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The Humanities in City Planning

Culture, Uncertainty, and Visuality

By: Martin Krieger

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The Humanities in City Planning

Culture, Uncertainty, and Visuality

By: Martin Krieger

This book by preeminent planning theorist Martin H. Krieger explores how cities are much more than their economies, demographies, or geographies. Planning today is dominated by social science, but Kreiger takes a different approach, thinking of city planning in terms of Culture, Uncertainty, and Visuality. The chapters explore planners and their role as protagonist in the humanities of literature and history; the inevitability of uncertainty in planning and how to face it; and how to attend to the physical, visual, and aural environment of the city. Through a series of essays, Krieger shows that cities are cultural and meaningful, that they are contingent and so filled with opportunity, and that they are concrete, particular, and encountered. The Humanities in City Planning will be of interest to students and scholars of the humanities and planning looking for alternative ways of viewing the city.

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1040159788

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Doing Mathematics: Convention, Subject, Calculation, Analogy (2nd Edition)

By: Martin H Krieger

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Doing Mathematics: Convention, Subject, Calculation, Analogy (2nd Edition)

By: Martin H Krieger

Doing Mathematics discusses some ways mathematicians and mathematical physicists do their work and the subject matters they uncover and fashion. The conventions they adopt, the subject areas they delimit, what they can prove and calculate about the physical world, and the analogies they discover and employ, all depend on the mathematics — what will work out and what won't. The cases studied include the central limit theorem of statistics, the sound of the shape of a drum, the connections between algebra and topology, and the series of rigorous proofs of the stability of matter. The many and varied solutions to the two-dimensional Ising model of ferromagnetism make sense as a whole when they are seen in an analogy developed by Richard Dedekind in the 1880s to algebraicize Riemann's function theory; by Robert Langlands' program in number theory and representation theory; and, by the analogy between one-dimensional quantum mechanics and two-dimensional classical statistical mechanics. In effect, we begin to see 'an identity in a manifold presentation of profiles,' as the phenomenologists would say.This second edition deepens the particular examples; it describe the practical role of mathematical rigor; it suggests what might be a mathematician's philosophy of mathematics; and, it shows how an 'ugly' first proof or derivation embodies essential features, only to be appreciated after many subsequent proofs. Natural scientists and mathematicians trade physical models and abstract objects, remaking them to suit their needs, discovering new roles for them as in the recent case of the Painlevé transcendents, the Tracy-Widom distribution, and Toeplitz determinants. And mathematics has provided the models and analogies, the ordinary language, for describing the everyday world, the structure of cities, or God's infinitude.

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World Scientific

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9814571865

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9789814571869

Constitutions of Matter

Mathematically Modeling the Most Everyday of Physical Phenomena

By: Martin H. Krieger

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Constitutions of Matter

Mathematically Modeling the Most Everyday of Physical Phenomena

By: Martin H. Krieger

Krieger's lucid discussions will help students of physics and applied mathematics appreciate the larger physical issues behind the mathematical details of modern physics. Historians and philosophers of science will gain deeper insights into how theoretical physicists do science, while technically advanced general readers will get a rare, behind-the-scenes glimpse into the world of modern physics.

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372

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University of Chicago Press

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0226453057

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9780226453057

Lawyering from the Inside Out

Learning Professional Development Through Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence

By: Nathalie Martin,Joshua Alt,Kendall Kerew,Jennifer L. Laws

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Lawyering from the Inside Out

Learning Professional Development Through Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence

By: Nathalie Martin,Joshua Alt,Kendall Kerew,Jennifer L. Laws

Through mindfulness and emotional intelligence, lawyers can improve focus, productivity, interpersonal skills, and find greater meaning in life.

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1107147476

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Thriving Professor, The: A Guide To A Career In Universities And Colleges

By: Martin H Krieger

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Thriving Professor, The: A Guide To A Career In Universities And Colleges

By: Martin H Krieger

In this book, Martin Krieger provides a detailed and practical guide for readers who wish to become more effective scholars, teachers, and administrators. The Thriving Professor dispenses usable insights that smooth the passages through promotion and tenure, and enable the scholar to write and publish more effectively as well as to avoid traps along the way.This work is helpful to those manoeuvring through academic difficulties. It offers essential advice to professors at every stage in their careers to move forward, and takes much of the myth out of the academic life. The Thriving Professor is the friendly mentor everyone wishes for. Krieger says out loud what others hint at, and is non-judgmental.

