ilość książek w kategorii: 32047
Middle East: Geography and Geopolitics
ISBN: 9780415076685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Based on W.B. Fisher's book of the same name published in 1978, Anderson provides a comprehensive account of the physical geography which has been so instrumental to the makeup of the geopolitics of the region.
Based on W.B. Fisher's book of the same name published in 1978, Anderson provides a comprehensive account of the physical geography which has been so ...
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358,54 zł |
Writing the City: Eden, Babylon and the New Jerusalem
ISBN: 9780415106672 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The expression of human experience it embodies ... includes all personal history'.
Saul Bellow's view of the city is far from that of classic geographical descriptions which look at growth or decline, demographic patterns, traffic flows and economic potential: these empirically conceived models of urban geography fail to accommodate the crucial human aspect of city life. Located at the interface of geography and literature, Writing the City visualizes the city through the hopes, aspirations, disappointments and pains of international novelists and creative writers.... The expression of human experience it embodies ... includes all personal history'.
Saul Bellow's view of the city is far from that of cla... |
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961,44 zł |
Geography of the World's Major Regions
ISBN: 9780415117432 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume presents a global view of today's most pressing issues through an analysis of the twelve major regions of the world. Environmental degradation, natural catastrophe, population pressures and human conflict all impact in different ways and to different degrees on the society and environment of these regions. Economic and political restructuring within each region is covered, and topics include: natural resources; agriculture; industry and services; the role of the military; and the impact of global economic change. This work is intended as an introduction for students studying the...
This volume presents a global view of today's most pressing issues through an analysis of the twelve major regions of the world. Environmental degrada...
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192,23 zł |
Geomorphological Techniques
ISBN: 9780415119399 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The specialist contributors to Geomorphological Techniques have thoroughly augmented and updated their original, authoritative coverage with critical evaluations of major recent developments in this field. A new chapter on neotectonics reflects the impact of developments in tectonic theory, and heavily revised sections deal with advances in remote sensing, image analysis, radiometric dating, geomorphometry, data loggers, radioactive tracers, and the determination of pore water pressure and the rates of denudation.
The specialist contributors to Geomorphological Techniques have thoroughly augmented and updated their original, authoritative coverage with ...
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452,09 zł |
Remaking the Nation: Identity and Politics in Latin America
ISBN: 9780415123365 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Remaking the Nation presents new ways of thinking about the nation, nationalism and national identities.
Drawing links between popular culture and indigenous movements, issues of 'race' and gender, and ideologies of national identity, the authors draw on their work in Latin America to illustrate their retheorisation of the politics of nationalism. This engaging exploration of contemporary politics in a postmodern, post new-world-order uncovers a map of future political organisation, a world of pluri-nations and ethnicised identities in the ever-changing struggle for... Remaking the Nation presents new ways of thinking about the nation, nationalism and national identities.
Drawing links between popular cu... |
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259,80 zł |
climates and weather explained
ISBN: 9780415125192 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This study integrates climatology and meteorology to present an introduction to the study of the atmosphere. Explanations of basic principles, concepts and processes are supported by illustrations and case studies demonstrating the relevance of weather and climate to issues in ordinary life - skin cancer, crop growth, weather forecasting, air pollution. Focussing particularly on the Southern hemisphere, the authors insights into topcal environmental concerns including: climate change, global warming, hazards, sustainable population, environmental degradation, agriculture and drought. The...
This study integrates climatology and meteorology to present an introduction to the study of the atmosphere. Explanations of basic principles, concept...
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1091,37 zł |
Climates and Weather Explained
ISBN: 9780415125208 / Angielski / Inna / 1997 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This study integrates climatology and meteorology to present an introduction to the study of the atmosphere. Explanations of basic principles, concepts and processes are supported by illustrations and case studies demonstrating the relevance of weather and climate to issues in ordinary life - skin cancer, crop growth, weather forecasting, air pollution. Focussing particularly on the Southern hemisphere, the authors insights into topcal environmental concerns including: climate change, global warming, hazards, sustainable population, environmental degradation, agriculture and drought.
