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Geographies of Mobilities
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 44.95This edited volume brings together leading academics to provide a revitalized 'geography of Mobilities', informed by the wider 'mobility turn' adopted across the social sciences and humanities. It makes connections between the seemingly disparate worlds of migration, transport and tourism, suggesting that each has much to learn from... more...
Siting Culture
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 43.95Culture has been subject to critical debate in anthropology during the past decade and this is related to a shift in emphasis from the bounded local culture to transnational cultural flows. At the same time that cultural mobility is being emphasized, the people studied by anthropologists are recasting culture as a place of belonging as they construct... more...
The Mountains of the Mediterranean World
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 50.00An environmental history of the mountain areas of Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Morocco. more...
Is Geography Destiny?
World Bank Publications 2003; US$ 14.99For decades, the prevailing sentiment was that since geography is unchangeable, there is no reason why public policies should take it into account. In fact, charges that geographic interpretations of development were deterministic, or even racist, made the subject a virtual taboo in academic and policymaking circles alike. Is Geography Destiny? Challenges... more...
Geography and Vision
I.B.Tauris 2010; US$ 89.00Leading geographer Denis Cosgrove provides a series of personal reflections on the complex connections between seeing, imagining and representing the world geographically. In a series of eloquent essays he draws upon pictorial images - including maps, sketches, cartoons, paintings, and photographs - to explore and elaborate upon the many and varied... more...
The State of Play in the Futures Field
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009; US$ 199.00The notion that the State of Play in the Futures Field (SoPiFF) was a topic worth considering emerged from a conversation with Sesh Velamoor, Director of the Seattle-based Foundation for the Future (FFF), at a 2006 conference at Tamkang University in Taiwan. It posed the question has futurism failed? and suggested, among other things that,... more...
The Urban Homestead (Expanded & Revised Edition)
Process 2010; US$ 17.95The expanded, updated version of the best-selling classic, with a dozen new projects. more...
Who Owns the Arctic?
D & M Publishers 2010; US$ 14.95Who actually controls the Northwest Passage? Who owns the trillions of dollars of oil and gas beneath the Arctic Ocean? Which territorial claims will prevail, and why ? those of the United States, Russia, Canada, or the Nordic nations? And, in an age of rapid climate change, how do we protect the fragile Arctic environment while seizing the economic... more...
A Companion to Social Geography
Wiley 2011; US$ 207.95This volume traces the complexity of social geography in both its historical and present contexts, whilst challenging readers to reflect critically on the tensions that run through social geographic thought. Organized to provide a new set of conceptual lenses through which social geographies can be discussed Presents an original intervention into... more...
Chinese City and Urbanism
World Scientific Publishing Company 2010; US$ 68.00The purpose of this volume is to treat the progress of history, civilization and urban development of China together in order to demonstrate the unique qualities of Chinese civilization. The author uses historical dynasties as the vertical dimension, starting from the pre-urban origin of round-moat village settlements of the Yangzhou Period, until... more...









