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Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurs: Outsiders Inside Armenian Los Angeles
ISBN: 9781501770326 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurs presents the story of the Armenians of Glendale, California. Coming from Argentina, Armenia, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Russia, Syria, and many other countries, this group is internally fragmented and often has limited experience with the American political system. Nonetheless, Glendale's Armenians have rapidly mobilized and remade an American suburban space in their own likeness. In telling their story, Daniel Fittante expands our understanding of US political history. From the late nineteenth-century onward, Irish, Italian, Jewish, and several other...
Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurs presents the story of the Armenians of Glendale, California. Coming from Argentina, Armenia, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon...
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582,94 |
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Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurs: Outsiders Inside Armenian Los Angeles
ISBN: 9781501771477 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurs presents the story of the Armenians of Glendale, California. Coming from Argentina, Armenia, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Russia, Syria, and many other countries, this group is internally fragmented and often has limited experience with the American political system. Nonetheless, Glendale's Armenians have rapidly mobilized and remade an American suburban space in their own likeness. In telling their story, Daniel Fittante expands our understanding of US political history. From the late nineteenth-century onward, Irish, Italian, Jewish, and several other...
Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurs presents the story of the Armenians of Glendale, California. Coming from Argentina, Armenia, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon...
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101,97 |
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Housing and Residential Structure: Alternative Approaches
ISBN: 9780367756659 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1980, Housing and Residential Structure was written to take stock of the many changes that had recently taken place in explanatory approaches to housing markets and residential structure.
First published in 1980, Housing and Residential Structure was written to take stock of the many changes that had recently taken place in explanatory ...
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145,69 |
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For a Liberatory Politics of Home
ISBN: 9781478020523 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Michele Lancione questions the foundational notions of home and homelessness to offer a radical proposition: homelessness cannot be solved without dismantling current understandings of home.
Michele Lancione questions the foundational notions of home and homelessness to offer a radical proposition: homelessness cannot be solved without dis...
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437,21 |
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For a Liberatory Politics of Home
ISBN: 9781478025306 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Michele Lancione questions the foundational notions of home and homelessness to offer a radical proposition: homelessness cannot be solved without dismantling current understandings of home.
Michele Lancione questions the foundational notions of home and homelessness to offer a radical proposition: homelessness cannot be solved without dis...
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111,68 |
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Encountering Palestine: Un/making Spaces of Colonial Violence
ISBN: 9781496232588 / Angielski / Twarda / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited volume is situated at the intersection of cultural and political geographies that offers innovative reflections on power, colonialism, and anti-colonialism in contemporary Palestine and Israel.
This edited volume is situated at the intersection of cultural and political geographies that offers innovative reflections on power, colonialism, and...
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398,34 |
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Encountering Palestine: Un/making Spaces of Colonial Violence
ISBN: 9781496237491 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited volume is situated at the intersection of cultural and political geographies that offers innovative reflections on power, colonialism, and anti-colonialism in contemporary Palestine and Israel.
This edited volume is situated at the intersection of cultural and political geographies that offers innovative reflections on power, colonialism, and...
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116,54 |
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The Geography of Albania: Problems and Perspectives
ISBN: 9783030855536 / Angielski / Miękka / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first to give a comprehensive and detailed overview of the complete geography of Albania in English. It highlights the most important and manifold potentials of nature, society and economy of Albania as well as development problems during different time periods. One focus lies on Albania's perspectives and challenges for the future.Beside natural aspects also topics such as migration, poverty, social situation, economy, urban development, regional disparities among others are discussed.This book appeals to academics and researchers of geography, regional development and...
This book is the first to give a comprehensive and detailed overview of the complete geography of Albania in English. It highlights the most important...
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362,27 |
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Labour Control and Union Agency in Global Production Networks: A Case Study of the Bangalore Export-garment Cluster
ISBN: 9783031273865 / Angielski / Twarda / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book puts Indian garment workers and their organisations at the centre of the analysis. Taking the Bangalore export-garment cluster as a case study, the book explores the conditions that enable but also constrain the capacities of garment workers’ unions to build collective power vis-à-vis employers and thereby improve their conditions. Drawing on theoretical concepts from labour geography, relational economic geography, and Global Production Network (GPN) analysis, the book highlights, on the one hand, how the complex labour control regime in the Bangalore export-garment cluster...
This book puts Indian garment workers and their organisations at the centre of the analysis. Taking the Bangalore export-garment cluster as a case stu...
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201,24 |
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Labour Control and Union Agency in Global Production Networks: A Case Study of the Bangalore Export-garment Cluster
ISBN: 9783031273896 / Angielski / Miękka / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book puts Indian garment workers and their organisations at the centre of the analysis. Taking the Bangalore export-garment cluster as a case study, the book explores the conditions that enable but also constrain the capacities of garment workers’ unions to build collective power vis-à-vis employers and thereby improve their conditions. Drawing on theoretical concepts from labour geography, relational economic geography, and Global Production Network (GPN) analysis, the book highlights, on the one hand, how the complex labour control regime in the Bangalore export-garment cluster...
This book puts Indian garment workers and their organisations at the centre of the analysis. Taking the Bangalore export-garment cluster as a case stu...
