Urban Behavior

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Enitan O. Bereola II
How To Be a Gentleman - Bereolaesque: The Contemporary Gentleman & Etiquette Book For The Urban Sophisticate
WARNING: ETIQUETTE IS BACK ... THIS TIME IT'S SEXY! The old-fashioned, repressed, bland man has been banished to the Himalayas and a new breed is taking center stage. He is a man of style, sophistication, and security, just as strong and confident as his predecessor, but far more diverse in his inte...
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Juan I. Aragones
Residential Environments: Choice, Satisfaction, and Behavior
Housing fulfills a basic human need for shelter. It protects us from the weather and from hostile intruders. Often it is an expression of personal identity and social status. A home is a major personal financial investment and housing is an important part of the economy. The home is also invested wi...
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Mildred Reed Hall
The Fourth Dimension in Architecture: The Impact of Building on Behavior: Eero Saarinen's Administrative Center for Deere and Company
This study of how the architecture of a building influences the people who work in it is of interest to architects, behavioralists, and management personnel as well as fans of architecture in general. This study of how the architecture of a building influences the people who work in it is of interes...
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Sarah Summerfield
Orpington Chicken: Selecting, Habitat, Feeding, Breeding, Handling, Socialization, Behavior and Everything You Need to Know About Keeping Orpington as
The 19th century in Britain was a time of immense change. Industrialization surged forward, steam engines roared to life, and railways stitched the nation into a tighter fabric. But far from the clatter of factories and smoke-stacked cities, in the quiet folds of England’s countryside, a different...
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Peter David Jordan
Technology as Human Social Tradition: Cultural Transmission among Hunter-Gatherers (Origins of Human Behavior and Culture) (Volume 7)
Technology as Human Social Tradition outlines a novel approach to studying variability and cumulative change in human technology―prominent research themes in both archaeology and anthropology. Peter Jordan argues that human material culture is best understood as an expression of social tradition....
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Mike Haddad
Legends: Modern Myths & Urban Fairytales
From our earliest tribes and civilizations, we have told each other stories. Stories to explain the things we could not, stories to teach codes of behavior, stories to pass the long, cold hours of the night while waiting for the sun's blazing return. Myths and legends, fairytales and folklore, they ...
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Racquel Williams
Riding Shotgun (Urban Books)
What would you do to hold on to the good life? Would you let your man lie and cheat on you? Would you turn your head when the truth is hitting you dead in the face? Akila Jones had a rough childhood growing up in one of Richmond’s grimiest projects. She learned early on that she had to boss up, ...
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Percival Everett
A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid (A Novel) (Akashic Urban Surreal)
Veteran authors Everett and Kincaid present an uproarious send-up of one of America’s most controversial American icons. “[A]n outrageously funny satire of race relations and racism, US history, contemporary sexual mores and behavior, academia, and the publishing industry . . . It could become a...
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Ben Logsdon
Prelude of a Guardian Angel: Paranormal Urban Fantasy (Gray Spirits)
Sarai is your typical grandmother. Thoughtful, kind, and perhaps a tad overbearing. She's also been dead for nearly 12 years. Now serving as a youthful, sword-wielding guardian angel, she's sworn to protect her granddaughter, Daniela, from the forces of darkness ravaging the mortal world. Invisib...
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Dr. Tammarra R. Jones
Measuring Aggresive Behavior Perceptions
This book examines how African drumming can help African American boys in urban schools overcome aggression and disengagement. Through drumming, they connect with their heritage, fostering self-discovery and emotional control. The rhythm helps them build self-esteem and resilience, offering a therap...
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Meg Cabot
Remembrance: A Return to the Mediator Series Featuring Urban Fantasy with Haunting Secrets
Fifteen years after the release of the first Mediator novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot returns with a deliciously sexy new entry to a fan-favorite series. Suze Simon—all grown up and engaged to her once-ghostly soulmate—faces a vengeful spirit and an old enemy bent on end...
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Melissa Urban
The New Whole30: The Definitive Plan to Transform Your Health, Habits, and Relationship with Food
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The updated Whole30 offers lasting food freedom, your way—with an inclusive and encouraging approach, guidance to succeed with the Original and Plant-Based programs, and over 100 new recipes Do you struggle with cravings, blood sugar regulation, inflammation, fatig...
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Adham Fisher
Tube Challenge: The Ultimate Ride: The Race to visit every Underground Station in London...and Beyond
Urban rail systems carry hundreds of millions of people for work and leisure every year. A tiny fraction of these passengers are competitors, who seek the fastest time for riding to every station. Most popular on the London Underground, this is often known as the Tube Challenge, recognized as a Guin...
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Mike Owen Benediktsson
In the Midst of Things: The Social Lives of Objects in the Public Spaces of New York City
How ordinary urban objects influence our behavior, exacerbate inequality, and encourage social change Assumptions about human behavior lie hidden in plain sight all around us, programmed into the design and regulation of the material objects we encounter on a daily basis. In the Midst of Things ...
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Nada Milosavljevic
Sustainable Parking Management: Practices, Policies, and Metrics
Sustainable Parking Management provides the latest research findings in the field, encouraging transport planners and policymakers to use parking policy as a tool for managing parking and transport systems. The book teaches up-to-date parking management techniques for selecting parking policies and...
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Lawrence Frank
Health and Community Design: The Impact Of The Built Environment On Physical Activity
Health and Community Design is a comprehensive examination of how the built environment encourages or discourages physical activity, drawing together insights from a range of research on the relationships between urban form and public health. It provides important information about the factors that...
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Maria Kefalas
Working-Class Heroes: Protecting Home, Community, and Nation in a Chicago Neighborhood
Chicago's Southwest Side is one of the last remaining footholds for the city's white working class, a little-studied and little-understood segment of the American population. This book paints a nuanced and complex portrait of the firefighters, police officers, stay-at-home mothers, and office worker...
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Tony Affigne
Latino Politics en Ciencia Política: The Search for Latino Identity and Racial Consciousness
More than 53 million Latinos now constitute the largest, fastest-growing, and most diverse minority group in the United States, and the nation’s political future may well be shaped by Latinos’ continuing political incorporation. In the 2012 election, Latinos proved to be a critical voting bloc i...
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Andrew Crooks
Agent-Based Modelling and Geographical Information Systems: A Practical Primer (Spatial Analytics and GIS)
This is the era of Big Data and computational social science. It is an era that requires tools which can do more than visualise data but also model the complex relation between data and human action, and interaction. Agent-Based Models (ABM) - computational models which simulate human action ...
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Michael B. Katz
The"Underclass" Debate
Do ominous reports of an emerging "underclass" reveal an unprecedented crisis in American society? Or are social commentators simply rediscovering the tragedy of recurring urban poverty, as they seem to do every few decades? Although social scientists and members of the public make frequent assumpti...
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