Product Description: This book identifies and describes the inter- and intra-urban transformations of Central and Eastern European cities. The authors discuss the similarities and differences between significant Central and Eastern European cities, comparing patterns of historical context and socialist legacies before 1990, and the impacts of internal and external forces on reshaping the cities since then...read more

Product Description: The harnessing of resources and the development of industry are central to the evolution of modern society. The world's great diversity of resources and industries are the subject of this book. It explores and explains the variety of industrial systems, ranging from communities that depend for their livelihood on a single resource or industry, or retain traditional handicrafts, to those that are diverse, based on high technology industries and services...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book examines the performance of developing countries and includes studies of peripheral regions' - less developed regions within more advanced economies.