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Advanced Introduction to Gentrification
Chris Hamnett
‘In this book, Chris Hamnett, a key figure in gentrification studies, offers a succinct yet sophisticated overview of this classical topic which abounds with heated debates and lasting vitality. Situating gentrification in wider urban pr...eBook:Find out more$19.96
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Advanced Introduction to Landmark Criminal Cases
George P. Fletcher
‘George Fletcher, America's leading criminal law scholar, also happens to be a gifted storyteller, known for his gripping first-person account of the Bernhard Goetz trial. In his new book, he offers compelling narratives of eleven famous...eBook:Find out more$19.96
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Advanced Introduction to Demography
Wolfgang Lutz
‘Wolfgang Lutz secured his place among the handful of the world's most influential demographers by decades of pioneering empirical research, theoretical exploration, and institutional leadership. This succinct book is a capstone to his c...eBook:Find out more$22.36
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Advanced Introduction to Migration Studies
Ronald Skeldon
‘Drawing from different disciplines and guided by a geographical approach, Prof. Skeldon draws on a lifetime of work on internal and international migration to provide a clear and concise introduction to the field of migration without sk...eBook:Find out more$19.96
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Advanced Introduction to the Experience Economy
Jon Sundbo
‘This book offers a comprehensive overview and summary of research on the experience economy. It elaborates on the differences of functional services and experiences, and primary and secondary experiences, points at the importance of exp...eBook:Find out more$20.76
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Advanced Introduction to Mobilities
Mimi Sheller
‘The “new mobilities paradigm” was announced 15 years ago. Here, one of the main figures in the development and phenomenal rise of mobilities work across the social sciences and humanities accounts for its progress since then, and shows ...eBook:Find out more$20.76
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Advanced Introduction to Cities
Peter J. Taylor
‘This brilliant book, with its unique conceptual structure, accessible writing and innovative chapter format, featuring a kaleidoscope of “insights” from cities around the world, provides a comprehensive and succinct synthesis of Peter T...eBook:Find out more$20.76
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Advanced Introduction to Public Policy
B. G. Peters
In this updated second edition, internationally renowned scholar B. Guy Peters provides a succinct introduction to public policy and illustrates the design approach to policy problems. Peters demonstrates how decision-makers can make mor...eBook:Find out more$20.76
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Advanced Introduction to Housing Studies
William A.V. Clark
‘William A.V. Clark shares four decades of wisdom in housing studies to craft a sweeping overview and broad integration of this multi-faceted field. Scholars in urban economics, geography, sociology, and public policy and planning can al...eBook:Find out more$20.76
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Advanced Introduction to Community-based Conservation
Fikret Berkes
‘Fikret Berkes didn’t invent the concept of community-based conservation, but he has been its most vigorous and high-profile academic advocate and analyst. His towering impact on the social science of conservation makes this masterful vo...eBook:Find out more$20.76
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Advanced Introduction to U.S. Criminal Procedure
Christopher Slobogin
‘This book will have no rival as a concise and comprehensive guide to our criminal procedure system. It speaks at once to the law student looking for a reliable reference and review guide, and to the general reader and foreign lawyer who...eBook:Find out more$25.16
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Organizations Evolving
Howard E. Aldrich, Martin Ruef, Stephen Lippmann
‘Organizations Evolving synthesizes in an excellent way the evolution of organizations, and clarifies the elegance of the evolutionary approach in using a few distinct concepts to explain broad and complex phenomena. In the third edition...eBook:Find out more$46.36