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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. …
Geographical Voices
Essays by fourteen influential geographers provide timely examples of practical geographical scholarship and a useful antidote to ""ivory tower"" theories.
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 …
Becoming a Geographer
A collection of 23 essays that reflect the eclectic and provocative thinking of geographer Peter Gould. They discuss topics such as AIDS, game theory, development themes in Africa, …
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
Putting Health into Place draws together original works that collectively argue for a reinvention of medical geography. There is a growing interest worldwide in relationships …
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 …
Women, Religion, and Space
Contributors to this volume study women who practice or interact with the gender norms and spaces of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The book focuses on questions of how and why …
The Global Crisis in Foreign Aid
This assessment of the crisis and transition in the foreign aid regime provides a view from inside the policy process and a perspective on the changing priorities of donors and …
Imagined Country
This volume explores the relationship between society and the physical world through representation - the artistic re-creation of the physical world - which reflects …
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 …