Social Networks in Markets, Communities and Families

Edited by Ray-May Hsung, Nan Lin, Ronald L. Breiger

The concept of social capital refers to the ways in which people make use of their social networks in "getting ahead." Social capital isn’t just...

September 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41117-2 (Routledge)

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Perspectives from South Asia

By Ananya Mukherjee Reed

In South Asia and beyond, human development continues to be in a state of crisis. Each successive Human Development Report (HDR) and the pervasive global...

August 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48131-1 (Routledge)

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By Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard

This book examines the complex relationship between the state, society and business in China, focusing on the experience of the island province of Hainan. This...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46033-0 (Routledge)

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Central and South Eastern Europe 2009

Now in its ninth edition, this title continues to provide the most accurate and reliable information available.

• a comprehensive survey of the countries and territories of Central...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-1-85743-466-8 (Routledge)

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Arctic Oil and Gas

Sustainability at Risk?

Edited by Aslaug Mikkelsen, Oluf Langhelle

This book analyzes the expanding oil and gas activities in the Arctic from the perspective of Sustainable Development (SD) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44330-2 (Routledge)

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Service Work

Critical Perspectives

Edited by Cameron MacDonald, Marek Korczynski

Everyday, we are bombarded with advertising images of the smiling service worker. The book is written with the aim of focusing beneath the surface of...

August 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95317-7 (Routledge)

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The Political Economy of Copyright Protection in the Digital Era

By YiJun Tian

Copyright laws, along with other Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), constitute the legal foundation for the "global knowledge-based economy" and copyright law now plays an increasingly...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46534-2 (Routledge-Cavendish)

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Political economy, rural transformation and the agrarian question

Edited by A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Cristóbal Kay

In 2007, for the first time in human history, a majority of the world’s population lived in cities. However, on a global scale, poverty overwhelmingly...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44629-7 (Routledge)

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Reconsidering the prospect of sanction

By David M. Kennedy

Deterrence is at the heart of the preventive aspiration of criminal justice. Deterrence, whether through preventive patrol by police officers or stiff prison sentences for...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77415-4 (Routledge)

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Global Democracy and its Difficulties

Edited by Anthony J. Langlois, Karol Edward Soltan

The political project of extending democracy to the global level is seen as the next major challenge for proponents of democracy. This volume considers some...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77652-3 (Routledge)

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