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Hardback. Expanding on central portions of the theory explored in the first edition, this reworking of the seminal economics text examines applications engendered by the concept of discontinuity in various subdisciplines of economics, including urban and evolutionary. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; KCA; KCN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441988270
- ISBN
- 9781441988270
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.12
€ 134.12
Hardback. This book offers a panoramic view of recent advances in spatial complexity, in order to enhance our understanding of complex spatial networks by simplicity in terms of both the basic driving forces of systemic impacts and the modeling of such systems. Editor(s): Reggiani, Aura; Nijkamp, Professor Peter. Series: Advances in Spatial Science. Num Pages: 298 pages, 26 black & white illustrations, 57 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; RGCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 597.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642015533
- ISBN
- 9783642015533
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.49
€ 133.49
Complexity Perspectives in Innovation and Social Change
. Ed(S): Lane, David; Pumain, Denise; Leeuw, ...
Hardback. Our society's scientific paradigm prevents us from benefiting from the processes of invention and innovation. This book analyzes the topic in depth, positing that a 'complex systems' approach is better suited than our traditional approach to the phenomenon. Editor(s): Lane, David; Pumain, Denise; Leeuw, Sander Ernst van der; West, Geoffrey B. Series: Methodos Series. Num Pages: 501 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; JHB; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1940.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 501
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402096624
- ISBN
- 9781402096624
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 358.85
€ 358.85
Complexity Perspectives in Innovation and Social Change
. Ed(S): Lane, David; Pumain, Denise; Leeuw, ...
Paperback. Our society's scientific paradigm prevents us from benefiting from the processes of invention and innovation. This book analyzes the topic in depth, positing that a 'complex systems' approach is better suited than our traditional approach to the phenomenon. Editor(s): Lane, David; Pumain, Denise; Leeuw, Sander Ernst van der; West, Geoffrey. Series: Methodos Series. Num Pages: 501 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; HD; JH; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2009
- Number of pages
- 501
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048181797
- ISBN
- 9789048181797
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 339.96
€ 339.96
Hardcover. This book aims to foster a deeper understanding of urbanism, invoking the contributions both the hard and soft sciences have made, and are still making, in grappling with the many issues and facets of regional planning and dynamics. Series: Understanding Complex Systems. Num Pages: 435 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AMVD; GTB; JFSG; KJU; PHS; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 169 x 29. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Number of pages
- 430
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642194504
- ISBN
- 9783642194504
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.14
€ 130.14
Paperback. A cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth. Num Pages: 360 pages, 12 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1QDAE; GTB; HDD; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822339922
- ISBN
- 9780822339922
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.13
€ 34.99
€ 32.13
Hardback. This volume develops a set of fresh decision-making protocols for consumers and suppliers alike that reflect two distinct features of congestion-prone services, namely the discrepancy between capacity and throughput, and service quality competition. Series: Advances in Spatial Science. Num Pages: 444 pages, 3 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; KCD; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 824.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Edition
- 2012
- Number of pages
- 444
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642201882
- ISBN
- 9783642201882
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 196.63
€ 196.63
Hardback. Series: Religion/Culture/Critique. Num Pages: 322 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTB; HBJF; HRLF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403963239
- ISBN
- 9781403963239
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.43
€ 128.43
Hardback. The arrival of Europeans in the Americas brought with it a demographic catastrophe of vast proportions for the native populations. In this book Livi Bacci argues that the catastrophe was not the inevitable outcome of contact with Europeans but was a function of both the methods of the conquest and the characteristics of the subjugated societies. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; GTB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 150 x 26. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745640006
- ISBN
- 9780745640006
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.74
€ 76.74
Paperback. The arrival of Europeans in the Americas brought with it a demographic catastrophe of vast proportions for the native populations. In this book Livi Bacci argues that the catastrophe was not the inevitable outcome of contact with Europeans but was a function of both the methods of the conquest and the characteristics of the subjugated societies. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1K; GTB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745640013
- ISBN
- 9780745640013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.00
