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1. Entropy in Urban and Regional Modelling (Routledge Revivals)

   By Alan Wilson

   First published in 1970, this groundbreaking investigation into Entropy in Urban and Regional Modelling provides an extensive and detailed insight into the entropy maximising method in the development of a whole class of urban and regional models. The book has its origins in work being carried out...

   To Be Published January 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. Catastrophe Theory and Bifurcation (Routledge Revivals)

   Applications to Urban and Regional Systems

   By Alan Wilson

   Mathematical models have long been used by geographers and regional scientists to explore the working of urban and regional systems, via a system where the equilibrium point changes slowly and smoothly as the parameters change slowly and smoothly. However, this all changed with the advent of...

   To Be Published October 29th 2012 by Routledge
3. Urban Modelling

   Edited by Alan Wilson

   Series: Critical Concepts in Urban Studies

   The study of cities is one of the grand challenges of twenty-first-century science, and mathematical modelling—in this case, urban modelling—provides a crucial contribution to scholarly and practical projects fully to comprehend their workings, evolution, and associated planning problems. There...

   To Be Published August 28th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Handbook of Work Analysis

   Methods, Systems, Applications and Science of Work Measurement in Organizations

   Edited by Mark Alan Wilson, Winston Bennett, Jr., Shanan Gwaltney Gibson, George Michael Alliger

   Series: Applied Psychology Series

   This new handbook, with contributions from experts around the world, is the most comprehensive treatise on work design and job analysis practice and research in over 20 years. The handbook, dedicated to Sidney Gael, is the next generation of Gael’s successful Job Analysis Handbook for Business...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge Academic
5. Galbraith's Building and Land Management Law for Students

   6th Edition

   By Anne Galbraith, Michael Stockdale, Steve Wilson, Rebecca Mitchell, Russell Hewitson, Simon Spurgeon, Mick Woodley, Alan Davenport

   Ideal for first year undergraduate students taking law modules on construction, surveying, planning and engineering courses, Galbraith’s Building and Land Management Law for Students is an excellent overview of the key legal issues in the construction industry. Clearly written and with wide...

   Published November 14th 2010 by Routledge
6. Knowledge Power

   Interdisciplinary Education for a Complex World

   By Alan Wilson

   Success in the twenty-first century demands knowledge power – for individuals, organisations, cities, regions and countries. This book offers a map showing the structure of the knowledge space in a contemporary context. The routes beyond traditional disciplines are charted, in part based on the...

   Published February 9th 2010 by Routledge
7. Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

   Where do we go from here?

   Edited by J Hogan, A.R Krauskopf, Mario di Bernado, R. Eddie Wilson, Hinke. M Osinga, Martin. E Homer, Alan. R Champneys

   Nonlinear dynamics has been successful in explaining complicated phenomena in well-defined low-dimensional systems. Now it is time to focus on real-life problems that are high-dimensional or ill-defined, for example, due to delay, spatial extent, stochasticity, or the limited nature of available...

   Published July 31st 2002 by Taylor & Francis