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Using the urbanized area that spreads across northern New Jersey and around New York City as a case study, this book presents a convincing explanation of metropolitan fragmentation—the process by which suburban communities remain as is or break off and form separate political entities. The process has important and deleterious consequences for a range of urban issues, including the weakening of public finance and school integration. The explanation centers on the independent effect of urban infrastructure, specifically sewers, roads, waterworks, gas, and electricity networks. The book argues that the development of such infrastructure in the late nineteenth century not only permitted cities to expand by annexing adjacent municipalities, but also further enhanced the ability of these suburban entities to remain or break away and form independent municipalities. The process was crucial in creating a proliferation of municipalities within metropolitan regions.The book thus shows that the roots of the urban crisis can be found in the interplay between technology, politics, and public works in the American city.

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At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches.

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Reforming Philadelphia examines the cyclical efforts of insurgents to change the city’s government over nearly 350 years. Political scientist Richardson Dilworth tracks reformers as they create a new purpose for the city or reshape the government to reflect emerging ideas. Some wish to thwart the “corrupt machine,” while others seek to gain control of the government via elections. These actors formed coalitions and organizations that disrupted the status quo in the hope of transforming the city (and perhaps also enriching themselves).Dilworth addresses Philadelphia’s early development through the present day, including momentous changes from its new city charter in 1885 and the Republican machine that emerged around the same time to its transformation to a Democratic stronghold in the 1950s, when the city also experienced a racial transition. Focusing primarily on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Dilworth evaluates the terms of Mayors Frank Rizzo, Wilson Goode, and Ed Rendell, as well as John Street, Michael Nutter, and Jim Kenney to illustrate how power and resistance function, and how Philadelphia’s political history and reform cycles offer a conceptual model that can easily be applied to other cities.Reforming Philadelphia provides a new framework for understanding the evolving relationship between national politics and local, city politics.

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A massive 300 kriss kross (criss cross) puzzles packaged in a stylish paperback - this is the perfect kriss kross gift book for adults of any age. With a huge mix of fascinating subjects, the grids are each arranged on their own page and solutions are easily found in the back of the book. Printed in a highly portable format.

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A massive 300 quick crossword puzzles packaged in a stylish paperback - this is the perfect crossword gift book for adults of any age. Featuring definition-only ‘coffee-time’ (as opposed to cryptic) clues and 13 x 13 crossword grids, with solutions easily found in the back of the book. Printed in a highly portable format, the book can be taken on your travels or sit neatly on your bedside table.

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A massive 300 word search puzzles packaged in a stylish paperback - this is the perfect word search gift book for adults of any age. With a huge mix of fascinating subjects, the 15 x 15 grids are each arranged on their own page and solutions are easily found in the back of the book. Printed in a highly portable format, the book can be taken on your travels or sit neatly on your bedside table.

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A massive 300 codeword puzzles packaged in a stylish paperback - this is the perfect codeword gift book for adults of any age. With a mix of 100 easy, 100 medium and 100 hard puzzles, the 13 x 13 grids are each arranged on their own page and solutions are easily found in the back of the book. Printed in a highly portable format, the book can be taken on your travels or sit neatly on your bedside table.

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Find it! In the country contains 25 things for children to search for whilst in the great outdoors, along with amazing facts and mind-bending puzzles. Perfect for minimising screen time, Find it! books keep children entertained, engaged and curious about the world around them. - Search for tractors, animal tracks and berries amongst many other things. - Learn fascinating facts about the things you are searching for. - Play wordsearches, mazes, spot the differences, and various other quizzes and games. The back of the book contains a certificate to award when everything has been successfully found, and for every 3 books completed, you can send off for a Find it! Super Spotter badge!

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Reforming Philadelphia examines the cyclical efforts of insurgents to change the city’s government over nearly 350 years. Political scientist Richardson Dilworth tracks reformers as they create a new purpose for the city or reshape the government to reflect emerging ideas. Some wish to thwart the “corrupt machine,” while others seek to gain control of the government via elections. These actors formed coalitions and organizations that disrupted the status quo in the hope of transforming the city (and perhaps also enriching themselves).Dilworth addresses Philadelphia’s early development through the present day, including momentous changes from its new city charter in 1885 and the Republican machine that emerged around the same time to its transformation to a Democratic stronghold in the 1950s, when the city also experienced a racial transition. Focusing primarily on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Dilworth evaluates the terms of Mayors Frank Rizzo, Wilson Goode, and Ed Rendell, as well as John Street, Michael Nutter, and Jim Kenney to illustrate how power and resistance function, and how Philadelphia’s political history and reform cycles offer a conceptual model that can easily be applied to other cities.Reforming Philadelphia provides a new framework for understanding the evolving relationship between national politics and local, city politics.

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Can you crack all the clues and catch the culprit? A bumper casefile of over 90 crime-themed visual, code, logic, number and word puzzles to solve - this mixed puzzle book is the perfect gift for anyone who enjoys a cozy mystery!

