Bücher von Rob Sullivan

Did you ever wonder what that clerk was thinking at the Post Office while you stood in line? Here is your passport into the life of someone who saw you at your best and worst. Rob was that friendly soul who guided you through the pitfalls of bureaucracy of the finest postal service the world has ever known. Enter the mind of one who was born to serve.Mixing prose and poetry, Post Scripts unfolds with ample room for observation and musing. This is the stuff of life, a life of work, and a life beyond work. (For maximum pleasure, read it aloud.)

This book examines the metaphorical existence of the city as an entity to understand its significance in planning and geography. Case studies of New York, Paris, Cairo, Mumbai, Tokyo and Los Angeles explore specific metaphors allowing the reader to understand the city from differing points of view.

Anthropologists, psychologists, feminists, and sociologists have long studied the "everyday", the quotidian, the taken-for-granted; however, geographers have lagged behind in engaging with this aspect of reality. Rob Sullivan makes the case for geography as a powerful conceptual framework for seeing the everyday anew.

The first section of this book, provides a critique of the various theories applied to Los Angeles during the last century, balancing the positive with the negative. The second part of the book is an investigation of L.A. as it exists on the ground today. While political.

Offers an investigation of how geography is informed by speech act theory and performativity. Starting with a critical analysis of how JL Austin's speech act theory probed the permeability between fact and fiction, this title explores the fictional aspects within scientific knowledge.

Data mining provides a set of new techniques to integrate, synthesize, and analyze tdata, uncovering the hidden patterns that exist within.