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Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in Geography
ISBN: 9780313308994 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Geography teachers and school library media specialists will find this resource indispensable for providing classroom lessons and activities in critical thinking for geography students in grades 7-12. It is filled with over 75 primary source Internet sites covering such topics as Places and Regions, Physical Systems, Human Systems, Environment and Society, and the Uses of Geography, and will be an invaluable tool in helping teachers and librarians meet the standards set forth in the 1994 publication Geography for Life: National Geography Standards. Each site is... Geography teachers and school library media specialists will find this resource indispensable for providing classroom lessons and activities in cri... |
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Auf alten Wegen in Mexiko und Guatemala : Reiseerinnerungen und Eindrücke aus den Jahren 1895-1897
ISBN: 9783845720951 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Autorin, Ethnologin und Fotografin Caecilie Seler unternahm mit ihrem Ehemann Eduard Georg Seler, Begründer der deutschen Altamerikanistik, sechs Forschungsreisen nach Mittelamerika. Die hier beschriebene Reise führte zu Pferde auf alten Handelswegen durch die südlichen mexikanischen Provinzen Michoacan, Oaxaca und Chiapas nach Nord- und Ost-Guatemala. Caecilie Seler verbindet ihre ganz persönlichen Erlebnisse mit unzähligen landes- und volkskundlichen Beobachtungen, in denen sie auch auf die Botanik, ethnologisch und archäologisch interessante Objekte und die Geschichte der...
Die Autorin, Ethnologin und Fotografin Caecilie Seler unternahm mit ihrem Ehemann Eduard Georg Seler, Begründer der deutschen Altamerikanistik, sechs...
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Global Change and Challenge: Geography for the 1990s
ISBN: 9780415001434 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We are now experiencing a period of unprecedented change; what amounts to a global revolution in our economy, society and awareness of the human impact on the environment. Global Change and Challenge examines some of the crucial issues facing society in the 1990s and how geography can contribute to their understanding and management. Using the broad theme of how societies adapt to change, the contributors seek to present a range of views on the geography of change' in an accessible form for both school and university students. The general aim of the book is as much to encourage...
We are now experiencing a period of unprecedented change; what amounts to a global revolution in our economy, society and awareness of the human impac...
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Introducing Quantitative Geography: Measurement, Methods and Generalised Linear Models
ISBN: 9780415004657 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of quantitative geography is to train geographers in numeracy and in the vital skills of data collection, processing and interpretation.
Introducting Quantitative Geography describes quantification from first principles to cover all the key elements of quantitative geography. No previous knowledge of statistical procedures is assumed. Worked examples and computer analyses are used to explain measurement, scale, description, models and modelling. Building on this, the book explores and clarifies the intellectual and practical problems presented by numerical and... The purpose of quantitative geography is to train geographers in numeracy and in the vital skills of data collection, processing and interpretation. |
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563,24 |
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Writing Worlds : Discourse, Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape
ISBN: 9780415054997 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Writing Worlds explores the issues of geographical description from a poststructuralist sensibility. Focusing on landscape representation, the authors organize their discussion of geographical writings around the three themes of discourse, text and metaphor. Each theme is used as a potential entry point into understanding the shape and substance of particular kinds of geographical writings: the discourses of economics, geopolitics and urban planning, travellers' descriptions, propaganda maps, cartography and geometry, poetry and painting. Representation of the landscape - city, countryside or...
Writing Worlds explores the issues of geographical description from a poststructuralist sensibility. Focusing on landscape representation, the authors...
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Companion Encyclopedia of Geography : The Environment and Humankind
ISBN: 9780415074179 / Angielski / Twarda / 1056 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Companion Encyclopedia of Geography provides an authoritative and provocative source of reference for all those concerned with the earth and its people. Examining both physical and human geography and charting human activities within their habitat up to the present day, this Companion also asks what lies in the future:
* A differentiated world * A world transformed by the growth of a global economy * The global scale of habitat modification * A world of questions * Changing worlds, changing geographies * Geographical futures. The forty-five self... The Companion Encyclopedia of Geography provides an authoritative and provocative source of reference for all those concerned with the earth ...