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160,99 |
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The Irrigation Future of India
ISBN: 9783030896157 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book aims to bring forth and address the major issues confronting the irrigation sector of India and also to suggest policy pointers to sustain it. As the policy and reform canvas is large for a huge and diverse country, this book has particular focus on the most important and immediate issues and future options. The chapters not only focus on new research, in-depth analysis and technical details, but also provide a balanced review of the state of irrigation sector and comprehensive presentation of major issues, challenges and future options. With the presentation of... This book aims to bring forth and address the major issues confronting the irrigation sector of India and also to suggest policy pointers to sustai... |
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523,30 |
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Family and Class in a London Suburb
ISBN: 9781032542393 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1960, the authors of Family and Kinship in East London then made an intensive study of a middle-class dormitory suburb. Here families were more often on their own than in the East End, but, despite the differences between the districts, there were some similarities.
Originally published in 1960, the authors of Family and Kinship in East London then made an intensive study of a middle-class dormitory suburb. Here f...
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485,78 |
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New Developments in Urban Governance: Rethinking Collaboration in the Age of Austerity
ISBN: 9781529205879 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presenting the findings of a major Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project into urban austerity governance in eight cities across the world, this book offers comparative reflections on the myriad experiences of collaborative governance and its limitations.
Presenting the findings of a major Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project into urban austerity governance in eight cities across the worl...
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131,11 |
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A Public Sociology of Waste
ISBN: 9781529206562 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Critically analysing how waste is currently configured as a 'household' issue, this book illuminates the implications of these framings and how public sociology can engage critical publics to reorient waste as a global socio-ethical issue.
Critically analysing how waste is currently configured as a 'household' issue, this book illuminates the implications of these framings and how public...
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131,11 |
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The Rise of the Infrastructure State: How US–China Rivalry Shapes Politics and Place Worldwide
ISBN: 9781529220780 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tensions between the US and China have escalated as both powers seek to draw countries into their respective political and economic orbits by financing and constructing infrastructure. Wide-ranging and even-handed, this book offers a fresh interpretation of the territorial logic of US–China rivalry, and explores what it means for countries across Eurasia, Africa, and Latin America. The chapters demonstrate that many countries navigate the global infrastructure boom by articulating novel spatial objectives and implementing political and economic reforms. By focusing on people and places...
Tensions between the US and China have escalated as both powers seek to draw countries into their respective political and economic orbits by financin...
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135,98 |
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A timely rethinking of the archetypal story of Noah, the great flood, and who was left behind as the waters rose Most people know the story of Noah from a children’s bible or a play set with a colorful ship, bearded Noah, pairs of animals, and an uncomplicated vision of survival. Noah’s ark, however, will forever be haunted by what it leaves to the rising waters so that the world can begin again. In Noah’s Arkive, Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates examine the long history of imagining endurance against climate catastrophe—as well as alternative ways of creating refuge. They trace...
A timely rethinking of the archetypal story of Noah, the great flood, and who was left behind as the waters rose Most people know the story of Noah ...
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485,78 |
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Detroit After Bankruptcy: Are There Trends Towards an Inclusive City?
ISBN: 9781529235661 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Detroit is the first city of its size to become bankrupt and some policy makers have argued that, since then, it has entered a ‘new beginning’. This book critically examines the evidence for and against this claim. Joe T. Darden analyzes whether Detroit’s patterns of race and class neighborhood inequality have persisted or whether investments have led to improvements in academic achievement, homeownership, employment, and reductions in poverty and violent crime. He measures, quantitatively, the benefits and disadvantages of staying in urban Detroit or moving to the suburbs, and provides...
Detroit is the first city of its size to become bankrupt and some policy makers have argued that, since then, it has entered a ‘new beginning’. Th...
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388,57 |
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Detroit After Bankruptcy: Are There Trends Towards an Inclusive City?
ISBN: 9781529235678 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Detroit is the first city of its size to become bankrupt and some policy makers have argued that, since then, it has entered a ‘new beginning’. This book critically examines the evidence for and against this claim. Joe T. Darden analyzes whether Detroit’s patterns of race and class neighborhood inequality have persisted or whether investments have led to improvements in academic achievement, homeownership, employment, and reductions in poverty and violent crime. He measures, quantitatively, the benefits and disadvantages of staying in urban Detroit or moving to the suburbs, and provides...
Detroit is the first city of its size to become bankrupt and some policy makers have argued that, since then, it has entered a ‘new beginning’. Th...
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138,01 |
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Tours Inside the Snow Globe: Ottawa Monuments and National Belonging
ISBN: 9781771126021 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The toppling of monuments globally in the last few years has highlighted the potency of monuments as dynamic and affectively-loaded participants in society. In the context of Ottawa, Canada’s capital city, monuments inspire colonial and imperial nostalgia, compelling visitors to consistently re-imagine Canada as a white, Anglophone nation, built through the labour of white men: politicians, soldiers, and businessmen. At the same time, Ottawa monuments allow for dominant affective relationships to the nation to be challenged, demonstrated through subtle and explicit forms of defacement and...
The toppling of monuments globally in the last few years has highlighted the potency of monuments as dynamic and affectively-loaded participants in so...
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184,60 |
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Anthropogeomorphology: A Geospatial Technology Based Approach
ISBN: 9783030775742 / Angielski / Miękka / 668 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores state-of-art techniques based on open-source software and statistical programming and modelling in modern geospatial applications, specifically focusing on recent trends in data mining techniques and robust modelling in Geomorphological, Hydrological, Bio-physical and Social activities. The book is organized into physical, mountainous, coastal, riverine, forest, urban and biological activities, with each chapter providing a review of the current knowledge in the focus area, and evaluating where future efforts should be directed. The text compiles a collection of recent...
This book explores state-of-art techniques based on open-source software and statistical programming and modelling in modern geospatial applications, ...
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603,81 |
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