Geography category: 5793 books
by Calvin Clarke, Susan Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
Exam Board: SQA
Level: National 5
Subject: Geography
First Teaching: September 2017
First Exam: Summer 2018
This second edition now includes N5 examination-style questions, together with detailed advice on answering them, as well as exemplar answer, included for every topic.
- Now includes...
Geo-Architecture and Landscape in China’s Geographic and Historic Context
Volume 4 Symbolism and the Language of Geo-Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
This book approaches the concept of geo-architecture by analyzing the symbolic characters of architectures. It proves that the relationship between architecture and geography is not merely an embodiment of physical and functional demands but rather a formal expression of the materialization of culture....
The Geography of English Politics
The 1983 General Election
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
This book illustrates the degree of variability in voting behaviour within social groups and suggests reasons for that variability. It reviews and critiques conventional analyses and presents statistical analyses of the geography of voting in England. The book reveals that substantial geographical...
Geo-Architecture and Landscape in China’s Geographic and Historic Context
Volume 3 Geo-Architecture Blending into Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
This book explores the concept of geo-architecture by analyzing the ways architectures are related to the local geography, including mingling or contrasting with surrounding landscape, adapting to mountainous or aquatic terrain, and selection of construction materials. Architectures build with such...
Geo-Architecture and Landscape in China’s Geographic and Historic Context
Volume 1 Geo-Architecture Wandering in the Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This book analyzes forms of architectures within the frame concept of geo-architecture, and looks into the interaction of architecture and its environment. It starts by discussing the collisions between architecture and geography, humanity, as well as other architectures and reflects on the ancient...
Neo-Environmental Determinism
Geographical Critiques
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
This book pulls together major critiques of contemporary attempts to explain nature-society relations in an environmentally deterministic way. After defining key terms, it reviews the history of environmental determinism’s rise and fall within geography in the early twentieth century. It discusses...
Environment
Critical Essays in Human Geography
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Spanning cultural and political ecology, the political economy of the environment, humanistic landscape interpretation, cultural studies of nature, and science and technology studies, this volume is the definitive guide to environmental studies in Human Geography over the past 30 years. The articles...
The City
Critical Essays in Human Geography
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The spread of urbanization has transformed the concept of the city, but the way urban planners, urban scientists and, above all, urban dwellers address it has also changed, probably even more so. The city is thus a new topic for geography, a discipline that has experienced an ambiguous relationship...
by Peter Knight, Tony Parsons
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Written for students who need help doing their coursework and exams, this book focuses mainly on the skills and techniques that apply to essay writing, but also covers other types of assignment such as posters, talks, PowerPoint^DTM presentations and web pages. Its basis is that all of these different...
by F. J. Monkhouse
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The geographer seeks to describe the diverse features of the earth's surface, to explain if possible how these features have come to be what they are, and to discuss how they influence the distribution of man with his diverse activities. Geography therefore stands transitionally yet centrally between...
Development Drowned and Reborn
The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Development Drowned and Reborn is a “Blues geography” of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom struggle there to reckon with its unfinished business. Reading contemporary policies of abandonment against the grain, Clyde Woods explores how Hurricane...
by John A. Cross
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
This volume provides a comprehensive catalog of how various ethnic groups in the United States of America have differently shaped their cultural landscape. Author John Cross links an overview of the spatial distributions of many of the ethnic populations of the United States with highly detailed discussions...
by Rajesh Kumar Mahato
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Physical Geography, Geomorphology, Environmental Studies, grade: 75 %, Ranchi University (Unversity department of Geography), course: Master of Arts, language: English, abstract: Sapahi river is a very small tributary of river...
Mediascape and The State
A Geographical Interpretation of Image Politics in Uttar Pradesh, India
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2017
This book investigates image politics during elections and how the political discourse is reflected during the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections in 2012 by the media and the state. It reveals new dimensions of media geography in India and makes image construction and interpretation easy to comprehend....