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Mobile Methods

by Monika Büscher & JOHN Urry

Mobile Methods is an essential collection of social science texts which focus on new mobile methods of social research relating to mobility, place and the social practices and relations that mediate embodied...


Organization Theory and Transnational Social Movements: Organizational Life and Internal Dynamics of Power Exercise within the Alternative Globalizati

by Kléber Ghimire

This book explores the internal functioning and exercise of power inside a widely acclaimed transnational social organization: the alternative globalization movement. Drawing on new empirical data and perspectives...


Fake Stuff

by Yi-Chieh Jessica Lin

Yi-Chieh Lin reveals how the entrepreneurial energy of emerging markets, such as China, includes the opportunity to profit from fake stuff, that is counterfeit goods that rely on our fascination with brand names....


Last Harvest: From Cornfield to New Town

by Witold Rybczynski

In Last Harvest, the award-winning author of Home and A Clearing in the Distance tells the compelling story of New Daleville, a brand-new residential subdivision in rural Pennsylvania. When Witold Rybczynski...


Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway

by Matt Dellinger

Interstate 69 is an enlightening journey through the heart of America. With this epic tale of one vast and controversial road project, Matt Dellinger brings to life the country's complex political, social, and...


Introduction to Environmental Remote Sensing

by Eric C. Barrett

Taking a detailed, non-mathematical approach to the principles on which remote sensing is based, this book progresses from the physical principles to the application of remote sensing.


Process and Form in Geomorphology

by David Stoddart

Process and Form in Geomorphology marks a turning point in geomorphological research. Stoddart has brought together a team of the leading international experts to offer important new studies into the processes,...


Development Projects as Policy Experiments: An Adaptive Approach to Development Administration

by Dennis A. Rondinelli

International assistance programmes for developing countries are in urgent need of revision. Continuous testing and verification is required if development activity is to cope effectively with the uncertainty...


Managing Environmental Pollution

by Andrew Farmer

Presents a comprehensive introduction to the nature of pollution, its impact on the environment, and the practical options and regulatory frameworks for pollution control. Sources of pollution, regulatory controls,...


Theories and Practices of Development

by Katie Willis

Throughout the twentieth century, governments sought to achieve 'development' not only in their own countries, but also in other regions of the world; particularly in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean....


Critical Political Ecology: The Politics of Environmental Science

by Timothy Forsyth

Critical Political Ecology brings political debate to the science of ecology. As political controversies multiply over the science underlying environmental debates, there is an increasing need to understand...


Population and Development

by W. T. S. Gould

Population and Development addresses important issues at the heart of the problems of developing countries. How these countries address the common difficulties of population growth, including mortality and fertility...


Sexuality, Rurality, and Geography

by Andrew Gorman-Murray, Barbara Pini & Lia Bryant

This edited book offers a detailed examination of the interstices of ruralities and sexualities over a number of different countries, focusing a geographical lens on the relationships between sexualities and...


Locked In, Locked Out: Gated Communities in a Puerto Rican City

by Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores

In Locked In, Locked Out, Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores examines four communities in Ponce, Puerto Rico, showing how gates—in both physical and symbolic ways—distribute power, reroute movement, sustain social...


Empire and International Order

by Noel Parker

Empire and International Order presents a critical examination of how useful the concept of empire is for understanding varieties of international order across time and place. Original contributions from an...


The Urban Design Reader

by Michael Larice & Elizabeth Macdonald

The second edition of The Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory and practice of urban design. Nearly 50 generous selections...


Landscape and the Ideology of Nature in Exurbia: Green Sprawl

by Kirsten Valentine Cadieux & Laura Taylor

This book explores the role of the ideology of nature in producing urban and exurban sprawl. It examines the ironies of residential development on the metropolitan fringe, where the search for "nature" brings...


Introductory Remote Sensing Principles and Concepts

by Paul Gibson & With contributions from Clare Power

Introduction to Remote Sensing Principles and Concepts provides a comprehensive student introduction to both the theory and application of remote sensing. This textbook

* introduces the field of remote sensing...


The Sociology of Tourism: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations

by Yiorgos Apostolopoulos, Stella Leivadi & Andrew Yiannakis

The rapid expansion of the tourism industry has provided many economic benefits and affected every facet of contemporary societies including employment, government revenue and cultural manifestations. However,...


Everyday Lives in the Global City: The Delinking of Locale and Milieu

by Jörg Dürrschmidt

Rejecting simplifying notions of globalisation as a macro-economic force, this book provides a grounded picture of the various ways in which people's biographies are tied up with the global cultural economy....