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Human Territorial Functioning: An Empirical, Evolutionary Perspective on Individual and Small Group Territorial Cognitions, Behaviors, and Consequenc
ISBN: 9780521313070 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Territorial functioning" refers to an interlocked system of sentiments, cognitions, and behaviors that are highly place-specific, and socially and culturally determined and maintaining. In this book, Ralph Taylor explores the consequences of human territorial functioning for individuals, small groups, and the ecological systems in which they operate. His exploration is illuminated by his evolutionary perspective, and grounded in empirical studies by social scientists and in theoretical work on the evolution of social and spatial behaviors. He systematically reviews the related research and...
"Territorial functioning" refers to an interlocked system of sentiments, cognitions, and behaviors that are highly place-specific, and socially and cu...
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222,56 |
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The Ends of the Earth: Perspectives on Modern Environmental History
ISBN: 9780521343657 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since 1492, when Columbus "discovered" America, the world has been moving toward an increasingly integrated global economy, higher population levels and consequently greater resource demands, and an increasingly precarious state of the biosphere. These developments play a major part in both modern history and in daily life. Understanding their interrelationships and development is crucial to the future of humanity and of the Earth, and is the unifying theme of this collection of readings.
Since 1492, when Columbus "discovered" America, the world has been moving toward an increasingly integrated global economy, higher population levels a...
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411,29 |
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The Ends of the Earth: Perspectives on Modern Environmental History
ISBN: 9780521348461 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since 1492, when Columbus "discovered" America, the world has been moving toward an increasingly integrated global economy, higher population levels and consequently greater resource demands, and an increasingly precarious state of the biosphere. These developments play a major part in both modern history and in daily life. Understanding their interrelationships and development is crucial to the future of humanity and of the Earth, and is the unifying theme of this collection of readings.
Since 1492, when Columbus "discovered" America, the world has been moving toward an increasingly integrated global economy, higher population levels a...
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153,57 |
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Ideology and Landscape in Historical Perspective: Essays on the Meanings of Some Places in the Past
ISBN: 9780521410328 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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609,18 |
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In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia
ISBN: 9780521411035 / Angielski / Twarda / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Achuar Indians of the Upper Amazon have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. The author documents their knowledge of the environment, and explains how it is interwoven with cosmological ideas that endow nature with the characteristics of society.
The Achuar Indians of the Upper Amazon have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. The author documents their knowledge of the env...
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512,54 |
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Seasonality and Human Ecology
ISBN: 9780521431477 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seasonality has effects on a wide range of human functions and activities, and is important in the understanding of human-environment relationships. In this volume, contributors including human biologists, anthropologists, physiologists and nutritionists consider many of the different ways in which seasonality influences human biology and behaviour.
Seasonality has effects on a wide range of human functions and activities, and is important in the understanding of human-environment relationships. I...
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563,16 |
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Planetary Overload
ISBN: 9780521441384 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The human species faces a new threat to its health--perhaps to its survival. Our burgeoning numbers, the spread of technology, and our conspicuous consumption are overloading Earth's capacity to replenish and repair itself. Taking a unique perspective, Planetary Overload forcefully points out the consequences to human health of ongoing degradation of Earth's ecosystems. In a broad-based, accessible analysis, A.J. McMichael examines current ecological disruptions--land degradation, ozone depletion, temperature increases, and loss of genetic diversity through the extinction of species, among...
The human species faces a new threat to its health--perhaps to its survival. Our burgeoning numbers, the spread of technology, and our conspicuous con...
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Planetary Overload: Global Environmental Change and the Health of the Human Species
ISBN: 9780521457590 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The human species faces a new threat to its health--perhaps to its survival. Our burgeoning numbers, the spread of technology, and our conspicuous consumption are overloading Earth's capacity to replenish and repair itself. Taking a unique perspective, Planetary Overload forcefully points out the consequences to human health of ongoing degradation of Earth's ecosystems. In a broad-based, accessible analysis, A.J. McMichael examines current ecological disruptions--land degradation, ozone depletion, temperature increases, and loss of genetic diversity through the extinction of species, among...
The human species faces a new threat to its health--perhaps to its survival. Our burgeoning numbers, the spread of technology, and our conspicuous con...
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218,00 |
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Understanding Australia: A Guide for International Students
ISBN: 9780521541992 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Understanding Australia is an invaluable daily guide for the large and ever increasing number of students who must survive the foreign study experience in Australia. It looks at all things an international student needs to know to succeed both academically and socially on campus. It includes advice about Australia's social, cultural and family life, the academic environment and what is expected, and the culture of Australian educational institutions. Practical advice is given about using public transport, finding accommodation, paying bills, using services and many other things to assist with...
Understanding Australia is an invaluable daily guide for the large and ever increasing number of students who must survive the foreign study experienc...
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75,08 |
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Marc Bloch, Sociology and Geography: Encountering Changing Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521561570 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The French historian Marc Bloch has often been praised for his interdisciplinary approach. This book demonstrates the importance of both Vidalian geography and Durkheimian sociology for Bloch and the significant, but often overlooked, differences between his approach and theirs. In contrast to much other work on Bloch, Professor Friedman highlights the intellectual and institutional contexts of Bloch's works, arguing that only by a careful examination of the debates in which he was involved can one begin to come to terms with the nature of his contribution.
