Social science / Human Geography

Best Selling / Over $15

icon Subscribe to feed

Browse

Best Selling

New Releases

 

Category

Delete Human Geography

 

Price

All (309)

Free (0)

Below $5 (1)

Below $10 (7)

Below $15 (13)

Delete Price range

From :
To :
OK

 

Protection

All (296)

DRM Free (1)

DRM (295)

 

Language

English (296)

French (15)

German (0)

Spanish (0)

Italian (6)

More options

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....


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...


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....


Service Worlds: People, Organisations, Technologies

by John Bryson, Peter Daniels & Barney Warf

As the twenty-first century begins, significant changes are occurring in the way that services and goods are produced and consumed. One of the key drivers of this change is information and communications technology...


Leisure/Tourism Geographies: Practices and Geographical Knowledge

by David Crouch

Leisure and Tourism Geographies considers leisure/tourism as an encounter. An encounter that exists between people, between people and space and between people and their expectations, experiences and desires....


Eco-Facts and Eco-Fiction: Understanding the Environmental Debate

by William H. Baarschers

Ozone-friendly, recyclable, zero-waste, elimination of toxic chemicals - such environmental ideals are believed to offer solutions to the environmental crisis. Where do these ideals come from? Is the environmental...


Homeless: Policies, Strategies and Lives on the Streets

by Gerald Daly

The causes of homelessness are disputed by both Right and Left. But, few would argue that life on the streets is anything other than dangerous and debilitating.

Unemployment, deinstitutionalisation, abuse in...


World in Crisis: Populations in Danger at the End of the 20th Century

by Médicins Sans Frontières/Doctors Witho

The tragedies of war, famine, disease and poverty continue to dominate our headlines. Faced with such tragedy, the politics, ethics, even the economics of humanitarian aid are becoming more complex. The role...