Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment Books

Book SynopsisWith a foreword by Kathleen Jamie. John Miller builds upon the ecological arguments for saving forests to raise the compelling question of their cultural value, with beautiful illustrations from the British Library’s unparalleled collections of books and manuscripts.

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Book SynopsisIn this enlightening book, Alan Ereira brings a fascinating hidden history to light, and reveals that Ogilby's celebrated Britannia is far more than a harmless road atlas: it is, rather, filled with secrets designed to serve a conspiracy of kings and England's undoing. The Nine Lives of John Ogilby is the story of a remarkable man, and of a covertTrade Review‘A spectacular book with a wide range of insights to the 17th Century’ * Terry Jones *Ereira is justly proud… situates Britannia in its political context, connecting it to Charles II’s military purposes and need to crush rebellion' * Guardian *‘Compelling... a terrific subject for a biography... Ereira’s enthusiasm is infectious [and his] generous biography conveys both the irrepressible energy and the shifty elusiveness of Ogilby.’ * TLS *Britannia was created by a cunning Scot, to help the monarch’s absolute ascendancy over the whole of Britain. The secret is finally out.' * Scotsman *

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Book SynopsisMaking, maintaining and mending our own homes is part of what makes us human. It is a skill that was alive and well until just two or three generations ago. Harrison Gardner is a man on a mission to help us rediscover the lost art of building our own while leaving a more harmonious mark on the environment.Build Your Own explores the principles of construction and outlines a multitude of practices and methods that enable you to build a home with the materials available to you. Practical techniques, such as plastering, moving earth, basic demolition, installing insulation, building internal walls and attaching cladding, are demystified and made easy.Whether you plan to build your own structure, are curious about the idea or are dealing with construction workers, Build Your Own is an essential tool that shows that anyone can learn to build and perhaps everyone should.A revolutionary book within it is the knowledge to empower you to shape and craft your own living space.' Manchán Magan

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Book SynopsisUrban Drainage Practice will provide detailed guidance and practical advice on the design, operation, planning, management and maintenance principles required to address all major urban drainage issuesTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Drivers and introduction to current approaches to urban drainage 3. Urban drainage and development (space making) 4. Rainfall estimation and use of predictions in urban drainage design and management 5. Runoff and infiltration 6. Traditional drainage systems 7. Emerging systems 8. Performance Monitoring & calibration 9. Maintenance and operation 10. Modelling and limitations 11. Comparative water quantity-quality-amenity performance 12. Assessing sustainability 13. Planning urban drainage - WSUD/LID/LIUDD/soft - 14. Stakeholder engagement 15. Case studies

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Book SynopsisIn this book the author moves beyond the time of clocks and calendars in order to study time as embedded in social interactions, structures, practices and knowledge, in artefacts, in the body, and in the environment. Adam suggests ways not merely to deconstruct but to reconstruct both common--sense and social science understanding.Trade Review"Barbara Adam is rapidly establishing herself as one of the authorities on the field of time and reflexive social theory. She shows how our present perspective on time is fully out of key with the problems we face in the risk society. This highly original book not only points out the problems but also makes valuable suggestions for a new contextual approach to social theory." Ulrich Beck, University of Munich "This book will delight many, including many at late-school or early-university level; since Adam has managed to write at a level accessible to such readers, while simultaneously introducing complexities and depths of theoretical concern often excluded from texts at that level, because seen as too complex. It is a considerable feat to overcome this barrier; and in my view Adam accomplishes it most deftly and successfully." Fiona Mackie, LaTrobe University "This ... encourages the reader to think resoundingly, reverberatingly, long after the moment of reading it ... Barbara Adam's Timewatch is a most excellent book. Like time itself, it is more than the sum of its parts. It should be used, not just read, to think through how we can all 'do things with time'." Time and SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. 'My' Time, 'Our' Time, 'Other' Time. 2. Of Time and Health, Life and Death. 3. Education: Learning the Habits of Clock Time. 4. The Time Economy of Work Relations. 5. Global Times and the Electronic Embrace. 6. The Times of Global Environmental Change. 7. The 'Temporal Turn': Mapping the Challenge for Social Science. Coda. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisCities around the world are striving to be global. This new book by Doreen Massey sets the global city in its broader geographical and political context. World City tells this story through London, one of the greatest of these global cities asking the question that should be asked of any city: what does this place stand for?.Trade Review"World City is that rarest of commodities: a geographic text that is, at one and the same time, both theoretically astute, politically insistent and publicly accessible." Phil Hubbard, Area book review forum "A brave and worthwhile attempt at creating a 'public geography', an effort to take insights developed during a career in our discipline to wider audiences. The book is written in a wonderfully open and accessible manner, using language that is neither wilfully exclusionary nor obscure." Sarah Holloway, Phil Hubbard, Heike Jons, Liz Mavroudi and Pat Noxolo, Area book review forum "An excellent theoretical treatment of London's entanglement in a web of economic, political, social, cultural, and power relations, and it forms the basis for a powerful political manifesto that confronts traditional notions of "place"-based policies and also challenges world cities to take responsibility bestowed upon them through their privileged position in the geometry of power and develop policies that go beyond the administrative boundaries that traditionally defined place." Journal of Regional Science "A fascinating insight into London and the politics of place, highlighting not only the social and economic geographies which result but also the questions of moral responsibility world city status implies." New Zealand Geographer "A fascinating read. Through her distinctive analytical lens, Massey has produced a masterpiece on the politics of what it means to be a 'world city'." Economic Geography Research Group "World City is well worth pondering, beyond even the question of equity or, more succinctly, of growth with social justice. The time has come for a new politics of development based on a logic other than the logic of markets and unlimited accumulation, in short, for a human and Earth-centred development in which the quality of life and of the Earth's eco-systems move to centre stage." John Friedmann, Urban Studies "There are more than seven million Londoners now, and more to come. Massey's work suggests that there is also more than one London." Fran Tonkiss, British Journal of Sociology "An important intervention into the rich literature on globalization and cities, a dimension of global social relations to which International Relations scholars would do well to pay much greater attention." International Studies Review "Written in an accessible style, free of academic jargon ... a text that students should read." Geography Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Preface: After the Crash ix Introduction: ‘the future of our world’? 1 Part I Inventing a world city 27 1 Capital delight 29 2 ‘A successful city, but . . .’ 54 3 Imagining the city 73 Part II The world city in the country 95 4 The golden goose? 97 5 An alternative regional geography 114 6 Who owes whom? 130 7 Reworking the geographies of allegiance 149 Part III The world city in the world 163 8 Grounding the global 165 9 Identity, place, responsibility 177 10 A politics of place beyond place 188 Concluding reflections 211 Notes 218 References 232 Index 251

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrification had gone global.Trade Review"This is an exciting and illuminating documentation of the ideologies and practices of gentrification in different parts of the globalizing world. Theoretically inspirational and empirically comprehensive, this book provides an excellent role model to show how critical comparative studies can be done for fruitful knowledge production. It makes a timely contribution that will be highly appreciated by all from the global North and South, East and West."George C. S. Lin, Hong Kong University "The authors are leading urban scholars from three continents, who advance the thesis of global gentrification and its attendant injustices through the informative lens of comparative urbanism. In doing so, they critically engage with 'both academic globalization and the globalization of capital'."David Ley, University of British Columbia "This book profoundly extends the scope of gentrification from its London-based origins to a globalizing urban world. Using a comparative perspective, the authors examine urban restructuring and displacement not as the spread of Western social-spatial forms, but as a process of planetary globalization. This book is the most lucid, nuanced and theoretically coherent treatment of gentrification and its manifestation to date."Fulong Wu, University College London"The stellar achievement of this book is its success in making sense of a planetary mélange of contemporary case studies of urban growth and development. The three coauthors bring perspectives steeped in Anglo American, Asian, and Hispanic cultural identities, yielding a densely textured portrayal of the sociopolitical dimensions of land development."Journal of Urban Affairs"[The authors] unlearn existing conceptualizations/theories, ideologies and practices/policies around gentrification, and question how experience from around the globe may enrich gentrification theory and concepts […]. Overall, they argue that the study of gentrification can help us to understand the complexity of urbanization processes […and] that the differences they identify are not radical enough to warrant dilution or dismissal of the term."Environment and Urbanization"[The authors] not only provide the reader with significant material that should start new and stimulating discussions in gentrification studies, but also challenge the way of understanding and investigating processes of gentrification. This book proves itself to be an important addition to further gentrification theory and an answer for the long-due desire to expand gentrification to the cities of the Global South."Urban GeographyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii 1. Introduction 1 2. New Urbanizations 24 3. New Economics 53 4. Global Gentrifiers: Class, Capital, State 83 5. A Global Gentrification Blueprint? 111 6. Slum Gentrification 140 7. Mega-Gentrification and Displacement 171 8. Conclusion 201 References 227 Index 256

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Book SynopsisWaste is one of the planet's last great resource frontiers. From furniture made from up-cycled wood to gold extracted from computer circuit boards, artisans and multinational corporations alike are finding ways to profit from waste while diverting materials from overcrowded landfills.Yet beyond these benefits, this new resource still poses serious risks to human health and the environment. In this unique book, Kate O'Neill traces the emergence of the global political economy of wastes over the past two decades.She explains how the emergence of waste governance initiatives and mechanisms can help us deal with both the risks and the opportunities associated with the hundreds of millions possibly billions of tons of waste we generate each year.Drawing on a range of fascinating case studies to develop her arguments, including China's role as the primary recipient of recyclable plastics and scrap paper from the Western world, Zero-Waste initiatives, the emergence of transnational waste-pickers' alliances, and alternatives for managing growing volumes of electronic and food wastes, O'Neill shows how waste can be a risk, a resource, and even a livelihood, with implications for governance atlocal, national, and global levels.Trade Review“Kate O'Neill's latest work takes us on an eye-popping journey through rich case studies of wastes and their movement around the planet.”Josh Lepawsky, Memorial University of Newfoundland “A marvelously crafted and grippingly written book about one of the most pressing challenges facing our planet. The sooner you read it, the more you will learn about the ways in which we systematically fail to use so much of what we extract and how governments, businesses, and individuals can turn to this expanding ‘global resource frontier’ to reduce our impact.”Ben Cashore, Yale University "In this important book, Kate O’Neill expertly traces the complex international trade flows behind the prodigious volumes of waste generated by global consumer society. A valuable and illuminating contribution to current debates about if and how we make the shift to more sustainable lifestyles."Maurie Cohen, New Jersey Institute of Technology Table of ContentsFigures and Tables List of Acronyms Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1: The Global Political Economy of Waste Chapter 2: Understanding Wastes Chapter 3: Waste Work Chapter 4: Discarded Electronics Chapter 5: Food Waste Chapter 6: Plastic Scrap Conclusion: A World without Waste? Notes Selected Readings References

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Book SynopsisThe only guide to London's literary landmarks is updated for this new edition

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Book SynopsisA small church nestling deep in the countryside is instantly evocative. Why is it there at all? Whom does it serve? This companion volume to the author''s successful titles on the smallest churches of Wales and England is a county-by-county guide to the smallest gems of Scottish ecclesiastical architecture. John Kinross provides the reader with descriptions of over 50 of the country''s loveliest and most interesting churches and chapels, many of which have a fascinating history and their own unique features. These buildings deserve our attention and further study, and the book offers maps and directions on how to find these churches for those inspired to seek them out.

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Book SynopsisA greatly romanticised era of history, the Tudor period kick-started one of the most significant shifts in British culture ever to occur. With directions to each site, along with full details of the Tudor events and personalities linked to them, this guidebook will bring life and colour to the study of history.

