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72 produkter
Vietnam War: History in an Hour
Av Neil Smith
E-bok, 2012
17 kr
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Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.`War, what is it good for?’ THE VIETNAM WAR: HISTORY IN AN HOUR gives a gripping account of the most important Cold War-era conflict, fought between the United States and the Viet Cong, the Vietnam People’s Army and their Communist allies. It …
Vietnam War: History in an Hour
Av Neil Smith
Ljudbok, 2012
86 kr
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Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.‘War, what is it good for?’ THE VIETNAM WAR: HISTORY IN AN HOUR gives a gripping account of the most important Cold War-era conflict, fought between the United States and the Viet Cong, the Vietnam People’s Army and their Communist allies. It …
Bang Crunch
Av Neil Smith
E-bok, 2009
215 kr
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An audacious New Face of Fiction debut: nine riveting stories that announce a major writer in the tradition of Yann Martel and Barbara Gowdy. Unexpected humour and tenderness intertwine with loneliness and hopefulness in this remarkable book from an already acclaimed writer. In nine richly varied …
Bang Crunch
Av Neil Smith
E-bok, 2008
79 kr
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In Neil Smith’s nine stories, average people find themselves in decidedly unusual situations, as the mundane and the fantastic collide. A woman mourning the loss of her husband finds solace in talking to his ashes, entombed in a curling stone. The title story zeroes in on a girl with Fred Hoyle …
New Urban Frontier
Gentrification and the Revanchist City
Av Neil Smith
Inbunden, 1996
3063 kr
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Why have so many central and inner cities in Europe, North America and Australia been so radically revamped in the last three decades, converting urban decay into new chic? Will the process continue in the twenty-first century or has it ended? What does this mean for the people who live there? Can …
New Urban Frontier
Gentrification and the Revanchist City
Av Neil Smith
Häftad, 1996
1288 kr
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Why have so many central and inner cities in Europe, North America and Australia been so radically revamped in the last three decades, converting urban decay into new chic? Will the process continue in the twenty-first century or has it ended? What does this mean for the people who live there? Can …
Gentrification of the City
Inbunden, 2006
3904 kr
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This book was first published in 1986.
Endgame of Globalization
Av Neil Smith
Häftad, 2014
936 kr
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The recent American invasion of Iraq represents the endgame of America's decades-old effort to impose its vision of globalization-a system dominated by multinational firms and buttressed by the liberalism of John Locke and Adam Smith. Whereas the war surely ended Saddam Hussein's regime, the storm …
Endgame of Globalization
Av Neil Smith
Inbunden, 2005
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
2195 kr
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The recent American invasion of Iraq represents the endgame of America's decades-old effort to impose its vision of globalization-a system dominated by multinational firms and buttressed by the liberalism of John Locke and Adam Smith. Whereas the war surely ended Saddam Hussein's regime, the storm …
Politics of Public Space
Av Setha Low, Neil Smith
Inbunden, 2005
2743 kr
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Why is public space disappearing? Why is this disappearance important to democratic politics and how has it become an international phenomenon? Public spaces are no longer democratic spaces, but instead centres of private commerce and consumption, and even surveillance and police control. "The …
Politics of Public Space
Av Setha Low, Neil Smith
Häftad, 2005
822 kr
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Why is public space disappearing? Why is this disappearance important to democratic politics and how has it become an international phenomenon? Public spaces are no longer democratic spaces, but instead centres of private commerce and consumption, and even surveillance and police control. "The …
Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Social Justice
Av Heather D. Gautney, Neil Smith m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2510 kr
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Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Social Justice draws on the fields of geography, political theory, and cultural studies to analyze experiments with novel forms of democracy, highlighting the critical issue of the changing nature of the state and citizenship in the contemporary political …
Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Social Justice
Av Heather D. Gautney, Neil Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
822 kr
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Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Social Justice draws on the fields of geography, political theory, and cultural studies to analyze experiments with novel forms of democracy, highlighting the critical issue of the changing nature of the state and citizenship in the contemporary political …
American Empire
Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization
Av Neil Smith
Häftad, 2004
377 kr
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An American Empire, constructed over the last century, long ago overtook European colonialism, and it has been widely assumed that the new globalism it espoused took us "beyond geography." Neil Smith debunks that assumption, offering an incisive argument that American globalism had a distinct …
American Empire
Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization
Av Neil Smith
E-bok, 2003
625 kr
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An American Empire, constructed over the last century, long ago overtook European colonialism, and it has been widely assumed that the new globalism it espoused took us "beyond geography." Neil Smith debunks that assumption, offering an incisive argument that American globalism had a distinct …
Acquiring Phonology
A Cross-Generational Case-Study
Av Neil Smith
Inbunden, 2009
1529 kr
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Children often mispronounce words when learning their first language. Is it because they cannot perceive the differences that adults make or is it because they can't produce the sounds involved? Neither hypothesis is sufficient on its own to explain the facts. On the basis of detailed analyses of …
The Signs of a Savant
Language Against the Odds
Av Neil Smith, Ianthi Tsimpli m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
619 kr
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Every once in a while nature gives us insight into the human condition by providing us with a unique case whose special properties illuminate the species as a whole. Christopher is such an example. Despite disabilities which mean that everyday tasks are burdensome chores, Christopher is a …
The Signs of a Savant
Language Against the Odds
Av Neil Smith, Ianthi Tsimpli m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1181 kr
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Every once in a while nature gives us insight into the human condition by providing us with a unique case whose special properties illuminate the species as a whole. Christopher is such an example. Despite disabilities which mean that everyday tasks are burdensome chores, Christopher is a …
Twitter Machine
Reflections on Language
Av Neil Smith
Häftad, 1989
597 kr
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This unique book provides an introductory overview of modern theoretical linguistics which manages to be both accessible and humorous without sacrificing either scholarship of insight. In a series of magisterial vignettes Smith emphasizes the perennial necessity of appealing to linguistic theory if …
Mind of a Savant
Language, Learning and Modularity
Av Neil Smith, Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli
Häftad, 1995
684 kr
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Savants are people who are mentally and often physically impaired but who have one dazzling talent. Cases of savants, like Christopher who is described here, are not unheard of, but have never been reported before. Despite being unable to look after himself because he has difficulty with everyday …
Language, Bananas and Bonobos
Linguistic Problems, Puzzles and Polemics
Av Neil Smith
Häftad, 2001
540 kr
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Language, Bananas, and Bonobos presents a series of engaging reflections on concerns such as our knowledge and use of language, political correctness, and the linguistic abilities of chimpanzees. In doing so, this volume provides new insights into linguistics that are of universal interest.
Uneven Development
Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space
Av Neil Smith
Häftad, 2008
494 kr
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In Uneven Development, a classic in its field, Neil Smith offers the first full theory of uneven geographical development, entwining theories of space and nature with a critique of capitalist development. Featuring pathbreaking analyses of the production of nature and the politics of scale, Smith's …
Uneven Development
Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space
Av Neil Smith
E-bok, 2010
355 kr
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In Uneven Development , a classic in its field, Neil Smith offers the first full theory of uneven geographical development, entwining theories of space and nature with a critique of capitalist development. Featuring pathbreaking analyses of the production of nature and the politics of scale, …
Revolting New York
How 400 Years of Riot, Rebellion, Uprising, and Revolution Shaped a City
Inbunden, 2018
1635 kr
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Occupy Wall Street did not come from nowhere. It was part of a long history of riot, revolt, uprising, and sometimes even revolution that has shaped New York City. From the earliest European colonization to the present, New Yorkers have been revolting. Hard hitting, revealing, and insightful, …
Revolting New York
How 400 Years of Riot, Rebellion, Uprising, and Revolution Shaped a City
Häftad, 2018
385 kr
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Occupy Wall Street did not come from nowhere. It was part of a long history of riot, revolt, uprising, and sometimes even revolution that has shaped New York City. From the earliest European colonization to the present, New Yorkers have been revolting. Hard hitting, revealing, and insightful, …
Revolting New York
How 400 Years of Riot, Rebellion, Uprising, and Revolution Shaped a City
E-bok, 2018
473 kr
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Occupy Wall Street did not come from nowhere. It was part of a long history of riot, revolt, uprising, and sometimes even revolution that has shaped New York City. From the earliest European colonization to the present, New Yorkers have been revolting. Hard hitting, revealing, and insightful, …
Uneven Development
Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space
Av Neil Smith
E-bok, 2010
366 kr
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In Uneven Development, a classic in its field, Neil Smith offers the first full theory of uneven geographical development, entwining theories of space and nature with a critique of capitalist development. Featuring pathbreaking analyses of the production of nature and the politics of scale, Smith's …
