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European Integration and Housing Policy
ISBN: 9780415170260 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 housing markets * the impact of the Maastricht Treaty and other policy documents * the social consequences of integration including income distribution, homelessness and marginal housing estates * current housing policy in the Nordic countries and in Eastern Europe. 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: ...
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297,40 |
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Urban Segregation and the Welfare State : Inequality and Exclusion in Western Cities
ISBN: 9780415170598 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contributors from North America and Europe examine ethnic and socio-economic segregation patterns, social polarization and social exclusion in major cities in the Western world. They offer detailed analyses of particular cities, ranging from Johannesburg, Chicago and Toronto to Amsterdam, Stockholm and Belfast, and highlight the social problems in and of cities, indicating differences between nation-states in terms of economic restructuring, migration, welfare-state regimes and ethnic history.
Contributors from North America and Europe examine ethnic and socio-economic segregation patterns, social polarization and social exclusion in major c...
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991,52 |
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Urban Change and the European Left: Tales from the New Barcelona
ISBN: 9780415170628 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Urban Change and the European Left looks at the way politicians and critics use the city to ground their political messages.
The book explores local narratives of urban change through ethnography, biography, travelogue, and social history. Drawing on novels, architectural commentaries, urban plans, political speeches, history and autobiography, Urban Change and the European Left provides accounts of public art, architecture, grassroots struggles, battles for control of the 1992 Olympics, and the city and Catalan identity. Urban Change and the European Left looks at the way politicians and critics use the city to ground their political messages.
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991,52 |
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Women's Lifeworlds: Women's Narratives on Shaping Their Realities
ISBN: 9780415171762 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women's Lifeworlds explores the diversity and complexity of women's perceptions and reactions to their own 'lifeworlds' in their own words. Examining the changing meaning of 'place' in women's lives over time and across space, this book questions how women face, negotiate and shape the social space of their environment. Engaging personal narratives are presented by fifteen women of various age groups, from different cultural, religious, social and geographical backgrounds, from Mexican politician, Muslim psychiatrist, Finnish housewife to Indian guru and African rural woman. Writing...
Women's Lifeworlds explores the diversity and complexity of women's perceptions and reactions to their own 'lifeworlds' in their own words. E...
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991,52 |
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What Is a Disaster?: A Dozen Perspectives on the Question
ISBN: 9780415178983 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are conflict situations such as the ethnic clashes in Yugoslavia or Rwanda, terrorist attacks and riots, the same kind of social crises as those generated by natural and technological happenings such as earthquakes and chemical explosions?
In What is a Disaster?, social science disaster researchers from six different disciplines advance their views on what a disaster is. Clashes in conceptions are highlighted, through the book's unique juxtaposition of the authors separately advanced views. A reaction paper to each set of views is presented by an experienced disaster researcher;... Are conflict situations such as the ethnic clashes in Yugoslavia or Rwanda, terrorist attacks and riots, the same kind of social crises as those gener...
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991,52 |
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What Is a Disaster?: A Dozen Perspectives on the Question
ISBN: 9780415178990 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are conflict situations such as the ethnic clashes in Yugoslavia or Rwanda, terrorist attacks and riots, the same kind of social crises as those generated by natural and technological happenings such as earthquakes and chemical explosions?
In What is a Disaster?, social science disaster researchers from six different disciplines advance their views on what a disaster is. Clashes in conceptions are highlighted, through the book's unique juxtaposition of the authors separately advanced views. A reaction paper to each set of views is presented by an experienced disaster researcher;... Are conflict situations such as the ethnic clashes in Yugoslavia or Rwanda, terrorist attacks and riots, the same kind of social crises as those gener...
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297,40 |
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Places Through the Body
ISBN: 9780415179058 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This exciting collection opens up many new conversations on BodyPlace and introduces new theories of embodied places and the placing of bodies.
Extensive introductory and concluding sections guide students through the key debates and themes. Places Through the Body draws on a wide range of contemporary examples and creative ideas to address such topics as: * How racist ideologies are embedded in modern architechtural discourse and practice * How urban spaces make bodies disabled * How the seemingly virtual worlds of knowledge and technology are embodied * How... This exciting collection opens up many new conversations on BodyPlace and introduces new theories of embodied places and the placing of bodies.
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292,45 |
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Geographies of Disability
ISBN: 9780415179096 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explains how space, place and mobility have shaped the experiences of disabled people both in the past and in contemporary societies. The key features of this insightful study include: Brendan Gleeson presents an important contribution to the major policy debates on disability in Western societies and... This book explains how space, place and mobility have shaped the experiences of disabled people both in the past and in contemporary societies. The... |
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436,21 |
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The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction
ISBN: 9780415184472 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A chilling account of the dangers facing the human race as we approach the next millenium. Can you afford to ignore the manifest dangers facing future generations?
A chilling account of the dangers facing the human race as we approach the next millenium. Can you afford to ignore the manifest dangers facing future...
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208,17 |
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Culture/Place/Health
ISBN: 9780415190657 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 the links between culture, place and health. It uses a wealth of examples from societies around the world to assert the place of culture in shaping relations between health and place. It contributes to an expanding of horizons at the intersection of the discipline of geography and the multidisciplinary domain of health concerns.
Culture/Place/Health is the first exploration of cultural-geographical health research for a decade, drawing on contemporary research underta...
