Peter Gould: 8 books

Sixteen-year-old Victor, a thoughtful loner who tries to live his life "under the radar," wants to test out the saying "You have to be naked to write." When he sneaks off with an old Royal typewriter to his uncle's cabin deep in the Vermont woods and strips off his clothes, he...

This book charts the developments in the discipline of geography from the 1950s to the 1980s, examining how geography now connects with urban, regional and national planning, and impacts on areas such as medicine, transport, agricultural development and electoral reform. The book also discusses how...

Published in the year 2004, Mental Maps is a valuable contribution to the field of Geography.

just one month after his 21st birthday, peter rudiak-gould moved to ujae, a remote atoll in the marshall islands located 70 miles from the nearest telephone, car, store, or tourist, and 2,000 miles from the closest continent. he spent the next year there, living among its 450 inhabitants and teaching...

When Peter Rudiak-Gould was twenty-four years old, he left his native America and sought out a legendary city, a millennium in age and the color of gold. This was Oxford: a place as celebrated and coveted as Bali Ha’i or Shangri-La – and, with its unscalable walls, forbidden gardens, and exacting...

Peter G. Gould seeks to identify the success factors associated with economic development projects within communities adjacent to archaeological or heritage sites, a growing interest among archaeologists and heritage managers. Typically, the success of site museums, tourism businesses, or crafts cooperatives...

The citizens of the Marshall Islands have been told that climate change will doom their country, and they have seen confirmatory omens in the land, air, and sea. This book investigates how grassroots Marshallese society has interpreted and responded to this threat as intimated by local observation,...

This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Stephen Addiss and a comprehensive introduction that surveys the history of Japanese aesthetics and the ways in which it is...