712 books (36 pages) in this category
by Nick Clifton, Caroline Chapain & Roberta Comunian
<p>Creative and cultural industries, broadly defined, are now considered by many policy makers across Europe at the heart of their national innovation and economic development agenda. Similarly, many European cities and regions have adopted ...
ISBN: 9781134839674
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eBookCreative Representations of Place
by Alison Barnes
<p>Cultural geography and the social sciences have seen a rise in the use of creative methods with which to understand and represent everyday life and place. Conversely, many artists are producing work that centres on ideas of place and space ...
ISBN: 9781351667227
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eBookby Harriet Hawkins
<p>Creativity, whether lauded as the oil of the 21st century, touted as a driver of international policy, or mobilised by activities, has been very much part of the zeitgeist of the last few decades. Offering the first accessible, but ...
ISBN: 9781317604921
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eBookCritical Geographies of Cycling
History, Political Economy and Culture
by Glen Norcliffe
<p>Examining cycling from a range of geographical perspectives, this book uses historical and contemporary case studies to look at the history, politics, economy and culture of cycling. Pursuing a post-structural position in viewing ...
ISBN: 9781317157359
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eBookSpace, Power and Sport in Global Perspective
by Natalie Koch
<p>Sport is a geographic phenomenon. The physical and organizational infrastructure of sport occupies a prominent place in our society. This important book takes an explicitly spatial approach to sport, bringing together research in geography, ...
ISBN: 9781317404293
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eBookCritical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty
Global Agrarian Transformations, Volume 2
by Marc Edelman
<p>This volume is a pioneering contribution to the study of food politics and critical agrarian studies, where food sovereignty has emerged as a pivotal concept over the past few decades, with a wide variety of social movements, on-the-ground ...
ISBN: 9781317424512
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eBookThe Contested Politics of Place Naming
by Jani Vuolteenaho
<p>While place names have long been studied by a few devoted specialists, approaches to them have been traditionally empiricist and uncritical in character. This book brings together recent works that conceptualize the hegemonic and contested ...
ISBN: 9781351947268
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eBookby Sanjay Kumar
<p>Cultural geography is the study of the many cultural aspects found throughout the world and how they relate to the spaces and places where they originate and then travel as people continually move across various areas. Some of the main ...
ISBN: 9789387798854
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eBookCultural Histories, Memories and Extreme Weather
A Historical Geography Perspective
by Georgina H. Endfield & Lucy Veale
<p>Extreme weather events, such as droughts, strong winds and storms, flash floods and extreme heat and cold, are among the most destructive yet fascinating aspects of climate variability. Historical records and memories charting the impacts and
ISBN: 9781315461434
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eBookCultural Landscapes and Environmental Change
by Lesley Head
<p>Cultural landscapes are usually understood within physical geography as those transformed by human action. As human influence on the earth increases, advances in palaeocological reconstruction have also allowed for new interpretations of the ...
ISBN: 9781317835967
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eBookCultural Policy and East Asian Rivalry
The Hong Kong Gaming Industry
by Anthony Y. H. Fung
<p>Hong Kong was once an established hub of creativity in Asia recognized internationally for its cinema, Bruce Lee and Kung Fu. Cantopop, its particular form of pop music, was popular throughout China and East Asia from the 1970s. So why is ...
ISBN: 9781783486267
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eBookCultural Topographies of the New Berlin
by Karin Bauer & Jennifer Ruth Hosek
<p>Since Unification and the end of the Cold War, Berlin has witnessed a series of uncommonly intense social, political, and cultural transformations. While positioning itself as a creative center populated by young and cosmopolitan global ...
ISBN: 9781785337215
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eBookby Qadri Ismail
<p>The conviction that we all have, possess or inhabit a discrete culture, and have done so for centuries, is one of the more dominant default assumptions of our contemporary politico-intellectual moment. However, the concept of culture as a ...
ISBN: 9781783486359
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eBookHeritage beyond Saving
by Caitlin DeSilvey
<DIV><P>Transporting readers from derelict homesteads to imperiled harbors, postindustrial ruins to Cold War test sites, <I>Curated Decay</I> presents an unparalleled provocation to conventional thinking on the conservation of cultural heritage.
ISBN: 9781452953724
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eBookFrom Research into Practice
by Regine Gerike & John Parkin
<p>Pointing the way to the future of research and development in relation to cycling as a mode of transport, this book investigates some of the significant recent developments in the technology, provision for, and take up of cycling in various ...
ISBN: 9781317155102
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eBookby Gilles Pinson & Christelle Morel Journel
<p>The concept of the neoliberal city has become a key structuring analytical framework in the field of urban studies. It explains both the ongoing transformation of urban policies and the socio-spatial effects of these policies within cities ...
ISBN: 9781317154204
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eBookby Frederic Hanusch
<p><em>Democracy and Climate Change</em> explores the various ways in which democratic principles can lead governments to respond differently to climate change. The election cycle can lead to short-termism, which often appears to be at odds with
ISBN: 9781351857727
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eBookCultural Narratives and American Films of the 1950s
by Alan Nadel
<p>Prolific literature, both popular and scholarly, depicts America in the period of the High Cold War as being obsessed with normality, implicitly figuring the postwar period as a return to the way of life that had been put on hold, first by ...
ISBN: 9780813573052
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eBookThe Essential Role of Population Groups in Retail Marketing
by James A. Pooler
<p>This title was first published in 2002: Retailers who ignore the demographics of their customers do so at their peril. Examining the role of age and gender in the behavior and patterns of shoppers, this book looks at all shoppers as members ...
ISBN: 9781351730310
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eBookThe Science of Population
by Jay Weinstein & Vijayan K. Pillai
<p>This comprehensive, introductory text takes an applied, interdisciplinary approach. Because one author is a sociologist and the other a demographer, the text introduces perspectives from many different disciplines. The most applied book on ...
ISBN: 9781442235212
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