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  • Urban Theory and the Urban Experience

    Encountering the City

    by Simon Parker ...
    Urban Theory and the Urban Experience brings together classic and contemporary approaches to urban research in order to reveal the intellectual origins of urban studies and the often unacknowledged debt that empirical and theoretical perspectives on the city owe one another.From the foundations of modern urban theory in the work of Weber, Simmel, Benjamin and Lefebbvre to the writings of ... Read more

    $152.99 CAD

  • CITIES, POLITICS & POWER

    by Simon Parker ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    Traditionally, the study of ‘power in the city’ was confined to the institutions of urban government and the actors involved in contesting and making political decisions in and for metropolitan societies. Increasingly, however, attention has turned to the function of the city not only as a centre of urban governance but as a major economic, social, cultural and strategic force in its own right ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Taking Power Back

    Putting People in Charge of Politics

    by Simon Parker ...
    Faith in the UK’s political system has reached new lows. Politicians and commentators are lining up to offer answers, but what if the problem goes beyond left and right, trust and bureaucracy? What if the system puts too much power in the hands of politicians in London and not enough in the hands of ordinary people?This important book addresses a key issue of our time: where should power and ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The New Italian Republic

    From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to Berlusconi

    Edited by Stephen Gundle, Simon Parker ...
    The New Italian Republic charts the breakdown of the old party system and examines the changed political climate that has allowed Berlusconi to rise as Italy's new master and subsequently precipitated his rapid fall from power. ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

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    How Europe Can Be Saved from Itself

    by Lorenzo Marsili, Niccolò Milanese, Yanis Varoufakis ...
    Europe might appear like a continent pulling itself apart. Ten years of economic and political crises have pitted North versus South, East versus West, citizens versus institutions. And yet, these years have also shown a hidden vitality of Europeans acting across borders, with civil society and social movements showing that alternatives to the status quo already exist.This book is at once a ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Globalization

    Edited by Paul Battersby, Manfred B. Steger, Joseph M Siracusa ...
    Global studies is a fresh and dynamic discipline area that promises to reinvigorate undergraduate and postgraduate education in the social sciences and humanities. In the Australian context, the interdisciplinary pedagogy that defines global studies is gaining wider acceptance as a coherent and necessary approach to the study of global change. Through the Global Studies Consortium (GSC), this new ... Read more

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  • Borders

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Alexander C. Diener, Joshua Hagen ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Compelling and accessible, this Very Short Introduction challenges the perception of borders as passive lines on a map, revealing them instead to be integral forces in the economic, social, political, and environmental processes that shape our lives. Highlighting the historical development and continued relevance of borders, Alexander Diener and Joshua Hagen offer a powerful counterpoint to the ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Making Democracy Work

    Civic Traditions in Modern Italy

    by Robert D. Putnam, Robert Leonardi, Raffaella Y. Nanetti ...
    Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful institutions. Their focus is on a unique experiment begun in 1970 when Italy created new governments for ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Globalisation In World History

    by A G Hopkins ...
    Globalisation was the buzzword of the 1990s; it promises to become even more important in the first decade of the new century. There is now a flood of literature on the economics, politics and sociology of globalization, and regular commentary in the serious daily and weekly press.Virtually all of this discussion makes assumptions, and frequently explicit claims, about the novelty of globalisation ... Read more

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  • Modern Italy

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Anna Cento Bull ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
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    $7.99 CAD

  • Political Geography

    World-Economy, Nation-State, and Locality

    by Colin Flint, Peter J. Taylor ...
    The new and updated eighth edition of Political Geography once again shows itself fit to tackle a frequently and rapidly changing geopolitical landscape. It retains the intellectual clarity, rigour, and vision of previous editions based upon its world-systems approach and is complemented by the perspective of feminist geography. The book successfully integrates the complexity of individuals with ... Read more

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  • The Archipelago

    Italy Since 1945

    by John Foot ...
    'An enjoyable, highly readable history that manages to bring murky, often fiendishly complex events into the light' Sunday TimesItaly emerged from the Second World War in ruins. Divided, invaded and economically broken, it was a nation that some people claimed had ceased to exist. And yet, as rural society disappeared almost overnight, by the 1960s, it could boast the fastest-growing economy in ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD