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1. Curing Concrete

   By Peter C Taylor

   Curing is critical to achieving a high quality concrete structure, although it costs money and the benefits are not immediately apparent. Consultants usually specify a need for curing, but it is rarely followed through properly and rarely identified as cause of later failure. It ought to be....

   To Be Published April 15th 2013 by CRC Press
2. Adventure Tourism

   Meaning, Experience and Education

   Edited by Peter Varley, Steve Taylor, Tony Johnson

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   To Be Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Global Cities

   Edited by Peter Taylor, Jonathan Beaverstock, Ben Derudder, James Faulconbridge, John Harrison, Michael Hoyler, Kathy Pain, Frank Witlox

   Series: Critical Concepts in Urban Studies

   A striking consequence of contemporary globalization has been an increase in the importance and prestige of cities. Whereas only a generation or so ago cities were commonly viewed as ‘problems’, the sites of society’s ills, today they are more readily seen as ‘solutions’, places where twenty-first...

   To Be Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge
4. Cities in Globalization

   Practices, Policies and Theories

   Edited by Peter Taylor, Ben Derudder, Pieter Saey, Frank Witlox

   Series: Questioning Cities

   Despite traditionally being a strong research topic in urban studies, inter-city relations had become grossly neglected until recently, when it was placed back on the research agenda with the advent of studies of world/global cities. More recently the ‘external relations’ of cities have taken their...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
5. Residential Tenancies Law and Practice

   5th Edition

   By Allan Anforth, Peter Christensen, Bill Taylor

   Residential Tenancies Law and Practice, 5th edition, deals with residential tenancy law in New South Wales and the associated procedures in the Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal of NSW. This guide incorporates the new Residential Tenancies Act 2010 which took effect in February 2011. It reviews...

   Published September 29th 2011 by Federation Press
6. The Globalization of Advertising

   Agencies, Cities and Spaces of Creativity

   By James R. Faulconbridge, Peter Taylor, Corinne Nativel, Jonathan Beaverstock

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   The role of advertising in everyday life and as a major employer in post-industrial economies is intimately bound up with processes of contemporary globalization. At centre of the advertising industry are the global advertising agencies which have an important role in developing global brands both...

   Published December 6th 2010 by Routledge
7. Torkildsen's Sport and Leisure Management

   6th Edition

   By George Torkildsen

   Edited by Peter Taylor

   For nearly thirty years George Torkildsen’s classic textbook has been the most comprehensive and engaging introduction to sport and leisure management available to students at all levels. Now in a fully revised sixth edition, it is still the only textbook that covers all the key topics taught...

   Published November 8th 2010 by Routledge
8. Global Urban Analysis

   A Survey of Cities in Globalization

   Edited by Peter J Taylor, Pengfei Ni, Ben Derudder, Michael Hoyler, Jin Huang, Frank Witlox

   Global Urban Analysis provides a unique insight into the contemporary world economy through a focus on cities. It is based upon a large-scale customised data collection on how leading businesses use cities across the world: as headquarter locations, for finance, for professional and creative...

   Published October 28th 2010 by Routledge
9. Political Philosophy and Social Welfare (Routledge Revivals)

   Essays on the Normative Basis of Welfare Provisions

   By Raymond Plant, Peter Taylor-Gooby, Harry Lessor

   Published November 11th 2009 by Routledge
10. The End of the Welfare State?

    Responses to State Retrenchment

    Edited by Stefan Svallfors, Peter Taylor-Gooby

    Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

    Throughout the world, politicians from all the main parties are cutting back on state welfare provision, encouraging people to use the private sector instead and developing increasingly stringent techniques for the surveillance of the poor. Almost all experts agree that we are likely to see further...

    Published November 30th 2007 by Routledge