Catálogo de libros: Geografía humana

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  • The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes
    A collection of essays from a wide range of disciplines, 'The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes' addresses social ecologies in the marginal spaces, liminal landscapes and territorial interfaces of border zones. ...
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    57,32 €

  • Russia in the Time of Cholera
    John P. Davis
    As the nineteenth century drew to a close and epidemics in western Europe were waning, the deadly cholera vibrio continued to wreak havoc in Russia, outlasting the Romanovs. Scholars have since argued that cholera eventually fell prey to better sanitation and strict quarantine under the Soviets, citing as evidence imperial mismanagement, a `backward’ tsarist medical system and ...
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    57,20 €

  • The Indigenous Peoples of Mesoamerica and Central America
    Robert Carmack / Robert M. Carmack / Robert MCarmack
    Robert M. Carmack examines the history, societies, and cultures of native peoples of Central America and relates their many historical accomplishments and contributions to larger world history. ...
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    50,60 €

  • Geography Today
    Ian Muehlenhaus
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    141,16 €

  • Literary Geography
    Lynn Houston
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    141,16 €

  • A Planet of 3 Billion
    Christopher Kevin Tucker
    How many people can the Earth support? Tucker makes the case that the Earth’s 'carrying capacity' is limited to 3 billion humans, and that humanity’s century long binge has incurred an unsustainable ecological debt that must be paid down promptly, or else cataclysm awaits. Given that our species has already surpassed 7.5 billion, and is fast approaching 9 billion or mor...
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    35,51 €

  • A Planet of 3 Billion
    Christopher Kevin Tucker
    How many people can the Earth support? Tucker makes the case that the Earth’s 'carrying capacity' is limited to 3 billion humans, and that humanity’s century long binge has incurred an unsustainable ecological debt that must be paid down promptly, or else cataclysm awaits. Given that our species has already surpassed 7.5 billion, and is fast approaching 9 billion or mor...
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    26,54 €

  • Housing Recovery after Disasters
    This book contains housing policy scholars and practitioners examining the existing theories of community long term recovery, and the central role of housing in resilience. They propose public policy changes that are needed to improve recovery from future devastating community-level disasters. ...
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    122,28 €

  • The Amazon River | Major Rivers of the World Series Grade 4 | Children’s Geography & Cultures Books
    Baby Professor
    Here’s another great river that you ought to read about - the Amazon. It is important because it feeds the Amazon Rainforest and its wildlife. Remember that the Amazon is considered the 'last frontier' because it is the biggest rainforest in the world. If you don’t read and learn about it, how are you to care for it? Start acquiring knowledge through this book. ...
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    29,45 €

  • How to Use Geographic Tools | The World in Spatial Terms | Social Studies Grade 3 | Children’s Geography & Cultures Books
    Baby Professor
    In the modern world, going from one place to another is easy. A quick search on Google will already show you the way. However, it pays to know how to use the traditional geographic tools like maps, atlases and globe. Use the information to locate cities, continents and oceans too. Get your child familiar with geographic terms while learning the his/her way around the world. Gra...
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    29,45 €

  • Vikings
    Baby Professor
    Learn how the Vikings lived using this easy-to-read book for third grade. It has pages of information about some of the most notorious activities and tribe characteristics of the Vikings. Information on occupations, shipbuilding and how the Vikings came to be known as the raiders of the sea are also included.Start reading today. ...
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    29,45 €

  • New Woman Ecologies
    Alicia Carroll
    A transatlantic phenomenon of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the 'New Woman' broke away from many of the constraints of the Victorian era to enjoy a greater freedom of movement in the social, physical, and intellectual realms. As Alicia Carroll reveals, the New Woman also played a significant role in environmental awareness and action.From the Arts and Craft...
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    39,80 €

  • New Woman Ecologies
    Alicia Carroll
    A transatlantic phenomenon of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the 'New Woman' broke away from many of the constraints of the Victorian era to enjoy a greater freedom of movement in the social, physical, and intellectual realms. As Alicia Carroll reveals, the New Woman also played a significant role in environmental awareness and action.From the Arts and Craft...
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    79,96 €

