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1. Curing Concrete

   By Peter C. Taylor

   This book explains the benefits of curing the concrete, and uniquely brings together information in the research literature along with practical guidance on doing it correctly. It can also inform researchers whose experimental work is rendered invalid if the curing regime is not clearly identified....

   To Be Published September 2nd 2013 by CRC Press
2. Adventure Tourism

   Meanings, experience and learning

   Edited by Steve Taylor, Peter Varley, Tony Johnston

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   Adventure tourism is an increasingly widespread phenomenon, appealing to an expanding proportion of the population who seek new destinations and new experiences. This timely, edited volume offers new theoretical perspectives of this emerging subset of Tourism. it uses philosophical and cutting...

   Published January 22nd 2013 by Routledge
3. Global Cities

   Edited by Peter Taylor, Jonathan Beaverstock, Ben Derudder, James Faulconbridge, John Harrison, Michael Hoyler, Kathy Pain, Frank Witlox

   Series: Critical Concepts in Urban Studies

   A striking consequence of contemporary globalization has been an increase in the importance and prestige of cities. Whereas only a generation or so ago cities were commonly viewed as ‘problems’, the sites of society’s ills, today they are more readily seen as ‘solutions’, places where twenty-first...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
4. Cities in Globalization

   Practices, Policies and Theories

   Edited by Peter Taylor, Ben Derudder, Pieter Saey, Frank Witlox

   Series: Questioning Cities

   Despite traditionally being a strong research topic in urban studies, inter-city relations had become grossly neglected until recently, when it was placed back on the research agenda with the advent of studies of world/global cities. More recently the ‘external relations’ of cities have taken their...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
5. The Globalization of Advertising

   Agencies, Cities and Spaces of Creativity

   By James R. Faulconbridge, Peter Taylor, Corinne Nativel, Jonathan Beaverstock

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   The role of advertising in everyday life and as a major employer in post-industrial economies is intimately bound up with processes of contemporary globalization. At centre of the advertising industry are the global advertising agencies which have an important role in developing global brands both...

   Published December 6th 2010 by Routledge
6. Torkildsen's Sport and Leisure Management

   6th Edition

   By George Torkildsen

   Edited by Peter Taylor

   For nearly thirty years George Torkildsen’s classic textbook has been the most comprehensive and engaging introduction to sport and leisure management available to students at all levels. Now in a fully revised sixth edition, it is still the only textbook that covers all the key topics taught...

   Published November 8th 2010 by Routledge
7. Global Urban Analysis

   A Survey of Cities in Globalization

   Edited by Peter J Taylor, Pengfei Ni, Ben Derudder, Michael Hoyler, Jin Huang, Frank Witlox

   Global Urban Analysis provides a unique insight into the contemporary world economy through a focus on cities. It is based upon a large-scale customised data collection on how leading businesses use cities across the world: as headquarter locations, for finance, for professional and creative...

   Published October 28th 2010 by Routledge
8. Political Philosophy and Social Welfare (Routledge Revivals)

   Essays on the Normative Basis of Welfare Provisions

   By Raymond Plant, Peter Taylor-Gooby, Harry Lessor

   Published November 11th 2009 by Routledge
9. The End of the Welfare State?

   Responses to State Retrenchment

   Edited by Stefan Svallfors, Peter Taylor-Gooby

   Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

   Throughout the world, politicians from all the main parties are cutting back on state welfare provision, encouraging people to use the private sector instead and developing increasingly stringent techniques for the surveillance of the poor. Almost all experts agree that we are likely to see further...

   Published November 30th 2007 by Routledge
10. Managing People in Sport Organizations

    By Tracy Taylor, Alison Doherty, Peter McGraw

    Managing People in Sport Organizations provides a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of managing people within a human resource management framework. It provides the reader with the skills to understand and work with people in sport organizations and, given the significant changes in...

    Published August 27th 2007 by Routledge