Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent into Crystal Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland
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Chris Thrall left the Royal Marines to find fortune in Hong Kong, but following a bizarre series of...
Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime That Changed America
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In 1964 a woman was stabbed to death in front of her home in New York, a murder The New York Times...
Living in the Sound of the Wind: A Personal Quest for W.H. Hudson, Naturalist and Writer from the River Plate
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W. H. Hudson was brought up on the pampas, where he learnt from gauchos about frontier life. After...
Migration and the Making of Industrial Sao Paulo
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Published in 2008 and winner of the 2011 Thomas E. Skidmore Prize, Paulo Fontes's Migration and the...
New Mobilities and Social Changes in Russia's Arctic Regions
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Dr. Marlene Laruelle is Associate Director of the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian...
Green Japan: Environmental Technologies, Innovation Policy, and the Pursuit of Green Growth
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As climate change continues to threaten both our economic and ecological well-being, countries...
Industry in Towns
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Originally published in 1952. This book addresses one of the most pressing problems in town planning...
Culture and Economy in the New Shanghai
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As China's leading economic metropolis and 'most western city' Shanghai in the last twenty years has...
Governing for Resilience in Vulnerable Places
Elen Maarja Trell, Britta Restemeyer, Melanie Bakema and Bettina van Hoven
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Governing for Resilience in Vulnerable Places provides an overview and a critical analysis of the...
Slum Clearance: The Social and Administrative Context in England and Wales
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Originally published in 1976. Slum clearance is a particularly significant process because it places...