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This enlightening book makes visible the lives and works of women who played a critical role in the development of geography as an academic field. A rare and detailed analysis of the geographical work of 30 individual women geographers from 1850 to 1970 Includes oral...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-29
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"A comprehensive reader for my political geography course. Good summaries at the end, and articles include effective case study examples."
- Rachel Paul, Western Washington University
"A very useful and comprehensive introduction to key concepts in political geography....
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2009-04-22
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The latest edition of this highly successful and popular textbook has been completely revised and updated to include the latest developments in biogeography. It offers excellent insight into the multi-disciplinary nature of biogeography, providing ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-03
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Adopting a 'global value chain' approach, Value Chain Struggles investigates the impact of new trading arrangements in the coffee and tea sectors on the lives and in the communities of growers in South India. Offers a timely analysis of the social hardships of tea and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-23
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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Adopting a 'global value chain' approach, Value Chain Struggles investigates the impact of new trading arrangements in the coffee and tea sectors on the lives and in the communities of growers in South India. Offers a timely analysis of the social hardships of tea and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-23
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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Location-Based Services (LBS) are the delivery of data and information services where the content of those services is tailored to the current location and context of a mobile user. This is a new and fast-growing technology sector incorporating GIS, wireless...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2009-02-17
Collection :
Mastering GIS: Technol, Applications & Mgmnt
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*Winner of the 2009 Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Prize, awarded by the American Sociological Association Labor and Labor Movements section* Claims have been made on the emergence of a new labour internationalism in response to the growing insecurity created by...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-01-26
Collection :
Antipode Book Series
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"This extraordinary collage of sophisticated essays on key terms in urban geography both provides a conventional basis to and recasts innovatively a burgeoning field in the discipline."
- Roger Keil, co-Editor, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
"The...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2008-12-19
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Unique in the reference literature, this Companion provides students with an introduction to all the major concepts and contemporary issues in the environmental sciences. The text is divided into six sections (Environmental Sciences, Environments, Paradigms and...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2008-11-18
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Need directions? Are you good at getting lost? Then GPS is just the technology you’ve dreamed of, and GPS For Dummies is what you need to help you make the most of it. If you have a GPS unit or plan to buy one, GPS For Dummies, 2nd Edition helps you compare GPS...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2008-11-17
ePub
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Winner of the 2010 James M. Blaut Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology (Honors of the CAPE specialty group (Cultural and Political Ecology)) Decolonizing Development investigates the ways colonialism shaped the modern world...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-09-15
Collection :
Antipode Book Series
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By considering three case study regions in Mexico during the Colonial era, Climate and Society in Colonial Mexico: A Study in Vulnerability examines the complex interrelationship between climate and society and its contemporary implications. Provides unique insights...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-09-15
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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This book is the first comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the New Deal and examines how far the programme has succeeded in responding to the diversity of conditions in local labour markets across the UK. Argues that profound differences in local labour market...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-09-15
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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Peter Merriman traces the social and cultural histories and geographies of driving spaces through an examination of the design, construction and use of England’s M1 motorway in the 1950s and 1960s. A first-of-its-kind academic study examining the production and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-09-15
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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After the Three Italies develops a new political economy approach to the analysis of comparative regional development and the territorial division of labour and exemplifies it through an up-to-date account of Italian industrial change and regional economic performance. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-09-15
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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The Geomorphology of Upland Peat offers a detailed synthesis of existing literature on peat erosion, incorporating new research ideas and data from two leading experts in the field. Presents the most detailed and current work to date Written in a style that is both...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-09-15
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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This book explores the connections between two of the most transformative processes of the twenty-first century, namely climate change and globalization. In this book, Leichenko and O'Brien present a conceptual framework for analyzing the interactions between these two...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-08-28
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This book is a comprehensive introduction to the application of geoscience to criminal investigations. Clearly structured throughout, the text follows a path from the large-scale application of remote sensing, landforms and geophysics in the first half to the...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2008-08-06
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Modern Geography has come a long way from its historical roots in exploring foreign lands, and simply mapping and naming the regions of the world. Spanning both physical and human Geography, the discipline today is unique as a subject which can bridge the divide between...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-05-22
ePub
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Modern Geography has come a long way from its historical roots in exploring foreign lands, and simply mapping and naming the regions of the world. Spanning both physical and human Geography, the discipline today is unique as a subject which can bridge the divide between...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-05-22
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