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Field Guide to Fynbos
Random House Struik 2013; US$ 27.00Field Guide to Fynbos covers over 1 000 species of an estimated 7 000, focusing on the most common and conspicuous. Each species description is accompanied by its common names, a vivid photograph, distribution map, comparisons with similar species, and notes on traditional uses. For the first time, non-botanists have a real chance of accurately identifying... more...
Paris
Penguin Group US 2006; US$ 18.00From the Roman Emperor Julian, who waxed rhapsodic about Parisian wine and figs, to Henry Miller, who relished its seductive bohemia, Paris has been a perennial source of fascination for 2,000 years. In this definitive and illuminating history, Colin Jones walks us through the city that was a plague-infested charnel house during the Middle Ages, the... more...
Charity and Bienfaisance
Cambridge University Press 1983; US$ 55.00An analysis of the charity and poor relief from 1750 to the Restoration of the Bourbon monarchy. more...
Paris
Penguin Books Ltd 2006; Not AvailableParis is the World, the rest of the Earth is nothing but its suburbs' - Marivaux In this intelligently-written and supremely entertaining new history, Colin Jones seeks to give a sense of the city of Paris as it was lived in and experienced over time. The focal point of generation upon generation of admirers and detractors, a source of attraction or... more...
The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon
Penguin Books Ltd 2003; Not AvailableThere can be few more mesmerising historical narratives than the story of how the dazzlingly confident and secure monarchy Louis XIV, 'the Sun King', left to his successors in 1715 became the discredited, debt-ridden failure toppled by Revolution in1789. The further story of the bloody unravelling of the Revolution until its seizure by Napoleon is... more...
Office Markets and Public Policy
Wiley 2013; US$ 123.95Changing business needs brought about by the information technology revolution in recent decades, as well as the drive toward sustainability, require a complete rethink by urban planners and policy makers about the conservation of historical centers and the types and locations of office buildings. This book analyzes these processes and policy areas,... more...
Reassessing Foucault
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 42.95Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. Reassessing Foucault critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers in a wide range of areas in the social and human sciences. Focusing on the social history of medicine, successive chapters deal with his historiographical,... more...
Medicine and Charity Before the Welfare State
Routledge 1994; US$ 41.95This volume offers a broad perspective on the relationship between charity and medicine in Western Europe up to the advent of welfare states in the twentieth century. more...
The Right to Buy
Wiley 2008; US$ 170.00An evaluation of the most enduring privatisation of the Thatcher era … Written in an accessible style, this is a key reference for students and researchers in housing and planning; geography; and social policy. The book analyses the operation and impact of the right to buy policy (RTB). It includes a critique of the Housing Act and the 2001... more...
Foreign Direct Investment and the Regional Economy
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 130.00This book critically reviews the literature on the nature of FDI and reports the recent results on the performance of FDI plants. It examines the generation, theory and location of FDI, and its effects on regional and national development and analyses issues at the project and plant levels related to investment, employment and firm survival. more...









