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Knowledge and Space eBook Series

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  • Knowledge and the Economy

    Edited by Peter Meusburger, Johannes Glückler, Martina Meskioui ...
    Series Book 5 - Knowledge and Space
    The broad spectrum of topics surrounding what is termed the ‘knowledge economy’ has attracted increasing attention from the scientific community in recent years. The nature of knowledge-intensive industries, the spatiality of knowledge, the role of proximity and distance in generating functional knowledge, the transfer of knowledge via networks, and the complex interplay between knowledge, ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Geographies of the University

    Edited by Peter Meusburger, Michael Heffernan, Laura Suarsana ...
    Series Book 12 - Knowledge and Space
    This open access volume raises awareness of the histories, geographies, and practices of universities and analyzes their role as key actors in today’s global knowledge economy. Universities are centers of research, teaching, and expertise with significant economic, social, and cultural impacts at different geographical scales. Scholars from a variety of disciplines and countries offer original ... Read more

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  • Basic and Applied Research

    The Language of Science Policy in the Twentieth Century

    Edited by Désirée Schauz, David Kaldewey ...
    Series Book 4 - European Conceptual History
    The distinction between basic and applied research was central to twentieth-century science and policymaking, and if this framework has been contested in recent years, it nonetheless remains ubiquitous in both scientific and public discourse. Employing a transnational, diachronic perspective informed by historical semantics, this volume traces the conceptual history of the basic–applied ... Read more

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  • Transnational Classes and International Relations

    by Kees Van der Pijl ...
    Series series RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
    An exciting and original analysis of the development of capitalist classes, such as the Freemasons, that cross national boundaries in the global political economy. This innovative book focuses on: * an historical perspective on class formation under capitalism and its transnational integration * international relations between the English-speaking centre of capital and successive contender states. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Rethinking the Law School

    Education, Research, Outreach and Governance

    by Carel Stolker ...
    Law, by its very nature, tends to think locally, not globally. This book has a broader scope in terms of the range of nations and offers a succinct journey through law schools on different continents and subject matters. It covers education, research, impact and societal outreach, and governance. It illustrates that law schools throughout the world have much in common in terms of values, duties, ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Contemporary Western European Feminism (RLE Feminist Theory)

    by Gisela Kaplan ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory
    Contemporary Western European Feminism is a ground-breaking history of feminism. Gisela Kaplan invites a critical analysis of current ideas, terms and assumptions about our modern world.Written confidently and with compassion, this is the story of a long revolution that has set out to change predominant attitudes and transform value hierarchies and human lifestyles. By outlining the postwar ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Work, Race, and the Emergence of Radical Right Corporatism in Imperial Germany

    by Dennis Sweeney ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Saar river valley was one of the three most productive heavy industrial regions in Germany and one of the main reference points for national debates over the organization of work in large-scale industry. Among Germany's leading opponents of trade unions, Saar employers were revered for their system of factory organization, which was both ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Governing Compact Cities

    How to Connect Planning, Design and Transport

    by Philipp Rode ...
    Series series Cities series
    Governing Compact Cities investigates how governments and other critical actors organise to enable compact urban growth, combining higher urban densities, mixed use and urban design quality with more walkable and public transport-oriented urban development. Philipp Rode draws on empirical evidence from London and Berlin to examine how urban policymakers, professionals and stakeholders have worked ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Geographies of Asylum in Europe and the Role of European Localities

    Edited by Birgit Glorius, Jeroen Doomernik ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book describes how the numerous arrivals of asylum seekers since 2015 shaped reception and integration processes in Europe. It addresses the structuration of asylum and reception systems, and spaces and places of reception on European, national, regional and local level. It also analyses perceptions and discourses on asylum and refugees, their evolvement and the consequences for ... Read more

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  • Staging the New Berlin

    Place Marketing and the Politics of Urban Reinvention Post-1989

    by Claire Colomb ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    This book explores the politics of place marketing and the process of ‘urban reinvention’ in Berlin between 1989 and 2011. In the context of the dramatic socio-economic restructuring processes, changes in urban governance and physical transformation of the city following the Fall of the Wall, the ‘new’ Berlin was not only being built physically, but staged for visitors and Berliners and marketed ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

  • Vocational Education

    International Approaches, Developments and Systems

    Edited by Linda Clarke, Christopher Winch ...
    Vocational education and training (VET) have a key role to play in raising skill levels and improving a society’s productivity. In this important new book, a team of international experts argue that too often national VET policy has been formulated in ignorance of historical and political developments in other countries and without proper consideration of the social objectives that it might help ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • A History of the University in Europe: Volume 4, Universities since 1945

    Series Book 4 - A History of the University in Europe
    This is the final volume in a four-part series covering the development of the university in Europe (east and west) from its origins to the present day, focusing on a number of major themes viewed from a European perspective. The originality of the series lies in its comparative, interdisciplinary, collaborative and transnational nature. It deals also with the content of what was taught at the ... Read more

    $213.99 USD