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*Winner of the 2009 Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Prize, awarded by the American Sociological Association Labor and Labor Movements section* Claims have been made on the emergence of a new labour internationalism in response to the growing insecurity created by...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-08-02
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Antipode Book Series
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This insightful account demonstrates that capitalism in China has a history and a geography, and combines perspectives from both to demonstrate that regional economic restructuring in South China is far from an economic 'miracle's. Find out more information about the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-07-26
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RGS-IBG Book Series
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Through a series of case studies of low-status interactive and embodied servicing work, Working Bodies examines the theoretical and empirical nature of the shift to embodied work in service-dominated economies. Defines ‘body work’ to include the work by service sector...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-07-22
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IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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Examines the residential, policed, and infrastructural landscapes of New and Old Delhi under British Rule. The first book of its kind to present a comparative history of New and Old Delhi Draws on the governmentality theories and methodologies presented in Michel...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-07-22
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RGS-IBG Book Series
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After the Three Italies develops a new political economy approach to the analysis of comparative regional development and the territorial division of labour and exemplifies it through an up-to-date account of Italian industrial change and regional economic performance. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-07-22
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RGS-IBG Book Series
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This original study explores the difference that space and spatiality make to the understanding of power. Explores the difference that space and spatiality makes to an understanding of power. Moves forward the incorporation of ideas of space into social theory. ...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-07-22
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RGS-IBG Book Series
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Comprising contributions from a range of experts, this volume offers a critical commentary on the government's sustainable transport policy. A critical commentary on the Blair government's sustainable transport policy and its implementation. Firmly rooted in an...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-07-20
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RGS-IBG Book Series
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This groundbreaking book brings the study of whiteness and postcolonial perspectives to bear on debates about urban change. A thought-provoking contribution to debates about urban change, race and cosmopolitan urbanism Brings the study of whiteness to the discipline...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-07-18
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Antipode Book Series
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Utilizing environmental archival materials from the UK, State, Science and the Skies presents a groundbreaking historical account of the development of a state science of atmospheric pollution. Offers the most extensive historical and geographical account of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-06-24
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RGS-IBG Book Series
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The Workshop Proceedings reflect problems of advanced geo-information science as far as they are specifically concerned with the maritime environment at large.The Proceedings incorporate papers presented by leading scientists researching in the considered professional...
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Springer
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2011-06-17
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Learning the City: Translocal Assemblage and Urban Politics critically examines the relationship between knowledge, learning, and urban politics, arguing both for the centrality of learning for political strategies and developing a progressive international urbanism. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-06-15
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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This international rigorously peer-reviewed volume critically synthesizes current knowledge in forest hydrology and biogeochemistry. It is a one-stop comprehensive reference tool for researchers and practitioners in the fields of hydrology, biogeoscience, ecology,...
Editeur :
Springer
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2011-06-15
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Ecological Studies
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Geomorphology is the study of the Earth's diverse physical land-surface features and the dynamic processes that shape these features. Examining natural and anthropogenic processes, The SAGE Handbook ofGeomorphology is a comprehensive exposition of the fundamentals of...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2011-06-13
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Landslides represent one of the most destructive natural catastrophes. They can reach extremely long distances and velocities, and are capable of wiping out human communities and settlements. Yet landslides have a creative facet as they contribute to the modification of...
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Springer
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2011-05-13
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What are the current trends in housing? Is my planned project commercially viable?What should be my marketing and advertisement strategies? These are just some of the questions real estate agents, landlords and developers ask researchers to answer. But to find the...
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Springer
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2011-05-12
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Die vielfältigen Nutzungsansprüche an den Außenbereich, von den Erneuerbaren Energien über Anlagen zur Tierhaltung, Standorten für Kraftwerke oder die Anforderungen des europäischen und nationalen Habitat und Artenschutzes, haben in den letzten Jahren den Druck auf die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-02-21
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A refreshingly innovative approach to charting geographical knowledge.A wide range of authors trace the social construction and contestation of geographical ideas through the sites of their production and their relational geographies of engagement. This creative and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2011-02-17
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This book is intended to fill a knowledge gap in the study of contemporary high-rise living. While there has been much documentation on the engineering and technological aspects of tall buildings, relatively little has been written about the social and livability of...
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Springer
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2011-02-02
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Despite spatial statistics and spatial econometrics both being recent sprouts of the general tree "spatial analysis with measurement"—some may remember the debate after WWII about "theory without measurement" versus "measurement without theory"—several general themes...
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Springer
Parution :
2011-01-11
Collection :
Advances in Geographic Information Science
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Render three-dimensional data and maps with ease. Written as a self-study workbook, Introduction to 3D Data demystifies the sometimes confusing controls and procedures required for 3D modeling using software packages such as ArcGIS 3D Analyst and Google Earth. Going...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2010-12-17
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