» książki » Social Science - Human Geography
topmenu
 |
Work-Place: The Social Regulation of Labor Markets
ISBN: 9781572300446 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Challenging the prevailing idea that labor markets are governed by universal economic processes, this significant work argues instead that labor markets develop in tandem with social and political institutions, and thus function in locally specific ways. Focusing on the complex social processes that lie at the heart of the labor market--those of labor control, labor reproduction, and labor regulation--the author develops an innovative political economy approach that is sensitive to the ways these processes are locally constituted. He also demonstrates how the geographically uneven development...
Challenging the prevailing idea that labor markets are governed by universal economic processes, this significant work argues instead that labor marke...
|
cena:
199,88 |
 |
The New Regionalism
ISBN: 9781578060139 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interest in American regions has undergone a revival since the 1970s. This book presents views of key interpreters of the South, the West, New England, and the Midwest. Although they choose differing approaches and methodologies, they collectively explore the landscapes and peoples of regional cultures that long have been a significant factor in understanding American culture. The dynamic subject of regionalism fostered a popular and intellectual movement in the period between the world wars. Such notable figures as the sociologist Howard Odum, the historian Walter Prescott Webb, and the...
Interest in American regions has undergone a revival since the 1970s. This book presents views of key interpreters of the South, the West, New England...
|
cena:
205,71 |
 |
Emerging Adults in America: Coming of Age in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9781591473299 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume portrays the lives of young Americans between adolescence and young adulthood, a distinct developmental stage that editor Jeffrey Jensen Arnett describes as emerging adulthood. The years from the late teens through the mid-20s are no longer dedicated to settling into traditional adult roles. Instead, the focus has shifted to pursuing higher education, self-exploration, and shaping a future that best suits personal goals and desires. Along with coeditor Jennifer Lynn Tanner, Arnett has compiled a collection of chapters in this groundbreaking work that cover a range of topics from...
This volume portrays the lives of young Americans between adolescence and young adulthood, a distinct developmental stage that editor Jeffrey Jensen A...
|
cena:
156,72 |
 |
Managing the Infosphere: Governance, Technology, and Cultural Practice in Motion
ISBN: 9781592132799 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on their expertise in geography, political science, international relations, and communication studies, McDowell, Steinberg, and Tomasello investigate specific policy problems encountered as international organizations, corporations, and individual users try to "manage" a space that simultaneously contradicts and supports existing institutions and systems of governance, identity, and technology.
Drawing on their expertise in geography, political science, international relations, and communication studies, McDowell, Steinberg, and Tomasello inv...
|
cena:
313,46 |
 |
Managing the Infosphere: Governance, Technology, and Cultural Practice in Motion
ISBN: 9781592132805 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on their expertise in geography, political science, international relations, and communication studies, McDowell, Steinberg, and Tomasello investigate specific policy problems encountered as international organizations, corporations, and individual users try to "manage" a space that simultaneously contradicts and supports existing institutions and systems of governance, identity, and technology.
Drawing on their expertise in geography, political science, international relations, and communication studies, McDowell, Steinberg, and Tomasello inv...
|
cena:
107,70 |
 |
City and Environment
ISBN: 9781592132836 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the first time in history, more than half the world's people live in cities, an extraordinary change in circumstances for human beings and the natural environment. Coming to terms with an urban world requires an understanding of the complex relationships between cities and natural ecosystems. "City" and the "Environment" are not mutually exclusive terms. Facing urban conditions in the 21st century requires an understanding of the interaction between social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental factors. Christopher Boone and Ali Modarres explore the city, its environment, and...
For the first time in history, more than half the world's people live in cities, an extraordinary change in circumstances for human beings and the nat...
|
cena:
352,63 |
 |
City and Environment
ISBN: 9781592132843 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "City" and the "Environment" are not mutually exclusive terms. Facing urban conditions in the 21st century requires an understanding of the interaction between social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental factors. This book explores the city, its environment, and the role humans play in shaping the meaning and condition of both.
