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  • The Cultural Revolution of the Nineteenth Century
    Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva / Márcia Abreu
    The beginnings of what we now call ’globalization’ dates from the early sixteenth century, when Europeans, in particular the Iberian monarchies, began to connect ’the four parts of the world’. From the end of the eighteenth and throughout the nineteenth centuries, technical advancements, such as the growth of the European rail network and the increasing ease of international sh...
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    54,65 €

  • Stories from a migrant city
    Ben Rogaly
    Taking a biographical approach, the book explores the causes and consequences of moving or staying put in the context of class inequality and racisms, and looks for commonalities between people often seen as irredeemably divided. ...
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    35,88 €

  • El papel de la mujer en las políticas de desarrollo rural
    José Javier Serrano Lara
    Las áreas rurales europeas han sufrido un proceso de cambio socioeconómico desde la década de los cincuenta hasta principios de los setenta. Es en esta década cuando se desarrolla un cambio de paradigma en las políticas rurales, que evolucionan desde un enfoque sectorial hacia otro más integrado y con una doble vertiente, social y económica. Con la reforma de los Fondos Estruct...
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    18,00 €

  • The Transformative City
    Wilbur C. Rich
    Sunbelt cities like Atlanta, Charlotte, and Miami, with their international airports, have a transportation advantage that overwhelms global competition from other southern cities. Why? The short answer to this question seems to be intuitive, but the long answer lies at the intersection of built infrastructure policies, civic boosterism, and the changing nature of American citi...
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    37,98 €

  • Transformative City
    Wilbur C. Rich
    Sunbelt cities like Atlanta, Charlotte, and Miami, with their international airports, have a transportation advantage that overwhelms global competition from other southern cities. Why? The short answer to this question seems to be intuitive, but the long answer lies at the intersection of built infrastructure policies, civic boosterism, and the changing nature of American citi...
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    135,76 €

  • Space, Place and Identity
    Köhler Florian
    Known as highly mobile cattle nomads, the Wodaabe in Niger are today increasingly engaged in a transformation process towards a more diversified livelihood based primarily on agro-pastoralism and urban work migration. This book examines recent transformations in spatial patterns, notably in the context of urban migration and in processes of sedentarization in rural proto-villag...
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    184,29 €

  • Social Sustainability, Past and Future
    Sander van der Leeuw
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    131,11 €

  • If Everyone Returned, The Island Would Sink
    Kirstie Petrou
    Focusing on the small island of Paama, Vanuatu, and the capital, Port Vila, this book presents a rare and recent study of the ongoing significance of urbanisation and internal migration in the Global South. Based on longitudinal research undertaken in rural 'home' places, urban suburbs and informal settlements over thirty years, this book reveals the deep ambivalence of the o...
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    150,04 €

  • Ecological Migrants
    Yuanyuan Xie
    Reindeer-herding Ewenki hunters have lived in the forests of China's Greater Khingan Range for over three hundred years. They have sustained their livelihoods by collecting plants and herbs, hunting animals and herding reindeer. This ethnography details changing Ewenki ways of life brought first by China's modernization and development policies and more recently by ecol...
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    44,58 €

  • Placing Latin America
    Placing Latin America offers a thematic approach to the study of the diverse geographies of a globalizing region. This comprehensive text focuses on the dynamic connections between people, places, and environments rather than on predefined notions about the region. The book’s well-rounded and accessible analysis includes discussions of borders and migration, transnationalism an...
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    153,06 €

  • Placing Latin America
    Placing Latin America offers a thematic approach to the study of the diverse geographies of a globalizing region. This comprehensive text focuses on the dynamic connections between people, places, and environments rather than on predefined notions about the region. The book’s well-rounded and accessible analysis includes discussions of borders and migration, transnationalism an...
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    68,14 €

  • Brexit and Tourism
    Derek Hall
    This book offers a multidisciplinary, holistic appraisal of the implications of the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union (EU) for tourism and related mobilities. It attempts to look beyond the short- to medium-term consequences of these processes for both the UK and the EU. ...
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    60,21 €

  • Brexit and Tourism
    Derek Hall
    This book offers a multidisciplinary, holistic appraisal of the implications of the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union (EU) for tourism and related mobilities. It attempts to look beyond the short- to medium-term consequences of these processes for both the UK and the EU. ...
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    181,81 €

