Seattle, the Emerald City on the shores of Puget Sound, is the crown jewel of the Pacific Northwest. To the west are the jagged peaks of the Olympic Mountains and to the east are the rolling hills of the Cascade Mountain Range. On a clear day the towering peak of Mr. Rainier dominates the southern skyline while the cone-shaped peak of Mt. Baker can be seen to the north. Portland, Oregon sits in the shadow of the larger Pacific Northwest cities of Seattle and Vancouver, but is one of the mo...

Houston is the largest city in Texas and the fourth largest city in the United States. It is a sprawling, cosmopolitan city with many ethnicities and nationalities. Houston is situated on the Gulf Coast of Texas and has the fourth largest port in the United States. Some of the world’s leading medical and research institutions, including the Texas Medical Center and NASA’s Johnson Space Center, are found in Houston. New Orleans is the crossroads of old world elegance and new world frivolity...

This book explores the effectiveness of governance networks on the design and implementation of sustainability strategies.European cities are actively developing sustainability strategies to address the impact of climate change. One recent approach many cities have taken is the creation of ‘governance networks’: groups of public, private and third sector organisations, which collaborate to support urban sustainability efforts. Drawing on two case studies in Glasgow and Copenhagen, ...

Phoenix is the sixth largest city in the United States and has pleasant, wide-open spaces with cacti, rust-colored mountains, larger-than-life sunsets and stars that you can just about reach out and touch. This desert city has an average of 325 sunny days per year and is a popular destination for winter vacations and as a second home. Tucson is the second-largest city in Arizona. The city has pleasantly cooler temperature than Phoenix and is located in the Sonoran Desert. Tucson is one of ...

Dallas is the ninth-largest city in the United States and the third-largest city in Texas (after Houston and San Antonio). Moderate weather, southern hospitality, world-class restaurants, and sporting events are just a few of Dallas’ attractions. The city has the largest urban art district in the country and lots of entertainment options. Dallas is a melting pot of diversity, with many different lifestyles, cultures, and religions living peacefully in this Texan powerhouse. San Antonio ran...

Most Anticipated from BookRiot, BookPage, Goodreads and more.A thrilling and romantic fantasy adventure from Everina Maxwell, bestselling author of Winter’s Orbit."There are five of them, all with an exile brand on the back of their hand, and every single one of them should be dead. We don’t understand why they’re not."En is a weapon.Battle spells are carved into her skin, she’s trained to work throu...

Since the collapse of the housing market in 2008, demand for housing has consistently outpaced supply in many US communities. The failure to construct sufficient housing - especially affordable housing - in desirable communities and neighborhoods comes with significant social, economic, and environmental costs. This book examines how local participatory land use institutions amplify the power of entrenched interests and privileged homeowners. The book draws on sweeping data to examine the ...

Since the collapse of the housing market in 2008, demand for housing has consistently outpaced supply in many US communities. The failure to construct sufficient housing—especially affordable housing—in desirable communities and neighborhoods comes with significant social, economic, and environmental costs. This book examines how local participatory land use institutions amplify the power of entrenched interests and privileged homeowners. The book draws on sweeping data to examine the domi...

From the author of The Isle in the Silver Sea comes a new gothic romantasy tale of a condemned woman who must earn her freedom by destroying the evil sorceress hidden in the cursed city of Moonscarrow.When Rohese is convicted of the murder of a prince, she is given the choice of the condemned: execution, or entry into the cursed city of Moonscarrow. If she can find the heart of the Lady of Thorns within the city and pierce...

A sapphic regency romance about the duke who fears nothing—until the woman she never forgot walks through the door and brings her to her knees.Set in a world of powerful female nobles and the women who love them...Kate, Duke of Howard, is known throughout Europe as a merciless autocrat not to be crossed. Consumed by a bitter rivalry, she avoids society and has vowed never to trap a woman into marriage with a monster like h...

Bloomsbury presents The Salt King by Natasha Pulley, ready by Luke R. FrancisAn apocalyptic novel about belief, religion, and the power of myth that blends the gripping, end-of-the-world storytelling of The Passage with the biting wit and epic queer romance that makes Natasha Pulley’s books “delightful” (The Washington Post).Jesuit priest Avelyn Brocken was born into a mining family in Hreodwater, a small, totally isolated salt to...

SHORTLISTED FOR EVERY MAJOR SCIENCE FICTION AWARD IN THE UK: the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the British Science Fiction Association award for best novel, and the Kitschies Red Tentacle.Marine biologist Hana Ishikawa is racing against time to save the coral of the Great Barrier Reef, but struggles to fight for a future in a world where so much has already been lost.Seventeen-year-old Judith Holliman escapes the monotony of Sydney Town during the nineteenth century, when her n...