A City at the End of the World Book: In the communications network of the twenty-first century, urban cultures will form the matrix of social and intellectual evolution. Nearly half the world's people now live in cities. 1 And though excessive urbanization is a chief factor in the global environmental crisis, the growth of cities is the dominant demographic trend of the future.2 It is from cities, large and small, that ideas and values will emerge which could well determine the fate of both humankind and the natural environment as we know it.

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The Art and Science of Social Media and Community Relations Book: An ebook by Brian Solis of PR 2.0 and Co-Author of Now is Gone that examines one company�s foray into Social Media.

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Individualization: Instituitionalized Individualism and Its Social and Political Consequences Book: Individualization argues that we are in the midst of a fundamental change in the nature of society and politics. This change hinges around two processes: globalization and individualization. The book demonstrates that individualization is a structural characteristic of highly differentiated societies, and does not imperil social cohesion, but actually makes it possible. Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim argue that it is vital to distinguish between the neo-liberal idea of the free-market individual and the concept of individualization.

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Lords and Communities in Early Medieval East Anglia Book: East Anglian warriors, monks and peasants toiled, fought and prayed during the tenth and eleventh centuries in order to establish the medieval landscape of East Anglia constructed around great abbeys, castles and manor houses. This book discusses the contexts which led to the creation of the medieval built environment from a regional and comparative perspective, following through the lives and initiatives of English, Scandinavian, Norman and Breton lords and their families. It analyses themes such as alliance and unification strategies, social mobility, ethnicity, the formation of lineages, and draws upon the disciplines of anthropology, economics and prosopography in order to further historical knowledge. Perhaps somewhat unusually it highlights the differences and similarities between the experiences of these lords and communities with aristocracies and social groupings in regions of Europe shaped by the feudal transformation.

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Essays in Sociological Theory Book: Talcott Parsons needs little introduction to anyone acquainted with the literature of sociology. Few men have dominated their fields so much as Dr. Parsons does his.

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Gambling in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Issues, and Society Book: Whether you believe that gambling is good for the economy or that the Mob runs Las Vegas, you cannot escape the fact that gambling is the fastest-growing entertainment enterprise in America.
In this completely up-to-date volume, America�s most renowned gambling scholar examines the history of gambling as well as its current legal, legislative, economic, and social environment.

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The Linked Photographers' Guide to Online Marketing and Social Media Book: "The Linked Photographer's Guide to Online Marketing and Social Networking" is a complete resource for photographers looking to improve their business through social media. This book provides a step-by-step process for getting a photographer's business online, and acts as a reference guide for the variety of online marketing options on the web. This one-of-a-kind guide is the key to making social media work for the photographer to improve their business!

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Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics Book: Japan�s welfare state is puzzling. On most measures, Japan�s welfare state is small. Its social spending levels are low; its tax revenue is small; and its benefit levels are meager (Figure 0.1).1 Japan�s social spending programs are among the least redistributive in the advanced industrial world (Table 0.1). At first glance, Japan�s small welfare spending appears to confirm the conventional scholarly wisdom that attributes the development of a generous and redistributive welfare state to a strong social democratic party � supported by well-organized and centralized labor unions. Yet despite its meager social spending, Japan has nonetheless managed to achieve a fairly egalitarian income distribution.

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The Social Media Bible: Tactics, Tools, and Strategies for Business Success Book: The Social Media Bible will show you how to build or transform your business into a social media�enabled enterprise where customers, employees, and prospects connect, collaborate, and champion your products, your services, and your way of doing business.

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Marketing to the Social Web: How Digital Customer Communities Build Your Business PDF Book: Marketers must look on the web for new ways to find customers and communicate with them instead of them. YouTube and Facebook, blogs and Twitter-ing, social media on the Internet is the most promising way to reach new customers. Marketing to the Social Web, Second Edition, will help marketers understand their businesses and how enthusiastic, customers, build customer communities and maximize their profits in a time of marketing confusion. Author and social media guru Larry Weber describes newly available tools and platforms, and shows you how to apply them to see immediate results and the economy. Rather than broadcast messages to the public should be savvy marketers to participate in social networks, belong to the people, where the dialogue will grow with the customers and can vary between customers. In networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Flickr and even the ideal forum for this dialogue, this book shows you how to tap into this new media.

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