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Domicile and Diaspora investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian independence in 1947. The first book to study the Anglo-Indian community past and present, in India, Britain and Australia. The first...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-07-22
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RGS-IBG Book Series
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This topical book addresses contemporary concern with the interconnections between geography and morality. Covers both the geographical context of morality, and moralities in geographical methods and practices. Contains up-to-date case studies based on original...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-07-22
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RGS-IBG Book Series
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Redundant Masculinities? investigates the links between the so-called 'crisis of masculinity' and contemporary changes in the labour market through the lives of young working class men. Allows the voices of poorly-educated young men to be heard. Looks at how the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-07-22
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Antipode Book Series
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The book is an analysis of cultural, social as well as political economic expressions of neoliberalization and argues for an appreciation of the relational geographies of neoliberalization. In-depth empirical research spanning a variety of world regions A range of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-07-20
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Antipode Book Series
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Threads of Labour presents new empirical research by a network of garment workers' support organizations and makes sense of global supply chains from the bottom up. Presents new empirical research by a network of garment workers' support organizations in ten different...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-07-20
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Antipode Book Series
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Utilizing research on networked struggles in both the 18th-century Atlantic world and our modern day, Resistance, Space and Political Identities: The Making of Counter-Global Networks challenges existing understandings of the relations between space, politics, and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-06-20
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RGS-IBG Book Series
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Based 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...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-06-20
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RGS-IBG Book Series
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Eco-city planning is a key element of urban land use planning in perspective and of ongoing debate of environmental urban sustainable development with a spatial and practical dimension. The conceptual basis of ecological planning is that we can no longer afford to be...
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Springer
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2011-05-02
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This 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...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-03-01
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
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This 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...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-03-01
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
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This 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...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-23
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
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For those in developed nations, suddenly being without electricity is a disaster: power cuts have us fretting over the food stored in the freezer, and even a few hours without lights, televisions, or air conditioning is an ordeal. However, for an estimated 1.6 billion...
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Springer
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2010-11-08
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Systems of transportation long ago developed out of the profound human need to connect and communicate. Transport today is still the only means for the physical movement of goods and people. Alongside the evolution of transportation and communication technologies, the...
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Springer
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2010-02-18
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cSUR-UT Series: Library for Sustainable Urban Regeneration
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Various environmental issues are related to urban activities. Through the growing recognition of the necessity to develop sustainable urban mana- ment, the University of Tokyo established the Center for Sustainable Urban Regeneration (cSUR) in July 2003. A research...
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Springer
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2010-02-16
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cSUR-UT Series: Library for Sustainable Urban Regeneration
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END OF MILLENNIUM This final volume in Manuel Castells’ trilogy studies the key defining processes taking place in the last decade of the twentieth century as an expression of the crises resulting from the transition between the old industrial society and the emerging...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2010-01-26
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The last four decades of human history have seen the emergence of an unprecedented number of 'new' infectious diseases: the familiar roll call includes AIDS, Ebola, H5N1 influenza, hantavirus, hepatitis E, Lassa fever, legionnaires' and Lyme diseases, Marburg fever,...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-07-30
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The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography provides an authoritative and comprehensive source of information on the discipline of human geography and its constituent, and related, subject areas.The encyclopedia includes over 1,000 detailed entries on philosophy...
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Elsevier Science
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2009-07-16
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THE DICTIONARY OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY ‘Even better than before, the Dictionary is an essential tool for all human geographers and over the years has provided an invaluable guide to the changing boundaries and content of the discipline. No-one can afford to be without this...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-05-06
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Utilizing research on networked struggles in both the 18th-century Atlantic world and our modern day, Resistance, Space and Political Identities: The Making of Counter-Global Networks challenges existing understandings of the relations between space, politics, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-03-25
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RGS-IBG Book Series
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The world is not as mobile or as interconnected as we like to think. As Harm de Blij argues inThe Power of Place, in crucial ways--from the uneven distribution of natural resources to the unequal availability of opportunity--geography continues to hold billions of...
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Oxford University Press
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2008-07-21
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