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  • Telegraph Messenger Boys Telegraph Messenger Boys
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    Telegraph Messenger Boys

    In Telegraph Messenger Boys Gregory J. Downey provides an entirely new perspective on the telegraph system: a communications network that revolutionized human perceptions of time and space. The book...
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  • Emerging Johannesburg Emerging Johannesburg
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    Emerging Johannesburg

    Johannesburg is most often compared with Sao Paulo and Los Angeles and sometimes even with Budapest, Calcutta and Jerusalem. Johannesburg reflects and informs conditions in cities around the world...
    $385.00

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  • Culture-Led Urban Regeneration Culture-Led Urban Regeneration
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    Culture-Led Urban Regeneration

    The idea that culture can be employed as a driver for urban economic growth has become part of the new orthodoxy by which cities seek to enhance their competitive position. Such developments reflect...
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  • Gated Communities Gated Communities
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    Gated Communities

    This informative volume gathers contemporary accounts of the growth, influences on, and impacts of so-called gated communities, developments with walls, gates, guards and other forms of surveillance...
    $359.00

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  • Urban World/Global City Urban World/Global City
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    Urban World/Global City

    This book identifies and accounts for the characteristics of the contemporary city and of urban society. It analyzes the distribution and growth of settlements and explores the social and behavioral...
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  • The City Cultures Reader The City Cultures Reader
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    The City Cultures Reader

    Cities are both products of culture, and sites where culture is made and received. By presenting the very best of classic and contemporary writing on the culture of cities, The City Cultures Reader...
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  • Culture/Place/Health Culture/Place/Health
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    Culture/Place/Health

    Culture/Place/Health is the first exploration of cultural-geographical health research for a decade, drawing on contemporary research undertaken by geographers and other social scientists to explore...
    $147.00

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  • Embodied Geographies Embodied Geographies
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    Embodied Geographies

    Embodied Geographies provides a comprehensive account of different types of life crises which develop our identities and affect how we live our lives. Chapters focus on:* pregnancy, childbirth,...
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  • An Unruly World? An Unruly World?
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    An Unruly World?

    An Unruly World explores the diverse conundrums thrown up by seemingly unruly globalization. Examining how fast transnational capitalism is re-making the rules of the game, in a wide variety of...
    $333.00

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  • Theorizing Transition Theorizing Transition
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    Theorizing Transition

    Theorizing Transition provides a comprehensive examination of the development of the economic, political, social and cultural transformations in post-Communist Europe and offers an important critique...
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  • Environmentalism and the Mass Media Environmentalism and the Mass Media
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    Environmentalism and the Mass Media

    The mass media in different countries reflects dominant concerns of contemporary societies. Ideas of `environmentalism' are often broad and imprecise, holding neither meaning nor currency...
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  • Justice, Society and Nature Justice, Society and Nature
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    Justice, Society and Nature

    Justice, Society and Nature examines the moral response which the world must make to the ecological crisis if there is to be real change in the global society and economy to favour ecological...
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  • A History of Nature Conservation in Britain A History of Nature Conservation in Britain
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    A History of Nature Conservation in Britain

    Our attitudes towards `nature' and the countryside are fickle. The conservation movement, despite enjoying its highest membership ever, has achieved only limited success over the last one hundred...
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  • Societies and Nature in the Sahel Societies and Nature in the Sahel
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    Societies and Nature in the Sahel

    This book explores the links between environment and social systems in the Sahel, integrating ecological, demographic, economic, technical, social and cultural factors. Examining the conditions for...
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  • Eco-facts and Eco-fiction Eco-facts and Eco-fiction
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    Eco-facts and Eco-fiction

    Ozone-friendly, recyclable, zero-waste, elimination of toxic chemicals - such environmental ideals are believed to offer solutions to the environmental crisis. Where do these ideals come from? Is the...
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  • Geographies of Exclusion Geographies of Exclusion
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    Geographies of Exclusion

    Images of exclusion characterised western cultures over long historical periods. In the developed society of racism, sexism and the marginalisation of minority groups, exclusion has become the...
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  • Transport and Development in the Third World Transport and Development in the Third World
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    Transport and Development in the Third World

    It is widely acknowledged that transport is a necessary condition for development to occur. Transport issues have become highly contentious and politicised. This volume presents a balanced review of...
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  • Third World in the First Third World in the First
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    Third World in the First

