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Fundamentals of Soils
ISBN: 9780415170055 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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251,80 zł |
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Introductory Remote Sensing Principles and Concepts
ISBN: 9780415170246 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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918,20 zł |
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Applied Geography : Principles and Practice
ISBN: 9780415182683 / Angielski / Twarda / 664 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Applied Geography offers an invaluable introduction to useful research in physical, environmental and human geography and provides a new focus and reference point for investigating and understanding problem-orientated research. Forty-nine leading experts in the field introduce and explore research which crosses the traditional boundary between physical and human geography. A wide range of key issues and contemporary debates are within the books main sections, which cover:
natural and environmental hazards environmental change and management challenges of the human... Applied Geography offers an invaluable introduction to useful research in physical, environmental and human geography and provides a new focu...
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944,43 zł |
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Embodied Geographies
ISBN: 9780415184397 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Embodied Geographies provides a comprehensive account of different types of life crises which develop our identities and affect how we live our lives. Chapters focus on:
* pregnancy, childbirth, teenagers and parenthood * migration * the threat and reality of violence * illness and disability * bereavement, the ensuing family responsibilities and death itself. It includes case studies from the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada and the USA. Embodied Geographies provides a comprehensive account of different types of life crises which develop our identities and affect how we live o...
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970,67 zł |
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Introductory Remote Sensing Principles and Concepts
ISBN: 9780415189613 / Angielski / Mixed media product / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Introduction to Remote Sensing: Digital Image Processing and Applications presents a unique textbook/CD-ROM package. It explains how digital images can be processed and offers practical hands-on experience of image processing. This package, which is ideal for student self-study, institutional or library purchase, shows how digital images can be processed to maximize information output and discusses a range of environmental monitoring techniques. A range of case studies are explored, drawn from a variety of disciplines and from across the world. The book also includes a practical...
Introduction to Remote Sensing: Digital Image Processing and Applications presents a unique textbook/CD-ROM package. It explains how digital ...
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865,74 zł |
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Introductory Remote Sensing Principles and Concepts
ISBN: 9780415196468 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text provides a comprehensive introduction to both the theory and application of remote sensing, unravelling the complexities of this field of science. The book addresses four key questions: what is remote sensing?; what principles govern remote sensing?; how is remote sensing data obtained?; and what are the applications of remote sensing?
This text provides a comprehensive introduction to both the theory and application of remote sensing, unravelling the complexities of this field of sc...
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309,51 zł |
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Consumer Society and the Post-Modern City
ISBN: 9780415205153 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fact that we inhabit a consumer society has incredibly far-reaching implications. Working through the often controversial ideas of the consumer society's most influential theorists, Jean Baudrillard and Zygmunt Bauman, this book assesses the ways in which consumerism is reshaping the nature and meaning of the city. It examines the nature of consumption and its increasing centrality to post-modern society by;
*considering the development of consumerism as a central facet of social life *demonstrating that social inequalities are increasingly structured around... The fact that we inhabit a consumer society has incredibly far-reaching implications. Working through the often controversial ideas of the consumer so...
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230,81 zł |
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Rural Poverty : Marginalisation and Exclusion in Britain and the United States
ISBN: 9780415205948 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rural Poverty moves beyond the highly visual forms of poverty characteristic of the city, to explore the nature of poverty in rural spaces of Britain and America. The book sets out the key features of poverty in rural areas and highlights the important processes that act to hide key components of rural poverty. The book seeks to challenge dominant assumptions about the spatialities of poverty and the nature of rural spaces in Britain and America. Drawing on a broad range of new research material, it provides a comprehensive and critical review of the nature of poverty in rural spaces....
Rural Poverty moves beyond the highly visual forms of poverty characteristic of the city, to explore the nature of poverty in rural spaces of Britain ...
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708,33 zł |
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Thinking Through the Environment: A Reader
ISBN: 9780415211727 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This reader brings together material from ecological thought, environmental policy, environmental philosophy, social and political thought, historical sociology and cultural studies. The extracts tell the story of the way the natural environment has been understood in the modern world and how this has recently been questioned as contemporary societies are seen as characterized by uncertainty and complexity. The literature guides the reader through the conventional grounds for thinking about rights and obligations in relation to future generations, non-human animals and the biotic...
This reader brings together material from ecological thought, environmental policy, environmental philosophy, social and political thought, historical...
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325,25 zł |
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Coastal Systems
ISBN: 9780415213011 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The coast represents the crossroads between the oceans, lands and atmosphere, and all three contribute to the physiscal and ecological evolution of coastlines. Coasts are dynamic systems, with identifiable inputs and outputs of energy and material. Changes in input force coasts to respond, often in dramatic ways. Almost half the worlds human population lives at the coast, and here people interfere with nature, usually with unforseen and unwanted consequences. Contemporary research is attempting to understand natural coastal processes, so that we may better appreciate and manage this unique...
The coast represents the crossroads between the oceans, lands and atmosphere, and all three contribute to the physiscal and ecological evolution of co...
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918,20 zł |
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Applied Geography : Principles and Practice
ISBN: 9780415214193 / Angielski / Miękka / 660 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Applied Geography" offers an invaluabel introduction to useful research in physical, environmental and human geography and provides a new focus and reference point for investigating and understanding problem-orientated research.
