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  • The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century
    Robert DBullard
    This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and investments) in shaping cities and metropolitan regions; the costs and consequences of uneven urban and regional growth patterns; suburban sprawl and public health, transportation, and economic development; and the enduring connection of...
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    161,91 €

  • The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century
    Robert DBullard
    This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and investments) in shaping cities and metropolitan regions; the costs and consequences of uneven urban and regional growth patterns; suburban sprawl and public health, transportation, and economic development; and the enduring connection of...
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    59,71 €

  • Influences of Geographic Environment on the Basis of Ratzel’s System of Anthropo-Geography
    Ellen Churchill Semple
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
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    43,22 €

  • Boundary Politics and International Boundaries of Iran
    Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh
    This book is about Iranian boundaries at a time when crisis of various nature are occurring around Iran, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan, with immediate effect on the Iranian borderlands and substantial effect of Iran’s relations with her neighbours. Furthermore, issues like the legal regime of the Caspian Sea and the UAE claims on the Iranian-owned and Iranian-held islands ...
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    38,07 €

  • Land, Custom and Practice in the South Pacific
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    97,16 €

  • An Environmental History of Latin America
    Shawn William Miller
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    111,94 €

  • An Environmental History of Latin America
    Shawn William Miller
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    33,34 €

  • America’s Strategy in Southeast Asia
    James A. Tyner / James ATyner
    Since the end of the Second World War, Southeast Asia has served as a surrogate space to further American imperial interests, which are economic, political, territorial, and moral in scope. America's Strategy in Southeast Asia contends that the construction of Southeast Asia as a geographic entity has been a crucial component in the creation of the American empire. America&...
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    167,75 €

  • America’s Strategy in Southeast Asia
    James A. Tyner / James ATyner
    Since the end of the Second World War, Southeast Asia has served as a surrogate space to further American imperial interests, which are economic, political, territorial, and moral in scope. America’s Strategy in Southeast Asia contends that the construction of Southeast Asia as a geographic entity has been a crucial component in the creation of the American empire. America’s mo...
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    69,51 €

  • The Recurring Dark Ages
    Sing C. Chew / Sing CChew
    In this modern era of global environmental crisis, Sing Chew provides a convincing analysis of a 5,000-year history of recurring human and environmental crises_a Dark Ages significant in defining the relationship between nature and culture. The author’s message about the coming Dark Ages, as human communities continue to reorganize to meet the contingencies of ecological scarci...
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    161,83 €

  • Pakistan
    Yasmeen Mohiuddin
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    84,31 €

  • Managing Coastal Vulnerability
    Addresses coastal vulnerability around the world with examples from the Ebro Delta (Spain), the crumbling cliffs of Corton Village/Suffolk (UK), tsunami-worn Phuket (Thailand/Indian Ocean), and others. This work is intended for academics, researchers, students and policy advisors in geography, economics, sociology, and environmental science. ...
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    196,54 €

  • The Recurring Dark Ages
    Sing C Chew / Sing C. Chew / Sing CChew
    In this modern era of global environmental crisis, Sing Chew provides a convincing analysis of a 5,000-year history of recurring human and environmental crises_a Dark Ages significant in defining the relationship between nature and culture. The author’s message about the coming Dark Ages, as human communities continue to reorganize to meet the contingencies of ecological scarci...
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    70,50 €

  • The Culture of Fengshui in Korea
    Hong-Key Yoon
    Hong-Key Yoon’s book explores the nature of geomantic principles (fengshui) and the culture of practicing them in Korean cultural contexts. He clearly analyzes the nature and historical background of geomancy, the principles for selecting auspicious sites, and provides an extensive interpretation of geomantic principles as practiced in Korea. The impacts of geomancy on traditio...
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    163,26 €

  • Reflections on Identity in Four African
    Philippe Gervais-Lambony
    Identity has become the watchword of our times. In sub-Saharan Africa, this certainly appears to be true and for particular reasons. Africa is urbanising rapidly, cross-border migration streams are swelling and globalising influences sweep across the continent. Africa is also facing up to the challenge of nurturing emergent democracies in which citizens often feel torn between ...
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    54,80 €

  • Cows, Kin, and Globalization
    Susan ACrate / Susan Alexandra Crate
    Crate presents the first cultural ecological study of a Siberian people: the Viliui Sakha, describing the local and global forces of modernization that continue to challenge their survival, and will be of interest to environmental and economic anthropologists, as well as to practitioners interested in sustainable rural development, globalization, indigenous rights in Eurasia, a...
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    63,25 €

