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  • Displacement
    This book aims to develop global conversations around refuge. Through an interdisciplinary, transnational and historical set of chapters, the authors develop new theoretical frameworks for scholars working on the forced displacement of people around the world, including refugees, stateless persons, internally displaced persons and others. ...
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    157,39 €

  • Modern Saudi Arabia
    Valerie Anishchenkova
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    144,98 €

  • Examining Biophilia and Societal Indifference to Environmental Protection
    Lonny Douglas Meinecke / Mary Ann Markey
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    216,04 €

  • The social significance of dining out
    Alan Warde / Jennifer Whillans / Jessica Paddock
    The book reports on a major research project on changes in dining out in three cities in England. It compares systematically popular practice in 1995 and 2015. Differences in taste and behaviour surrounding eating in restaurants and as guests of friends are put in the context of wider social and cultural trends. ...
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    157,15 €

  • The power of pragmatism
    Making the case for a pragmatist approach to social inquiry and knowledge production, sixteen contributors illustrate the power of pragmatism to inform democratic, community-centred, action-oriented research. ...
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    157,12 €

  • TEMPE, DU STADT MEINER TRÄUME
    Gregory Stephenson
    Data toward a deep map of the city of Tempe, Arizona: Oneiric topographies, telluric currents, zones, ambiances, valences, variable resonances, covert contours, nocturnal alluvium, residual traces, temporal strata, magnetic fields, subliminal alignments, geobiographical configurations, vortices of obsessional fascination. ...
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    9,92 €

  • Environments of Empire
    The age of European high imperialism was characterized by the movement of plants and animals on a historically unprecedented scale. The human migrants who colonized territories around the world brought a variety of other species with them, from the crops and livestock they hoped to propagate, to the parasites, invasive plants, and pests they carried unawares, producing a host o...
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    41,38 €

  • Environments of Empire
    The age of European high imperialism was characterized by the movement of plants and animals on a historically unprecedented scale. The human migrants who colonized territories around the world brought a variety of other species with them, from the crops and livestock they hoped to propagate, to the parasites, invasive plants, and pests they carried unawares, producing a host o...
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    126,90 €

  • The Danube River | Major Rivers of the World Series Grade 4 | Children’s Geography & Cultures Books
    Baby Professor
    The Danube River is the second largest river in Europe. It flows through ten countries and history has it that it once served as a frontier of the Roman Empire. A river that has flowed through time would definitely carry so many lessons and memories. You will learn about these tidbits of information in this book. Don’t forget to buy a copy today. ...
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    19,58 €

  • The Danube River | Major Rivers of the World Series Grade 4 | Children’s Geography & Cultures Books
    Baby Professor
    The Danube River is the second largest river in Europe. It flows through ten countries and history has it that it once served as a frontier of the Roman Empire. A river that has flowed through time would definitely carry so many lessons and memories. You will learn about these tidbits of information in this book. Don’t forget to buy a copy today. ...
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    29,64 €

  • Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met
    Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr.
    During the late eighteenth century, Portugal and Spain sent joint mapping expeditions to draw a nearly 10,000-mile border between Brazil and Spanish South America. These boundary commissions were the largest ever sent to the Americas and coincided with broader imperial reforms enacted throughout the hemisphere. Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met considers what these efforts meant...
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    44,58 €

  • Landscape of Migration
    Ben Nobbs-Thiessen
    In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia’s National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the 'March to the East.' In an impoverished country dependent on highland mining, the MNR sought to convert the nation’s vast 'undeveloped' Amazonian frontier into farmland, hoping to achieve food security, territorial integrity, a...
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    126,64 €

  • Landscape of Migration
    Ben Nobbs-Thiessen
    In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia’s National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the 'March to the East.' In an impoverished country dependent on highland mining, the MNR sought to convert the nation’s vast 'undeveloped' Amazonian frontier into farmland, hoping to achieve food security, territorial integrity, a...
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    50,86 €

  • Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met
    Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr.
    During the late eighteenth century, Portugal and Spain sent joint mapping expeditions to draw a nearly 10,000-mile border between Brazil and Spanish South America. These boundary commissions were the largest ever sent to the Americas and coincided with broader imperial reforms enacted throughout the hemisphere. Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met considers what these efforts meant...
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    126,90 €

  • India and world Geography / भारत व विश्व भूगोल
    Tejendra Singh
    A lot of hard work has been put into making important Notes and good efforts have been made, and an attempt has been made to make flawless Notes , yet if there is any error in error, then if you find it, inform us, correct it yourself. Be done. In this way, if there is any kind of loss to the reader, then the writer will have no responsibility nor will be responsible for any ki...
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    20,20 €

  • Mean Streets
    Don Mitchell
    The problem of homelessness in America underpins the definition of an American city: what it is, who it is for, what it does, and why it matters. And the problem of the American city is epitomized in public space. Mean Streets offers, in a single, sustained argument, a theory of the social and economic logic behind the historical development, evolution, and especially the persi...
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    128,36 €

