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Gendering Border Studies
University of Wales Press 2010; US$ 35.00The study of borders has recently undergone significant transitions, reflecting changes in the functions of boundaries themselves, as the world political map has experienced transformations. In the interplay with other categories of difference like class, race, ethnicity, and religion, gender plays a major role in giving meaning to different forms... more...
Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability
Springer 2010; US$ 99.99This book examines the linkages between environmental change and forced migration. This has been a headline topic during the past few years with predictions of 'millions of refugees'. It presents case studies from across the world of responses to climate change as well as other environmental changes and examines the role that environmental... more...
The Legacy
Greystone Books 2010; US$ 12.95In this expanded version of an inspiring speech delivered in December 2009, David Suzuki reflects on how we got where we are today and presents his vision for a better future. In his living memory, Suzuki has witnessed cataclysmic changes in society and our relationship with the planet: the doubling of the world?s population, our increased ecological... more...
Seasonality and Human Ecology
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 46.00This volume examines the effect of climatic and human-made seasonality on human biology and behaviour. more...
Landscapes and Societies
Springer 2010; US$ 139.99This book contains case histories intended to show how societies and landscapes interact. The range of interest stretches from the small groups of the earliest Neolithic, through Bronze and Iron Age civilizations, to modern nation states. The coexistence is, of its very nature reciprocal, resulting in changes in both society and landscape. In some... more...
Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in Arctic Regions
Springer 2010; US$ 139.99Under the auspices of International Polar Year (IPY), the CAVIAR consortium was formed with partners from all eight Arctic countries. The aim of the interdisciplinary CAVIAR project is to increase understanding of the vulnerability of Arctic communities to changing environmental conditions, including climate change, and to contribute to the development... more...
Respect for Nature
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 27.95What rational justification is there for conceiving of all living things as possessing inherent worth? In Respect for Nature , Paul Taylor draws on biology, moral philosophy, and environmental science to defend a biocentric environmental ethic in which all life has value. Without making claims for the moral rights of plants and animals, he offers... more...
The Wealth of Nature
New Society Publishers 2011; US$ 18.95Nature-centered economics for the age of peak oil more...
Landnahme-Mythos, kulturelles Gedächtnis und nationale Identität
BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2010; US$ 45.29Hauptbeschreibung Als sich Island zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts von Dänemark löste und sich gleichzeitig tief greifende Modernisierungsprozesse vollzogen, intensivierte sich der Diskurs über eine isländische nationale Identität. Auch die Gründung von Reisevereinen wurde in diesem nationalen Kontext gedeutet. So nahmen die Akteure den Gründungsmythos... more...
Self Sufficiency for the 21st Century
DK Publishing 2010; US$ 30.00Self Sufficiency for the 21st Century takes its inspiration from John Seymour's 1970s', bestselling, classic, The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency , but DK's new category killer has been created completely from scratch - with totally new commissioned photography and artworks, and drawing on the authors' own experiences and expertise of the latest... more...









