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  • Breadcrumbs

    A Passerby's Journey

    For travelers like poet Alessandro di Corsi, home is a concept or a feeling—it is no longer a place. Breadcrumbs: A Passerby's Journey is a book of poems which capture the struggle to find home within oneself and within other people. Alessandro’s journey has taught him that life of a nomad-esque passerby is a struggle because of what gets left behind: the self, the home, and a lot of love. The ... Read more

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  • Alternative Food Networks

    An Interdisciplinary Assessment

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    In recent years, Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) have been a key issue both in the scientific community and in public debates. This is due to their profound implications for rural development, local sustainability, and bio-economics. This edited collection discusses what the main determinants of the participation of operators – both consumers and producers – in AFNs are, what the conditions for ... Read more

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  • The Palgrave Handbook of Wine Industry Economics

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This Palgrave Handbook offers the first international comparative study into the efficiency of the industrial organization of the global wine industry. Looking at several important vineyards of the main wine countries, the contributors analyze differences in implementation and articulation of three key stages: grape production, wine making and distribution (marketing, selling and logistics). By ... Read more

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    How Economic Diversification and Social Networks Affect Human Agency and Welfare

    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    This book combines the human development approach and innovation economics in order to explore the effects that structural economic change has on human development.While economic diversification can provide valuable new social choices and capabilities, it also tends to lead to more complex decision processes and changes to the set of capabilities required by people to self-determine their future. ... Read more

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    How to Decode Political Spin and Economic Nonsense

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  • Pathways to Industrialization and Regional Development

    The world has seen a shift in socio-economic relations, in the patterns and processes of industrialization and regional development. The social regulation of the economic order, flexible production organization and industrial district formation have brought periods, places and pathways to the heart of economic debate.Pathways to Industrialization and Regional Development provides a platform from ... Read more

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  • Keys to the City

    How Economics, Institutions, Social Interaction, and Politics Shape Development

    Why do some cities grow economically while others decline? Why do some show sustained economic performance while others cycle up and down? In Keys to the City, Michael Storper, one of the world's leading economic geographers, looks at why we should consider economic development issues within a regional context--at the level of the city-region--and why city economies develop unequally. Storper ... Read more

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  • To Cork or Not To Cork

    Tradition, Romance, Science, and the Battle for the Wine Bottle

    In Judgment of Paris, George M. Taber masterfully chronicled the historic 1976 wine tasting when unknown California wines defeated top French ones, marking a major turning point in wine history. Now he explores the most controversial topic in the world of wine: What product should be used to seal a bottle? Should it be cork, plastic, glass, a screwcap, or some other type of closure still to be ... Read more

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  • The Changing Economic Geography of Globalization

    Series series Routledge Studies in Global Competition
    The process of globalization has had profound, often destabilizing, effects on space, at all levels (i.e. local, regional, national, international). This revealing book analyzes, both theoretically and empirically, the effects of globalization over space. It considers, through a dialogue among different paradigms, the ways in which space has become more important in the global economy ... Read more

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    How Governments, Environmentalists, Mobsters, and Critics Influence the Wines We Drink

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    After reading this intriguing book, a glass of wine will be more than hints of blackberries or truffles on the palate. Written by the author of the popular, award-winning website DrVino.com, Wine Politics exposes a little-known but extremely influential aspect of the wine business—the politics behind it. Tyler Colman systematically explains how politics affects what we can buy, how much it costs, ... Read more

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  • Constructing Suburbs

    Competing Voices in a Debate over Urban Growth

    by Ann Forsyth ...
    Examining the debate between activists and professional planners over the vision of the future of a large growth corridor in Sydney, Australia, this case study maps the history of development from the late sixties to the mid-nineties, during which time serious environmental and financial problems arose. The book outlines five major visions of the future development and examines forms of political, ... Read more

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