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Studies in the Syntax of Relative and Comparative Causes

Studies in the Syntax of Relative and Comparative Causes

This title first published in 1985 is an investigation of certain aspects of the syntax of relative and comparative clauses. The author provides a typological survey of relative clauses in the languages of the world which serves both to convey a general impression of what relative clauses are like in the languages of the world and to establish certain phenomena that are of theoretical import. The author also examines comparative clauses and integrates the material given with that presented for relatives. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics. | Studies in the Syntax of Relative and Comparative Causes

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Textbook of Logic

Textbook of Logic

Originally published in 1930 this well-known text by the late British philosopher Abraham Wolf offers the student a practical consistent and comprehensive approach to logic which remains unique in its field. Dr. Wolf here deals systematically with the two main types of reasoning - formal logic and inductive logic - and their various applications. All the main elements of logic - such as inference syllogism dilemmas evidence deductive and inductive methods and probability - are subsumed under these general headings. Professor Wolf strongly emphasizes the fact that logic cannot be mastered without some practical application; at the end of this volume therefore he includes a section of exercises based on each chapter. His unusally interesting appendix examines such matters as symbolic as logic fallacies the law of contradiction modal propositions the existential import of categorical propositions predictables and categories. | Textbook of Logic

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Joseph Conrad and the Swan Song of Romance

Joseph Conrad and the Swan Song of Romance

In the first critical study wholly devoted to Joseph Conrad's use of techniques associated with the literary tradition of romance the author argues that Conrad's engagement with the genre invigorated his work throughout his career. Exploring the ways in which Conrad borrows from alludes to and subverts the tropes of romance the author suggests that Conrad's ambivalent relationship with popular forms like the adventure novel is revealed in the way he uses romance conventions to disrupt narrative expectations and make visible ethical problems with Europe's colonial project. The author examines not only familiar novels like Lord Jim but also less-studied works such as Romance and The Rover using Robert Miles's model of the 'philosophical romance' to show that for Conrad romance is also philosophically engaged with issues of ideology. Her study enables a new appreciation of the ways in which Conrad continued to experiment even in his later fiction and of the ethical import of that aesthetic experimentation. | Joseph Conrad and the Swan Song of Romance

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Countering Economic Crime A Comparative Analysis

Countering Economic Crime A Comparative Analysis

Economic crime is a significant feature of the UK’s economic landscape and yet despite the government’s bold mission statements ‘to hold those suspected of financial wrongdoing to account’ as part of their ‘day of reckoning’ and ‘serious about white-collar crime’ agenda there is a sense that this is still not being done effectively. This book examines the history of the creation of the UK’s anti-economic crime institutions and accompanying legislation providing a critique of their effectiveness. The book analyses whether the recent regulatory regime is fit for purpose as well as being appropriate for the future. In order to explore how the UK’s economic crime strategies could be improved the book takes a comparative approach analysing policy and legislative responses to economic crime in the United States and Australia in order to determine whether the UK could or should import similar structures or laws to improve the enforcement of UK economic crime. | Countering Economic Crime A Comparative Analysis

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Inside a Japanese Sharehouse Dreams and Realities

Inside a Japanese Sharehouse Dreams and Realities

This book explores social change in Japan at the most intimate site of social interaction – the home – by providing a detailed ethnography of everyday life in a sharehouse. Sharehouses which emerged in the 2007 'sharehouse boom' are a deliberate alternative to life in the family home and are considered an experimental space for the construction of new social identities. Through a description of the micro-level mundane material interactions among residents within a mid-sized mixed-sex sharehouse the book considers what these interactions indicate about existing – and often conflicting – ideas about intimacy privacy gender the individual family community and the home. In so doing it highlights how sharehouse residents though a dramatic rejection of the twentieth-century domestic model with its ideal of the family home as a partnership between a male wage-earner and a dedicated housewife and its implied separation of 'family' and 'outsiders' are nevertheless uneasy about overturning existing gender roles and giving precedence to the individual over community and are regarded as a foreign import. | Inside a Japanese Sharehouse Dreams and Realities

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Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language

Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language

The limit of language is one of the most pervasive notions found in Wittgenstein’s work both in his early Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and his later writings. Moreover the idea of a limit of language is intimately related to important scholarly debates on Wittgenstein’s philosophy such as the debate between the so-called traditional and resolute interpretations Wittgenstein’s stance on transcendental idealism and the philosophical import of Wittgenstein’s latest work On Certainty. This collection includes thirteen original essays that provide a comprehensive overview of the various ways in which Wittgenstein appeals to the limit of language at different stages of his philosophical development. The essays connect the idea of a limit of language to the most important themes discussed by Wittgenstein—his conception of logic and grammar the method of philosophy the nature of the subject and the foundations of knowledge—as well as his views on ethics aesthetics and religion. The essays also relate Wittgenstein’s thought to his contemporaries including Carnap Frege Heidegger Levinas and Moore. | Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language

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The Foodways of Hawai'i Past and Present

The Foodways of Hawai'i Past and Present

Offering diverse perspectives on Hawaiʻi’s food system this book addresses themes of place and identity across time. From early Western contact to the present day the way in which people in Hawaiʻi grow import and consume their food has shifted in response to the pressures of colonialism migration new technologies and globalization. Because of Hawaiʻi’s history of agricultural abundance its geographic isolation in the Pacific Ocean and its heavy reliance on imported foods today it offers a rich case study for understanding how food systems develop in-place. In so doing the contributors implicitly and explicitly complicate the narrative of the local which has until recently dominated much of the existing scholarship on Hawaiʻi’s foodways. With topics spanning GMO activism agricultural land use trends customary access and fishing rights poi production and the dairy industry this volume reveals how local food is emplaced through dynamic and complex articulations of history politics and economic change. This book was originally published as a special issue of Food Culture and Society. | The Foodways of Hawai'i Past and Present

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Beyond Spain's Borders Women Players in Early Modern National Theaters

Beyond Spain's Borders Women Players in Early Modern National Theaters

The prolific theatrical activity that abounded on the stages of early modern Europe demonstrates that drama was a genre that transcended national borders. The transnational character of early modern theater reflects the rich admixture of various dramatic traditions such as Spain’s comedia and Italy’s commedia dell’arte but also the transformations across cultures of Spanish novellas to French plays and English interludes. Of particular import to this study is the role that women and gender played in this cross-pollination of theatrical sources and practices. Contributors to the volume not only investigate the gendered effect of Spanish texts and literary types on English and French drama they address the actual journeys of Spanish actresses to French theaters and of Italian actresses to the Spanish stage while several emphasize the movement of royal women to various courts and their impact on theatrical activity in Spain and abroad. In their innovative focus on women’s participation and influence the chapters in this volume illustrate the frequent yet little studied transnational and transcultural points of contact between Spanish theater and the national theaters of England France Austria and Italy. | Beyond Spain's Borders Women Players in Early Modern National Theaters

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The American Steel Industry Problems Challenges Perspectives

The American Steel Industry Problems Challenges Perspectives

What is the cause of the American steel industry's deplorable situation today? Troubled in many areas—competition from imports technology implementation cost and utilization of raw materials investment policy philosophy of management and union attitudes to name only a few—can the industry survive? These are the questions Dr. Kiers confronts in this book. Unless answers can be found he warns the result will be further decline and finally bankruptcy or nationalization. Unwilling to accept either possibility Dr. Kiers challenges the steel industry to achieve a rebirth he sees as feasible only through a hard-nosed realistic approach an insistence on innovation and a willingness to apply discipline to every facet of steel making. Dr. Kiers presents an in-depth analysis of Japan's steel industry compares it with the U. S. industry and discusses U. S. technology and import problems with reference to Japan. He then inventories the factors responsible for the current problems and lays the groundwork for a new start going on to point out that the difficulties faced by the steel industry may be a portent of what will happen to other industries unless they too reassess both labor and management attitudes and make radical changes. | The American Steel Industry Problems Challenges Perspectives

