Catálogo de libros: Geografía humana

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  • The Sociology of Mobile Pyramids and Peacocks
    Terry Jox
    Are you tired of boring sociology books? Look no further! The Goddamn Sociology of Mobile Pyramids and Peacocks will blow your mind with its wild exploration of the connection between these seemingly unrelated phenomena. Discover the insane history, engineering, and societal implications of mobile pyramids, while also diving into the flashy world of peacocks. Explore how these ...
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    83,66 €

  • The machinic city
    Marcos P Dias / Marcos P. Dias
    The machinic city reveals the potential of performance art to create spaces for reflection and deliberation on contemporary urban living and to speculate on the future of cities. It analyses several case studies of performance art that foreground new modes of subjectivity emerging from hybrids of human and machine agency. ...
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    35,86 €

  • Post-socialist Cities and the Urban Common Good
    Maja Grabkowska
    This book explores the changing approaches to urban common good in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989. The question of common good is fundamental to urban living, however understanding of the term varies depending on local contexts and conditions, particularly complex in countries with experience of communism. ...
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    73,44 €

  • Routledge Handbook of Wine Tourism
    Saurabh Kumar Dixit
    Wine tourism or enotourism or oenotourism or winery tourism or vinitourism is a special interest tourism that empowers local culture and spawns business opportunities for the local community. The comprehensive The Routledge Handbook of Wine Tourism offers a thorough inquiry into both regular and emerging issues of wine tourism. ...
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    88,65 €

  • Migration and the Transfer of Informal Human Capital
    Agata Jastrzebowska / Izabela Grabowska
    This book explores the intangible human capital which international migrants bring with them and develop further when working and living abroad, drawing on case studies and original data from Mexico-USA and Central Europe.  ...
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    35,83 €

  • Geographies of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
    This timely, insightful and expert-led volume interprets the 2020 U.S. Presidential election from a geographical standpoint, with a focus on its spatial dimensions. ...
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    73,46 €

  • The Landscapes of Italian Food
    Gilda Berruti / Gregory Smith
    The book examines contemporary food systems in Italy, paying particular attention to the landscape, innovative local practices and local cultural history. It illustrates the utility of the value chain concept in navigating the complexities of comparative advantage in an advanced market setting. ...
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    35,86 €

  • Routledge Handbook of Borders and Tourism
    The Routledge Handbook of Borders and Tourism examines the multiple and diverse relationships between global tourism and political boundaries. This book offers theoretical frameworks for understanding borders and tourism and empirical examples from borderlands throughout the world. ...
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    84,79 €

  • Beyond Punjab
    Himadri Banerjee
    This book focuses on Sikh communities in east and northeast India. It studies settlements in Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, and Manipur to understand the Indian Sikhs through the lens of their dispersal to the plains and hills far from Punjab. ...
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    73,44 €

  • Political Economy of Housing in Chile
    Carlos Aguirre-Nuñez / Felipe Encinas / Francisco Vergara-Perucich
    Through the lens of political economy, this book positions housing as a key factor in understanding social inequality. It does so drawing on rich empirical evidence from the case of the Chilean housing market. ...
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    35,91 €

  • Roots of Power
    Michael Sheridan
    Roots of Power tells five stories of plants, people, property, politics, peace, and protection in tropical societies. ...
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    73,06 €

  • Geography Indivisible
    Kevin R. Cox
    In a context of disciplinary division between human and physical geography, the book seeks to reassert the unity of the field through an emphasis on a shared focus on the geographic configuration of things and how and why configuration is important. ...
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    35,84 €

  • The Post-Earthquake City
    David Conradson / Eric Pawson / Paul Cloke
    This book critically assesses Christchurch, New Zealand as an evolving post-earthquake city. It examines the impact of the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquake sequence, employing a chronological structure to consider ’damage and displacement’, ’recovery and renewal’, and ’the city in transition’. ...
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    73,11 €

  • Cinematic Cartography
    Chris Lukinbeal
    This book uniquely bridges the conceptual gap between the history of geographic, cartographic thought and film theory with the technological and cultural shifts that shaped the emergence of cameras and cinema. ...
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    227,73 €

  • Feeling Climate Change
    Debra J. Davidson
    Examining the social response to the mounting impacts of climate change, Feeling Climate Change illuminates what the pathways from emotions to social change look like - and how they work - so we can recognize and inform our collective attempts to avert further climate catastrophe. ...
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    214,14 €

  • Feeling Climate Change
    Debra J. Davidson
    Examining the social response to the mounting impacts of climate change, Feeling Climate Change illuminates what the pathways from emotions to social change look like - and how they work - so we can recognize and inform our collective attempts to avert further climate catastrophe. ...
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    59,94 €

