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Cartographies of Danger: Mapping Hazards in America
ISBN: 9780226534190 / Angielski / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No place is perfectly safe, but some places are more dangerous than others. Whether we live on a floodplain or in "Tornado Alley," near a nuclear facility or in a neighborhood poorly lit at night, we all co-exist uneasily with natural and man-made hazards. As Mark Monmonier shows in this entertaining and immensely informative book, maps can tell us a lot about where we can anticipate certain hazards, but they can also be dangerously misleading.
California, for example, takes earthquakes seriously, with a comprehensive program of seismic mapping, whereas Washington has been comparatively... No place is perfectly safe, but some places are more dangerous than others. Whether we live on a floodplain or in "Tornado Alley," near a nuclear faci...
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182,26 zł |
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Spying with Maps: Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy
ISBN: 9780226534282 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maps, as we know, help us find our way around. But they're also powerful tools for someone hoping to find you. Widely available in electronic and paper formats, maps offer revealing insights into our movements and activities, even our likes and dislikes. In Spying with Maps, the "mapmatician" Mark Monmonier looks at the increased use of geographic data, satellite imagery, and location tracking across a wide range of fields such as military intelligence, law enforcement, market research, and traffic engineering. Could these diverse forms of geographic monitoring, he asks, lead to...
Maps, as we know, help us find our way around. But they're also powerful tools for someone hoping to find you. Widely available in electronic a...
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115,98 zł |
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Challenging Nature, 246: Local Knowledge, Agroscience, and Food Security in Tanga Region, Tanzania
ISBN: 9780226675800 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tanga Region, Tanzania, is an area of persistent rural poverty with a long history of drought, floods, food shortages, famine, and social and economic disruption. Though farmers have been cultivating the land therefor hundreds of years, they have consistently been unable to supply adequate food for the region's inhabitants. In "Challenging Nature," Philip Porter examines eighteen farming communities to understand what the farmers there know about their environment and which historical and economic factors play into the lack of food security.
Porter first began work on this project in... Tanga Region, Tanzania, is an area of persistent rural poverty with a long history of drought, floods, food shortages, famine, and social and economic...
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331,38 zł |
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The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950
ISBN: 9780226740560 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this rich and fascinating history, Susan Schulten tells a story of Americans beginning to see the world around them, tracing U.S. attitudes toward world geography from the end of nineteenth-century exploration to the explosion of geographic interest before the dawn of the Cold War. Focusing her examination on four influential institutions maps and atlases, the National Geographic Society, the American university, and public schools Schulten provides an engaging study of geography, cartography, and their place in popular culture, politics, and education.
" In this rich and fascinating history, Susan Schulten tells a story of Americans beginning to see the world around them, tracing U.S. attitudes toward ...
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165,69 zł |
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Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections
ISBN: 9780226767475 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As long as there have been maps, cartographers have grappled with the impossibility of portraying the earth in two dimensions. To solve this problem mapmakers have created hundreds of map projections, mathematical methods for drawing the round earth on a flat surface. Yet of the hundreds of existing projections, and the infinite number that are theoretically possible, none is perfectly accurate.
"Flattening the Earth" is the first detailed history of map projections since 1863. John P. Snyder discusses and illustrates the hundreds of known projections created from 500 B.C. to the present,... As long as there have been maps, cartographers have grappled with the impossibility of portraying the earth in two dimensions. To solve this problem m...
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182,26 zł |
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Maps & Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society
ISBN: 9780226799742 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this concise introduction to the history of cartography, Norman J. W. Thrower charts the intimate links between maps and history from antiquity to the present day. A wealth of illustrations, including the oldest known map and contemporary examples made using Geographical Information Systems (GIS), illuminate the many ways in which various human cultures have interpreted spatial relationships.
The third edition of "Maps and Civilization" incorporates numerous revisions, features new material throughout the book, and includes a new alphabetized bibliography. Praise for previous... In this concise introduction to the history of cartography, Norman J. W. Thrower charts the intimate links between maps and history from antiquity to ...
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176,74 zł |
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Globalization and New Geographies of Conservation
ISBN: 9780226983448 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining the geographical dimensions of environmental management and conservation activities implemented on landscapes worldwide, " Globalization and New Geographies of Conservation" creates a new framework and collects original case studies to explore recent developments in the interaction of humans and their environment.
"Globalization and New Geographies of Conservation" makes four important arguments about the recent coupling of conservation and globalization that is reshaping the place of nature in human-environmental change. First, it has led to an unprecedented number of spatial... Examining the geographical dimensions of environmental management and conservation activities implemented on landscapes worldwide, " Globalization and...
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206,96 zł |
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The Great Columbia Plain: A Historical Geography, 1805-1910
ISBN: 9780295974859 / Angielski / Miękka / 598 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dismissed in early years as a wasteland, the rolling open country that covers the interior parts of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho is today one of the richest farmlands in the nation. This work is the story of its transformation. Meinig traces all of the aspects of its development by combining geographic description with historical narrative. Dismissed in early years as a wasteland, the rolling open country that covers the interior parts of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho is today one of t... |
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125,87 zł |
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Mapping Reality: An Exploration of Cultural Cartographies
ISBN: 9780312127060 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An original and wide-ranging study of the mappings used to impose meaning on the world. MAPPING REALITY argues that maps create rather than merely represent the ground on which they rest. Distinctions between map and territory, questioned by some theorists of the postmodern, are found always to have been arbitrary. The subordination of one to the other is seen as the outcome of an ideology imposed on a more complex reality by a series of Western imperial mappings.
