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  • Labor and Global Justice
    Labor and Global Justice combines conceptual and theoretical perspectives across a multiplicity of relevant differences, both geographical and disciplinary, to develop a transnational perspective on labor and justice and to make clear how justice requires a rethinking of the relation between labor and global capital. ...
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    148,51 €

  • The Language of War Monuments
    David Machin / Gill Abousnnouga
    This book analyses war monuments by developing a multimodal social-semiotic approach to understand how they communicate as three-dimensional objects. The book provides a practical tool-kit approach to how critical multimodal social semiotics should be done through visual, textual and material analysis. It ties this material analysis into the social and political contexts of pro...
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    64,15 €

  • Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic
    In Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic: A Collaborative Model of Humans and Nature through Space and Time, Maher and Harrisonhave compiled a series of separate research projects conducted across the North Atlantic region that each contribute greatly to the area of study. ...
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    141,52 €

  • An Environmental History of Medieval Europe
    Richard Hoffmann
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    129,48 €

  • Space, Place, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
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    136,26 €

  • Little Vast Rooms of Undoing
    Dara Blumenthal
    Little Vast Rooms of Undoing explores the relationship between identity and embodiment in public toilet spaces. ...
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    187,20 €

  • The Knowledge Plexus
    George Chorafakis
    This book is a collection of 5 essays on the economic geography of technological knowledge. Their common threads are: (i) the quest for a new paradigm in economic geography, termed ’systemic’, as an alternative to the neoclassical, based on the epistemological premise of emergence and the theories of evolution and complexity; and (ii) the intent to explain the process of techno...
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    78,45 €

  • Little Vast Rooms of Undoing
    Blumenthal / Dara Blumenthal
    Little Vast Rooms of Undoing explores the relationship between identity and embodiment in public toilet spaces. ...
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    61,30 €

  • Victims of Progress
    John H. Bodley / John HBodley
    This compelling account of how technology and development affect indigenous peoples throughout the world provides a provocative context in which students can think about civilization and its costs. ...
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    167,17 €

  • Victims of Progress
    John H. Bodley / John HBodley
    This compelling account of how technology and development affect indigenous peoples throughout the world provides a provocative context in which students can think about civilization and its costs. ...
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    79,99 €

  • Understanding Belarus and How Western Foreign Policy Misses the Mark
    Grigory Ioffe / Grigory V. Ioffe
    In this fascinating study of unfinished nation-building in Belarus, Grigory Ioffe draws on his two dozen research trips to the country to trace Belarus’s history, geography, political situation, society, and economy. The ambivalent relationship between Russia and Belarus results in an identity crisis that is not understood by the West, which leads to Western policies toward Bel...
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    34,85 €

  • Climate Change and the Course of Global History
    John L. Brooke / John LBrooke
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    142,34 €

  • Ulysses’ Sail
    Mary W. Helms / Mary WHelms
    What do long-distance travelers gain from their voyages, especially when faraway lands are regarded as the source of esoteric knowledge? Mary Helms explains how various cultures interpret space and distance in cosmological terms, and why they associate political power with information about strange places, peoples, and things. She assesses the diverse goals of travelers, be the...
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    64,97 €

  • Industrial Disasters, Toxic Waste, and Community Impact
    Francis O. Adeola / Francis OAdeola
    In the post-World War II period, modern societies have developed numerous heterogeneous synthetic organic compounds released into the environment and human habitats. This book addresses the threats posed by these contaminants and other hazardous wastes to human health and the health of other species in the environment. ...
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    74,62 €

  • Cambridge Geographical Text Books
    A. R. Chart-Leigh / ARChart-Leigh
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    43,09 €

  • Africans in Global Migration
    This book looks at the African diasporas as a process characterized by identity transformations, lived experiences, and realities; including the capturing of the historical trends that are acted out in multiple social domains. ...
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    74,50 €

  • Black Faces, White Spaces
    Carolyn Finney
    Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood, commodified, and represented by both white and black Americans. Bridging the field...
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    38,40 €

