Catálogo de libros: Geografía humana

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  • The World as Abyss
    David Chandler / Jonathan Pugh
    This book is about a distinctive ’abyssal’ approach to the crisis of modernity. In this framing, influenced by contemporary critical Black studies, another understanding of the world of modernity is foregrounded - a world violently forged through the projects of Indigenous dispossession, chattel slavery and colonial world-making. Modern and colonial world-making violently forge...
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    18,92 €

  • Key Methods in Geography
    Covering both qualitative and quantitative methods, this is a new edition of the essential companion for human and physical geography students. The book has 8 brand new chapters and brings greater diversity of positionality and perspective to the volume. ...
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    85,11 €

  • Key Methods in Geography
    Covering both qualitative and quantitative methods, this is a new edition of the essential companion for human and physical geography students. The book has 8 brand new chapters and brings greater diversity of positionality and perspective to the volume. ...
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    235,92 €

  • Man and Nature
    George P. Marsh
    After being appointed the United States Minister Resident to the Ottoman Empire in 1849, George P. Marsh had the opportunity to travel the world and visit the sites of ancient civilizations. Troubled by what he saw, Marsh came to the conclusion that these societies were victims of self-destruction and that the same fate could be in store for the nations of today. Moved to actio...
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    20,52 €

  • Turning up the heat
    The collection brings together theoretical discussions and rigorous empirical analysis by key scholars in order to move Urban Political Ecology into current debates about urbanization and climate change. ...
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    43,85 €

  • Turning up the heat
    The collection brings together theoretical discussions and rigorous empirical analysis by key scholars in order to move Urban Political Ecology into current debates about urbanization and climate change. ...
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    169,20 €

  • The power of pragmatism
    Making the case for a pragmatist approach to social inquiry and knowledge production, sixteen contributors illustrate the power of pragmatism to inform democratic, community-centred, action-oriented research. ...
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    44,05 €

  • Threads
    Edie Ayala
    After a tragic loss, a woman becomes obsessed with knitting and hoarding magnificent little sweaters. When one of them is inadvertently shipped to Chile, it’s stolen by a poverty-stricken single mother, and the two women are connected in more ways than one. Irene’s life in a privileged neighborhood of small town Canada is all going according to plan. But when she loses a child ...
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    18,15 €

  • Participatory Practice in Space, Place, and Service Design
    Kelly L. Anderson
    ’Participatory Practice in Space, Place, and Service Design’ is premised on a belief in the importance of participatory practices in finding creative solutions to the plethora of problems we face today. It argues that engaging professions with the public in mutual exploration, analysis, and creative thinking is essential. It not only ensures better quality products, places, ser...
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    64,82 €

  • Rural quality of life
    Rural quality of life is a multidisciplinary and critical contribution from 49 authors from Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania to the understanding of quality of life in rural areas in the global North. They point to the need for vision among planners, policymakers, and people in general in the diversity in lived quality of rural life ...
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    193,04 €

  • Living with water
    This interdisciplinary collection highlights the ways in which water is an irreducible part of the way we live. ...
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    169,48 €

  • Expatriate
    Sarah Kunz
    Expatriate offers an in-depth study of the history and politics of the category expatriate. The book works across multiple sites to tell situated stories about the category’s (re)making, contestation and lived experience and shows that migration is a key terrain on which colonial power relations are reproduced, reworked and translated today. ...
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    157,28 €

  • Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility
    Andrea Noelani Brower
    How Hawaiʻi became the epicenter of the biotech seed industry, and how a resistance movement arose to confront the industry’s power. Hawaiʻi is a primary site for development of herbicide-resistant corn seed and, until recently, was host to more experimental field trials of genetically engineered crops than anywhere else in the world. It is also a node of powerful resistance. ...
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    33,62 €

  • Transport and Pandemic Experiences
    Transport and Pandemic Experiences discusses how the accumulated knowledge of the pandemic needs to be capitalised in our fight against climate change and helps to identify future research imperatives for better understanding and greater policy transferability. ...
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    200,31 €