This study integrates climatology and meteorology to present an introduction to the study of the atmosphere. Explanations of basic principles, concept...
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389,77 zł |
Digital Places : Living with Geographic Information Technologies
ISBN: 9780415130158 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Widely used in marketing, business planning, government and legislation, Geographic Information Systems are a rapidly growing industry and their impacts are substantial. This book offers an understanding of GIS - the social impacts of the development and the ethical issues surrounding their use. It looks beyond the basic techniques to the social, economic, legal, political and ethical contexts within which GIS exist. Through clear, non-technical analysis, the author draws upon the most recent and original research in the field to offer a broad understanding of GIS and their future impacts.
Widely used in marketing, business planning, government and legislation, Geographic Information Systems are a rapidly growing industry and their impac...
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270,19 zł |
Mapping Men and Empire : Geographies of Adventure
ISBN: 9780415137713 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Adventure stories, produced and consumed in vast quantities in 18th, 19th and 20th-century Europe, narrate encounters between Europeans and the non-European world. They map both European and non-European peoples and places. Robinson Crusoe maps a white, male, Christian, middle-class adventurer - a vision for Britain - and it maps a petit-bourgeois, settled island with a white master and a black slave - a vision for British colonialism. Exotic, malleable, uncomplicated settings serve to neutralise and normalise constructs, that seem implausible in more immediately familiar, textured settings....
Adventure stories, produced and consumed in vast quantities in 18th, 19th and 20th-century Europe, narrate encounters between Europeans and the non-Eu...
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909,47 zł |
Mapping Men and Empire : Geographies of Adventure
ISBN: 9780415137720 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Adventure stories, produced and consumed in vast quantities in 18th, 19th and 20th-century Europe, narrate encounters between Europeans and the non-European world. They map both European and non-European peoples and places. Robinson Crusoe maps a white, male, Christian, middle-class adventurer - a vision for Britain - and it maps a petit-bourgeois, settled island with a white master and a black slave - a vision for British colonialism. Exotic, malleable, uncomplicated settings serve to neutralise and normalise constructs, that seem implausible in more immediately familiar, textured settings....
Adventure stories, produced and consumed in vast quantities in 18th, 19th and 20th-century Europe, narrate encounters between Europeans and the non-Eu...
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285,78 zł |
A History of Spaces : Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World
ISBN: 9780415144971 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book provides an insight into the practices and ideas of maps and map-making. It draws on a wide range of social theorists, and theorists of cartography, to show how maps and map-making have shaped the spaces in which we live.
This book provides an insight into the practices and ideas of maps and map-making. It draws on a wide range of social theorists, and theorists of cart...
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909,47 zł |
A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World
ISBN: 9780415144988 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book provides an essential insight into the practices and ideas of maps and map-making. It draws on a wide range of social theorists, and theorists of maps and cartography, to show how maps and map-making have shaped the spaces in which we live.
Going beyond the focus of traditional cartography, the book draws on examples of the use of maps from the sixteenth century to the present, including their role in projects of the national and colonial state, emergent capitalism and the planetary consciousness of the natural sciences. It also considers the use of maps for military purposes,... This book provides an essential insight into the practices and ideas of maps and map-making. It draws on a wide range of social theorists, and theoris...
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259,80 zł |
Dams as Aid: A Political Anatomy of Nordic Development Thinking
ISBN: 9780415154642 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Dams As Aid brings together key issues in the aid/environment/development debate. Through her examination of dams, Usher sheds light on wider issues of the political economy of aid.
Detailed analysis of dams and aid case studies are included, particularly on Nordic dams which provide most graphic illustrations, and these detailed case studies are located within a broad comparative and theoretical perspective. Dams As Aid brings together key issues in the aid/environment/development debate. Through her examination of dams, Usher sheds light on wider...
