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  • 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

  • Higher Education as a Bridge to the Future

    Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents, with Reflections on the Future of Higher Education by Dr. J. Michael Adams

    by Jason A. Scorza, J. Michael Adams, Dame Glynis Breakwell, Angelo Carfagna, Inwon Choue, Ramu Damodaran, Elizabeth Davis-Russell, Emmet Dennis, Hassan B. Diab, Sheldon Drucker0, Allan E. Goodman1, Andrew Hamilton2, Neal King3, Fernando León-García4, James Alexander McWha5, Brendan O'Malley6, Alvaro Romo7, Toyoshi Satow8, Kakha Shengelia9, Michael Stevenson0, Ichiro Tanioka1, Uroyoán R. Walker-Ramos2, John Wood3, Nicholas Baldwin4, H.E. Ban Ki-moon5, Yong-seung (Stephen) Park6, Rev. Emma Percy7, Nigel Thrift8 ...
    This volume assembles the papers, presentations, and speeches from the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) held in Oxfordshire in 2015. This book is a companion volume to the proceedings of the 1965 inaugural meeting of IAUP, also published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.The highlight of the 50th Anniversary Meeting was an academic ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • 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

  • Money/Space

    Geographies of Monetary Transformation

    by Andrew Leyshon, Nigel Thrift ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    Bringing together in one volume the most important writings of Andrew Leyshon and Nigel Thrift on money and finance, including the unpublished classic "Sexy-Greedy" this collection examines the economic, social and cultural manifestations that go to make up the multiple vision of money.Money, it seems is the great God of our age. It is also an economy, a sociology, an anthropolgy and a geography. ... Read more

    $70.99 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Shaping the Day

    A History of Timekeeping in England and Wales 1300-1800

    by Paul Glennie, Nigel Thrift ...
    Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world, and we take it for granted that our lives are shaped by the hours of the day. Yet what seems so ordinary today is actually the extraordinary outcome of centuries of technical innovation and circulation of ideas about time. Shaping the Day is a pathbreaking study of the practice of timekeeping in England and Wales between 1300 and 1800. ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Non-Representational Theory

    Space, Politics, Affect

    by Nigel Thrift ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    This astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation and practice, with the aim of valuing the fugitive practices that exist on the margins of the known. It revolves around three key functions. It:introduces the rather dispersed ... Read more

    $67.99 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