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Book SynopsisConservation Basics examines the evolving theories and principles that underpin building conservation in England in the 21st century, and looks at their application in practice. The process of conservation planning for the maintenance and repair of historic buildings and places is described in detail, and is illustrated through case studies. Topics include understanding and assessment, surveys and recording, ecological considerations, planning and managing maintenance and repair programmes, risk management, specifying works, and contract procurement.Trade Review'Students of conservation, trustees and custodians of heritage assets and any practice for whom architectural conservation is a cornerstone of their business, with an interest in maintaining high standards, and a commitment to developing new talent should have a copy of this book on their shelves.' Architectural Technology 'Conservation Basics presents a very good introduction to the integrated approach required for the successful management of historic environments and the heritage assets situated within them by using appropriate maintenance and repair strategies. Each section is presented in a succinct, crisp, easy-to-read style, profusely illustrated with drawings, photographs and diagrams, (it) should be essential reading for all architectural, engineering and surveying students and practitioners who aspire to work on historic building fabric. Likewise, both contractors and specialists who tender for work on older buildings and property managers with historic assets in their portfolios will find this book worthy of their attention'. Journal of Architectural Conservation 'Conservation Basics like its sister volumes, is well-presented. It is a substantial hardback publication of 382 pages with each chapter preceded by a helpful precis. For ease of use, links to other volumes in the series are indicated by a system of symbols. There is generous use of high quality illustrations. This invaluable book is recommended for anyone serious about protecting our historic built environment.' SPAB‘Conservation Basics is a comprehensive resource, full of authoritative material on conservation history, philosophy, and planning … it provides the reader with valuable information for practical application in historic-preservation and heritage-conservation practice.’ – Ilene R. Tyler, FAIA, FAPT, LEED APTable of ContentsThe Evolving Concept of Building Conservation Current Law, Policy and Guidance Survey and Investigation Methods Ecological Considerations Managing Maintenance and Repair Emergency Planning for Heritage Buildings and Collections Appendices Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA great deal of research and literature has been produced on repairing concrete structures but very little aimed at conserving the character or appearance of historic examples. This volume offers guidance as to how that should be done. It includes a brief history of the use of the material and explains the criteria for listing before assessing decay mechanisms and determining appropriate repair strategies. A bibliography and case studies are also included.Trade Review'This hardback book is a delight to handle, the text is well laid out and pleasing to the eye and there are numerous well-drawn diagrams. Both colour and black-and-white photographs (many supplied by The Concrete Society) are artistically used to richly illustrate this volume, bringing to life what can sometimes be a dull material. This really is an impressive-looking book.' Concrete Magazine 'This sumptuously illustrated book covers the history of the design and use of concrete; the assessment, causes, and mechanisms of decay are also discussed; and strategies for repair and treatment are supported by a series of extremely useful case studies. The book concludes with guidance on preventative maintenance and a very helpful glossary.' The Historic Environment 'This could be one of the most important additions to the PBC series, and one which will develop our understanding of concrete as a material, not only of its requirements for repair, but also the way we detail, specify and supervise its use.' Architectural Technology"This is a publication with a particularly wide scope, and it will be of interest and use to those involved with the conservation of concrete in both structural and non-structural applications. The explanations and illustrations of deterioration mechanisms, the treatment of defects and the impact on appearance are particularly informative." - Deborah Lazarus, Engineering History and Heritage"[Concrete] is very much worth reading for its passages on concrete’s history, the treatment and repair sections, and the case studies" – Marjorie Lynch, PE, PACI, President, Lynch Consulting Engineers, DPC Table of ContentsThe Development and Use of Concrete Deterioration and Damage Assessment Treatment and Repair Case Studies Care and Maintenance Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisFuneral monuments are fascinating and diverse cultural relics that continue to captivate visitors to English churches, yet we still know relatively little about the messages they attempt to convey across the centuries. This book is a study of the material culture of memory in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. By interpreting the images and inscriptions on monuments to the dead, it explores how early modern people wanted to be remembered - their social vision, cultural ideals, religious beliefs and political values. Arguing that early modern English monuments were not simply formulaic statements about death and memory, Dr Sherlock instead reveals them to be deliberately crafted messages to future generations. Through careful reading of monuments he shows that much can be learned about how men and women conceived of the world around them and shifting concepts of gender, social order and the place of humans within the universe. In post-Reformation England, the dead became superiTrade Review’... provides a valuable and wide-ranging contribution to the understanding of early modern memorializing practices...’ Renaissance Quarterly ’This excellent book is essential reading for anyone interested in the monuments of Early Modern England; indeed its Introduction is highly recommended to anyone interested in monuments... Peter Sherlock has written a humane, learned and illuminating book which will be fundamental to the study of church monuments.’ Church Monuments ’This is a groundbreaking study... The text is copiously illustrated... English tombs have had their interpreters but this text offers many fresh ideas mostly owing to the religious import which Sherlock reads into these post-Reformation statements to their present and future.’ Parergon ’Coupled with a thoughtful critical discussion underpinned by sound, sophisticated research, an elegant, lucid style in which explications are ordered and easy to follow, and forty fascinating illustrations, all subject to insightful commentary, Sherlock’s love of the subject makes the book a joy to read.’ Clio ’... Sherlock provides a well-argued and thoroughly researched account of some of the effects of religious and cultural change on portrayals of the dead.’ Huntington Library Quarterly ’... what we have here is essentially a broad discourse on funerary monuments, remarkably wide-ranging, rich in detailed information, and engagingly presented. ... It is a book to be recommended to anyone wishing to know why monuments contribute so much to our understanding of early modern England.’ Literature & History ’... an extremely valuable new addition to the work on early modern monuments in England, one which convincingly rediscovers their spiritual dimension.’ Ecclesiastical History ’Sherlock’s book is a wide-ranging study, encompassing broad conceptualization and a long time-frame. It is meticulously researched and attractively presented with a set of photographs of funeral monTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Family fictions; Monumental bodies; Life and death; Reformation; Renaissance; Law and order; Word and image; Memory; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisBringing together a wide range of original empirical research from locations and interconnected geographical contexts from Europe, Australasia, Asia, Africa, Central and Latin America, this book sets out a different agenda for mobility - one which emphasizes the enduring connectedness between, and embeddedness within, places during and after the experience of mobility. These issues are examined through the themes of home and family, neighbourhoods and city spaces and allow the reader to engage with migrants' diverse practices which are specifically local, yet spatially global. This book breaks new ground by arguing for a spatial understanding of translocality that situates the migrant experience within/across particular 'locales' without confining it to the territorial boundedness of the nation state. It will be of interest to academics and students of social and cultural geography, anthropology and transnational studies.Trade Review'An energetic and exciting volume, Translocal Geographies uses diverse empirical examples from around the world to illustrate a groundbreaking concept, and in so doing sheds new light on the experience of mobility in the 21st century. Rarely has Geography seemed so relevant.' Khalid Koser, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Switzerland 'Deploying and developing the concept of translocal this book advances transnational migration studies by situating migrants within specific places and times. This is a much needed multi-scalar corrective for the tendency of scholars to conflate locality of origin and settlement with national identities in mapping a geography of transnational connection.' Nina Glick Schiller, University of Manchester, UK 'This book provides an exciting insight in to the personal, emotional and corporeal geographies that are active agents of change in translocal relations... The book concludes in a very thought-provoking manner, highlighting numerous issues to be explored further, linked to geographies of power, class, agency and affect.' Social and Cultural Geography 'This book is a rich and varied collection of case studies that broaden the concept of translocality, and use a range of methodologies... I truly recommend this book to everyone who is interested in movement, migration, locales and the relationship between them, as they appear in different parts of the world, in different scales and in different forms.' Australian PlannerTable of ContentsContents: Part 1 Introduction: Translocal Geographies: Introduction: translocal geographies, Katherine Brickell and Ayone Datta. Part 2 Translocal Spaces; Home and Family: Translocal geographies of 'home' in Siem Reap, Cambodia, Katherine Brickell; Translocal family relations amongst the Lahu in Northern Thailand, Brian A.L. Tan and Brenda S.A. Yeoh; British families moving home: translocal geographies of return migration from Singapore, Madeleine E. Hatfield. Part 3 Translocal Neighbourhoods: Translocal geographies of London: belonging and 'otherness' among Polish migrants after 2004, Ayona Datta; ' You wouldn't know what's in there would you?' Homeliness and 'foreign' signs in Ashfield, Sydney, Amanda Wise; Ways out of crisis in Buenos Aires: translocal landscapes and the activation of mobile resources, Ryan Centner. Part 4 Urban Translocalities: Spaces, Places, Connections: Fear of small distances: home associations in Douala, Dar es Salaam and London, Ben Page; Translocal spatial; geographies: multi-sited encounters of Greek migrants in Athens, Berlin, and New York, Anastasia Christou; Translocality in Washington, DC and Addis Ababa: spaces and linkages of the Ethiopian diaspora in two capital cities, Elizabeth Chacko. Part 5 Epilogue: Translocality; a critical reflection, Michael Peter Smith; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisAll social scientists, despite their differences on many issues, ask causal questions about the world. In this anthology, Andrew P. Vayda and Bradley B. Walters set forth strategy and methods to answer those questions. The selected readings, all illuminating causal explanation for social scientists, are not only by anthropologists, sociologists, economists, and human ecologists but also by philosophers, biologists, psychologists, historians, and specialists in other fields. The essays will appeal to those doing applied research on practical problems as well as those seeking mainly to satisfy their curiosity about the causes of whatever events or types of events interest them.Trade ReviewThe volume is a compendium unlike most others. Rather than gather causal arguments about specific substantive outcomes, Vayda and Walters have assembled essays on how to question, how to reason, and why to do it a pragmatic fashion....The book is thoroughly coherent, strategically repetitive, and by no means unconvincing. Whether your field is human ecology, land change science, vulnerability research, or political ecology, there are sobering lessons here about bad methodological habits and good question writing....[I]t is hard not to come away from this collection with a renewed sense of energy and possibility. The world is filled with strange events and outcomes, after all, none of which have ready-made answers, and all of which can avail themselves to energetic observers with open minds. For a moment, viewed this way, it is possible to think that environment-society research might actually be filled with surprise. That is a welcome message. * Human Ecology *Table of ContentsIntroductory Essay: Pragmatic Methods and Causal-History Explanations by Andrew P. Vayda and Bradley B. Walters Part I. A Pragmatic View of Causal Explanation Chapter 1. Causal Explanation by David Lewis Chapter 2. The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events by E. E. Evans-Pritchard Chapter 3. Geertz and the Interpretive Approach in Anthropology by Michael Martin Part II. Causal Histories of Events Chapter 4. The Range and Power of Narrative Style in Science by Stephen Jay Gould Chapter 5. Famines by Amartya Sen Chapter 6. Analysis or Reductionism? by Ernst Mayr Chapter 7. The Role of Fact in the Particular and the General by Richard C. Lewontin Chapter 8. Explanatory Relativity by Alan Garfinkel Part III. "How-Possibly" Explanations Chapter 9. Homage to Clio, or Toward an Historical Philosophy for Evolutionary Biology by Robert J. O'Hara Part IV. Systems and Structures Chapter 10. Plague and Fertility in Early Modern Europe by Geoffrey Hawthorn Part V. Theories, Generalizations, and Practical Judgments Chapter 11. Thermostats, Lemons, and Other Families of Models by Thomas C. Schelling Chapter 12. Rice Harvesting: A View from the Theory of Common Property by Neil H. Sturgess and Hesti Wijaya Part VI. Causal Reasoning: Forms, Results, and Caveats Chapter 13. Statistical Models and Shoe Leather by David A. Freedman Chapter 14. The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses by T.C. Chamberlin Chapter 15. Confirmation Biase: A Ubiquitous Phenomenon in Many Guises by Raymond S. Nickerson Chapter 16. The Last Northern Cod by Thomas R. McGuire Chapter 17. The Body of the Detective Model: Charles S. Peirce and Edgar Allan Poe by Nancy Harrowitz Chapter 18. Thinking and Reasoning in Medicine by Vimla L. Patel, Jose F. Arocha, and Jiajie Zhang Chapter 19. On Types of Scientific Inquiry: The Role of Qualitative Reasoning by David A. Freedman Chapter 20. Counterfactuals and Revisionism in Historical Explanation by Ross Hassig Part VII. Consequence Explanations and their Misuse Chapter 21. The Obsessional Search for Meaning by Jon Elster Chapter 22. Confirmation Bias in Consequence Explanations by Andrew P. Vayda Part VIII. Dos and Don'ts in Interdisciplinary Research on Causes of Events Chapter 23. Dos and Don'ts in Interdisciplinary Research on Causes of Fires in Tropical Moist Forests: Examples from Indonesia by Andrew P. Vayda Chapter 24. Critical Regions, Ecosystem Management, and Human Ecosystem Research by Thomas K. Rudel Index