  • Mean Streets
    Don Mitchell
    The problem of homelessness in America underpins the definition of an American city: what it is, who it is for, what it does, and why it matters. And the problem of the American city is epitomized in public space. Mean Streets offers, in a single, sustained argument, a theory of the social and economic logic behind the historical development, evolution, and especially the persi...
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    26,05 €

  • Islands and Oceans
    Sasha Davis
    Sovereignty is a term used by stateless people seeking decolonization as well as by dominant social groups struggling to reassert their socially privileged positions. All sorts of political actors, it seems, are interested in sovereignty. It is less clear, however, just what the term means, and whether calls for sovereignty promote a politically progressive or conservative agen...
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    128,52 €

  • Islands and Oceans
    Sasha Davis
    Sovereignty is a term used by stateless people seeking decolonization as well as by dominant social groups struggling to reassert their socially privileged positions. All sorts of political actors, it seems, are interested in sovereignty. It is less clear, however, just what the term means, and whether calls for sovereignty promote a politically progressive or conservative agen...
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    33,81 €

  • Stories from a migrant city
    Ben Rogaly / TBD
    Taking a biographical approach, the book explores the causes and consequences of moving or staying put in the context of class inequality and racisms, and looks for commonalities between people often seen as irredeemably divided. ...
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    145,26 €

  • The Cultural Revolution of the Nineteenth Century
    Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva / Márcia Abreu
    The beginnings of what we now call ’globalization’ dates from the early sixteenth century, when Europeans, in particular the Iberian monarchies, began to connect ’the four parts of the world’. From the end of the eighteenth and throughout the nineteenth centuries, technical advancements, such as the growth of the European rail network and the increasing ease of international sh...
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    54,65 €

  • Stories from a migrant city
    Ben Rogaly
    Taking a biographical approach, the book explores the causes and consequences of moving or staying put in the context of class inequality and racisms, and looks for commonalities between people often seen as irredeemably divided. ...
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    35,88 €

  • El papel de la mujer en las políticas de desarrollo rural
    José Javier Serrano Lara
    Las áreas rurales europeas han sufrido un proceso de cambio socioeconómico desde la década de los cincuenta hasta principios de los setenta. Es en esta década cuando se desarrolla un cambio de paradigma en las políticas rurales, que evolucionan desde un enfoque sectorial hacia otro más integrado y con una doble vertiente, social y económica. Con la reforma de los Fondos Estruct...
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    18,00 €

  • The Transformative City
    Wilbur C. Rich
    Sunbelt cities like Atlanta, Charlotte, and Miami, with their international airports, have a transportation advantage that overwhelms global competition from other southern cities. Why? The short answer to this question seems to be intuitive, but the long answer lies at the intersection of built infrastructure policies, civic boosterism, and the changing nature of American citi...
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    37,98 €

  • Transformative City
    Wilbur C. Rich
    Sunbelt cities like Atlanta, Charlotte, and Miami, with their international airports, have a transportation advantage that overwhelms global competition from other southern cities. Why? The short answer to this question seems to be intuitive, but the long answer lies at the intersection of built infrastructure policies, civic boosterism, and the changing nature of American citi...
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    135,76 €

  • Space, Place and Identity
    Köhler Florian
    Known as highly mobile cattle nomads, the Wodaabe in Niger are today increasingly engaged in a transformation process towards a more diversified livelihood based primarily on agro-pastoralism and urban work migration. This book examines recent transformations in spatial patterns, notably in the context of urban migration and in processes of sedentarization in rural proto-villag...
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    184,29 €

  • Social Sustainability, Past and Future
    Sander van der Leeuw
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    123,43 €

  • If Everyone Returned, The Island Would Sink
    Kirstie Petrou
    Focusing on the small island of Paama, Vanuatu, and the capital, Port Vila, this book presents a rare and recent study of the ongoing significance of urbanisation and internal migration in the Global South. Based on longitudinal research undertaken in rural 'home' places, urban suburbs and informal settlements over thirty years, this book reveals the deep ambivalence of the o...
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    150,04 €

  • Ecological Migrants
    Yuanyuan Xie
    Reindeer-herding Ewenki hunters have lived in the forests of China's Greater Khingan Range for over three hundred years. They have sustained their livelihoods by collecting plants and herbs, hunting animals and herding reindeer. This ethnography details changing Ewenki ways of life brought first by China's modernization and development policies and more recently by ecol...
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    44,58 €

  • Placing Latin America
    Placing Latin America offers a thematic approach to the study of the diverse geographies of a globalizing region. Focusing on the dynamic connections among people, places, and environments, this nuanced text will be an invaluable guide for all those interested in the politics, economy, and society of a rapidly changing continent. ...
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    153,06 €