Human Geography category: 3213 books
Smoking Geographies
Space, Place and Tobacco
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Smoking Geographies provides a research-led assessment of the impact of geographical factors on smoking. The contributors uncover how geography can show us not only why people smoke but also broader issues of tobacco control, providing deeper clarity on how smoking and tobacco is ‘governed’.
The...
Living Sustainably
What Intentional Communities Can Teach Us about Democracy, Simplicity, and Nonviolence
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
In light of concerns about food and human health, fraying social ties, economic uncertainty, and rampant consumerism, some people are foregoing a hurried, distracted existence and embracing a mindful way of living. Intentional residential communities across the United States are seeking the freedom...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Rethinking Geopolitics argues that the concept of geopolitics needs to be conceptualised anew as the twenty-first century approaches.
Challenging conventional geopolitical assumptions, contributors explore:
* theories of post-modern geopolitics
* historical formulations of states and cold wars
* the...
by Robert Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Night is a foundational element of human and animal life on earth, but its interaction with the social world has undergone significant transformations during the era of globalization. As the economic activity of the ‘daytime’ city has advanced into the night, other uses of the night as a time...
Leisure/Tourism Geographies
Practices and Geographical Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Leisure and Tourism Geographies considers leisure/tourism as an encounter. An encounter that exists between people, between people and space and between people and their expectations, experiences and desires.
The contributors explore diverse aspects of leisure and tourism, ranging from the methodologies...
Sport and Migration
Borders, Boundaries and Crossings
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
From Major League Baseball to English soccer’s Premier League, all successful contemporary professional sports leagues include a wide diversity of nationalities and ethnicities within their playing and coaching rosters. The international migration of sporting talent and labor, encouraged and facilitated...
Queering Tourism
Paradoxical Performances of Gay Pride Parades
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Gay Pride parades are annual arenas of queer public culture, where embodied notions of subjectivity are sold, enacted, transgressed and debated.
From Sydney to Rome, Queering Tourism analyses the paradoxes of gay pride parades as tourist events, exploring how the public display of queer bodies -...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
This cross-disciplinary book uses phenomenological method and description to explore questions of place, underscoring the significance of phenomenology for place and place for phenomenology.
The book brings together prominent scholars in phenomenology of place. Covering a range of issues from...
Memory, Place and Identity
Commemoration and remembrance of war and conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
This book bridges theoretical gaps that exist between the meta-concepts of memory, place and identity by positioning its lens on the emplaced practices of commemoration and the remembrance of war and conflict.
This book examines how diverse publics relate to their wartime histories through...
Cities and Suburbs
New Metropolitan Realities in the US
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This book is a systematic examination of the historical and current roles that cities and suburbs play in US metropolitan areas. It explores the history of cities and suburbs, their changing dynamics with each other, their growing diversity, the environmental consequences of their development and...
by John Rennie Short
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
An accessible and groundbreaking text that takes a fresh view of contemporary geographical issues by looking at the geographies we have lost.
Geography means writing about the world. Alternative ways of writing about the world are introduced and critically evaluated. The book discusses medieval...
by Edward Relph
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
First published in 1987, this book provides a wide-ranging account of how modern cities have come to look as they do — differing radically from their predecessors in their scale, style, details and meanings. It uses many illustrations and examples to explore the origins and development of specific...
Northern Ireland and Beyond
Social and Geographical Issues
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Northern Ireland's problems are rooted in physical and historical geography: small resource base, peripheral location, violent conquest, repression and ruthless emargination of the native population by the Protestant settlers. At the time of partition, many areas already had a Catholic majority, and...
by Paul H. Frankel
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Published in the year 1969, Essentials of Petroleum is a valuable contribution to the field of Geography.