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  • Listening to Sea Lions
    Meltzoff / Sarah Keene Meltzoff
    From the Galapagos to the depths of Patagonia and up along the stark desert coast of Chile, Listening to Sea Lions empathic ethnography carries the reader directly into the heart of the ocean world of Latino coastal people. Sea lions are the fellow denizens in nature who share the perpetual changes and are seen as metaphoric selves. Meltzoff uses storytelling rather than explic...
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    141,37 €

  • Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore
    Marisela B. Gomez / Marisela BGomez
    Using the East Baltimore community as an example this book examines historical and current rebuilding practices in abandoned communities in urban America, their structural causes, and outcomes on the health of the place and the people. The role of community organizing as a necessary means to assure benefit during and after resident displacement, its challenges and successes, ar...
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    156,60 €

  • 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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    148,19 €

  • Climate Change and Displacement
    Jane McAdam
    Environmental migration is not new. Nevertheless, the events and processes accompanying global climate change threaten to increase human movement both within states and across international borders. The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change has predicted an increased frequency and severity of climate events such as storms, cyclones and hurricanes, as well as longer-term se...
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    50,91 €

  • China’s Urban Billion
    Tom Miller
    By 2030, China’s cities will be home to 1 billion people - one in every eight people on earth. What kind of lives will China’s urban billion lead? And what will China’s cities be like? Over the past thirty years, China’s urban population expanded by 500 million people, and is on track to swell by a further 300 million by 2030. Hundreds of millions of these new urban residents a...
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    141,46 €

  • Economic Life of Mexican Beach Vendors
    Tamar Diana Wilson
    Based on the life histories of 166 beach vendors in three Mexican tourist centers—men and women whose income-generating activities form part of the informal or semi-informal economy—Economic Life of Mexican Beach Vendors explores their educational and employment aspirations and their family connections to vending. It also addresses how the vendors have been affected by the curr...
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    131,85 €

  • Resilience and the Cultural Landscape
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    110,07 €

  • Reshaping Environments
    Helena Bender
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    120,13 €

  • Industrial Disasters, Toxic Waste, and Community Impact
    Adeola / 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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    156,50 €

  • The Valtellina and UNESCO
    Puleo / Thomas J. Puleo / Thomas JPuleo
    This book engages globalization in its complexity, one in which economy, politics, society, culture, environment, history, and technology combine to make places at multiple scales. Rooted theoretically in the work of Michel Serres and empirically in the Valtellina, a valley in the Italian Alps, it charts the efforts of a local nonprofit organization to inscribe the valley’s ter...
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    131,93 €

  • The Mobile City of Accra. Urban Families, Housing and Residential Practices
    Elizabeth Ardayfio-Schandorf / Monique Bertrand / Paul W.K. Yankson / Paul W.KYankson
    This book is a product of collaborative research between the Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD, France), the University of Ghana, Legon and CODESRIA. It examines various economic, social and environmental challenges of urbanization that critically affect the capital of Ghana, which has experienced high demographic growth and territorial expansion. This work analy...
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    59,57 €

  • Landscapes Beyond Land
    Land is embedded in a multitude of material and cultural contexts, through which the human experience of landscape emerges. Ethnographers, with their participative methodologies, long-term co-residence, and concern with the quotidian aspects of the places where they work, are well positioned to describe landscapes in this fullest of senses. The contributors explore how landsca...
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    184,36 €

  • Africa, Tropical Timber, Turfs, and Trade
    J. Henry Owusu / JHenry Owusu / Owusa
    This book examines development issues, particularly spatial integration, in Sub-Saharan Africa regarding its tropical timber trade, and the related formal-informal operational turf creation, control and dynamics. Focusing primarily on Ghana, it examines the scramble to control the timber trade by various political and socio-economic interests, from the colonial to the neo-liber...
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    149,71 €

  • 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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    166,06 €

  • Climate Change and Human Mobility
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    151,09 €

