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"China's Greater Bay Area (GBA) - previously referred to as the Pearl River Delta - is one of the world's largest megacity regions, and China's foremost technological, economic, social and cultural node. Patchell integrates agglomeration concepts with the GBA's conditions to explain the region's rise, innovativeness, and resilience. He reveals how the GBA works as differentiated and semi-interdependent systems, providing a window into the GBA and China, while also providing the basis for a comparative approach to megacities and mega regions. Key topics discussed in the book include: - the early development of the GBA, its mix of indigenous and exogenous investments and expertise, and the forces that compelled its upgrading from process manufacturing - the regional strengths in clusters, transportation networks, and the regional innovation system - the role of multi-level governance in balancing national directives, municipal autonomy and regional complementarities - consequences of the GBA's agglomeration for social structure and mobility, communities, sustainable development and resilience for the future. Written in an accessible and rigorous manner, this textbook is ideal for a course on this important region, for comparative courses on agglomeration and largescale urban development, and for people wanting greater understanding of urban processes and China"--

"No other investigation across his entire FBI career would ever match the level of intensity, excitement, suspense, and drama of operation "Paesan Blues"-this book is the inside look at that undercover investigation centered on an Italian mafioso and his associates in Miami and Italy"--

In 1854, traveling was full of danger. Omnibus accidents were commonplace. Pedestrians were regularly attacked by the Five Points' gangs. Rival police forces watched and argued over who should help. Pickpockets, drunks and kidnappers were all part of the daily street scene in old New York. Yet somehow, they endured and transformed a trading post into the Empire City. None of this was on Elizabeth Jennings's mind as she climbed the platform onto the Chatham Street horsecar. But her destination and that of the country took a sudden turn when the conductor told her to wait for the next car because it had "her people" in it. When she refused to step off the bus, she was assaulted by the conductor who was aided by a NY police officer. On February 22, 1855, Elizabeth Jennings v. Third Avenue Rail Road case was settled. Seeking $500 in damages, the jury stunned the courtroom with a $250 verdict in Lizzie's favor. Future US president Chester A. Arthur was Jennings attorney and their lives would be forever onward intertwined. This is the story of what happened that day. It's also the story of Jennings and Arthur's families, the struggle for equality, and race relations. It's the history of America at its most despicable and most exhilarating. Yet few historians know of Elizabeth Jennings or the impact she had on desegregating public transit

"Christianity is often viewed in Asia as a Western imposition. Challenging this, Dr. Jerry Hwang examines the Old Testament's cultural engagement of its ancient Near Eastern context, arguing that Scripture itself provides the ultimate model for contextualizing theology in Asia. While it is common for missiological studies to ignore the Old Testament in their discussion of contextualization, truly biblical contextualization must include the whole Bible, not simply the New Testament. This study provides insightful discourse between the Old Testament and various Asian contexts, while demonstrating how Asian perspectives can help overcome the Eurocentrism prevalent in Old Testament scholarship."--Back cover

1865: Prisoners on the Mississippi -- 1879: Scotland's Tay Railway Bridge -- 1906: Harriman fights the Colorado -- 1928: Mulholland's St. Francis Dam -- 1935: The over-sea railroad -- 1939: Death in the desert -- 1940: The Tacoma Narrows Bridge -- 1963: Italy's Vajont Dam.

Ah-di-so-kay anishinabeg (Storytellers) -- Maaitaa (Prologue) -- Nitam igo (Introduction) -- Gah-o-mah-mah-wahn-dah-wi-zid gah-ki-nah-gay-goo ji-gi-kayn-dah-so aki (A prophet is someone who has a completed view of the world : he/she imagines a world that doesn't exist, sees things as they are and asks why, or he/she might dream things that never were and say why not) -- Obwandiac (The Man Who Travelled and Stopped at Many Places) -- Tecumtha (He Walked Across) -- Shingwauk (The White Pine, Boss of All the Trees, because it shares its power with the sun and moon) -- N'swi-ish-ko-day-kawn Anishinabeg O'dish-ko-day-kawn (Our Hearts Are As One Fire) -- Meegwetch bi-zhin-dah-wi-yeg (Thank you for listening to me) -- Wayekwaase (It is finished)

The charge. Rome on trial -- The evidence. Nero's mugging and other violent crime; From petty theft to grand larceny; Frauds, fakes and imperial corruption; The politics of terror; Crimes against the Gods; Sex, drink and gluttony: crimes against morality; War crimes; A reformed character? Crime and the Christian Empire -- The verdict. Rome: guilty or not guilty?