"Offers a much needed update on urban politics in a globalized world... Davidson and Martin, as well as contributors, chart new territory and produce thought-provoking research that move the field in a more critical direction"
- Setha M. Low, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

"A critical analysis of power and politics is essential to an understanding of contemporary urbanism. Informative and challenging, clear and sophisticated, Urban Politics: Critical Approaches encourages readers to grapple with the great diversity...

Der geborene Osterreicher Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972) gilt als der Begrunder der Allgemeinen Systemtheorie. Die Querschnittswissenschaft Systemtheorie hat damit ihre Grundlage bekommen. Mark Davidson, Schriftsteller, Journalist, ehemaliger Professor fur Kommunikationswissenschaften an der California State University in Dominguez Hills, hat mit diesem Buch Bertalanffy ein Denkmal gesetzt und eine leicht lesbare Einfuhrung in die Systemwissenschaften vorgelegt. Es beschreibt eine Wissenschaftsstromung, die wie massgeschneidert ist, den Herausforderungen unseres globalen...

"The Art of Common Sense" shows how a shows how a 21st century approach to philosophy can be applied to the matter of living well. It does this by telling the story of Bodie, a journalist, and Murdo, a philosopher who left his academic post to work as a coach.
When Bodie first met Murdo, his life was in a comfortable but unsatisfying rut. He wasn't getting commissioned to write many interesting articles, he was no longer playing the music he loved, and his relationship with his girlfriend had lost its sparkle. Murdo recognised Bodie's potential, though, and commissioned him to...