Geography category: 5793 books
by Thomas L. Bell
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Popular music is a cultural form much rooted in space and place. This book interprets the meaning of music from a spatial perspective and, in doing so it furthers our understanding of broader social relations and trends, including identity, attachment to place, cultural economies, social activism...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Young people in sub-Saharan Africa are growing up in rapidly changing social and economic environments which produce high levels of un- and underemployment. Job creation through entrepreneurship is currently being promoted by international organizations, governments and NGOs as a key solution, despite...
From Meteorite Impact to Constellation City
A Historical Geography of Greater Sudbury
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
From Meteorite Impact to Constellation City is a historical geography of the City of Greater Sudbury. The story that began billions of years ago encompasses dramatic physical and human events. Among them are volcanic eruptions, two meteorite impacts, the ebb and flow of continental glaciers, Aboriginal...
by Jane Tormey
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Photographs display attitudes, agency and vision in the way cities are documented and imagined. Cities and Photography explores the relationship between people and the city, visualized in photographs. It provides a visually focused examination of the city and urbanism for a range of different disciplines:...
Cities of the World
Regional Patterns and Urban Environments
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
This fully updated and revised sixth edition offers readers a comprehensive set of tools for understanding the urban landscape and, by extension, the world’s politics, cultures, and economies. Providing a sweeping overview of world urban geography, noted experts explore the eleven major global regions....
by Simon Stumpf
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2006
Essay from the year 2002 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Regional Geography, grade: 2,0, University of Trier, course: Regional Seminary Ehtiopia, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Regarding the history of african nations, Ethiopia is commonly considered as one...
Why the West Rules--for Now
The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West's rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the...
Carl Sauer on Culture and Landscape
Readings and Commentaries
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Perhaps one of the most distinctive and studied geographers of the twentieth century, Carl O. Sauer (1889--1975) had influence that extends well beyond the confines of any one discipline. With a focus on historical and cultural geography, Sauer's essays have garnered praise from poets, natural historians,...
Amazonian Geographies
Emerging Identities and Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Amazonia exists in our imagination as well as on the ground. It is a mysterious and powerful construct in our psyches yet shares multiple (trans)national borders and diverse ecological and cultural landscapes. It is often presented as a seemingly homogeneous place: a lush tropical jungle teeming with...
Where On Earth?
Geography Without the Boring Bits
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011
Where on Earth? is Jam-packed with all of geography's greatest hits, with all the boring bits taken out. From lava-spewing volcanoes to cool ways to remember the world's highest mountains, longest rivers and most desolate deserts - plus all the countries and continents in which these fantastic features...
Charting the World
Geography and Maps from Cave Paintings to GPS with 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Maps have been a part of human culture since the days of scratching on cave walls, and this richly illustrated history chronicles the road from simple diagrams used to avoid danger to the complex, navigational charts used today. Displaying an array of historic atlases and a variety of cartography...
Race and Racism
Essays in Social Geography
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Paul Boyle, Keith H. (University Of Wales, Swansea) Halfacree
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Exploring Contemporary Migration provides the first comprehensive introduction to the various aspects of population migration in both the developed and the developing worlds. Some of the most important quantitative and qualitative methods used for the description and analysis of migration are presented...
Chernobyl (Routledge Revivals)
The Long Shadow
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
First published in 1989, Chernobyl: The Long Shadow offers a balanced review of what happened there, why and how it happened, and what the main lessons and implications of the accident are.
It looks back on events during and after the disaster, in particular reviewing how it and the radiation...