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Note: Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- THE OPEN UNIVERSITY COURSE TEAM -- Preface -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 What is a city? -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 IMAGES OF THE CITY -- 1.2 SO, WHAT IS A CITY? -- 2 From nature to metropolis (and back again) -- 2.1 CHI-GOUG BEFORE CHICAGO: LAND AND NATURE -- 2.2 THE MAKING OF CHICAGO: FROM MUD TO MOVEMENT -- 2.3 CHICAGO'S NATURE: THE CITY'S FOOTPRINT ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH -- 2.4 THE ENDS OF CHICAGO -- 2.5 COSMOPOLITAN CHICAGO -- 3 The intensity of city life: size, density and heterogeneity -- 3.1 THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE -- 3.2 THE DENSITY OF SETTLEMENT -- 3.3 THE HETEROGENEITY OF CITIES -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER 2 Worlds within cities -- 1 Introduction -- 2 City rhythms: the comings and goings of city life -- 2.1 A DAY IN THE LIFE… -- 2.2 SENSES OF RHYTHM -- 2.3 WHOSE RHYTHMS? -- 3 City environments: juxtapositions of feeling -- 3.1 BUILDINGS, MONUMENTS AND 'WILD' PLACES -- 3.2 CHARGED ENVIRONMENTS -- 4 City life: proximity and difference -- 4.1 CLOSED WORLDS AND HIGH WALLS -- 4.2 INDIFFERENT WORLDS AND DETACHED LIFESTYLES -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER 3 Cities in the world -- 1 Cities interlinked -- 1.1 THE SQUARE OF THE THREE CULTURES -- 1.2 A BIT OF HISTORY -- 1.3 REFLECTIONS -- 2 Megacities and global cities -- 2.1 SIZE AND POWER -- 2.2 IMPACTS AND FUTURES -- 2.2.1 What of cities' impact on the non-urban world? -- 2.2.2 Changing networks and changing fortunes -- 2.3 OTHER APPROACHES -- 3 The city without and within -- 3.1 DIVIDED CITIES -- 3.2 PROBLEMS IN THE CITY -- References -- READING 3A 'Negotiating the heart: place and identity in the post-imperial city' -- References -- CHAPTER 4 On space and the city -- 1 On the city -- 2 On space and the city -- 1 The city as specifically spatial -- 2 Spatial configurations as generative. , 3 The openness of the outcome -- 3 On some tensions of urban spatiality -- 4 And finally… -- REFERENCE -- READING 4A 'Exit from the city of destruction' -- Acknowledgements -- Index.

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Note: Intro -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Human Brain in Brief -- 3 Brain Size -- 4 The Functional Evolution of the Brain -- 5 The Plastic Brain -- 6 The Molecular Evolution of the Brain -- 7 The Evolution of Feeding Behavior -- 8 The Aging Brain -- 9 Language and Brain Evolution -- 10 Optimism and the Evolution of the Brain -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Note: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part I - A Caravan of Dreams -- The Music of the Spheres -- Synergia Ranch, Santa Fe -- Theater of All possibilities -- Legends of the Heraclitus -- East Meets West: the Vajra Hotel -- West Meets East: Art and Ecotechnics -- Ventures in Timber and Jazz -- Part II - Building Biosphere 2 -- Space Biospheres Ventures -- Biospherics -- The Biomes -- Engineering -- The interacting Subsystems -- Part III - Launching Biosphere 2 -- The Biospherians -- Rembrandt and Mona Lisa -- Pallenville -- Part IV - A Think of Beauty is a Joy Forever -- Mission One reveals a New World -- Murphy's Law and Finagle's Factor -- Mission One Victory -- Cherry Blossom Time -- My Dream -- Epilogue: A Sweet Blue Grape Under a Yellow Sun in a Green Garden -- Acknowledgements -- Photo Credits & -- Footnotes -- Bibliography.

