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  • Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems
    John H. Bodley / John HBodley
    Bodley trenchantly critiques the most pressing global mega-problems, such as unsustainable growth, resource depletion, global warming, and poverty and conflict, and shows how anthropology makes it possible to find solutions. ...
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    214,46 €

  • Reforming Federal Land Management
    Allan K. Fitzsimmons / Allan KFitzsimmons
    For over a century, American have created laws, processes, objectives, priorities, and rules for federal land management that often conflict, contradict, and undermine each other. We now find ourselves with inconsistent laws, unclear priorities, procedural mazes, and an antiquated bureaucratic structure. Processes and procedures often impede rather than aid management actions a...
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    112,76 €

  • Issues in Women’s Land Rights in Cameroon
    This book explores the customary, social, economic political and rights issues surrounding access, ownership and control over land from a gender perspective. It combines theory and practice from researchers, lawyers and judges, each with track records of working on women and rights concerns. The nexus between the reluctance to recognize and materialize women’s right to land, an...
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    51,33 €

  • Securitization of Human Rights
    Mikyoung Kim
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    79,96 €

  • Environment and Society - Volume 2
    Environment and societyVolume 2 • 2011The field of research on environment and society is growing rapidly and becoming of ever-greater importance not only in academia but also in policy circles and for the public at large. This growth reflects the urgency of debate and the pace and scale of change with respect to the water crisis, deforestation, biodiversity loss, the looming e...
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    247,10 €

  • Doubting sex
    Geertje Mak
    This groundbreaking analysis of nineteenth-century European clinical case histories of hermaphrodites shows how sex changed from an outward appearance inscribed in a social body to something to be found deep inside body and self. ...
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    157,34 €

  • Making Political Geography
    John Agnew / Luca Muscarà
    Now thoroughly revised and updated, this concise text offers a deeply knowledgeable and balanced history and overview of political geography since its inception in the late nineteenth century. Rather than trying to impose a single “fashionable” theory, leading geographers John Agnew and Luca Muscarà consider the underlying role of changing geopolitical context for understanding...
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    182,85 €

  • Making Political Geography
    John Agnew / Luca Muscarà
    Now thoroughly revised and updated, this concise text offers a deeply knowledgeable and balanced history and overview of political geography since its inception in the late nineteenth century. Rather than trying to impose a single “fashionable” theory, leading geographers John Agnew and Luca Muscarà consider the underlying role of changing geopolitical context for understanding...
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    80,27 €

  • Faces around the World
    Margo DeMello
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    142,30 €

  • Landscape Ethnoecology
    [The editors] have brought together many of the most innovative thinkers and field workers to ponder how local communities make sense of the landscapes in which they live, and upon which they depend. This volume is rich with insights about how cultures perceive the spaces, landforms and habitats which nourish them. Gary Paul Nabhan, PhD., author, Singing the Turtles to Sea and ...
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    44,15 €

  • Culture and Customs of Mali
    Dorothea Schulz
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    77,34 €

  • Trains, Literature, and Culture
    This volume delves into the rich connections between rail travel and the creation of cultural products from short stories to novels, from photographs to travel guides, and from artistic manifestos of the avant-garde to Freud’s psychology. Each of the contributions engages in critical readings of textual or visual representations of trains across a wide spectrum of time periods ...
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    142,86 €

  • African Diaspora Identities
    John A. Arthur / John AArthur
    This book positions the identities that African émigrés negotiate in transnational migration. It seeks to investigate the structure and modalities of the broader social contexts and parameters underpinning how these identities are constructed and rationalized. The identities African immigrants depict are transnational, resilient, enterprising, altruistic, and based upon a yearn...
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    65,12 €

  • Human Development in the Twenty-First Century
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    57,78 €

  • Transforming Diaspora
    Transforming Diaspora explores the effects of the present historical moment on diaspora. These essays examine the changing relationships between diasporas, homelands, and hostlands within the context of transnationalism and globalization. Transforming Diaspora teases out the distinguishing characteristics of distinct diasporic communities and experiences to challenge the monoli...
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    111,31 €

