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Modernities
Wiley 2013; US$ 26.50Taylor develops a geohistorical argument which focuses on the periods and places of modernities, offering a grounded analysis of what it is to be modern. He identifies three 'prime modernities' which have defined the development of our modern world: today's consumer modernity preceded by the industrial modernity of the nineteenth century which was... more...
World City Network
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 63.95With the advent of multinational corporations, the traditional urban service function has 'gone global'. In order to provide services to globalizing corporate clients, the offices of major financial and business service firms across the world have formed a network. It is the myriad of flows between office towers in different metropolitan centres that... more...
Unruly Complexity
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 30.00Ambitiously identifying fresh issues in the study of complex systems, Peter J. Taylor, in a model of interdisciplinary exploration, makes these concerns accessible to scholars in the fields of ecology, environmental science, and science studies. Unruly Complexity explores concepts used to deal with complexity in three realms: ecology and socio-environmental... more...
Extraordinary Cities
Edward Elgar Publishing 2013; US$ 40.00Accepting that cities are extraordinary, this book provides an original city-centred narrative of human creativity, past, present and future. In this innovative, ambitious and wide-ranging book, Peter Taylor demonstrates that cities are the epicenters of human advancement. In exploring cities as sites through which economies flourish, by harnessing... more...
Challenging Mathematics in and Beyond the Classroom
Springer 2009; US$ 119.99Deals with challenges for both gifted and regular students, and with building public interest in appreciation of mathematics. more...
Theory and Applications of Numerical Analysis
Elsevier Science 1996; US$ 92.95This text is a self-contained Second Edition, providing an introductory account of the main topics in numerical analysis. The book emphasizes both the theorems which show the underlying rigorous mathematics andthe algorithms which define precisely how to program the numerical methods. Both theoretical and practical examples are included. * a unique... more...
World Cities in a World-System
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 42.00Seventeen essays by leading researchers in the area of world cities and the economic factors. more...
International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities
Edward Elgar Publishing 2012; US$ 60.00This Handbook offers an unrivalled overview of current research into how globalization is affecting the external relations and internal structures of major cities in the world. By treating cities at a global scale, it focuses on the 'stretching' of urban functions beyond specific place locations, without losing sight of the multiple divisions in contemporary... more...
Changing Life
University of Minnesota Press 1997; US$ 72.00Drawn from disciplines within science and technology studies and from geography, ecology, and developmental biology, the contributors offer a close look at how the mutable forms and concepts of life link the processes of science to those of information, finance, and commodities. more...
Global Urban Analysis
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 155.00Global 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 services, for media. These data - involving up to 2000... more...









