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New Directions in Human Information Behavior, co-edited by Drs. Amanda Spink and Charles Cole provides an understanding of the new directions, leading edge theories and models in human information behavior. Information behavior is conceptualized as complex human information related processes that are embedded within an individual s everyday social and life processes.

The book presents chapters by an interdisciplinary range of scholars who show new directions that often challenge the established views and paradigms of information behavior studies. Beginning with an evolutionary...

This book is the culmination of several years of work by geographers, planners, and economists. The chapters included in this volume represent the collective efforts of the International Geographical Union s Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces, at their 2005 annual meeting in Toledo, Ohio (USA). The papers were selected based on their contribution to the community of economic geographers and policymakers and to demonstrate the inherent interconnectedness of these themes."

This book examines the role that institutional characteristics of host countries play in labour market integration of immigrants in the European Union. Drawing on existing research, it develops a comprehensive conceptual framework of factors and underlying mechanisms which affect immigrant integration in the fifteen nations that comprise the European Union. The author analyzes selected EU countries in depth, investigating the extent to which immigrants have succeeded or failed in different institutional contexts.

We are on the verge of what many are calling the "second information revolution," based on ubiquitous access to both computing and information. The technologies of instant access have potential to transform dramatically our lives. This book contains chapters by leading international experts. They discuss issues surrounding the impact of instant access on cities, daily lives, transportation, privacy, social and economic networks, community and education.

Linking People, Place, and Policy: A GIScience Approach describes a breadth of research associated with the study of human-environment interactions, with particular emphasis on land use and land cover dynamics. This book examines the social, biophysical, and geographical drivers of land use and land cover patterns and their dynamics, which are interpreted within a policy-relevant context. Concepts, tools, and techniques within Geographic Information Science serve as the unifying methodological framework in which landscapes in Thailand, Ecuador, Kenya, Cambodia, China,...

• Each of the chapters focuses on a key issue that has divided or galvanised geographers in their work.
  
• Covers both human and physical geography.
  
• Includes essay questions and suggestions for further reading.
  
• Demonstrates to students the distinctiveness and vitality of modern geography.

• Presents the most detailed and current work to date


• Written in a style that is both intelligent and accessible


• Fully illustrated with original drawings and photographs


• Relevant and information for a broad audience working on organic sediments in various environments

• Advances a new framework for considering the diverse spatialities of publicness in relation to the city
  
• Argues that a city's contribution to the making of publics goes beyond the provision of places for public gathering
  
• Examines a series of detailed case studies
  
• Looks at the relationship...

• Advances a new framework for considering the diverse spatialities of publicness in relation to the city
  
• Argues that a city's contribution to the making of publics goes beyond the provision of places for public gathering
  
• Examines a series of detailed case studies
  
• Looks at the relationship...

• A valuable corrective to recent characterizations of territory as a static and given geographical concept
  
• An explication of the political geographies of state reproduction and transformation, through its focus on state territoriality and the variegated character of state power
  People/States/Territories examines the role of state personnel in shaping, and being shaped by, state organizations and territories, and demons...

• A valuable corrective to recent characterizations of territory as a static and given geographical concept
  
• An explication of the political geographies of state reproduction and transformation, through its focus on state territoriality and the variegated character of state power
  People/States/Territories examines the role of state personnel in shaping, and being shaped by, state organizations and territories, and demons...

• This book provides the first intensive study focusing on building cleaners and their global experiences
  
• Brings together an international group of scholars and experts to investigate different national contexts and examples
  
• Draws out important commonalities and highlights significant differences in these experiences
  
• Examines topics including...

• Presents original contributions by scholars from seven countries on four continents
• Connects newer thinking on global cities, networks, and governance in a post-national era of public health regulations and neo-liberalization of state services
• Provides an important contribution to the global public debate on the challenges of emerging infectious disease in cities
• Examines the...

• Presents original contributions by scholars from seven countries on four continents
• Connects newer thinking on global cities, networks, and governance in a post-national era of public health regulations and neo-liberalization of state services
• Provides an important contribution to the global public debate on the challenges of emerging infectious disease in cities
• Examines the...