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Book SynopsisUrban regime theory has gained a dominant position in the literature on local politics in the United States and its use in comparative cross-national research despite its cited shortcomings. In Reconstructing Urban Regime Theory, editor Mickey Lauria presents a challenging argument for the need to reconceptualize urban regime's middle-level abstraction by interpreting it through the lens of the higher-level abstraction of regulationist theory. The noted contributors to this volume propose stronger conceptual linkages between local agents and institutions, regime transformation, and the restructuring of urban space. The blend of empirical and case-study chapters provide an excellent mix of theory and practice that makes Reconstructing Urban Regime Theory well suited to a broad spectrum of upper-level undergraduate courses covering urban studies, political science, sociology, and geography as well as a rich resource for academics and researchers in these fields.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Mickey Lauria Reconstructing Urban Regime Theory PART ONE: CONCEPTUALIZING THE REGULATION OF URBAN REGIMES Concrete Research, Urban Regimes, and Regulation Theory - Mark Goodwin and Joe Painter Spatial Structures of Regulation and Urban Regimes - Marshall M A Feldman A Neo-Gramscian Approach to the Regulation of Urban Regimes - Bob Jessop Accumulation Strategies, Hegemonic Projects, and Governance PART TWO: RECONSTRUCTING URBAN REGIME ABSTRACTIONS City Politics in an Era of Globalization - Christopher Leo Governance, Urban Regime Analysis, and the Politics of Local Economic Development - Kevin R Cox Regulation, Regime, and Practice in Urban Politics - Joe Painter PART THREE: CONCRETE RESEARCH: REGULATING URBAN POLITICS IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY Coalition, Market and State - Cynthia Horan Postwar Development Politics in Boston City Planning and the Postwar Regime in Philadelphia - Robert A Beauregard Cleveland the `Comeback City′ - W Dennis Keating The Politics of Redevelopment and Sports Stadiums amidst Decline Regulating Suburban Politics - Andrew E G Jonas `Suburban-Defense Transition′, Institutional Capacities, and Territorial Reorganization in Southern California PART FOUR: REGULATING URBAN REGIMES Regulating Urban Regimes - Mickey Lauria Reconstruction or Impasse

