Alan Wilson: 25 books
by Alan Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
In this important and timely book Alan Wilson argues that allowing gay people to marry is a moral purpose. Wilson says: ‘I asked myself “what does God want for gay people?”. After re-revisiting the Bible, and more importantly getting to know gay people of all types and varying backgrounds, he...
by Rosie Harper, Alan Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
‘The mark of a healthy and authentically Christian community is not large numbers, inspiring worship, or dogmatic theology, but the way in which power is exercised within it.’
In recent years churches have found themselves all but overwhelmed by safeguarding concerns and allegations of...
Highland Shepherd
James MacGregor, Father of the Scottish Enlightenment in Nova Scotia
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
In 1786, the Reverend James MacGregor (1759–1830) was dispatched across the North Atlantic to establish a dissenting Presbyterian church in Pictou, Nova Scotia. The decision dismayed MacGregor, who had hoped for a post in the Scottish Highlands. Yet it led to a remarkable career in what was still...
The Science of Cities and Regions
Lectures on Mathematical Model Design
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
A ‘science of cities and regions’ is critical for meeting future challenges. The world is urbanising: huge cities are being created and are continuing to grow rapidly. There are many planning and development issues arising in different manifestations in countries across the globe. These developments...
Catastrophe Theory and Bifurcation (Routledge Revivals)
Applications to Urban and Regional Systems
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Mathematical models have long been used by geographers and regional scientists to explore the working of urban and regional systems, via a system where the equilibrium point changes slowly and smoothly as the parameters change slowly and smoothly. However, this all changed with the advent of catastrophe...
Theonomics
Reconnecting Economics with Virtue and Integrity
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
At a time when economics, banking and commerce are never out of the headlines, Theonomics asks if theology is capable of informing, shaping and penetrating all aspects of life, and especially economic life. Theonomics argues for the recovery of the classic virtues of prudence, temperance, fortitude,...
by Alan Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2004
The 1930s were a troubled era, and England was a land of contrasts. This work gives a vivid impression of growing up in a working-class family in the East End at this time. It should be of interest to anyone who remembers the interwar years, and anyone interested in London's social history.
Explorations in Urban and Regional Dynamics
A case study in complexity science
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
The task of modelling the evolution of cities – the dynamics – is one of the major challenges of the social sciences. This book presents mathematical and computer models of urban and regional dynamics and shows how advances in computer visualisation provide new insights. Models of non-linear...
Collaborative Approach to Trade
Enhancing Connectivity in Sea- and Land-Locked Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
This book applies regional analysis to the challenges facing global investment agencies seeking to enhance trade in lagging regions. It shows how spatial interaction and agent-based modelling can be used as the basis for developing new plans and policies. An in-depth analysis of trade routes is presented,...
Knowledge Power
Interdisciplinary Education for a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Success in the twenty-first century demands knowledge power – for individuals, organisations, cities, regions and countries. This book offers a map showing the structure of the knowledge space in a contemporary context. The routes beyond traditional disciplines are charted, in part based on the...
by Alan Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
First published in 1970, this groundbreaking investigation into Entropy in Urban and Regional Modelling provides an extensive and detailed insight into the entropy maximising method in the development of a whole class of urban and regional models.
The book has its origins in work being carried...
Marketing Research
Delivering Customer Insight
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
This core textbook provides students with a concise and user-friendly overview of the marketing research process, taking a refreshingly non-technical approach. The goal of this focused text is to equip students with the skills needed to interpret and implement the outcomes of such research to effectuate...
by Inspector Alan M Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Ireland has long been a country of conflict. More than 400 years ago, the occupying English planted pre-Celtic Scots in the northern province of Ulster and divested the native Irish Celts of the land their ancestors owned for 2,000 years. This created a deep-seated enmity between the English and Irish,...
Fantastic Stories Presents: Fantasy Super Pack #1
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com present thirty-two wonderful tales of fantasy in this completely revised second edition text. More than seven hundred and fifty pages for your reading pleasure. Escape today! 'Immortal' by Shariann Lewitt; 'The Thing in the Attic' by James Blish;...
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