"Applied Geography" offers an invaluabel introduction to useful research in physical, environmental and human geography and provides a new focus and r...
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482,65 zł |
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Population Mobility and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia and North America
ISBN: 9780415224307 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on the four New World countries - Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States - this volume explores key themes and issues in indigenous mobility. In each of these countries, indigenous peoples share a common historical experience of population decline as a consequence of colonization by non-indigenes, followed by a period of recuperation, and more recently, rapid growth under regimes of welfare colonialism. In discussing this, the contributions draw out the commonalities and differences in the experience of the four countries. The book should be of interest to scholars and...
Focusing on the four New World countries - Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States - this volume explores key themes and issues in indige...
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199,33 zł |
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Cities for the New Millennium
ISBN: 9780415231831 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Worldwide there is a renewed interest in the form, nature and management of cities. There is a pressing need to review and create new and different forms of city to respond to future demands and use. This book brings together key issues through a series of edited essays from architects, planners and academics. Cities in the New Millennium looks at architecture in the early 21st century as a force for regenerating the culture of cities and the possibilities offered by technical progress for improving cities in the light of increasing concern for a sustainable human environment.
Worldwide there is a renewed interest in the form, nature and management of cities. There is a pressing need to review and create new and different fo...
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456,42 zł |
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Housing Development : Theory, Process and Practice
ISBN: 9780415234320 / Angielski / Twarda / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Housing Development brings together information on housing production, housing provision and the housing environment, highlighting the theoretical and policy contexts in which housing development takes place as an integrated process. Previously, knowledge about housing has been available only from widely disparate sources focused on the traditional disciplines of construction, design, building control, planning, economics, sociology and psychology, leaving scope for a fresh holistic overview of how the separate inputs into the housing development process actually interact in practice.
Housing Development brings together information on housing production, housing provision and the housing environment, highlighting the theoretical and...
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655,86 zł |
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Housing Development: Theory, Process and Practice
ISBN: 9780415234337 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Previously knowledge about housing has been available only from widely disparate sources focused on the traditional disciplines of construction, design, building control, planning, economics, sociology and psychology, leaving scope for a fresh holistic overview of how the separate inputs into the housing development process actually interact in practice. Housing Development brings together information on housing production, housing provision and the housing environment, highlighting the theoretical and policy contexts in which housing development takes place as an integrated...
Previously knowledge about housing has been available only from widely disparate sources focused on the traditional disciplines of construction, desig...
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194,08 zł |
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Community Participation and Geographical Information Systems
ISBN: 9780415237529 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Have you ever considered how much effect information technology has on society throughout the world? Progress often places lower income and marginalized communities at a distinct disadvantage. Community Participation and Geographic Information Systems, however, offers a detailed look at numerous incidences around the world where communities have actually taken control of the technology and really used it to their advantage. This is presented in the form of case studies and models such as Philadelphia's neighborhoods, the Atlanta Project, and neighborhood revitalization in Minneapolis, reflect...
Have you ever considered how much effect information technology has on society throughout the world? Progress often places lower income and marginaliz...
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918,20 zł |
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New Models in Geog V 1
ISBN: 9780415239653 / Angielski / Miękka / 365 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing surveys of recent trends in theory, bibliographic guides to the literature, and pointers to advances and frontiers in thinking, the books range from cultural to economic to urban geography. The authors explore connections between political economy and geographic thought in each area, with the emphasis lying on the processes of material production and social reproduction.
This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk. Providing surveys of recent trends in theory, bibliographic guides to the literature, and pointers to advances and frontiers in thinking, the books ra...
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283,28 zł |
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GIS in Land and Property Management
ISBN: 9780415240659 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Economists, geographers and surveyors are beginning to recognise the powerful tool which a Geographical Information System (GIS) offers in effective property management. It provides a means of managing land and property information digitally and in a geographical context, and allows for rapid access to information and a means of analysing that information in a geographical context.
Economists, geographers and surveyors are beginning to recognise the powerful tool which a Geographical Information System (GIS) offers in effective p...
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456,42 zł |
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Service Worlds : People, Organisations, Technologies
ISBN: 9780415247870 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the 21st century begins, significant changes are occurring in the way that services and goods are produced and consumed. One of the key drivers of this change is information and communications technology (ICT). It has transformed the role of space and time in patterns of economic development, in the rise of globalization and in the scale and structure of organizations. ICT has therefore accelerated the process of continual change and evolution that is the hallmark of both the capitalist economy and of organizations. Technological innovation has stimulated the introduction of new forms of...
As the 21st century begins, significant changes are occurring in the way that services and goods are produced and consumed. One of the key drivers of ...
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262,29 zł |
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Rethinking Development Geographies
ISBN: 9780415250788 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Development as a concept is notoriously imprecise, vague and presumptuous. Struggles over the meaning of this fiercely contested term have had profound implications on the destinies of people and places across the globe. Rethinking Development Geographies offers a stimulating and critical introduction to the study of geography and development. In doing so, it sets out to explore the spatiality of development thinking and practices.
The book highlights the geopolitical nature of development and its origins in Empire and the Cold War. It also reflects critically on the historical... Development as a concept is notoriously imprecise, vague and presumptuous. Struggles over the meaning of this fiercely contested term have had profoun...
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944,43 zł |
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