Routledge december 2002 (9 risultati)

Paper Back. Condizione: Used.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Used - Very Good. Urban Futures brings together commentaries from a wide range of contemporary disciplines and fields relevant to urban culture, form and society. The book concerns cities in the broadest sense, not just as buildings and spaces, but also as processes and events or sites of occupation, in which meanings are constructed in many ways. The contributors draw on their specialist areas of research to inform current debate, but they also speculate as to how cities will be shaped in the 21st century.Specific areas of research include homeless people's organisations and restoration ecology in brownfield sites in the USA, post-industrial urban landscapes, post-industrial economics, tourism and cultural planning. The book allows each writer to state their own conclusions, but together they suggest that tomorrow's cities will, while remaining locations of difference and contestation, be rapidly evolving systems in which dwellers assume increasing responsibilities and power. Used copy with some weawr to front and back cover.…

Unknown. Condizione: Used - Good. Good paperback, has underlining and highlighting.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Used Good.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: VG. used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

Hardcover. Condizione: New.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: New.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paper Back. Condizione: New. To many, the academic classification of ''near-death studies'' may not seem a viable or trustworthy pursuit (this reviewer was wary herself), but if we are to candidly engage the entirety of human being, such neglect is irresponsible and short-sighted. Philosophy and religion professor Mark Fox goes as far to say that reports of many near-death experiences (commonly referred to as NDEs) may well ''demand a response which goes to the very heart of the West's understanding of what it is to be human, and what it is for human beings to die.'' His intention is to create a junction at which the various tracks of study on the subject made by neuro-scientists, theologians, social scientists and near-death researchers can dialogue their particular findings -- incorporating their insights and creating a shared avenue for future study. Fox forthrightly reviews and engages the radically divergent views of writers ranging from NDE researchers Raymond Moody and Kenneth Ring to Orthodox theologian Seraphim Rose and Catholic scholar Carol Zaleski. He's especially interested in widening the theological implications of NDEs in regard to our ideas about death, and he isn't afraid to ask tough questions (such as how the experience of the ''self'' leaving the body can be ''reconciled to the Christian belief that life after death comes by way of a final bodily resurrection''). If we follow such experiences to their logical end, death might be seen as gain in the way it expands and deepens our understanding of life.…