Politics & Social Sciences

The untold story of the slaying of a Southern town’s ex-slaves and a white lawyer’s historic battle to bring the perpretators to justice Following the Ci...

M. Bell, M.j.c. Walker. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Education & Teaching Schools & Teaching Instruction MethodsSocial ...

The social relations of difference – from race and class to gender and inequality – is at the heart of the concept of social geography and this Handbook...

Persistant poverty has long been one of America's most pressing and intractable problems. According to some estimates, by 2003, almost twenty-five percent o...

This introduction to human geography focuses on culture, society, and human activity from a geographic perspective. Among the most distinctive features of t...

Alison Blunt And Jane Wills. Includes Bibliographical References.Categories: Education & Teaching Schools & Teaching Instruction MethodsSocial Studi...

Real Social Science presents a new, hands-on approach to social inquiry. The theoretical and methodological ideas behind the book, inspired by Aristotelian ...

Edited By A.d. Cliff ... [et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.Categories: Science & Math Earth Sciences GeographyGeneral

This Text Highlights The Diversity Of Political Responses To Environmental Issues, Bringing Together Over 40 Readings In Environmental Politics That Cover V...

Human Geography explores how human behaviour affects the earth's surface. In the course of this exploration, the text engages with subjects such as globali...

This modern climatology textbook explains those climates formed near the ground in terms of the cycling of energy and mass through systems.Categories: Scien...

Economics Of Natural Resources ; Environmental Ideology, Politics, And Decision Making ; Ecologic Perspectives On Natural Resources ; The Human Population ;...

Taking a thematic approach to cultural geography, this text explores cultural geography through the use of five themes - culture region, cultural diffusion,...

Trusted for its timeliness and readability, this book introduces geography by emphasizing the relevance of geographic concepts to human problems. Two years ...

Weighing In takes on the "obesity epidemic," challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences. Julie Guthman examines fatness and...

One of BookPage's Best Books of 2020 "The detailed, nuanced, gripping account of that strange and complex journey offered in Robert Draper's To Start a War:...

A History Of Spaces Provides An Essential Insight Into The Practices And Ideas Of Maps And Map-making. It Draws On A Wide Range Of Social Theorists And Theo...

"Offering a fully integrated, systems-based approach to physical geography, the new Third Edition of Alan and Arthur Strahler's highly successful text incor...

With an arresting visual layout designed for today’s learners, Diversity Amid Globalization emphasizes the connections and diversity between people and pl...

Now substantially revised and updated, the Thirteenth Edition of de Blij and Muller's Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts continues to deliver the aut...

Since Its Establishment In October 1945 It Has Been The Stated Aim Of The United Nations To Eliminate Hunger And Malnutrition. For The Last Three Decades Mo...

A provocative history that reveals how guns―not abortion, race, or religion―are at the heart of America's cultural divide.Gunfight is a timely work exa...

Chacterizing global issues through the daiy lives of individuals helps World Regional Geography enables you to better grasp circumstances affecting regions ...

Who can deny the significance of food? It has a central role in our health and pleasure as well as in our economy, politics and culture. Food in Society pro...

`The overall conception of the volume is absolutely splendid, and the editors skilfully place the material in the context of disciplinary and post-discipli...

Jihad vs. McWorld is a groundbreaking work, an elegant and illuminating analysis of the central conflict of our times: consumerist capitalism versus relig...

the Debate On Modernity And Postmodernity Has Awakened Interest In The Importance Of The Spatial For Cultural Formations. But What Of Those Spaces That Ex...

Trusted for its timeliness, readability, and sound pedagogy, The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography emphasizes the relevance of geograph...

What made cities 'modern' in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Cities in Modernity explores connections between culture, economy and built envir...

Provides a sound theoretical and practical foundation for understanding the global economy in an era of shifting borders, restructuring economies, and reg...

Harry Gold. Includes Bibliographies And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesGeneral

Widely regarded as the authoritative text on development geography, this volume examines the nature and causes of global inequality and critically analyzes...

Designed specifically for introductory globalization courses, Introducing Globalization helps students to develop informed opinions about globalization, in...

Sand dunes cover up to a quarter of many desert regions. Understanding the factors that determine their shape, size and dynamics is important to an understa...

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences SociologyGeneral

The Geography of the World Economy provides an in-depth and stimulating introduction to the 'globalization' of the world economy. The book offers a consider...

Global Warming: The Hard Science presents a comprehensive, qualitatively rigorous, and critical discussion of the science underlying the global warming issu...

A reader for undergraduate students enrolled in second- or third-year visual culture or visual communications courses offered via communication studies and...

Development and Displacement draws together a number of emergent challenges to the practices and theories of development in the contemporary world, associat...

This is the first book to combine a discussion of post-apartheid development initiatives with an extended historical analysis of South Africa's dynamic race...

C.r. Bryant, L.h. Russwurm, A.g. Mclellan. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 226-245.Categories: Engineering & Transportation Engineering Civil & Env...

This Collection Of Original Essays By Many Of Today's Preeminent Interpreters Of Continental Philosophy Explores The Question Of Whether Western Thought And...

Edited By Stephen Graham. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Arts & Photography Architecture Urban & Land Use PlanningLand Us...

The Diverse Essays Collected Here Constitute An Exploration Of The Emerging Interdisciplinary Field Of Visual Culture, And Examine Why Modern And Postmodern...

This unique volume of 27 readings includes works by leading Canadian and international scholars.Categories: Politics & Social SciencesSociology

This unusual and intriguing study of nationhood explores the 19th-century confrontation of ideas that transformed the kingdom of Siam into the modern concep...

Urbanization: An Introduction to Urban Geography,Third Edition captures the changes in the nature and outcomes of urbanization processes for people, as wel...

This latest edition integrates Karen Arms' exceptional writing style with a solutions-oriented approach to emphasise the human and ecological implications o...