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  • (re)cortes Na Floresta E (re)organização Territorial
    Amiraldo Do Socorro Soares Da Cunha
    Nos últimos anos o Estado, enquanto instituição pública, se tornou o principal agente regulador do processo de urbanização, através do provimento da infraestrutura, ainda que precária em algumas cidades, porém, necessária à garantia do desenvolvimento municipal. Nas cidades amazônicas, como em Breves, no Marajó, o processo de ordenamento territorial municipal assumiu as mais di...
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    10,69 €

  • Gente como Uno
    Romina Yalonetzky
    Dr.Yalonetzky introduces readers to a physical microcosm of the intersectionbetween Peruvian and Jewish identity, elucidated through the varied voices andexperiences of Peruvian Jews. This book presents a unique understanding ofJewish Peruvian-ness and in so doing sheds a novel light on both Jewish andPeruvian identities. ...
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    142,43 €

  • Thinking Ecologically, Thinking Responsibly
    Engages and extends the feminist philosopher Lorraine Code’s groundbreaking work on epistemology and ethics. ...
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    121,38 €

  • Situating Sustainability
    Situating Sustainability reframes our understanding of sustainability through an emerging international terrain of concepts and case studies. These approaches include material practices, such as extraction and disaster recovery, and extend into the domains of human rights and education.This volume addresses the need in sustainability science to recognize the deep and diverse cu...
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    56,62 €

  • The Nature of Space
    Milton Santos
    In The Nature of Space, pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos attends to globalization writ large and how local and global orders intersect in the construction of space. Santos offers a theory of human space based on relationships between time and ontology. He argues that when geographers consider the inseparability of time and space, they can then transcend fragme...
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    36,46 €

  • The Nature of Space
    Milton Santos
    In The Nature of Space, pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos attends to globalization writ large and how local and global orders intersect in the construction of space. Santos offers a theory of human space based on relationships between time and ontology. He argues that when geographers consider the inseparability of time and space, they can then transcend fragme...
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    138,32 €

  • The $16 Taco
    Pascale Joassart-Marcelli
    Confronting the role of foodie culture in gentrificationHaving “discovered” the flavors of barbacoa, bibimbap, bánh mi, sambusas, and pupusas, white middle-class eaters are increasingly venturing into historically segregated neighborhoods in search of “authentic” eateries run by—and for—immigrants and people of color. Fueled by media attention and capitalized on by developers, ...
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    38,06 €

  • The Red Man’s Continent, a Chronicle of Aboriginal America
    Ellsworth 1876-1947 Huntington
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work....
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    20,85 €

  • Our Home and Its Surroundings [microform]
    W. C. (William C.) d. 1911 Campbell / WC(William C.) d1911 Campbell
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work....
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    19,88 €

  • From Monkey to Homo Sapiens A Journey Through the Stages that Led to Humankind
    Elias Jefferson
    The origin of modern humans has probably been the most debated issue in evolutionary biology over the last few decades.Modern humans (Homo sapiens), the species we are, means ’wise man’ in Latin. Our species is the only surviving species of the genusHomobut where we came from, has been a topic of much debate. Modern humans originated in Africa within the past 200,000 years. The...
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    13,18 €

  • Displacement
    This book aims to develop global conversations around refuge. Through an interdisciplinary, transnational and historical set of chapters, the authors develop new theoretical frameworks for scholars working on the forced displacement of people around the world, including refugees, stateless persons, internally displaced persons and others. ...
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    44,32 €

  • Cities in the Anthropocene
    Ihnji Jon
    Climate change is real, and extreme weather events are its physical manifestations. These extreme events affect how we live and work in cities, and subsequently the way we design, plan, and govern them. Taking action ’for the environment’ is not only a moral imperative; instead, it is activated by our everyday experience in the city. Based on the author’s site visits and interv...
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    36,03 €

  • From #RhodesMustFall Movements to #HumansMustFall Movements
    Bornway Mwanyara Chiripanhura
    Might it be possible that the world is being migrated into an era where the imperial periphery will be increasingly governed through Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics designed to replace human beings? Celebrated as efficient, strong, unfailing, tireless, precise and beyond corruption, AI and robots are set to replace African leaders who are imperially deemed to be and c...
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    77,80 €