  • Understanding Urban Warfare
    Collins / John Prof. Spencer / John Spencer / Liam Dr. Collins
    No environment is more challenging for militaries than a city. No form of combat is more inherently destructive than urban warfare. And yet too often, militaries are both unprepared for the challenges of cities and unable to avoid being pulled into brutal urban fights. In an increasingly urban world, the future character of conflict will also be increasingly urban. This book se...
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    71,77 €

  • Exploring World History through Geography
    Julie Dunbar
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    141,04 €

  • Examining Education around the World
    Fred Shelley
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    140,92 €

  • The New Generation Z in Asia
    The New Generation Z in Asia: Dynamics, Differences, Digitalization is the first book to compare the Asiatic Generation Z (born 1990-1995) in terms of country and culture specific drivers and characteristics based on interdisciplinary and international scientific research. ...
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    59,85 €

  • To be a Marma
    Farhana Hoque
    How does being located in borderlands impact cultural identity, through both assimilation and distinctness?This exploration of the self-identified Marma group, the second largest ethnic group in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh, discusses various aspects of identity creation, maintenance and adaptation in the unique setting of the geo-political border between Sout...
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    23,77 €

  • Global biographies
    Global biographies offers a thorough historiographical intervention, a new set of biographical approaches to global history - ’time and periodization’, ’exceptional normal’ and ’space and scales’ - and a broad and critically reflective set of case-studies spanning the globe. ...
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    157,20 €

  • Seeing Like a Smuggler
    The word smuggler often unleashes a simplified, negative image painted by the media and the authorities. Such state-centric perspectives hide many social, political, and economic relations generated by smuggling. This book looks at the practice through the eyes of the smugglers, revealing how their work can be productive, subversive, and deeply sociopolitical. By tracing the il...
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    127,19 €

  • Affective intimacies
    This cutting-edge edited collection provides a novel terrain for rethinking intimacies through the lens of affect theories. ...
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    157,67 €

  • Locating the Mediterranean
    Until today, anthropological studies of locality have taken primary interest in local subjects leading local lives in local communities. Through a shift of conceptual emphasis from locality to location, the present volume departs from previous preoccupations with identity and belonging. Instead, Locating the Mediterranean brings together ethnographic examinations of processes t...
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    41,30 €

  • Thinking Ecologically, Thinking Responsibly
    Engages and extends the feminist philosopher Lorraine Code’s groundbreaking work on epistemology and ethics. ...
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    42,97 €

  • Borderland
    Phil Hubbard
    This book considers the past, present and future of Kent, alighting on the key sites which symbolise the changing relationship between the UK and its continental neighbours. ...
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    145,17 €

  • European cities
    European cities: Modernity, race and colonialism is a collection of empirical and theoretical scholarly analyses of multiple urban processes across the East-West European divide, inviting the reader to reimagine urban Europe from non-Eurocentric perspectives, and to engage active thought and thoughtful action. ...
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    157,20 €

  • Factors Improve Social Development
    John Lok
    Nowadays, human must hope have comfortable lives. Every one must need comfortable feeling to live in our earth in any country. I write this book aims to give my opinion whether what aspects are our most hope in order we can live more comfortable as well as owning safe feeling. I shall concentrate on researching these several aspects that I feel we need to concern how to improve...
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    11,43 €

  • The social significance of dining out
    Alan Warde / Jennifer Whillans / Jessica Paddock
    The book reports on a major research project on changes in dining out in three cities in England. It compares systematically popular practice in 1995 and 2015. Differences in taste and behaviour surrounding eating in restaurants and as guests of friends are put in the context of wider social and cultural trends. ...
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    44,09 €

  • Factors Influence Human Failure Development
    John Lok
    Nowadays, our societies are changing, any developed countries must need to continue to improve in order to avoid technology recession. In my this book, I  shall explain why Japan will need to improve technology development , America will need to improve culture, England will need to improve education and India will need to improve medical technology. I shall explain what reason...
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    23,58 €

  • Posthumanist Nomadisms across non-Oedipal Spatiality
    As an epistemological perspective, ’nomadism’ is an emerging field of scholarship, offering intersectionality with eco-criticism, feminism, post-colonialism, migration studies, and translation. Much of the scholarship that uses the precepts of nomadism to read cultural texts and phenomena is scattered as separate articles in academic journals or as single chapters in books wher...
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    60,11 €


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