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  • Regional and Local Development in Times of Polarisation
    Franziska Görmar / Thilo Lang
    Despite the emphasis of the European Regional Policy on territorial cohesion, regional disparities have been increasing within Europe in the past years. The metropolitan areas in almost all countries are considerably growing while regions outside of agglomerations are stagnating or even declining. Against this background this book aims to provide an understanding of the underly...
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    77,68 €

  • Realising the city
    Camilla Lewis
    This edited collection explores what happens when a city administration tries to bring their vision for a city into being. It provides ethnographic accounts that complicate the dominant narrative of Manchester’s renaissance. ...
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    36,95 €

  • Boundary Songs
    David Banning
    Discover. Explore. Inspire. On the fringes of England’s largest national park, now a World Heritage Site, an alternative vision emerges. In late 2017, a walk around the boundary of the Lake District uncovers a hidden landscape consumed by ghosts of nostalgia. Roughly 160 miles where it’s never quite clear where the muddy paths and coastal ridges will lead. Stumbling upon indust...
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    11,02 €

  • Urban transformations and public health in the emergent city
    This book is a collection of essays exploring different aspects of health and wellbeing in cities today. With contributions on Brazil, China, South Africa and the United Kingdom, the volume covers a range of fields including mental health, migration, mobility, sanitation, gendered violence and structural racism from a multidisciplinary perspective. ...
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    157,60 €

  • Modern Brazil
    Javier Galvan
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    145,15 €

  • Freedom Is a Place
    Ron J. Smith
    Freedom Is a Place gives readers a snapshot of everyday life in the 1967 oPt (occupied Palestinian territories). A project of subaltern geopolitics, it helps both new and seasoned scholars of the region better understand occupation: its purpose, varied manifestations, and on-the-ground functions. This personal study brings to light how large-scale geopolitics play havoc with th...
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    36,88 €

  • Freedom Is a Place
    Ron J. Smith
    Freedom Is a Place gives readers a snapshot of everyday life in the 1967 oPt (occupied Palestinian territories). A project of subaltern geopolitics, it helps both new and seasoned scholars of the region better understand occupation: its purpose, varied manifestations, and on-the-ground functions. This personal study brings to light how large-scale geopolitics play havoc with th...
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    143,48 €

  • Examining Biophilia and Societal Indifference to Environmental Protection
    Lonny Douglas Meinecke / Mary Ann Markey
    The theory of biophilia posits that there is an innate connection between all the species that share Earth’s biosphere and that this connection is inherently collaborative as organisms work together to ensure survival as opposed to competing for resources and territory. As threats to the environment increase in frequency and scale, applying a scientifically rigorous lens to the...
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    281,89 €

  • Desafíos y oportunidades de un mundo en transición
    Autores Varios
    En la actual etapa que venimos atravesando, de marcadas crisis ecológica, sanitaria, social y económica, se hace más necesaria que nunca una reflexión profunda para ofrecer alternativas con las que poder afrontarlas y encaminar el futuro con garantías, tanto el inmediato como el venidero. A pesar de inercias y contrapesos, la innovación vuelve a mostrarse como requisito indispe...
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    35,00 €

  • Faith in Cities
    Chris Lazaro
    What if it is not just how we live that matters, but also where? Faith in Cities: How Better Places Make Better Neighbors takes a closer look at the way our communities help or hinder us from being better neighbors. This book helps readers explore the relationship between the places we've built and broader issues like justice, wealth, poverty, the environment, and the Churc...
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    13,57 €

  • 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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    157,39 €

  • Modern Saudi Arabia
    Valerie Anishchenkova
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    144,98 €

  • Examining Biophilia and Societal Indifference to Environmental Protection
    Lonny Douglas Meinecke / Mary Ann Markey
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    216,04 €

  • 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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    157,15 €

  • 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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    157,12 €

  • TEMPE, DU STADT MEINER TRÄUME
    Gregory Stephenson
    Data toward a deep map of the city of Tempe, Arizona: Oneiric topographies, telluric currents, zones, ambiances, valences, variable resonances, covert contours, nocturnal alluvium, residual traces, temporal strata, magnetic fields, subliminal alignments, geobiographical configurations, vortices of obsessional fascination. ...
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    9,92 €

  • Environments of Empire
    The age of European high imperialism was characterized by the movement of plants and animals on a historically unprecedented scale. The human migrants who colonized territories around the world brought a variety of other species with them, from the crops and livestock they hoped to propagate, to the parasites, invasive plants, and pests they carried unawares, producing a host o...
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    41,38 €