"City" and the "Environment" are not mutually exclusive terms. Facing urban conditions in the 21st century requires an understanding of the interactio...
|
cena:
127,29 |
 |
Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are
ISBN: 9781592135783 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For some people, their lawn is a source of pride, and for others, caring for their lawn is a chore. Yet for an increasing number of people, turf care is a cause of ecological anxiety. In Lawn People, author Paul Robbins, asks, How did the needs of the grass come to be my own? In his goal to get a clearer picture of why people and grasses do what they do, Robbins interviews homeowners about their lawns, and uses national surveys, analysis from aerial photographs, and economic data to determine what people really feel about-and how they treat-their lawns.Lawn People places the lawn in its...
For some people, their lawn is a source of pride, and for others, caring for their lawn is a chore. Yet for an increasing number of people, turf care ...
|
cena:
313,46 |
 |
Understanding the Cultural Landscape
ISBN: 9781593851194 / Angielski / Miękka / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This compelling book offers a fresh perspective on how the natural world has been imagined, built on, and transformed by human beings throughout history and around the globe. Coverage ranges from the earliest societies to preindustrial China and India, from the emergence in Europe of the modern world to the contemporary global economy. The focus is on what the places we have created say about us: our belief systems and the ways we make a living. Also explored are the social and environmental consequences of human activities, and how conflicts over the meaning of progress are reflected in...
This compelling book offers a fresh perspective on how the natural world has been imagined, built on, and transformed by human beings throughout histo...
|
cena:
264,43 |
 |
Understanding the Cultural Landscape
ISBN: 9781593851200 / Angielski / Twarda / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This compelling book offers a fresh perspective on how the natural world has been imagined, built on, and transformed by human beings throughout history and around the globe. Coverage ranges from the earliest societies to preindustrial China and India, from the emergence in Europe of the modern world to the contemporary global economy. The focus is on what the places we have created say about us: our belief systems and the ways we make a living. Also explored are the social and environmental consequences of human activities, and how conflicts over the meaning of progress are reflected in...
This compelling book offers a fresh perspective on how the natural world has been imagined, built on, and transformed by human beings throughout histo...
|
cena:
391,77 |
 |
Migrants of Identity : Perceptions of 'Home' in a World of Movement
ISBN: 9781859739990 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Global movement is commonly characterized as one of the quintessential experiences of our age. Market forces, territorial conflicts and environmental changes uproot an increasing number of people, while mass communication, travel, tourism, and a global market of commodities, texts, tastes, fashions and ideologies place individuals more than ever in a global arena. As traditional conceptions of individuals as members of stationary, fixed and separate societies and cultures no longer convince, to what extent does movement become central to individuals' self-conceptions? How do people... Global movement is commonly characterized as one of the quintessential experiences of our age. Market forces, territorial conflicts and environment... |
cena:
205,65 |
 |
Cultural Geography: A Critical Dictionary of Key Concepts
ISBN: 9781860647031 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As geography has become influenced by such themes such as postcolonial studies, feminism and psychoanalysis, so students have been forced to engage with ideas and concepts from outside the traditional boundaries of their subject. This exciting new work provides them with an invaluable aid to understanding the complexities and subtleties of these new ideas. The editors present some thirty essays--written by a wide range of leading practitioners--exploring the key concepts in cultural geography. The essays range from questions that have recently emerged to more established ideas that warrant...
As geography has become influenced by such themes such as postcolonial studies, feminism and psychoanalysis, so students have been forced to engage wi...
|
cena:
618,66 |
 |
Animal
ISBN: 9781861891341 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the pet that we live with and care for, to news items such as animal cloning, and the use of various creatures in film, television and advertising, animals are a constant presence in our lives. Animal is a timely overview of the many ways in which we live with animals, and assesses many of the paradoxes of our relationships with them: for example, why is the pet that sits by the dinner table never for eating? Examining novels such as Charlotte's Web, films such as Old Yeller and Babe, science and advertising, fashion and philosophy, Animal also...
From the pet that we live with and care for, to news items such as animal cloning, and the use of various creatures in film, television and advertisin...
|
cena:
87,38 |
 |
Human Ecology, Human Economy: Ideas for an Ecologically Sustainable Future
ISBN: 9781864482881 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designed as an undergraduate textbook, this work investigates our dependence on the integrity of the Earth's ecosystems. It presents an introduction to human ecology, discusses the principles of ecologically sustainable development, and investigates the foundations of ecological economics. It also evaluates biodiversity, assesses the effects of trade on the environment, and analyzes the ethical considerations of ecological economics. Using case studies, the authors investigate the greenhouse effect, soil erosion and the environmental and ecological impact of current economic analysis.
