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Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from ...

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from ...

Frank Trentmann

Nicky Gregson, Alan Metcalfe & Louise Crewe, “Identity, Mobility and the Throwaway Society', in: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2006, 682–700, quoted at 688. See further: Nicky Gregson & Louise Crewe, Second- hand ...
Second-Hand Cultures

Second-Hand Cultures

Nicky Gregson

Answering these questions and many more, this book fills a major gap in consumption studies. Gregson and Crewe argue that second hand cultures are critical to any understanding of how consumption is actually practised.
Why the Social Sciences Matter

Why the Social Sciences Matter

Jonathan Michie

Research on textiles was conducted by Lucy Norris; and that on endoflife ships by Nicky Gregson, Mike Crang and Farid Ahamed. Key references are: Botticello (2012); Norris (2012); Crang et al. (2013) on textiles; and Gregson et al. (2010) ...
Second-Hand Cultures

Second-Hand Cultures

Nicky Gregson

Drawing on six years of original research, this book explores what happens when the often contradictory motivations behind style and survival strategies are brought together in the second hand trade.
Spaces of Geographical Thought: Deconstructing Human ...

Spaces of Geographical Thought: Deconstructing Human ...

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Nicky Gregson Bombs, elephants, histories and geographies Everything he owned was in that place, all that he had ever worked for; a lifetime's accumulation of labour stored as a single cache of wood. He thought of the elephants and the ...
Domestic Service and the Formation of European Identity: ...

Domestic Service and the Formation of European Identity: ...

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Nonetheless, in the last three decades of the twentieth century demand for domestic servants has risen steadily, largely the result, as geographers Nicky Gregson and Michelle Lowe contend, of the rapid growth of dual-earner households.17 ...
Reading Retail: A Geographical Perspective on Retailing and ...

Reading Retail: A Geographical Perspective on Retailing and ...

Neil Wrigley

Environmentand Planning A, 29, 1717–37;2 Louise Creweand Nicky Gregson ( 1998):Tales ofthe unexpected:exploring car boot sales asmarginal spaces of contemporary consumption. Transactions ofthe Institute of British Geographers NS23, ...
Feminist Geographies: Explorations in Diversity and Difference

Feminist Geographies: Explorations in Diversity and Difference

Women and Geography Study Group

Contents List of figures page vii List of tables viii Contributors ix Acknowledgements xi Introduction 1 GILLIAN ROSE, NICKY GREGSON, JO FOORD, SOPHIE BOWLBY, CLAIRE DWYER, SARAH HOLLOWAY, NINA LAURIE, AVRIL ...
Servicing the Middle Classes: Class, Gender and Waged ...

Servicing the Middle Classes: Class, Gender and Waged ...

Nicky Gregson

Servicing the Middle Classes investigates the recent rise in demand by middle class families for waged domestic labour and the consequent growth of a new `servant' class.
Nicky Jones and the Roaring Rhinos

Nicky Jones and the Roaring Rhinos

Lois G. Grambling

With the help of four big brothers, Nicky Jones learns to play football, becomes a spectacular player, and shocks teammates with a revelation no one anticipates.
The Prey of Gods

The Prey of Gods

Nicky Drayden

Fun and fantastic, Nicky Drayden takes her brilliance as a short story writer and weaves together an elaborate tale that will capture your heart . . . even as one particular demigoddess threatens to rip it out.
Rapid Response (Mills & Boon Medical) (The A and E, Book 15)

Rapid Response (Mills & Boon Medical) (The A and E, Book 15)

Jennifer Taylor

Holly looked round when she saw Nicky Brunswick making her way towards them. Nicky had been monitoring the young woman and Holly grimaced when she saw the worried expression on the paramedic's face. 'Don't tell me—more ...
Memoirs of the Queensland Museum

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum

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PATRICK J. COUPER AND ROBERTA.M. GREGSON Couper, P.J. & Gregson R.A.M. 1994 12 01: Redescription of Nephrurus asper Günther, and description of N. amyae sp. nov. and N. sheai sp. nov. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum § §.
The Cambridge Companion to Bartók

The Cambridge Companion to Bartók

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8. NICKY LOSSEFF. The. Piano. ConcertosandSonata. forTwo. Pianos. and. Percussion. In M. C. Escher's drawing Three Worlds,1 water acts as the medium for an ... Piano Concertos and Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion Nicky Losseff.
Snow Dog

Snow Dog

Malorie Blackman

"IT'S GOING TO BE WOOF-ONDERFUL!" There is nothing Nicky wants more in the world than a dog to play with. But Mum and Dad don't want a dog. Then Grandad has an idea - he and Nicky can make a dog: a snow-dome dog.
The Alpha Course Manual

The Alpha Course Manual

Alpha USA

Nicky Gumbel ANA* 1-931808-104 ▻ Talk 2 - Who Is Jesus? Alpha North America ▻ Talk 4 - How Can I Be Sure of. Title Author Publisher ISBN Questions of Life Nicky Gumbel Cook 0-7814-5261-9 ▻ Talk 3 -Why Did Jesus Die? Title Author ...
Informative Psychometric Filters

Informative Psychometric Filters

Robert A. M. Gregson

This book is a series of case studies with a common theme.
Time Series in Psychology

Time Series in Psychology

Robert Anthony Mills Gregson

First published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Searching Issues

Searching Issues

Nicky Gumbel

Reasoned answers to seven questions commonly raised when considering the Christian faith.
Informative Psychometric Filters

Informative Psychometric Filters

Robert Anthony Mills Gregson

In this series of case studies, comparisons are drawn using various sorts of psychological and psychophysical data that characteristically are particularly nonlinear, non-stationary, far from equilibrium and even chaotic.
Why Jesus?

Why Jesus?

Nicky Gumbel

An evangelistic booklet for those who are having their first thoughts about the Christian Faith. It is designed with a camouflage cover for use in the Armed Forces.

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