Urban Behavior

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David Pijawka
Understanding Sustainable Cities: Concepts, Cases, and Solutions
Meeting fundamental human needs while preserving the life support systems of planet Earth will require a world-wide acceleration of today s halting progress in a transition toward sustainability. Understanding Sustainable Cities: Concepts, Cases, and Solutions presents a plethora of subject matters ...
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Kimberley Willis
Raising Chickens For Dummies
Your hands-on guide to modern chicken-raising methods Thinking about raising chickens? You've come to the right place! This new edition of Raising Chickens For Dummies provides the most up-to-date, thorough information on the many aspects of keeping chickens in your backyard. Inside, you'll find h...
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J. Wilson Kenney
Sexual Misconduct in Children: An Intervention Model That Works in Schools and Communities
Concerning sexual behavior in children can be challenging to understand, difficult to talk about, and hard to manage in school and community settings. Without a systematic best-practice approach for addressing these behaviors, communities run the risk of exposing their children to harm and their org...
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Gregory McNamee
In The Presence of Wolves
No animal has occupied so central a role in human culture as the wolf, Canis lupus, and for good reason: no animal is quite like our pretechnological selves. Thousands of years ago, before the rise of agriculture and urban civilization, wolves and our forebears lived as social animals in small, free...
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Whit Gibbons
Snakes of the Eastern United States (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
More than sixty species of snakes are found in the eastern United States, the region of highest biodiversity of all reptiles and amphibians in North America. In this brand new guide, stunning photographs, colorful geographic range maps, and comprehensive written accounts provide essential informatio...
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Yoram Shiftan
Preparing for the New Era of Transport Policies: Learning from Experience (Volume 1) (Advances in Transport Policy and Planning, Volume 1)
Advances in Transport Policy and Planning assesses both successful and unsuccessful practices and policies from around the world on the topic. This new release includes chapters that focus on An Empirical Investigation of the Reward Incentive and Trip Purposes on Departure Time Behavior Change, Pla...
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Moshe Ben-Akiva
Discrete Choice Analysis: Theory and Application to Travel Demand (Transportation Studies)
Discrete Choice Analysis presents these results in such a way that they are fully accessible to the range of students and professionals who are involved in modelling demand and consumer behavior in general or specifically in transportation - whether from the point of view of the design of transit s...
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Robert Bartholomew
A Colorful History of Popular Delusions
This eclectic history of unusual crowd behavior describes a rich assortment of mass phenomena ranging from the amusing and quirky to the shocking and deplorable. What do fads, crazes, manias, urban legends, moral panics, riots, stampedes, and other mass expressions of emotion have in common? By crea...
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Ronald L. Braithwaite
Health Issues Black Community 3e
Health Issues in the Black Community THIRD EDITION "The outstanding editors and authors of Health Issues in the Black Community have placed in clear perspective the challenges and opportunities we face in working to achieve the goal of health equity in America." —David Satcher, MD, PhD, 16th ...
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Kathleen Cushman
Fires in the Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from High School Students
Since its initial publication in hardcover in 2003, Fires in the Bathroom has been through multiple printings and received the attention of teachers across the country. Now in paperback, Kathleen Cushman's groundbreaking book offers original insights into teaching teenagers in today's hard-pressed...
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Sally A. Nuamah
Closed for Democracy
Every year, over 1,000 public schools are permanently closed across the United States. And yet, little is known about their impacts on American democracy. Closed for Democracy is the first book to systematically study the political causes and democratic consequences of mass public school closures i...
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Forrest Stuart
Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row
In his first year working in Los Angeles’s Skid Row, Forrest Stuart was stopped on the street by police fourteen times. Usually for doing little more than standing there. Juliette, a woman he met during that time, has been stopped by police well over one hundred times, arrested upward of sixty t...
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Elaine B. Sharp
Morality Politics in American Cities (Studies in Government and Public Policy)
Topless bars, casino gambling, needle exchange programs for drug addicts—there’s no question, morality issues remain front and center in urban politics. Presenting a systematic analysis of culture-war issues at the local level, Elaine Sharp shows how American cities deal with these ongoing conce...
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Robert Rosenfield
The Cooper's Hawk: breeding ecology and natural history of a winged huntsman
The Cooper’s Hawk presents the general reader and professional biologists interested in birds and nature, with an authoritative account of the breeding biology of the what is perhaps the most abundant, backyard breeding raptor in North America. This urban status exists despite cross-generational h...
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Melissa McCue-McGrath
Considerations for the City Dog
Melissa McCue-McGrath CPDT-KA, wrote this book in response to a dog nearly killing a 6'4" man and his German shepherd in her city. After that terrible incident and a decade of working with frustrated dogs in urban centers, she spoke with professionals in related dog industries. She consulted with ve...
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Louis Lefebvre
A Bird's IQ: Innovation, Intelligence, and Problem Solving in the Avian World
Discover the secret intelligence of birds, revealed by one of the world’s leading researchers in avian innovation. “This book is a gem, witty, entertaining, insightful, and deeply informative—a must-read for anyone interested in birds or brains.” JENNIFER ACKERMAN, New York Times bestselli...
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Alex Morgan
Transportation Strategies: Sustainable Transportation Strategies: sustainable transportation, green mobility, low carbon transport, eco-friendly ...
🌍 Sustainable Transportation Strategies – Pathways to a Greener Future 🌍 Are you ready to rethink how we move, commute, and connect — and make our world cleaner, smarter, and more sustainable? In a world increasingly impacted by climate change, rising fuel costs, and urban overcrowding, ...
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Jacob A. Sadavoy
A Scientific Framework for Compassion and Social Justice
A Scientific Framework for Compassion and Social Justice provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the behavior analytic principles that maintain social justice issues and highlights behavior analytic principles that promote self-awareness and compassion. Expanding on the goals of the fie...
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Thomas J. Main
Homelessness in New York City
Can American cities respond effectively to pressing social problems? Or, as many scholars have claimed, are urban politics so mired in stasis, gridlock and bureaucratic paralysis that dramatic policy change is impossible? Homelessness in New York City tells the remarkable story of how America’s la...
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Michael Batty
The Computable City: Histories, Technologies, Stories, Predictions
How computers simulate cities and how they are also being embedded in cities, changing our behavior and the way in which cities evolve. At every stage in the history of computers and communications, it is safe to say we have been unable to predict what happens next. When computers first appeared n...
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