Designed as an undergraduate textbook, this work investigates our dependence on the integrity of the Earth's ecosystems. It presents an introduction t...
|
cena:
156,68 |
 |
Early Modern Hist & the Social
ISBN: 9781931112062 / Angielski / Twarda / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of eleven essays furthers the dialogue between early modern history and the social sciences through an analysis of Fernand Braudel's 'The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World of Philip II'. The contributors review various historiographical traditions to arrive at conclusions on contemporary theory and practice in the exchange between history and the disciplines of geography, economics, sociology, anthropology, politics (diplomatic history and the study of revolutions), psychology (law), religion, and area studies (China and the Americas).
This collection of eleven essays furthers the dialogue between early modern history and the social sciences through an analysis of Fernand Braudel's '...
|
cena:
186,06 |
 |
How Landscapes Change: Human Disturbance and Ecosystem Fragmentation in the Americas
ISBN: 9783540436973 / Angielski / Twarda / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. North and South America share similar human and ecological histories and, increasingly, economic and social linkages. As such, issues of ecosystem functions and disruptions form a common thread among these cultures. This volume synthesizes the perspectives of several disciplines, such as ecology, anthropology, economy, and conservation biology. The chief goal is to gain an understanding of how human and ecological processes interact to affect ecosystem functions and species in the Americas. Throughout the text the emphasis is placed on habitat fragmentation. At the same time, the book...
North and South America share similar human and ecological histories and, increasingly, economic and social linkages. As such, issues of ecosystem fun...
|
cena:
805,10 |
 |
A History of the Animal World in the Ancient Near East
ISBN: 9789004121263 / Angielski / Twarda / 648 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about all aspects of man's contact with the animal world; sacrifice, sacred animals, diet, domestication, in short, from the sublime to the mundane. Chapters on art, literature, religion and animal husbandry provide the reader with a complete picture of the complex relationships between the peoples of the Ancient Near East and (their) animals. A reference guide and key to the menagerie of the Ancient Near East, with ample original illustrations.
This book is about all aspects of man's contact with the animal world; sacrifice, sacred animals, diet, domestication, in short, from the sublime to t...
|
cena:
1219,56 |
 |
The Spatial Factor in African History: The Relationship of the Social, Material, and Perceptual
ISBN: 9789004139138 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors of this inter-disciplinary collection examine the role of space in six areas of West, Central and East Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They demonstrate the active quality of space and analyze the ways in which people have contested and shaped space, including responses to crises. In addition, a lengthy essay re-interprets tropical African history, 1800-1930, using spatial theory. Contributors look at how people have constructed mental maps, used discourse to organize territories, and perceived social landscapes. The studies employ a tri-level approach, one...
The authors of this inter-disciplinary collection examine the role of space in six areas of West, Central and East Africa during the nineteenth and tw...
|
cena:
505,67 |
 |
A Historical-Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Russian Habitation Names of the Crimea
ISBN: 9789004154339 / Angielski / Twarda / 1298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This dictionary, the first of its kind in Turkological studies, will prove to be an invaluable research tool for those studying the Crimea, Ukraine, as well as Eurasian Nomadism. It is the result of year-long painstaking research into the etymology of Crimean pre-Russian habitation names, providing insight into the Turkic, Greek, Caucasian place-names in a comparative context, as well as the histories of these cities, towns and villages themselves. The dictionary contains approximately 1,500 entries, preceded by an introduction with notes on the history of the Crimea and the structure of...
This dictionary, the first of its kind in Turkological studies, will prove to be an invaluable research tool for those studying the Crimea, Ukraine, a...
|
cena:
1619,01 |
 |
Man, a Geomorphological Agent: An Introduction to Anthropic Geomorphology
ISBN: 9789027714015 / Angielski / Twarda / 165 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
402,53 |
Czytaj nas na:
Zobacz: Księgarnia Czeska | Wydawnictwo Książkowe Klimaty | Mapa strony | Lista autorów
KrainaKsiazek.PL - Księgarnia Internetowa
KrainaKsiazek.PL - Księgarnia Internetowa