  • Environment, labour and capitalism at sea
    Penny McCall Howard / Penny McCall Howard
    This book combines phenomenology and political economy to offer new approaches for analyses of human-environment relations and technologies. It contributes to the social studies of fisheries through an analysis of how fishing practices and social relations are shaped by political economy. ...
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    36,95 €

  • VAANATHIL PARAKKAATHAVANIN PERU NADAI / வானத்தில் பறக்காதவனின் பெருநடை
    Tamizhdesan Imayakappiyan
     This book encloses many essays on experiences in our day to day life which makes us to think and know about  varieties of characters around us ...
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    14,40 €

  • Statistical Methods for Geography
    Peter Rogerson
    Statistical Methods for Geography is the essential introduction for geography students looking to fully understand and apply key statistical concepts and techniques. ...
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    106,24 €

  • America’s Johannesburg
    Bobby M. Wilson
    In some ways, no American city symbolizes the black struggle for civil rights more than Birmingham, Alabama. During the 1950s and 1960s, Birmingham gained national and international attention as a center of activity and unrest during the civil rights movement. Racially motivated bombings of the houses of black families who moved into new neighborhoods or who were politically ac...
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    33,38 €

  • Modern India
    John McLeod
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    145,25 €

  • 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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    19,40 €

  • 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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    19,40 €

  • 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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    19,40 €

  • The Making of Migration
    Martina Tazzioli
    The Making of Migration addresses the rapid phenomenon that has become one of the most contentious issues in contemporary life: how are migrants governed as individual subjects and as part of groups? ...
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    172,44 €

  • The Making of Migration
    Martina Tazzioli
    The Making of Migration addresses the rapid phenomenon that has become one of the most contentious issues in contemporary life: how are migrants governed as individual subjects and as part of groups? ...
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    56,98 €

  • Public Los Angeles
    Don Parson
    Public Los Angeles is a collection of unpublished essays by scholar Don Parson focusing on little-known characters and histories located in the first half of twentieth-century Los Angeles. An infamously private city in the eyes of outside observers, structured around single-family homes and an aggressively competitive regional economy, Los Angeles has often been celebrated or c...
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    38,06 €

  • Public Los Angeles
    Don Parson
    Public Los Angeles is a collection of unpublished essays by scholar Don Parson focusing on little-known characters and histories located in the first half of twentieth-century Los Angeles. An infamously private city in the eyes of outside observers, structured around single-family homes and an aggressively competitive regional economy, Los Angeles has often been celebrated or c...
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    128,17 €

  • Puzzles, Quiz and Activities Suitable for Social Events Volume 4
    Ray Filby
    This book consists of a set of puzzles, quiz and activities which the author designed for use at a monthly social event organised by St. Michael’s, Church, Budbrooke, in the Community Centre in the part of the parish known as Chase Meadow. People who have opted to take part really seem to have enjoyed these activities which are interesting rather than extremely challenging. Whi...
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    35,44 €

  • Society, Space, and Social Justice
    Society, Space, and Social Justice addresses multiple contextual intersectionalities, highlighting the underlying processes and causes contributing to the genesis and regeneration of emergent and extant spaces of (in)justice. Employing quantitative and qualitative techniques underpinned by elucidatory theoretical frameworks, the contributors to this collection investigate inter...
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    122,19 €

  • The History of Taiwan
    Xiaobing Li
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    88,82 €

  • People, Place, and Attachment in Local Bars
    John W. McEwen / John WMcEwen
    In the United States, places of drink are historically linked to community and social interactions, and such establishments often possess loyal patrons for whom going to the local bar is a natural and routine part of their daily life. In People, Place, and Attachment in Local Bars, John McEwen places drinking establishments at the fore of American geography as containers of mat...
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    122,29 €

  • The Idea of Singapore
    Tai Yong Tan
    Professor Tan Tai Yong is the Institute of Policy Studies' 6th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book is an edited collection of his six IPS-Nathan Lectures, delivered between September 2018 and May 2019, and includes highlights of his dialogue with the audience.In his lecture series, Professor Tan examines how Singapore has evolved over its 700-year histor...
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    58,53 €