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  • Cities and Consumption

    by Mark Jayne ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    In investigating the mutual and dynamic relationship between urban development and consumption, this book asks: how are cities moulded by consumption, and how is consumption moulded by cities?Consumption stands at the intersection of different spheres of everyday life: between the public and the private, the political and the personal, the individual and the social. It is considered to be a means ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

  • City of Quarters

    Urban Villages in the Contemporary City

    by Mark Jayne ...
    In cities throughout the world, there is an increasingly ubiquitous presence of distinct social and spatial areas - urban villages, cultural and ethnic quarters. These spaces are sites where capital and culture intertwine in new ways. City of Quarters brings together some of the most prominent authors writing about urban villages to provide the first systematic and multi-disciplinary overview of ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Building the City

    Everyday Lives of Migrant Workers

    by Mark Jayne, Wu Siying, Wu Chenhui ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
    Building the City elaborates new critical insights into the everyday lives of migrant workers in cities around the world.The book offers complementary blending of longstanding political-economic accounts of migration, gender, labour, and urban life alongside advances in feminist, postcolonial, post-structural, materialist, and more-than-representational theories. Drawing on these critical ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Small Cities

    Urban Experience Beyond the Metropolis

    by David Bell, Mark Jayne ...
    Series series Questioning Cities
    Until now, much research in the field of urban planning and change has focused on the economic, political, social, cultural and spatial transformations of global cities and larger metropolitan areas. In this topical new volume, David Bell and Mark Jayne redress this balance, focusing on urban change within small cities around the world.Drawing together research from a strong international team of ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Alcohol, Drinking, Drunkenness

    (Dis)Orderly Spaces

    by Mark Jayne, Gill Valentine, Sarah Holloway ...
    While disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, politics, social policy and the health and medical sciences have a tradition of exploring the centrality of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness to people's lives, geographers have only previously addressed these topics as a peripheral concern. Over the past few years, however, this view has begun to change, accelerated by an upsurge in interest in ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Childhood, Family, Alcohol

    by Mark Jayne, Gill Valentine ...
    Drawing together international research from the fields of geography, alcohol studies, sociology, psychology and childhood studies, Jayne and Valentine explore children’s understandings and experiences of alcohol consumption and the role of alcohol in family life. Chapters address both extra-familial ’norms’ about parenting and drinking cultures which are generated in wider society (through law ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Rural Poverty Today

    Experiences of Social Exclusion in Rural Britain

    by Mark Shucksmith, Jayne Glass, Polly Chapman, Jane Atterton ...
    Poverty is perceived as an urban problem, yet many in rural Britain also experience hardship. This book explores how and why people in rural areas experience and negotiate poverty and social exclusion. It examines the role of societal processes, individual circumstances, sources of support (markets; state; voluntary organisations; family and friends) and the role of place.It concludes that the UK ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

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    North Woods

    A Novel

    by Daniel Mason ...
    Narrated by Mark Bramhall, Michael Crouch, Jason Culp, Mark Deakins, Jayne Entwistle, Billie Fulford-Brown, Arthur Morey, George Newbern, Kirsten Potter, Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 5 min

    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEARA WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD****A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—“a time-spanning, genre-blurring ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    by Mark Twain, Jayne Anne Phillips ...
    Rich in color and humor, this great novel follows the adventures of Huckleberry Finn and vividly recreates the world, the people, and the language that Mark Twain knew and loved from his own years on the frontier of the Mississippi.He has no mother, his father is a brutal drunkard, and he sleeps in a hogshead. He’s Huck Finn, a homeless waif, a liar and thief on occasion, and a casual rebel ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Criminology, Leisure and Sport

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Mark Berry, Carl Berry, Jayne Caudwell ...
    Series series Advances in Leisure Studies
    This book takes a critical look at how leisure and sport intersect with crime and harm. Bringing together leading scholars in criminology, sociology, sport science, social work and psychology, it shows how recreational and elite sporting spaces can foster prosocial development but also generate significant social inequalities and injustices.Through diverse empirical cases - including sexual abuse ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Chinese Urbanism

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Mark Jayne ...
    This book provides a definitive overview of contemporary developments in our understanding of urban life in China. Multidisciplinary perspectives outline the most significant critical, theoretical, methodological and empirical developments in our appreciation of Chinese cities in the context of an increasingly globalized world. Each chapter includes reviews and appraisals of past and current ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Urban Theory Beyond the West

    A World of Cities

    Edited by Tim Edensor, Mark Jayne ...
    Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities. This book offers an important antidote to the continuing focus of urban studies on cities in ‘the Global North’.Urban Theory Beyond the West contains twenty chapters ... Read more

    $94.99 USD