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Book Synopsis'The Emancipatory City is a wonderful addition to a growing literature on the public culture of the city. In these spaces, tolerance and intolerance, difference and indifference, transgressions, resistances, and playful spontaneity erupt to give texture to urban life. The book broadens our gaze and deepens our understanding of how cities enable people to express themselves and be free' - Robert A Beauregard, New School University, New YorkWho are cities for? What kinds of societies might they most democratically embody? And, how can cities be emancipatory sites? The ambivalent status of urban space in terms of emancipation, democratisation, justice and citizenship is central to recent work in urban geography, `new' cultural geography, critical geography and postmodern planning, as well as literature on urban social justice, public space and the politics of identity. Seeking alternative and progressive visions of the emancipTable of ContentsThe Emancipatory City - Loretta Lees Urban (Re)Visions PART ONE: CITIES OF (IN)DIFFERENCE Domesticating Monsters - Susan Ruddick Cartographies of Difference and the Emancipatory City Zero Tolerance, Maximum Surveillance? Deviance, Difference and Crime Control in the Late Modern City - Nicholas Fyfe Impurity and the Emancipatory City - Les Back and Michael Keith Young People, Community Safety and Racial Danger The Emancipatory Community? Place, Politics and Collective Action in Cities - James DeFilippis and Peter North PART TWO: EMANCIPATORY PRACTICES Sites of Public (Homo)Sex and the Carnivalesque Spaces of Reclaim the Streets - Gavin Brown Inventing New Games - David Pinder Unitary Urbanism and the Politics of Space Everyday Rationality and the Emancipatory City - Gary Bridge Urban Escapades - Quentin Stevens Play in Melbourne′s Public Spaces PART THREE: UTOPIC TRAJECTORIES The Urban Basis of Emancipation - Jennifer Robinson Spatial Theory and the City in South African Politics Water, Modernity and Emancipatory Urbanism - Matthew Gandy In Search of the Horizon - Geraldine Pratt and Rose Marie San Juan Utopia in The Truman Show and The Matrix Ghosts and the City of Hope - Steve Pile REFLECTIONS The `Emancipatory′ City? - Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift The Right to the City - David Harvey

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Book SynopsisThe Middle East in the World offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to the broader Middle East. After a brief introduction to the study of the region, the early chapters of the book survey the essentials of Middle Eastern history; important historical narratives; and the region's languages, religions, and global connections. Students are guided through the material with relevant maps, resource boxes, and text boxes that support and guide further independent exploration of the topics at hand.The second half of the book presents interdisciplinary case studies, each of which focuses on a specific country or sub-region and a salient issue, offering a taste of the cultural distinctiveness of the particular country while also drawing attention to global linkages. Readers will come away from this book with an understanding of the larger historical, political, and cultural frameworks that shaped the Middle East as we know it today, and of currTable of ContentsPart One: Overview; 1. Introduction to the Region; 2. History and Politics of Middle East Studies; Part Two: Fundamentals; 3. Introduction to Middle East History; 4. Language in the Middle East; 5. Religion in the Middle East; Part Three: The Global Context; 6. Globalization in the Middle East; 7. Key issues of Globalization in the Middle East; Part Four: Case Studies; 8. Introduction to the Case Studies; 9. Diversity in the Medieval Middle East: Inclusions, Exclusions, Supporters, and Discontents; 10. Democracy, Secularism, and Islam: Examining the 'Turkish Model'; 11. A 'Peace by Piece' Look at the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; 12. The Green Movement and the Struggle for Human Rights in Iran; 13. State-Society Relations and Protest in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq; 14. Energy and Geopolitics in the Gulf: Mixing Water and Oil; 15. Central Asian Cotton in a Global Perspective: Uzbekistan's Monoculture and its Impact on Rural Society; 16. Images of Place: The Legacy of the Ottoman House in Modern Turkey; 17. Counterinsurgency and Culture: The 2003 U.S. Invasion of Iraq; 18. Lebanese War Diaries in the Digital Age: Blogging about the Home Front during Times of Violence; 19. Language and Identity in Tunisia: 'Without Tunisian Arabic, We Are Not Tunisian'

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Book SynopsisWhy communities and institutions need to work together to reduce disaster risk

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Book SynopsisExamines the many pitfalls of globalization from the perspective of impoverished and indigenous peoples, including the widening wealth gap, the struggle for restoration of dispossessed lands and cultural rights, global warming and ecological annihilation, and the experiences of women in underdeveloped regions who receive little benefit from their labour and are subject to violence.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on an exhaustive chronological survey of pre-Columbian maps, including the controversial Yale Vinland Map, this book boldly challenges conventional accounts of Europe's discovery of the New World.Trade ReviewThere are eighty-six items in Enterline's chronological survey, dating from Ptolemy's Geographia in the second century to Hans Poulson Resen's map of Vinland, 1605. These include maps, manuscripts, books, voyages and other events, all testifying to the breadth and inclusiveness of Enterline's research. Some will appear more convincing and pertinent than others but together they are marshaled to account for the eventual appearance of North America as a geographical entity separate from Asia... Erikson, Eskimos, and Columbus is a book worth the serious consideration of scholars interested in late medieval and early Renaissance geography and cartography. -- John Parker Terrae Incognitae The value of the book [is] as a source of information on medieval and Renaissance geography and the maps produced by the scholars and navigators of the period... Enterline's questing mind does not neglect problematic information, and provides reasoned and balanced interpretations of potentially valuable documents that are ignored by most surveys. For the reader who wishes a comprehensive introduction to a fascinating subject, guided by an author [with] stimulating ideas... this book is vigorously recommended. -- Robert McGhee The Beaver: Canada's History Magazine The author argues that cartographic knowledge of northern America was in fact transmitted by Eskimos to Norsemen in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance, and that the result was subsequently incorporated in maps and charts. Enterline supports his theory by convincingly showing that parts of the coastline and contours of islands in northern Europe, as shown in early maps and charts, conform almost exactly to coastlines of northern America... He has examined pre-sixteenth century cartographic and written evidence, such as maps, charts and travel reports. He analysed and compared the images and descriptions for proof of early knowledge of the existence of the New World. The author has done this thoroughly and in a professional way... Erikson, Eskimos and Columbus is the result of thorough research, and the conclusions, if perhaps controversial to some, have been carefully considered before being written down. -- Willem F. J. Moerzer Bruyns International Journal of Maritime History Enterline presents a plausible scenario for the transmission of Thule Eskimo and Greenland Norse geographic knowledge into the worldview of late medieval cartographers. His hypothesis will be controversial and it will stimulate scholarly debate for many years to come. It is almost certainly too extreme in its claims but it also probably contains a significant core of truth. The Johns Hopkins University Press is to be congratulated for taking a speculative chance on a speculative book. Sixteenth Century Journal This rather controversial book takes an unusual approach to the question of the sources of geographical information on which pre-Columbian European maps of America were based... While the book is for believers, its arguments are interesting and well-presented, making it an appropriate addition to most collections. Map and Geography Round Table (MAGERT) Newsletter 2002 Enterline's extensive references are well cited and he notes areas still open to interpretation. The argument proceeds logically from one point to the next and seems, to this non-specialist, to be soundly based on credible evidence. The writing style is engaging and, despite the sometimes abstruse nature of the subject matter, keeps the reader's interest. -- Sue Haffner Western Association of Map Libraries (WAML) Information Bulletin A handsomely made book, packed with numerous well-reproduced medieval and early modern maps of the world and the North Atlantic. -- John A. Agnew International History Review 2003 One must look back almost a century to Fridtjof Nansen's In Northern Mists (1911) to find a study that probes as deeply into the question of whether representations of pre-Columbian America appeared in European-made maps... The author has provided an invaluable service to historians of discovery, geography, science, cartography, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance in bringing all of this information together. -- Gregory C. McIntosh Imago Mundi 2004 Of interest to anyone with a love for maps and history. Northeastern Naturalist 2004Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Directory to the Chronological Survey Preface and Acknowledgments Front Map Chapter 1. Introduction Part I: Outstanding MisunderstandingsChapter 2. Claudius ClavusChapter 3. The Inventio Fortunatae and Martin Behaim Chapter 4. The Yale Vinland Map Part II: The Chronological SurveyChapter 5. Introduction to the Chronological Survey A. Classical Norse GreenlandChapter 6. Early Scandinavian Geography Chapter 7. Communication Links with Greenland Chapter 8. The Unseen BridgeB. Uncovering an AmericaChapter 9. Late Greenland-Based Exploration Chapter 10. Foundations of European Misunderstandings Chapter 11. News Penetrates the EstablishmentChapter 12. Europe's Westward Awakening Chapter 13. Mastery of the Atlantic C. Old Images in New MapsChapter 14. A New Continent Emerges Chapter 15. An Old Continent Emerges Chapter 16. The Misunderstandings Are Resolved Chapter 17. Conclusion Appendix: The Vinland Map's Ink Notes Selected Bibliography Facsimile Atlases and Reproductions Index

