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  • Marginal Spaces

    Ser Volume 5

    by Michael Peter Smith ...
    The literature on modernist and postmodernist urban development is abundant, yet few researchers have taken up the challenge of studying the areas hi which marginalized people live as sources of resistance to continued modernization. In Marginal Spaces, Michael Smith has assembled case studies combining structural and historical analyses of the moves of powerful social interests to dominate social ... Read more

    $67.32 CAD

  • Explorations in Urban Theory

    by Michael Peter Smith ...
    For over three decades, urban theorist Michael Peter Smith has engaged in constructing innovative theories on central research questions in urban studies. This book brings together his views on the state of urban theory, sorting out the changing strengths and weaknesses in the field. Smith refocuses attention on the cultural, social, and political practices of urban inhabitants, particularly the ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Reinventing Detroit

    The Politics of Possibility

    by Michael Peter Smith ...
    Series series Comparative Urban and Community Research
    This book addresses the questions of what went wrong with Detroit and what can be done to reinvent the Motor City. Various answers to the former-deindustrialization, white flight, and a disappearing tax base-are now well understood. Less discussed are potential paths forward, stemming from alternative explanations of Detroit's long-term decline and reconsideration of the challenges the city ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Transnational Ties

    Cities, Migrations, and Identities

    by Michael Peter Smith, Richard K. Brail ...
    Cities are key sites of the transnational ties that increasingly connect people, places, and projects across the globe. They provide opportunities and constraints within which transnational actors and networks operate and nodes linking wider social formations traverse national borders. This book brings together a series of richly textured ethnographic studies that suggest new ways to situate and ... Read more

    $67.32 CAD

  • City and Nation

    Rethinking Place and Identity

    by Michael Peter Smith, Thomas Bender ...
    Series series Comparative Urban and Community Research
    This compendium offers a textured historical and comparative examination of the significance of locality or "place," and the role of urban representations and spatial practices in defining national identities. Drawing upon a wide range of disciplines - from literature to architecture and planning, sociology, and history - these essays problematize the dynamic between the local and the national, ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Asia’s New Industrial World

    by Michael Smith, Jane McLoughlin, Peter Large, Rod Chapman ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1985, Asia’s New Industrial World assesses the power and influence of four key corners of the Far East—Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Indonesia.Michael Smith visited Japan, the Far East’s most potent economic force; Jane McLoughlin went to Korea to see a country in transition from deep dependence on traditional heavy industries; Peter Large flew to Singapore, where he found ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Sleep Medicine for Dentists

    A Practical Overview

    by Gilles J. Lavigne, Peter A Cistulli, Michael T. Smith ...
    This concise clinical handbook educates dental practitioners seeking to understand, recognize, and manage disorders such as sleep apnea, sleep bruxism, and chronic pain, which often interfere with or intrude into sleep and are critically important to the practice of dentistry. Leading experts in medicine and dentistry articulate and guide readers in performing the specific responsibilities of ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sleep Medicine for Dentists

    An Evidence-Based Overview, Second Edition

    by Gilles J. Lavigne, Peter A. Cistulli, Michael T. Smith ...
    Dentists are often the first medical practitioners to encounter patient reports or clinical evidence of disorders such as sleep apnea, sleep bruxism, and sleep-disrupting orofacial pain, providing them a unique opportunity to prevent the development or persistence of conditions that strongly impact their patients' lives. Since the first publication of this seminal book, significant advances have ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transitioning to a Prosperous, Resilient and Carbon-Free Economy

    A Guide for Decision-Makers

    Edited by Kenneth G. H. Baldwin, Mark Howden, Michael H. Smith, Karen Hussey, Peter J. Dawson ...
    This book is a comprehensive manual for decision-makers and policy leaders addressing the issues around human caused climate change, which threatens communities with increasing extreme weather events, sea level rise, and declining habitability of some regions due to desertification or inundation. The book looks at both mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and global warming and adaption to ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • Environmental Management and Governance

    Intergovernmental Approaches to Hazards and Sustainability

    Edited by Raymond Burby, Jennifer Dixon, Neil Ericksen, John Handmer, Peter May, Sarah Michaels, D. Ingle Smith ...
    Problems for environmental management are taking on a new urgency. This book addresses aspects of environmental management that raise fundamental questions about governmental roles and the relationship of humans to the environment. It examines the interaction of local and national governments and the strengths and weaknesses of co-operative vs. coercive environmental management, through a focus on ... Read more

    $72.82 CAD

  • Brain and Behavior

    Research in Clinical Neuropsychology

    Edited by Arthur L. Benton, Michael Peter Smith ...
    Research in the field of clinical neuropsychology has greatly advanced understanding of the complex relationships between brain functions and human behavior. This edited collection, originally published in the early days of this dynamic field, draws from the findings of clinical study, animal experimentation, and developmental observation to clarify the relationships between brain and behavior. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Transnationalism from Below

    Comparative Urban and Community Research

    Edited by Michael Peter Smith ...
    Expansion of transnational capital and mass media to even the remotest of places has provoked a spate of discourse on transnationalism. A core theme hi this debate is the penetration of national cultures and political systems by global and local driving forces. The nation-state is seen as weakened by transnational capital, global media, and emergent supranational political institutions. It also ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD