In The Great Brain Race Ben Wildavsky presents an account of how international competition for the brightest minds is transforming the world of higher education--and why this revolution should be welcomed, not feared. Every year, nearly three million international students stud…
How do people use language, gestures and the materialenvironment around themfor interacting in mobile situations? Interaction and Mobility brings together international scholars who use video-recordings from real-life everyday settings to study how people interact in diverse mob…
Conflicts surrounding modern human mobility are more than one hundred years old, and are deeply connected to the history of modernization and globalization. The multidisciplinary contributions in this volume do not offer one single theory or methodology for mobility studies, but…
Focusing on transport and related policy analysis and decision making, this text sets European transport policy in context and looks at issues of sustainable development and forces of change.
Using evidence from political history, case studies and quantitive analysis, this guide debates whether class conflict or group competition is more prevalent in politics. It discusses the forces shaping trade policy outcomes.
Using evidence from political history, case studies and quantitive analysis, this guide debates whether class conflict or group competition is more prevalent in politics. It discusses the forces shaping trade policy outcomes.
The new DNA of the automobile -- The mobility Internet -- Reinventing the automobile for urban use -- Clean, Smart energy supply -- Charging infrastructure for electric-drive automobiles -- Integrating vehicles and smart electric grids -- New mobility markets -- Personal mobilit…
Issues of movement - of people, things, information and ideas - are central to people's lives and to most organisations. From oil wars to SMS texting, from airport expansion controversies to the decline of walking, from slave - trading to global terrorism, from global warming to…