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World Scientific

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981323752X

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Golden Growth

Restoring the Lustre of the European Economic Model

By: Indermit S. Gill,Martin Raiser

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Golden Growth

Restoring the Lustre of the European Economic Model

By: Indermit S. Gill,Martin Raiser

The public debt crisis in Europe has shaken the confidence not just in the Euro, but in the European model. Aging and uneconomical Europeans are being squeezed between innovative Americans and efficient Asians, it is said. With debt and demographics dragging down them down, one hears that European economies will not grow much unless radically new ways are discovered. The end of complacency in Europe is a good thing, but this loss of confidence could be dangerous. The danger is that in a rush to rejuvenate growth, the attractive attributes of the European development model could be abandoned along with the weak. In fact, the European growth model has many strong points and enviable accomplishments. One can say without exaggeration that Europe had invented a convergence machine , taking in poor countries and helping them become high income economies. World Bank research has identified 27 countries that have grown from middle-income to high income since 1987: a few thanks to the discovery and exploitation of massive natural resources (e.g.: oil in Oman and Trinidad and Tobago), several others like Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea, embracing aggressive export-led strategies which involved working and saving a lot, postponing political liberties, and looking out only for themselves. But half of the countries that have grown from middle income to high income Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, and Slovenia are actually in Europe. This is why the European model was so attractive and unique, and why with some well designed efforts it ought to be made right again.

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World Bank Publications

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0821389661

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Empowerment and Innovation

Managers, Principles and Reflective Practice

By: Martin Beirne

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Empowerment and Innovation

Managers, Principles and Reflective Practice

By: Martin Beirne

Employee empowerment is one of the most widely touted and potentially potent concepts in modern management. It raises fundamental questions about the nature and scope of management and organisation, and about the respective roles and responsibilities of front line practitioners. The terms for a viable collaboration between employers, managers and employees also come under scrutiny.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1782541659

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Urban Tomographies

By: Martin H. Krieger

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Urban Tomographies

By: Martin H. Krieger

Tomography is a method of exploring a phenomenon through a large number of examples or perspectives. In medical tomography, such as a CAT scan, two-dimensional slices or images of a three-dimensional organ are used to envision the organ itself. Urban tomography applies the same approach to the study of city life. To appreciate different aspects of a community, from infrastructure to work to worship, urban planning expert Martin H. Krieger scans the myriad sights and sounds of contemporary Los Angeles. He examines these slices of life in Urban Tomographies. The book begins by introducing tomographic methods and the principles behind them, which are taken from phenomenological philosophy. It draws from the examples of Lee Friedlander and Walker Evans, as well as Denis Diderot, Charles Marville, and Eugène Atget, who documented the many facets of Paris life in three crucial periods. Rather than focus on singular, extraordinary figures and events as do most documentarians, Krieger looks instead at the typical, presenting multiple specific images that call attention to people and activities usually rendered invisible by commonality. He took tens of thousands of photographs of industrial sites, markets, electrical distributing stations, and storefront churches throughout Los Angeles. He also recorded the city's ambient sounds, from the calls of a tamale vendor to the buzz of a workshop saw. Krieger considers these samples from the urban sensorium in this innovative volume, resulting in a thoughtful illumination of the interplay of people with and within the built environment. With numerous maps and photographs, as well as Krieger's unique insights, Urban Tomographies provides an unusually representative and rounded view of the city.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812204948

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9780812204940

The Scholar's Survival Manual

A Road Map for Students, Faculty, and Administrators

By: Martin H. Krieger

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The Scholar's Survival Manual

A Road Map for Students, Faculty, and Administrators

By: Martin H. Krieger

The product of a lifetime of experience in American universities, The Scholar's Survival Manual offers advice for students, professors, and administrators on how to get work done, the path to becoming a professor, getting tenured, and making visible contributions to scholarship, as well as serving on promotion and tenure committees. Martin H. Krieger covers a broad cross section of the academic experience from a graduate student's first foray into the job market through retirement. Because advice is notoriously difficult to take and context matters a great deal, Krieger has allowed his ideas to percolate through dozens of discussions. Some of the advice is instrumental, matters of expediency; some demands our highest aspirations. Readers may open the book at any place and begin reading; for the more systematic there is a detailed table of contents. Krieger's tone is direct, an approach born of the knowledge that students and professors too often ignore suggestions that would have prevented them from becoming academic roadkill. This essential book will help readers sidestep a similar fate.

