712 books (36 pages) in this category
Genealogies of Environmentalism
The Lost Works of Clarence Glacken
by Clarence Glacken
<p>Clarence Glacken wrote one of the most important books on environmental issues published in the twentieth century. His magnum opus, <em>Traces on the Rhodian Shore,</em> first published in 1967, details the ways in which perceptions of the ...
ISBN: 9780813939094
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eBookGentrification as a Global Strategy
Neil Smith and Beyond
by Abel Albet & Núria Benach
<p>This book pays homage to Neil Smith’s ideas, offering a critical approach and rich collection of insights that draw on Smith’s work for inspiration and debate. With interdisciplinary and international contributions from leading experts, the ...
ISBN: 9781315307497
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eBookGentrification: A Working-Class Perspective
by Kirsteen Paton
<p>Focusing on the working-class experience of gentrification, this book re-examines the enduring relationship between class and the urban. Class is so clearly articulated in the urban, from the housing crisis to the London Riots to the ...
ISBN: 9781317129301
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eBookby T.F. Yen & J.M. Moldowan
<p>First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.</p> ...
ISBN: 9781134332731
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eBookA Critical Introduction
by Tim Cresswell
<p>This engaging and accessible introduction to geographic thought explores the major thinkers and key theoretical developments in the field of human geography.</p> <ul> <li>Covers the complete range of the development of theoretical knowledge
ISBN: 9781118256480
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eBookPerspectives, Concepts, Approaches
by Mark W. Skinner, Gavin J. Andrews & Malcolm P. Cutchin
<p>Understanding where ageing occurs, how it is experienced by different people in different places, and in what ways it is transforming our communities, economies and societies at all levels has become crucial for the development of informed ...
ISBN: 9781315281193
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eBookInternational Perspectives on Development, Justice and Place
by Roger Lee & David M. Smith
<p>This topical book addresses contemporary concern with the interconnections between geography and morality.</p> <ul> <li></li> <li> <p>Covers both the geographical context of morality, and moralities in geographical methods and ...
ISBN: 9781444355505
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eBookExplorations in Northeast Indian Studies
by Mélanie Vandenhelsken, Meenaxi Barkataki-Ruscheweyh & Bengt G. Karlsson
<p>This book rethinks Northeast India as a lived space, a centre of interconnections and unfolding histories, instead of an isolated periphery. Questioning dominant tropes and assumptions around the Northeast, it examines socio-political and ...
ISBN: 9781351615624
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eBookGeographies of Digital Culture
by Tilo Felgenhauer & Karsten Gäbler
<p>“Digital culture” reflects the ways in which the ubiquity and increasing use of digital devices and infrastructures is changing the arenas of human experience, creating new cultural realities. Whereas much of the existing literature on ...
ISBN: 9781315302935
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eBookby Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg
<p>Spatial disorientation is of key relevance to our globalized world, eliciting complex questions about our relationship with technology and the last remaining vestiges of our animal nature. Viewed more broadly, disorientation is a profoundly ...
ISBN: 9781317128281
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eBookGeographies of Health and Development
by Isaac Luginaah & Rachel Bezner Kerr
<p>The geographies of health and development is an emerging sub-discipline, tying in with many of the conceptual, theoretical and practical components of other disciplines working in health, health care, economics, and international development.
ISBN: 9781317129219
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eBookGeographies of Making, Craft and Creativity
by Laura Price & Harriet Hawkins
<p>This book brings together cutting-edge research from leading international scholars to explore the geographies of making and craft. It traces the geographies of making practices from the body, to the workshop and studio, to the wider ...
ISBN: 9781315296913
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eBookPolitics, Economy and Culture
by Harvey Neo & Jody Emel
<p>With the ever rising demand for meat around the world, the production of meat has changed dramatically in the past few decades. What has brought about the increasing popularity and attendant normalization of factory farms across many parts of
ISBN: 9781317129189
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eBookby Richard Wright
<p>Migration is an enormously broad topic of academic enquiry engaging researchers from many different social science disciplines. A wide variety of contributors from across the globe capture some of the methodological and conceptual range of ...
ISBN: 9781317212812
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eBookGeographies of Plague Pandemics
The Spatial-Temporal Behavior of Plague to the Modern Day
by Mark Welford
<p><em>Geographies of Plague Pandemics</em> synthesizes our current understanding of the spatial and temporal dynamics of plague, <em>Yersinia pestis</em>. The environmental, political, economic, and social impacts of the plague from Ancient ...
ISBN: 9781315307411
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eBookGeographies of Transport and Mobility
Prospects and Challenges in an Age of Climate Change
by Jan Prillwitz, Stewart Barr, Tim Ryley & others
<p><em>Geographies of Transport and Mobility</em> aims to provide a comprehensive and evidenced account of the intellectual and pragmatic challenges for personal mobility in the twenty-first century. In doing so, it argues that geographers have ...
ISBN: 9781317128946
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eBookGeography and Economy in South Africa and its Neighbours
by Christian M. Rogerson
<p>The dismantling of the apartheid regime in South Africa caused massive transformation in both geographical and economic terms, not only in this country but also in the region as a whole. As the post-apartheid government enters its second ...
ISBN: 9781351934121
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eBookThe Geography of Nations and States
by Peter M. Slowe
<p>Focusing on the relationship between geography and power, this book, originally published in 1990, isolates five sources of political power – might, right, nationhood, legality and legitimacy – and demonstrtes the centrality of geography to ...
ISBN: 9781317341024
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eBookby Peter Scott
<p>An important contribution to our understanding of the distribution of retail activities, particularly within cities, this book provides a critical review of the literature on the subject. It points out the major general propositions ...
ISBN: 9781351517713
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eBookGeography in the Twentieth Century
A Study of Growth, Fields, Techniques, Aims and Trends
by Griffith Taylor
<p>This title, first published in 1951, examines the growth, fields, techniques, aims and trends of geography at the time. The book is divided into three parts, of which the first deals with the evolution of geography and its philosophical ...
ISBN: 9781317304326
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