  • Environments of Empire
    The age of European high imperialism was characterized by the movement of plants and animals on a historically unprecedented scale. The human migrants who colonized territories around the world brought a variety of other species with them, from the crops and livestock they hoped to propagate, to the parasites, invasive plants, and pests they carried unawares, producing a host o...
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    126,90 €

  • The Danube River | Major Rivers of the World Series Grade 4 | Children’s Geography & Cultures Books
    Baby Professor
    The Danube River is the second largest river in Europe. It flows through ten countries and history has it that it once served as a frontier of the Roman Empire. A river that has flowed through time would definitely carry so many lessons and memories. You will learn about these tidbits of information in this book. Don’t forget to buy a copy today. ...
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    19,58 €

  • The Danube River | Major Rivers of the World Series Grade 4 | Children’s Geography & Cultures Books
    Baby Professor
    The Danube River is the second largest river in Europe. It flows through ten countries and history has it that it once served as a frontier of the Roman Empire. A river that has flowed through time would definitely carry so many lessons and memories. You will learn about these tidbits of information in this book. Don’t forget to buy a copy today. ...
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    29,64 €

  • Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met
    Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr.
    During the late eighteenth century, Portugal and Spain sent joint mapping expeditions to draw a nearly 10,000-mile border between Brazil and Spanish South America. These boundary commissions were the largest ever sent to the Americas and coincided with broader imperial reforms enacted throughout the hemisphere. Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met considers what these efforts meant...
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    44,58 €

  • Landscape of Migration
    Ben Nobbs-Thiessen
    In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia’s National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the 'March to the East.' In an impoverished country dependent on highland mining, the MNR sought to convert the nation’s vast 'undeveloped' Amazonian frontier into farmland, hoping to achieve food security, territorial integrity, a...
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    126,64 €

  • Landscape of Migration
    Ben Nobbs-Thiessen
    In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia’s National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the 'March to the East.' In an impoverished country dependent on highland mining, the MNR sought to convert the nation’s vast 'undeveloped' Amazonian frontier into farmland, hoping to achieve food security, territorial integrity, a...
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    50,86 €

  • Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met
    Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr.
    During the late eighteenth century, Portugal and Spain sent joint mapping expeditions to draw a nearly 10,000-mile border between Brazil and Spanish South America. These boundary commissions were the largest ever sent to the Americas and coincided with broader imperial reforms enacted throughout the hemisphere. Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met considers what these efforts meant...
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    126,90 €

  • India and world Geography / भारत व विश्व भूगोल
    Tejendra Singh
    A lot of hard work has been put into making important Notes and good efforts have been made, and an attempt has been made to make flawless Notes , yet if there is any error in error, then if you find it, inform us, correct it yourself. Be done. In this way, if there is any kind of loss to the reader, then the writer will have no responsibility nor will be responsible for any ki...
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    20,20 €

  • Mean Streets
    Don Mitchell
    The problem of homelessness in America underpins the definition of an American city: what it is, who it is for, what it does, and why it matters. And the problem of the American city is epitomized in public space. Mean Streets offers, in a single, sustained argument, a theory of the social and economic logic behind the historical development, evolution, and especially the persi...
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    128,36 €

  • Mean Streets
    Don Mitchell
    The problem of homelessness in America underpins the definition of an American city: what it is, who it is for, what it does, and why it matters. And the problem of the American city is epitomized in public space. Mean Streets offers, in a single, sustained argument, a theory of the social and economic logic behind the historical development, evolution, and especially the persi...
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    26,05 €

  • Islands and Oceans
    Sasha Davis
    Sovereignty is a term used by stateless people seeking decolonization as well as by dominant social groups struggling to reassert their socially privileged positions. All sorts of political actors, it seems, are interested in sovereignty. It is less clear, however, just what the term means, and whether calls for sovereignty promote a politically progressive or conservative agen...
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    128,52 €

  • Islands and Oceans
    Sasha Davis
    Sovereignty is a term used by stateless people seeking decolonization as well as by dominant social groups struggling to reassert their socially privileged positions. All sorts of political actors, it seems, are interested in sovereignty. It is less clear, however, just what the term means, and whether calls for sovereignty promote a politically progressive or conservative agen...
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    33,81 €

  • Stories from a migrant city
    Ben Rogaly / TBD
    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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    145,26 €