  • A Political Sociology of Twenty-First Century Revolutions and Resistances
    Kevin B. Anderson
    A Political Sociology of Twenty-First Century Revolutions and Resistances is an important resource for researchers and current affairs opinion leaders, as well as a key text for courses in social change, political sociology, and social movements, and contemporary social theory. ...
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    227,29 €

  • A Political Sociology of Twenty-First Century Revolutions and Resistances
    Kevin Anderson / Kevin B. Anderson
    A Political Sociology of Twenty-First Century Revolutions and Resistances is an important resource for researchers and current affairs opinion leaders, as well as a key text for courses in social change, political sociology, and social movements, and contemporary social theory. ...
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    70,38 €

  • Decolonising Digital Media and Indigenisation of Participatory Epistemologies
    The book provides valuable insights on decolonising the digital media landscape and the indigenisation of participatory epistemologies to continue the legacies of indigenous languages in the global South. ...
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    227,57 €

  • Transformation Processes in Europe and Beyond
    Europe and the world in all their diversity and complexity have always been - and continue to be - in a state of change. Recent (geo)political, environmental, social, and economic developments demonstrate a world in constant flux. These ever-changing framework conditions require corresponding transformations in many different structures. This anthology takes these observations ...
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    125,82 €

  • Integrated Management of Water Resources in India
    This book tackles the complexities of water management in India. Using computational tools, it provides comprehensive information on water availability, demand, climate change, integrated management, and governance. A must-read for researchers, policymakers, and water managers.The book is structured to provide a holistic understanding of water resources in India and the need fo...
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    221,77 €

  • Contextualizing Indian Experiences of Covid-19
    This volume captures the social, political, psychological, administrative and policy dimensions of COVID - 19 pandemic in the Indian context. The book is divided into four parts. Part I highlights the social narratives from the underprivileged workers, Asha workers, LGBTIQ+ community and Sanitary workers. ...
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    240,33 €

  • Power and Space
    John Allen
    Power and Space sets out the inherently spatial nature of power today and seeks to change the conversation around how power exercises us in the contemporary moment. ...
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    227,52 €

  • Power and Space
    John Allen
    Power and Space sets out the inherently spatial nature of power today and seeks to change the conversation around how power exercises us in the contemporary moment. ...
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    65,20 €

  • Norwegian Life An Account Of Past And Contemporary Conditions And Progress In Norway And Sweden
    Ed. Ethlyn T. Clough
    'Norwegian Life: An Account of Past and Contemporary' by Ethlyn T. Clough offers a comprehensive exploration of Norway’s rich cultural tapestry, spanning historical traditions to contemporary societal structures. The book begins by delving into Norway’s intricate history, tracing its evolution from ancient times to the present day. Clough meticulously examines customs, festiva...
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    13,01 €

  • Zero Waste Management Technologies
    This volume highlights cutting-edge research on Zero waste management and the associated effects of waste on the environment. Predominantly, it focuses on the challenges of dealing with the amassed production of waste and the cumulative impact of increasing waste on the biosphere. Different sections of this book focus on the comprehensive overview of the technological advanceme...
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    208,92 €

  • Imagining Urban Complexity
    Anthony T. Albright / Frans-Willem Korsten
    Imagining Urban Complexity introduces passionate and critical perspectives on the link between humanities and urban studies. It emphasizes tropes, media, and genres as cultural techniques that shape complexity in urban environments by distributing affordances, modes of sensing, and modes of sense-making. ...
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    227,19 €

  • Territories
    David Storey
    The book provides an introduction to the concept of territory, the ways in which ideologies and social practices are manifested in space, the deployment of territorial strategies and the geographical outcomes of these. ...
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    76,49 €

  • Living the urban periphery
    Paula Meth / Sarah Charlton / Tom Goodfellow
    An empirically rich analysis of the drivers and lived experiences of urban change in African peripheries with a focus on city-regions in Ethiopia, South Africa and Ghana. The book proposes five peripheral logics which frame the formation and character of urban peripheries and explores these on the ground through residents’ voices and narratives. ...
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    156,80 €

  • Imagining Urban Complexity
    Anthony T. Albright / Frans-Willem Korsten
    Imagining Urban Complexity introduces passionate and critical perspectives on the link between humanities and urban studies. It emphasizes tropes, media, and genres as cultural techniques that shape complexity in urban environments by distributing affordances, modes of sensing, and modes of sense-making. ...
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    64,86 €