From Abbotts to Zurich

Ren Vasiliev

• Paperback | Engels | Space, Place and Society
• Sangerfield: The town was established in 1795 on land originally owned by Jebediah Sanger who, wanting to have a new settlement named after him, promi... Lees meer

Migrants to the Metropolis

• Paperback | Engels | Space, Place and Society
• Immigration today touches the lives and economies of more people and places than ever before.Yet the places that are disproportionately affected by im... Lees meer

The Boundless Self

Paul Adams

• Hardcover | Engels | Space, Place and Society
• Using the body as an axis for geographical theory, this book argues that communication empowers self to constantly transcend its physical limits. It u... Lees meer

Inventing Black-On-Black Violence

David Wilson

• Hardcover | Engels | Space, Place and Society
• This book explores the societal construction of "black-on-black"referring to the 1980s when violence among African American perpetrators and victims i... Lees meer

Tel Aviv

Maoz Azaryahu

• Hardcover | Engels | Space, Place and Society
• Founded in 1909 as a "garden suburb" of the Mediterranean port of Jaffa, Tel Aviv soon became a model of Jewish self-rule and was celebrated as a jewe... Lees meer

New Worlds, New Geographies

John Short

• Paperback | Engels | Space, Place and Society
• John Rennie Short maintains that the "new world order" is neither new nor orderly. His book, New Worlds, New Geographies, connects global change, urba... Lees meer

Becoming a Geographer

Peter Gould

• Hardcover | Engels | Space, Place and Society
• Peter Gould, a prominent, award--winning geographer who admits to having a low threshold for boredom, offers a collection of essays that reflect his e... Lees meer

Making Space

John Short

• Hardcover | Engels | Space, Place and Society
• The cosmos was bound in a sphere; the world was gridded and plotted, the seas navigated, and the land surveyed. Spatial practices were codified, a spa... Lees meer

Beside One's Self

Catherine Robinson

• Hardcover | Engels | Space, Place and Society
• What is it to feel homeless? How does it feel to be without the orienting geography of home? Going beyond homelessness as a housing issue, this book u... Lees meer

Green Syndicalism

Jeff Shantz

• Hardcover | Engels | Space, Place and Society
• It is widely understood that the burdens of ecological destruction are borne disproportionately by working-class and poor communities, both through il... Lees meer

Frontiers of Femininity

Karen M Morin

• Hardcover | Engels | Space, Place and Society
• British explorer and professional travel writer Isabella Bird is, to the modern eye, a study in contradictions. One of the premier mountaineers and wo... Lees meer

Alabaster Cities

John Short

• Hardcover | Engels | Space, Place and Society
• With keen insight and exhaustive research John Rennie Short narrates the story of urban America from 1950 to the present, revealing a compelling portr... Lees meer

Geography Inside Out

Richard Symanski

• Hardcover | Engels | Space, Place and Society
• Taking sharp aim at complacent geography scholars, this irreverent book turns the world of academic geography upside down. The author, a foremost figu... Lees meer

The Global Crisis in Foreign Aid

• Hardcover | Engels | Space, Place and Society
• The internal destabilization of many poor countries that accompanied the end of the Cold War and the general failure of structural adjustment programs... Lees meer

From Empire to Empire

Abigail Jacobson

• Hardcover | Engels | Space, Place and Society
• The history of Jerusalem as traditionally depicted is the quintessential history of conflict and strife, of ethnic tension, and of incompatible nation... Lees meer

Geographical Voices

• Paperback | Engels | Space, Place and Society
• These highly personal essays reflect experiences and insights of key geographers of the past half-century. Contributors not only document the growing ... Lees meer

Putting Health Into Place

Robin A Kearns

• Paperback | Engels | Space, Place and Society
• Putting Health into Place draws together original works that collectively argue for a reinvention of medical geography. There is a growing interest wo... Lees meer

At Home

Irene Cieraad

• Paperback | Engels | Space, Place and Society
• In a volume that brings together a wide range of disciplines--art history, sociology, architecture, cultural anthropology, and environmental psycholog... Lees meer

Imagined Country

John Short

• Paperback | Engels | Space, Place and Society
• This volume explores the relationship between siciety and the physical world through representation - the artistic re-creation of the physical world -... Lees meer

Riverscapes and National Identities

Tricia Cusack

• Hardcover | Engels | Space, Place and Society
• Painted riverscapes such as Claude Monet's impressions of the Seine, Isaak Levitan's Volga views, or Thomas Cole's Hudson scenery became iconic not le... Lees meer

Globalizing City

Richard Grant

• Hardcover | Engels | Space, Place and Society
• As urbanization of the world's population grows at an ever-increasing pace, the need to understand the effects of globalization on cities is at the fo... Lees meer

Women, Religion, & Space

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• This volume studies females who practice or interact with gender norms of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam in relation to the geography of place. The ... Lees meer

The Politics of Landscapes in Singapore

• Paperback | Engels | Space, Place and Society
• This thought-provoking book explores strategies employed by Singapore, a multiracial society, to create a Singapore "nation" with an emphasis on the r... Lees meer

Verandahs of Power

Garth Andrew Myers

• Hardcover | Engels | Space, Place and Society
• Garth Andrew Myers' work makes a significant contribution to a long tradition of research on colonial cities and a multidisciplinary body of literatur... Lees meer