Author: Geoff Payne; Pamela Abbott both of the University
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: mobility, models, male, women, social
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 1990-12-01
List price: $52.95
ISBN-10: 1850008469
ISBN-13: 9781850008460

Women are almost invisible in the extensive literature on social mobility, a fact often raised in criticism of mobility studies. The recent upsurge of interest in gender and class, within the wider context of women’s work and careers, has failed to produce a systematic treatment of female social mobility. Cetainly, there is no book which draws together the scattered evidence about trends, work in progress in one volume or which records the present state of knowledge. This volume sets out to fill that gap, providing a framework for understanding the mobility circumstances of women and for

Authors:Holden, Erling Holden,
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co
Keywords: mobility, transport, sustainable, achieving
Number of Pages: 245
Published: 2007-06-07
List price: $114.95
ISBN-10: 0754649415
ISBN-13: 9780754649410

Sustainable mobility has become the new imperative for transport policy. There have been a number of policy attempts at sustainable mobility globally, such as the development of more efficient conventional transport technologies, the promotion of efficient and affordable public transport systems and the encouragement of environmental awareness. Such policies have so often been presented as prerequisites for sustainable mobility that they are now taken for granted. But are any of these policies really successful? To what extent do they actually contribute (or fail to contribute) to sustainable

Authors:X. Godard, I. Fatonzoun,
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: mobility, urban
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $319.95
ISBN-10: 9058093999
ISBN-13: 9789058093998

This title covers topics such as: the urban travel mobility of social groups; transport, urbanism and accessibility; mass transport investment; regulation, integration and financing public transport; road safety; and strategic approach, institution and governance.

Author: Peter Adey
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: geography, ideas, key, mobility
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-08-19
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0415434009
ISBN-13: 9780415434003

As everything from immigration, airport security and road tolling become headline news, the need to understand mobility has never been more pertinent. Yet ‘mobility’ remains remarkably elusive in summary and definition. This introductory text makes ‘mobility’ tangible by explaining the key theories and writings that surround it. This book traces out the concept of mobility as a key idea within the discipline of geography as well as subject areas from the wider arts and social sciences. The text takes an interdisciplinary approach to draw upon key writers and thinkers that have contr

Authors:G.A. Eiceman, Z. Karpas,
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: second, spectrometry, mobility, ion
Number of Pages: 370
Published: 2004-07-26
List price: $185.95
ISBN-10: 0849322472
ISBN-13: 9780849322471

An updated and expanded version of the first edition, which was published in 1993, Ion Mobility Spectrometry, Second Edition provides greater insight into this important analytical technique. The new edition includes information on the advances in the research and application of IMS, including its use as a measurement technology for explosive device detection at airports, chemical weapons detection, air quality monitoring, and drug detection. It contains new chapters on biological ion mobility spectrometry, and field asymmetric ion mobility spectrometry. A library of pertinent spectral data an

Author: Nancy Abelmann
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: paper, mobility, melodrama
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 2003-10-01
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 082482749X
ISBN-13: 9780824827496

How do people make sense of their world in the face of the breakneck speed of contemporary social change? Through the lives and narratives of eight women, The Melodrama of Mobility chronicles South Korea’s experience of just such dizzyingly rapid development. Abelmann captures the mood, feeling, and language of a generation and an era while providing a rare window on the personal and social struggles of South Korean modernity. Drawing also from television soap operas and films, she argues that a melodramatic sensibility speaks to South Korea’s transformation because it preserves th

Author: Richard Breen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: europe, mobility, social
Number of Pages: 468
Published: 2005-02-10
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 0199258457
ISBN-13: 9780199258451

Social Mobility in Europe is the most comprehensive study to date of trends in intergenerational social mobility. It uses data from 11 European countries covering the last 30 years of the twentieth century to analyze differences between countries and changes through time. The findings call into question several long-standing views about social mobility. We find a growing similarity between countries in their class structures and rates of absolute mobility: in other words, the countries of Europe are now more alike in their flows between class origins and destinations than they were thirty yea