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Indiana University Press

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0253010713

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9780253010711

The Humanities in City Planning

Culture, Uncertainty, and Visuality

By: Martin Krieger

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Culture, Uncertainty, and Visuality

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Doing Physics, Second Edition

How Physicists Take Hold of the World

By: Martin H. Krieger

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Doing Physics, Second Edition

How Physicists Take Hold of the World

By: Martin H. Krieger

Doing Physics makes concepts of physics easier to grasp by relating them to everyday knowledge. Addressing some of the models and metaphors that physicists use to explain the physical world, Martin H. Krieger describes the conceptual world of physics by means of analogies to economics, anthropology, theater, carpentry, mechanisms such as clockworks, and machine tool design. The interaction of elementary particles or chemical species, for example, can be related to the theory of kinship—who can marry whom is like what can interact with what. Likewise, the description of physical situations in terms of interdependent particles and fields is analogous to the design of a factory with its division of labor among specialists. For the new edition, Krieger has revised the text and added a chapter on the role of mathematics and formal models in physics. Doing Physics will be of special interest to economists, political theorists, anthropologists, and sociologists as well as philosophers of science.

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0253006074

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Marginalism and Discontinuity

Tools for the Crafts of Knowledge and Decision

By: Martin H. Krieger

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Marginalism and Discontinuity

Tools for the Crafts of Knowledge and Decision

By: Martin H. Krieger

Marginalism and Discontinuity is an account of the culture of models employed in the natural and social sciences, showing how such models are instruments for getting hold of the world, tools for the crafts of knowing and deciding. Like other tools, these models are interpretable cultural objects, objects that embody traditional themes of smoothness and discontinuity, exchange and incommensurability, parts and wholes. Martin Krieger interprets the calculus and neoclassical economics, for example, as tools for adding up a smoothed world, a world of marginal changes identified by those tools. In contrast, other models suggest that economies might be sticky and ratchety or perverted and fetishistic. There are as well models that posit discontinuity or discreteness. In every city, for example, some location has been marked as distinctive and optimal; around this created differentiation, a city center and a city periphery eventually develop. Sometimes more than one model is applicable—the possibility of doom may be seen both as the consequence of a series of mundane events and as a transcendent moment. We might model big decisions or entrepreneurial endeavors as sums of several marginal decisions, or as sudden, marked transitions, changes of state like freezing or religious conversion. Once we take models and theory as tools, we find that analogy is destiny. Our experiences make sense because of the analogies or tools used to interpret them, and our intellectual disciplines are justified and made meaningful through the employment of characteristic toolkits—a physicist's toolkit, for example, is equipped with a certain set of mathematical and rhetorical models. Marginalism and Discontinuity offers a provocative and wide-ranging consideration of the technologies by which we attempt to apprehend the world. It will appeal to social and natural scientists, mathematicians and philosophers, and thoughtful educators, policymakers, and planners.

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Russell Sage Foundation

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1610443403

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Urban Tomographies

By: Martin H. Krieger

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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Advanced Therapy of Prostate Disease

By: Martin I. Resnick,Ian Murchie Thompson

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Advanced Therapy of Prostate Disease

By: Martin I. Resnick,Ian Murchie Thompson

Advanced Therapy of Prostate Disease, from the inital to post-surgical psychological concerns, this book is a complete guide to every step of prostate disease treatment. First, it describes the physical exam in detail, as well as laboratory and imaging techniques that can confirm a diagnosis. Then, the pros and cons of treatment methods for every type and variation of prostate cancer and benign conditions are discussed. Post-surgical treatment (including behavioral issues) is also outlined.

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PMPH-USA

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1550091026

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The Scholar's Survival Manual

A Road Map for Students, Faculty, and Administrators

By: Martin H. Krieger

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The Humanities in City Planning

The Humanities in City Planning

Doing Mathematics: Convention, Subject, Calculation, Analogy (2nd Edition)

Doing Mathematics: Convention, Subject, Calculation, Analogy (2nd Edition)

Constitutions of Matter

Constitutions of Matter

Lawyering from the Inside Out

Lawyering from the Inside Out

Thriving Professor, The: A Guide To A Career In Universities And Colleges

Thriving Professor, The: A Guide To A Career In Universities And Colleges

Golden Growth

Golden Growth

Empowerment and Innovation

Empowerment and Innovation

Urban Tomographies

Urban Tomographies

The Scholar's Survival Manual

The Scholar's Survival Manual

The Humanities in City Planning

The Humanities in City Planning

Doing Physics, Second Edition

Doing Physics, Second Edition

Marginalism and Discontinuity

Marginalism and Discontinuity

Urban Tomographies

Urban Tomographies

Advanced Therapy of Prostate Disease

Advanced Therapy of Prostate Disease

The Scholar's Survival Manual

The Scholar's Survival Manual

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