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Cultural Property and Contested Ownership The trafficking of artefacts and the quest for restitution

Cultural Property and Contested Ownership The trafficking of artefacts and the quest for restitution

Against the backdrop of international conventions and their implementation Cultural Property and Contested Ownership explores how highly-valued cultural goods are traded and negotiated among diverging parties and their interests. Cultural artefacts such as those kept and trafficked between art dealers private collectors and museums have become increasingly localized in a ‘Bermuda triangle’ of colonialism looting and the black market with their re-emergence resulting in disputes of ownership and claims for return. This interdisciplinary volume provides the first book-length investigation of the changing behaviours resulting from the effect of the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. The collection considers the impact of the Convention on the way antiquity dealers museums and auction houses as well as nation states and local communities address issues of provenance contested ownership and the trafficking of cultural property. The book contains a range of contributions from anthropologists lawyers historians and archaeologists. Individual cases are examined from a bottom-up perspective and assessed from the viewpoint of international law in the Epilogue. Each section is contextualised by an introductory chapter from the editors. | Cultural Property and Contested Ownership The trafficking of artefacts and the quest for restitution

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Feminist Perspectives on Art Contemporary Outtakes

Feminist Perspectives on Art Contemporary Outtakes

When the body is foregrounded in artwork – as in much contemporary performance sculptural installation and video work – so is gendered and sexualised difference. Feminist Perspectives on Art: Contemporary Outtakes looks to interactions between art history theory curation and studio-based practices to theorise the phenomenological import of this embodied gender difference in contemporary art. The essays in this collection are rooted in a wide variety of disciplines including art-making curating and art history and criticism with many of the authors combining roles of curator artist and writer. This interdisciplinary approach enables the book to bridge the theory–practice divide and highlight new perspectives emerging from creative arts research. Fresh insights are offered on feminist aesthetics women’s embodied experience curatorial and art historical method art world equity and intersectional concerns. It engages with epistemological assertions of ‘how the body feels’ how the land has creative agency in Indigenous art and how the use of emotional or affective registers may form one’s curatorial method. This anthology represents a significant contribution to a broader resurgence of feminist thought methodology and action in contemporary art particularly in creative practice research. It will be of particular value to students and researchers in art history visual culture cultural studies and gender studies in addition to museum and gallery professionals specialising in contemporary art. | Feminist Perspectives on Art Contemporary Outtakes

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Changing Perspectives on England and the Continent in the Early Middle Ages

Changing Perspectives on England and the Continent in the Early Middle Ages

This volume brings together a set of articles by Professor Anton Scharer dealing with the themes of conversion court culture and royal representation in Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Europe. It includes two previously unpublished papers and another four specially translated into English for this publication. Three papers focus on different aspects of conversion: the spread of Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England by means of social relations the role of language in this process and the monastic and social background of the insular mission to the Continent. With conversion came the import of Latin written culture including charters and one study focuses on royal styles in Anglo-Saxon charters. A second paper on early mediaeval royal diplomas and what they at times reveal about very personal reactions and sentiments leads to the theme of court culture. This is further explored in a batch of papers centred on Alfred the Great and covering the subjects of historiography of inauguration rites or ordines and of hitherto neglected personal contacts as a clue to the transmission of experiences ideas and texts. Closely linked are studies on the role of Charlemagne's daughters at their fathe's court and on objects of princely and royal representation. Throughout particular attention is given to the examination of mutual Anglo-Saxon and Carolingian influences and to viewing the matters under discussion from an 'Anglo-Saxon' as well as a 'Continental' perspective. | Changing Perspectives on England and the Continent in the Early Middle Ages

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The Role of Taste in Kant's Theory of Cognition