  • Food, Text and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean
    Sarah Lawson Welsh
    Investigates the relationship between Caribbean food and a variety of texts including literature, historical accounts, journals, memoirs and cookbooks. It demonstrates how the creation and consumption of food and narrative are intimately linked cultural practices in the Caribbean. ...
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    163,46 €

  • Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin
    Since Unification and the end of the Cold War, Berlin has witnessed a series of uncommonly intense social, political, and cultural transformations. While positioning itself as a creative center populated by young and cosmopolitan global citizens, the "New Berlin" is at the same time a rich site of historical memory, defined inescapably by its past even as it articulates German ...
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    50,27 €

  • Partitions and Their Afterlives
    Mohanram / Raychaudhuri
    Partitions and their Afterlives engages with political partitions and how their aftermath affects the contemporary life of nations and their citizens. ...
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    56,97 €

  • Food, Text and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean
    Sarah Lawson Welsh
    Investigates the relationship between Caribbean food and a variety of texts including literature, historical accounts, journals, memoirs and cookbooks. It demonstrates how the creation and consumption of food and narrative are intimately linked cultural practices in the Caribbean. ...
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    54,08 €

  • Sanctuary cities and urban struggles
    This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars to explore how urban social movements, localised practices of rights claiming, and diverse articulations of sanctuary are reshaping the governance of migration. ...
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    169,50 €

  • Partitions and Their Afterlives
    Mohanram / Raychaudhuri
    Partitions and their Afterlives engages with political partitions and how their aftermath affects the contemporary life of nations and their citizens. ...
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    170,50 €

  • The Human Drift
    Jack London
    First published in 1917, “The Human Drift” is a collection of essays and short sketches by Jack London, also including a number of plays and his introduction to Richard Henry Dana’s “Two Years Before the Mast”. The titular essay, “The Human Drift”, explores humankind’s spread across the continents throughout history and the predicted results and eventual end of this ’drift’. ...
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    20,28 €

  • The History of France
    W. Haine / WHaine
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    88,54 €

  • The Anthropology of the Future
    Daniel M. Knight / Daniel MKnight / Rebecca Bryant
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    30,87 €

  • Destination London
    London is one of the world’s most popular destinations and visitors contribute approximately £14.9 billion of expenditure to the city every year. Its tourism and events sectors are growing and over the last few years London has received more visitors than ever before. However, detailed accounts of the city’s visitor economy are conspicuously absent.This book analyses how the ca...
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    35,52 €

  • Caribbean Island Movements
    Carlo A Cubero / Carlo A. Cubero / Carlo ACubero
    An ethnographic account of how the islanders of the Caribbean island of Culebra reproduce a sense of unique insular identity, while engaged in continuous practices of regional and global movements. ...
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    57,24 €

  • A Living Past
    Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives on environmental change in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean since the n...
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    44,26 €

  • Global City Futures
    Natalie Oswin
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    34,61 €

  • Global City Futures
    Natalie Oswin
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    136,31 €

  • The Future of Airbnb and the ’Sharing Economy’
    Jeroen A Oskam / Jeroen A. Oskam
    This book provides a conceptual analysis of the ’sharing economy’ and accommodation sector. It furthers the debate surrounding Airbnb and other platforms and the social sustainability of city tourism. Through a scenario framework, readers can understand the forces and factors at work, and envision the ultimate consequences of current developments. ...
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    54,42 €

  • The Future of Airbnb and the ’Sharing Economy’
    Jeroen A. Oskam / Jeroen AOskam
    This book provides a conceptual analysis of the ’sharing economy’ and accommodation sector. It furthers the debate surrounding Airbnb and other platforms and the social sustainability of city tourism. Through a scenario framework, readers can understand the forces and factors at work, and envision the ultimate consequences of current developments. ...
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    169,88 €

  • The Ecopolitics of Consumption
    HLouise Davis
    This collection adds to the field of ecocritical theory by merging multidisciplinary approaches to food studies with the established ecocritical discourse of culture and the environment. With themes of confinement and control in the global industrial food systems, this book explores the role of consumption and commodification in contemporary life. ...
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    54,53 €