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Urban Geography Set
ISBN: 9780415419345 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Routledge Library Editions: The City reprints some of the most important works in urban studies published in the last century. For further information on this collection please email info.research@routledge.co.uk.
Routledge Library Editions: The City reprints some of the most important works in urban studies published in the last century. For further infor... |
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4372,04 |
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Cities, Nationalism and Democratization
ISBN: 9780415419475 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cities, Nationalism, and Democratization provides a theoretically informed, practice-oriented account of intercultural conflict and co-existence in cities. Bollens uses a wide-ranging set of over 100 interviews with local political and community leaders to investigate how popular urban policies can trigger 'pushes from below' that help nation-states address social and political challenges. The book brings the city and the urban scale into contemporary debates about democratic transformations in ethnically diverse countries. It connects the city, on conceptual and pragmatic levels, to two...
Cities, Nationalism, and Democratization provides a theoretically informed, practice-oriented account of intercultural conflict and co-existence in ci...
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461,44 |
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Spatial Divisions of Labor
ISBN: 9780415912969 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Debate still rages over some of the questions Doreen Massey provoked in the classic first edition of Spatial Divisions of Labor, such as the nature of theory, the importance of contingency and uniqueness, and the relationship of Marxism. This second edition addresses these controversies, and also reflects on other debates which have taken place over the last decade. It contains a new first chapter and a lengthy additional concluding essay in which Massey takes up the issues of the book's relation to Marxism, its position on explanation, its argument about the...
Debate still rages over some of the questions Doreen Massey provoked in the classic first edition of Spatial Divisions of Labor, suc...
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213,70 |
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Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World
ISBN: 9780415935777 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a new edition of the classic examination of major philosophical, ethical, scientific and economic roots of environmental problems which examines the ways that radical ecologists can transform science and society in order to sustain life on this planet. It features a new Introduction from the author, a thorough updating of chapters, and two entirely new chapters on recent Global Movements and Globalization and the Environment.
This is a new edition of the classic examination of major philosophical, ethical, scientific and economic roots of environmental problems which examin...
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777,25 |
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Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World
ISBN: 9780415935784 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a new edition of the classic examination of major philosophical, ethical, scientific and economic roots of environmental problems which examines the ways that radical ecologists can transform science and society in order to sustain life on this planet. It features a new Introduction from the author, a thorough updating of chapters, and two entirely new chapters on recent Global Movements and Globalization and the Environment.
This is a new edition of the classic examination of major philosophical, ethical, scientific and economic roots of environmental problems which examin...
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194,26 |
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American Commodities in an Age of Empire
ISBN: 9780415945714 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a novel interpretation of the relationship between consumerism, commercialism, and imperialism during the first empire building era of America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Unlike other empires in history, which were typically built on military power, the first American empire was primarily a commercial one, dedicated to pushing products overseas and dominating foreign markets. While the American government was important, it was the great capitalist firms of America - Heinz, Singer, McCormick, Kodak, Standard Oil - that drove the imperial process, explicitly...
This is a novel interpretation of the relationship between consumerism, commercialism, and imperialism during the first empire building era of America...
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728,68 |
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American Commodities in an Age of Empire
ISBN: 9780415945721 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a novel interpretation of the relationship between consumerism, commercialism, and imperialism during the first empire building era of America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Unlike other empires in history, which were typically built on military power, the first American empire was primarily a commercial one, dedicated to pushing products overseas and dominating foreign markets. While the American government was important, it was the great capitalist firms of America a " Heinz, Singer, McCormick, Kodak, Standard Oil a " that drove the imperial process,...
This is a novel interpretation of the relationship between consumerism, commercialism, and imperialism during the first empire building era of America...
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145,69 |
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Rural Development Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780415957649 / Angielski / Twarda / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book critically analyzes key concepts associated with rural development policy and practice. Using the notion of rhetoric and reality, it makes sense of rural development and identifies the intricacies associated with rural development policy and practice, locating gaps and ensuing challenges. This book critically analyzes key concepts associated with rural development policy and practice. Using the notion of rhetoric and reality, it make... |
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728,68 |
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Geosystems Today: An Interactive Casebook
ISBN: 9780471195986 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An active approach to learning the basics of geosystems Geosystems Today: An Interactive Casebook provides a comprehensive introduction to the field using a more engaging format that promotes active learning.
An active approach to learning the basics of geosystems Geosystems Today: An Interactive Casebook provides a comprehensive introduction to the field u...
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362,81 |
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Geography and Refugees: Patterns and Processes of Change
ISBN: 9780471944812 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provides a much-needed perspective on the geopolitical, economic and social consequences of refugees, drawing out key global themes and illustrating them with empirical and comparative material. The first section (of three) deals with the background of the refugee crisis; its effects in the countries of first asylum, predominantly in the poorer countries of the south''; and the new challenges facing governments and migrants in the richer countries of the north''. Prospects for future research on refugees by geographers and social scientists as well as its rising significance for economic...
Provides a much-needed perspective on the geopolitical, economic and social consequences of refugees, drawing out key global themes and illustrating t...
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1769,02 |
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Ethnicity and Development: Geographical Perspectives
ISBN: 9780471963547 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Development has traditionally been seen as an economic process, but recent approaches emphasize social, political and cultural aspects, which have raised the question development for whom?. This book concentrates on the ethnic factors that affect development. The contributors provide a thorough examination of the ethnic dimension in the human geography of development within a theoretical framework. Case studies are included from Africa, Latin America and Asia which illustrate the role of ethnicity in the development process.
Development has traditionally been seen as an economic process, but recent approaches emphasize social, political and cultural aspects, which have rai...