  • Heidegger, Politics and Climate Change
    Ruth Irwin
    The scale of some environmental problems, such as climate change and human overpopulation, exceed any one nation state and require either co-ordinated governance or a shift in the culture of modernity. Heidegger, Politics and Climate Change examines this crisis alongside Heidegger’s ideas about technology and modernity. Heidegger suggests that refocusing on the primary questio...
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    64,26 €

  • Ethnic Groups of Africa and the Middle East
    John Shoup
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    142,47 €

  • Iron Making in the Olden Times as Instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of the Forest of Dean
    H. G. Nicholls / HGNicholls
    In this fully illustrated book, the Rev. H. G. Nicholls, M.A., studies the historical evidence of the Iron Ore Mining in the Forest of Dean from the earliest times. The book contains these words in the introduction:In the year 1780, wrote Mr. Wyrrall, in his valuable MS. on the ancient iron works of the Forest:-'There are, deep in the earth, vast caverns scooped out by men’s ha...
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    16,63 €

  • Living with Things
    Nicky Gregson
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    42,13 €

  • Bordering and Ordering the Twenty-first Century
    Gabriel Popescu
    This timely book introduces readers to the central question of borders in the twenty-first century. After familiarizing readers with border thinking and making from antiquity to the present, Gabriel Popescu turns a critical eye on current concepts, processes, and contexts. Assessing the latest theoretical approaches to border studies, the author deftly incorporates a range of d...
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    61,37 €

  • A Handbook of Military Conscription and Composition the World Over
    Mohamed Alaa Abdel-Moneim / Rita J. Simon / Rita James Simon / Rita JSimon
    This book provides data on the main policies guiding military mobilization and structures. It addresses the gender, racial, and political forces that shaped these policies. ...
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    133,31 €

  • An Integrative Approach to Human Geography
    Cynthia A. Miller / Cynthia AMiller / Jose Javier Lopez / Wayne E. Allen / Wayne EAllen
    An Integrative Approach to Human Geography is a compendium of geographic topics that attempts to give readers an understanding of common themes in social science literature that concerns geographers. Combining essays selected from geographers and non-geographers, this anthology illustrates the presence of geography in texts and manuscripts that people often label as non-geograp...
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    161,05 €

  • Common Ground
    Mark Everard
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    46,10 €

  • Environment and Society - Volume 1
    Environment and societyVolume 1 • 2010The field of research on environment and society is growing rapidly and becoming of ever-greater importance not only in academia but also in policy circles and for the public at large. This growth reflects the urgency of debate and the pace and scale of change with respect to the water crisis, deforestation, biodiversity loss, the looming e...
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    247,10 €

  • Ethnobotanic Resources of Tropical Montane Forests. Indigenous Uses of Plants in the Cameroon Highland Ecoregion
    Emmanuel Neba Ndenecho
    Mountain forests provide important ecological services, and essential products. This book focuses on the importance of mountain forests in Cameroon for the local people who depend most directly on them, and have often developed a wealth of indigenous knowledge on plants and sophisticated institutions for managing limited plant and animal resources. Such knowledge and institutio...
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    67,38 €

  • Decentralisation and Spatial Rural Development Planning in Cameroon
    Emmanuel Neba Ndenecho
    Despite rapid urbanisation, Africa remains predominantly rural. This calls for decentralisation beyond the dominant concern by states and government with urban spaces. Rural areas, rural development and the future of rural settlements need to be understood and addressed in the context of the ongoing democratisation trends and the emergence and development of civil society. Stat...
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    75,43 €

  • Climate Extremes and Society
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    57,24 €

  • The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona - with original illustrations and index - Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Gove
    Cosmos Mindeleff
    The Canyon de Chelly is one of the best Cliff Ruins regions in the United States. This book details the pueblo dwellings in the region, with over a hundred black and white diagrams and photographs. The original index and footnotes have been preserved. ...
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    20,16 €

  • Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt
    Alan Mikhail
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    136,07 €

  • Moving Stories
    Alistair Thomson
    This is a unique collaboration between a historian and four ordinary women who were extraordinary letters-writers, family photographers and memoirists. Taken together, these stories enrich and complicate our understanding of key themes in twentieth century British and Australian women’s history. ...
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    30,14 €


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