  • Cities and Social Change
    A multi-disciplinary overview of key contemporary issues surrounding the excitement, contradictions, conflicts, and tensions arising from the social experience of the city and the emergent trends linked to resolving its problems. A student-focused text, it reviews the theoretical literature, examines policy implications and provides comparative case study material throughout. ...
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    71,24 €

  • A Summer in Kintyre
    Angus Martin
    In the idyllic summer of 2013 in Kintyre, the author's journeys by bicycle and on foot were also 'a journey through landscapes of memory and emotion'. The story begins in the rugged south-west, at the Inneans and Largiebaan, and ends in the north-east, at a little loch near Tarbert, with people, places and happenings a-plenty in between. The people include poets Seamus Heaney, ...
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    21,89 €

  • Irish Migrants in New Communities
    Irish Migrants in New Communities: Seeking the Fair Land? examines the interactions of Irish migrants and the new societies and experiences that opened up to them through the process of emigration and exile. The contributors' chapters focus on oral history perspectives to examine the adaptation of the migrants to these new environments and cultures and to chronicle the expe...
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    132,18 €

  • Understanding the Chinese City
    Li Shiqiao / Shiqiao Li
    This book teaches us to read the contemporary Chinese city. Li Shiqiao deftly crafts a new theory of the Chinese city and the dynamics of urbanization. He traces a thread between ancient Chinese city formations and current urban organizations, revealing hidden continuities that show how instrumental the past has been in forming the present. ...
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    68,89 €

  • Where the Waters Divide
    Michael Mascarenhas
    Where the Waters Divide is one of the few book length studies that analyze contemporary forms of racism and white privilege in Canadian society. The book argues that neoliberalism represents a key moment in time for the racial formation in Canada, one that functions not through overt forms of state sanctioned racism, as in the past, but via the morality of the marketplace and ...
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    64,33 €

  • Kintyre Country Life
    Angus Martin
    When it was first published in 1987, this picture of the lives of country folk from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth completed a trilogy on the history and culture of the author's native Kintyre. The material, from both oral and written sources, tells of everyday lives - working the land, raising livestock, building and furnishing homes, finding fuel and preparing ...
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    20,20 €

  • The SAGE Handbook of GIS and Society
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    72,33 €

  • Kintyre
    Angus Martin
    This social history of the 'ordinary' people of the south-western peninsula of Argyll, in western Scotland, has become a classic since its original publication in 1984. It is reprinted here with a new Introduction by the author, a native of Kintyre who knows its geography intimately. The greater part of the book is based on original research from a wide range of sources, from ...
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    21,02 €

  • Canada’s Jews
    Ira Robinson
    Canada is home to one of the world’s largest and most culturally creative Jewish communities, one of the few in the Diaspora that continues to grow demographically. With its ability to mirror trends found in Jewish communities elsewhere (particularly the United States) while simultaneously functioning as a distinct society, Canada’s Jewish community holds great interest for sch...
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    54,16 €

  • International seafarers and transnationalism in the twenty-first century
    Helen Sampson
    Winner, 2014 BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed inaugural award for ethnography, in association with the British Sociological Association This ethnographic account of seafarers considers issues of transnationalism in the twenty-first century and discusses the detailed life experiences of migrant workers in this context. It argues for a consideration of the social space available to...
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    29,85 €

  • North American Odyssey
    This groundbreaking volume offers a fresh approach to conceptualizing the historical geography of North America by taking a thematic rather than a traditional regional perspective. Leading geographers, building on current scholarship in the field, explore five central themes. The book includes sections that explore early settlement, nineteenth- and twentieth-century population ...
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    217,33 €

  • North American Odyssey
    Colten
    This groundbreaking volume offers a fresh approach to conceptualizing the historical geography of North America by taking a thematic rather than a traditional regional perspective. Leading geographers, building on current scholarship in the field, explore five central themes. The book includes sections that explore early settlement, nineteenth- and twentieth-century population ...
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    106,13 €

  • We the Cosmopolitans
    The provocative title of this book is deliberately and challengingly universalist, matching the theoretically experimental essays, where contributors try different ideas to answer distinct concerns regarding cosmopolitanism. Leading anthropologists explore what cosmopolitanism means in the context of everyday life, variously viewing it as an aspect of kindness and empathy, as t...
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    184,53 €


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