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Kyiv, Ukraine: the city of domes and demons from the ...

Kyiv, Ukraine: the city of domes and demons from the ...

Roman Adrian Cybriwsky

This thoroughly revised edition brings Cybriwsky's account of events and their ramifications fully up to date, offering the clearest picture we've had yet of what has happened - and what is likely still to come - in Ukraine.
Deciphering deviance

Deciphering deviance

Saul D. Feldman

Geographers David Ley and Roman Cybriwsky studied patterns of urban graffiti in Philadelphia and made the following observations which are illustrative of Mer- ton's views of innovation: The mastery and occupation of space might well be a ...
Earth and Mineral Sciences

Earth and Mineral Sciences

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... Carbonates of Central Pennsylvania RICHARD ALLEN HORN, M.S. Neutron Activation Analysis of Alkali Metals in Pegmatic Quartz and Its Fluid Inclusions Geography ROMAN ADRIAN CYBRIwsKY, Ph.D. Social Relations and the Spatial ...
Capital Cities around the World: An Encyclopedia of ...

Capital Cities around the World: An Encyclopedia of ...

Roman Adrian Cybriwsky

This informative resource is a fascinating compilation of the history, politics, and culture of every capital city from around the world, making this the only singular reference on the subject of its kind.
The Japanese City

The Japanese City

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The feudal order fell, and a wave of rapid modernization and learning from the West set in. Things Western became popular, but they were also strategic, as Japan's new. Photo 4.1 Remains of the Edo castle. Photo by Roman Cybriwsky Photo ...
Historical Dictionary of Tokyo

Historical Dictionary of Tokyo

Roman Cybriwsky

... pleased to acknowledge Ilona Arkhangelska, Tom Boardman, Kyle Cleveland, David Edgington, Carola Hein, Nobuko Iijima, Chie Kato, Michi Koiso, Uliana Milova, Aoi O'Brien, Mayu Ozawa, Nan Sato, and Barbara Thornbury for their help.
Roppongi Crossing: The Demise of a Tokyo Nightclub District ...

Roppongi Crossing: The Demise of a Tokyo Nightclub District ...

Roman Adrian Cybriwsky

Roppongi Crossing is a revealing ethnography of what is arguably the most dynamic district in one of the world’s most dynamic cities.
Roppongi Crossing: The Demise of a Tokyo Nightclub District ...

Roppongi Crossing: The Demise of a Tokyo Nightclub District ...

Roman A. Cybriwsky

Roppongi Crossing is a revealing ethnography of what is arguably the most dynamic district in one of the world's most dynamic cities.
Natural Resource Conflicts: From Blood Diamonds to ...

Natural Resource Conflicts: From Blood Diamonds to ...

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Overview Robin Morris Collin and Robert William Collin Copenhagen, Bogotá, and Singapore: Three Inspiring Examples of Sustainable Cities Roman Adrian Cybriwsky Making Sustainable Cities—The Need to Focus on Transportation ...
Global Happiness: A Guide to the Most Contented (and ...

Global Happiness: A Guide to the Most Contented (and ...

Roman Adrian Cybriwsky

An authoritative, comprehensive, and highly accessible assessment of the happiest and least happy countries and cities in the world, as well as of the happiest and least happy cities and states in the United States. • Supplies insightful ...
Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis

Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis

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... District and the Reshaping ofa Global City by Roman Adrian Cybriwsky Fitzgerald: Geography ofa Revolution by William Bunge Accumulating Insecurity: Violence and Dispossession in the Making ofEveryday Life edited by Shelley Feldman, ...
Philadelphia: Neighborhoods, Division, and Conflict in a ...

Philadelphia: Neighborhoods, Division, and Conflict in a ...

Carolyn Adams

Roman Cybriwsky, John Western, and David Ley, "The Political and Social Contribution of Revitalized Neighborhoods: Society Hill, Philadelphia and False Creek, Vancouver," in Neil Smith and Peter Williams, eds. , Gentrification of the City ...
Human Territorial Functioning: An Empirical, Evolutionary ...

Human Territorial Functioning: An Empirical, Evolutionary ...

Ralph B. Taylor

Occupied house 10.9 Source: David Ley and Roman Cybriwsky, "The spatial ecology of stripped cars." Environment and Behavior, 6 (1974), 53-68. Copyright © 1974 by Sage Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications,  ...
Accumulating Insecurity: Violence and Dispossession in the ...

Accumulating Insecurity: Violence and Dispossession in the ...

