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The Countryside Ideal: Anglo-American Images of Landscape
ISBN: 9780415104357 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. God made the country, man made the town.'
William Cowper's words, written two centuries ago, underline an idealisation of rural life and landscape which persists to this day. What are the main historical processes and ideas underlying the continuing attachment to the countryside? How have these shaped popular values and lifestyles influenced artistic expression, defined attitudes to nature, country life and 8andscape, and affected the development of both rural and urban landscapes? What are the consequences for society and the environment? These are the central... God made the country, man made the town.'
William Cowper's words, written two centuries ago, underline an idealisation of rural l... |
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288,53 zł |
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Writing Across Worlds: Literature and Migration
ISBN: 9780415105293 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. International migration has long been a dominant feature of world literature from both post-industrial and developing countries. The increasing demands of the global economic system and continued political instability in many of the world's region have highlighted this shifting map of the world's peoples.
Yet, political concern for the larger scale economic and social impact of migration has effectively obscured the nature of the migratory nature of the migratory experience itself, the emotions and practicalities of departure, travel, arrival and the attempt to rebuild a... International migration has long been a dominant feature of world literature from both post-industrial and developing countries. The increasing demand...
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970,67 zł |
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Writing the City: Eden, Babylon and the New Jerusalem
ISBN: 9780415106672 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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970,67 zł |
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A Geography of the Third World
ISBN: 9780415106726 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The label of "Third World" covers half the land surface and three quarters of the population of the planet. The problems and potential of this region and its peoples are attracting increasing concern and interest.
Fully revised and updated this edition includes: * a wealth of photographic and line illustrations * boxed case studies * chapter summaries * guides to further reading Issues of increasing concern at the end of the twentieth century are fully addressed - for example, the widening gap in economic performance between countries in the Third world and the assertion of... The label of "Third World" covers half the land surface and three quarters of the population of the planet. The problems and potential of this region ...
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1023,14 zł |
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Geography of the World's Major Regions
ISBN: 9780415117432 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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194,08 zł |
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Population and Food: Global Trends and Future Prospects
ISBN: 9780415119740 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Population and Food examines recent trends in food production and assesses the prospects for feeding humanity in the twenty-first century. With case studies from throughout the developed and developing world, the book suggests that food production in most world regions has kept ahead of population growth, that future food production prospects are encouraging, and that in all probability the people of the world will be better fed in the twenty-first than in the twentieth century.
Population and Food examines recent trends in food production and assesses the prospects for feeding humanity in the twenty-first century. Wi...
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629,62 zł |
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Population and Food: Global Trends and Future Prospects
ISBN: 9780415119757 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Population and Food examines recent trends in food production and assesses the prospects for feeding humanity in the twenty-first century. With case studies from throughout the developed and developing world, the book suggests that food production in most world regions has kept ahead of population growth, that future food production prospects are encouraging, and that in all probability the people of the world will be better fed in the twenty-first than in the twentieth century.
Population and Food examines recent trends in food production and assesses the prospects for feeding humanity in the twenty-first century. Wi...
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173,09 zł |
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Doctrines of Development
ISBN: 9780415125154 / Angielski / Twarda / 572 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text examines the history of the idea of development, and doctrines governments have employed to practice development policy. Beginning with the 19th century invention of modern development, the authors discuss Karl Marx's early critique of development and the creation of the notion of underdevelopment. They argue that trusteeship, the intent of one to act on behalf of another is the prime force behind all development doctrine and claim that little has changed since early industrial capitalism.
This text examines the history of the idea of development, and doctrines governments have employed to practice development policy. Beginning with the ...
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944,43 zł |
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climates and weather explained
ISBN: 9780415125192 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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1101,84 zł |
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In Pursuit of Science and Technology in Sub-Saharan Africa
ISBN: 9780415126892 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume examines the progress of sub-Saharan African countries in advancing science and technology in the context of the structural adjustment programmes they have undertaken. It looks at the pursuit of science and technology both before and after structural adjustment programmes have been attempted in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. The efficiency with which the research and development has been carried out, the transferability of scientific and technical resources from one activity to another and the directions in which advances are channelled are discussed, and the institutions...
This volume examines the progress of sub-Saharan African countries in advancing science and technology in the context of the structural adjustment pro...
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813,27 zł |
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Digital Places : Living with Geographic Information Technologies
ISBN: 9780415130158 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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272,78 zł |
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Mapping Men and Empire : Geographies of Adventure
ISBN: 9780415137713 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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918,20 zł |
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Mapping Men and Empire : Geographies of Adventure
ISBN: 9780415137720 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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288,53 zł |
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A History of Nature Conservation in Britain
ISBN: 9780415144926 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our attitudes towards nature' and the countryside are fickle. The conservation movement, despite enjoying its highest membership ever, has achieved only limited success over the last one hundred years of campaigning. Can conservationists now shake off their insular, disunited and negative image so as to gain the influence that the size of their movement warrants?
A History of Nature Conservation in Britain traces the rise of the conservation movement from its beginnings in Victorian coffee houses to today's societies with their membership numbering in the millions. The first... Our attitudes towards nature' and the countryside are fickle. The conservation movement, despite enjoying its highest membership ever, has achieved on...
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403,96 zł |
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A History of Spaces : Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World
ISBN: 9780415144971 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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918,20 zł |
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A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World
ISBN: 9780415144988 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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262,29 zł |
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Gender, Ethnicity and Place : Women and Identity in Guyana
ISBN: 9780415150040 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text is concerned with the nature of the relationship between gender, ethnicity and poverty in the context of the external and internal dynamics of the household in Guyana. Using detailed data collected from male and female respondents in three separate locations, two urban and one rural, and across two major ethnic groups, Afro-Guyanese and Indo-Guyanese, the authors discuss the links between gender and race, exploring development issues from a feminist perspective.
This text is concerned with the nature of the relationship between gender, ethnicity and poverty in the context of the external and internal dynamics ...
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708,33 zł |
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Virtual Geographies: Bodies, Space and Relations
ISBN: 9780415168274 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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944,43 zł |
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Virtual Geographies: Bodies, Space and Relations
ISBN: 9780415168281 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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288,53 zł |
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Fundamentals of Soils
ISBN: 9780415170048 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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944,43 zł |
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