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Mobility Peter Adey 9781138949010
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Mobility aims to take the pulse of this enormously expanded and energetic field. It explores the breadth of the disciplinary areas mobility studies now encompass, examining the diverse conceptual and... -
Aerial Life: Spaces, Mobilities, Affects by Peter Adey 9781405182621
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £53.60NOMINATED AND SHORT LISTED FOR THE SURVEILLANCE STUDIES BOOK PRIZE 2011! This theoretically informed research explores what the development and transformation of air travel has meant for societies... -
Levitation: The Science, Myth and Magic of Suspension by Peter Adey 9781780237374
Booksplease Price: £29.86Levitation tells the peculiar story of those who have dreamed, believed or practised levitation, whether they were successful or not. Levitation could be thought of best as a pre- and parallel... -
From Above: War, Violence and Verticality by Peter Adey 9781849042994
Booksplease Price: £32.43The arrival of the aerostatic balloon at the end of the nineteenth century ushered in a new perspective on the battlefield, taking over from the mount - the hill at the edge of the field of combat -... -
From Above: War, Violence and Verticality by Peter Adey 9781849042987
Booksplease Price: £58.71The arrival of the aerostatic balloon at the end of the nineteenth century ushered in a new perspective on the battlefield, taking over from the mount - the hill at the edge of the field of combat -... -
Evacuation: The Politics and Aesthetics of Movement in Emergency Peter Adey 9781478026396
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.89In Evacuation, Peter Adey examines the politics, aesthetics, and practice of moving people and animals from harm during emergencies. He outlines how the governance and design of evacuation is... -
Evacuation: The Politics and Aesthetics of Movement in Emergency Peter Adey 9781478030584
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02In Evacuation, Peter Adey examines the politics, aesthetics, and practice of moving people and animals from harm during emergencies. He outlines how the governance and design of evacuation is... -
Aerial Life: Spaces, Mobilities, Affects Peter Adey (Keele University, UK) 9781405182614
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.54NOMINATED AND SHORT LISTED FOR THE SURVEILLANCE STUDIES BOOK PRIZE 2011! This theoretically informed research explores what the development and transformation of air travel has meant for societies... -
Moving Towards Transition: Commoning Mobility for a Low-Carbon Future by Peter Adey 9781786998965
Booksplease Price: £96.35It is widely recognised that global warming has been largely caused by human action and, specifically, the production of greenhouse gases. It is also agreed that oil is a finite resource that may... -
Crime, Regulation and Control During the Blitz: Protecting the Population of Bombed Cities by Peter Adey 9781350048522
Booksplease Price: £37.81Crime, Regulation and Control during the Blitz looks at the social effect of bombing on urban centres like Liverpool, Coventry and London, critically examining how the wartime authorities struggled... -
Moving Towards Transition: Commoning Mobility for a Low-Carbon Future by Prof. Peter Adey 9781786998972
Booksplease Price: £31.86Drawing on an innovative project exploring current mobility transition policies and practices in 14 countries around the world, including key institutions such as the European Union and the United... -
The Citizen and the Vagabond: A Politics of Mobility Tim Cresswell 9781517920616
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12An expansive treatise on the power relations that govern our movementThe Citizen and the Vagabond develops a theoretical approach to the study of mobility and its relationship to the production,... -
The Citizen and the Vagabond: A Politics of Mobility Tim Cresswell 9781517920609
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £76.70An expansive treatise on the power relations that govern our movementThe Citizen and the Vagabond develops a theoretical approach to the study of mobility and its relationship to the production,... -
Urban Interstices: The Aesthetics and the Politics of the In-between Andrea Mubi Brighenti (University of Trento, Italy) 9781138257399
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51Bringing together a team of international scholars with an interest in urban transformations, spatial justice and territoriality, this volume questions how the interstice is related to the emerging... -
Digitizing Identities: Doing Identity in a Networked World by Irma van der Ploeg
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £88.07This book explores contemporary transformations of identities in a digitizing society across a range of domains of modern life. As digital technology and ICTs have come to pervade virtually all... -
Embodying Militarism: Exploring the Spaces and Bodies In-Between by Synne L. Dyvik 9780367255220
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37How are militarism and militarisation embodied and why is it important to study these concepts together? This volume highlights a lack of research into people's emotions, bodies and experiences in... -
Politics at the Airport by Mark B. Salter 9780816650156
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12Establishes the airport as a crucial site in the rise of the surveillance stateFew sites are more symbolic of both the opportunities and vulnerabilities of contemporary globalization than the... -
Mobilities and Complexities Ole B. Jensen 9781138601437
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52The new 'mobilities turn' has become a powerful perspective in social theory. John Urry's oeuvre has been very influential in the emergence of this new field and has had lasting impacts on many... -
Mobility / Society: Society Seen Through the Lens of Mobilities by Lowie Vermeersch 9783037787366
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £31.79The way things flow: exploring the movement of bodies, data and goods. Mobility shapes society in countless ways. Looking at society from the perspective of mobility reveals that its key moments of... -
Mobility, Space and Culture Peter Merriman 9780415736985
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94Over the past ten to fifteen years there has emerged an increasing concern with mobility in the social sciences and humanities. In Mobility, Space and Culture, Peter Merriman provides an important... -
Geographical Aesthetics: Imagining Space, Staging Encounters Elizabeth Straughan 9781138546929
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £48.10Geographical Aesthetics places the terms 'aesthetics' and 'geography' under critical question together, responding both to the increasing calls from within geography to develop a 'geographical... -
Viapolitics: Borders, Migration, and the Power of Locomotion by William Walters
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02Vehicles, their infrastructures, and the environments they traverse are fundamental to the movement of migrants and states' attempts to govern them. This volume's contributors use the concept of... -
Air Conditioning by Hsuan L. Hsu 9781501377822
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Air conditioning aspires to be unnoticed. Yet, by manipulating the air around us, it... -
Making Things International 1: Circuits and Motion by Mark B. Salter 9780816696260
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78Building on recent debates in critical social theory and international relations, Making Things International I: Circuits and Motion presents twenty-five essays that engage the global, the local, and... -
Shipping Container by Craig Martin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on... -
Territory Beyond Terra by Kimberley Peters 9781786600127
Booksplease Price: £43.76At the root of our understanding of territory is the concept of terra-land-a surface of fixed points with stable features that can be calculated, categorised, and controlled. But what of the many...