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31 calming large print illustrations to colour, with tear-out pages so you can display your artwork - this is the perfect colouring book for adults of any age. 31 large print, easy-colour illustrations. 1 illustration per page, so ink doesn’t seep through onto another illustration behind. Printed on luxurious, thick white paper. Perforated page edges to enable you to cleanly tear your artwork out of the book. Pages can fit in a standard 250mm (high) x 200mm (wide) picture frame, available from retailers including IKEA. Designed for adults, but can be enjoyed by all!

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A massive 300 sudoku puzzles packaged in a stylish paperback - this is the perfect sudoku gift book for adults of any age. With a mix of 100 easy, 100 medium and 100 hard puzzles, the 9 x 9 grids are each arranged on their own page and solutions are easily found in the back of the book. Printed in a highly portable format, the book can be taken on your travels or sit neatly on your bedside table.

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31 large print mandala-style animal illustrations to colour, with tear-out pages so you can display your artwork - this is the perfect colouring book for adults of any age.

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A massive 300 codeword puzzles packaged in a stylish paperback - this is the perfect codeword gift book for adults of any age. With a mix of 100 easy, 100 medium and 100 hard puzzles, the 13 x 13 grids are each arranged on their own page and solutions are easily found in the back of the book. Printed in a highly portable format, the book can be taken on your travels or sit neatly on your bedside table.

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The Mayor of Little Riddlewood has been murdered - use your detective skills to help amateur crime solvers Ben, Gladys, Emily and Harold discover who dunnit! A bumper casefile of over 90 crime-themed visual, code, logic, number and word puzzles to solve - this mixed puzzle book for adults is the perfect gift for anyone who enjoys a cozy mystery! Can you crack all the clues and catch the culprit?

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A massive 300 quick crossword puzzles packaged in a stylish paperback - this is the perfect crossword gift book for adults of any age. Featuring definition-only ‘coffee-time’ (as opposed to cryptic) clues and 13 x 13 crossword grids, with solutions easily found in the back of the book. Printed in a highly portable format, the book can be taken on your travels or sit neatly on your bedside table.

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A massive 300 codeword puzzles packaged in a stylish paperback - this is the perfect codeword gift book for adults of any age. With a mix of 100 easy, 100 medium and 100 hard puzzles, the 13 x 13 grids are each arranged on their own page and solutions are easily found in the back of the book. Printed in a highly portable format, the book can be taken on your travels or sit neatly on your bedside table.

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31 mindful large print illustrations to colour, with tear-out pages so you can display your artwork - this is the perfect colouring book for adults of any age. 31 large print, easy-colour illustrations. 1 illustration per page, so ink doesn’t seep through onto another illustration behind. Printed on luxurious, thick white paper. Perforated page edges to enable you to cleanly tear your artwork out of the book. Pages can fit in a standard 250mm (high) x 200mm (wide) picture frame, available from retailers including IKEA. Designed for adults, but can be enjoyed by all!

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The perfect gift for anyone who enjoys crime thrillers, murder mysteries or cold cases - this mixed puzzle book for adults contains over 90 crime-themed visual, code, logic, number and word puzzles to solve!8 puzzling cases will gradually help you uncover an overall criminal mastermind who is pulling the strings in the background in a dramatic final 9th case. Can you crack all the clues and help Detective Orion Hawke catch the culprits?

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300 mixed brain game puzzles packaged in a stylish paperback - this is the perfect mixed puzzle book for adults of any age. Featuring 20 different types of favourite puzzles including, crosswords, wordsearches, codewords, sudoku, mazes, shape match, and many, many more! Solutions are easily found in a separate section at the back of the book. Printed in a highly portable format which can be taken on your travels or sit neatly on your bedside table.

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200 super fiendishly hard sudoku puzzles packaged in a stylish paperback - this is the perfect book for the avid sudoku fan. The 9 x 9 sudoku grids are each arranged on their own page and solutions are easily found at the back of the book. Printed in a highly portable format, the book can be taken on your travels or sit neatly on your bedside table.

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200 deadly killer sudoku puzzles packaged in a stylish paperback - this is the perfect book for the avid killer sudoku fan. The 9 x 9 sudoku grids are each arranged on their own page and solutions are easily found at the back of the book. Printed in a highly portable format, the book can be taken on your travels or sit neatly on your bedside table.

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100 jumbo crossword puzzles with easy-to-read print - this is the perfect crossword gift book for adults and seniors. The definition-only ‘coffee-time’ (as opposed to cryptic) clues are arranged on one page and the large 21 x 21 crossword grids are on the opposite facing page, with solutions easily found at the back of the book. Printed as a large format book on luxurious white paper.

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Find it! On a car journey contains 25 things for children to search for outside the car whilst on a long trip, along with amazing facts and mind-bending puzzles. Perfect for minimising screen time, Find it! books keep children entertained, engaged and curious about the world around them. - Search for cows, road works and police cars amongst many other things. - Learn fascinating facts about the things you are searching for. - Play wordsearches, mazes, spot the differences, and various other quizzes and games. The back of the book contains a certificate to award when everything has been successfully found, and for every 3 books completed, you can send off for a Find it! Super Spotter badge!

