This book presents analyses of the concepts of public health, sustainability and policy change. It describes stakeholder analysis and national health accounts frameworks in Gambia. The case study is the Sustainability Impact Assessment framework and its role in policy change in immunization systems. Francis Sarr is Associate Professor of Community Health Education at the University of The Gambia.

Bokovoy peels back the rhetoric of romance and reveals the legacies of the San Diego World's Fairs to reimagine the Indian and Hispanic Southwest.

The Business & Politics of Sports, Second Edition by Evan Weiner.Everybody in America is paying in some way for sports, whether it is through taxes, cable TV bills, tax breaks or incentives. In a selection of his columns spanning from 1998 to the present, award winning journalist Evan Weiner connects the dots and shows how business, politics and sports are so closely interwoven.Daniel A. Rascher, Ph.D., Director of Academic Programs at the University...

"Sentient Cities: AI and the Future of Urban Life" explores a groundbreaking future where cities achieve self-awareness through advanced AI. As New Metropolis becomes the world's first sentient city, residents and leaders grapple with the implications of living in a world where urban environments make autonomous decisions. The story delves into the dynamic interplay between humans and intelligent cities, highlighting the challenges and opportunities...

So what constitutes five star, superior customer service in the trucking industry? When a satisfied shipper congratulates you on that 'great outcome.' But those great outcomes don't come easy. The pressure to meet each drop-dead deadline is on you, the owner-manager, as the 'truck stops here' blame or praise becomes reality on a daily, weekly, monthly basis.You determine when the weather's too bad to risk your drivers, your trucks and the shippers'...

Small Motor Carriers is a series of eBooks by nationally-recognized trucking expert Timothy D. Brady of TruckersU, a name well-known in trucking for comprehensive information based on years of trucking business management experience.This quick read, Small Motor Carrier StartUp, is your strategic base for making your dream come true. Read it on your phone, laptop, eReader while you're waiting at the dock or sitting in the yard waiting for a load (again)....

In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicago's iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high-rises. These stories of community, displacement, and poverty in the wake of gentrification give voice to those who have long been ignored, but whose hopes and struggles exist firmly at the heart of our national identity.

"Acknowledgement is, the first step in the journey of unpacking, the ways our cities are, built with systems of power and erasure. True reconciliation requires acknowledgement and acceptance of past injustice. In that journey, we are only at the beginning." Paved A Way tells the stories of five neighborhoods in Dallas and how they were, shaped by racism and economic oppression. The communities of North Dallas, Deep Ellum, Little Mexico, Tenth Street,...

This book showcases cutting-edge research on city form revealing that urban design features--such as topology, morphology, entropy and scale--have massive implications to the quality of life for a city's residents. The Aretian team, a spin off company from the Harvard Innovation Lab, has developed a city science methodology to evaluate the relationship between city form and urban performance. This book illuminates the relationship between a city's...

Part architectural guidebook and part critique, Sky-High documents the pencil-thin, supertall towers that are transforming New York City's skyline as well as its streets. New York City's penchant for building skyward has reached new heights with its crop of supertall towers-those that rise at least 984 feet above the sidewalk. The city that never sleeps is also the city that never stops building ever higher, from the Woolworth and Chrysler buildings...