The Role of Taste in Kant's Theory of Cognition

First published in 1990. This title originally a Ph. D. dissertation submitted to the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University in July 1988 grew out of an interest in the foundations of twentieth-century analytic philosophy. Believing that the idea of the primacy of judgment was an important one for understanding more recent issues in analytic philosophy the author started to think about its historical antecedents. By examining Kant’s Critique of Judgement Ginsborg explores the notion of a judgment of taste as a judgment which has intersubjective validity without being objectively valid and therefore bear’s directly on the notion of the primacy of judgment as an aspect of Kant's account of objectivity. This title will be of interest to students of philosophy. | The Role of Taste in Kant's Theory of Cognition

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Creating Common Ground Connections Healing Divisiveness

Creating Common Ground Connections Healing Divisiveness

Through an empathetic and positive approach to interpersonal communication this book guides readers to build on the skills they already possess to communicate—and connect—with others. Author David W. Bennett Ph. D. approaches communication with the belief that it is at the heart of any human division. This book helps readers find a way to communicate that will help build understanding regardless of each party’s perspective. Written in an approachable and conversational style the book includes tips examples and concept reviews to easily illustrate communication principles readers can take with them beyond their courses or training sessions. An ideal supplement to courses focusing on skills in interpersonal professional or business communication this book can also be used as a communication primer for students or professionals in any field. | Creating Common Ground Connections Healing Divisiveness

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Diffracted Worlds - Diffractive Readings Onto-Epistemologies and the Critical Humanities

Diffracted Worlds - Diffractive Readings Onto-Epistemologies and the Critical Humanities

Diffraction patterns in quantum physics evidence the fact that the behavior of matter is the result of its entanglements with measurement or as Karen Barad suggests the entanglement of matter and meaning. In this sense therefore phenomena (including texts cultural agents or life forms) are the results of their relational onto-epistemological entanglements and not individual entities that separately pre-exist their joint becoming. As such ‘diffraction’ proposes a new understanding of difference: no longer a dualist understanding but one going beyond binaries. Diffraction is about patterns constellations relationalities. From this angle the book explores ‘diffraction’ which has begun to impact critical theories and humanities debates especially via (new) materialist feminisms STS and quantum thought but is often used without further reflection upon its implications or potentials. Doing just that the book also pursues new routes for the onto-epistemological and ethical challenges that arise from our experience of the world as relational and radically immanent; because if we start from the ideas of immanence and entanglement our conceptions of self and other culture and nature cultural and sexual difference our epistemological procedures and disciplinary boundaries have to be rethought and adjusted. The book offers an in-depth consideration of ‘diffraction’ as a quantum understanding of difference and as a new critical reading method. It reflects on its import in humanities debates and thereby also on some of the most inspiring work recently done at the crossroads of science studies feminist studies and the critical humanities. This book was originally published as a special issue of Parallax. | Diffracted Worlds - Diffractive Readings Onto-Epistemologies and the Critical Humanities

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The Routledge Companion to Behavioural Accounting Research

The Routledge Companion to Behavioural Accounting Research

Behavioural research is well established in the social sciences and has flourished in the field of accounting in recent decades. This far-reaching and reliable collection provides a definitive resource on current knowledge in this new approach as well as providing a guide to the development and implementation of a Behavioural Accounting Research project. The Routledge Companion to Behavioural Accounting Research covers a full range of theoretical methodological and statistical approaches relied upon by behavioural accounting researchers giving the reader a good grounding in both theoretical perspectives and practical applications. The perspectives cover a range of countries and contexts bringing in seminal chapters by an international selection of behavioural accounting scholars including Robert Libby and William R. Kinney Jr. This book is a vital introduction for Ph. D. students as well as a valuable resource for established behavioural accounting researchers.