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1959,09 |
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Introducing Quantitative Geography: Measurement, Methods and Generalised Linear Models
ISBN: 9780415075589 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of quantitative geography is to train geographers in numeracy and in the vital skills of data collection, processing and interpretation.
Introducting Quantitative Geography describes quantification from first principles to cover all the key elements of quantitative geography. No previous knowledge of statistical procedures is assumed. Worked examples and computer analyses are used to explain measurement, scale, description, models and modelling. Building on this, the book explores and clarifies the intellectual and practical problems presented by numerical and... The purpose of quantitative geography is to train geographers in numeracy and in the vital skills of data collection, processing and interpretation. |
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Managing Museums and Galleries
ISBN: 9780415094979 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The current economic climate, coupled with an all embracing desire for museums to be respondent to 'the market' make a proper grounding in management essential. The 'bottom line' is one of the most powerful measures of management performance. Museums and galleries invariably have a neutral bottom line, they are not set up to make a profit and many of them are constrained by governmental accounting rules and charity legislation. Managing these organisations is difficult and this book tackles the issues that make it easier.
Managing the Museum examines the highly sophisticated... The current economic climate, coupled with an all embracing desire for museums to be respondent to 'the market' make a proper grounding in management ...
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Geography of the World's Major Regions
ISBN: 9780415117425 / Angielski / Twarda / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents a global view of today's most pressing issues through an analysis of the twelve major regions of the world. Environmental degradation, natural catastrophe, population pressures and human conflict all impact in different ways and to different degrees on the society and environment of these regions. Economic and political restructuring within each region is covered, and topics include: natural resources; agriculture; industry and services; the role of the military; and the impact of global economic change. This work is intended as an introduction for students studying the...
This volume presents a global view of today's most pressing issues through an analysis of the twelve major regions of the world. Environmental degrada...
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Tourism, Development and Growth : The Challenge of Sustainability
ISBN: 9780415160025 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Distinguishing between sustainable development and sustainable tourism, this text examines whether and in what form tourism can contribute to sustainable development and growth. Focusing on different types of tourism appropriate to particular situations, the contributors draw on examples from around the world - Canada, USA, Spain, Belgium, UK, Australia - to explore issues concerning tourism's contribution to economic, social, political and environmental advancement of developing countries, and the challenges to and importance of tourism in industrialized nations.
Distinguishing between sustainable development and sustainable tourism, this text examines whether and in what form tourism can contribute to sustaina...
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279,12 |
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Geography and Ethics: Journeys in a Moral Terrain
ISBN: 9780415189682 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book represents a landmark exploration of the common terrain of geography and ethics. Drawing together specially commissioned contributions from distinguished geographers across the UK, North America and Australasia, the place of geography in ethics and of ethics in geography is examined through wide-ranging, thematic chapters.
Geography and Ethics is divided into four sections for discussion and exploration of ideas: Ethics and Space; Ethics and Place; Ethics and Nature and Ethics and knowledge, all of which point to the rich interplay between geography and moral philosophy... This book represents a landmark exploration of the common terrain of geography and ethics. Drawing together specially commissioned contributions from ...
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930,57 |
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Geography and Ethics: Journeys in a Moral Terrain
ISBN: 9780415189699 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book represents a landmark exploration of the common terrain of geography and ethics. Drawing together specially commissioned contributions from distinguished geographers across the UK, North America and Australasia, the place of geography in ethics and of ethics in geography is examined through wide-ranging, thematic chapters.
Geography and Ethics is divided into four sections for discussion and exploration of ideas: Ethics and Space; Ethics and Place; Ethics and Nature and Ethics and knowledge, all of which point to the rich interplay between geography and moral philosophy... This book represents a landmark exploration of the common terrain of geography and ethics. Drawing together specially commissioned contributions from ...
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Uncertainty in Geographical Information
ISBN: 9780415243346 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have developed and their applications have been extended, the issue of uncertainty has become increasingly recognized. It is highlighted by the need to demystify the inherently complex geographical world to facilitate computerization in GIS, by the inaccuracies that emerge from man-machine interactions in data acquisition, and by error propagation in geoprocessing. Users need to be well aware of the likely impacts of uncertainties in spatial analysis and decision-making.
