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Governing Metropolitan Areas
Response to Growth and Change, 2nd Edition
Interest and research on regionalism has soared in the last decade. Local governments in metropolitan areas and civic organizations are increasingly engaged in cooperative and collaborative public policy efforts to solve problems that stretch across urban centers and their surrounding suburbs. Yet...
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Towards a Theory of Schooling (Routledge Revivals)
Series: Routledge Revivals
First published in 1989, Towards a Theory of Schooling explores and debates the relationship between school and society. It examines the form and function of one of humankind’s most important social institutions, following the cutting edge of pedagogic innovation from mainland Europe through the...
Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
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Local Literacies
Reading and Writing in One Community
Local Literacies is a unique study of everyday reading and writing. By concentrating on a selection of people in a particular community in Britain, the authors analyze how they use literacy in their day-to-day lives.This exploration provides a description of literacy at one point in time, and also...
Published November 11th 2012 by Routledge
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Local Literacies
Reading and Writing in One Community
Series: Routledge Linguistics Classics
Local Literacies is a unique detailed study of the role of reading and writing in people’s everyday lives. By concentrating on a selection of people in a particular community in Lancaster, England, the authors analyse how they use literacy in their day-to-day lives. It follows four people in detail...
Published February 29th 2012 by Routledge
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Cultural Economics and Theory
The evolutionary economics of David Hamilton
Series: Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics
David Hamilton is a leader in the American institutionalist school of heterodox economics that emerged after WWII. This volume includes 25 articles written by Hamilton over a period of nearly half a century. In these articles he examines the philosophical foundations and practical problems of...
Published September 21st 2009 by Routledge
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Social Cognition
Key Readings
Series: Key Readings in Social Psychology
This collection features articles that have shown a significant impact on the field of social cognition. The articles are organized into eight major sections: (1) social information processing; (2) cognitive representation of social information; (3) activation and use of cognitive representations;...
Published January 2nd 2005 by Psychology Press
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Situated Literacies
Theorising Reading and Writing in Context
Series: Literacies
Situated Literacies is a rich and varied collection of key writings from leading international scholars in the field of literacy. Each contribution, written in a clear, accessible style, makes the link between literacies in specific contexts and broader social practices.Detailed ethnographic...
Published October 20th 1999 by Routledge
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Governing Metropolitan Areas
Response to Growth and Change
Published November 30th 1998 by Routledge
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Distributed Simulation
Series: Computer Science & Engineering
Simulation is a multi-disciplinary field, and significant simulation research is dispersed across multiple fields of study. Distributed computer systems, software design methods, and new simulation techniques offer synergistic multipliers when joined together in a distributed simulation. Systems of...
Published March 11th 1997 by CRC Press