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Book SynopsisHow have local economic conditions been affected by the emergence of a global economy? What changes, if any, have local political authorities made to counterbalance the new emphasis on world interests? Comprehensive and timely, The New Localism answers these and other vital questions by exploring local political restructuring in the face of massive global economic change. Prominent urban scholars cover the privatization of local politics, the emergence of local economic and social activism, and increased competition--on both local and national levels. This important volume examines various levels of development in such diverse political settings as the United States, the United Kingdom, Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. The New Localism is a must read for students and scholars of urban studies, comparative politics, political science, third world development, planning, public administration, and sociology. Goetz and Clarke's book brings a useful perspective to this literature, not so much because of its theoretical originality, but for its didactic value. It is a straightforward presentation of cases of urban restructuring, well integrated within a common conceptual framework labelled new localism --Canadian Journal of Urban ResearchTable of ContentsIntroduction - Susan E Clarke The State Reassessed - Richard C Hula The Privatization of Local Politics Local Authorities and Economic Development in Britain - James Chandler Birmingham - Brian Jacobs Political Restructuring, Economic Change and the Civic Gospel Local Government in Poland - Wisla Surazska Political Failure and Economic Success Market as Pressure or Market as Possibility - Gabor Peteri The Framework of Local Economic Development in Hungary Regimes of Accumulation, the Caribbean Basin Initiative, and Export Processing Zones - Thomas Klak and Jamie Rulli Scales of Influence on Caribbean Development Local Institutions and Development - Dele Olowu The Nigerian Experience Political Restructuring and the Development Process in Kenya - Peter M Ngau Conclusion - Edward Goetz

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Book SynopsisIn 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists entered the Four Corners area for what they thought would be a calm summer's work completing a previous survey. By skillfully weaving the surveyors' diary entries, field notes, and correspondence with newspaper accounts, this book brings the survey to life.Trade ReviewA book like this from such seasoned and highly respected scholars as Robert McPherson and Susan Rhoades Neel is cause for rejoicing. It is timely in demonstrating that the headlong rush to development is not just a fact of contemporary life, but a fact of history as well. More than entertainment, this is a work of high literary art and scholarship, exactly the kind of gritty and dramatic western history sought by all types of readers, including backpackers, river runners, and tourists."" - Gary Topping, Archivist of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City and author of Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History

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Book SynopsisWritten by leading academics, this book is an invaluable âhow to ââ guide to studying for a Geography degree. Written in a practical and conversational style, it offers important insights into how to succeed in the first year of your degree course, covering everything from how to succeed in assessments to how to decide where to live. Some of the information the book provides is academic and some of it is non-academic, as negotiating both is important in order to be successful in the first year of a Geography degree.Studying Geography at University is ideal for those in the early stages of applying to university. Each chapter offers hints and tips and gives practical real-world insights into becoming a successful geography student that will enrich applications, open days and visit days. It is also possible to dip into the chapter summaries, âWhat Do Students Say?â and âTop Tipâ boxes only. Written by current students, from a range of institutions, these provide unique insights into the book's key points. Current students should also keep and refer to the book as an invaluable guide through the first few months of their degree.This guide is a must-read for anyone starting their studies in Human Geography, Physical Geography, Environmental Science or any other related subject at university.Table of ContentsPart 1: What to expect when your Geography degree begins 1. Accommodation and the social transition to university 2. The types of geography you can study at university 3. Degree organisation and structure 4. Approaches to geography teaching and learning 5. Getting the most from lectures 6. Getting the most from seminars and tutorials 7. Your tutor and other sources of support 8. How will you be assessed? 9. What to expect from the first couple of weeks at university Part 2: The academic skills you need to succeed 10. Listening skills 11. Effective note-taking 12. Approaching reading lists and library search strategies 13. Becoming an effective academic reader 14. Writing essays 15. Developing an academic writing style 16. Referencing and plagiarism 17. Arguing and thinking critically 18. Surviving exams 19. Delivering presentations 20. Doing Human Geography fieldwork 21. Field and lab research in physical geography (by Dr Simon Drew) 22. Making the most of feedback 23. Keeping balance and maintaining wellbeing

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Book SynopsisFor some time now, scholars have recognized the archive less as a neutral repository of documents of the past, and rather more as a politically interested representation of it, and recognized that the very act of archiving is accompanied by a process of un-archiving. Michel Foucault pointed to madness as describing one limit of reason, history and the archive. This book draws attention to another boundary, marked not by exile, but by the ordinary and everyday, yet trivialized or trifling. It is the status of being exiled within â by prejudices, procedures, activities and interactions so fundamental as to not even be noticed â that marks the unarchived histories investigated in this volume.Bringing together contributions covering South Asia, North and South America, and North Africa, this innovative analysis presents novel interpretations of unfamiliar sources and insightful reconsiderations of well-known materials that lie at the centre of many current debates on histoTable of Contents1. Unarchived Histories: The "Mad" and the "Trifling" Part 1: The State and its Record(s) 2. Peasant as Alibi: An Itinerary of the Archive of Colonial Panjab 3. A Death Without Cause: Mary E. Hutchinson’s Un-archived Life in Certified Death 4. "Standard Deviations": On Archiving the Awkward Classes in Northern Peru Part 2: Everyday as Archive 5. Feminine Ecriture, Trace Objects and the Death of Braj 6. Brown Privilege, Black Labor: Uncovering the Significance of Creole Women’s Work 7. Unfriendly Thresholds: On Queerness, Capitalism and Misanthropy in 19th Century America Part 3: Signs of Wonder 8. Of Kings and Gods: The Archive of Sovereignty in a Princely State 9. Geography’s Myth: The Many Origins of Calcutta 10. Un-archiving Algeria: Foucault, Derrida, and Spivak

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Book SynopsisPublic Space Reader is a one-of-a-kind collection that brings together classic and contemporary writings on public space by a cross-disciplinary group of urban scholars as well as by urban professionals involved in the fields of design, architecture, urbanism, planning, management and policy. Table of ContentsIntroduction. Section 1. Public Space: State of the question. Section 2. Diversity and inclusion in public space. Section 3. From the Just City to the Right to Public Space. Section 4. Public space as site of activism, protest and dissent. Section 5. Governance and management of public space. Section 6. Public art and public culture in/of public space. Section 7. Public space infrastructures. Section 8. Experiential Dimensions and Evaluation of Public Space. Section 9. Global and comparative perspectives on public space.

