Geography Books
Oxford University Press Oxford IB Diploma Programme IB Prepared Geography
Book SynopsisIB Prepared resources are developed directly with the IB to provide the most up-to-date, authentic and authoritative guidance on DP assessment. IB Prepared: Geography combines a concise review of course content with strategic guidance, authentic sample material and exam-style practice opportunities, allowing learners to consolidate the knowledge and skills that are essential to success.
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Pearson Education Target Grade 5 Writing AQA GCSE 91 French
Book SynopsisCatch up, keep up and make expected progress in GCSE (9-1) with this new series of intervention workbooks.
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Macmillan Learning Human Geography for the AP Course
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Danann Media Publishing Limited The Big Book of the Ocean
Book SynopsisCovering around 70 per cent of our planet’s surface and home to more than 200,000 known species, the world’s oceans are vital to life on Earth. However, despite producing around half the world’s oxygen and helping to regulate our climate and weather patterns, human behaviour has put our incredible oceans and the amazing animals within them at risk. In The Big Book of the Ocean, we go beneath the surface to explore the fascinating secrets of the sea and take an in-depth look at some of the planet’s magnificent marine creatures, from killer whales and sea turtles to seahorses and starfish. We also explore what we can do to help protect these vital environments and discover ten of the most endangered ocean species.
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Biteback Publishing Islands: Searching for truth on the shoreline
Book SynopsisNo man is an island, wrote John Donne. BBC Home Editor Mark Easton argues the opposite: that we are all islands, and it is upon the contradictory shoreline where isolation meets connectedness, where 'us' meets 'them', that we find out who we truly are. Suggesting that a continental bias has blinded us, Easton chronicles a sweep of 250 million years of island history: from Pangaea (the supercontinent mother of all islands) to the first intrepid islanders pointing their canoes over the horizon, from exploration to occupation, exploitation to liberation, a hopeful journey to paradise and a chastening reminder of our planet's fragility. But that is only half of this mesmerising book: aided by the muse he names Pangaea, Easton also interweaves reflections on what he calls 'the psychological islands that form the great archipelago of humankind'. Taking readers on an enchanting adventure, he illustrates how understanding islands and island syndrome might help humanity get closer to the truth about itself. Brave, intelligent and haunting, Islands is a deep dive into geography, myth, literature, politics and philosophy that reveals nothing less than a map of the human heart.
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Dorling Kindersley Ltd Help Your Kids with Geography Ages 1016 Key
Book SynopsisWhen homework feels like a big mountain to climb for your kids, help them reach the top of their geography class with this unique step-by-step visual guide. Covering all the core subjects for 10-16 year olds, from oceans to volcanoes to climate change and population growth, this invaluable guide allows parents and kids to work together to understand even the trickiest topics.Inside of the pages of this subject aid, you''ll find: - Supporting core national curriculum geography topics for ages 10-16 years, Key Stages 2, 3 and 4- Concepts of human and physical geography, including fieldwork skills, using easy to follow explanations- Presents practical skills necessary for succeeding in the subject- Provides key support for developing geography skills at home alongside school studiesFully revised and updated for 2021, to include global pandemics, climate change, mega cities data science. Help Your Kids with Geography build
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Reaktion Books The Idea of North
Book SynopsisAs with the compass needle, so people have always been most powerfully attracted northwards; everyone carries within them their own concept of north. "The Idea of North" is a study, ranging widely in time and place, of some of the ways in which these ideas have found expression. Peter Davidson explores the topography of north as represented in images and literature, taking in Netherlandic winter paintings of the Renaissance, German Romantic landscapes, Scandinavian Biedermeyer and twentieth-century topographical painting and printmaking. He examines a bewildering diversity of mythologies and imaginings of north, including The Snow Queen; Scandinavian Sagas; ghost-stories; Moomintrolls, Arctic exploration; the fictitious snowy kingdoms of Zembla and Naboland; Nabokov's nostalgias; Baltic midsummer; rooms in winter light; compasses and star-stones; hoar-frost; and, ice and glass. The book also traces a northward journey, describing northern rural England, industrial sites, and the long emptiness of the borders, Scotland and the Highlands. He looks at the region far north of Scotland, then moves to the Northern Netherlands and Scandinavia to explore their identifiable northernness.The last visited place is Iceland, identified by W. H. Auden and Louis McNeice in 1936 as furthest, most remote, most distant, most northerly'. An engaging meditation on solitude, absence and stillness, "The Idea of North" shows north to be a goal rather than a destination, a place of revelation that is always somewhere ultimate and austere.Trade ReviewThe north is roamed in fascinating, suggestive fashion ... Davidson is as interesting writing about snow sculptures and 17th-century paintings of the Arctic as he is about Auden, and his reading of the imaginary land of Zembla in Nabokov's Pale Fire as an eternal, symbolic north is highly evocative ... a lovely book The Guardian From the Old Norse sagas to the fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen, from the films of Bergman to the paintings of Eric Ravilious, from Nabakov's Zembla to Simon Armitage's Yorkshire, [Davidson] finds that the north is a breeding ground for ghosts, a place of exile and punishment, the antithesis of the human. Yet its bleak landscapes have inspired poetry of great beauty: ice, crystal, diamond and glass all blur in recurring images ... Davidson never lets his learning cloud his enthusiasm for this wide and protean subject and his writing shares the awe of the poets who preceded him on this journey. The Observer Beside being a discriminating critic, Davidson has an arrestingly personal voice ... The Idea of North is one of those books that have you making a long list of references you want to follow The Independent a delightful work ... beautifully written ... an esoteric but important gem; original treasure from the north The Herald (Glasgow) A gifted prose writer Scotland on Sunday There are indeed a lot of norths to cover, and the charm of the book is it exhaustiveness, zooming into a variety of touchstones to show how they've influenced global culture in sly, often surprising ways ... Davidson's north is an enormous, challenging land: humbling, shifting, austere, empty, fragile, desolate, desolating, marginal, authentic - a place, as Davidson perfectly puts it, forever suffused with "absolute, difficult beauty." Ruminator Review (USA) An interesting meditation TLS A truly stunning assessment of the concept of "north" in literature, legend, history and the psyche of "Northern" people ... Davidson writes with an incredible sense of place Aberdeen Evening Express Mesmerising cultural history ... Davidson's style achieves a lyric expression of phrase. In several passages of personal recollection ... he achieves a marvel of descriptiveness that is moving as well as expressive The Scotsman
