Kim Knott, Karim H. Karim, Sean McLoughlin, Jeffrey Lesser, Homi Bhabha, Peter Mandaville, Terrance Lyons, Claire Dwyer, Manuel A. Vasquez, Jaine Beswick
Landscapes in Southern Africa continue to bear traces of colonial control, civil conflict, poverty, and unequal land distribution. Increasingly urgent documentary projects have emerged in relationship to place over the transition years from aparth...Lasīt vairāk
The First Mapping of America tells the story of the General Survey. At the heart of the story lie the remarkable maps and the men who made them - the commanding and highly professional Samuel Holland, Surveyor-General in the North, and the bril...Lasīt vairāk
The 1943 battle to free the Soviet Black Sea port of Novorossiisk from German occupation was fought from the beach head of Malaia zemlia, where the young Colonel Leonid Brezhnev saw action. Despite widespread scepticism of the states appropria...Lasīt vairāk
Sir Ranulph Fiennes looks back on a life lived at the very limits of human endeavour. An updated and revised edition of Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know, published to celebrate the authors 75th year....Lasīt vairāk
In February 1966, two teams planned the first direct ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, long renowned as the most dangerous climb in the Swiss Alps. The race was on and triumph or tragedy awaited. Award-winning writer Peter Gillman and emin...Lasīt vairāk
Why do some democracies redistribute more than others? Election practices cause some governments to deliver policies, such as industrial subsidies, that assist small groups of citizens at the expense of many. Spending to Win will find interest...Lasīt vairāk
Analysing developments in digital technologies and institutional changes, this book provides an overview of the current frenetic state of transformation within the global automobile industry. An ongoing transition brought about by the ...Lasīt vairāk
This beautiful art book portrays the forces of nature through the main elements of Earth, Water, Air, Fire. It is composed from a large selection of unique images of a wide variety of sources, mostly private collections. It is a highly illustrated bo...Lasīt vairāk
This volume is devoted to the geographicalor spatialaspects of population research in regional science, spanning spatial demographic methods for population composition and migration to studies of internal and international migration to investigatio...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the growing phenomenon of music tourism - the phenomenon of people visiting places because of a connection with music. Asking how an abstract art form such as music can lead to tourism and how the popularity of music tourism...Lasīt vairāk
Rebuilding the Earth highlights humanitys interdependence with the planets ecosystems. These approaches are founded on restoration and protection of ecosystems - water and soil, forests, marine and coastal resources, urban infrastructure, far...Lasīt vairāk
Chapter 4 suggests that whether shrinkage constitutes a problem or not depends upon the interpretations of those in power, but also upon political, economic and geographic conditions Chapter 5 seeks to understand why local level policymakers av...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Jan-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487504298)
Not Good Enough for Canada investigates the development of Canadian immigration policy with respect to persons with a disease or disability throughout the twentieth century. With an emphasis on social history, this book examines the way t...Lasīt vairāk
Governing Arctic Seas introduces the concept of ecopolitical regions, using in-depth analyses of the Bering Strait and Barents Sea Regions to demonstrate how integrating the natural sciences, social sciences and Indigenous knowled...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 17-Jan-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781118217733)
An authoritative guide to the essential techniques and most recent advances in urban remote sensing Techniques and Methods in Urban Remote Sensing offers a comprehensive guide to the recent theories, methods, techniques, and applications in u...Lasīt vairāk