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  • A History of British National Audit:

    The Pursuit of Accountability

    by David Dewar, Warwick Funnell ...
    The core theme of the book is the importance of an independent state audit to ensure that the Executive is held accountable to Parliament. Instilling effective financial control and accountability for the use of public funds and the proper conduct of public business has been an incremental process that has taken centuries. This book provides a detailed history of the forces and personalities ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Regional Development and Settlement Policy

    Premises and Prospects

    by David Dewar, Alison Todes, Vanessa Watson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Urban and Regional Economics
    Originally published in 1986. This book focusses on a critical analysis of regional development strategy in South Africa, and shifts over time in that strategy. Regional development theory and thinking about settlement policy have developed largely independently of each other. This book clarifies some of the resulting confusion and points towards a greater integration of the two areas of ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Rethinking Urban Transport After Modernism

    Lessons from South Africa

    by David Dewar, Fabio Todeschini ...
    For the last seven decades, urban settlement policy worldwide has been increasingly dominated by modernist precepts and by urban decisions made in discipline-specific ’silos’. The urban management consequences have been invariably negative, with increasing sprawl, fragmentation and separation resulting in a wide range of environmental, social and economic problems. This book explores the role of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Urban Markets

    Developing Informal Retailing

    by David Dewar, Vanessa Watson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Urban Planning
    Originally published in 1990, Urban Markets looks at how the informal sector of the economy should be encouraged to assist in the alleviation of problems of poverty and unemployment. Despite this rhetoric, few concrete, implementable ways have been developed. This book is concerned with one such potential strategy which the authors consider to be particularly effective: the creation of both built ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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    A Natural History of Markets

    by John McMillan ...
    Clear, insightful, and nondogmatic, this book gives us a new appreciation for one of our most ubiquitous institutions.From the wild swings of the stock market to the online auctions of eBay to the unexpected twists of the world's post-Communist economies, markets have suddenly become quite visible. We now have occasion to ask, "What makes these institutions work? How important are they? How can we ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Exodus

    How Migration is Changing Our World

    by Paul Collier ...
    It is one of the most pressing and controversial questions of our time -- vehemently debated, steeped in ideology, profoundly divisive. Who should be allowed to immigrate and who not? What are the arguments for and against limiting the numbers? We are supposedly a nation of immigrants, and yet our policies reflect deep anxieties and the quirks of short-term self-interest, with effective ... Read more

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  • First Nations Education Policy in Canada

    Progress or Gridlock?

    by Jerry Paquette, Gérald Fallon ...
    How can First Nations schools in Canada offer a curriculum that is at once authentically and deeply Aboriginal while comparable in content, quality, and standards to provincial and territorial education? First Nations Education Policy in Canada is a critical analysis of policy developments affecting First Nations education since 1986 and a series of recommendations for future policy changes.Jerry ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Tourism: Principles & Practice

    by John Fletcher, Alan Fyall, Stephen Wanhill, David Gilbert ...
    John Fletcher is Professor of Tourism and Head of the International Centre for Tourism & Hospitality Research at Bournemouth University, UK.Alan Fyall is visiting Professor at the Rosen College of Hospitality Management, University of Central Florida, USA and Professor of Tourism at Bournemouth University, UK.David Gilbert is Emeritus Professor of Marketing at Surrey University, UK, and visiting ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Globalization's Contradictions

    Geographies of Discipline, Destruction and Transformation

    Edited by Dennis Conway, Nik Heynen ...
    Since the 1980s, globalization and neoliberalism have brought about a comprehensive restructuring of everyone’s lives. People are being ‘disciplined’ by neoliberal economic agendas, ‘transformed’ by communication and information technology changes, global commodity chains and networks, and in the Global South in particular, destroyed livelihoods, debilitating impoverishment, disease pandemics, ... Read more

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  • Strategic Hospitality Leadership

    The Asian Initiative

    Edited by Russell Arthur Smith, Judy Siguaw ...
    Doing business in the tourism and hospitality scene in Asia can be very interesting and rewarding but also poses many challenges.Not many books have been written on the hospitality industry in Asia. Strategic Hospitality Leadership makes a useful contribution, providing the first specialized approach to the business of hospitality in Asia.The book is an invaluable resource of reference and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Analyzing Public Policy

    by Peter John ...
    Series series Routledge Textbooks in Policy Studies
    The fully revised and updated new edition of this textbook continues to provide the most accessible overview of the main approaches in the study of public policy. It seeks to review the most common and widely used frameworks in the study of policy analysis:institutionsgroups and networkssociety and the economyindividual interestsideas.The book explains each one, offers constructive criticisms and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Cities by Design

    The Social Life of Urban Form

    by Fran Tonkiss ...
    Who makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities? This book powerfully shows that city-making is a social process and examines the close relationship between the social and physical shaping of urban environments.With cities taking a growing share of the global population, urban forms and urban experience are crucial for understanding social injustice, economic ... Read more

    $20.00 USD