This book discusses theoretical and practical aspects of spatial data... As Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have developed and their applications have been extended, the issue of uncertainty has become increasingly rec...
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The Age of Discovery, 1400-1600
ISBN: 9780415279956 / Angielski / Twarda / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Age of Discovery explores one of the most dramatic features of the late medieval and early modern period: when voyagers from Western Europe led by Spain and Portugal set out across the world and established links with Africa, Asia and the Americas. This book examines the main motivations behind the voyages and discusses the developments in navigation expertise and technology that made them possible. This second edition brings the scholarship up to date and includes two new chapters on the important topics of the idea of discovery and on biological and environmental factors which favoured...
The Age of Discovery explores one of the most dramatic features of the late medieval and early modern period: when voyagers from Western Europe led by...
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The Age of Discovery, 1400-1600
ISBN: 9780415279963 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Age of Discovery explores one of the most dramatic features of the late medieval and early modern period: when voyagers from Western Europe led by Spain and Portugal set out across the world and established links with Africa, Asia and the Americas. This book examines the main motivations behind the voyages and discusses the developments in navigation expertise and technology that made them possible.
This second edition brings the scholarship up to date and includes two new chapters on the important topics of the idea of "discovery" and on biological and environmental factors... The Age of Discovery explores one of the most dramatic features of the late medieval and early modern period: when voyagers from Western Euro...
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Qualitative Research in Tourism : Ontologies, Epistemologies and Methodologies
ISBN: 9780415280860 / Angielski / Twarda / 333 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first book to focus solely upon qualitative research in tourism, it combines discussions of the philosophies underpinning qualitative research, with chapters written in a reflexive style that demonstrate the ways in which the techniques can be
The first book to focus solely upon qualitative research in tourism, it combines discussions of the philosophies underpinning qualitative research, wi...
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881,59 |
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Qualitative Research in Tourism: Ontologies, Epistemologies and Methodologies
ISBN: 9780415280877 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first to focus solely upon qualitative research in tourism, this book combines discussions of the philosophies underpinning qualitative research, with reflexive chapters that demonstrate how these techniques can be used. Incorporating a range of case studies written by leading international scholars, this book makes clear the ways in which these pieces of research have been informed by the authors' epistemological, ontological and methodological standpoint. Based on a range of empirical tourism studies set in the context of theoretical discussion, it demonstrates the... The first to focus solely upon qualitative research in tourism, this book combines discussions of the philosophies underpinning qualitative researc... |
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254,64 |
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Queering Tourism: Paradoxical Performances of Gay Pride Parades
ISBN: 9780415298001 / Angielski / Twarda / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gay Pride parades are annual arenas of queer public culture, where embodied notions of subjectivity are sold, enacted, transgressed and debated. From Sydney to Rome, Queering Tourism analyses the paradoxes of gay pride parades as tourist events, exploring how the public display of queer bodies - the way they look, what they do, who watches them, and under what regulations - is profoundly important in constructing sexualized subjectivities of bodies and cities. Drawing on extensive collections of interviews, visuals and written media accounts, photographs,... Gay Pride parades are annual arenas of queer public culture, where embodied notions of subjectivity are sold, enacted, transgressed and debated. |
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710,17 |
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Developing Spatial Data Infrastructures: From Concept to Reality
ISBN: 9780415302654 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An overview of SDI policies, concepts, nature, standards and practices associated with the design and implementation and operation of an SDI. It builds on an International Symposium on Spatial Data Infrastructure held in Melbourne in November 2001 and presents a series of alternative long-term visions, identifying many of the forces for change.
An overview of SDI policies, concepts, nature, standards and practices associated with the design and implementation and operation of an SDI. It build...
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881,59 |
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Foundations of Geographic Information Science
ISBN: 9780415307260 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the use of geographical information systems develops apace, a significant strand of research activity is being directed to the fundamental nature of geographic information. This volume contains a collection of essays and discussions on this theme.
What is geographic information? What fundamental principles are associated with it? How can it be represented? How does it represent the world? How can geographic information be quantified? How can it be communicated and related to the other information sciences? How does HCI tie in with it? A number of other more specific but relevant issues... As the use of geographical information systems develops apace, a significant strand of research activity is being directed to the fundamental nature o...
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