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991,52 |
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Culture/Place/Health
ISBN: 9780415190664 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 the links between culture, place and health. It uses a wealth of examples from societies around the world to assert the place of culture in shaping relations between health and place. It contributes to an expanding of horizons at the intersection of the discipline of geography and the multidisciplinary domain of health concerns.
Culture/Place/Health is the first exploration of cultural-geographical health research for a decade, drawing on contemporary research underta...
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292,45 |
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Landscapes of Globalization : Human Geographies of Economic Change in the Philippines
ISBN: 9780415191593 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this critical and sophisticated analysis, Philip F. Kelly challenges the conventional definition of globalization as an irresistible and inevitable force to which societies must succumb. By tracing the consequences of global economic integration in the Philippines, he argues that global processes are constituted, accommodated, mediated and resisted in social processes at multiple scales, from the national economy to the village and the household.
In this critical and sophisticated analysis, Philip F. Kelly challenges the conventional definition of globalization as an irresistible and inevitable...
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Environmental Management in Practice: Instruments for Environmental Management
ISBN: 9780415191647 / Angielski / Pudełko z zestawem (boxed set) / 3 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These three comprehensive volumes contain the most up-to-date research and practical applications in the field. Spanning the main aspects of environmental management instruments compartments, sectors and ecosystems, this work contains over sixty contributions from leading specialists in each field and offers the first major source of contemporary international research and practical application of environemntal management
Volume 1: Instruments for Environmental Management, focuses on the instruments and tools currently available to the environmental manager. September 1998: 246x189:... These three comprehensive volumes contain the most up-to-date research and practical applications in the field. Spanning the main aspects of environme...
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5502,91 |
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Victorian City - Re-Issue V1
ISBN: 9780415193238 / Angielski / Twarda / 708 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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1933,46 |
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The Victorian City
ISBN: 9780415193252 / Angielski / Twarda / 1046 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in two volumes, The Victorian City was a major landmark, particularly in the study of the social and intellectual attitudes of Victorian society to the challenge of urbanization. Unique in its many-sided approach to the total phenomenon of the city, this set deals on many levels with the city environment and includes:
* discussion of the city's growth, fabric, institutions, health, poverty, politics, religion, diversions * analysis of the ways in which artists, photographers and ordinary people responded to these new landscapes * rich illustrations from... Originally published in two volumes, The Victorian City was a major landmark, particularly in the study of the social and intellectual attitu...
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Sex Tourism: Marginal People and Liminalities
ISBN: 9780415195096 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sex Tourism examines the issues which emerge from sex worker-client interactions and from tourists visiting 'sex destinations'. It is a comprehensive summary of past research by academics and original primary and secondary research by the authors and has examples from Asia, Australasia and the USA.
The authors have generated new models to show different dimensions of sex tourism, which normalise at least some components of the sex industry, and represent a new way of looking at sex tourism by challenging the preconceived perceptions that some people have of sex tourism or confirm... Sex Tourism examines the issues which emerge from sex worker-client interactions and from tourists visiting 'sex destinations'. It is a compr...
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768,42 |
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Sex Tourism: Marginal People and Liminalities
ISBN: 9780415195102 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sex Tourism examines the issues which emerge from sex worker-client interactions and from tourists visiting 'sex destinations'. It is a comprehensive summary of past research by academics and original primary and secondary research by the authors and has examples from Asia, Australasia and the USA.
The authors have generated new models to show different dimensions of sex tourism, which normalise at least some components of the sex industry, and represent a new way of looking at sex tourism by challenging the preconceived perceptions that some people have of sex tourism or confirm... Sex Tourism examines the issues which emerge from sex worker-client interactions and from tourists visiting 'sex destinations'. It is a compr...
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327,15 |
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Sustainability: Life Chances and Livelihoods
ISBN: 9780415196185 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The concept of sustainability is traditionally viewed in exclusively environmental terms. Sustainability: Life Chances and Livelihoods links peoples livelihoods and life chances to the concept of sustainability by examining the way in which social and economic processes complement and compound environmental change. Looking at the main ingredients of sustainable development - health, economic policy, land use, ethics and education, in both the north and south, this book demonstrates the way in which the life chances of individuals both effect and are affected by, their environments....
The concept of sustainability is traditionally viewed in exclusively environmental terms. Sustainability: Life Chances and Livelihoods links peoples l...
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292,45 |
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Spaces of Global Cultures : Architecture, Urbanism, Identity
ISBN: 9780415196208 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book draws on architectural, urban and built environment writings and evidence in various cities across the world to examine existing theories of globalisation and develop new ones. King examines the processes of globalisation and how these are developed and architecturally inscribed in various world regions. Addressing readers in architecture, geography, sociology as well as urban, cultural and postcolonial studies, Spaces of Global Cultures asks what globalization is doing to architectural and urban form .
This book draws on architectural, urban and built environment writings and evidence in various cities across the world to examine existing theories of...
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391,60 |
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Mapping Cyberspace
ISBN: 9780415198837 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mapping Cyberspace is a ground-breaking geographic exploration and critical reading of cyberspace, and information and communication technologies. The book:
* provides an understanding of what cyberspace looks like and the social interactions that occur there * explores the impacts of cyberspace, and information and communication technologies, on cultural, political and economic relations * charts the spatial forms of virutal spaces * details empirical research and examines a wide variety of maps and spatialisations of cyberspace and the information society * has a... Mapping Cyberspace is a ground-breaking geographic exploration and critical reading of cyberspace, and information and communication technolo...
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941,94 |
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