Human Geography category: 3213 books
North America
The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North...
Health Geographies
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction explores health and biomedical topics from a range of critical geographic perspectives. Building on the field’s past engagement with social theory it extends the focus of health geography into new areas of enquiry.
Introduces key topics in health...
World in Crisis
Populations in Danger at the End of the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The tragedies of war, famine, disease and poverty continue to dominate our headlines. Faced with such tragedy, the politics, ethics, even the economics of humanitarian aid are becoming more complex. The role of relief agencies, the political will of the West, the reponsibilities of the international...
Weather, Climate and Climate Change
Human Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
A timely and accessible analysis of one of the most crucial and contentious issues facing the world today – the processes and consequences of natural and human induced changes in the structure and function of the climate system.
Integrating the latest scientific developments throughout, the...
In Search of Ireland
A Cultural Geography
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
In Search of Ireland argues that Ireland's political problems are created by conflicts and confusions of identity. It brings together a number of distinguished contributors, each of whom examines a particular aspect of Ireland's diverse cultural geography and history. Issues covered include: the changing...
Contemporary Rural Geographies
Land, property and resources in Britain: Essays in honour of Richard Munton
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
This book provides a cohesive set of research statements on critical related issues in British rural geography, as well as echoing the priorities identified by an influential figure in British rural geography, Richard Munton. This book demonstrates that the rural world needs to be seen in a far wider...
by Martha Schoolman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Traditional narratives of the period leading up to the Civil War are invariably framed in geographical terms. The sectional descriptors of the North, South, and West, like the wartime categories of Union, Confederacy, and border states, mean little without reference to a map of the United States. In...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
This book of critical rural geography breaks new ground by drawing attention to sex and sexualities outside the metropolis. It explores sexualities and sexual experiences in a variety of rural and marginal spaces with international contributions from a wide range of disciplines. These include: literary...
by Gayle Munro
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The geo-political area of what once constituted Yugoslavia has been a region of significant migration since the 1960s. More recently, the conflicts in the region were the catalysts for massive displacements of individuals, families and whole communities. Thus far, there has been a gap in the literature...
Encountering the North
Cultural Geography, International Relations and Northern Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This title was first published in 2003. This volume is concerned with the European north above the Arctic Circle and its representations in Cultural Geography and International Relations. The chapters in the book deal with cultural, geographical and political imaginations of northern peoples and landscapes....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Spirituality is, too often, subsumed under the heading of religion and treated as much the same kind of thing. Yet spirituality extends far beyond the spaces of religion. The spiritual makes geography strange, challenging the relationship between the known and the unknown, between the real and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
As global capitalism expands and reaches ever-further corners of the world, practical problems continue to escalate and repercussions become increasingly serious and irreversible. These practical problems carry with them equally important and ethical issues.
Global Ethics and Environment explores...
Societies under Construction
Geographies, Sociologies and Histories of Building
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
This edited collection explores building construction as an inspiring, yet often overlooked, place to develop new knowledge about the development of human societies. Eschewing dominant engineering and management perspectives on construction, the book is purposefully broad in its scope, both empirically...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The current era is marked by an unparalleled level of human migration, the consequence of both recent and long-term political, economic, cultural, social, demographic and technological developments. Despite increased efforts to limit its size and consequences, migration has wide-ranging impacts upon...