A seed was dropped by a man that did not know he was sowing seeds. A certain seed sprouted a philosophy plant which was noticed by a passerby. The passerby, a lost soul, picked and consumed the plant which awakened a decade’s old and long forgotten planned quest. That quest was locked away in the mind of the lost soul in a closet of things once planned but long since forgotten. In that closet on a bookshelf was a book the lost soul had once thought to read, “The Holy Bible.” Covered in sca...

This book re-conceptualizes civil society engagement with global governance institutions in the field of development in terms of opposition. With an innovative theoretical framework, it maps and explains opposition strategies through detailed case studies on the EU, the Asian Development Bank, and the Global Forum on Migration and Development.

Rooted in feminist political thought, She City illuminates how gender shapes our urban spaces and city design. Through three sections: 'Resisting Sexist Cities', 'Designing Feminist Cities', and 'Prioritizing Safer Cities', Kalms examines barriers to women's public participation and focuses on the practical strategies, policies and actions to overcome them.Addressing significant themes such as violence against women and gender-sensitive design, She City not only p...

Travels into North America is a historical travel account written by Pehr Kalm, a Swedish-Finnish explorer, naturalist, and botanist. The book, originally published in Swedish in 1753 and later translated into English, documents Kalm's travels and observations during his journey to North America in the mid-18th century. Pehr Kalm's travels in North America occurred between 1748 and 1751, and he primarily explored the eastern regions of North America, including parts of Canada and the Ameri...

What are we without our possessions? How do we continue when the foundations of our lives are rocked? Lifestorm begins when an upper middle class couple, Amanda and Jeffrey Dunn, return from a Hawaiian vacation to find their Hiller Highlands home destroyed in the Oakland Hills Firestorm of 1991. The loss of their possessions is only the beginning of their troubles.The couple deal with the tragedy differently. Amanda, initially frozen with panic, decides she is more than th...

Much of feminist architectural scholarship focuses on the enormous task of instating women’s experience of space into spatial praxis. Hypersexual City: The Provocation of Soft-Core Urbanism suggests this attention to women’s invisibility in sociocultural space has overlooked the complex ways in which women already occupy space, albeit mostly as an image or object to be consumed, even purchased.It examines the occupation of urban space through the mediated representation of...

Tech Grief describes the many career losses IT workers or people who work for technology companies experience and then defines a roadmap to healing, one that embraces the logical/analytical brain while employing tools to engage and heal the emotional pain of loss. The underlying premises are drawn from Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, Kubler-Ross' grief process and the latest in grief counseling best practices. The introduction of the book describes the phrase "Tech Grief," which the authors c...

First Job Savvy is designed to help young people find their first career job by creating a plan for success. Most are experts at landing service and temp jobs but those skills don't work well to get a job that matches their training and interests. The book begins by helping them match skills and passion to various jobs, create a network of people to help them find the right job, craft a winning resume and then figure out where the jobs are. Interviewing skills are highlighted, as well as h...

The present Volume of Professor Kalm’s Travels through North America, is originally written in theSwedish language, but was immediately after translated into the German by the two Murray’s, both of whom are Swedes, and one a pupil of Dr. Linnæus, and therefore we may be sure that this translation corresponds exactly with the original. Baron Sten Charles Bielke, Vice president of the Court of Justice in Finland, was the first who made a proposal to the Royal Academy of Sciences at Stockholm...

Career Savvy gives you the tools you need to regain control of your career and keep your job longer in hard times. This gives you the time to plan the steps you need to take to transform your job from the one you were hired for into the one you will love. If you are ready to take a serious look at your career-limiting behaviors and attitudes and how you can change your mode of interaction to one that serves you better, this book is for you. You don't have to change who you are; you simply ...

Retirement Savvy is designed for people who planned carefully for their financial future but may not have thought much about what they would do with all that time. For previous generations, retirement represented the end of things. I suggest that now, "retirement" means doing what you want and making choices based on your interests and passions. Yet too many people haven't planned their retirement as well as they planned their careers. This guide helps people (retired or just planning it) ...

This edited collection investigates gender-sensitive spaces, design practices, and provocations that challenge the complex social and material structures that shape inequities of access and inclusion in the urban environment.Designing Gender Sensitive Spaces for Consenting Cities: Practices and Provocations centres intersectional, gender-sensitive approaches to design in the urban environment as an integral strategy in combating spatial inequities. Through an investigation...