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909,47 zł |
Ancient Meteorology
ISBN: 9780415161954 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The first book of its kind in English, Ancient Meteorology discusses Greek and Roman approaches and attitudes to this broad discipline, which in classical antiquity included not only 'weather', but occurrences such as earthquakes and comets that today would be regarded as geological, astronomical or seismological. The range and diversity of this literature highlights the question of scholarly authority in antiquity and illustrates how writers responded to the meteorological information presented by their literary predecessors. Ancient Meteorology will be a... The first book of its kind in English, Ancient Meteorology discusses Greek and Roman approaches and attitudes to this broad discipline, wh... |
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701,59 zł |
Ancient Meteorology
ISBN: 9780415161961 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Antiquity, meteorology included the study of the weather as well as the study of geological, seismological and astronomical phenomena, such as earthquakes and comets. This book explores Greek and Roman approaches and attitudes to this broad subject. Given the importance of farming in ancient society, it is not surprising that so much was written about the prediction of the weather and how to respond to it. But meteorology was not just for farmers. Poets, philosophers and physicians were also interested, and used the subject to raise questions about the nature of the world and how we...
In Antiquity, meteorology included the study of the weather as well as the study of geological, seismological and astronomical phenomena, such as eart...
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197,43 zł |
Virtual Geographies: Bodies, Space and Relations
ISBN: 9780415168274 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book examines the interrelationship between telecommunications and tourism in shaping the nature of space, place and the urban at the end of the twentieth century. They discuss how these agents are instrumental in the production of homogenous world-spaces, and how htese, in turn, presuppose new kinds of political and cultural identity.
Virtual Geographies explores how new communication technologies are being used to produce new geographies and new types of space. Leading contributors from a wide range of disciplines including geography, sociology, philosophy and literature:... This book examines the interrelationship between telecommunications and tourism in shaping the nature of space, place and the urban at the end of the ...
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935,46 zł |
Virtual Geographies: Bodies, Space and Relations
ISBN: 9780415168281 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Exploring the possibilities and dangers brought by the revolution in communication technologies, this text outlines how these technologies are being used to produce new geographies and new types of space. The contributors reveal that new communication technologies open up whole new vistas. Leading contributors drawn from a wide range of disciplines including geography, sociology, English and philosophy investigate how particular visions of cyberspace have been constructed and articulated through the influence of literature and gender, and how the experience of online interaction is expressed....
Exploring the possibilities and dangers brought by the revolution in communication technologies, this text outlines how these technologies are being u...
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285,78 zł |
Fundamentals of Soils
ISBN: 9780415170048 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Presents an introduction to soils and the workings of soil systems. Starting with an introduction to the nature of soils, what soil is and the basic character of soil systems the book goes on to look at: soil properties; soil processes; controls on soil formation; soil classification; world soils; soil patterns; and soil degredation. Including end of chapter summaries, essay questions and guides for further reading, the book provides an introduction for students to all the key areas of this aspect of physical geography.
Presents an introduction to soils and the workings of soil systems. Starting with an introduction to the nature of soils, what soil is and the basic c...
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935,46 zł |
Fundamentals of Soils
ISBN: 9780415170055 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Presents an introduction to soils and the workings of soil systems. Starting with an introduction to the nature of soils, what soil is and the basic character of soil systems the book goes on to look at: soil properties; soil processes; controls on soil formation; soil classification; world soils; soil patterns; and soil degredation. Including end of chapter summaries, essay questions and guides for further reading, the book provides an introduction for students to all the key areas of this aspect of physical geography.
Presents an introduction to soils and the workings of soil systems. Starting with an introduction to the nature of soils, what soil is and the basic c...
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249,41 zł |
Introductory Remote Sensing Principles and Concepts
ISBN: 9780415170246 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Introduction to Remote Sensing Principles and Concepts provides a comprehensive student introduction to both the theory and application of remote sensing. This textbook
* introduces the field of remote sensing and traces its historical development and evolution * presents detailed explanations of core remote sensing principles and concepts providing the theory required for a clear understanding of remotely sensed images. * describes important remote sensing platforms - including Landsat, SPOT and NOAA * examines and illustrates many of the applications of remotely sensed... Introduction to Remote Sensing Principles and Concepts provides a comprehensive student introduction to both the theory and application of re...
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909,47 zł |