Published December, 2006
By Michael Robbins, T. C. Barker and T.C. Barker
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Presents the story of the origins of the world's largest urban passenger transport system; the story of the growth of London itself from the early days of the 19th century. This book traces the development of every kind of public transport which either produced the great expansion of London in this period, or took up the opportunities it offered.

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Published December, 2006
By M. Krampen
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"Meaning in the Urban Environment" was first published in 1979.

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Published December, 2006
By Anthony D. King
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Focuses on the social and cultural processes governing colonial urban development. This book demonstrates how the physical and spatial arrangements characterizing urban development are unique products of a particular society, to be understood only in terms of its values, behaviour and institutions and distribution of social and political power.

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Published December, 2006
By Dianne Smith
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There are many micro-habitats in built up areas, often subject to strong environmental pressures such as atmospheric and water pollution, frequent disturbance, trampling, and nutrient or water scarcity. This book uses various features to investigate the effects of these pressures and to demonstrate other ecological properties of isolated habitats.

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Published December, 2006
By A. J. Scott
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"Urban Land Nexus and the State" was first published in 1980.

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Published December, 2006
By J. R. Mellor and J.R. Mellor
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Focusing on urban sociology as practised in Britain, this book argues that it is a key element in the response of the 'intellectual proletariat' to urbanization and the calls on it by the State to control the ensuing way of life. It states that urbanization should be analysed in the framework of the political economy of regional development.

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Published December, 2006
By Anthony Culyer
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Covers two significant areas of health economics, including an introduction and an article-by-article commentary. This work also includes a general introduction, which outlines the scope and content of health economics, to help orientate the reader.

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Published December, 2006
By Peter Saunders
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Offers an evaluation of key themes in contemporary urban social theory. First published in 1981, this book discusses theoretical positions in the context of the work of Marx, Weber and Durkheim. It suggests that later writers have often misunderstood the arguments of these 'founding fathers' of the urban question.

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Published December, 2006
By Paul Atkinson, Helen Greenslade and Peter Glasner
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Using the resources of a wide range of social science disciplines to provide a comparative approach to complex issues, this superb collection explores the local and global consequences of the new genetics.

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Published December, 2006
By Paul Atkinson, Helen Greenslade and Peter Glasner
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Papers in this volume discuss a variety of new social formations in a global context, including genetic data banks, committees of inquiry, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and national research laboratories.

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