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Infrastructures eBook Series

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  • The Infrastructural South

    Techno-Environments of the Third Wave of Urbanization

    by Jonathan Silver ...
    Series series Infrastructures
    An in-depth look at the infrastructural landscape of Africa amid the third wave of urbanization, drawing on case studies from Africa and extending further afield.The Infrastructural South represents a major theoretical contribution to the study of infrastructure’s role in the third wave of urbanization centered on Africa. Based on over a decade of empirical research, Silver’s sweeping examination ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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  • Why Immigration Policy Is Hard

    And How to Make It Better

    by Alan Manning ...
    Immigration policy is hard, involving difficult decisions and trade-offs. But, as Alan Manning – former chair of the UK's Migration Advisory Committee – makes clear, this doesn't mean that we can't do much better.We should start, Manning says, by ditching simplistic views that frame immigration as either wholly good or wholly bad. We will always have, and need, some level of immigration. But, just ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • About Canada: Immigration

    by Nupur Gogia, Bonnie Slade ...
    Series Book 5 - About Canada
    Many Canadians believe that immigrants steal jobs away from qualified Canadians, abuse the healthcare system and refuse to participate in Canadian culture. In About Canada: Immigration, Gogia and Slade challenge these myths with a thorough investigation of the realities of immigrating to Canada. Examining historical immigration policies, the authors note that these policies were always ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • EU Law and Governance

    by Mark Dawson, Floris de Witte ...
    What is the EU for? In light of the current state of European integration, EU law cannot meaningfully be appreciated without understanding the political, social and cultural context within which it operates. This textbook proposes a fresh, accessible and interdisciplinary take on the subject that is suitable for one-semester and introductory courses wishing to engage the reader with the wider ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • TTIP

    The Truth about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

    by Ferdi De Ville, Gabriel Siles-Brügge ...
    The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has stirred passions like no other trade negotiation in recent history. Its supporters maintain that TTIP will produce spectacular growth and job creation; claims that are wholeheartedly rejected by its critics, who regard TTIP as a direct assault on workers' rights, health and safety standards and public services.In this incisive analysis, ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • Offshoring

    by John Urry ...
    The concealment of income, wealth and profits in tax havens has brought the topic of offshoring into public debate, but as John Urry shows in this important new book offshoring is a much more pervasive feature of contemporary societies. These often secretive activities offshore also involve relations of work, finance, pleasure, waste, energy and security. Powerful and pervasive offshore worlds ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Epochal Crisis

    The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism

    by William I. Robinson ...
    In a groundbreaking new study, acclaimed scholar of global capitalism William I. Robinson presents a bold, original, and timely 'big picture' analysis of the unprecedented global crisis. Robinson synthesizes the different economic, social, political, military, and ecological dimensions of the crisis, applying his theory of global capitalism to elucidate these multidimensional and interconnected ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Introduction to Human Geography, An

    by Peter Daniels, Michael Bradshaw, Denis Shaw, James Sidaway, Tim Hall ...
    The full text downloaded to your computerWith eBooks you can:search for key concepts, words and phrasesmake highlights and notes as you studyshare your notes with friendseBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps.Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to t... ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Key Concepts in Urban Studies

    by Leslie Budd, Panu Lehtovuori, Mark D. Gottdiener ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    "Key Concepts in Urban Studies is written in an accessible, concise way and introduces students to the key topics in urban studies. Drawing examples from different parts of the world, this authoritative resource exposes students to the diverse forms that cities take, and the social, spatial and temporal dimensions of urban living. It is an essential resource for students across disciplines ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century

    by Verity Burgmann ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in International Political Economy
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.Globalization has adversely affected working-class organization and mobilization, increasing inequality by redistribution upwards from labour to capital. However, workers around the world are challenging their ... Read more

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  • Democracy's Infrastructure

    Techno-Politics and Protest after Apartheid

    by Antina von Schnitzler ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
    In the past decade, South Africa's "miracle transition" has been interrupted by waves of protests in relation to basic services such as water and electricity. Less visibly, the post-apartheid period has witnessed widespread illicit acts involving infrastructure, including the nonpayment of service charges, the bypassing of metering devices, and illegal connections to services. Democracy’s ... Read more

    $74.89 USD

  • The Evolution of EU Law

    Edited by Paul Craig, Gráinne de Búrca ...
    This last decade has been particularly turbulent for the EU. Beset by crises - the financial crisis, the rule of law crisis, the migration crisis, Brexit, and the pandemic - European Law has had to adapt and change in a way not previously seen. First published in 1999, the goal then was to reflect on the important developments that had been made since the creation of the EEC. That goal has not ... Read more

    $58.99 USD