This book is an introduction to a new branch of archaeology that scrutinises landscapes to find evidence of past human activity. Such evidence can be hard to detect at ground-level, but may be visib……続きを見る
著者:M.B. Sharan
出版社: Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd.
発売日: 1998年06月30日
The book Text Book of Practical Geography’ provides a systematic knowledge of practicals in geography for the graduate students especially and concerned teachers as well as for those who have not st……続きを見る
First published in 1987, Peter Brimblecombe's book provides an engaging historical account of air pollution in London, offering a fascinating insight into the development of air pollution controls a……続きを見る
著者:William Bright
出版社: University of Oklahoma Press
発売日: 2013年03月11日
Have you ever driven through a small town with an intriguing name like Wyandotte or Cuyamungue and wondered where that name came from? Or how such well-known placenames as Tucson, Waco, or Tulsa ori……続きを見る
著者:Robert Lamb
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2012年11月12日
This is a tale of our times. marking the 25th anniversary of Friends of the Earth, Promising the Earth locates the inside story of pioneering campaigns within a broader canvas. No single organizatio……続きを見る
著者:Tim Blackman
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年01月11日
Urban Policy and Practice is a practical and critical guide to urban policy in contemporary Britain.
The book covers a range of topics including:
* Quality and consumerism in the public sector
* Com……続きを見る
We are told that 'work is good for us' and that ill health is caused by 'individual lifestyles'. Drawing on research from public health, social policy, epidemiology, geography and political science,……続きを見る
著者:H. H. Lamb
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2003年09月02日
First published in 1972, this first volume of Professor Lamb's study of our changing climate deals with the fundamentals of climate and climatology, as well as providing global data on the contempor……続きを見る
著者:Hubert H. Lamb
出版社: Taylor and Francis
発売日: 2002年09月26日
We live in a world that is increasingly vulnerable to climatic shocks - affecting agriculture and industry, government and international trade, not to mention human health and happiness. Serious anx……続きを見る
著者:David Lambert
出版社: University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2013年11月15日
In Mastering the Niger, David Lambert recalls Scotsman James MacQueen (1778–1870) and his publication of A New Map of Africa in 1841 to show that Atlantic slaveryーas a practice of subjugation, a so……続きを見る
著者:Jim Butcher
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2007年03月12日
Ecotourism has emerged over the last twenty years not just as a market niche, but also as a strategy for combining development with conservation in the developing world. Ecotourism, NGOs and Develop……続きを見る
著者:Graham Bird
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2003年09月02日
As the linchpin of the global financial system, the International Monetary Fund provides the balance of payments support, chiefly to developing countries, conditional on strict remedial policy measu……続きを見る
A review of five major categories of lithogenetic and morphogenetic terrain types meet the complex terrain criteria: landslides, field photos of slope failures, bedrocks, nonglacial surficial deposi……続きを見る
When the earthquake that struck the Solomon Islands in 2013 produced tsunami waves that damaged the country’s infrastructure, it was one in a recent string of reminders of the devastating effects th……続きを見る
The Netherlands is an unusual nation in many ways. It is not only that nearly half her land is below sea level. Nor is it that she is one of the world's most crowded lands; her more than 13 million ……続きを見る
著者:Kyle Farmbry
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2015年01月28日
This book explores the interactions of theories of risk with natural disasters, health crises, and crises in the areas of science and technology. Using organizational frameworks developed exclusivel……続きを見る
著者:Tora Holmberg
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2015年03月27日
The city includes opportunities as well as constraints for humans and other animals alike. Urban animals are often subjected to complaints; they transgress geographical, legal as and cultural orderi……続きを見る
著者:William B. Meyer
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
This revealing book synthesizes research from many fields to offer the first complete history of the roles played by weather and climate in American life from colonial times to the present. Author W……続きを見る
Tim Bunnell's book featured in the movie Pulang - the author has recently spoken in several interviews and programmes about how his fascination with the tales of Malay seamen in the UK led to writin……続きを見る
著者:Ambe J. Njoh
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年02月11日
Established indicators of development suggest that, as a group, African countries lag behind their counterparts in other regions with respect to public health. Particularly noteworthy is the fact th……続きを見る
Our world is a water world. Seventy percent of our planet consists of ocean. However, geography has traditionally overlooked this vital component of the earth's composition. The word 'geography' dir……続きを見る
Interdisciplinary in approach, this volume explores and deciphers the symbolic value and iconicity of the built environment in the Arab Gulf Region, its aesthetics, language and performative charact……続きを見る
Despite the fact that the sea covers 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface, and is integral to the workings of the world, it has been largely neglected or perceived as marginal in modern consciousness.……続きを見る
Using the borderscapes concept, this book offers an approach to border studies that expresses the multilevel complexity of borders, from the geopolitical to social practice and cultural production a……続きを見る
著者:William B. Meyer
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2016年07月03日
This book is devoted to the exploration of environmental Prometheanism, the belief that human beings can and should master nature and remake it for the better. Meyer considers, among others, the que……続きを見る
著者:M. Bletz
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2016年05月24日
An exploration of questions of nationality in Brazil and Argentina, at the time when the cities were flooded with impoverished European immigrants. The author argues that processes of representation……続きを見る
著者:Ambe J Njoh
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年12月05日
The fact that Africa continues to lag behind all regions of the world on every indicator of development is hardly contentious. However, there is fierce debate on why this should be the case, despite……続きを見る
An undergraduate dissertation is your opportunity to engage with geographical research, first-hand. But completing a student project can be a stressful and complex process. Your Human Geography Diss……続きを見る
著者:Timothy Tambassi
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2017年08月19日
This book is intended as a philosophical introduction to geo-ontologies, in response to their increasing diffusion within the contemporary debate, where philosophy plays a fundamental, though still ……続きを見る
Interweaving the human aspects of river control with analysis of hydro-physical data, including historical data over the last few centuries, this monograph is a comprehensive evaluation of the Damod……続きを見る