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American Geographers, 1784-1812
ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 139.00The first major work to identify the original generation of American geographers?teachers, writers, surveyors, cartographers, engravers, and others?who made significant contributions to the field of geography during the early years of the republic. As such, it represents a powerful research tool for scholars interested in learning about this group... more...
America's Natural Places: Rocky Mountains and Great Plains
ABC-CLIO 2009; US$ 91.00America's Natural Places: Rocky Mountains and Great Plains examines over 50 of the most spectacular and important areas of this region, with each entry describing the importance of the area, the flora and fauna that it supports, threats to the survival of the region, and what is being done to protect it. ||Organized by state within the volume,... more...
America's Natural Places: South and Southeast
ABC-CLIO 2009; US$ 91.00America's Natural Places: South and Southeast examines over 50 of the most spectacular and important areas of this region, with each entry describing the importance of the area, the flora and fauna that it supports, threats to the survival of the region, and what is being done to protect it. ||Organized by state within the volume, this book informs... more...
America's Natural Places: Pacific and West
ABC-CLIO 2009; US$ 91.00America's Natural Places: Pacific and West examines over 50 of the most spectacular and important areas of this region, with each entry describing the importance of the area, the flora and fauna that it supports, threats to the survival of the region, and what is being done to protect it. ||Organized by state within the volume, this work informs... more...
The Rise of China and Structural Changes in Korea and Asia
Edward Elgar Publishing 2010; US$ 40.00Brings together studies conducted by researchers in East Asian countries who seek to understand the impact of China's rise and the consequent policy challenges. This book illustrates that the rise of China and its integration with the rest of the world is one of the most important developments in the global economy. more...
Domesticating Neo-Liberalism
Wiley 2010; US$ 39.95Based on in-depth research in Poland and Slovakia, Domesticating Neo-Liberalism addresses how we understand the processes of neo-liberalization in post-socialist cities. Builds upon a vast amount of new research data Examines how households try to sustain their livelihoods at particularly dramatic and difficult times of urban transformation Provides... more...
Constructive Anarchy
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 99.95Constructive Anarchy draws on over a decade of direct study within a variety of anarchist projects to provide the most wide-ranging and detailed analysis of current anarchist endeavours to date. The book offers compelling discussions of anarchism and union organizing, anti-poverty work and immigrant and refugee defence, and is a groundbreaking achievement... more...
Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?
New Press, The 2010; US$ 26.95The acclaimed labor lawyer and prizewinning author Thomas Geoghegan asks: where are we better off?America or Europe? In an idiosyncratic, entertaining travelogue that plays on public policy, Geoghegan asks what our lives would be like if we lived them as Europeans. Sneaking out of his workaholic American life, he takes five trips where he tries to... more...
Asian Godfathers
Profile 2008; US$ 15.9840 or 50 families control the economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia. Their interests range from banking to property, from shipping to sugar, from vice to gambling. 13 of the 50 richest families in the world are in South East Asia yet they are largely unknown outside confined business circles. Often this is because... more...
A Reenchanted World
Henry Holt and Co. 2009; US$ 15.99A surprising and enlightening investigation of how modern society is making nature sacred once again For more than two centuries, Western cultures, as they became ever more industrialized, increasingly regarded the natural world as little more than a collection of useful raw resources. The folklore of powerful forest spirits and mountain demons... more...









