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This is the true story of Vito Ciancimino - Don Vito da Corleone, the 'Mayor of the Corleones' - who spent forty years in the grip of death, mafia, politics, business deals and the secret service. Don Vito recounts years of clandestine and previously censored contacts...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2011-08-04
ePub
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Community-based enterprises are the result of a process in which the community acts entrepreneurially to create and operate a new enterprise embedded in its existing social structure and network. This book argues that community-based enterprise could represent a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-08-03
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The first decade of the new century proved to be a deadly one for many children and young people in the United States. Despite increased policing on the streets, higher rates of incarceration, harsher sentencing, stricter control of illegal drugs, and attempts to reduce...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-08-02
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Transnational spatial relations offer a key point from which to study the geographies of contemporary globalization. This book assesses the possible cross-fertilization between two of the most notable analytical frameworks - the world city network framework and the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-08-02
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Experiments in HolismExperiments in Holism: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology presents a series of essays that critically examine the ongoing relevance of holism and its theoretical and methodological potential in today’s world. Contributions from a...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-08-02
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115,95€
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Teaching Statistics in School Mathematics-Challenges forTeaching and Teacher Education results from the Joint ICMI/IASE StudyTeaching Statistics in School Mathematics: Challenges forTeaching and Teacher Education. Oriented to analyse the teaching of statistics in school...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-07-31
Collection :
New ICMI Study Series
ePub
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A concise and up to date introduction to criminology for those undertaking degrees and foundation degrees in policing, police studies and related subjects. It provides an introduction to criminological perspectives on the development of the police service over the last...
Editeur :
Learning Matters
Parution :
2011-07-28
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Through a series of case studies this book brings to the fore the voices, lives, and capacities of people with mental health problems as well as the difficulties they face. It effectively demonstrates the ways people with mental health problems are active in...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-26
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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67,80€
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People/States/Territories examines the role of state personnel in shaping, and being shaped by, state organizations and territories, and demonstrates how agents have actively contributed to the reproduction and transformation of the British state over the long term. A...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-26
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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28,30€
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Using an innovative approach, this book interprets the unprecedented transformation of contemporary China’s major cities. It deals with a diversity of trends and analyzes their sources. Offers a multi-dimensional analysis of urban life in China Highlights a diversity...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-22
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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67,80€
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The relationship between space and politics is explored through a study of French urban policy. Drawing upon the political thought of Jacques Rancière, this book proposes a new agenda for analyses of urban policy, and provides the first comprehensive account of French...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-22
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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28,30€
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Combining current theory and original fieldwork, Queer Visibilities explores the gap between liberal South African law and the reality for groups of queer men living in Cape Town. Explores the interface between queer sexuality, race, and urban space to show links...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-22
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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28,30€
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Publics and the City investigates struggles over the making of urban publics, considering how the production, management and regulation of 'public spaces' has emerged as a problem for both urban politics and urban theory. Advances a new framework for considering the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-22
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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28,30€
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Domicile and Diaspora investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian independence in 1947. The first book to study the Anglo-Indian community past and present, in India, Britain and Australia. The first...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-22
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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28,30€
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This topical book addresses contemporary concern with the interconnections between geography and morality. Covers both the geographical context of morality, and moralities in geographical methods and practices. Contains up-to-date case studies based on original...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-22
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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67,80€
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Redundant Masculinities? investigates the links between the so-called 'crisis of masculinity' and contemporary changes in the labour market through the lives of young working class men. Allows the voices of poorly-educated young men to be heard. Looks at how the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-22
Collection :
Antipode Book Series
ePub
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22,60€
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Globally, postnatal depression (PND) is a growing public health problem. PND affects 10 to 15% of women in Western society. It caused by a combination of biological, psychological and social factors. Two models have attempted to define and explain PND; the biomedical...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-07-21
ePub
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Part analysis of contemporary change and part vision of the future, post-Fordism lends its name to a set of challenging, essential and controversial debates over the nature of capitalism's newest age. This book provides a superb introduction to these debates and their...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-20
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe examines intra-European Union migration in the cities of Amsterdam, London and Brussels. Based on sixty in-depth interviews of free moving European citizens, and more than five years of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-20
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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67,80€
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The authors of this book use regulation theory to bring theoretical focus and analytic clarity to the study of urban tourism. Provides a unifying analytic framework for the study of urban tourism. Brings urban tourism into focus as an important political, economic and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-20
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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67,80€
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