  • French London
    Saskia Huc-Hepher
    This book offers a refreshing interdisciplinary perspective on an under-researched migrant minority: the French in London. Through a blended ethnographic lens, it provides insights into the complex lived experience of cross-Channel mobility and settlement processes in on-land and on-line settings. ...
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    157,15 €

  • Visibilities and Invisibilities in Smart Cities
    H. Patricia McKenna / HPatricia McKenna
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    216,06 €

  • Black resistance to British policing
    Adam Elliott-Cooper
    Using a decade of activist research, this book offers a radical analysis of grassroots black resistance to policing in twenty-first-century Britain. ...
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    53,01 €

  • Innovación y resiliencia en la respuesta de la sociedad valenciana a la crisis pandémica de 2020
    Autores Varios
    La pandemia de la COVID-19 ha tenido un gran impacto sobre la vida de las personas. Desde el punto de vista del desarrollo local, la lucha contra el virus y la recuperación económica son temas prioritarios para mantener el nivel de vida y reducir, en lo posible, el riesgo de exclusión de la población más vulnerable. Ante esta situación de emergencia, el objetivo general del pre...
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    12,50 €

  • Towards Socially Integrative Cities
    The book Towards Socially Integrative Cities deals with the transition towards urban sustainability through socially integrative cities in Europe and China. It shares the impactful original research results of an EU-funded R&I project involving eight European and six Chinese partners (TRANS-URBAN-EU-CHINA; see www.transurbaneuchina.eu). Three each of the six editors come from E...
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    73,05 €

  • Black resistance to British policing
    Adam Elliott-Cooper
    Using a decade of activist research, this book offers a radical analysis of grassroots black resistance to policing in twenty-first-century Britain. ...
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    21,16 €

  • Climate Change and the Future of Seattle
    Yonn Dierwechter
    This book explores Seattle’s current climate policy agenda and future climate challenges within the context of its historical, bio-regional, and metropolitan settings. ...
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    180,68 €

  • The machinic city
    Marcos P. Dias / Marcos PDias
    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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    157,53 €

  • The Anthropology of the Future
    Daniel M. Knight / Daniel MKnight / Rebecca Bryant
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    108,21 €

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology
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    241,53 €

  • 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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    36,76 €

  • African cities and collaborative futures
    This book brings together scholars from across the globe and a range of disciplines to discuss the nature of African cities today. This groundbreaking collection, spanning energy, housing, infrastructure, safety and sustainability, offers a fresh perspective on some of the most pressing issues confronting urban Africa in the twenty-first century. ...
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    170,00 €

  • Feminist Geography Unbound
    Banu Görkariksel
    A field-defining collection of new voices on gender, feminism, and geography. Feminist Geography Unbound is a call to action--to expand imaginations and to read and travel more widely and carefully through terrains that have been cast as niche, including Indigenous and decolonial feminisms, Black geographies, and trans geographies. The original essays in this collection center ...
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    33,09 €

  • Atolls of the Maldives
    This bookprovides a spatial analysis of some key challenges facing the Maldives today, in particular social, cultural, economic and environmental transformations rendered by climate change and tourism. ...
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    149,70 €

  • Killer Cities
    Nigel Thrift
    Through a combination of social theory, polemic and close attention to empirical detail, author Nigel Thrift demonstrates how and why cities cause mass animal death and hasten the destruction of the planet. The book then attempts to set out how ’we’ can navigate out of the current situation and towards a world in which cities no longer act as killers but become aligned with the...
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    56,60 €

  • Killer Cities
    Nigel Thrift
    Through a combination of social theory, polemic and close attention to empirical detail, author Nigel Thrift demonstrates how and why cities cause mass animal death and hasten the destruction of the planet. The book then attempts to set out how ’we’ can navigate out of the current situation and towards a world in which cities no longer act as killers but become aligned with the...
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    157,30 €

  • The Poverty of Planning
    Benno Engels
    Using a neo-Marxian perspective, Benno Engels examines the absence of urban planning in nineteenth-century England. In his analysis of urbanization in England, Engels considers the influences of property owners, inheritance laws, local government structures, fiscal crises of the local and central state, shifts in voter sentiments, fluctuating economic conditions, and class-base...
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    197,03 €