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AD 2050. The world has been overrun by a renegade AI, and humanity is at death's door. Your mission is to solve the 50 enclosed puzzles to eliminate the threat. This mixed puzzle book for adults contains a range of visual, code, logic, number and word puzzles to solve, and is the perfect gift for fans of escape rooms! Can you crack the clues and stop the apocalypse?

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31 relaxing large print illustrations to colour, with tear-out pages so you can display your artwork - this is the perfect colouring book for adults of any age. 31 large print, easy-colour illustrations. 1 illustration per page, so ink doesn’t seep through onto another illustration behind. Printed on luxurious, thick white paper. Perforated page edges to enable you to cleanly tear your artwork out of the book. Pages can fit in a standard 250mm (high) x 200mm (wide) picture frame, available from retailers including IKEA. Designed for adults, but can be enjoyed by all!

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A massive 300 quick crossword puzzles packaged in a stylish paperback - this is the perfect crossword gift book for adults of any age. Featuring definition-only ‘coffee-time’ (as opposed to cryptic) clues and 13 x 13 crossword grids, with solutions easily found in the back of the book. Printed in a highly portable format, the book can be taken on your travels or sit neatly on your bedside table.

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A massive 300 word search puzzles packaged in a stylish paperback - this is the perfect word search gift book for adults of any age. With a huge mix of fascinating subjects, the 15 x 15 grids are each arranged on their own page and solutions are easily found in the back of the book. Printed in a highly portable format, the book can be taken on your travels or sit neatly on your bedside table.

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Find it! In the backyard contains 25 things for children to search for whilst out the back of the house, along with amazing facts and mind-bending puzzles. Perfect for minimising screen time, Find it! books keep children entertained, engaged and curious about the world around them. - Search for worms, flower pots and weeds amongst many other things. - Learn fascinating facts about the things you are searching for. - Play wordsearches, mazes, spot the differences, and various other quizzes and games. The back of the book contains a certificate to award when everything has been successfully found, and for every 3 books completed, you can send off for a Find it! Super Spotter badge!

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Find it! In the garden contains 25 things for children to search for whilst out the back of the house, along with amazing facts and mind-bending puzzles. Perfect for minimising screen time, Find it! books keep children entertained, engaged and curious about the world around them. - Search for worms, flower pots and weeds amongst many other things. - Learn fascinating facts about the things you are searching for. - Play wordsearches, mazes, spot the differences, and various other quizzes and games. The back of the book contains a certificate to award when everything has been successfully found, and for every 3 books completed, you can send off for a Find it! Super Spotter badge!

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A collection of international case studies that demonstrate the importance of ideas to urban political development Ideas, interests, and institutions are the "holy trinity" of the study of politics. Of the three, ideas are arguably the hardest with which to grapple and, despite a generally broad agreement concerning their fundamental importance, the most often neglected. Nowhere is this more evident than in the study of urban politics and urban political development. The essays in How Ideas Shape Urban Political Development argue that ideas have been the real drivers behind urban political development and offer as evidence national and international examples—some unique to specific cities, regions, and countries, and some of global impact. Within the United States, contributors examine the idea of "blight" and how it became a powerful metaphor in city planning; the identification of racially-defined spaces, especially black cities and city neighborhoods, as specific targets of neoliberal disciplinary practices; the paradox of members of Congress who were active supporters of civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s but enjoyed the support of big-city political machines that were hardly liberal when it came to questions of race in their home districts; and the intersection of national education policy, local school politics, and the politics of immigration. Essays compare the ways in which national urban policies have taken different shapes in countries similar to the United States, namely, Canada and the United Kingdom. The volume also presents case studies of city-based political development in Chile, China, India, and Africa—areas of the world that have experienced a more recent form of urbanization that feature deep and intimate ties and similarities to urban political development in the Global North, but which have occurred on a broader scale. Contributors: Daniel Béland, Debjani Bhattacharyya, Robert Henry Cox, Richardson Dilworth, Jason Hackworth, Marcus Anthony Hunter, William Hurst, Sally Ford Lawton, Thomas Ogorzalek, Eleonora Pasotti, Joel Rast, Douglas S. Reed, Mara Sidney, Lester K. Spence, Vanessa Watson, Timothy P. R. Weaver, Amy Widestrom.

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A bumper collection of 10,000 general knowledge questions arranged into over 900 quizzes, to play with friends, family or colleagues whether at home, in the office, down the pub or in the bar. 365+ quick daily practice quizzes. 29 complete ‘Family-friendly’ quizzes. 50 complete ‘Ready-made’ quizzes. 200 classic subject quizzes. 150 specialist subject quizzes. 150 quizzes that are ‘Something else’ entirely: topics you won’t find anywhere else! Packaged as a stylish paperback, this is a perfect gift book or self purchase. So grab your friends and family and get quizzing!

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