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1. The Role of 'Informal' Economies in the Post-Soviet World

   The End of Transition?

   By Peter Rodgers, John Round, Colin C. Williams

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   This book challenges the accepted notion that the transition from the command economy to market based systems is complete across the post-Soviet space. While it is noted that different political economies have developed in such states, such as Russia’s ‘managed democracy’, events such as Ukraine...

   To Be Published December 31st 2012 by Routledge
2. The Temporary City

   By Peter Bishop, Lesley Williams

   Most of the professional training, thinking and strategies of architects, urban designers and planners, are strictly three-dimensional. In reality of course the city is four dimensional, and one needs to acknowledge the influence of time in planning and design strategies....

   Published January 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. Unions and Globalisation

   Governments, Management, and the State at Work

   By Peter Fairbrother, John O'Brien, Anne Junor, Michael O'Donnell, Glynne Williams

   Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

   In recent decades, trade unions have suffered major reversals and experienced declining memberships. Transnational corporations and state-owned multi-nationals have increasingly implemented deteriorating terms and conditions of employment, with vulnerable and insecure job contracts. In this...

   Published September 14th 2011 by Routledge
4. Gentrification of the City

   Edited by Neil Smith, Peter Williams

   This book was first published in 1986....

   Published December 2nd 2010 by Routledge
5. Social Process and the City

   Edited by Peter Williams

   Contemporary urban studies engages a wide range of approaches in the analysis of the processes at work in urban areas. These approaches derive from anthropology, economics, geography, history, politics and sociology as well as from the professional experience of town planning and architecture....

   Published December 20th 2006 by Routledge
6. Sterilisation of tissues using ionizing radiations

   By John F. Kennedy, Glyn O. Phillips, Peter A. Williams

   Existing sterilization processes have proven to be inadequate in many instances. Microbial and viral contamination of tissues leads to major safety concerns involving surgical allografts. Sterilization of Biological Tissues with Ionizing Radiation provides information on the issues presented at an...

   Published May 16th 2005 by CRC Press
7. Milestones in Systematics

   Edited by David M. Williams, Peter L. Forey

   Series: Systematics Association Special Volumes

   Presenting a historical analysis of the evolution of systematics during the last one hundred years, Milestones in Systematics reviews many of the major issues in systematic theory and practice that have driven the working methods of systematics during the 20th century and looks at the issues most...

   Published May 11th 2004 by CRC Press
8. Meaning and International Relations

   Edited by Peter Mandaville, Andrew Williams

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   This innovative volume brings together specialists in international relations to tackle a set of difficult questions about what it means to live in a globalized world where the purpose and direction of world politics are no longer clear-cut. What emerges from these essays is a very clear sense that...

   Published January 30th 2003 by Routledge
9. Sustainable Tourism

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Rob Harris, Peter Williams, Tony Griffin

   Sustainable Tourism is vital reading for anyone seeking to understand the complexities associated with sustainable tourism development, and how government and industry have responded to the challenges the concept poses.The major areas addressed in this edited volume are:* perspectives and issues...

   Published October 20th 2002 by Routledge
10. Government, Markets and Vocational Qualifications

    An Anatomy of Policy

    By Peter Raggatt, Steve Williams

    Published September 8th 1999 by Routledge