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  Urban Economics and Policy - The...

  Lyric Vale

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  Cities are complex economic organisms, pulsing with intricate networks of human activity, capital flow, and systemic interactions that define our modern social landscapes. In the dynamic realm of urban economics, every street corner, housing development, and land transaction tells a story of economic forces, policy decisions, and human aspirations that collectively shape the growth, opportunity, and challenges of urban environments. This comprehensive exploration delves into the multifaceted world of Urban Economics, Housing and Urban Policy, and Urban Land Markets—revealing the sophisticated economic mechanisms that transform cities from mere geographical locations into vibrant, evolving economic ecosystems. 
  The narrative of urban economic development is a profound journey through the intersections of policy, market dynamics, and human potential. By examining the strategic frameworks that govern urban land use, housing accessibility, economic development, and spatial economic patterns, this book uncovers the hidden economic architectures that determine how cities grow, prosper, and respond to changing social and economic pressures. Readers will navigate through the complex terrain of urban economic theory and practice, exploring how local and national policies, real estate markets, infrastructure investments, and global economic trends interact to create the economic DNA of our urban environments. From understanding land valuation and housing affordability to analyzing the economic implications of urban design and development, this exploration offers a comprehensive lens into the economic forces that continually reshape our urban landscapes.

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  To Her Credit - Historic...

  Kaitlin Culmo, Emily McDermott

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  You may think you know the stories behind the world's most well-known, groundbreaking achievements, but To Her Credit is here to make you reevaluate our collective story. This book celebrates the stories of women, from ancient times until the 1990s, whose contributions have been overwritten and accredited to men. 
   
   
   
  The pattern of female achievements being stolen, overwritten, or straight-up ignored is as old as time. Authors Kaitlin Culmo and Emily McDermott reclaim the work of these heroines and offer reminders of what we lose when we don't question history as it has been written. 
   
   
   
  ● We're often told that Cervantes "invented fiction" with the novel Don Quixote in seventeenth-century Europe, but what about Lady Murasaki's The Tale of Genji in eleventh-century Japan? 
   
   
   
  ● Elvis Presley is considered "The King" and the inventor of rock and roll music. But what about Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who was the first to engineer the rock and roll sound, or Big Mama Thornton, for whom the song "Hound Dog" was explicitly written? 
   
   
    
  It's time to talk about the thousands of years' worth of art, inventions, innovations, and world-changing achievements made by women that have been ascribed to men.

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  A Walk into Nature

  Zia ur Rehman

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   ‘A Walk into Nature’ is a collection of poems based on the theme of nature and environment. 
  This book will inspire you to embrace the pleasure of natural wonders and the everlasting peace found in the 
  lap of nature. Away from the hustle and bustle of hectic city life, the serenity of the natural beauty of mountains and rivers invites us for quiet introspection and the search for the true meaning of happiness. 
  Love for nature can be nourished if we appreciate the things of beauty and observe the wonderful sky, clouds, mountains, rivers, flowers, and more with curiosity. The poems in this collection will serve the purpose of finding contentment in the true source of happiness, i.e. nature.

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  Enfleshing Freedom - Body Race...

  M. Shawn Copeland

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  The achievement of our humanity comes about only through immersion in concrete, visceral, embodied relational experience, yet for many human beings, that achievement is stamped by the struggle against oppression in history, society, and religion. In this incisive and important work, distinguished theologian M. Shawn Copeland demonstrates with rare insight and conviction how Black women's historical experience and oppression cast a completely different light on our theological ideas about being human. Copeland argues that race, embodiment, and relations of power reframe not only theological anthropology but also our notions of discipleship, church, Eucharist, and Christ. Enfleshing Freedom is a work of deep moral seriousness, rigorous speculative skill, and sharp theological reasoning. This new edition incorporates recent theological, philosophical, historical, political, and sociological scholarship; engages with current social movements like #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo; and presents a new chapter on the body.

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  Man: King of Mind Body and...

  James Allen

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  "The problem of life consists in learning how to live. It is like the problem of addition or subtraction to the school-boy. When mastered, all difficulty disappears, and the problem has vanished. All the problems of life, whether they be social, political, or religious, subsist in ignorance and wrong-living. As they are solved in the heart of each individual, they will be solved in the mass of men. Humanity at present is in the painful stage of “learning.” It is confronted with the difficulties of its own ignorance. As men learn to live rightly, learn to direct their forces and use their functions and faculties by the light of wisdom, the sum of life will be correctly done, and its mastery will put an end to all the “problems of evil.” To the wise, all such problems have ceased. " 
  In this short work, Allen explores the way in which our minds create and interact with our circumstances, travelling from the inner world of thoughts to the final conquest of the spirit. On the way he explores the way in which we create our own futures through the habits we choose, how bodily conditions are no excuse for spiritual weakness, and how true poverty is of the mind, not the circumstances.

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  The Making of Black Lives Matter...

  Christopher J. Lebron

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  Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and incendiary campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the United States. The movement is only a few years old, but as Christopher J. Lebron argues in this book, the sentiment behind it is not; the plea and demand that "Black Lives Matter" comes out of a much older and richer tradition arguing for the equal dignity—and not just equal rights—of black people. 
   
   
   
  In this updated edition, The Making of Black Lives Matter presents a condensed and accessible intellectual history of the #BlackLivesMatter movement and expands on the movement's relevancy. This edition includes a new introduction that explores how the movement's core ideas have been challenged, re-affirmed, and re-imagined during the white nationalism of the Trump years, as well as a new chapter that examines the ideas and importance of Angela Davis and Amiri Baraka as significant participants in the Black Power Movement and Black Arts Movement, respectively. Drawing on the work of Davis, Baraka, and other revolutionary black public intellectuals, Lebron clarifies what it means to assert that "Black Lives Matter" when faced with contemporary instances of anti-black law enforcement.

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