An original and wide-ranging study of the mappings used to impose meaning on the world. MAPPING REALITY argues that maps create rather than merely rep...
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195,42 zł |
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Japanese Geography: A Guide to Japanese Reference and Research Materials
ISBN: 9780313204340 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The intent in compiling this bibliography was to bring the attention of Western geographers and other interested scholars those geographical writings of the Japanese which have appeared in the 20th century.
The intent in compiling this bibliography was to bring the attention of Western geographers and other interested scholars those geographical writin... |
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303,77 zł |
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Maps and the Writing of Space in Early Modern England and Ireland
ISBN: 9780333779330 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maps make the world visible, but they also obscure, distort, and idealize. This wide-ranging study traces the impact of cartography on the changing cultural meanings of space. Combining cartographic history with crucial cultural studies and literary analysis, this book examines the construction of social and political space in maps, in cosmography and geography, in historical and political writing, and in he literary works of Marlowe. Shakespeare, Spenser, and Drayton.
Maps make the world visible, but they also obscure, distort, and idealize. This wide-ranging study traces the impact of cartography on the changing cu...
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586,33 zł |
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Multinationals in Latin America
ISBN: 9780415003988 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Multinational enterprises are particularly strong in Latin America and sensitive to political and economic changes there - the currently emerging debt crisis is likely to have far-ranging effects. This book considers multinationals in Latin America, both those from inside and those from outside the region, and discusses the major issues relating to them, e.g. trans-national regulation and the government/business relationships. It sets the discussions against the background of other work and theories of multinational enterprise. Novel features include the development of the author's... Multinational enterprises are particularly strong in Latin America and sensitive to political and economic changes there - the currently emerging d... |
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603,39 zł |
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Women and Development in the Third World
ISBN: 9780415016957 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For all societies, the common denominator of gender is female subordination. For women of the Third World the effects of this position are worsened by economic crisis, the legacy of colonialism, as well as patriarchal attitudes and economic crises.
Feminist critique has introduced the gender factor to development theory, arguing that the equal distribution of the benefits of economic development can only be achieved through a radical restructuring of the process of development. This important new book reviews both policy and practice in Latin America, Africa and Asia and raises... For all societies, the common denominator of gender is female subordination. For women of the Third World the effects of this position are worsened by...
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209,82 zł |
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The Changing U.S. Auto Industry: A Geographical Analysis
ISBN: 9780415055444 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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944,43 zł |
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The Changing Geography of Asia
ISBN: 9780415057080 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ranging from the poverty and exploding population of Bangladesh to the dazzling technology and ageing population of Japan, from the two most populous states of India and China to the tiny states of Singapore and the Maldives and to the emptiness of Siberia, Asia contains the greatest diversity of physical environments, cultures and levels of development of any of the continents.
Clearly illustrated with basic maps of the countries discussed, The Changing Geography of Asia presents a systematic review of twenty-five years of development, covering the physical, economic, social and... Ranging from the poverty and exploding population of Bangladesh to the dazzling technology and ageing population of Japan, from the two most populous ...
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262,29 zł |
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The Middle East
ISBN: 9780415076678 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on W.B. Fisher's book of the same name published in 1978, Ewan W. 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, Ewan W. Anderson provides a comprehensive account of the physical geography which has ...
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813,27 zł |
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Middle East: Geography and Geopolitics
ISBN: 9780415076685 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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361,98 zł |
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Towards a New Science of Health
ISBN: 9780415081719 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The foundations of health sciences need rethinking. The mechanistic biomedical model, apparently so successful in the past, is now criticised for failing to explain what health is and how it can be preserved. The world's major health problems no longer seem so controllable.
A new science of health is needed, a radical spirit of inquiry which draws on a broad knowledge base and a variety of approaches, a science which does not balk at reconceptualising health and building on innovative research. Towards a New Science of Health provides a radical alternative to current... The foundations of health sciences need rethinking. The mechanistic biomedical model, apparently so successful in the past, is now criticised for fail...
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482,65 zł |
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Place and the Politics of Identity
ISBN: 9780415090094 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the last two decades, new political subjects have been created through the actions of the new social movements; often by asserting the unfixed and overdetermined' character of identity. Further, in attempting to avoid essentialism, people have frequently looked to their territorial roots to establish their constituency. A cultural politics of resistance, as exemplified by Black politics, feminism, and gay liberation, has developed struggles to turn sites of oppression and discrimintion into spaces of resistance.
This book collects together perspectives which challenge received notions... In the last two decades, new political subjects have been created through the actions of the new social movements; often by asserting the unfixed and ...
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288,53 zł |
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The Countryside Ideal : Anglo-American Images of Landscape
ISBN: 9780415104340 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the contradictions of modern urban civilization is the persistence of a nostalgia for rural life and landscape which has raised the countryside to an idealized status. The discussion of this phenomenon is frequently restricted to the relatively narrow perspectives of literary and intellectual history. This work attempts to broaden the analysis of the countryside ideal by exploring the relationships between its cultural origins and its manifestation in contemporary landscapes.
One of the contradictions of modern urban civilization is the persistence of a nostalgia for rural life and landscape which has raised the countryside...
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944,43 zł |
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