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The Politics of Food Provisioning in Colombia Agrarian Movements and Negotiations with the State

The Politics of Food Provisioning in Colombia Agrarian Movements and Negotiations with the State

This book explores food provisioning in Colombia by examining the role and impact of the agrarian negotiations which took place in the aftermath of the 2013–2014 national strikes. Most of the research in the field of agrarian studies in Colombia has focused on inequalities in land distribution the impacts of violent conflict and most recently the first phase of the peace agreement implementation. This book links and complements these literatures by critically engaging with an original framework that uncovers the conflicts and politics of food provisioning: who produces what and where and with what socio-economic effects. This analytical lens is used to explain the re-emergence of national agrarian movements their contestation of the dominant development narratives and their engagement in discussions about food sovereignty with the state. The analysis incorporates a wide range of voices from high-level government representatives and leaders from national agrarian movements. Their narratives of food provisioning and the broader role of the food industry are reviewed and the key findings show an underlying conflict within food provisioning based on the struggle of marginalised smallholders to develop alternative agri-food systems that can be included in the local and domestic food markets in the context of a state dominated by an export and import approach. Overall the book argues that the battle ground of agrarian conflicts has moved to the fi eld of food provisioning and using this approach has the potential to reframe the debate about the future of food and agriculture in Colombia and beyond. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of food and agriculture rural development peasant studies and Latin American Studies. | The Politics of Food Provisioning in Colombia Agrarian Movements and Negotiations with the State

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Democratic Frontiers Algorithms and Society

Democratic Frontiers Algorithms and Society

Democratic Frontiers: Algorithms and Society focuses on digital platforms’ effects in societies with respect to key areas such as subjectivity and self-reflection data and measurement for the common good public health and accessible datasets activism in social media and the import/export of AI technologies relative to regime type. Digital technologies develop at a much faster pace relative to our systems of governance which are supposed to embody democratic principles that are comparatively timeless whether rooted in ancient Greek or Enlightenment ideas of freedom autonomy and citizenship. Algorithms computing millions of calculations per second do not pause to reflect on their operations. Developments in the accumulation of vast private datasets that are used to train automated machine learning algorithms pose new challenges for upholding these values. Social media platforms while the key driver of today’s information disorder also afford new opportunities for organized social activism. The US and China presumably at opposite ends of an ideological spectrum are the main exporters of AI technology to both free and totalitarian societies. These are some of the important topics covered by this volume that examines the democratic stakes for societies with the rapid expansion of these technologies. Scholars and students from many backgrounds as well as policy makers journalists and the general reading public will find a multidisciplinary approach to issues of democratic values and governance encompassing research from Sociology Digital Humanities New Media Psychology Communication International Relations and Economics. Chapter 3 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. routledge. com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license | Democratic Frontiers Algorithms and Society

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A Handbook for Supporting Today's Graduate Students

A Handbook for Supporting Today's Graduate Students

Despite continued growth in enrollments graduate program attrition rates are of great concern to academic program coordinators. It is estimated that only 40 to 50 percent of students who begin Ph. D. programs complete their degrees. This book describes programs initiatives and interventions that lead to overall student retention and success. Written for graduate school administrators student affairs professionals and faculty this book offers ways to better support today’s graduate student population addresses the needs of today’s changing student demography and considers the challenges today’s graduate students face inside and outside of the classroom. The opening section highlights the shifting demographics and contextual factors shaping graduate education over the past 20 years while the second describes institutional practices to develop the requisite academic and professional development necessary to succeed in master’s and doctoral programs. In conclusion the editors curate a conversation about different ways institutions can support graduate students beyond the classroom. | A Handbook for Supporting Today's Graduate Students

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Bayesian Analysis with R for Drug Development Concepts Algorithms and Case Studies

Bayesian Analysis with R for Drug Development Concepts Algorithms and Case Studies