    European colonisation has marginalised the `first peoples' in industrialised countries such as Australia and Canada. In remote regions, still the homes of large Aboriginal, Indian and Inuit...
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  • Patrick Geddes Patrick Geddes
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    Patrick Geddes

    One of the great social thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Sir Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) enjoyed a career of astonishing diversity. This new analysis of his life and work...
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  • Managing Water as an Economic Resource Managing Water as an Economic Resource
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    Managing Water as an Economic Resource

    Water, already a scarce resource, is treated as though it were plentiful and free. The task of supplying enough water of the required quality to growing populations is straining authorities and...
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  • Britain, Spain and Gibraltar 1945-1990
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    Britain, Spain and Gibraltar 1945-1990

    Since 1945 Gibraltar's sovereignty has repeatedly been questioned. A strategic possession overlooking Africa at the mouth of the Mediterranean, Gibraltar is the victim of both history and geography...
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  • Fractured Cities Fractured Cities
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    Fractured Cities

    Anglo-American cities face economic decline, social polarisation and racial conflict. Their fate is increasingly decided by the global actions of transnational corporations and market forces...
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  • The Domestication of Women The Domestication of Women
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    The Domestication of Women

    "The Domestication of Women is a feminist critique of international development agencies and programs. A researcher in development studies with past experience as a United Nations consultant, Barbara...
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  • The Behavioural Environment The Behavioural Environment
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    The Behavioural Environment

    Placing human action and perception at the centre of the subject, this book considers the effects of mankind on the environment, drawing particularly from William Kirk's work on the behavioural...
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  • Ecology of Shallow Lakes Ecology of Shallow Lakes
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    Ecology of Shallow Lakes

    This book presents a theoretical framework for understanding the dynamics of shallow lake communities as it has evolved over the past years from a combination of empirical studies, experimental...
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  • Agriculture and the Citizen Agriculture and the Citizen
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    Agriculture and the Citizen

    The purpose of Agriculture and the Citizen is to help people understand the way in which agriculture operates, providing the information necessary to enable them to arrive at an informed view on ...
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  • Empire, Gender, and Bio-geography Empire, Gender, and Bio-geography
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    Empire, Gender, and Bio-geography

    This book explores the relationships between empire, natural history and gender in the production of geographical knowledge and its translation between colonial Burma and Britain. Focusing on the...
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  • Aid, Ownership and Development Aid, Ownership and Development
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    Aid, Ownership and Development

    One of the key principles for effective aid programmes is that recipient agencies exert high degrees of ownership over the agendas, resources, systems and outcomes of aid activities. Sovereign...
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  • Risk Communication and Community Resilience Risk Communication and Community Resilience
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    Risk Communication and Community Resilience

    Risk communication is crucial to building community resilience and reducing risk from extreme events.True community resilience involves accurate and timely dissemination of risk information to...
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  • Big Data, Code and the Discrete City Big Data, Code and the Discrete City
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    Big Data, Code and the Discrete City

    Big Data, Code and the Discrete City explores how digital technologies is gradually changing the way in which the public space is designed,  managed , and experienced. This book examines how...
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  • Routledge Handbook of Wine Tourism Routledge Handbook of Wine Tourism
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    Routledge Handbook of Wine Tourism

    Wine tourism or enotourism or oenotourism or winery tourism or vinitourism is a special interest tourism that empowers local culture and spawns business opportunities for the local community. The...
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  • The Mediterranean Region The Mediterranean Region
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    The Mediterranean Region

    First published in 1984, The Mediterranean Region considers the broad economic and political problems facing the region from a variety of perspectives. The book features the work of international...
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    Routledge Companion to Cycling

    Routledge Companion to Cycling presents a comprehensive overview of an artefact that throughout the modern era has been a bellwether indicator of the major social, economic and environmental trends...
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  • Global Black Feminisms Global Black Feminisms
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    Global Black Feminisms

    This timely and informative volume centres how global Black feminist narratives of care are important to our contemporary theorizing and highlights the transgressive potential of a critical...
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  • The Cultural Politics of Anti-Elitism The Cultural Politics of Anti-Elitism
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    The Cultural Politics of Anti-Elitism

    This book examines the highly ambivalent implications and effects of anti-elitism. It draws on this theme as a cross cutting entry point to provide transdisciplinary analysis of current conjunctures...
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  • Mega-City Region Development in China Mega-City Region Development in China
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    Mega-City Region Development in China

    This book sheds light on the mega-city region development in China as a new form of urbanization which plays a crucial role in the economic development of the country. It examines the challenges...
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