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  • Anciens peuplements littoraux et relations Homme/Milieu sur les côtes de l’Europe Atlantique/Ancient Maritime Communities and the Relationship between People and the Environment along the European Atl
    Edited by Marie-Yvane Daire, Catherine Dupont, Anna Baudry, Cyrille Billard, Jean-Marc Large, Laurent Lespez, Eric Normand and Chris Scarre with the collaboration of Francis Bertin, Chloé Martin and Kate SharpeThis book presents the proceedings of the International conference 'HOMER 2011' (Ancient maritime communities and the relationship between people and environment ...
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    239,20 €

  • Border Encounters
    Among the tremendous changes affecting Europe in recent decades, those concerning political frontiers have been some of the most significant. International borders are being opened in some regions while being redefined or reinforced in others. The social relationships of those living in these borderland regions are also changing fundamentally. This volume investigates, from a l...
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    184,02 €

  • Tourism and Social Change in Post-Socialist Zanzibar
    Akbar Keshodkar
    Tourism and Social Change in Post-Socialist Zanzibar examines how Zanzibaris are struggling to move through the local landscape in the post-socialist era dominated by tourism. Using the theoretical framework of movement, this book highlights how Zanzibaris move and develop various dispositions to re-articulate their identities. This book also investigates how notions of ustaara...
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    131,87 €

  • Beyond Alternative Food Networks
    Cristina Grasseni
    Food activism is core to the contemporary study of food - there are numerous foodscapes which exist within the umbrella definition of food activism from farmer’s markets, organic food movements to Fair Trade. This highly original book focuses on one key emerging foodscape dominating the Italian alternative food network (AFN) scene: GAS (gruppi di acquisto solidale or solidarit...
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    193,61 €

  • Technology versus Ecology
    Robert A. Schultz / Robert ASchultz / Stanley Ed Schultz / Stanley EdSchultz
    Although human beings are technically part of the ecosystem, there still remains a conceptual conflict between technology and nature. These concerns highlight the idea of human superiority in which the priority is given to technology versus living in synchronization with nature. Technology versus Ecology: Human Superiority and the Ongoing Conflict with Nature explores the issue...
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    216,67 €

  • Special Interest Society
    James R. Hudson / James RHudson
    Membership-based organizations play a central role in our society yet those studying voluntary associations fail to recognize their distinctive characteristics as their impact is profound and our understanding of them severely limited. By analyzing over 400 published histories, this book breaks new ground revealing why they emerge, what they do to shape nearly every profession,...
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    148,26 €

  • The Social Life of Water. Edited by John R. Wagner
    John R. Jr. Wagner / John RJrWagner
    Everywhere in the world communities and nations organize themselves in relation to water. We divert water from rivers, lakes, and aquifers to our homes, workplaces, irrigation canals, and hydro-generating stations. We use it for bathing, swimming, recreation, and it functions as a symbol of purity in ritual performances. In order to facilitate and manage our relationship with w...
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    183,90 €

  • Environmental Histories of the Cold War
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    42,76 €

  • Koreans in North America
    Koreans in North America covers various topics related to Korean experiences in the U.S. and Canada, including their immigration and settlement patterns, changes in business patterns, and identity, comprehensively. It also focuses on Korean Americans’ twenty-first century experiences, using both quantitative and qualitative data. ...
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    63,94 €

  • The Struggle for Eden
    Malve Von Hassell
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    121,85 €

  • Globalization and the Environment
    Peter Christoff / Robyn Eckersley
    This book by two leading scholars offers the first systematic analysis of the relationship between globalization and the environment from the early Modern period to the present. Peter Christoff and Robyn Eckersley disentangle and clarify the relationship between the processes of modernization, globalization, and global environmental change. Through a rich set of case studies, i...
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    141,46 €

  • Globalization and the Environment
    Peter Christoff / Robyn Eckersley
    This book by two leading scholars offers the first systematic analysis of the relationship between globalization and the environment from the early Modern period to the present. Peter Christoff and Robyn Eckersley disentangle and clarify the relationship between the processes of modernization, globalization, and global environmental change. Through a rich set of case studies, i...
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    47,20 €

  • Spoil Island
    Charlie Hailey
    Spoil islands are overlooked places combining dirt with paradise, waste-land with “brave new world,” and wildness with human intervention.Mundane products of dredging, these islands form an uninvestigated archipelago that demonstrates the potential value and contested re-valuation of landscapes of waste. Research navigates the U.S. east coast from New York City to Key West, exa...
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    166,09 €