€ 35.00
Paperback. The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea. Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-first Century. 312 pages, 25 illustrations. Presents an ethnographic examination of the social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New Guinea. This book focuses on the area that was the site of a biodiversity conservation project. It demonstrates the capacity of ethnography to illuminate the relationship between trans-national processes and individual lives. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1MKLP; GTB; JHMP; RNK. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 22. Weight: 502.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822337492
- ISBN
- 9780822337492
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Constructing Mexico City: Colonial Conflicts over Culture, Space, and Authority examines the spatial, material, and cultural dimensions of life in eighteenth-century Mexico City, through programs that colonial leaders created to renovate and reshape urban environments. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; HBJK; HBL; JFC; JFF; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349382286
- ISBN
- 9781349382286
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 46.04
€ 52.90
€ 46.04
Paperback. This book examines Japan's postwar consumer protection movement, which, organized largely by housewives, led to the passage of basic consumer protection legislation in 1968. Macmillan points to the importance of activity at the local level, the role of minority parties, the limited utility of the courts, and the place of lawyers and academics in providing access to power. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJP; GTB; JFFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231123471
- ISBN
- 9780231123471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.68
€ 37.99
€ 27.68
Paperback. Explores Wari' conceptions of person, body, and spirit, as well as indigenous understandings of memory and emotion, to explain why the Wari' felt that corpses must be destroyed and why they preferred cannibalism over cremation. This book shows why, in Wari' terms, it was considered the most honorable and compassionate way of treating the dead. Num Pages: 317 pages, 15 halftones, 3 maps, line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KLSBZ; GTB; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292712362
- ISBN
- 9780292712362
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Contemporary Chinese Societies: Continuity and Change
University Of Pittsburgh Chinese Studies Facu...
Hardback. Introducing students to Chinese society, this CD-ROM features six themes that address issues across several fields in the social sciences and humanities including, unity of diversity; views of time and space; adapting to a changing world; and others. It provides video introductions for each unit; and interactive maps; Web links; and a glossary. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 129 x 147 x 10. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231139823
- ISBN
- 9780231139823
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.47€ 68.33
€ 88.47
€ 68.33
Paperback. Presents a collection of essays on various aspects of the new discipline of Latin American cultural studies. Essays in this work are grouped in five sections focusing on: the theory of Latin American cultural studies; the icons of culture; culture as a commodity; culture as a site of resistance; and everyday cultural practices. Editor(s): Hart, Stephen; Young, Richard A. Num Pages: 362 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; GTB; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 146 x 233 x 21. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340808221
- ISBN
- 9780340808221
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.57
€ 51.57
Paperback. BIC Classification: 1FB; GTB; HRAM2; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 23. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474417990
- ISBN
- 9781474417990
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.47
€ 38.99
€ 35.47
Paperback. Offers a look at websites in Malaysia and Singapore that emerged on the margins of the political system to challenge mainsteam media. This title examines arguments that explain their development in terms of technology, and of differing norms of journalism and democracy. It is aimed those interested in politics and media in Malaysia and Singapore. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMM; 1FMS; GTB; JFD; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295985787
- ISBN
- 9780295985787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Hardback. The May 1980 Kwangju Uprising still exerts a profound influence in Korean society. Combining personal reflections and academic analysis, this text offers an examination of the multiple meanings of this event, explaining how the memory of Kwangju has affected Korean life from politics to culture. Editor(s): Shin, Gi-Wook; Hwang, Kyung Moon. Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 3JJ; GTB; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742519619
- ISBN
- 9780742519619
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 165.38
€ 165.38
Paperback. The May 1980 Kwangju Uprising still exerts a profound influence in Korean society. Combining personal reflections and academic analysis, this text offers an examination of the multiple meanings of this event, explaining how the memory of Kwangju has affected Korean life from politics to culture. Editor(s): Shin, Gi-Wook; Hwang, Kyung Moon. Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 3JJ; GTB; HBJF; HBLW; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 147 x 10. Weight in Grams: 263.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742519626
- ISBN
- 9780742519626
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.41
€ 45.41