Cities for Sale Dr Steve W. Adkins

Cities for Sale Dr Steve W. AdkinsExamines how US cities have adopted the tactics of public relations and marketing firms to "brand" themselves. Today's cities are competing with each other on many levels for our business, for our residency, for our tourism dollars, for our employment, and much more. Especially in light of market models of governance seeping into the public sector, it has become both necessary and prudent for city staff to undertake place promotion to attract many

Gnosticism

where a lowly pawnbroker can encounter monsters

legislative redistricting

and Jacques Derrida

perhaps the master

New coverage of neuromuscular

Sacred Play explores how piety and levity can complement and complicate one another

” Responding to the horrors of a decade torn by war

a preacher from Boston

showing the reader how older adults can gain greater personal control through lifestyle changes and preventive health strategies

The result is a poetic and philosophical-and occasionally harrowing-record of life during wartime

and uncovers the long-forgotten alliances and controversies that continue to shape the aid industry today