  • Global Food Futures
    Brian Gardner
    By 2050 the world will be faced with the enormous challenge of feeding 9 billion people despite being affected by climate change, rising energy costs and pressure on food growing land and other major resources. How will the world produce 70% more food by 2050 to feed a projected extra 2.3 billion people? What will be the impact of food shortages and high prices on areas i...
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    209,89 €

  • Fogradh, Faisneachd, Filidheachd / Parting, Prophecy, Poetry
    Duncan B. Blair / John Alick MacPherson
    Rev. Duncan B. Blair (1815-1893) was 'an excellent linguist, a good poet, and a devout man. As an accurate writer of Gaelic he had no superior.' Blair composed sacred poems, laments and secular poems and songs. Mac-Talla, the first Gaelic newspaper in the world was published in Sydney, Nova Scotia, between 1892 and 1904. Blair's contributions to Mac-Talla were extensive. In th...
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    14,88 €

  • Mediterranean Islands, Fragile Communities and Persistent Landscapes
    Andrew Bevan / James Conolly
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    114,71 €

  • Encountering Gorillas
    James L. Newman / James LNewman
    Newman brings a lifetime of study to this exploration of the varied interaction between gorillas and humans. Tragically, most gorillas are now endangered, and those in zoos and sanctuaries now lead much more secure lives. This compelling book helps us understand how our image of gorillas has been distorted and clarified through culture and science and how we now control the des...
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    100,56 €

  • 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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    105,83 €

  • The Black Book
    Wesley J. Reisser / Wesley JReisser
    This book is the first ever in-depth look at the geographic peace plans used by the United States at the end of World War I. It analyzes the negotiation and implementation of these plans and analyzes the lasting impact of the territorial settlements on the ensuing history of Europe and the Middle East. ...
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    62,64 €

  • Critical Rural Theory
    Alexander R. Thomas / Alexander RThomas / Brian Lowe / Greg Fulkerson
    Critical Rural Theory provides an exploratory foundation for anyone interested in examining the hegemonic power of urbanization and its impacts on rural people and places. This book is without parallel in the rural sociological literature for its commitment to uncovering the power of culture in addition to structure and space in maintaining urban power. ...
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    63,98 €

  • The Morality of China in Africa
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    34,49 €

  • Celts in the Americas
    Michael Newton
    Celtic-speaking peoples of Brittany, Cornwall, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Scottish Highlands and Wales played a vital role in the history of Europe and the Americas. Immigrant Celtic communities enjoyed many significant accomplishments explored in this volume: continuing and developing literary traditions, establishing organizations to represent their origins and concerns, a...
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    28,16 €

  • Dear Birmingham
    Karamat Iqbal
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    18,16 €

  • Global Information Society
    Aharon Kellerman / Kenneth E. Corey / Kenneth ECorey / Mark I. Wilson / Mark IWilson
    This unique and empowering text offers a comprehensive, global perspective on the information society from a broad social science perspective. The authors, at the forefront of this dynamic field, provide an interdisciplinary introduction to the three pillars of the information society—technology, knowledge, and mobility—and to the global information society as a whole, both as ...
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    55,35 €

  • Global Information Society
    Aharon Kellerman / Kenneth E. Corey / Kenneth ECorey / Mark I. Wilson / Mark IWilson
    This unique and empowering text offers a comprehensive, global perspective on the information society from a broad social science perspective. The authors, at the forefront of this dynamic field, provide an interdisciplinary introduction to the three pillars of the information society—technology, knowledge, and mobility—and to the global information society as a whole, both as ...
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    166,25 €

  • An Environmental History of Russia
    Karl Hall / Oleg Cherp / Paul R. Josephson / Paul RJosephson
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    111,60 €

  • The Psychogeography of Urban Architecture
    David Prescott-Steed
    This praxis-based book explores how an improvisational, creative and embodied practice such as the dérive works to defamiliarise our experience of the late modern built environment, fostering new insight into routinised cultural behaviours.In addition to detailing the key contexts of modernity, this book includes case studies on the work of Viktor Shklovsky, Craig Raine, George...
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    33,08 €

  • Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia
    In order to move global society towards a sustainable 'ecotopia,' solutions must be engaged in specific places and communities, and the authors here argue for re-orienting environmental anthropology from a problem-oriented towards a solutions-focused endeavor. Using case studies from around the world, the contributors-scholar-activists and activist-practitioners- examine the ...
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    163,06 €

  • Geographical Diversions
    Tina Harris
    Working at the intersections of cultural anthropology, human geography, and material culture, Tina Harris explores the social and economic transformations taking place along one trade route that winds its way across China, Nepal, Tibet, and India.How might we make connections between seemingly mundane daily life and more abstract levels of global change? Geographical Diversions...
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    31,79 €

  • Finding a Sense of Place
    Bob H. Reinhardt
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    20,44 €


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