The French historian Marc Bloch has often been praised for his interdisciplinary approach. This book demonstrates the importance of both Vidalian geog...
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503,33 |
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In the Company of Animals: A Study of Human-Animal Relationships
ISBN: 9780521577793 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the Company of Animals is an original and very readable study of human attitudes to the natural world. It contrasts the way we love some animals while ruthlessly exploiting others; it provides a detailed and fascinating account of ways in which animal companionship can influence our health; and it provides a key to understanding the moral contradictions inherent in our treatment of animals and nature. Its scope encompasses history, anthropology, and animal and human psychology. Along the way, the author uncovers a fascinating trail of insights and myths about our relationship with the...
In the Company of Animals is an original and very readable study of human attitudes to the natural world. It contrasts the way we love some animals wh...
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112,11 |
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Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China
ISBN: 9780521591775 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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530,94 |
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The City as Text: The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom
ISBN: 9780521611961 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book James Duncan convincingly argues that landscapes are not only culturally produced, but that they also influence governing ideas of political and religious life. He analyzes this dialectic relationship between landscape and the pursuit of power in the royal capital of Kandy in the central highlands of Sri Lanka during the early years of the nineteenth century and demonstrates how the Kandyan landscape was consciously produced to further the perceived interests of the Kandyan kings. Using extensive archival sources, architectural analysis and mapping, the author reveals how the...
In this book James Duncan convincingly argues that landscapes are not only culturally produced, but that they also influence governing ideas of politi...
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Marc Bloch, Sociology and Geography: Encountering Changing Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521612159 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The French historian Marc Bloch has often been praised for his interdisciplinary approach. This book demonstrates the importance of both Vidalian geography and Durkheimian sociology for Bloch and the significant, but often overlooked, differences between his approach and theirs. In contrast to much other work on Bloch, Professor Friedman highlights the intellectual and institutional contexts of Bloch's works, arguing that only by a careful examination of the debates in which he was involved can one begin to come to terms with the nature of his contribution.
The French historian Marc Bloch has often been praised for his interdisciplinary approach. This book demonstrates the importance of both Vidalian geog...
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226,16 |
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The Cultural Landscape: Past, Present and Future
ISBN: 9780521617031 / Angielski / Miękka / 540 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Considers different aspects of man's intervention with natural vegetation and the landscape resulting from a long equilibrium of co-existence.
Considers different aspects of man's intervention with natural vegetation and the landscape resulting from a long equilibrium of co-existence.
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Exploring Contemporary Migration
ISBN: 9780582251618 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of population migration in the contemporary world. The major sources of migration data and methods for description and analysis are presented, along with a summary of the various theories and patterns of migration. These are then explored in respect to movements linked to employment stage in the life course, quality of life, societal engineering, violence and persecution and cultural factors.
This is a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of population migration in the contemporary world. The major sources of migration data and methods...
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310,85 |
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Children of the Hemisphere
ISBN: 9780595373956 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Children of the Hemisphere" throws a spotlight on our practice of using the name of the New World, "America," to designate just the United States. Our country is only a part of America, stretching east to west across the northern landmass of America.
Author Suzanne Hicken shares opinions from ordinary people who live in different countries all over this hemisphere. Men and women from Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America tell of the bond they feel for the name of their home. They also voice their feelings on the practice of using the word "America" to define... "Children of the Hemisphere" throws a spotlight on our practice of using the name of the New World, "America," to designate just the United States. Ou...
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The Survival Hot List: Conquering the Seven Deadly Trends
ISBN: 9780595379583 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Civilization will not survive if we ignore "The Survival Hot List" and fail to conquer" The Seven Deadly Trends "in timely fashion.
"The Survival Hot List "is formatted in a Socratic framework, teaching through exposure to fifteen vital questions that proceed through three brief chapters. The author's answers to these questions derive from the thought of scientists, historians, and statesmen who have advocated world law. The appendices provide the reader with a rare opportunity to study "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The Charter of the United Nations, " and "The Statute... Civilization will not survive if we ignore "The Survival Hot List" and fail to conquer" The Seven Deadly Trends "in timely fashion.
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53,03 |
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The Emergence of Us
ISBN: 9780595406531 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What force compels people who are deeply concerned about the state of the earth to pollute on a daily basis?
Just as gravity affects us all regardless of whether you believe in science, spiritual laws, or the omnipotence of God, human emergent behavior works invisibly to define the character of our society. These forces are created whenever enough people come together to form a group, a society, or all of humankind. People's thoughts and actions are then subtly herded by these mechanistic forces. By becoming aware of human emergent behavior, we create the opportunity to bring... What force compels people who are deeply concerned about the state of the earth to pollute on a daily basis?
Just as gravity affects us all regardl... |
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The Problem of Nature: Environment and Culture in Historical Perspective
ISBN: 9780631190219 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work shows how historians, geographers and philosophers have invoked nature in its various manifestations - climate, topography, vegetation, wildlife and disease - as a dynamic force in human history. In particular, it shows how ideas of geographical and biological determinism have played a major part in social, historical and geographical theory and explanation, and just how problematic this invocation of nature can be.
This work shows how historians, geographers and philosophers have invoked nature in its various manifestations - climate, topography, vegetation, wild...
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199,17 |
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