  • Peri-urban Land Transactions. Everyday Practices and Relations in Peri-urban Blantyre, Malawi
    Ignasio Malizani Jimu
    This book explores the changing land relations in the peri-urban villages of Blantyre in Malawi. It questions and debates how and why the peri-urban villages have become the locus of the selling and buying of customary land, the practices and also the relations involved. The book provides rich ethnographic insights on the commodification of land relations, custom, practices, d...
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    78,22 €

  • An Environmental History of Ancient Greece and Rome
    Lukas Thommen
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    70,28 €

  • Placing Animals
    Julie Urbanik
    Placing Animals is the first book to survey the ways in which animals have been studied in geography. It includes both a historical overview of the development of animal geography and an assessment of the field today. Through the theme of the role of place in shaping where and why human-animal interactions occur, the chapters in turn explore the history of animal geography and ...
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    158,32 €

  • Placing Animals
    Julie Urbanik
    Placing Animals is the first book to survey the ways in which animals have been studied in geography. It includes both a historical overview of the development of animal geography and an assessment of the field today. Through the theme of the role of place in shaping where and why human-animal interactions occur, the chapters in turn explore the history of animal geography and ...
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    51,77 €

  • Environment and Citizenship in Latin America
    This book is a major contribution to our understanding of environmental politics in Latin America. The chapters present a wealth of original research that shows that environmental concerns are part of the daily life of indigenous populations and other grassroots groups. The theoretical frame of environmental citizenship provides a compelling way for thinking about how their env...
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    184,20 €

  • Spiritual Ecology
    Leslie Sponsel
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    82,14 €

  • 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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    132,16 €

  • Border Walls
    Reece Jones
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    39,57 €

  • Solidarity
    David Featherstone
    In Solidarity, David Featherstone addresses a necessary and timely topic. Despite the frequency with which the word "solidarity" is invoked, it has in fact rarely been the subject of rigorous analysis. Instead, the forms that solidarities take are frequently taken as given. This book redresses this situation by drawing on an innovative combination of archival research, oral his...
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    33,97 €

  • Renovación y reestructuración de destinos turísticos en áreas costeras
    Autores Varios
    El presente texto recoge distintos trabajos y reflexiones sobre los procesos de renovación experimentados por destinos y áreas turísticas, en el ámbito nacional e internacional, a la vez que muestra la complejidad e importancia del tema objeto de estudio, en consonancia con las profundas transformaciones que está experimentando el mercado turístico. Los autores han adoptado una...
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    25,00 €

  • Genocide and the Geographical Imagination
    James A. Tyner / James ATyner
    This groundbreaking book brings an important spatial perspective to our understanding of genocide through a fresh interpretation of Germany under Hitler, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, and China’s Great Leap Forward famine under Mao. James A. Tyner's powerful analysis of these horrifying cases provides insight into the larger questions of sovereignty and state policies tha...
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    94,74 €

  • Navigating Power
    Gelaye Debebe
    Navigating Power: Cross-Cultural Competence in Navajoland by Gelaye Debebe uses data of an inter-organizational relationship between a Navajo and Anglo organization to show how concerns about political inequality trump cultural differences. Debebe examines how interactions among individuals representing culturally dissimilar and politically unequal groups impact task coordinati...
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    132,14 €

  • Caribbean Geography
    Thomas A. Rumney / Thomas ARumney
    The lands and waters of the Caribbean region have stimulated an extensive body of research and writing across the many fields of geography. This book collects, organizes, and presents as many of these scholarly publications as possible to aid in the teaching, study, and further scholarship of the geography of this area. ...
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    163,85 €

  • Explaining Culture
    Loren Demerath
    This provocative book offers a new theory of culture with a unique focus on our aesthetic response to order and meaningfulness. ...
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    132,19 €

  • Child Soldiers
    David M. PH.D. Rosen / David MPH.DRosen
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    82,00 €


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