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Transparent Urban Development

Building Sustainability Amid Speculation in Phoenix

By: Benjamin W. Stanley

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Transparent Urban Development

Building Sustainability Amid Speculation in Phoenix

By: Benjamin W. Stanley

This book studies both the tangible benefits and substantial barriers to sustainable development in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. Utilizing mixed research methods to probe downtown Phoenix’s political economy of development, this study illustrates how non-local property ownership and land speculation negatively impacted a concerted public-private effort to encourage infill construction on vacant land. The book elaborates urban sustainability not only as a set of ecological and design prescriptions, but as a field needing increased engagement with the growth-based impetus, structural economic forces, and political details behind American urban land policy. Demonstrating how land use policies evolved in relation to Phoenix’s historical dependence on outside investment, and are now interwoven across jurisdictional scales, the book concludes by identifying policy intervention points to increase the sustainability of Phoenix’s development trajectory.

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306

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Springer

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3319589105

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9783319589107

Political Advocacy and American Politics

Why People Fight So Often About Politics

By: Sean Richey,J. Benjamin Taylor

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Political Advocacy and American Politics

Why People Fight So Often About Politics

By: Sean Richey,J. Benjamin Taylor

Political Advocacy and American Politics provides a detailed explanation as to why citizens engage in interpersonal advocacy in the United States. Sean Richey and J. Benjamin Taylor eloquently show how the campaigns, social media, and personality and partisanship affect one's propensity for candidates, which often leads to arguments about politics. Using original qualitative, survey, and experimental studies, Richey and Taylor demonstrate the causes of political advocacy over time in the political environment and at the individual level. While some worry about the incivility in American politics, Richey and Taylor argue political talk, where conflict is common, is caused by high-activity democratic processes and normatively beneficial individual attributes. Furthermore, Richey and Taylor argue that advocacy—when conceptualized as a democratic "release valve"—is exactly the kind of conflict we might expect in a vibrant democracy. Political Advocacy and American Politics: Why People Fight So Often About Politics is ideal for university students and researchers, yet it is also accessible to any reader looking to learn more about the role campaigns and personal attributes play in the decision to advocate.

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148

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Routledge

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1000244628

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9781000244625

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin

January 21 Through May 15, 1783

By: Benjamin Franklin

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The Papers of Benjamin Franklin

January 21 Through May 15, 1783

By: Benjamin Franklin

In the four months following the January 20, 1783, armistice that ended the War for American Independence, Franklin was remarkably energetic as he helped oversee the transition to peace and waged a multifaceted campaign to publicize the ideals of the new nation. Though political turmoil in Britain delayed negotiations for the definitive peace treaty, Franklin deftly negotiated America's first commercial treaty with a neutral nation, Sweden, which was signed in secret. He distributed his richly symbolic Libertas Americana medal, worked toward the publication of his French edition of the American state constitutions, and fielded scores of letters from people all over Europe who sought to emigrate, to establish trade connections with the United States, to become consuls, and to offer congratulations and advice.

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753

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Yale University Press

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0300134487

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9780300134483

An Apology for African Methodism

By: Benjamin Tucker Tanner

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An Apology for African Methodism

By: Benjamin Tucker Tanner

Benjamin Tucker Tanner played an important role in the rise of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in the Southern States. In this volume he not only offers a history of the chruch and its progress, but also a theological defence against all criticism the church had received in the years of the author. In addition to these valuable insights Tanner also draws biographical sketches of the most important officials of this church.

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Jazzybee Verlag

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3849643808

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9783849643805

Don't Stop Thinking About the Music

The Politics of Songs and Musicians in Presidential Campaigns

By: Benjamin S. Schoening,Eric T. Kasper

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Don't Stop Thinking About the Music

The Politics of Songs and Musicians in Presidential Campaigns

By: Benjamin S. Schoening,Eric T. Kasper

In this insightful, erudite history of presidential campaign music, musicologist Benjamin Schoening and political scientist Eric Kasper explain how politicians use music in American presidential campaigns to convey a range of political messages. From “Follow Washington” to “I Like Ike” to “I Got a Crush on Obama,” they describe the ways that song use by and for presidential candidates has evolved, including the addition of lyrics to familiar songs, the current trend of using existing popular music to connect with voters, and the rapid change of music’s relationship to presidential campaigns due to Internet sites like YouTube, JibJab, and Facebook. Readers are ultimately treated to an entertaining account of American political development through popular music and the complex, two-way relationship between music and presidential campaigns.

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313

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Lexington Books

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0739172999

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9780739172995

An Elementary Treatise on the Integral Calculus

By: Benjamin Williamson

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An Elementary Treatise on the Integral Calculus

By: Benjamin Williamson

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385559855

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9783385559851

Book's by Benjamin W. Roberts

Transparent Urban Development

Transparent Urban Development

Political Advocacy and American Politics

Political Advocacy and American Politics

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin

An Apology for African Methodism

An Apology for African Methodism

Don't Stop Thinking About the Music

Don't Stop Thinking About the Music

An Elementary Treatise on the Integral Calculus

An Elementary Treatise on the Integral Calculus

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