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  • Killer Cities

    by Nigel Thrift ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    Killer Cities uses a combination of social theory, polemic and close attention to empirical detail to tell the story of how and why cities cause mass animal death and, in the process, hasten the destruction of the planet. This book is not just a lament, however. It is an attempt to navigate out of this mess of planned and unplanned violence towards a world in which cities no longer act as killers ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • New Models in Geography - Vol 2

    The Political-Economy Perspective

    Edited by Richard Peet, Nigel Thrift ...
    Two decades after the publication of the seminal Models in Geography, edited by Richard Chorley & Peter Haggett, this major collection of specially commissioned essays charts the new human geography from the perspective of political economy. Providing surveys of recent trends in theory, bibliographic guides to the literature, and pointers to advances and frontiers in thinking, the book ranges from ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Thinking Space

    Edited by Mike Crang, Nigel Thrift ...
    Series series Critical Geographies
    As theorists have begun using geographical concepts and metaphors to think about the complex and differentiated world, it is important to reflect on their work, and its impact on our thoughts on space. This revealing book explores the work of a wide range of prolific social theorists. Included contributions from an impressive range of renowned geographical writers, each examine the work of one ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Pursuit of Possibility

    Redesigning Research Universities

    by Nigel Thrift ...
    Are British research universities losing their way or are they finding a new way?Nigel Thrift, a well-known academic and a former Vice-Chancellor, explores recent changes in the British research university that threaten to erode the quality of these higher education institutions. He considers what a research university has now become by examining the quandaries that have arisen from a succession ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Knowing Capitalism

    by Nigel Thrift ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    ′This is an ambitious, original, and complex treatment of key aspects of contemporary capitalism. It makes a major contribution because it profoundly destabilizes the scholarship on globalization, the so-called new economy, information technology, distinct contemporary business cultures and practices′- Saskia Sassen, author of Globalization and its Discontents′Nigel Thrift offers us the sort of ... Read more

    $108.89 USD

  • International Encyclopedia of Human Geography

    by Rob Kitchin, Nigel Thrift ...
    The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography provides an authoritative and comprehensive source of information on the discipline of human geography and its constituent, and related, subject areas. The encyclopedia includes over 1,000 detailed entries on philosophy and theory, key concepts, methods and practices, biographies of notable geographers, and geographical thought and praxis in ... Read more

    $4,864.99 USD

  • The Price of War

    Urbanization in Vietnam, 1954-1985

    by Nigel Thrift, Dean Forbes ...
    Much rare material is incorporated in this unique account of urbanization in a developing country that was ravaged by war for twenty years. With due emphasis on the experience of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), the authors present an account of what happened to the towns and cities of Vietnam between the establishment of Ho Chi Minh's socialist state in 1954 and the mid 1980s. The story is ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Arts of the Political

    New Openings for the Left

    by Ash Amin, Nigel Thrift ...
    In the West, "the Left," understood as a loose conglomeration of interests centered around the goal of a fairer and more equal society, still struggles to make its voice heard and its influence felt, even amid an overwhelming global recession. In Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left, Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift argue that only by broadening the domain of what is considered political and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Seeing Like a City

    by Ash Amin, Nigel Thrift ...
    Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organization alone. Within their density, size and sprawl can be found a world of symbols, bodies, buildings, technologies and infrastructures. It is the ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Multinationals and the Restructuring of the World Economy (RLE International Business)

    The Geography of the Multinationals Volume 2

    Edited by Michael Taylor, Nigel Thrift ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: International Business
    This volume charts the ways in which multinational corporations contributed to the restructuring of the world economy, paying particular attention to the spatial consequences of, and responses to, their operations at a number of scales. The book takes as its theme the differential spatial outcomes of the restructuring of different types of multinational corporation. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Geography of Multinationals (RLE International Business)

    Studies in the Spatial Development and Economic Consequences of Multinational Corporations.

    Edited by Michael Taylor, Nigel Thrift ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: International Business
    Through a series of international case studies, the nature and the geographical implications of the development of multinational corporations is examined. The volume concentrates on the latter Post-War period of corporate restructuring and readjustment in response to world-wide recession in the mid-1980s.The volume is divided into two parts. In the first each of the chapters considers a particular ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • New Models In Geography V2

    Edited by Richard Peet, Nigel Thrift ...
    First published in 1989. The publication of Models in geography presaged a sea change in the practice of Anglo-American geography. For a new set of models, this book provides a summary of their nature, spirit and purpose based upon a political-economy perspective. The book is split into two volumes, each consisting of four parts. This makes the title suitable for students and geographers with an ... Read more

    $180.00 USD