Drug development is an iterative process. The recent publications of regulatory guidelines further entail a lifecycle approach. Blending data from disparate sources the Bayesian approach provides a flexible framework for drug development. Despite its advantages the uptake of Bayesian methodologies is lagging behind in the field of pharmaceutical development. Written specifically for pharmaceutical practitioners Bayesian Analysis with R for Drug Development: Concepts Algorithms and Case Studies describes a wide range of Bayesian applications to problems throughout pre-clinical clinical and Chemistry Manufacturing and Control (CMC) development. Authored by two seasoned statisticians in the pharmaceutical industry the book provides detailed Bayesian solutions to a broad array of pharmaceutical problems. Features Provides a single source of information on Bayesian statistics for drug development Covers a wide spectrum of pre-clinical clinical and CMC topics Demonstrates proper Bayesian applications using real-life examples Includes easy-to-follow R code with Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo performed in both JAGS and Stan Bayesian software platforms Offers sufficient background for each problem and detailed description of solutions suitable for practitioners with limited Bayesian knowledge Harry Yang Ph. D. is Senior Director and Head of Statistical Sciences at AstraZeneca. He has 24 years of experience across all aspects of drug research and development and extensive global regulatory experiences. He has published 6 statistical books 15 book chapters and over 90 peer-reviewed papers on diverse scientific and statistical subjects including 15 joint statistical works with Dr. Novick. He is a frequent invited speaker at national and international conferences. He also developed statistical courses and conducted training at the FDA and USP as well as Peking University. Steven Novick Ph. D. is Director of Statistical Sciences at AstraZeneca. He has extensively contributed statistical methods to the biopharmaceutical literature. Novick is a skilled Bayesian computer programmer and is frequently invited to speak at conferences having developed and taught courses in several areas including drug-combination analysis and Bayesian methods in clinical areas. Novick served on IPAC-RS and has chaired several national statistical conferences. | Bayesian Analysis with R for Drug Development Concepts Algorithms and Case Studies

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Introductory Physics Summaries Examples and Practice Problems

Introductory Physics Summaries Examples and Practice Problems

Physics describes how motion works in everyday life. Clothes washers and rolling pins are undergoing rotational motion. A flying bird uses forces. Tossing a set of keys involves equations that describe motion (kinematics). Two people bumping into each other while cooking in a kitchen involves linear momentum. This textbook covers topics related to units kinematics forces energy momentum circular and rotational motion Newton’s general equation for gravity and simple harmonic motion (things that go back and forth). A math review is also included with a focus on algebra and trigonometry. The goal of this textbook is to present a clear introduction to these topics in small pieces with examples that readers can relate to. Each topic comes with a short summary a fully solved example and practice problems. Full solutions are included for over 400 problems. This book is a very useful study guide for students in introductory physics courses including high school and college students in an algebra-based introductory physics course and even students in an introductory calculus-level course. It can also be used as a standalone textbook in courses where derivations are not emphasized. Key features: Organizes a difficult subject into short and clearly written sections. Can be used alongside any introductory physics textbook. Presents clear examples for every problem type discussed in the textbook. Michael Antosh teaches physics at the University of Rhode Island USA. He obtained a Ph. D. in physics from Brown University. | Introductory Physics Summaries Examples and Practice Problems

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Unequal Cities The Challenge of Post-Industrial Transition in Times of Austerity

Unequal Cities The Challenge of Post-Industrial Transition in Times of Austerity

This seminal edited collection examines the impact of austerity and economic crisis on European cities. Whilst on the one hand the struggle for competitiveness has induced many European cities to invest in economic performance and attractiveness on the other national expenditure cuts and dominant neo-liberal paradigms have led many to retrench public intervention aimed at preserving social protection and inclusion. The impact of these transformations on social and spatial inequalities – whether occupational structures housing solutions or working conditions – as well as on urban policy addressing these issues is traced in this exemplary piece of comparative analysis grounded in original research. Unequal Cities links existing theories and debates with newer discussions on the crisis to develop a typology of possible orientations of local government towards economic development and social cohesion. In the process it describes the challenges and tensions facing six large European cities representative of a variety of welfare regimes in Western Europe: Barcelona Copenhagen Lyon Manchester Milan and Munich. It seeks to answer such key questions as:What social groups are most affected by recent urban transformations and what are the social and spatial impacts? What are the main institutional factors influencing how cities have dealt with the challenges facing them? How have local political agendas articulated the issues and what influence is still exerted by national policy? Grounded in an original urban policy analysis of the post-industrial city in Europe the book will appeal to a wide range of social science researchers Ph. D. and graduate students in urban studies social policy sociology human geography European studies and business studies both in Europe and internationally. | Unequal Cities The Challenge of Post-Industrial Transition in Times of Austerity

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