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191621021
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Life history theory seeks to explain the evolution of the major features of life cycles by analyzing the ecological factors that shape age-specific schedules of growth, reproduction, and survival and by investigating the trade-offs that constrain the evolution of these traits. Although life history theory has made enormous progress in explaining the diversity of life history strategies among species, it traditionally ignores the underlying proximate mechanisms. This novel book argues that many fundamental problems in life history evolution, including the nature of trade-offs, can only be fully resolved if we begin to integrate information on developmental, physiological, and genetic mechanisms into the classical life history framework. Each chapter is written by an established or up-and-coming leader in their respective field; they not only represent the state of the art but also offer fresh perspectives for future research. The text is divided into 7 sections that cover basic concepts (Part 1), the mechanisms that affect different parts of the life cycle (growth, development, and maturation; reproduction; and aging and somatic maintenance) (Parts 2-4), life history plasticity (Part 5), life history integration and trade-offs (Part 6), and concludes with a synthesis chapter written by a prominent leader in the field and an editorial postscript (Part 7).
Geographers
Author: Elizabeth BaigentPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350051004
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 36 focuses on 20th-century Britain and 19th- and 20th-century France. Six essays on individual geographers are complemented by a group article which describes the building of a French school of geography. From Britain, the life of Sir Peter Hall, one of the most distinguished geographers of recent times and a man widely known outside the discipline, is set alongside memoirs of Bill Mead, who made the rich geography of the Nordic countries come alive to geographers and others in the Anglophone world; Michael John Wise and Stanley Henry Beaver, who made their mark through building up the institutions where academic geography was practised and through teaching; and Anita McConnell, whose geographical training shaped her museum curation and studies of the history of science. From France, the individual biography of André Meynier is juxtaposed with group article on the first five professors of geography at Clermont-Ferrand. These intellectual biographies collectively show geography and geographers profoundly affected by wider historical events: the effect of war, particularly the Second World War, and the shaping of post-war society. They show the value of geographical scholarship in elucidating local circumstances and in planning national conditions, and as a basis for local, national, and international friendship.
The metamorphosis of autism
Author: Bonnie EvansPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526110016
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. What is autism and where has it come from? Increased diagnostic rates, the rise of the 'neurodiversity' movement, and growing autism journalism, have recently fuelled autism's fame and controversy. The metamorphosis of autism is the first book to explain our current fascination with autism by linking it to a longer history of childhood development. Drawing from a staggering array of primary sources, Bonnie Evans traces autism back to its origins in the early twentieth century and explains why the idea of autism has always been controversial and why it experienced a 'metamorphosis' in the 1960s and 1970s. Evans takes the reader on a journey of discovery from the ill-managed wards of 'mental deficiency' hospitals, to high-powered debates in the houses of parliament, and beyond. The book will appeal to a wide market of scholars and others interested in autism.
Services and Metropolitan Development
Author: Peter W. DanielsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134985150
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Explores the processes guiding both the development and the spatial impacts of services on the urban system and individual areas and describes the internationalisation of services and the effects of re-structuring on urban systems.