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Geospatial Technology and the Role of Location in Science
Springer 2009; US$ 199.99Tracing the adoption and dissemination of Geospatial Technology in a range of disciplines, this book examines the impact this technology has had, and is likely to have, on the explanation of spatial behaviour, phenomena and processes. Focusing on its innovative usage, it explores scientific contributions to technology advancement. more...
Making Development Geography
Taylor & Francis Ltd 2007; US$ 45.00This enlightening book offers a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental debates for anyone with an interest in development issues. more...
Legal Reforms in China and Vietnam
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 155.00Although the adoption of market reforms has been a key factor leading to China?s recent economic growth, China continues to be governed by a communist party and has a socialist-influenced legal system. Vietnam, starting later, also with a socialist-influenced legal system, has followed a similar reform path, and other countries too are now looking... more...
Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies
Wiley 2010; US$ 139.95Environmental issues are inherently interdisciplinary, and environmental academic programs increasingly use an interdisciplinary approach. This timely book presents a core framework for conducting high quality interdisciplinary research. It focuses on the opportunities rather than the challenges of interdisciplinary work and is written for those doing... more...
The Politics of Proximity
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 99.95This book analyses patterns of mobility in relation to new possibilities of organizing space, time, and proximity to others. Different phenomena - from memorial sites to migration, from urban mobility to mobile work - are analysed, illustrating different types of proximity through mobility and immobility. In doing so, this book offers a cross-cultural... more...
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Human Geography
Wiley 2011; US$ 207.95This volume provides an up-to-date, authoritative synthesis of the discipline of human geography. Unparalleled in scope, the companion offers an indispensable overview to the field, representing both historical and contemporary perspectives. Edited and written by the world's leading authorities in the discipline Divided into three major sections:... more...
Teaching for EcoJustice
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 135.00"Authentic hope is the gift Rebecca Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci offer readers of EcoJustice Education ?. We learn what it means to recover the ancient arts and skills of cultivating commons, common sense, and community collaborations in our hard times." Madhu Suri Prakash, Pennsylvania State University " EcoJustice Education... more...
China's Search for Modernity
Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 145.00Twenty years after a return from fundamentalism to economic reality, China has become the world's tenth largest economy and an increasingly important global power. Despite the rise of fundamentalism and post-modernism, the pursuit of modernity was an ongoing historical movement in late twentieth century China. He Ping focuses on China's quest for and... more...
Geographies of Ageing
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 99.95This book examines the patterns and causes of uneven population ageing. It identifies those countries and localities most likely to experience population ageing and the reasons for this. Attention is also given to the role that youth migration, labour force migration, retirement migration and ageing in place have in influencing the spatial concentrations... more...
Mapping the Invisible Landscape
University of Iowa Press 1993; US$ 24.00Any landscape has an unseen component: a subjective component of experience, memory, and narrative which people familiar with the place understand to be an integral part of its geography but which outsiders may not suspect the existence of—unless they listen and read carefully. This invisible landscape is make visible though stories, and... more...









