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In this psychologically gripping memoir, Blake Allmendinger returns to his childhood home after a forty-year absence. His homecoming to the struggling farming community of Rocky Ford, Colorado, formerly known as the Melon Capital of the World, forces the author to confront his own sad and disturbing history, one that parallels his hometown s decline.

Allmendinger s family was dominated by his emotionally and mentally unstable mother, who became depressed while living in Rocky Ford as a young woman. For the rest of her life she abused the members of her family, creating tensions...

Neoliberal Spatial Governance explores the changing nature of English town and city planning as it has slowly but clearly transformed. Once a system for regulating and balancing change in the built and natural environments in the public interest, planning now finds itself facilitating development and economic growth for narrow, sectional interests.

Whilst there is a lip service towards traditional values, the progressive aims and inclusivity that provided planning s legitimacy and broad support have now largely disappeared. The result is a growing backlash of distrust and discontent as...

Following the Thatcher and Major administrations there was an apparent renaissance of planning under New Labour. After a slow start in which Labour's view of planning owed more to a neo-liberal, rolled back state model reminiscent of the New Right the Government began to appreciate that many of its wider objectives including economic development, climate change, democratic renewal, social justice and housing affordability intersected with and were critically dependent upon the planning system.

A wide range of initiatives, management processes, governance vehicles and policy...

In August 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner led a bloody uprising that took the lives of some fifty-five white people--men, women, and children--shocking the South. Nearly as many black people, all told, perished in the rebellion and its aftermath. Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County presents important new evidence about the violence and the community in which it took place, shedding light on the insurgents and victims and reinterpreting the most important account of that event, The Confessions of Nat Turner. Drawing upon largely untapped sources,...

Mathematiklernen wird von Schulerinnen und Schulern in der Schule und angehenden Lehrerinnen und Lehrern an der Universitat haufig als wenig verstehensorientiert erlebt. Das Beherrschen von Verfahren und Techniken steht im Vordergrund, Sinn und Bedeutung der mathematischen Begriffsbildung wird nur selten thematisiert. Wer Mathematik verstandlich unterrichten mochte, fur den mussen die mathematischen Gegenstande und ihre Beziehung zum Menschen (wieder) Objekte einer spannenden Suche werden. In diesem Sammelband wird Mathematik von Fachdidaktikern, Mathematikern und praktizierenden...