Kategoria BISAC: Science >> Earth Sciences - Geography

• Explores the difference that space and spatiality makes to an understanding of power.
  
• Moves forward the incorporation of ideas of space into social theory.
  
• Presents a new understanding of the exercise, uses and manifestations of cultural, economic and political power in the second half of the twentieth century.
  
• Illustrated with cases and examples.

• Second edition of this popular and wide-ranging guide to studying geography.
  
• Includes contributions from many key geographers around the world.
  
• Provides answers to questions from before starting a degree course right through to further study and careers.
  
• Includes lots of practical tips for improving geographical study...

• Second edition of this popular and wide-ranging guide to studying geography.
  
• Includes contributions from many key geographers around the world.
  
• Provides answers to questions from before starting a degree course right through to further study and careers.
  
• Includes lots of practical tips for improving geographical study...

• Provides an overview of geomorphological process activity and landscape change in Britain over the past 1000 years.
  
• The range of the book is unusually broad, encompassing hillslope, valley floor and floodplain, fluvial, estuarine and coastal...

Please visit the accompanying website at: http: //www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/goudie to view sample material from both the new edition and forthcoming instructor's manual online.

• Fully updated with an entirely new chapter, and new features throughout.
  
• Now features a list of key concepts...

• The first collection to explore the contribution that geographical thinking can make to our understanding of modern Britain.
  
• Contains thirteen essays by leading scholars in the geography and history of twentieth-century Britain.
  
• Focuses on how and why geographies of Britain have formed and changed over the past century.
  
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• A guide to GIS for students of human geography.
  
• Outlines the distinct approaches to inquiry employed in GIS and illustrates their relevance for human geographers.
  
• Traces the history of GIS and human geography from 1970 to the present.
  
• Illustrates the challenges of data collection, classification in the context of multiple stakeholders and epistemological...

• Brings together the most important research contributions to economic geography.
  
• Editorial commentary makes the material accessible for students.
  
• The editors are highly respected in their field.

Though biogeography may be simply defined--the study of the geographic distributions of organisms--the subject itself is extraordinarily complex, involving a range of scientific disciplines and a bewildering diversity of approaches. For convenience, biogeographers have recognized two research traditions: ecological biogeography and historical biogeography.

This book makes sense of the profound revolution that historical biogeography has undergone in the last two decades, and of the resulting confusion over its foundations, basic concepts, methods, and relationships to other...

This remarkable volume presents a panorama of geographical writings from Hesiod to Humboldt, from the beginnings of geographical thought in the Western world to the emergence of topical specialization. It includes a wealth of material from non-Western sources, particularly Moslem and Chinese, that has not been collected before.

The selections are arranged chronologically, and contain geographical theory, descriptions of terrestrial phenomena by early observers, and excerpts from major voyages of discovery. Some are obvious classics: Socrates on the nature of the Earth, Ezekiel's...