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  • Rural Wales in the Twenty-First Century

    Society, Economy and Environment

    The book explores the complex and shifting geographies of rural Wales in the twenty first century. It draws on a broad range of recent academic and policy research to provide the most comprehensive and critical account of the spaces, places and environments of rural Wales to date. The book highlights recent processes of change as well as important continuities with the past. It also indicates the ... Read more

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    ActionScript 3 is a full-fledged programming language, with complete object-oriented capabilities, event handling, sound and video support, drawing capabilities, support for regular expressions, and much more.Whether you are just starting out on the road to computer programming and animation or an experienced developer who wants to learn a new language, you’ll find all you need to know in ... Read more

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  • Rural Poverty

    Marginalisation and Exclusion in Britain and the United States

    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    Moving beyond the highly visual forms of poverty characteristic of the city, Rural Poverty explores the nature of poverty in rural spaces in Britain and America. Setting out key features, it highlights the important processes that hide key components of rural poverty. The book seeks to challenge dominant assumptions about the spatialities of poverty and the nature of rural spaces in Britain and ... Read more

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  • International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness

    Edited by Paul Cloke, Paul Milbourne ...
    Series series Housing, Planning and Design Series
    Drawing on recent academic studies in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, this book is the first international text on homelessness in rural areas. Consisting of fifteen specially commissioned chapters, International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness provides comparative material on the cultural, political and policy contexts of rural homelessness, examining the nature and scale of ... Read more

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  • Regenerating London

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    Edited by Rob Imrie, Loretta Lees, Mike Raco ...
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    Contemporary Themes and Critical Perspectives

    Series series Housing and Society Series
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