Dirty Cities: Towards a Political Economy of the Underground in Global Cities (Talani L.)(Paperback)

Dirty Cities: Towards a Political Economy of the Underground in Global Cities (Talani L.)(Paperback)

Introduction: Globalization and its impact on the shadow economies in Global Cities; Leila Simona Talani PART I: CAPITAL SINS 1. London: The laundry of choice? Money laundering in the City of London; Leila Simona Talani 2. Crime and No Punishment: Money, Violence and the Neoliberal Transformation

Global Cities: Past, Present and Future (Zhenhua Zhou)(Pevná vazba)

The pivotal nodes in the world city network are global cities---cities of supreme strategic value in global economy and politics, science and technology, culture, and society. Global Cities: Past, Present and Future explores the evolution of global cities---their formation, rise, development and

Great Cities in History(Pevná vazba)

From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, great cities have marked the development of human civilization.The Great Cities in History tells their stories, starting with the earliest, from Uruk and Memphis to Jerusalem and Alexandria. Next come the fabulous

Global Political Economy: Theory and Practice (Cohn Theodore H.)(Paperback)

Praised for its authoritative coverage, Global Political Economy places the study of IPE in broad theoretical context and has been updated to cover the rise of populism, Brexit, the USMCA, US-China trade wars, tariffs, refugees and global migration, the Keynesian-monetarist debate, Fordism,

Future Cities: A Visual Guide (Dunn Nick)(Paperback)

What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years? How may future cities face global challenges? Imagining the city of the future has long been an inspiration for many architects, artists and designers. This book examines how cities of the future have been visualised, what these

The Great Cities in History (Norwich John Julius)(Paperback)

Today, the majority of people in the world live in cities. The implications and challenges associated with this fact are enormous. But how did we get here?From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, this book explores how great cities have marked the

Invisible Cities (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city:

Issues and Actors in the Global Political Economy (Broome Andr)(Paperback)

A major new text on contemporary global political economy that focuses centrally on key issues and actors. Concise and accessibly written, it provides an ideal introduction to the contemporary dynamics and processes of change in the global political

Tale of Two Cities, A (Dickens Charles)(Paperback / softback)

When millions suffer under oppression, when resentment boils into bloody insurrection, when triumph leads to savage vengeance - can one individual life matter? In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens sets the intensely personal dramas of Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton against the

The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History (Clark Peter)(Paperback)

In 2008 for the first time the majority of the planet's inhabitants lived in cities and towns. Becoming globally urban has been one of mankind's greatest collective achievements over time, and raises many questions. How did global city systems evolve and interact in the past? How have historic

Travels with Charley - In Search of America (Steinbeck Mr John)(Paperback / softback)

Moving through the woods and deserts, dirt tracks and highways to large cities and glorious wildernesses, the author observed America, and the Americans who inhabited it. What he saw was a lonely, generous nation too packed with individuals for single judgements; what he saw made him proud, angry,

Future Is Asian - Global Order in the Twenty-first Century (Khanna Parag)(Paperback / softback)

Five billion people, two-thirds of the world's mega-cities, one-third of the global economy, two-thirds of global economic growth, thirty of the Fortune 100, six of the ten largest banks, eight of the ten largest armies, five nuclear powers, massive technological innovation, the newest crop of

Global Political Economy: Understanding the International Economic Order (Gilpin Robert)(Paperback)

This book is the eagerly awaited successor to Robert Gilpin's 1987 The Political Economy of International Relations, the classic statement of the field of international political economy that continues to command the attention of students, researchers, and policymakers. The world economy and

Development and Underdevelopment - The Political Economy of Global Inequality (Seligson Mitchell A.)(Paperback / softback)

Cities and crisis (Konvitz Josef W.)(Pevná vazba)

Cities have been missing from analyses of the global economic crisis and debates about how to generate a sustainable recovery. Cities and crisis provides a fresh assessment of what has changed since 1990 and what has not, of policy assumptions about urban economies, and of lessons of experience. A

The Train Under Your Feet (Platt Richard)(Paperback)

Cities all over the world have an underground network of trains running right beneath our feet, helping the public to travel around quickly and safely. But how did these underground networks begin, and how were they built? Find out the fascinating history of underground trains in this non-fiction

A Political Economy of the Middle East (Cammett Melani)(Paperback)

A Political Economy of the Middle East is the most comprehensive analysis of developments in the political economy of the region over the past several decades, examining the interaction of economic development processes, state systems and policies, and social actors in the Middle East.The fourth

Making Ancient Cities (Creekmore Andrew T. III)(Paperback)

This volume investigates how the structure and use of space developed and changed in cities, and examines the role of different societal groups in shaping urbanism. Culturally and chronologically diverse case studies provide a basis to examine recent theoretical and methodological shifts in the

The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade (Jeffreys Sheila)(Paperback)

The industrialization of prostitution and the sex trade has created a multibillion-dollar global market, involving millions of women, that makes a substantial contribution to national and global economies.The Industrial Vagina examines how prostitution and other aspects of the sex industry have

Keeper of the Lost Cities Collector's Set (Includes a Sticker Sheet of Family Crests): Keeper of the Lost Cities; Exile; Everblaze (Messenger Shannon)(Paperback)

A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens Charles)(Paperback)

Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities is one of Charles Dickens's most popular and dramatic stories. It begins on a muddy English road in an atmosphere charged with mystery and it ends in the Paris of the Revolution with one of the most famous acts of

The New Geography of Jobs (Moretti Enrico)(Paperback)

'A timely and smart discussion of how different cities and regions have made a changing economy work for them - and how policymakers can learn from that to lift the circumstances of working Americans everywhere.'--Barack Obama We're used to thinking of the United States in opposing terms: red

A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens Charles)(Paperback)

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...' Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities portrays a world on fire, split between Paris and London during the brutal and bloody events of the French Revolution. After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette

Television Cities: Paris, London, Baltimore (Brunsdon Charlotte)(Paperback)

In Television Cities Charlotte Brunsdon traces television's representations of metropolitan spaces to show how they reflect the medium's history and evolution, thereby challenging the prevalent assumptions about television as quintessentially suburban. Brunsdon shows how the BBC's presentation of