Lawrence (University Distinguished Professor in the Center for the Study of Standards and Society, Michigan State University) Busch 
Standards – Recipes for Reality [PDF ebook] 
Recipes for Reality

In this new book on native butterflies we look at the lifecycle of the butterfly alongside many other fascinating facts, all brought to life by the brilliant photography of Andrew Fusek Peters.With c …

”Among all the literature on participation, this is the first book I know that focuses on municipal authorities. It… also has particular importance both for higher levels of government (at nationa …

A coherent and stimulating survey of current research. …

First book of its kind to examine images of women in Japanese consumerism. Explores a variety of media targeted at women – in particular magazines, but also television, popular literature and consume …

This fascinating book demonstrates the diversity of Connecticut’s women’s feminist activities in pre- and post-suffrage eras and refutes the notion that feminist activism died out with the passage of …

Surveillance, Capital and Resistance is a major contribution to current debates on the subjective experience of surveillance. Based on a large research project undertaken in a Northern City in the UK …

The great financial crisis of 2008 and the ensuing global economic and financial turmoil have launched a search for ‘models’ for recovery. The advocates of austerity present the Baltic States as coun …

Why is public space disappearing? Why is this disappearance important to democratic politics and how has it become an international phenomenon? Public spaces are no longer democratic spaces, but inst …

The global increase in the number of slums calls for policies which improve the conditions of the urban poor, sustainably. This volume provides an extensive overview of current housing policies in As …

The Naqab Bedouin and Colonialism brings together new scholarship to challenge perceived paradigms, often dominated by orientalist, modernist or developmentalist assumptions on the Naqab Bedouin. The …