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Basic Books
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c2008
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viii, 374 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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"Globalization is not flattening the world; in fact, place is increasingly relevant to the global economy and our individual lives. Who's Your City? offers the first available city rankings by life-stage, rating the best places for singles, families, and empty-nesters to reside."--From amazon.com.
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University of California Press
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c2013
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278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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"Between extremes of climate farther north and south, the 38th North parallel line marks a temperate, middle latitude where human societies have thrived since the beginning of civilization. It divides North and South Korea, passes through Athens and San Francisco, and bisects Mono Lake in the eastern Sierra Nevada, where authors David and Janet Carle make their home. Former park rangers, the authors set out on an around-the-world journey in search...
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"Marcia Bjornerud shows how geologists chart the planet's past, explaining how we can determine the pace of solid Earth processes such as mountain building and erosion and comparing them with the more unstable rhythms of the oceans and atmosphere. These overlapping rates of change in the Earth system-some fast, some slow-demand a poly-temporal worldview, one that Bjornerud calls "timefulness." She explains why timefulness is vital in the Anthropocene,...
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
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157 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 32 cm.
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Looks at the long-term consequences of human interference in the natural world and the personal stories of people around the world "going green" to do what they can to help the planet.
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Esta obra recupera y muestra la vigencia del cuestionamiento que en su momento hicieron Foucault y Lefebvre acerca de cómo el despotismo de los proyectos políticos y urbanísticos sobre las ciudades se ve desobedecido o ignorado por heterotopías, por súbitas desjerarquizaciones del territorio, entradas en crisis del tiempo, por las que penetran o se despiertan energías oscuras, pero a veces esperanzadoras. Durante estos últimos años, la ocupación...
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ABSTRACT The Humanity of Warfare: Social Science Capabilities and the Evolution of Warfare addressees the changing nature of conflict and the new focus represented in the Counter-insurgency (COIN) doctrine. Now that the population's welfare is placed at the center, understanding the populations and social dynamics becomes critical. Military commanders and the population's welfare are inextricably intertwined and victory now depends upon the success...
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El viaje es un espacio emblemático de encuentro, diálogo y apertura de horizontes. Aquí presentamos un viaje literario, híbrido entre ficción y realidad, un recorrido con variadas e interesantes paradas que evocan mentalidades, lugares, miradas, percepciones, en definitiva, a través de los textos preparados por investigadores del Grupo Oswald de la Universitat de València.
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Este volumen reúne las aportaciones presentadas en el l Congreso de "Paisaje, Turisme e lnnovación" organizado por La Agència Valenciana del Turisme y la Universitat de València, en un esfuerzo para poner en valor las múltiples experiencias que en diversas facetas del turismo se han generado a partir de los paisajes de la Comunidad Valenciana. Los textos reflejan el debate generado en torno a tres temas claves para el futuro de la Comunidad Valenciana:...
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Ce livre présente le «modèle» de gestion par bassin versant, qui est le pivot des politiques de l'eau développées, et offre un aperçu de la complexité de l'architecture institutionnelle des politiques de l'eau aux États-Unis, au Canada, en France et, plus largement, dans l'Union européenne.
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Esta edición recopila las actas del Congreso Internacional Guerra y Viaje. Una constante Histórico-literaria entre España y Alemania, celebrado en el MuVIM en 2008. Se trata de catorce trabajos centrados en las relaciones culturales hispano-alemanas, desde la Edad Media hasta el siglo XX. Literatura de viajes y viajes en la literatura vistos desde la óptica alemana.
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Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Engagement with non-academic groups and actors – such as policy-makers, industry, charities and activist groups, communities, and the public – in the co-production of knowledge and real-world impact is increasingly important in academic research. Drawing on empirical research, interdisciplinary methodologies, and broad international perspectives, this collection offers a critical examination of the...
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It is perhaps the eighth wonder of our world that despite modern mapping and satellite photography our planet continues to surprise us. Hidden lairs beneath layers of rock, forgotten cities rising out of deserted lands and even mankind's own feats of engineering eccentricity lie in the most unusual of destinations.Travis Elborough goes in search of the obscure and bizarre, the beautiful and estranged. Taking in the defiant relics of ancient cities...
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Geographic information systems (GIS) have spurred a renewed interest in the influence of geographical space on human behavior and cultural development. Ideally GIS enables humanities scholars to discover relationships of memory, artifact, and experience that exist in a particular place and across time. Although successfully used by other disciplines, efforts by humanists to apply GIS and the spatial analytic method in their studies have been limited...
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Les métropoles des Amériques sont-elles en train de suivre de plus en plus leurs propres voies ou sont-elles en train de converger? Regroupant des contributions de chercheurs internationaux, ce livre porte sur onze métropoles d'Amérique. Il amène le lecteur à réévaluer les clivages radicaux qu'il pensait trouver entre le Nord et le Sud.
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Vaya the film is based on the lives of four young men from the Homeless Writer's Project: David Majoka, Anthony Mafela, Madoda Ntuli and Tshabalira Lebakeng, and rooted in their experiences of coming to Johannesburg, South Africa. Vaya the book brings you the people and stories that inspired the award-winning film. Through personal stories that are intimate and hard hitting, Vaya will both surprise and shock you. It offers a rare lens into life in...
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