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1513,34 |
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The New Europe: Economy, Society and Environment
ISBN: 9780471971238 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Elaborating on an updating the material covered in his bestselling Western Europe, David Pinder now addresses the whole of Europe--east and west--in this peerless analysis of contemporary European issues and their geographical consequences.
Elaborating on an updating the material covered in his bestselling Western Europe, David Pinder now addresses the whole of Europe--east and west--in t...
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362,81 |
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Modern Transport Geography
ISBN: 9780471977773 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book should be in the library of every transportation researcher. Ronald Sheck Intermodal and guideway research program director, Center for Urban Transportation Research, University of Florida There is no escape from transport. By sea, air, road or rail, we rely on transport to connect individuals, businesses and cities. At a time when deregulation and privatization are becoming global trends and concerns grow about sustainability, what is the future of transport for the 21st Century? The best-selling first edition of Modern Transport Geography provided a topical transport textbook,...
This book should be in the library of every transportation researcher. Ronald Sheck Intermodal and guideway research program director, Center for Urba...
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495,76 |
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Culture and Global Change: Social Perceptions of Deforestation in the Lacandona Rain Forest in Mexico
ISBN: 9780472083480 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Never before in history have humans had such power over the environment as we have today, and never before have we been so close to the end of nature. With the destruction of the earth a realistic possibility, global change is the point on which theoretical discussions and practical challenges must converge.
The authors of this compelling book argue that before suitable solutions can be found to pressing environmental problems, we need a way to gather information on the human dimensions of global changes. How do small and everyday individual actions add up to the intricate networks of... Never before in history have humans had such power over the environment as we have today, and never before have we been so close to the end of nature....
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112,25 |
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Hindu Places of Pilgrimage in India: A Study in Cultural Geography
ISBN: 9780520049512 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Dr. Bhardwaj's in-depth study of the various aspects of the institution of pilgrimage shows that instead of being a simple practice it has been a gigantic phenomenon affecting all aspects of Indian life. . . integrating diverse forces, various cults, and numerous traditions over the ages."--Asian Student "This is the best general survey of a major religion's total pilgrimage system and the best intensive investigation of one of its subsystems. . . . Dr. Bhardwaj's book is an important step towards the recognition of a social phenomenon which has for millennia played a crucial role in...
"Dr. Bhardwaj's in-depth study of the various aspects of the institution of pilgrimage shows that instead of being a simple practice it has been a gig...
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176,32 |
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Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana
ISBN: 9780520219854 / Angielski / Miękka / 361 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rockets roar into space--bearing roughly half the world's commercial satellites--from the same South American coastal rainforest where convicts once did time on infamous Devil's Island. What makes Space in the Tropics enthralling is anthropologist Peter Redfield's ability to draw from these two disparate European projects in French Guiana a gleaming web of ideas about the intersections of nature and culture. In comparing the Franco-European Ariane rocket program with the earlier penal experiment, Redfield connects the myth of Robinson Crusoe, nineteenth-century prison reform, the...
Rockets roar into space--bearing roughly half the world's commercial satellites--from the same South American coastal rainforest where convicts once d...
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153,41 |
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Ideology and Landscape in Historical Perspective: Essays on the Meanings of Some Places in the Past
ISBN: 9780521024709 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Landscapes of material are also landscapes of meaning: praxis is itself symbolic, and all landscapes are symbolic in practice. Ideology and Landscape in Historical Perspective draws together fifteen historical geographers to examine landscapes as messages to be decoded, and as signs to be deciphered. The range of examples is wide in terms of period, from the medieval to the modern, and of place, embracing the United States, Canada, Palestine, Israel, South Africa, India, Singapore, France and Germany. Each essay addresses a specific problem, but collectively they are principally concerned...
Landscapes of material are also landscapes of meaning: praxis is itself symbolic, and all landscapes are symbolic in practice. Ideology and Landscape ...
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325,67 |
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Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China
ISBN: 9780521027762 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Challenging the conventional wisdom of Western environmental historians, this book examines the correlations between economic and environmental changes in the southern imperial Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi (a region historically known as Lingnan, "South of the Mountains") from 1400 to 1850. Marks discusses the impact of population growth on land use patterns, the agro-ecology, and deforestation; the commercialization of agriculture and its implications; the impact of climatic change on agriculture; and the ways in which the human population responded to environmental...
Challenging the conventional wisdom of Western environmental historians, this book examines the correlations between economic and environmental change...
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189,98 |
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Islands, Islanders and the World: The Colonial and Post-Colonial Experience of Eastern Fiji
ISBN: 9780521030083 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a book about Fiji, a country whose recent political instability can be traced directly to its distinctive colonial and post-colonial experience. For one particular region of Fiji, the authors examine the environmental, social, and economic aspects of this experience, at scales ranging from national and regional to island, village, and household. The authors explore in depth the inter-relations among the island landscape, the cultural geography of the islanders, and the intrusive values and opportunties of the market economy.
This is a book about Fiji, a country whose recent political instability can be traced directly to its distinctive colonial and post-colonial experienc...
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248,78 |
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Islands, Islanders and the World: The Colonial and Post-Colonial Experience of Eastern Fiji
ISBN: 9780521268776 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a book about Fiji, a country whose recent political instability can be traced directly to its distinctive colonial and post-colonial experience. For one particular region of Fiji, the authors examine the environmental, social, and economic aspects of this experience, at scales ranging from national and regional to island, village, and household. The authors explore in depth the inter-relations among the island landscape, the cultural geography of the islanders, and the intrusive values and opportunties of the market economy.
This is a book about Fiji, a country whose recent political instability can be traced directly to its distinctive colonial and post-colonial experienc...
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530,94 |
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