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  • The Thin Edge of Innovation

    Metro Vancouver’s Evolving Economy

    Aligned with global trends in post-industrialization, the economy of Metro Vancouver is changing, but along its own trajectory. The focus is shifting away from resource-based activities to local entrepreneurial initiatives across a remarkable range of industries, from software to craft beer, biopharmaceuticals to mountain bikes. This evolution is being shaped by local business and the city’s ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • China’s Greater Bay Area

    Agglomeration, External Economies, Governance and Urbanization

    China’s Greater Bay Area (GBA) – previously referred to as the Pearl River Delta – is one of the world’s largest mega-city regions and China’s foremost technological, economic, social and cultural node. Patchell integrates agglomeration concepts with the GBA’s distinctive features to explain the region’s rise, innovativeness, and resilience. He reveals how the GBA works as differentiated and ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Territorial Organization of Variety

    Cooperation and competition in Bordeaux, Napa and Chianti Classico

    The wine industry appears to be an anomaly within the modern global economy. Thousands of small companies provide a vast variety of highly differentiated products and compete successfully with multinational corporations. Using case studies from Bordeaux, Napa Valley and Chianti Classico, this book argues that rather than being a vestige or a serendipitous phenomenon, this variety results from a ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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    The Life and Lessons of a City Builder

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  • China's Megatrends

    The 8 Pillars of a New Society

    "[John Naisbitt's] vision of the world's economy has the mark of genius." — Minneapolis Star TribuneInternationally-renowned futurist and bestselling author John Naisbitt is back with China's Megatrends, the most comprehensive look at the present and future of China and the transformation that is reshaping its economic, political, and social systems. Since publishing the enormously popular ... Read more

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  • Dynamic Urban Design

    A Handbook for Creating Sustainable Communities Worldwide

    Advance Praise for Dynamic Urban Design“Finally, in one book a complete guide to the theory, practice, and potential of urban design by one of Canada’s preeminent urban designers.”—David R. Witty, former dean, School of Architecture, University of Manitoba, Canada“Michael von Hausen has given us a clear and hopeful path to the creation of a sustainable urbanism, one that will be inspiring and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Playing Our Game : Why China's Rise Doesn't Threaten The West

    Conventional wisdom holds that China's burgeoning economic power has reduced the United States to little more than a customer and borrower of Beijing. The rise of China, many feel, necessarily means the decline of the West--the United States in particular. Not so, writes Edward Steinfeld. If anything, China's economic emergence is good for America. In this fascinating new book, Steinfeld asserts ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • How to Love Wine

    A Memoir and Manifesto

    by Eric Asimov ...
    Eric Asimov, the acclaimed chief wine critic for the New York Times, has written a beautiful and thought-provoking combination memoir and manifesto, How to Love Wine.With charm, wit, and intelligence, Asimov tells how he went from writing beer reviews for his high school newspaper on Long Island to the most coveted job in the industry. He evaluates the current wine culture, discussing trends both ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Search of Paradise

    Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis

    by Li Zhang ...
    A new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China. This time the main actors on the social stage are not peasants, migrants, or working-class proletariats but middle-class professionals and entrepreneurs in search of a private paradise in a society now dominated by consumerism. No longer seeking happiness and fulfillment through collective sacrifice and ... Read more

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  • Last Canadian Beer

    The Moosehead Story

    by Harvey Sawler ...
    A look at the history of a family beer business and how they've managed to maintain strength in an increasingly competitive industry.Featuring important insights from the company's current executives and employees, Last Canadian Beer: The Moosehead Story is not only a fascinating company history, but also a candid look at how a small New Brunswick business remains competitive in a difficult global ... Read more

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  • Tourism: Principles & Practice

    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

  • To Cork or Not To Cork

    Tradition, Romance, Science, and the Battle for the Wine Bottle

    In Judgment of Paris, George M. Taber masterfully chronicled the historic 1976 wine tasting when unknown California wines defeated top French ones, marking a major turning point in wine history. Now he explores the most controversial topic in the world of wine: What product should be used to seal a bottle? Should it be cork, plastic, glass, a screwcap, or some other type of closure still to be ... Read more

    $14.99 USD