Xuemei Bai & Thomas Elmqvist 
Urban Planet [PDF ebook] 
Knowledge towards Sustainable Cities

This practical book offers a guide to finding, choosing, and applying theoretical frameworks to social sciences research, and provides researchers with the scaffolding needed to reflect on their phil …

Japanese Industry in the American South is an anthropological case study that describes whole industrial cultures found in three Japanese industrial plants in the American South. This book searches f …

Leach and Pini bring together empirical and theoretical studies that consider the intersections of class, gender and rurality. Each chapter engages with current debates on these concepts to explore t …

The relationship between sport, medicine and health in our society is becoming increasingly complex. This important and timely study explores this relationship through an analysis of changing politic …

Since the 1980s, popular management thinkers, gurus have promoted a number of performance improvement programs and management fashions which have greatly influenced both the everyday conduct of organ …

Peasant rebellions are uncommon. ‘Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance’ explores peasants» foot dragging, feigned ingorance, false compliance, manipulation, flight, slander, theft, arson, sabotage, …

Older People in Modern Society is an established classic text in its field and through subsequent editions its reputation and that of its author has grown. In this fourth and renamed edition, Anthea …

This book provides a step-by-step process that focuses on how to develop, practice, and maintain emergency plans that reflect what must be done before, during, and after a disaster, in order to prote …

Food is routinely given attention in tourism research as a motivator of travel. Regardless of whether tourists travel with a primary motivation for experiencing local food, eating is required during …