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This book investigates the transfer of parent country organizational practices by the retailers to their Chinese subsidiaries, providing insights into employment relations in multinational retail firms and changing labour-management systems in China, as well as their...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-07-12
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The Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning is an authoritative volume on planning, a long-established professional social science discipline in the U.S. and throughout the world. Edited by Rachel Weber and Randall Crane, professors at two leading planning institutes in the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-07-01
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The Supreme Court grew out of a unique opportunity to interview all nine sitting Supreme Court Justices plus retired Justice O'Connor for a documentary on the Supreme Court. Through Brian Lamb and Susan Swain's interviews with our country's most influential judges, the...
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PublicAffairs
Parution :
2011-06-11
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Utilizing research from the U.S., Italy, and the Netherlands, Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets presents an in depth examination of the practice of redlining and the broader implications of contemporary urban exclusion processes. Covers exclusion in mortgage...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-05-12
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives. The most interdisciplinary collection of its kind Provides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds on well established...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-23
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
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Utilizing innovative ethnographic research, Swept Up Lives? challenges conventional accounts of urban homelessness to trace the complex and varied attempts to care for homeless people Presents innovative ethnographic research which suggests an important shift in...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-01-31
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RGS-IBG Book Series
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67,80€
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The authors trace out the development of capitalism and U.S. imperialism in Latin America in the latest phase of this development, from the installation of the new world order of neoliberal globalization in the early 1980s to the present when U.S. imperialism is held at...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-01-31
Collection :
Social Movements and Transformation
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Based on a fifteen year longitudinal cross-cultural analysis on the role of the body in identity construction process around the world, this analysis provides readers with a comparative theoretical exploration of piercing and other forms of body modification that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-01-31
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As racially-based inequalities and spatial segregation deepen, further strained by emergent problems associated with climate change, ever-widening differences between wealth and poverty, and the economic crisis, this book issues a timely call for just, sustainable...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-01-31
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This book argues for the centrality of Georg Simmel's social theory to the relational and processual emphases that are often considered as much more recent developments in social theory. Situating Simmel's work in particular with respect to New Vitalism and Bruno...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-09-17
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Providing a detailed account of contemporary outdoor advertising and its relationship with urban space, this book examines what the outdoor advertising industry tells us about the commercial production of urban space, what industry practices reveal about contemporary...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-07-28
Collection :
Consumption and Public Life
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Constructing Mexico City: Colonial Conflicts over Culture, Space, and Authority examines the spatial, material, and cultural dimensions of life in eighteenth-century Mexico City, through programs that colonial leaders created to renovate and reshape urban environments.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-07-19
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Utilizing innovative ethnographic research, Swept Up Lives? challenges conventional accounts of urban homelessness to trace the complex and varied attempts to care for homeless people Presents innovative ethnographic research which suggests an important shift in...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-05-11
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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Noise is usually defined as unwanted sound: loud music from a neighbor, the honk of a taxicab, the roar of a supersonic jet. But as Garret Keizer illustrates in this probing examination, noise is as much about what we want as about what we seek to avoid. It has been a...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2010-05-04
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"A brave foray into the interdisciplinary and a serious attempt to cover city life in all its complexity... Franklin's optimism about the city is refreshing. He revels in the growing human and cultural diversity and the 're-emergence and spread of a more tolerant,...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2010-05-01
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This book examines the development and transformation of global capitalism in the late 20th and early 21st century. It analyzes the dynamics and contradictions of the global political economy through a comparative-historical approach based on class analysis. After...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-04-12
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Highly popular with both the public and political leaders, community policing is the most important development in law enforcement in the last twenty-five years. But does community policing really work? Can police departments fundamentally change their organization? Can...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-12-01
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This volume provides a systematic overview of the contemporary Latin American youth violence phenomenon. The authors focus specifically on youth gangs, juvenile justice issues, and applied research concerns, providing a rounded and balanced exploration of this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-10-26
Collection :
Studies of the Americas
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Since the advent of the European Union, politicians have increasingly emphasized the notion of a European social model as an alternative to the American form of market capitalism, which is seen as promoting economic growth without regard for solidarity and social...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-10-07
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