  • Politics and Globalization
    Harland Prechel
    Scholars, political leaders, and members of the business community tend to narrowly focus on globalization as an economic phenomenon. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives, this title includes articles that empirically examine the political response to globalization in diverse geographic and historical contexts. ...
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    211,74 €

  • Culture, Politics, and Development in Postcolonial Sri Lanka
    Nalani Hennayake
    In this book, Nalani Hennayake unravels how the development experience of a postcolonial society is deeply embedded in a complex historical relationship between culture and politics by focusing on the country of Sri Lanka. ...
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    136,10 €

  • The Emergence of Us
    Tim Gooding
    What force compels people who are deeply concerned about the state of the earth to pollute on a daily basis?Just as gravity affects us all regardless of whether you believe in science, spiritual laws, or the omnipotence of God, human emergent behavior works invisibly to define the character of our society.These forces are created whenever enough people come together to form a g...
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    17,58 €

  • Land Degradation
    Douglas Johnson / Douglas L. Johnson / Douglas LJohnson / Laurence A. Lewis / Laurence ALewis
    This up-to-date, second edition of Land Degradation explores substantial decreases in the land’s biological productivity or usefulness to humans due to human activities. Case studies cover the history of land degradation, local and regional effects of human interactions with the environment, and both negative and positive aspects of land modification. Extensively illustrated, L...
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    189,19 €

  • European Responses to Globalization
    Explores the institutional, economic and ideational factors that shaped the way in which Europe adapted to, resisted, and responded to the challenges of globalization. This book reveals 3 main strategies adopted by European political actors in their response: resistance, adaptation, and the production of alternatives to global norms and practices. ...
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    211,93 €

  • The New African Diaspora in North America
    The New African Diaspora in North America brings together sociologists, social workers, geographers, economists, anthropologists and others to explore the African immigrant experience from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The contributors shed light on the factors behind the increasing wave in African immigration to the U.S. and Canada, the socio-economic characteristics of Af...
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    149,54 €

  • Making a Christian Landscape
    Sam Prof. Turner / Sam Turner
    Sam Turner’s important new interpretation of early medieval patterns of landscape development traces landscape change in the South West from the introduction of Christianity to the Norman Conquest (AD c. 450–1070). ...
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    47,39 €

  • Making a Christian Landscape
    Sam Prof. Turner / Sam Turner
    Sam Turner’s important new interpretation of early medieval patterns of landscape development traces landscape change in the South West from the introduction of Christianity to the Norman Conquest (AD c. 450–1070). ...
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    141,95 €

  • Six Billion Plus
    K. Bruce Newbold / KBruce Newbold
    Recognizing that world population growth will be explosive well into the twenty-first century, Six Billion Plus offers a geographical and global perspective on the profound implications of this trend. This compact, balanced, and accessible text focuses on the key factors that will shape the global environment in the decades to come, including population fertility, epidemics lik...
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    157,94 €

  • Six Billion Plus
    K Bruce Newbold / K. Bruce Newbold / KBruce Newbold
    Recognizing that world population growth will be explosive well into the twenty-first century, Six Billion Plus offers a geographical and global perspective on the profound implications of this trend. This compact, balanced, and accessible text focuses on the key factors that will shape the global environment in the decades to come, including population fertility, epidemics lik...
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    55,72 €

  • Adventures into Mexico
    Nicholas Bloom
    Moving beyond the tequila-soaked clichés of Mexican tourism, this multifaceted book explores the influence and experiences of Americans in Mexico since World War II. The authors trace Mexico's growing role as an important refuge for Americans seeking not only sun and fun but an alternative cultural and social model. Delving into the rich and varied worlds of political exile...
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    55,78 €

  • The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
    The location of 'the South' is hardly a settled or static geographic concept. Culturally speaking, are Florida and Arkansas really part of the same region? Is Texas considered part of the South or the West? This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture grapples with the contestable issue of where the cultural South is located, both on maps and in the minds of American...
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    38,18 €

  • Adventures into Mexico
    Nicholas Dagen Bloom
    Moving beyond the tequila-soaked clichés of Mexican tourism, this multifaceted book explores the influence and experiences of Americans in Mexico since World War II. The authors trace Mexico’s growing role as an important refuge for Americans seeking not only sun and fun but an alternative cultural and social model. Delving into the rich and varied worlds of political exiles, s...
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    148,48 €

  • Unions and Communities Under Siege
    Clark Gordon L. / Gordon L. Clark / Gordon LClark
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    77,41 €


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