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Sanitiser overuse may cause eye issues: Study

A team of researchers has linked a spurt in the number of people complaining of itchy eyes and redness to excessive use of alcohol-based hand sanitisers, which have become an important part of hand-hygiene routines following the coronavirus outbreak.




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Bengaluru lockdown: Today's news from the city

Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from your city.




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Greens protest over littering of public places

People have been littering a road at Babugudda by throwing waste every day even when a group of nature lovers in the city has been carrying out cleanliness drive regularly there. The group had also planted hundreds of saplings to make the area, which is adjacent to a crematorium, clean. However, people continue to throw garbage not bothering about the campaigns of greens.




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A World Religions Reader, 4th Edition


 

A comprehensive and accessible textbook which explores the traditions and beliefs of the world’s living religionsthe fully updated and revised new edition

The World Religions Reader is an inclusive, student-friendly examination of the history, teaching, practices, and appeal of the world’s major religions. Covering both the fundamentals and complexities of each religious tradition, this popular textbook brings together significant texts from scriptures



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A Companion to the Ancient Near East, 2nd Edition


 

The new edition of the popular survey of Near Eastern civilization from the Bronze Age to the era of Alexander the Great

A Companion to the Ancient Near East explores the history of the region from 4400 BCE to the Macedonian conquest of the Persian Empire in 330 BCE. Original and revised essays from a team of distinguished scholars from across disciplines address subjects including the politics, economics, architecture, and heritage of ancient Mesopotamia



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History and Imperialism: Writings, 1963-1986


 
Writings on History brings together a selection of texts by Louis Althusser dating from 1963 to 1986, including essays, a lecture, notes to his collaborators, and the transcript of an informal 1963 discussion of literary history. The centrepiece of this collection is Althusser’s previously unpublished Book on Imperialism, a theorization of globalized capitalism that remained unfinished.  All these writings are concerned with the place of history in

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History and Imperialism: Writings, 1963-1986


 
Writings on History brings together a selection of texts by Louis Althusser dating from 1963 to 1986, including essays, a lecture, notes to his collaborators, and the transcript of an informal 1963 discussion of literary history. The centrepiece of this collection is Althusser’s previously unpublished Book on Imperialism, a theorization of globalized capitalism that remained unfinished.  All these writings are concerned with the place of history in

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The History of Texas, 6th Edition


 

The most comprehensive, best-illustrated survey of the Lone Star State—the new, updated edition of the classic text

The History of Texas offers a sweeping exploration of the Lone Star State, covering its history from the pre-Columbian period, to the era of Spanish control, to nineteenth century watershed events, through the 1900s and into the new millennium. This engaging, student-friendly textbook looks at how people of diverse politics, identity,



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Peers and Politics, c. 1650 - 1850: Essays in Honour of Clyve Jones


 

A collection of essays in honour of Clyve Jones who has made an incomparable contribution to our understanding of the history of the Westminster house of lords – its politics, procedures and business – and to the history of the English and Scottish peerage more generally



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A Companion to Television, 2nd Edition


 

The latest edition of the acclaimed volume on television studies, featuring new original essays from leading scholars in the field

Although the digital age has radically altered the media and communications landscape worldwide, television continues to play a significant part of our lives. From its earliest beginnings through to the present day, television and its influence has been the subject of extensive study, critique, and analysis.



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Adam Smith


 
Almost everyone has heard of Adam Smith, founding father of modern economics and author of Wealth of Nations. There is, however, much more to him than this.
 
This new introduction gives a crystal clear overview of the entirety of Smith’s thought. It demonstrates how Smith’s economic theories fit into a larger system of thought that encompasses moral philosophy, philosophy of science, legal and political theory, and aesthetics. Examining the central

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Adam Smith


 
Almost everyone has heard of Adam Smith, founding father of modern economics and author of Wealth of Nations. There is, however, much more to him than this.
 
This new introduction gives a crystal clear overview of the entirety of Smith’s thought. It demonstrates how Smith’s economic theories fit into a larger system of thought that encompasses moral philosophy, philosophy of science, legal and political theory, and aesthetics. Examining the central

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City limits: why Australia's cities are broken and how we can fix them / Jane-Frances Kelly and Paul Donegan

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The urban planet: knowledge towards sustainable cities / edited by Thomas Elmqvist, Stockholm Resilience Centre [and nine others]

Rotch Library - HT361.U7178 2018




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The Routledge handbook of planning theory / edited by Michael Gunder, Ali Madanipour and Vanessa Watson

Rotch Library - HT166.R696 2018




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Sciences du territoire: perspectives québécoises / sous la direction de Guy Massicotte

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The divided city: ideological and policy contestations in contemporary urban India / Dr. Binti Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, Dr. Mahendra Sethi, National Institute of Urban Affairs, India

Rotch Library - HT384.I4 S5446 2018




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Urban composite development index for 17 Shandong cities: ranking and simulation analysis based on China's five development concepts / Tan Khee Giap [and four others]

