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A report from the International Monetary Fund.... More

A report from the International Monetary Fund.... More

A report from the International Monetary Fund.... More

An analysis of world exploration. Was it good or bad?... More

68 Ways to Save the Planet Before Bedtime... More

This book turns on the television, opens the newspaper, goes to the cinema and assesses how punishment is performed in media culture, investigating the regimes of penal representation and how they may contribute to a populist and punitive criminological imagination. It places media discourse in pris... More

Media representations of law and order are matters of keen public interest and have been the subject of intense debate amongst those with an interest in the media, crime and criminal justice. Despite being an increasingly high profile subject few publications address this subject head on. This book... More

What sort of footprint are you leaving on the environment? Do you have a heavy footprint or a light footprint? Everything we do and everything we use has an impact on the environment. Heavy footprints harm the environment and use lots of natural resources. Light footprints harm the environment as... More

What sort of footprint are you leaving on the environment? Do you have a heavy footprint or a light footprint? Everything we do and everything we use has an impact on the environment. Heavy footprints harm the environment and use lots of natural resources. Light footprints harm the environment as... More

What sort of footprint are you leaving on the environment? Do you have a heavy footprint or a light footprint? Everything we do and everything we use has an impact on the environment. * Heavy footprints harm the environment and use lots of natural resources. * Light footprints harm the environmen... More

What sort of footprint are you leaving on the environment? Do you have a heavy footprint or a light footprint? Everything we do and everything we use has an impact on the environment. Heavy footprints harm the environment and use lots of natural resources. Light footprints harm the environment as... More

A dark, triangular fin slicing through the water can be a terrifying sight. Read the stories of the brave (and lucky) people who have survived real-life shark attacks, such as spearfisher Rodney Fox, who was grabbed by a great white, and Mick Fanning, attacked during a surfing contest. Find out whic... More

Sharks--sleek, fast-moving predators with powerful jaws--can take care of themselves, right? Wrong! Thanks to humans, many shark species are officially endangered and some iconic sharks even face extinction. This has happened through demand for shark fin soup, big-game fishing, ocean pollution, and ... More

What is snot? How is it useful? What do animals do with it? Why is there so much? Find out the science behind the green goo and it's fascinating uses in the animal kingdom with this gross-filled guide!Highly accessible text from expert non-fiction author Paul Mason combines with fun photographs and ... More

Rising Stars - The Inside Story of Money... More

Take a daring research trip through the Amazon rain forest. You'll be amazed to see: * venomous Brazilian wandering spiders; * meat-eating piranha fish; * rare pink Amazon river dolphins. Find out how the rainforest habitat is changing for the animals, plants, and people who live there.... More

The world is facing a wave of uprisings, protests and revolutions: Arab dictators swept away, public spaces occupied, slum-dwellers in revolt, cyberspace buzzing with utopian dreams. Events we were told were consigned to history--democratic revolt and social revolution--are being lived by millions o... More

Originally published in 2012 to wide acclaim, this updated edition, Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere, includes coverage of the most recent events in the wave of revolt and revolution sweeping the planet--riots in Athens, student occupations in the UK, Quebec and Moscow, the emergence of the Occ... More

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.... More

A report from the International Monetary Fund.... More

Policing and the Media provides an up-to-date overview of the changing dynamics and dimensions of the relationships that exist on the British police-media nexus. Factual, fictional and factional representations of policing in the media are the major - and for a great many citizens probably the sole ... More

Budding filmmakers, television producers, directors, writers, and students get a crash course on the independent production scene in this riveting account of the business and its key players. Now revised to reflect the latest production trends in the entertainment industry, this book is packed with ... More

As twentieth-century city planners invested in new transportation systems to deal with urban growth, they ensured that the automobile rather than mass transit would dominate transportation.<P><P> Combining an exploration of planning documents, sociological studies, and popular culture, Paul Fotsch s... More

This book reveals the potential of geography to engage with citizenship. It provides: theoretical signposts in the form of short, digestible explanations for key ideas such as racism, values, identity, community and social exclusion a number of inset activities 'for further thinking' a critique... More

A report from the International Monetary Fund.... More