The Second Edition of Kaplan's "Urban Geography" text aims to uncover the excitement and richness found in cities, while tackling the wide variety of urban challenges. This text offers a comprehensive treatment of urban geography, covering the field both as it has evolved and as it exists today and fully explores the origins and development of ...
This is the new world atlas for higher education and college geography level teachings. It uses the Klett-Perthes high quality map print details as known from their Wall Maps. It features over 350 pages of detailed maps, statistics, glossary and information to teach higher level geography education.
This groundbreaking work explores the vital importance of territory and space to any genuine understanding of nationalism and identity. Too often, the contributors argue, national identity is analyzed apart from the lands that are integral to its formation, as territory is seen as a commodity to be brokered rather than as central to a group's self ...
This study is concerned mainly with the nonregulated sector of big business represented by manufacturing, mining, construction, distribution, and business service firms. These corporate giants make up a segment of the American economy that must itself be competitive if the American system of private enterprise is to survive as a competitive system.
Exploring the worldwide boom in immigration, this book traces the profound changes in urban areas as new arrivals have transformed inner cities and suburbs alike into bastions of new ethnic economic activity. Each chapter addresses the significance of urban space and local context in developing various ethnic economies and how ethnic economies ...
Examining contemporary cultural and political changes in Europe as they are reflected in the region's borderlands, this analysis combines the classical heritage of boundary studies with an understanding of the social construction of borders. The text employs a variety of perspectives on globalization, the rise of national and ethnic identities, ...
This book is a comprehensive and revealing compilation of essays analyzing the varied dimensions of national identities and nationalisms across world regions and through time: revolutions to establish self-determination...wars to protect or expand a homeland...movements to promote a unified identity within a country. So many of history's most ...
The UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration has been a great success in harmonizing the law of arbitration around the world. Several dozen countries have either adopted the law or amended their own laws to be in conformity with it. The fact that the law is the same in so many countries allows courts from each country to benefit ...
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