Cities and Towns, Urban Policy, City Planning

Cities of the World: World Regional Urban Development (Harper & Row Series in Geography)

Politics & Social Sciences

WILLIAMS, JACK

Brunn, Stanley D.

Social Sciences

HarperCollins, Publishers

The Internal Market Act 2020 provides the foundation for freedom of trade within the UK following Brexit. The Act is a central element of the UK's constitutional infrastructure. By enabling goods and services that are lawfully made or sold in one of the UK's four constituent parts to bemarketed and sold across the rest of the UK, the Act exerts a practical brake on regulatory divergence, because higher regulatory standards imposed by legislation in one part of the UK may have little practical effect unless these standards are also adopted in the UK's other three constituent parts.The Act will therefore be a strong force compelling cooperation between the four legislatures' regulatory standards and will be a powerful tool for lawyers challenging regulatory rules. As well as impacting almost every area of business and trade, the Act also touches the lives of individuals andprovides the UK Government with powers to fund economic and cultural activities on a UK wide basis despite the devolution settlement.This Blackstone's Guide explores the Act's provisions in a succinct and practical manner, supported by worked examples and comparative insights from EU internal market and competition law.

Blackstone's Guide to the UK Internal Market Act 2020 (Blackstone's Guides)

Peretz, George

Bates, Alan

McGurk, Brendan

Oxford University Press

America has some of the most varied and dynamic weather in the world. Every year, the Gulf Coast is battered by hurricanes, the Great Plains are ravaged by tornados, the Midwest is pummeled by blizzards, and the temperature in the Southwest reaches a sweltering 120 degrees. Extreme weather can be a matter of life and death, but even when it is pleasant—72 degrees and sunny—weather is still central to the lives of all Americans. Indeed, it’s hard to imagine a topic of greater collective interest. Whether we want to know if we should close the storm shutters or just carry an umbrella to work, we turn to forecasts. But few of us really understand the science behind them.
All that changes with The AMS Weather Book. The most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to our weather and our atmosphere, it is the ultimate resource for anyone who wants to understand how hurricanes form, why tornados twirl, or even why the sky is cerulean blue. Written by esteemed science journalist and former USA Today weather editor Jack Williams, The AMS Weather Book, copublished with the American Meteorological Society, covers everything from daily weather patterns, air pollution, and global warming to the stories of people coping with severe weather and those who devote their lives to understanding the atmosphere, oceans, and climate. Words alone, of course, are not adequate to explain many meteorological concepts, so The AMS Weather Book is filled with engaging full-color graphics that explain such concepts as why winds blow in a particular direction, how Doppler weather radar works, what happens inside hurricanes, how clouds create wind and snow, and what’s really affecting the earth’s climate.
For Weather Channel junkies, amateur meteorologists, and storm chasers alike, The AMS Weather Book is an invaluable tool for anyone who wants to better understand how weather works and how it affects our lives.

The AMS Weather Book: The Ultimate Guide to America's Weather

Reference

University of Chicago Press

The ultimate guide to the ultimate storms, Hurricane Watch is a fascinating blend of science and history from one of the world's foremost meteorologists and an award-winning science journalist. This in-depth look at these awe-inspiring acts of nature covers everything from the earliest efforts by seafarers at predicting storms to the way satellite imaging is revolutionizing hurricane forecasting. It reveals the latest information on hurricanes: their effects on ocean waves, the causes of the variable wind speeds in different parts of the storm, and the origins of the super-cooled shafts of water that vent at high altitudes. Hurricane Watch is a compelling history of man's relationship with the deadliest storms on earth. Includes: - The story of the nineteenth-century Cuban Jesuit whose success at predicting the great cyclones was considered almost mystical. - A new look at Isaac Cline, whose infamous failure to predict the Galveston Hurricane left him obsessed with the devastating effects of storm surge. - The story of the Hurricane Hunters, including the first man ever to deliberately fly into a hurricane. - A complete account of how computer modeling has changed hurricane tracking. - A history of Project Stormfury: the only significant, organized effort to reduce the damaging strength of severe hurricanes. - A unique firsthand account of Hurricane Andrew by both authors, who were at the National Hurricane Center when Andrew struck. - A listing of the deadliest storms in history.

Hurricane Watch: Forecasting the Deadliest Storms on Earth

Business & Money

Sheets, Bob

Economics

Vintage

Sport and the English, 1918-1939: Between the Wars

A thorough, innovative yet entertaining and readable analysis of sport as an expression of the values and social relations of a nation. Covering the years between the two World Wars, the central place of sport in English life is brought into sharp focus, providing insight into issues of gender, class, religion and locality, ideas of morality, continuity and change, and what it meant to be English during this pivotal time. Themes include: <ul>
<li>the nature of sport and its place in national life </li> <li>how sport was portrayed in the media and through the sports stars of the age </li> <li>tradition and change in sport and in society </li> <li>gaining meaning from sport: the pursuit of pleasure, a moral code, and ideas of Englishness </li> <li>class, social conflict and social cohesion.</li>
</ul>
This original and lucid study is ideal for students of sport and social history, and anyone with an interest in the social role of sport.

History

Huggins, Mike

Europe

Routledge

Containing original exercises and language tasks for all learners of Japanese the book is divided into two sections. These cover essential grammatical structures and their everyday use in making introductions, apologizing and expressing needs.  The main features include:  use of kanji, kana, transliteration and English translations throughout exercises graded on a three-point scale according to their level of difficulty cross-referenced exercises to Modern Japanese Grammar a comprehensive answer key an accompanying website with supplementary exercises topical activities to develop vocabulary. Modern Japanese Grammar Workbook is ideal for all learners of Japanese from beginner and intermediate to advanced students. It can be used both independently and alongside the Modern Japanese Grammar.

Sport and the English, 1918-1939: Between the Wars (Modern Grammar Workbooks)

Taiwan's Environmental Struggle (Routledge Contemporary Asia Series)

Taiwan experienced a highly successful economic transformation in the last 50 years that produced one of Asia’s genuine ‘miracles’ of modern development, in terms of improvement in per capita income and overall quality of material well being for its citizens. The process, though, involved rapid industrialization and urbanization, and breakneck mass consumption, that inevitably resulted in rapid escalation in degradation of the island’s fragile air, water, and land, and produced some of the worst environmental pollution to be found anywhere in Asia This book examines the causes of Taiwan's environmental predicament, engaging in Taiwan's unique geological, geographical, demographical, political, industrial, historical and economic circumstances. In addition, Jack Williams and Ch'ang-yi David Chang assess the efforts of the government, NGOs and private citizens to create a "green" environmentally sustainable island, with a high tech economy based on the silicon chip, the backbone of Taiwan’s highly successful IT industry. Finally the authors discuss what can be done to improve Taiwan's environmental future. As the first commercially available book in English on Taiwan’s environmental problems this is an invaluable read for students and scholars interested in environmental studies, sustainable development and the island of Taiwan.

Taiwan's Environmental Struggle: Toward a Green Silicon Island (Routledge Contemporary Asia Series)

Chang, Ch’ang-yi David

The Question: A Guide to Answering Life's MOST Important Question

Management & Leadership

Publisher Services

From the author of The USA Today Weather Book comes this comprehensive guide to America's weather. Utilizing the resources and statistics of the nation's most comprehensive weather page, it features a detailed look at the USA's weather of the last 18 months and climatic information on over 200 American and 50 foreign cities. 2-color charts.

USA Today Weather Almanac

Science & Math

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