Author: Philip McCann ISBN: 0415487749 / 9780415487740 Year: 2011 Availability: 45-60 days
Urban and regional economics encompasses both the economics of geography and spatial economics to focus on the growth, behaviour, and economic performance of cities and regions. Over the last two de...
Author: Gail L. Cramer ISBN: 0415547458 / 9780415547451 Year: 2010 Availability: 45-60 days
The application of the principles of economics to the production of crops and livestock - and to land usage more generally - is a well-established and flourishing area of research and study, and thi...
Author: Forrest Capie, Geoffrey E. Wood ISBN: 0415573513 / 9780415573511 Year: 2010 Availability: 45-60 days
The Great Depression had a devastating effect on much of the world’s developed economies. (For example, at its nadir, around one-quarter of the US workforce was unemployed. And, in Britain, ex...
Author: Amer al-Roubaie, Shafiq Alvi ISBN: 0415485762 / 9780415485760 Year: 2010 Availability: 45-60 days
Islamic banking refers to a financial system which is consistent with principles of Islamic law (or ‘sharia’) and guided by Islamic economics. In particular, Islamic law prohibits &lsquo...
Author: Lars Magnusson ISBN: 0415496071 / 978041549607 Year: 2010 Availability: Out of Stock
The study of economic phenomena over time is a well-established and flourishing area of research and study, and this new four-volume collection in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts...
Author: John C. Wood ISBN: 0415325757 / 9780415325752 Year: 2010 Availability: 45-60 days
John P. Kotter (b. 1947), a leading authority on business leadership and change, is the subject of this new collection from Routledge’s acclaimed Critical Evaluations in Business and Managemen...
Author: Debra Steger ISBN: 0415364221 / 9780415364225 Year: 2014 Availability: 45-60 days
With a membership of 149 countries, the World Trade Organization (WTO) is the international organization with responsibility for the global rules of trade between nations. Its stated principal funct...
Author: Wei Zhang ISBN: 0415560683 / 9780415560689 Year: 2011 Availability: 45-60 days
It is more than three decades since China initiated its economic reform and open-door policies. During that period, China has successfully transformed itself from an inefficient centrally-planned ec...
Author: Robin Mansell ISBN: 0415443083 / 9780415443081 Year: 2009 Availability: 45-60 days
‘The information society’ refers to a constellation of developments arising from the growing use of communication technologies in the acquisition, storage, and processing of information,...
Author: Various ISBN: 0415562872 / 9780415562874 Year: 2009 Availability: 45-60 days
Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings in Social Theory includes reissues of three seminal works by eminent French thinker Emile Durkheim, one of the founding father s of Sociology. This collection bring...
Author: David Inglis, Marta Herrero ISBN: 041545011X / 9780415450119 Year: 2008 Availability: 45-60 days
Under what social conditions do particular sorts of arts and aesthetics arise and flourish, and under what conditions do they decline and disappear? What types of artistic and aesthetic practices ex...
Author: Steven Vertovec ISBN: 0415478421 / 9780415478427 Year: 2009 Availability: 45-60 days
Nowadays, migration seems never far from the top of the political agenda. Whether as a consequence of civil and ethnic unrest, or as one response to the widening gulf between the wealthy and poor zo...
Author: Chris Rojek ISBN: 0415494664 / 9780415494663 Year: 2009 Availability: 45-60 days
In recent years, the study of celebrity has developed and cohered into a flourishing field of social and cultural analysis. There is huge interest in topics such as the politics and logic of glamour...
Author: Joanne Connell, Stephen J. Page ISBN: 0415475171 / 9780415475174 Year: 2009 Availability: 45-60 days
Edited by two leading scholars in the field, this is the first title in a new Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Tourism. It is a four-volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge...
Author: Brett Bowden ISBN: 0415469651 / 9780415469654 Year: 2009 Availability: 45-60 days
Especially since the end of the Cold War, the concept of ‘civilization’ has been frequently deployed by those who seek to describe and explain the world in which we live. The events of 1...
Author: Nan Lin ISBN: 0415407176 / 9780415407175 Year: 2010 Availability: 45-60 days
‘Social capital’ is a major conceptual and theoretical idea that has received in the last three decades much attention across many social-science disciplines. In this relatively short pe...
Author: Gerd Baumann, Steven Vertovec ISBN: 0415486084 / 9780415486088 Year: 2010 Availability: 45-60 days
Edited by two leading scholars in the field, this new title in Routledge’s Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Sociology, is a four-volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge researc...
Author: David Inglis, Gerard Delanty ISBN: 0415498813 / 9780415498814 Year: 2010 Availability: 45-60 days
A term of antique provenance, ‘cosmopolitanism’ has developed and cohered into a critical concept in contemporary social and cultural analysis. However, the daunting quantity (and variab...
Author: Federico Varese ISBN: 0415460743 / 9780415460743 Year: 2010 Availability: 45-60 days
The systematic study of organized crime dates back to John Landesco’s classic of ethnography, Organized Crime in Chicago (1929). Since then, the field has grown considerably and, as well as cr...
Author: Andrew Tallon ISBN: 0415475066 / 9780415475068 Year: 2010 Availability: 45-60 days
The pursuit of regeneration and renewal has played an important role in the history and development of the world’s cities, and the theoretical and applied issues around these critical concepts...
Author: Chuck Mason, Erwin Bulte ISBN: 0415360587 / 9780415360586 Year: 2007 Availability: Out of Stock
Environmental economics is dedicated to the analysis of externalities (i.e. the side-effects or consequences of industrial or commercial activities that are not reflected in market prices), includin...
Author: Richard Ladle ISBN: 0415456541 / 9780415456548 Year: 2008 Availability: 45-60 days
Although ‘biodiversity’ is a relatively new coinage, scientists have been studying the subject it describes long before the word’s first appearance in the language in the mid-1980s...
Author: Roger S. Gottlieb ISBN: 0415554519 / 9780415554510 Year: 2010 Availability: 45-60 days
In the last two decades a new form of religiously motivated social action and a virtually new field of academic study - each based in recognition of the connections between religion and humanity&rsq...
Author: Louise Edwards, Mina Roces ISBN: 0415445256 / 9780415445252 Year: 2009 Availability: 45-60 days
The academic study of women in Asia developed in the 1970s as a result of the convergence of the then emerging disciplines of Asian Studies and Women’s Studies. Initially, work on women in Asi...
Author: Geoffrey Wade ISBN: 0415367522 / 9780415367523 Year: 2008 Availability: Out of Stock
The regions that we know today as Southeast Asia and China have, for millennia, been linked together through a diverse range of political, economic and social interactions. From the earliest days th...