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Book SynopsisDo you feel happier on a sunny day? Are you afraid of thunderstorms? Are you dreaming of a White Christmas? The Psychology of Weather explores our relationship with the weather, and how it can affect our mood, behaviour, and lifestyle. The book sheds light on our preoccupation with this natural phenomenon, providing insights into how the weather on the day we were born can directly affect our intelligence and personality, and explore such surprising findings that suicide rates peak in the spring and summer.When the weather affects everything from our buying behaviour, to the jobs we do, The Psychology of Weather shows us that understanding and appreciating the weather can improve our well-being and contribute to human survival. Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Weather and Mood Chapter 2: Weather and Health Chapter 3: Weather and Behaviour Chapter 4: Weather and Belief Chapter 5: Weather and Society Further reading

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Book SynopsisPresents the latest on the rapidly growing use of innovative archaeological remote sensing for anthropological applications in North America. Updating the highly praised 2006 publication Remote Sensing in Archaeology, this is a must-have volume for today's archaeologist.Trade ReviewAn important collection that illustrates the diversity of techniques used to collect geophysical data and their use in archaeological interpretation. The inclusion of chapters that cover several regions and historic as well as prehistoric sites adds further value."" - Berle Clay, principal investigator and geophysical specialist at Cultural Resource Analysis, Inc.""Includes current, well-written, and interesting material that provides a significant contribution to the field. The use of remote sensing technology with traditional methods is current with the state of research. The chapters are well grounded in archaeological and anthropological theory. The methods outlined in the book also start to set a standard or baseline that can be implemented by others."" - Roy Stine, associate professor, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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Book SynopsisBrings together the latest research on southeastern prairie systems and species, provides a complete picture of an increasingly rare biome, and offers solutions to many conservation biology queries. Contributors address questions related to the diversity, ecology, and management of southeastern grasslands.Trade ReviewSoutheastern Grasslands offers a good representation of the biological significance bestowed upon these systems and the efforts currently underway to restore and maintain them for future generations to know and appreciate."" - Alfred R. Schotz, botanist and community ecologist with the Alabama Natural Heritage Program (ALNHP) at Auburn University""An excellent and thorough account, past and present, of the grasslands of the southeastern United States. The information included in this volume will be of interest to anyone studying grasslands, whether in the southeastern United States or elsewhere."" - Robert H. Mohlenbrock, author of Vascular Flora of Illinois: A Field Guide and This Land: A Guide to Eastern National ForestsTable of Contents Preface by JoVonn G. Hill and John A. Barone Chapter 1. A Synopsis of Southeastern Blackland Prairies by S. Lee Echols and Wendy B. Zomlefer Chapter 2. Historical Distribution of Prairies in Arkansas by John A. Barone Chapter 3. The Use of General Land Office Survey Notes to Locate Prairie Patches in the Jackson Prairie Region by Toby Gray and Timothy J. Schauwecker Chapter 4. Eastern Texas Prairie Landscapes by Jason R. Singhurst and Matt White Chapter 5. Floristics of the Louisiana Cajun and Inland Prairies by Charles Allen Chapter 6. The Native Flora of Grasslands and Associated Woodlands in the Grand Prairie Ecoregion of Eastern Arkansas by C. Theo Witsell, Thomas L. Foti, and Brent T. Baker Chapter 7. Vegetation and Flora on Lowlands in the Central Black Belt of Mississippi—How Low Did the Original Prairie Go? by J. J. N. Campbell and W. R. Seymour Jr. Chapter 8. An Alternative Natural Distribution for Osage Orange, Maclura pomifera, Including the Prairies of the Southeast by Jennifer L. Seltzer Chapter 9. Prehistoric Molluscan Faunas of the Mississippi Black Prairie by Evan Peacock Chapter 10. The Grasshopper Fauna of Southeastern Grasslands: A Preliminary Investigation by JoVonn G. Hill Chapter 11. Encroachment and Persistence of Trees in Southeastern Grasslands by J. Morgan Varner Chapter 12. Experimental Removal of Eastern Redcedar to Restore Black Belt Prairie Remnants: Effects on Plant, Ant, and Grasshopper Communities by John A. Barone, JoVonn G. Hill, and Lisa McInnis Chapter 13. Conservation and Management of Subtropical Grasslands in South-Central Florida by Elizabeth H. Boughton, Patrick J. Bohlen, Steve L. Orzell, Edwin L. Bridges, and Reed F. Noss Chapter 14. Effects of Landscape History on Plant Communities in Semi-natural Grassland Buffers by Jolie G. Dollar, Timothy J. Schauwecker, Samuel K. Riffell, and L. Wes Burger Jr. Chapter 15. Ground Cover Assessment of CRP Conservation Practice 36 in Georgia by James W. Tomberlin, Nicholas Brown, and Reggie E. Thackston Chapter 16. Forb Community Response to Management of Grassland Buffers by Jolie G. Dollar, Timothy J. Schauwecker, Samuel K. Riffell, and L. Wes Burger Jr. Chapter 17. Highway Right-of-Way Mowing Regimens in Northeastern Mississippi: Effects on Native Prairie Plant Species by Edward D. Entsminger, John W. Guyton, Raymond B. Iglay, and Jeanne C. Jones Chapter 18. Reconstructing Prehistoric Prairie Habitat Types Using Archaeological Data by Jennifer L. Seltzer and Evan Peacock Chapter 19. A Preliminary Study of Learning about Prairie Restoration Ecology: A Comparison between Biology Major and Nonmajor Students by Bruno Borsari and Malcolm F. Vidrine Chapter 20. Attempts at Converting a Southern Mississippi Bahia Grass Pasture to Diverse Prairie via Local-Provenance, Source-Certified Seed by Marc G. Pastorek, Malcolm F. Vidrine, Charles Allen, Bruno Borsari, and Gail Barton References Cited Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTracing the rise in criminalization of immigrant communities, the book outlines a groundbreaking transnational ethnographic approach.

