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Local Governance in Cape Verde
The book provides a pioneering overview of the evolution of the local government and urban policy in Cape Verde after independence, offering a multi-scale perspective of local governance in Cape Verde from 1970 - 2020. It examines the process of urban development in the country, and in the capital city in particular, and explores the consequences and challenges for spatial planning, housing, urban heritage, and the environment, namely issues related to climate change in the post-independence period.
Valencia
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Decomposition
Essays aimed at understanding performance in a postmodern world.
The Canceling of the American Mind
A “galvanizing” (The Wall Street Journal) deep dive into cancel culture and its dangers to all Americans from the team that brought you Coddling of the American Mind. Cancel culture is a new phenomenon, and The Canceling of the American Mind is the first book to codify it and survey its effects, including hard data and research on what cancel culture is and how it works, along with hundreds of new examples showing the left and right both working to silence their enemies. The Canceling of the American Mind changes how you view cancel culture. Rather than a moral panic, we should consider it a dysfunctional part of how Americans battle for power, status, and dominance. Cancel culture is ju...
Nollywood
The English-language branch of the Nigerian film industry, Nollywood, has become the third largest in the world. Nollywood films saturate Nigeria and have spread across the African continent, achieving an astonishing extent and depth of cultural influence. They are the most important modern cultural form to come out of Africa. In this book, Jonathan Haynes aims to map out the cultural terrain of Nollywood films much more comprehensively and ambitiously than has been to date. He in effect establishes a canon for Nollywood films. The book is organized around the historical development of Nollywood film culture, which is explored with close attention to the recent history of Nigeria. Throughout...
Equity, Growth, and Community
In the last several years, much has been written about growing economic challenges, increasing income inequality, and political polarization in the United States. Addressing these new realities in America's metropolitan regions, this book argues that a few lessons are emerging: first, inequity is bad for economic growth; second, bringing together the concerns of equity and growth requires concerted local action; and third, the fundamental building block for doing this is the creation of diverse and dynamic epistemic (or knowledge) communities, which help to overcome political polarization and to address the challenges of economic restructuring and social divides.
Can Do Portuguese Textbook
Want to learn and speak real Portuguese? While most textbooks have you reading rules about the language… With Can Do Portuguese, you’ll be able to do everyday activities such as… introduce yourself, talk about the weather or your family, give your phone number, count in Portuguese, and much, much more. You’ll be able to... - Communicate in various real-life scenarios — after every single lesson. - Understand Brazilian culture and nuances - Understand a ton of words, phrase and grammar rules - Measure your progress with tests on PortuguesePod101 Can Do Portuguese gives you a real-world approach: you learn to speak and understand everyday Portuguese. You can use this textbook for self-study, with a language partner, or in a classroom. Inside, you get: - 7 units, 24 lessons & 130+ pages - Portuguese dialogs with translations - Grammar explanations for grammar presented in dialogs - Key vocabulary lists from the dialogue - Writing & speaking exercises - Cultural insights
Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1797
The Lloyd's Register of Ships records the details of merchant vessels over 100 gross tonnes, which are self propelled and sea-going, regardless of classification. Before the time, only those vessels classed by Lloyd's Register were listed. Vessels are listed alphabetically by their current name.
