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  • Audiobook

    Naked Truth or Equality, the Forbidden Fruit

    Series Audiobook 2 - Spirited Away

    Unabridged

    8 hours 45 min

    BASED ON A TRUE STORYNEW YORK CITY, 1868. They beguiled the suffragists, seduced the millionaires and answered to no one. Spiritualist sisters, VICTORIA WOODHULL and TENNESSEE CLAFLIN were independent, politically progressive free thinkers. The Establishment vowed to destroy them. Based on the true story of the first woman to run for President of the United States, this is the Naked Truth, or ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sleep Medicine for Dentists

    A Practical Overview

    This concise clinical handbook educates dental practitioners seeking to understand, recognize, and manage disorders such as sleep apnea, sleep bruxism, and chronic pain, which often interfere with or intrude into sleep and are critically important to the practice of dentistry. Leading experts in medicine and dentistry articulate and guide readers in performing the specific responsibilities of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Explorations in Urban Theory

    For over three decades, urban theorist Michael Peter Smith has engaged in constructing innovative theories on central research questions in urban studies. This book brings together his views on the state of urban theory, sorting out the changing strengths and weaknesses in the field. Smith refocuses attention on the cultural, social, and political practices of urban inhabitants, particularly the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Marginal Spaces

    Ser Volume 5

    The literature on modernist and postmodernist urban development is abundant, yet few researchers have taken up the challenge of studying the areas hi which marginalized people live as sources of resistance to continued modernization. In Marginal Spaces, Michael Smith has assembled case studies combining structural and historical analyses of the moves of powerful social interests to dominate social ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Transnational Ties

    Cities, Migrations, and Identities

    Cities are key sites of the transnational ties that increasingly connect people, places, and projects across the globe. They provide opportunities and constraints within which transnational actors and networks operate and nodes linking wider social formations traverse national borders. This book brings together a series of richly textured ethnographic studies that suggest new ways to situate and ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Reinventing Detroit

    The Politics of Possibility

    Series series Comparative Urban and Community Research
    This book addresses the questions of what went wrong with Detroit and what can be done to reinvent the Motor City. Various answers to the former-deindustrialization, white flight, and a disappearing tax base-are now well understood. Less discussed are potential paths forward, stemming from alternative explanations of Detroit's long-term decline and reconsideration of the challenges the city ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • City and Nation

    Rethinking Place and Identity

    Series series Comparative Urban and Community Research
    This compendium offers a textured historical and comparative examination of the significance of locality or "place," and the role of urban representations and spatial practices in defining national identities. Drawing upon a wide range of disciplines - from literature to architecture and planning, sociology, and history - these essays problematize the dynamic between the local and the national, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Asia’s New Industrial World

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1985, Asia’s New Industrial World assesses the power and influence of four key corners of the Far East—Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Indonesia.Michael Smith visited Japan, the Far East’s most potent economic force; Jane McLoughlin went to Korea to see a country in transition from deep dependence on traditional heavy industries; Peter Large flew to Singapore, where he found ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Human Mind Revealed

    A Biological Perspective

    Narrated by Peter Noble ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 20 min

    This book provides listeners with a new working model of the human mind based on contemporary trends in cognitive science. Taking a distinct biological approach, the book presents mind and brain as two sides of the same coin while at the same time emphasizing the need for separate accounts. The listener is introduced step by step to the mind account showing how it operates.The text explores the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transitioning to a Prosperous, Resilient and Carbon-Free Economy

    A Guide for Decision-Makers

    This book is a comprehensive manual for decision-makers and policy leaders addressing the issues around human caused climate change, which threatens communities with increasing extreme weather events, sea level rise, and declining habitability of some regions due to desertification or inundation. The book looks at both mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and global warming and adaption to ... Read more

    $95.99 USD

  • Environmental Management and Governance

    Intergovernmental Approaches to Hazards and Sustainability

    Problems for environmental management are taking on a new urgency. This book addresses aspects of environmental management that raise fundamental questions about governmental roles and the relationship of humans to the environment. It examines the interaction of local and national governments and the strengths and weaknesses of co-operative vs. coercive environmental management, through a focus on ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Transnationalism from Below

    Comparative Urban and Community Research

    Edited by Michael Peter Smith ...
    Expansion of transnational capital and mass media to even the remotest of places has provoked a spate of discourse on transnationalism. A core theme hi this debate is the penetration of national cultures and political systems by global and local driving forces. The nation-state is seen as weakened by transnational capital, global media, and emergent supranational political institutions. It also ... Read more

    $68.99 USD