Sökt på: Sökresultat
totalt 21 träffar
Alabaster Cities
With keen insight and exhaustive research John Rennie Short narrates the story of urban America from 1950 to the present, revealing a compelling portrait of urban transformation. …
The Boundless Self
Using the body as an axis for geographical theory, this book argues that communication empowers self to constantly transcend its physical limits. It urges complete review of …
Making Space
In his latest work, John Rennie Short reveals how the spatial discourses of the sixteenth century formed a remarkable revolution that changed the way the world was represented. The …
Putting Health Into Place
This collection of essays argues for a reinvention of medical geography, considering the relationships between human health and the experience of place, influenced by developments …
Verandahs of Power
Garth Andrew Myers' work makes a significant contribution to a long tradition of research on colonial cities and a multidisciplinary body of literature on urban legacies of …
The Global Crisis in Foreign Aid
This work focuses on the ever-evolving role of foreign aid within the global order. It contains essays from eight policy representatives from donor and recipient countries and …
New Worlds, New Geographies
Elucidates the struggles of governments and individuals to situate themselves within changing nation states and restructurings of urban spaces into a kind of global village. These …
Placing Autobiography in Geography
This work comprises a collection of autobiographical essays by geographers. The contributors use autobiography as a tool to document the history of geography, as a method of data …
Inventing Black-on-Black Violence
This book explores the societal construction of "black-on-black" - referring to the 1980s when violence among African American perpetrators and victims increased. Massive job …
The Politics of Landscapes in Singapore
This book shows how power relations that define and challenge the concept of ""nation"" are played out in and through landscapes. Has the era of globalization neutralized the …
Frontiers of Femininity
British explorer and professional travel writer Isabella Bird is, to the modern eye, a study in contradictions. One of the premier mountaineers and world explorers of her …