Town and country planning has never been more important to the UK, nor more prominent in national debate. Planning generates great controversy: whether it’s spending £80m and four years’ inquiry into Heathrow’s Terminal 5, or the 200 proposed wind turbines in the Shetland Isles. At a different scale telecoms masts, take-aways, house extensions, and even fences are often the subject of intense local conflict.
The revised 15th edition of ‘Town and Country Planning’ provides not only a ready source of information on planning policies, tools, procedures and topical issues - all set in historical context - but is fully updated to include:
The implications of the 2008/9 Planning Act;

Planning and climate change, energy and health;

Examples of planning tools at national, regional and local levels;

Case studies of plan preparation in the growth areas;

Also featuring new sections on the spatial planning approach and spatial development trends, NGO’s, the development industry and other topical issues, Town and Country Planning in the UK is unique in its breadth of coverage of planning issues. Students and researchers of planning, geography, real estate, housing, environmental studies, governance and many other subjects can use Town and Country Planning as a first source for study of a wide range of topics, whilst practitioners will find explanation of recent developments in policy and practice. Readers will value the extensive guidance on more detailed reading and signposting to other sources and web materials.

This concise and practical "how to" book is written and edited by experts in their fields and offers "here’s how I do it" advice on the most commonly performed procedures. Each chapter becomes the voice of an expert and experienced colleague, reminding readers of the pearls and pitfalls of each procedure. These pearls will lead to quicker cases, fewer complications, and more satisfactory outcomes for physicians and their patients.?

David Hartsough knows how to get in the way. He has used his body to block Navy ships headed for Vietnam and trains loaded with munitions on their way to El Salvador and Nicaragua. He has crossed borders to meet “the enemy” in East Berlin, Castro’s Cuba, and present-day Iran. He has marched with mothers confronting a violent regime in Guatemala and stood with refugees threatened by death squads in the Philippines. Hartsough’s stories inspire, educate, and encourage readers to find ways to work for a more just and peaceful world. Inspired by the examples of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., Hartsough has spent his life experimenting with the power of active nonviolence. Engaging stories on every page provide a peace activist’s eyewitness account of many of the major historical events of the past 60 years, including the Civil Rights and anti–Vietnam War movements in the United States as well as the little-known but equally significant nonviolent efforts in the Soviet Union, Kosovo, Palestine, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines. Waging Peace is a testament to the difference one person can make; however, it is more than one man’s memoir: it shows how this struggle is waged all over the world by ordinary people committed to ending the spiral of violence and war.

Written by practicing criminal defense lawyers, jurists, investigators, and specialized journalists, this book criticizes the whole initiative of international criminal justice and considers the idea that it must be abandoned in the name of justice. Has foreign policy trumped justice? How are equity, equality before the law, absence of selectivity, protection of witnesses, and enforcement affected? How are lives of citizens throughout the world changed by International Justice? Asking the burning questions about criminal justice as it is practiced at the International Criminal Court, the ad-hoc tribunals for Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, this account will appeal to those interested in politics, law, and human rights.

If you can change the way you think, you can change the world. That’s the theme of Now You’re Thinking! as it tells the story of how a 2-year old Iraqi girl’s life was saved through determination, courage, and critical thinking. The book begins with the heroic story of how a Marine battalion beat the odds to save this little girl, and ends with a model of critical thinking that will help you STOP and THINK to recognize your emotions, evaluate arguments, and draw conclusions to make better life decisions. This book also provides the opportunity for you to take the My Thinking Styles assessment for free to learn your natural thinking preferences, strengths, and biases. This short read will give you a real-life example of great thinking plus tons of resources to guide your further interest in effective thinking.

This book walks you through use of the Samsung Galaxy Note III’s features, including the following:

• Huge 5.7-inch screen with full HD (1920 x 1080 resolution) enables you to see more information at once -- great for browsing the web, reading emails and documents, and watching videos

• Quad-core 2.3GHz processor with 3GB RAM crunches through tough tasks and enables you to multitask with two apps at once

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• 13-megapixel rear camera with optical image stabilization makes it easy to take top-quality, high-resolution photos

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With tips and tricks for using the Samsung Galaxy Note III, descriptions and tutorials on the most commonly used functions, revised for the newest Android operating system, My Samsung Galaxy Note III will make your Note III fit the way that you live.

Drawing on studies funded by the Lumina Foundation, the nation's largest private foundation focused solely on increasing Americans' success in higher education, the authors revise current theories of college student departure, making the important distinction between residential and commuter colleges and universities, and thereby taking into account the role of the external environment and the characteristics of social communities in student departure and retention. A unique feature of the authors' approach is that they also consider the role that the various characteristics of different states play in degree completion and first-year persistence.

First-year college student retention and degree completion is a multi-layered, multi-dimensional problem, and the book's recommendations for state- and institutional-level policy and practice will help policy-makers and planners at all levels as well as anyone concerned with institutional retention rates—and helping students reach their maximum potential for success—understand the complexities of the issue and develop policies and initiatives to increase student persistence.