Mapping Cyberspace is a ground-breaking geographic exploration and critical reading of cyberspace, and information and communication technologies. The book: * provides an understanding of what cyberspace looks like and the social interactions that occur there * explores the impacts of cyberspace, and information and communication technologies, on cultural, political and economic relations * charts the spatial forms of virutal spaces * details empirical research and examines a wide variety of maps and spatialisations of cyberspace and the information society * has a...
Mapping Cyberspace is a ground-breaking geographic exploration and critical reading of cyberspace, and information and communication technolo...
Space is central to our lives. Because of this, much attention is directed at understanding and explaining the geographic world. This text extends this analysis to provide a geographic exploration and critical reading of cyberspace and information and communication technologies. The author provides an understanding of what cyberspace looks like and the social interactions that take place there and explores the impacts of cyberspace - information and communication technologies - on cultural, political and economic relations.
Space is central to our lives. Because of this, much attention is directed at understanding and explaining the geographic world. This text extends thi...
Brings together international academics from a variety of disciplines to explore the topic of spatial cognition on a geographic scale. It provides an overview of the historical origins of the subject, a description of current debates and suggests directions for future research.
Brings together international academics from a variety of disciplines to explore the topic of spatial cognition on a geographic scale. It provides an ...
The 1990s saw geography transformed by an astonishing range of cultural and philosophical concepts and approaches. This book is designed for students as an accessible introduction to this landscape of geographical ideas. It takes the reader through the history of geographic thought up to a survey of the present. Contemporary theory is then used to explore real world issues drawn from across the discipline of social, cultural, political and economic geography. With examples and profiles of key theorists, the book is designed as an introduction for any student who wants to discover the...
The 1990s saw geography transformed by an astonishing range of cultural and philosophical concepts and approaches. This book is designed for students ...
Thinking Geographically offers students and faculty alike an elegant, concise, and thorough overview of contemporary theoretical concerns in geography. Easily accessible to those unfamiliar with social theory, this volume "pushes the envelope" of understanding by sketching the contours of post-structuralist spatial thought, including such critical emerging topics as geographies of text, the body, money, and globalisation. Brief biographies of influential theorists demonstrate how ideas are embodied and personified. This volume is highly useful for courses in human geography, the history...
Thinking Geographically offers students and faculty alike an elegant, concise, and thorough overview of contemporary theoretical concerns in geogra...
Science fiction - one of the most popular literary, cinematic and televisual genres - has received increasing academic attention in recent years. For many theorists science fiction opens up a space in which the here-and-now can be made strange or remade; where virtual reality and cyborg are no longer gimmicks or predictions, but new spaces and subjects.
Lost in space brings together an international collection of authors to explore the diverse geographies of spaceexploring imagination, nature, scale, geopolitics, modernity, time, identity, the body, power relations and the...
Science fiction - one of the most popular literary, cinematic and televisual genres - has received increasing academic attention in recent years. F...
..".includes important points such as reading the proofs, preparing indexes...every researcher can find some useful information in this textbook." --PHOTOSYNTHETICA
This definitive guide to successfully publishing social science research demonstrates that completing a project is only the first phase of research. Dissemination is the second phase, and it requires specific skills and knowledge.
The Academics' Guide to Publishing explains the different ways in which research can be disseminated: in journals, books, reports, the Internet, popular media,...
..".includes important points such as reading the proofs, preparing indexes...every researcher can find some useful information in this textbook."...
"An essential synopsis of essential readings that every human geographer must read. It is highly recommended for those just embarking on their careers as well as those who need a reminder of how and why geography moved from the margins of social thought to its very core." --Barney Warf, Florida State University
"Key Texts in Human Geography will surely become a 'key text' itself. Read any chapter and you will want to compare it with another. Before you realize, an afternoon is gone and then you are tracking down the...
"An essential synopsis of essential readings that every human geographer must read. It is highly recommended for those just embarking on their ...
"An essential synopsis of essential readings that every human geographer must read. It is highly recommended for those just embarking on their careers as well as those who need a reminder of how and why geography moved from the margins of social thought to its very core." --Barney Warf, Florida State University
"Key Texts in Human Geography will surely become a 'key text' itself. Read any chapter and you will want to compare it with another. Before you realize, an afternoon is gone and then you are tracking down the...
"An essential synopsis of essential readings that every human geographer must read. It is highly recommended for those just embarking on their ...
This engaging book looks at how humans think and behave in geographic space. The authors analyze what people know about spatial geographical relationships, and how this knowledge is used in everyday life. They synthesize a variety of perspectives from various disciplines, providing a critical appraisal of geographic space. In doing so, the authors put forth new ideas and theories concerning cognitive mapping, and outline an agenda for future research.
This engaging book looks at how humans think and behave in geographic space. The authors analyze what people know about spatial geographical relations...
