David L Ley

Quantum Tunnelling in Enzyme-Catalysed Reactions: RSC (RSC Biomolecular Sciences)

In recent years, there has been an explosion in knowledge and research associated with the field of enzyme catalysis and H-tunneling. Rich in its breath and depth, this introduction to modern theories and methods of study is suitable for experienced researchers those new to the subject. Edited by tw...

Millionaire Migrants: Trans-Pacific Life Lines

Based on extensive interviewing and access to a wide range of databases, this is an examination of the migration career of wealthy migrants who left East Asia and relocated to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, in the 1980s and 1990s. An interdisciplinary project based on over 1...

Why, God? His Purposes in Our Pain

On May 19, 2012, I stood in the 5800 wing of Loma Linda Children's Hospital and watched our seventeen year old son Loukas breath his last earthly breath. His sudden home-going from cardiac arrest and the resulting confusion of soul and mind with the purposes of God's plan has compelled me to write t...

A Social Geography of the City (Harper & Row series in geography)

What are the real social processes & situations that lie behind the maps & census data of urban geographers? Ley brings behavioral & humanistic perspectives to the traditional analysis of urban land use & patterns. With the focus on the broad historical contexts & social interactions that define the...

Place/Culture/Representation

Spatial and cultural analysis have recently found much common ground, focusing in particular on the nature of the city. Place/Culture/Representation brings together new and established voices involved in the reshaping of cultural geography. The authors argue that as we write our geographies we are n...

Insatiable Wives: Women Who Stray and the Men Who Love Them

This enlightening work investigates the history, incidence, and causes of a unique sexual lifestyle pursued by increasing numbers of couples. It is called by many names, and lived in a variety of ways by different couples. The most common terms used to describe it are 'hotwife' or 'cuckold lifestyle...

The New Middle Class and the Remaking of the Central City (Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies)

This book examines the creation of a new middle class responsible for the gentrification of inner city districts in six large Canadian cities. Placing his study within the context of international post-industrial, postmodern society, Ley discusses the crucial role of cultural politics dating from th...

David Ley

David Ley is a geographer and a professor at the University of British Columbia. Ley was born in Swansea, Wales, earned his B.A. at Oxford University, and his...

Geography and Ethnic Pluralism

Geography and Ethnic Pluralism

A Social Geography of the City

The New Middle Class and the Remaking of the Central City

Lost Words and Lost Worlds : Modernity and the Language of Everyday Life in Late Nineteenth-Century Stockholm

The Mediterranean City in Transition: Social Change and Urban Development

Unions and Communities under Siege: American Communities and the Crisis of Organized Labor

Unions and Communities under Siege : American Communities and the Crisis of Organised Labor