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Roppongi Crossing: The Demise ofa Tokyo Nightclub District and the Reshaping ofa Global City by Roman Adrian Cybriwsky 8. Fitzgerald: Geography ofa Revolution by William Bunge 9. Accumulating Insecurity: Violence and Dispossession ...
East Asia Modern: Shaping the Contemporary City

East Asia Modern: Shaping the Contemporary City

Peter G. Rowe

Shaping the Contemporary City Peter G. Rowe. 9 Edward Seidensticker, Tokyo Rising: The City Since the Great Earthquake (Cambridge, MA, 1991), p. 24. 10 Roman Cybriwsky, Tokyo (London, 1991), p. 160. 11 Hidenobu, Tokyo, pp. 22– 39.
General Instruction of the Roman Missal

General Instruction of the Roman Missal

Roman Church

The General Instruction of the Roman Missal (G.I.R.M.), from the Roman Missal, promotes active, conscious participation of the faithful in the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.
The Roman Revolution

The Roman Revolution

Ronald Syme

The Roman Revolution is a profound and unconventional treatment of a great theme - the fall of the Republic and the decline of freedom in Rome between 60 BC and AD 14, and the rise to power of the greatest of the Roman Emperors, Augustus.
The Roman Revolution

The Roman Revolution

Ronald Syme

The Roman Revolution is a profound and unconventional treatment of a great theme - the fall of the Republic and the decline of freedom in Rome between 60 BC and AD 14, and the rise to power of the greatest of the Roman Emperors, Augustus.
Isis and Sarapis in the Roman world

Isis and Sarapis in the Roman world

Sarolta A. Takács

Isis and Sarapis in the Roman World deals with the integration of the cult of Isis among Roman cults, the subsequent transformation of Isis and Sarapis into gods of the Roman state, and the epigraphic employment of the names of these two ...
Discovering the Roman family: studies in Roman social history

Discovering the Roman family: studies in Roman social history

K. R. Bradley

These essays on various aspects of family life in ancient Rome offer an especially timely and provocative new characterization of how this most elementary component of Roman society was structured.
The Roman Army and the Expansion of the Gospel: The Role of ...

The Roman Army and the Expansion of the Gospel: The Role of ...

Alexander Kyrychenko

What is the literary function of centurions in the story of Luke-Acts? To answer this question, the book considers these NT texts alongside the Greco-Roman and Jewish sources that offer insights into the Roman military.
Reading Rivers in Roman Literature and Culture

Reading Rivers in Roman Literature and Culture

Prudence J. Jones

Sarolta A. Takács, Editor With the introduction of this series, Roman Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches, we hope to enhance understanding of the ancient Roman world. This empire was multicultural and lasted, from a mythological ...
The Legacy of Rome: Scotland's Roman Remains

The Legacy of Rome: Scotland's Roman Remains

L. J. F. Keppie

In this revised edition, Lawrence Keppie sets out various stages of Roman occupation in historical context and shows how literary and archaelogical evidence can be used to build up a picture of the Roman period.
Roman Art

Roman Art

Donald Emrys Strong

First published in 1976, this standard work on the subject traces the development of Roman art from its beginings to the end of the fourth century AD, embracing the monuments of the Republic and then of the later Roman empire, demonstrating ...
Roman Readings: Roman Response to Greek Literature from ...

Roman Readings: Roman Response to Greek Literature from ...

Elaine Fantham

This volume presents closely connected articles by Elaine Fantham which deal with Roman responses to Greek literature on three major subjects: the history and criticism of Latin poetry and rhetoric, women in Roman life and dramatic poetry ...
Roman Power: A Thousand Years of Empire

Roman Power: A Thousand Years of Empire

W. V. Harris

This book explains the growth, durability and eventual shrinkage of Roman imperial power alongside the Roman state's internal power structures.
The later Roman empire today: papers given in honour of ...

The later Roman empire today: papers given in honour of ...

D. F. Clark

A collection of original research articles relating to Roman historical and epigraphic studies presented in honor of Professor John Mann. Supported by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.
Roman Theatre

Roman Theatre

Timothy J. Moore

Tragedy in the Roman Republic Roman audiences of Plautus and Terence's day enjoyed tragic as well as comic drama. Several playwrights adapted Athenian tragedies, including those of the great fifth—century playwrights Aeschylus, ...
Religion in Roman Britain

Religion in Roman Britain

Mr Martin Henig

Apart from Christianity and the Oriental Cults, religion in Roman Britain is often discussed as though it remained basically Celtic in belief and practice, under a thin veneer of Roman influence.

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