Buy Books Online » Sociology http://www.freebookss.com Want to Buy Books Online, or Read Books Online? Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:48:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.freebookss.com http://www.freebookss.com/wp-content/plugins/maxblogpress-favicon/icons/favicon-75.icoBuy Books Online Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable Cityhttp://www.freebookss.com/bird-on-fire-lessons-from-the-worlds-least-sustainable-city.html http://www.freebookss.com/bird-on-fire-lessons-from-the-worlds-least-sustainable-city.html#comments Sun, 08 Jan 2012 04:48:37 +0000 wowo http://www.freebookss.com/bird-on-fire-lessons-from-the-worlds-least-sustainable-city.html Phoenix, Arizona is one of America’s fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted property rights. In Bird on Fire, eminent social and cultural [...]

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]]> http://www.freebookss.com/green-to-gold-how-smart-companies-use-environmental-strategy-to-innovate-create-value-and-build-competitive-advantage.html/feed 3 Who’s Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Lifehttp://www.freebookss.com/whos-your-city-how-the-creative-economy-is-making-where-to-live-the-most-important-decision-of-your-life.html http://www.freebookss.com/whos-your-city-how-the-creative-economy-is-making-where-to-live-the-most-important-decision-of-your-life.html#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:45:01 +0000 wowo http://www.freebookss.com/whos-your-city-how-the-creative-economy-is-making-where-to-live-the-most-important-decision-of-your-life.html International Bestseller All places are not created equal. In this groundbreaking book, Richard Florida shows that where we live is increasingly a crucial factor in our lives, one that fundamentally affects our professional and personal prospects. As well as explaining why place matters now more than ever, Who’s Your City? provides indispensable tools to help [...]

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]]> http://www.freebookss.com/image-of-the-city.html/feed 3 Suburban Nation (10th Anniversary Edition): The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dreamhttp://www.freebookss.com/suburban-nation-10th-anniversary-edition-the-rise-of-sprawl-and-the-decline-of-the-american-dream-2.html http://www.freebookss.com/suburban-nation-10th-anniversary-edition-the-rise-of-sprawl-and-the-decline-of-the-american-dream-2.html#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:44:28 +0000 wowo http://www.freebookss.com/suburban-nation-10th-anniversary-edition-the-rise-of-sprawl-and-the-decline-of-the-american-dream-2.html For a decade, Suburban Nation has given voice to a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and replace the last century’s automobile-based settlement patterns with a return to more traditional planning. Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of [...]

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