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Book SynopsisA persuasive exploration of the links between Alabama's slaveholding order and the subsequent industrialization of the state, America's Johannesburg demonstrates that arguments based on classical economics fail to take into account the ways in which racial issues influenced the rise of industrial capitalism.

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Book SynopsisThe Nazis created nature preserves, championed sustainable forestry, curbed air pollution, and designed the autobahn highway network as a way of bringing Germans closer to nature. How Green Were the Nazis?:Trade Review“Perhaps one of the greatest values of this book is to underscore once again the fact that environmentalism as a political belief system has never been value-free and thus has been able to take vastly different political forms.” * Technology and Culture *“Instead of courting controversy, How Green Were the Nazis? both draws on, and contributes to, recent trends in the historiography of the Third Reich. It treats the regime not as a ‘historical aberration’ but as a barbaric mutation of modernity that displayed ‘a mixture of atavistic and avante-garde ideas’ in environmental as in other policy areas.” * Environment and History *“The environmental ideas, policies, and consequences of the Nazi regime pose controversial questions that have long begged for authoritative answers. At last, a team of highly qualified scholars has tackled these questions, with dispassionate judgment and deep research. Their assessment will stand for years to come as the fundamental work on the subject and provides a new angle of vision on 20th-century Europe’s most disruptive force.”“An invaluable English introduction to the history of conservation in the Third Reich.”“The thesis brought forward by the editors regarding the ‘modernity’ of National Socialism is exciting.... The volume raises key questions and provides a very good basis for engaging with the history of conservation under Nazi rule.” * Historische Zeitschrift *“The picture that emerges is of a regime that seemed intent early on to protect the environment yet abandoned conservation as soon as serious war preparation commenced in 1936.... In introducing us to conservationists who threw in their lot with the Nazi regime, the volume does remind us that the desire to protect nature must be accompanied by an equally strong commitment to social justice and human rights.” * H-German *

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Book SynopsisIn Nature in Translation Shiho Satsuka studies Japanese tour guides who lead Japanese tourists on trips through the Canadian Rockies. By presenting nature in ways attuned to Japanese culture, these guides translate nature, a process that makes visible the cultural construction of nature and subjectivities.Trade Review"Nature in Translation is an excellent ethnographic monograph that is both theoretically innovative and eminently readable.... Her work is pioneering in bringing both the Japanese studies and STS into one volume.... Nature in Translation is an excellent read for scholars and students who are interested in contemporary Japan as well as science studies of nature. Satsuka’s discussion of translation should provide fertile theoretical ground for upcoming studies on STS, and it has also opened up exciting new ways to study contemporary Japan." -- Satsuki Takahashi * Journal of Anthropological Research *"I... recommend this book to serious scholars of the cross-cultural dimensions of tourism. It is not a light read but it is an insightful read for tourism scholars with an interest in nature, translation and cross-cultural interactions." -- Tom Hinch * Tourism Geographies *"...an extraordinary achievement; a work at once ethnographically sensitive and theoretically innovative—not to mention operating as a marvelous travel guide to the travels of other guides. I hope this beautiful ethnography will be read widely by those who are interested in postcolonial science studies, in ecology, Japan studies, in the ontological turn(s) in STS and anthropology, and, of course, in multispecies anthropology." -- Moe Nakazora * Science as Culture *"Nature in Translation will interest many who wish to know more about how perceptions of nature and environment, as well as the explanatory framework, vary in different cultures and intellectual traditions, between Japan and Canada in particular. It will also benefit those in tourism studies in that it directs our attention to more complicated touristic encounters than a simple and straightforward encounter between hosts and guests." -- Okpyo Moon * Journal of Japanese Studies *Table of ContentsNotes on Transliteration vii Acknowledgments ix Prologue. A Journey to Magnificent Nature . . . or Why Nature Needs to Be Understood in Translation 1 Introduction 9 1. Narratives of Freedom 39 2. Populist Cosmopolitanism 67 3. The Co-Modification of Self 95 4. Gender in Nature Neverland 122 5. The Interpretation of Nature 147 6. The Allure of Ecology 183 Epilogue. Found in Translation 213 Notes 223 Reference List 241 Index 255

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Book SynopsisApplying new materialism to international relations, Jason Dittmer offers a counterintuitive reading of foreign policy by tracing the ways that complex interactions between people and things shape the decisions and actions of diplomats and policymakers.Trade Review"A valuable contribution to the field of political geography.... Dittmer... provides a refreshing take on foreign policy by tracing the material circulations that continually influence how political elites understand the international community." -- Ed Bryan * Geopolitics *“The world is a much more complicated place than simple assumptions of international relations between autonomous territorial states often suggest; our task as scholars is to explicate the complexities, and Jason Dittmer has done us all a favour here by offering an exemplary text that shows us both how to do it and why it matters.” -- Simon Dalby * Social & Cultural Geography *"Dittmer’s achievement in the book (and perhaps that for which he should be most lauded) is that of dragging insights from the deepest, darkest depths of theoryland into the light of the everyday." -- Stephen Legg * Antipode *"Diplomatic Material is an innovative study that substantially broadens how we think about the makings of foreign policy." -- John A. Gentry * Perspectives on Politics *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Geopolitical Assemblages and Everyday Diplomacy 1 1. Materializing Diplomacy in the Nineteenth-Century Foreign Office 25 2. UKUSA Signals Intelligence Cooperation 49 3. Interoperability and Standardization in NATO 73 4. Assembling a Common Foreign and Security Policy 99 Conclusion 123 Notes 141 Bibliography 161 Index 171

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Book SynopsisThe story of Celso Cesare Moreno who traveled the world lying, scheming, and building an extensive patron/client network to expand western trade and imperialism in Asia, traffick migrant workers and children in the Atlantic, influence the fate of Hawaii, and meddle in international affairs during a critical era of imperial expansion.Table of ContentsPreface Rudolph J. Vecoli vii Prologue Francesco Durante ix Introduction to the English-Language Edition: “Was Moreno a Sociopath?” Donna R. Gabaccia xi Translator’s Note xix 1. The Traveler’s Spirit 1 2. The Treasures of Asia 15 3. The Challenge of the Pacific 43 4. The Little Italian Slaves 63 5. The Enchanter of Hawaii 79 6. Celso’s Vendetta 95 7. Electoral Intermezzo 110 8. The New Italian America 123 9. The Destiny of Hawaii 155 10. The Sunset Road 172 Notes 187 Bibliography 215 Index 223

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword by Imre Szeman | vii Introduction | 1 1 Petroculture | 13 2 Big, Oily Dreams | 49 3 Attachment | 77 4 Quilting Point | 107 5 Petrotemporality | 139 6 Scenarios | 169 7 Excess | 185 8 The Beach | 211 Afterword by Mark Simpson | 239 Acknowledgments | 243 Notes | 247 Bibliography | 253

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