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  • COOPERATION IN THE MULTI-ETHNIC CLASSROOM (1994)
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    COOPERATION IN THE MULTI-ETHNIC CLASSROOM (1994)
    HELEN COWIE / PETER SMITH / MICHAEL BOULTON / REMA LAVER
    First published in 1994, this book describes how cooperative group work can enhance relationships in the classroom, reduce prejudice and alleviate problems of victimisation and peer rejection. It combines quantitative experimental analysis with detailed case studies; considers the impact of the family on pupil behaviour; and concludes with practical recommendations to foster so...

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  • CITY AND NATION
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    CITY AND NATION
    MICHAEL PETER SMITH / THOMAS BENDER
    This compendium offers a textured historical and comparative examination of the significance of locality or "place," and the role of urban representations and spatial practices in defining national identities. Drawing upon a wide range of disciplines - from literature to architecture and planning, sociology, and history - these essays problematize the dynamic between the local ...

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  • MARGINAL SPACES
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    MARGINAL SPACES
    MICHAEL PETER SMITH
    The literature on modernist and postmodernist urban development is abundant, yet few researchers have taken up the challenge of studying the areas hi which marginalized people live as sources of resistance to continued modernization. In Marginal Spaces, Michael Smith has assembled case studies combining structural and historical analyses of the moves of powerful social interest...

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  • TRANSNATIONALISM FROM BELOW
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    TRANSNATIONALISM FROM BELOW
    MICHAEL PETER SMITH
    Expansion of transnational capital and mass media to even the remotest of places has provoked a spate of discourse on transnationalism. A core theme hi this debate is the penetration of national cultures and political systems by global and local driving forces. The nation-state is seen as weakened by transnational capital, global media, and emergent supranational political inst...

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  • REINVENTING DETROIT
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    REINVENTING DETROIT
    MICHAEL PETER SMITH
    This book addresses the questions of what went wrong with Detroit and what can be done to reinvent the Motor City. Various answers to the former-deindustrialization, white flight, and a disappearing tax base-are now well understood. Less discussed are potential paths forward, stemming from alternative explanations of Detroit's long-term decline and reconsideration of the challe...

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  • TRANSNATIONAL TIES
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    TRANSNATIONAL TIES
    MICHAEL PETER SMITH / JOHN EADE
    Cities are key sites of the transnational ties that increasingly connect people, places, and projects across the globe. They provide opportunities and constraints within which transnational actors and networks operate and nodes linking wider social formations traverse national borders. This book brings together a series of richly textured ethnographic studies that suggest new w...

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  • REMAKING URBAN CITIZENSHIP
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    REMAKING URBAN CITIZENSHIP
    MICHAEL PETER SMITH
    Due to heightened global migration and transnational mobility, many residents of the world's cities lack national citizenship in the places to which they have moved for work, refuge, or retirement. The disjuncture between citizenship and daily life has led to devolution of claims from national to urban space. Within nation-states characterized by structured inequalities, citize...

    $1,360.00

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  • EXPLORATIONS IN URBAN THEORY
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    EXPLORATIONS IN URBAN THEORY
    MICHAEL PETER SMITH
    For over three decades, urban theorist Michael Peter Smith has engaged in constructing innovative theories on central research questions in urban studies. This book brings together his views on the state of urban theory, sorting out the changing strengths and weaknesses in the field.  Smith refocuses attention on the cultural, social, and political practices of urban inhabitant...

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  • UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY ACROSS CULTURES
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    UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY ACROSS CULTURES
    PETER B SMITH / RONALD FISCHER / VIVIAN L. VIGNOLES / MICHAEL HARRIS BOND
    Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures Second Edition starts by asking why social psychology needs a cross-cultural perspective. It then examines cultural differences and their origins, before addressing traditional social psychological themes cross-culturally, for example group processes, self and identity, intergroup relations. Themes of contemporary relevance includ...

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  • WHOLE SYSTEM DESIGN
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    WHOLE SYSTEM DESIGN
    PETER STANSINOUPOLOS / MICHAEL SMITH / KARLSON HARGROVES / CHERYL DESHA
    Whole System Design is increasingly being seen as one of the most cost-effective ways to both increase the productivity and reduce the negative environmental impacts of an engineered system. A focus on design is critical, as the output from this stage of the project locks in most of the economic and environmental performance of the designed system throughout its life, which can...

    $1,100.00

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  • FACTOR FIVE
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    FACTOR FIVE
    ERNST ULRICH VON WEIZSACKER / CHARLIE HARGROVES / MICHAEL H. SMITH / CHERYL DESHA / PETER STASINOPOULOS
    When first published in 1997, Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use by renowned economic and engineering experts Ernst von Weizsäcker, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins, transformed how economists, policy makers, engineers, entrepreneurs and business leaders thought about innovation and wealth creation. Through examples from a wide range of industrial sectors, the ...

    $1,540.00

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  • ASIA’S NEW INDUSTRIAL WORLD
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    ASIA’S NEW INDUSTRIAL WORLD
    MICHAEL SMITH / JANE MCLOUGHLIN / PETER LARGE / ROD CHAPMAN
    First published in 1985, Asia’s New Industrial World assesses the power and influence of four key corners of the Far East—Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Indonesia. Michael Smith visited Japan, the Far East’s most potent economic force; Jane McLoughlin went to Korea to see a country in transition from deep dependence on traditional heavy industries; Peter Large flew to Singa...

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