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Psychedelic White
University of Minnesota Press 2007; US$ 60.00A rich ethnography, Psychedelic White explains how race plays out in Goa's white counterculture and grapples with how to make sense of racism when it is not supposed to be there. Challenging the prevailing conception of racial difference as a purely social construction and offering insights into the global underground music scene, Psychedelic White... more...
Approaches to Human Geography
SAGE Publications 2006; US$ 71.00Approaches to Human Geography is the essential student primer on theory and practice in Human Geography. It is a systematic review of the key ideas and debates informing post-war geography, explaining how those ideas work in practice. Avoiding jargon - while attentive to the rigor and complexity of the ideas that underlie geographic knowledge ? the... more...
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated
Crown Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.00While everything appears to be collapsing around us -- ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, the end of cheap oil, water shortages, global famine, wars -- we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children?s children. The inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio?s web movie Global Warning, The Last... more...
Practising Human Geography
SAGE Publications 2004; US$ 72.00Practising Human Geography is a critical introduction to key issues in the practice of human geography, informed by the question 'how do geographers do research?' In examining those methods and practices that are essential to doing geography, it presents a theoretically-informed discussion of the construction and interpretation of geographical data more...
Social Geographies
SAGE Publications 2003; US$ 64.00How do we describe ourselves? Where have we, do we, will we, live our lives? Why are the differences between people a source of tension? How can social change occur? Social geography can assist in addressing these questions. It provides ways of understanding and living in our contemporary world. Providing students with the resources... more...
Demands of Expanding Populations and Development Planning
Springer 2008; US$ 94.99The world's ever increasing population is suffering from bad air, unsafe water and insufficient nutrition. This is often the result of chemical contamination of the atmosphere, hydrosphere and soils by human activities. This book discusses growing populations emphasizing both regional and national situations, the effects of chemical contamination... more...
Human Geography of the UK
SAGE Publications 2005; US$ 49.00`Using up-to-date data, modern cartographic methods, and an approach that addresses students' everyday lives, Danny Dorling has produced an engaging introduction to the contemporary geography of the UK. It will be the focus of many lively discussions of patterns and trends' - Ron Johnston, School of Geography, University of Bristol Using... more...
Natural Disasters
Teacher Created Materials Publishing 2008; US$ 8.99Combines nonfiction text, problem solving, and real-world connections to explore mathematics in a meaningful way more...
The Power of Place
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 15.99Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Globals, Locals, and Mobals. 2. The Imperial Legacy of Language. 3. The Fateful Geography of Religion. 4. The Rough Topography of Human Health. 5. Geography of Jeopardy. 6. Places Open and Shut. 7. Same Place, Divergent Destinites. 8. Power and the City. 9. Promise and Peril in the Provinces. 10. Lowering the Barriers.... more...
Van natuurlandschap tot risicomaatschappij
Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 51.75Dit boek biedt een rijk geļllustreerd overzicht van de mens-milieurelaties die men verspreid over de wereld aantreft. Het geeft zowel aandacht aan het natuurlijk milieu als productiefactor in de agrarische sector en de mijnbouw als aan het genoegen en de verbetering van de gezondheid die men aan een gunstig natuurlijk milieu kan ontlenen. Het biedt... more...









