New Releases by Neil Smith

Un escenario singular de la transformación del espacio público que se está produciendo en las ciudades occidentales ha sido Barcelona, cuya política urbanística de los años ochenta, orientada hacia el espacio público, culminó en las transformaciones propiciadas por los Juegos Olímpicos en 1992 y dio lugar a la expresión de «modelo Barcelona». Desde entonces, sin embargo, Barcelona se ha ido enfrentando a importantes cambios en los valores políticos que han dado lugar al nuevo espacio metropolitano. David Harvey es uno de los geógrafos más influyentes de los últimos treinta años. Sus trabajos sobre la geografía humana le han llevado a interesarse por los cambios en política económica, los procesos de urbanización en países capitalistas, las formas alternativas de urbanización y la justicia ambiental. Actualmente es profesor de geografía en la City University of New York (CUNY). Neil Smith es especialista en política económica, urbanismo social e historia y teoría de la geografía, dirige el Centro de Cultura y Política Geográfica en la City University of New York (CUNY) e imparte clases de antropología urbana y cultural. Ha investigado, entre otros temas, aspectos del desarrollo urbano, como el proceso de gentrificación y las pautas de inversión y desinversión que sigue el mercado inmobiliario.

An American Empire, constructed over the last century, long ago overtook European colonialism, and it has been widely assumed that the new globalism it espoused took us "beyond geography." Neil Smith debunks that assumption, offering an incisive argument that American globalism had a distinct geography and was pieced together as part of a powerful geographical vision. The power of geography did not die with the twilight of European colonialism, but it did change fundamentally. That the inauguration of the American Century brought a loss of public geographical sensibility in the United States was itself a political symptom of the emerging empire. This book provides a vital geographical-historical context for understanding the power and limits of contemporary globalization, which can now be seen as representing the third of three distinct historical moments of U.S. global ambition. The story unfolds through a decisive account of the career of Isaiah Bowman (1878–1950), the most famous American geographer of the twentieth century. For nearly four decades Bowman operated around the vortex of state power, working to bring an American order to the global landscape. An explorer on the famous Machu Picchu expedition of 1911 who came to be known first as "Woodrow Wilson’s geographer," and later as Frankin D. Roosevelt’s, Bowman was present at the creation of U.S. liberal foreign policy. A quarter-century later, Bowman was at the center of Roosevelt’s State Department, concerned with the disposition of Germany and heightened U.S. access to European colonies; he was described by Dean Acheson as a key "architect of the United Nations." In that period he was a leader in American science, served as president of Johns Hopkins University, and became an early and vociferous cold warrior. A complicated, contradictory, and at times controversial figure who was very much in the public eye, he appeared on the cover of Time magazine. Bowman’s career as a geographer in an era when the value of geography was deeply questioned provides a unique window into the contradictory uses of geographical knowledge in the construction of the American Empire. Smith’s historical excavation reveals, in broad strokes yet with lively detail, that today''s American-inspired globalization springs not from the 1980s but from two earlier moments in 1919 and 1945, both of which ended in failure. By recharting the geography of this history, Smith brings the politics—and the limits—of contemporary globalization sharply into focus.

In the North American Confederacy . . . People are free--really free. Free to do as they please, whether it be starting a business, running for elected office, or taking target practice in the back forty. There''s not a whole lot of government, nor is there a lot of crime, because everyone who wants to carries a gun, and isn''t afraid to use it. But someone has bombed the Endicott Building, killing hundreds of people, and Win Bear, the only licensed detective in the confederacy, has to find out who did this dastardly deed, and why. Because whoever did it has already shown their willingness to commit more terrorist acts, no matter how many people are hurt. And that can''t go on, or soon the confederacy will be just as the bad old United States--and that is something they want to avoid at all costs.

The quintessential Libertarian science fiction adventure from the three-time winner of the Prometheus Award, author of The Lando Calrissian Adventures . Denver detective Win Bear, on the trail of a murderer, discovers much more than a killer. He accidentally stumbles upon the probability broach, a portal to a myriad of worlds—some wildly different from, others disconcertingly similar to our own. Win finds himself transported to an alternate Earth where Congress is in Colorado, everyone carries a gun, there are gorillas in the Senate, and public services are controlled by private businesses. "Contained ideas I wish could be shouted to the world, ideas that come from the American heritage of freedom and which could bring still greater individual liberty, greater technical progress." ―Vernor Vinge, three-time Hugo Award-winning author "Pick up a new copy of the book and rediscover this exciting world, and reserve me a table at Meep''s Texas Barbecue." ― Prometheus

Science fiction roman.

Chomsky has had a major influence on modern linguistics, psychology, and philosophy. In this rigorous yet accessible account of Chomsky''s work, Neil Smith analyzes Chomsky''s key contributions to the study of both language and the mind. He gives a detailed exposition of Chomsky''s linguistic theorizing, and examines the ideas for which he is best known. Finally, Smith examines Chomsky''s political ideas and how these fit intellectually with his scholarly work. Throughout, Smith explores the controversy surrounding Chomsky''s work, and explains why he has been both adulated and vilified.

Tells the story of the Denver Bronco''s fight to overcome dyslexia, graduate from high school, and become a successful NFL player.

A woman warrior leads the fight against slavery in space. But Bretta Martyn''s ship has a resident spy and he throws her overboard. But she survives and will pay him back.

Rates the chemical ingredients and mechanical properties of 97 marine products, ranging from varnishes and wood sealants to cleaners and polishes, to enable boaters to select safer products to minimize their impact on the environment.

This unique book provides an introductory overview of modern theoretical linguistics which manages to be both accessible and humorous without sacrificing either scholarship of insight. In a series of magisterial vignettes Smith emphasizes the perennial necessity of appealing to linguistic theory if we are to gain any real understanding of the phenomena of language. However profound or however trivial the questions we raise and try answer - What exactly does one have to know to count as a speaker of a language? What would it mean for a language to have no vowels? Why do little children call lorries ''lollies''? Precisely what with this sentence is wrong? - we need to recourse to a theory even to make them coherent. In particular, the author argues that we can find solutions to our puzzles, and explanations for these phenomena, if we exploit on the one hand Chomsky''s theory of Generative Grammar, and on the other Sperber and Wilson''s theory of Relevance.

Chronicles the story of Sedrich, a brilliant and strong-willed man whose wife and son are brutally slain and who loses one hand defending his land, and Princess Ayesha, an intelligent beauty with visionary dreams

More than 150,000 women have been kidnapped without a trace or any ransom demand in the ''normal'' world run by the Federalists and the bureaucracy. But that is not the only problem, because the freedom loving population in the ''alternate'' reality of the North American Confederacy are facing their own crises. People are disappearing across the Probability Broach, including Win Bear''s closest friend, Featherstone-Haugh (who heads the Confederacy), and even Win''s wife and assistant.

What would you do first if you were elected President of the United States? Hope is the story of Alexander Hope, a young American who comes back from Vietnam, falls in love with a bright, beautiful girl, and with her starts a pioneering computer business. Thirty years later he''s a billionaire, and alone in life. He decides to leave behind everything he created to write books and teach history at a private college. A handful of admiring students half-jokingly enlist him as a candidate for a third party Presidential nomination. In an astonishing but plausible scenario, Hope wins the Presidency, and commences an ambitious program of enforcing the Constitution and Bill of Rights as they were written. Enemies arise from all sides aiming to obstruct, discredit, impeach, and even assassinate him. It''s a story of one man''s love for his country -- and for the principles that brought it into being -- for his family, for his friends, and especially for the lovely and brilliant young Internet reporter who believes in him. 440 pages.