Embedding climate resilient development principles in planning, urban design, and architecture means ensuring that transformation of the built environment helps achieve carbon neutrality, effective adaptation, and well-being for people and nature. Planners, urban designers, and architects are called to bridge the domains of research and practice and evolve their agency and capacity, developing methods and tools consistent across spatial scales to ensure the convergence of outcomes towards ...

A unified framework for analyzing urban sustainability in terms of cities' inflows and outflows of matter and energy.Urbanization and globalization have shaped the last hundred years. These two dominant trends are mutually reinforcing: globalization links countries through the networked communications of urban hubs. The urban population now generates more than eighty percent of global GDP. Cities account for enormous flows of energy and materials—inflows of goods a...

Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime in this latest edition of our guide to Mexico.Discover Mexico's most popular experiences and best kept secrets from market-hopping through the aromatic Mercado Municipal in San Cristóbal de las Casas; to hiking to the warm, bubbling Aguas Termales Rekowata hot springs from Creel; and swimming alongside fully grown whale sharks as they come to feed in the shallows at Isla...

This latest edition of Lonely Planet's Experience Mexico travel guide reveals exciting new ways to explore this iconic country with all the tools you need to create your own unique trip.Discover amazing local experiences from surfing the swells of Puerto Escondido along Oaxaca's largely unspoiled Pacific Coast; to bird-watching in San Blas on the Nayarit coast to spot the area's 2...

Après dix années de travail et de réflexion sur la question de la croyance religieuse, John Henry Newman publie en mars 1870 la Grammaire de l'assentiment, qui est son testament philosophique.Dans ce livre, Newman veut démontrer que l'acte de foi posé par l'intelligence devant le mystère révélé, même s'il est obscur, ne signifie pas que la raison renonce à ses propres exigences, ou se contente de moins de rationalité que la démonstration philosophique ou scientifique. La certitude religieu...

Emilio Fernández y John Steinbeck se conocieron en 1941. El escritor le contó la historia sobre el pescador y su perla, sucedida en La Paz, Baja California, y Fernández le pidió que escribiera un guión, pero el novelista estaría ocupado durante varios años antes de decidirse por este proyecto. ¿Por qué un reconocido escritor estadunidense, con ascendiente sobre el mundo de Hollywood, buscaría a un director mexicano para ofrecerle una historia que aún no estaba escrita? Reyes Bercini, sin d...

Vida y batallas del mayor enemigo de Roma. Conforme nos cuenta las fuentes antiguas, Aníbal tenía nueve años cuando su padre lo llevó al templo de Cartago y sumergió sus manos en la sangre del sacrificio. Fue entonces, delante de los dioses, cuando Aníbal hizo un juramento de odio eterno hacia Roma. Pocas figuras a lo largo de la Historia han logrado capturar y mantener viva de forma tan evidente la imaginación popular como la de Aníbal, el intrépido norteafricano que, sobre un elefante, c...

Aprovechando su experiencia en el diseño de productos tecnológicos, desde Gmail hasta YouTube, los autores de este libro pasaron años experimentando con sus propios hábitos y rutinas, buscando formas de ayudar a las personas a optimizar su energía, enfoque y tiempo.Se trata de dedicar tiempo a lo realmente importante fomentando nuevos hábitos y replanteando los valores adquiridos fruto de la actividad frenética y de la distracción.R...

Religion and Politics in America's Borderlands brings together leading academic specialists on immigration and the borderlands, as well as nationally recognized grassroots activists, who reflect on their varied experiences of living, working, and teaching on the US-Mexico border and in the borderlands. These authors demonstrate the groundbreaking claim that the borderlands are not only a location to think about religiously, but they’re also a place that reshapes religious thinking. In this...

In 1973, The Exorcist shocked the world and became the most popular and successful horror film ever made.In 1977, Exorcist II: The Heretic shocked the world in a very different way…becoming a laughing stock.How did it happen? Why did a major motion picture studio entrust a man who hated The Exorcist with the job of making Exorcist II? Why did making the film almost KILL its director? What caused enraged audiences to riot and pull ticket booths out of the ground? Why was Exo...

La edición más actualizada del libro número uno de coaching para entrenadores, líderes, gestores de talento y profesionales de todo el mundo.Coaching es el texto fundacional de esta disciplina. Basándose en el modelo GROW desarrollado por el propio Sir John Whitmore, pionero del coaching, descubriremos cómo permitir que podemos dar lo mejor de nosotros mismos para impulsar nuestra productividad, nuestro crecimiento y nuestro compromiso, así como t...

In light of the rapid fluctuations in oil prices and subsequent impact on the stability and economic perspectives of energy producing and energy importing states in the Western Hemisphere, this book stresses the urgency to integrate sustainability at the very core of national energy security strategies. From Canada to Argentina, this edited volume analyzes a series of case studies and diverging paradigms across the continent. It underlines how the relatively recent exploitation of unconven...