City planning in the GTHA has been mired in political grandstanding for the past decade, The New Urban Agenda offers a plain language solution to the issues plaguing the GTHA.

Politics in the Greater Toronto, Hamilton Area (GTHA) have become increasingly divisive over the past decade, and solutions to the city’s problems have become hot-topic issues debated in council and the press, but never finding resolution.The New Urban Agenda is equal parts history, social science, and call to action to solve the major problems facing the GTHA. Issues such as urban and suburban development, transit, the region’s environmental impact, affordable housing, and the seemingly inherent gridlock of municipal politics are all discussed. Award-winning author Bill Freeman offers a level-headed approach to the problems and lays out an agenda that will lead to an improvement in the quality of life in our neighbourhoods and downtowns and make our cities more economically viable. He encourages individuals and communities to speak up for themselves and get involved in politics at a grassroots level.

With no shortage of examples, he shows how this strategy can create the change that is needed to move cities forward in a way that benefits everyone, not just the business and political elite.

The Ultimate Book of BBQ builds on the expertise of Southern Living magazine to create the definitive barbecue and outdoor grilling guide. The book features more than 200 of the highest-ratedSouthern Living recipes for barbecued meats and sides, plus pit-proven tips, techniques, and secrets for year-round smoking, grilling and barbecuing.

Shows students how to draw accurate constructions of squares, octagons, and other shapes; gives instructions for building kites using geometry; and includes self-paced activities and ready-to-use reproducible handouts.

In this collection reprinting 11 of his essays, 1988-2007, Freeman (emeritus, U. of Sussex, UK) is introduced by Dosi (Technical Change and Economics, 1988) as one of the founders of the economics of innovation as a distinct sub-field of social science. Freeman's papers introduce his analytical concepts of 'national systems of innovation and of production' and a 'theory of reasoned history' (as vs. theories of political economy proposed by Adam Smith, Marx, Keynes, and Schumpeter, among others). Evolutionary economics treats such topics of the evolving global economy as how technological advances drive structural economic adjustments and social policy, the degree to which national systems of innovation support adoption of new technologies, and characteristics of innovating firms. Indexed by author only. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Questo volume, concepito in origine come manuale per i pazienti del Royal Edinburgh Hospital affetti da anoressia nervosa o comunque da disturbi legati all'alimentazione, si segnala per la sua impostazione concreta e al tempo stesso accessibile; propone una terapia fondata sull'analisi dei comportamenti dell'individuo e volta a modificarli, applicabile in relazione a diverse patologie, specie per la cura dell'anoressia. Tale disagio, diffuso principalmente in soggetti di sesso femminile, colpisce però indifferentemente soggetti di ambo i sessi, di tutte le età e condizioni sociali.

To many readers Christopher Isherwood means Berlin. The author of Goodbye to Berlin (1939), the British Isherwood found fame through the adaptation of that work into the stage play and film I Am a Camera and then into the stage musical and film Cabaret.

Throughout his career he was a keen observer, always seemingly in the right place at the right time. Whether in Berlin in the 1930s or in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s, Isherwood (1904--86) reflected on his life and his world and wrote perceptive commentary on contemporary European and American history and culture. His ties to California made him more American than British.

'I have spent half my life in the United States,' he said. 'Los Angeles is a great place for feeling at home because everybody's from someplace else.'

Isherwood can be credited for helping make L.A. an acceptable setting for serious fiction, paving the way for John Rechy, Joan Didion, Paul Monette, and Bernard Cooper, among others.

The interviews in this volume--two of which have never before been published--stretch over a period of forty years. They address a wide range of topics, including the importance of diary-keeping to his life and work; the interplay between fiction and autobiography; his turning from Christianity to Hinduism; his circle of friends, including W. H. Auden, Aldous Huxley, and E. M. Forster; several important places in his life--Berlin, England, and California; and his homosexual identity.

These interviews are substantive, smart, and insightful, allowing the author to discuss his approach to writing of both fiction and nonfiction. 'More and more,' he explains, 'writing is appearing to me as a kind of self-analysis, a finding-out of something about myself and about the past and about what life is like, as far as I'm concerned: who I am, who these people are, what it's all about.'

This emphasis on self-discovery comes as no surprise from a writer who mined his own diaries and experiences for inspiration. As an interviewee, Isherwood is introspective, thoughtful, and humorous.

James J. Berg is the program director for the Center for Teaching and Learning, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. Chris Freeman is an assistant professor of English at St. John's University. Berg and Freeman are editors of The Isherwood Century: Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood, which was a finalist for the 2001 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Studies.