Ciencias sociales / Geografía humana

Mobile Methods

de Monika Büscher & JOHN Urry

Mobile Methods is an essential collection of social science texts which focus on new mobile methods of social research relating to mobility, place and the social practices and relations that mediate embodied...

Organization Theory and Transnational Social Movements: Organizational Life and Internal Dynamics of Power Exercise within the Alternative Globalizati

de Kléber Ghimire

This book explores the internal functioning and exercise of power inside a widely acclaimed transnational social organization: the alternative globalization movement. Drawing on new empirical data and perspectives...

Fake Stuff

de Yi-Chieh Jessica Lin

Yi-Chieh Lin reveals how the entrepreneurial energy of emerging markets, such as China, includes the opportunity to profit from fake stuff, that is counterfeit goods that rely on our fascination with brand names....

Last Harvest: From Cornfield to New Town

de Witold Rybczynski

In Last Harvest, the award-winning author of Home and A Clearing in the Distance tells the compelling story of New Daleville, a brand-new residential subdivision in rural Pennsylvania. When Witold Rybczynski...

Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway

de Matt Dellinger

Interstate 69 is an enlightening journey through the heart of America. With this epic tale of one vast and controversial road project, Matt Dellinger brings to life the country's complex political, social, and...

Tourism Policy and Planning: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

de David L. Edgell Sr & Jason Swanson

The wellspring to the future global growth in tourism is a commitment toward good policy and strategic planning. Governments, the private sector, international organizations, academic institutions, and not-for-profit...

Urban Regeneration in the UK

de Andrew Tallon

Striking transformations are taking place in the urban landscape. The regeneration of urban areas in the UK and around the world has become an increasingly important issue amongst governments and populations...

Development Organizations

de Rebecca Schaaf

Continuing debates over the meaning of development and awareness of the persistence of poverty have resulted in increasing concern over how to 'do' development. There are growing numbers of development organizations,...

Catalysts for Change: 21st Century Philanthropy and Community Development

de Maria Martinez-Cosio & Mirle Rabinowitz Bussell

21st Century Philanthropy and Community fills a gap in the literature on philanthropic organizations and how they intertwine with community development. Drawing first on the history of philanthropic funding,...

Interrogating Feminist Understandings of the Urban

de Linda Peake & Martina Rieker

In Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban, Linda Peake and Martina Rieker embark on an ambitious project to explore the extent to which a feminist re-imagining of the twenty-first century city can...

The Connected City: How Networks Are Shaping the Modern Metropolis

de Zachary P. Neal

The Connected City explores how thinking about networks helps make sense of modern cities: what they are, how they work, and where they are headed. Cities and urban life can be examined as networks, and these...

Water Governance, Policy and Knowledge Transfer: International Studies on Contextual Water Management

de Cheryl De Boer, Joanne Vinke-de Kruijf & Gül Özerol

In an increasingly global community of researchers and practitioners, new technologies and communication means have made the transfer of policies from one country or region to another progressively more prevalent....

Western Welfare in Decline: Globalization and Women's Poverty

de Catherine Kingfisher

Western Welfare in Decline explores the plight of poor single mothers in five English-speaking countries that have implemented welfare restructuring: the United States, Canada, Britain, and New Zealand.

Young People, Place and Identity

de Peter E. Hopkins

Young People, Place and Identity offers a series of rich insights into young people's everyday lives. What places do young people engage with on a daily basis? How do they use these places? How do their identities...

Culture and Global Change

de Tim Allen & Tracey Skelton

Culture and Global Change presents a comprehensive introduction to the cultural aspects of third world development. It contains 25 chapters from leading writers in the field who each explore a particular aspect...

Environment and Philosophy

de Emily Brady, with Jane Howarth & Vernon Pratt

Environment and Philosophy provides an accessible introduction to the radical challenges that environmentalism poses to concepts that have become almost second nature in the modern world. These include:

* the...

Health Ecology: Health, Culture and Human-Environment Interaction

de Thomas Boleyn & Morteza Honari

This ground-breaking study offers new challenges to those teaching, studying or developing strategies and policies in health and the environment.Bringing together a variety of approaches from different perspectives...

European Integration and Housing Policy

de Mark Kleinman, Walter Matznetter & Mark Stephens

This book presents a series of debates arising from the housing needs of different EU countries. The authors address key issues by examining in turn:

* the consequences of European integration for different...

Global Trade and Global Social Issues

de Annie Taylor Nfa, Annie Taylor & Caroline Thomas

In Global Trade and Social Issues leading academics and NGO workers offer a much-needed counterweight to the liberal consensus. A critical reflection on the whole project of restructuring world trade, this is...

Whose Urban Renaissance?: An international comparison of urban regeneration strategies

de Libby Porter & Kate Shaw

The desire of governments for a 'renaissance' of their cities is a defining feature of contemporary urban policy. From Melbourne and Toronto to Johannesburg and Istanbul, government policies are successfully...