Benjamin Jones: 21 books

Book cover of Retrofitting Sprawl

Retrofitting Sprawl

Addressing Seventy Years of Failed Urban Form

by Julia Koschinsky, Brenda Case Scheer, Gerrit-Jan Knaap
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015

These twelve previously unpublished essays present innovative and practical ideas for addressing the harmful effects of sprawl. Sprawl is not only an ongoing focus of specialized magazines like Dwell; indeed, Time magazine has cited “recycling the suburbs” as the second of “Ten Ideas Changing...
Book cover of Tracking the Rise of the Radical Right Globally
by Megan Armstrong, Imran Iwan, Roland Clark
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2019

2018 was a tumultuous year in global politics. Starting with the rise of the Lega Nord in Italy and ending with the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, it has never been such a pertinent time to study the radical right. This yearbook pulls together the best commentary and analysis from an international...
Book cover of The Electric Battery: Charging Forward to a Low-Carbon Future
by Kevin B. Jones, Benjamin B. Jervey, Matthew Roche
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017

Now more than ever, consumers want to understand not only the basic facts behind the electric battery and the challenges of battery storage in everyday devices, including vehicles, but also whether increased, widespread application of battery technology has real environmental benefits that could change...
Book cover of Texans on the Brink

Texans on the Brink

Threatened and Endangered Animals

by Neil B. Ford, David Ford, Jeremy D. Maikoetter
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019

What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect. Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic...
Book cover of The Challenges of European Governance in the Age of Economic Stagnation, Immigration, and Refugees
by Elisabeth Lambert Abdelgawad, Jean-Marc Akakpo, Zeynep Arkan
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016

This book examines the political and legal challenges of regional governance of the 28 countries of the European Union and the 48 in the Council of Europe. The contributions, dilemmas, and moral hazards from this record of nearly seven decades of regional inter-governmental institutions has kept the...
Book cover of Applied Unsupervised Learning with Python

Applied Unsupervised Learning with Python

Discover hidden patterns and relationships in unstructured data with Python

by Christopher Kruger, Benjamin Johnston, Aaron Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019

Design clever algorithms that can uncover interesting structures and hidden relationships in unstructured, unlabeled data Key Features Learn how to select the most suitable Python library to solve your problem Compare k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) and non-parametric methods and decide when to use...
Book cover of Atheism for Christians

Atheism for Christians

Are There Lessons for the Religious World from the Secular Tradition?

by Benjamin T. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016

What can Mary Wollstonecraft teach Christians about sexual ethics? Can John Stuart Mill help the church understand toleration? Are there lessons for the Christian world from writers like Marx, Nehru, Shelley, Popper, and Hume? Atheism for Christians looks at the work of some of the most influential...
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