Note: Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Keywords -- Reading Pathological Lives -- Part I: Framing Pathological Lives -- Chapter One: Pathological Lives - Disease, Space and Biopolitics -- Introduction: The Emergency of Emergent Infectious Diseases -- The Four Moves of Pathological Lives -- References -- Chapter Two: Biosecurity and the Diagramming of Disease -- Disease Diagrams -- The Disease Multiple: Germs and the Return of the Outside -- Biosecurity and the Diagramming of Disease -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter Three: Reconfiguring Disease Situations -- Disease Situations -- Microbial Life and Contagion as Difference and Repetition -- A Topological Disease Situation -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II: Disease Situations -- Chapter Four: 'Just‐in‐Time' Disease -- Factory‐Farmed Chicken and Food‐borne Disease -- Relational Economy of Disease -- Powers of Life -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter Five: The De‐Pasteurisation of England -- Birth of the Sty -- Pigs in Practice - Fieldwork and Translations -- Immunity, Attention and More‐than‐Human Responses -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter Six: Attending to Meat -- Introduction -- Mapping the Current Landscape of Food Safety -- A Failure of Coordination? -- Inspection as Tending the Tensions of Food Safety -- Being Stretched -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter Seven: A Surfeit of Disease -- The Media Background to Disease Publics -- Publicising Disease: From Public 'Understanding' to 'Engagement' -- Understanding and Engaging Disease Publics -- Understanding the Surfeit -- Conclusions: Making a Disease Public -- References -- Chapter Eight: Knowing Birds and Viruses - from Biopolitics to Cosmopolitics -- Sensing Life -- A Livelier Biopolitics and a Noisier Sentience. , A Perceptual Ecology of Knowing Birds -- Surveying Life -- Knowing Viruses -- The Significance of Observation -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter Nine: Conclusions - Living Pathological Lives -- Time‐Space and Intra‐Actions -- A livelier Politics of Life -- A new Kind of Emergency? -- References -- Index -- End User License Agreement.

Note: Front Cover -- Sedimentary Structures Their Character and Physical Basis -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME II -- CHAPTER 1. LONGITUDINAL BEDFORMS AND SECONDARY FLOWS -- Introduction -- General character and effects of secondary flows -- Causes of secondary flow -- Sand ribbons in aqueous currents -- Sand ribbons in aeolian environments -- Erosional grooves and ridges -- Longitudinal desert dunes -- Tidal current ridges -- Ridge-and- furrow moulds -- Wave-related furrows and ridges -- Wave-related gravel stripes -- Spur- and- groove -- Glacial flutings -- Trough banding in layered igneous rocks -- Summary -- CHAPTER 2. FREE MEANDERING CHANNELS AND LATERAL DEPOSITS -- Introduction -- Fluvial and tidal meanders -- Flow processes in meanders and channel bends -- Sedimentation processes in meanders and channel bends -- Lateral accretion structures and deposits -- Summary -- CHAPTER 3. AN OUTLINE OF FLOW SEPARATION -- Introduction -- Separation in internal and external flows -- Streamline mappings -- Rollers and vortices: closed and open separation -- Separation in two dimensions -- Axisymmetric flows -- Separation in three dimensions -- Pressure and stress in low-speed separated flows -- Vortex-production and turbulence in low-speed separated flows -- Flow separation at high speeds -- Axisymmetric turbulent jets -- Summary -- CHAPTER 4. SEDIMENTATION FROM JETS AND SEPARATED FLOWS -- Introduction -- Partical free falling velocity in the presence of turbulence -- Sedimentation from jets -- Sand volcanoes -- Sedimentation from separated flows with normal gravity -- Sedimentation in the far lee: shell-pebble lags and ripple fans -- Geometry and structure of lee-side deposits -- Summary -- CHAPTER 5. FLOW AROUND A BLUFF BODY: OBSTACLE MARKS -- Introduction -- General features of bluff-body flows. , Bluff bodies in planetary boundary layers -- General implications for sedimentation -- Controls on the character of obstacle marks -- Current crescents in aeolian environments -- Current crescents in aqueous environments -- Current shadows in aeolian environments -- Current shadows in aqueous environments -- Scour-remnant ridges -- Scour features in complex currents -- Summary -- CHAPTER 6. HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER: ICE DUNES, KARREN, AND RELATED FORMS -- Introduction -- Regimes and mechanisms of heat and mass transfer -- Controls on heat and mass transfer -- Heat and mass transfer in separated low-speed flows -- Heat and mass transfer in high-speed flows -- Instabilities accompanying mass or heat-with-mass transfer -- Classification of Kurren -- First-order Kurren -- Second-order Kurren -- Cockling -- Transverse Kurren and related forms -- Structures related to high-speed flow -- Summary -- CHAPTER 7. FLUTE MARKS, MUD RIPPLES, SICHEL WANNEN AND POTHOLES -- Introduction -- Flute marks -- Mud ripples -- Potholes -- Sichelwunnen -- Origin of flute marks -- Origin of mud ripples -- Origin of potholes -- Origin of Sichelwannen -- Summary -- CHAPTER 8. LIQUIDIZATION, LIQUIDIZED SEDIMENT, AND THE SEDIMENTATION OF DENSE PARTICLE DISPERSIONS -- Introduction -- Varieties of liquefaction -- Static liquefaction -- Dynamic and cyclic liquefaction -- Varieties of fluidization -- Stationary fluidization -- Bulk self-fluidization -- Grain self- fluidization -- Apparent viscosity of liquidized sediments -- Sedimentation -- Fluidization after liquefaction -- Summary -- CHAPTER 9. SOFT-SEDIMENT DEFORMATION STRUCTURES -- Introduction -- Kinematics and dynamics of soft-sediment deformation -- Classification of soft-sediment deformation structures -- Deformation structures related to gravitationally unstable vertical profiles of bulk density. , Deformation structures related to non-uniform confining loads -- Deformation structures related to a downslope body-force component -- Deformed cross-bedding related to fluid drag -- Summary -- CHAPTER 10. STRUCTURES AND SEQUENCES RELATED TO GRAVITY- CURRENT SURGES -- Introduction -- Dissipation of gravity-current surges -- Turbidites and the Bouma sequence -- Pyroclastic flow, ground surge and base surge deposits -- Summary -- CHAPTER 11. COASTAL SAND BARS AND RELATED STRUCTURES -- Introduction -- Morphology of the barred beach and nearby offshore -- Longshore bars and troughs -- Minor sedimentary structures associated with longshore bars and troughs -- Transverse bars -- Beach cusps -- Beach lamination -- Summary -- CHAPTER 12. STORM SEQUENCES IN SHALLOW WATER -- Introduction -- Two-dimensional steady models of wind effects -- Natural surges and wind-induced currents -- Complex models of wind effects -- Dependence of wind stress on wind speed -- A model of storm sedimentation in shallow waters -- Storm sand-layers in modern sedimentary environments -- Storm sand-layers in the stratigraphic record -- Summary -- CHAPTER 13. MISCELLANEOUS SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES -- Introduction -- Rill mark -- Tool marks -- Scratch circles -- Corrasion beneath the wind -- Swash and foam marks -- adhesion and rian-impact ripple marks -- Cavernous sand, sand holesm and sand domes -- Mud waves on the deep-ocean floor -- Shrinkage cracks -- Sheet-like sedimentary intrusions -- Ptygmatic folds in desiccation-crack infills and sedimentary dykes -- References -- SUBJECT INDEX (for Volumes I and II).

