Wal-Mart World

The World's Biggest Corporation in the Global Economy

Edited by Stanley D. Brunn

Now that Wal-Mart has conquered the US, can it conquer the world? As Wal-Mart World shows, the corporation is certainly trying. For a number of...

Published August 31st 2006 by Routledge.

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International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness

Edited by Paul Cloke, Paul Milbourne

Drawing on recent academic studies in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, this book is the first international text on homelessness in rural areas. Consisting of fifteen...

Published August 18th 2006 by Routledge.

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Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism

By Melissa Wright

Everyday, around the world, women who work in the Third World factories of global firms face the idea that they are disposable. Melissa W. Wright...

Published August 17th 2006 by Routledge.

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Creating Child Friendly Cities

Reinstating kids in the city

Edited by Brendan Gleeson, Neil Sipe

Leading planning and geography authors present this comprehensive assessment of the extent to which the physical and social make up of Western cities accommodates and...

Published August 10th 2006 by Routledge.

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Environmental Management for Sustainable Development

By Chris Barrow

Environmental management is a wide, expanding, and rapidly evolving field, affecting everyone from individual citizens to businesses; governments to international agencies. Indisputably, it plays a...

Published August 10th 2006 by Routledge.

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Home

By Alison Blunt, Robyn Dowling

‘Home’ is a significant geographical and social concept. It is not only a three-dimensional structure, a shelter, but it is also a matrix of social...

Published August 3rd 2006 by Routledge.

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The Natural History of Earth

Debating Long-Term Change in the Geosphere and Biosphere

By Richard John Huggett

Using a broad selection of classic and current sources, The Natural History of the Earth probes selected discussions within biology, climatology, geology, and geomorphology and...

Published August 3rd 2006 by Routledge.

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The Suburb Reader

Edited by Becky Nicolaides, Andrew Wiese

Since the 1920s, the United States has seen a dramatic reversal in living patterns, with a majority of Americans now residing in suburbs. This mass...

Published August 1st 2006 by Routledge.

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Regional Development in the Knowledge Economy

Edited by Philip Cooke, Andrea Piccaluga

International contributors provide the first examination of the growing subject of regional knowledge-economy development.

Illustrated by data and 'stylized' accounts, the international contributors chart the...

Published July 31st 2006 by Routledge.

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Personal Mobilities

By Aharon Kellerman

Living in a contemporary developed society means having access to a myriad of ways to communicate. One can either use public or private transport to...

Published July 26th 2006 by Routledge.

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