Rotch Library - HT384.C62 S428 2018




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Megaregionalism 2.0: trade and innovation within global networks / editors, Dieter Ernst, Michael G. Plummer

Rotch Library - HT388.M44 2018




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Smart cities, green technologies and intelligent transport systems: 7th International Conference, SMARTGREENS, and 4th International Conference, VEHITS 2018, Funchal-Madeira, Portugal, March 16-18, 2018: revised selected papers / Brian Donnellan, Cornel K

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Public space design and social cohesion: an international comparison / edited by Patricia Aelbrecht and Quentin Stevens

Rotch Library - HT185.P833 2019




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Resilience, crisis and innovation dynamics / edited by Tüzin Baycan, Hugo Pinto

Rotch Library - HT388.R43 2018




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Legacy cities: continuity and change amid decline and revival / edited by J. Rosie Tighe & Stephanie Ryberg-Webster

Rotch Library - HT384.U5 L44 2019




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New towns: an investigation on urbanism / Dunia Mittner ; translation: Erika Geraldine Young

Rotch Library - NA9053.N4 M58 2018




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The new Arab urban: Gulf cities of wealth, ambition, and distress / edited by Harvey Molotch and Davide Ponzini

Rotch Library - HT147.P35 N47 2019




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Critical perspectives on suburban infrastructures: contemporary international cases / edited by Pierre Filion and Nina M. Pulver

Rotch Library - HT351.C75 2019




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The urban fix: resilient cities in the war against climate change, heat islands and overpopulation / Doug Kelbaugh

Rotch Library - HT241.K45 2019




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Which way to livable and productive cities?: a road map for Sub-Saharan Africa / Kirsten Hommann and Somik V. Lall

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Urban spaces in nineteenth-century Ireland / edited by Georgina Laragy, Olwen Purdue and Jonathan Jeffrey Wright

Rotch Library - HT145.I7 U77 2018




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Vancouverism / Larry Beasley ; with a prologue by Frances Bula

Rotch Library - HT178.C22 V292 2019




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Residency, class, and community in the contemporary Chinese city / edited by William Hurst

Rotch Library - HT384.C6 R47 2018




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Transit-oriented displacement or community dividends?: understanding the effects of smarter growth on communities / Karen Chapple and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris

Rotch Library - HT241.C424 2019




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Rethinking third places: informal public spaces and community building / edited by Joanne Dolley, Caryl Bosman

Rotch Library - HT185.R48 2019




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Future Cities Laboratory / Stephen Cairns, Devisari Tunas (ed.), ETH Zürich / Singapore - ETH Centre

Rotch Library - HT166.F892 2019




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Temporary cities: resisting transience in Arabia / Yasser Elsheshtawy

Rotch Library - HT147.P37 E47 2019




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Creative spaces: urban culture and marginality in Latin America / edited by Niall H.D. Geraghty and Adriana Laura Massidda

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After the shock city: urban culture and the making of modern citizenship / Tom Hulme

Rotch Library - HT133.H85 2019




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Empty spaces: perspectives on emptiness in modern history / edited by Courtney J. Campbell, Allegra Giovine and Jennifer Keating

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Housing estates in the Baltic Countries: the legacy of central planning in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania / Daniel Baldwin Hess, Tiit Tammaru, editors

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Urban ethics under conditions of crisis: politics, architecture, landscape sustainability and multidisciplinary engineering / editors, Konstantinos Moraitis, Stamatina Th. Rassia

Rotch Library - HT167.U715 2019




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Massive suburbanization: (re)building the global periphery / edited by K. Murat Güney, Roger Keil, and Murat Üçoğlu

Rotch Library - HT351.M37 2019




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Amsterdam Human Capital.

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The case for open space: why the real estate industry should invest in parks and open spaces / Urban Land Institute

Rotch Library - HT167.U7125 2018




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Designing accessibility instruments: lessons on their usability for integrated land use and transport planning practices / edited by Cecilia Silva, Luca Bertolini and Nuno Pinto

Rotch Library - HT166.D3865 2019




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Designing San Francisco: art, land, and urban renewal in the City by the Bay / Alison Isenberg

Rotch Library - NA9127.S3 I84 2017




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Inhabiting the sacred in everyday life: how to design a place that touches your heart, stirs you to consecrate and cultivate it as home, dwell intentionally within it, slay monsters for it, and let it loose in your democracy / Randolph T. Hester, Jr. and

Rotch Library - HT167.H47 2019




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The riddle of the real city, or the dark knowledge of urbanism: genealogy, prophecy and epistemology / Wim Nijenhuis

Rotch Library - NA9031.N55 2017




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A future for planning: taking responsibility for twenty-first century challenges / Michael Harris

Rotch Library - HT166.H379 2019




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"One planet" cities: sustaining humanity within planetary limits / David Thorpe

Rotch Library - HT241.T56 2019




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Uneven urbanscape: spatial structures and ethnoracial inequality / Paul M. Ong, Silvia R. Gonzalez

Rotch Library - HT151.O67 2019