Note: Intro -- Dedication -- Preface -- Part I:The World of Geology -- Chapter 1: The Living, Changing Earth -- Chapter 2: Detecting the Clues of the Past -- Part II: The Bretz Saga -- Chapter 3: Early Days -- Chapter 4: Too Many Clues? -- Chapter 5: Scars With A Difference -- Chapter 6: The Unthinkable Heresy -- Chapter 7: Solving the Jigsaw Puzzle -- Chapter 8: The Great Controversy -- Chapter 9: The Revisionists: Allison, Hodge and Flint -- Chapter 10: Unsusual Currents -- Chapter 11: Vindication -- Part III: The Rest of the Story -- Chapter 12: Major Researchers Since Bretz -- Part IV: The Landscape Before and After the Missoula Floods -- Chapter 13: Setting the Stage for the Floods -- Chapter 14: Durring the Cataclysms and Immediately Afterward -- Chapter 15: After the Missoula Floods -- Part V: Following the Floods from Source to Sea -- Chapter 16: Glacial Lake Missoula and the Purcell Trench Ice-Dam -- Chapter 17: Rathdrum Prarie and Glacial Lake Columbia -- Chapter 18: The Channeled Scablands Grand Coulee and Moses Coulee -- Chapter 19: The Heart of the Channeled Scablands -- Chapter 20: Lake Lewis Basins -- Chapter 21: Walula Gap to the Dalles: Lake Condon -- Chapter 22: The Dalles to Portland: The Collumbia Gorge -- Chapter 23: The Portland-Vancouver Basin -- Chapter 24: The Willamette Valley South of Portland and the Tualatin Valley West of Portland -- Chapter 22: The Dalles to Portland: The Collumbia Gorge -- Part VI: Floods From an Even More Distant Past -- Chapter 26: Ancient Cataclysmic Floods -- Part VII: The Conclusion and the Future -- Chapter 27: The Conclusion, But Not the End -- Appendices -- Appendix A: Areas Covered by the Ephemeral Lakes -- Appendix B: Calculations of the Height of the Flood Crests -- Appendix C: Energies of Catastrophes -- Appendix D: For More Information -- About the Authors -- Credits -- Copyright Information.

Note: Intro -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Lost Geographies -- Part I Spatial Vocabularies of Power -- Chapter 2 Power in Things: Weber's Footnotes from the Centre -- Chapter 3 Power through Mobilization: From Mann's Networked Productions to Castells's Networked Fictions -- Chapter 4 Power as an Immanent Affair: Foucault and Deleuze's Topological Detail -- Part II Lost Geographies -- Chapter 5 Power in its Various Guises (and Disguises) -- Chapter 6 Proximity and Reach: Were there Powers at a Distance before Latour? -- Chapter 7 Placing Power, or the Mischief Done by Thinking that Domination is Everywhere -- Chapter 8 Conclusion: Misplaced Power -- Bibliography -- Index.