Geography category: 5793 books
Geographers
Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 16
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Geographers is an annual collection of studies on individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Subjects are drawn from all periods and from all parts of the world, and include famous names as well as those less well known, including explorers,...
Geographers
Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 11
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Geographers is an annual collection of studies on individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Subjects are drawn from all periods and from all parts of the world, and include famous names as well as those less well known, including explorers,...
The Backbone of the World
A Portrait of a Vanishing Way of Life Along the Continental Divide
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2002
In recent years, Los Angeles Times writer and editor Frank Clifford has journeyed along the Continental Divide, the hemispheric watershed that spans North America from the alkali badlands of southernmost New Mexico to the roof of the Rockies in Montana and into Canada. The result is The Backbone of...
Coast: Our Island Story
A Journey of Discovery Around Britain's Coastline
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Along our shores, towering cliffs from the age of the dinosaurs rise beside wide estuaries teeming with wildlife, while Victorian ports share waterfronts with imposing fortifications.
And the people who have lived, worked and played on this spectacular coast - from Stone Age fishermen to seafarers,...
State, Space, World
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
One of the most influential Marxist theorists of the twentieth century, Henri Lefebvre pioneered the study of the modern state in an age of accelerating global economic integration and fragmentation. Shortly after the 1974 publication of his landmark book The Production of Space, Henri Lefebvre embarked...
Terra Infirma
Geography's Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
How have issues of place and identity, of belonging and exclusion, been represented in visual culture? Irit Rogoff uses the work of contemporary artists to explore how art in the twentieth century has confronted issues of identity and belonging.
Summary and Analysis of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Based on the Book by Jared Diamond
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Guns, Germs, and Steel tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Jared Diamond’s book.
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This...
Mapping Men and Empire
Geographies of Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Barry Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
From Treasure Island to Robben Island, from the paradise of Thomas More's 'Utopia' to Napoleon's purgatory on Elba, islands have proved irresistible to mankind's imagination since time immemorial.
Self-confessed islomaniac Barry Smith explores how islands bewitch us so, and examines the kind...
The Taste of American Place
A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Tracing the intertwined roles of food, ethnicity, and regionalism in the construction of American identity, this textbook examines the central role food plays in our lives. Drawing on a range of disciplines_including sociology, anthropology, folklore, geography, history, and nutrition_the editors...
by Michael S. Carolan
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
While the phenomenon of embodied knowledge is becoming integrated into the social sciences, critical geography, and feminist research agendas it continues to be largely ignored by agro-food scholars. This book helps fill this void by inserting into the food literature living, feeling, sensing bodies...
Contested Countryside Cultures
Rurality and Socio-cultural Marginalisation
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2005
This book examines the 'other' side of the countryside, a place also inhabited (and visited) by women, children, teenagers, the elderly, gay men and lesbians, black and ethnic minorities, the unemployed and the poor. These groups have remained largely excluded by both rural policies and the representations...
Consuming Geographies
We Are Where We Eat
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Food occupies a seemingly mundane position in all our lives, yet the ways we think about shopping, cooking and eating are actually intensely reflexive. The daily pick and mix of our eating habits is one way we experience spatial scale. From the relationship of our food intake to our body-shape, to...
by Nick Middleton
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Rivers have played an extraordinarily important role in creating the world in which we live. They create landscapes and provide water to people, plants and animals, nourishing both town and country. The flow of rivers has enthused poets and painters, explorers and pilgrims. Rivers have acted as cradles...