The design of formal calculi in which fundamental concepts underlying interactive systems can be described and studied has been a central theme of theoretical computer science in recent decades, while
Contrary to ingrained academic and public assumptions, wherein indigenous lowland South American societies are viewed as the product of historical emplacement and spatial stasis, there is widespread e
Economists from Australia, China, and the US discuss how China is responding to the massive internal migration that since the 1970s has seen some 120-150 million people move from rural to urban areas.
Poor roads and transport infrastructure are key factors in the marginalization of women and other disempowered groups, but there is little understanding of the many ways in which a lack of mobility af
Alarcon (sociology, U. Rovira I Virgili, Spain) and Garzon (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Latin America, U. Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) present results from a research project investigating
This collection of fourteen articles on movement and space examines the concepts of mobility and mobility technologies and explores their relationship to conceptions of home, away, and the meanings of
What do road infrastructures, media networks, ferry boats, cell phones, automobiles, and airplanes have in common? As attempts to come to terms with the virtual and material distance separating people
Although enterprise mobility is in high demand across domains, an absence of experts who have worked on enterprise mobility has resulted in a lack of books on the subject. A Comprehensive Guide to Ent
Charting the development of the travel plan as a concept, this book draws on a range of research-based contributions to determine the state-of-the-art and to explore a series of future scenarios in th
We think we know what upward mobility stories are about--virtuous striving justly rewarded, or unprincipled social climbing regrettably unpunished. Either way, these stories seem obviously concerned w
This qualitative study explores the meaning of working-class origin in the life and career of university graduates. Social transition from a working-class background to a middle-class milieu results i
The Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) has emerged as the next frontier for wireless communications networking in both the military and commercial arena. Handbook of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks for Mobility Mod
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Wireless and Mobility organized inside the Euro-NGI/FGI Network of Excellence and held in B
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, Soviet Jews emigrated in largenumbers to Israel. Over the next ten years, Israel absorbed approximately 900,000 immigrants fromthe former Soviet Union,
Contemporary globalization is being structured by a continuously expanding network of circuits of exchange that increasingly define the nature of the manufacturing, services, and information sectors o
This book describes the use of low-power low-cost and extremely small radios to provide essential time reference for wireless sensor networks. The authors explain how to integrate such radios in a st
Global student mobility is one of the fastest growing phenomena in higher education in the twenty-first century. Over three million students are currently mobile, crossing geographic, cultural, digita
Market reform in China has led not just to economic growth, but also to a momentous transformation of Chinese society, with the simple, enclosed, rigid peasant hierarchy of the Mao era being replaced