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Pearson Education Edexcel GCSE 91 Geography A Geographical Themes
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National Geographic Society National Geographic Concise Atlas of the World
Book SynopsisThis affordable, illuminating softcover atlas features essential maps of the world and its regions, vivid graphics illustrating timely issues of the day, and flags and facts on all 195 countries around the globe. With more than 250 maps, graphics, and illustrations, the National Geographic Concise Atlas of the World offers an authoritative and engaging portrayal of the world and all that is in it. Expert, up-to-date maps of the world, every continent, and the United States include physical and political details and boundaries, key data for each continent, plus flags and facts for every country, enhanced with representative photographs portraying themes and regions. Additionally, maps and data-based graphics visualize the timely issues of our day, such as population trends, climatic conditions, health, and economics. A special section on space includes maps of Earth’s moon and Mars, as well as diagrams of the solar system, the univer
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Harvard University Press The First Asians in the Americas
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Princeton University Press Beneath the Wage Tips Tasks and Gigs in the Age of Service Work
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Pearson Education Target Grade 5 Edexcel GCSE 91 History AngloSaxon
Book SynopsisHelp your students catch up, keep up and make expected progress in Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History with this new series of intervention workbooks.
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Pearson Education Target Grade 9 Edexcel GCSE 91 History Early
Book SynopsisHelp your students catch up, keep up and make expected progress in Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History with this new series of intervention workbooks. Target workbooks are available for the schools' price of only £2.49 (RRP £4.99) when you quote 568OTHR at checkout.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Over Land and Sea: Migration from Antiquity to
Book SynopsisHuman history has always been marked by the mobility of people and populations, from the earliest movement of human beings out of Africa to the flows of migrants and refugees today. While mobility is intrinsic to human nature, migration is not always voluntary: it can be the result of free choice, but it can also be forced, in different ways and to varying degrees. In this book, Massimo Livi-Bacci examines migrations past and present with reference to the degree of free choice behind them. The degree can be minimal, as when migration is compelled by war, natural disaster or the actions of a tyrant, but in other cases the decision to migrate can be fully voluntary and deliberate, as when individuals and groups weigh up their options and decide whether to move. Between these two poles there is a continuum of different situations, with gradually increasing or decreasing degrees of freedom and choice. Livi-Bacci explores these variations by focusing on fifteen stories of migration from Antiquity to the present day, ranging from the Greek colonization of the Eastern Mediterranean in the Ancient world to the great migration of millions of people from Europe to the Americas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Taken together, these stories of human movement shed fresh light on the millennia-long history of migration and its motivations, causes and consequences.Trade Review‘A wide-ranging, erudite and original meditation on the extraordinary and ordinary act of human migration. Livi-Bacci uses analytic rigour and personal stories to counter the “migration crisis” myths of our current age.’Peter Leese, author of Migrant Representations: Life Story, Investigation, PictureTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsIntroductionI. Antiquity1.1. Seneca, two thousand years ago1.2. Settlers and founders: ápoikoi and oikistés1.3 Augustus’s Res gestae1.4. Peoples on the marchII. In the Hands of the State2.1. Forced migration2.2. Peru: up and down the Andes2.3. The end of an empire2.4. The Soviet Union and its internal enemiesIII. Misdeeds of Nature3.1. Unkind nature3.2. Drought3.3. A Caribbean odyssey3.4. Ireland: the blight of diasporaIV. Organised Migration4.1. On the road, not alone4.2. The filles du roi in the laboratory of Nouvelle France4.3. The Drang nach Osten and the Germanisation of Eastern Europe4.4. From the Rhine to the Volga with Catherine the GreatV. Free Migration5.1. A Rare Phenomenon5.2. Moving freely5.3. The Great Transoceanic Migration5.4. America: the “advancing wave” of migrationReconsiderationsNotesIndex
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Lonely Planet Lonely Planet Kids The World from Above
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Octopus Publishing Group 2027 Philips Big Easy to Read Road Atlas of Britain A3 Spiral
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Harvard University Press Traveling Black
Book SynopsisWhat was it like to travel while Black under Jim Crow? Mia Bay brings this dramatic history to life. With gripping stories and a close eye on the rail, bus, and airline operators who implemented segregation, she shows why access to unrestricted mobility has been central to the Black freedom struggle since Reconstruction and remains so today.Trade ReviewIn Traveling Black, Mia Bay’s superb history of mobility and resistance, the question of literal movement becomes a way to understand the civil rights movement writ large…Bay…is an elegant storyteller, laying out the stark stakes at every turn while also showing how discrimination wasn’t just a matter of crushing predictability but often, and more insidiously, a haphazard jumble of risks…Her excellent book deepens our understanding of not just where we are but how we got here. -- Jennifer Szalai * New York Times *American identity is inextricably linked to freedom of movement. But for much of the nation’s history, black Americans have been barred from fully enjoying this freedom…Based on firsthand accounts and comprehensive archival research, Traveling Black details the manifest ways in which black Americans responded to limitations on their mobility. * Smithsonian *Meticulously examines how, with the arrival of each successive form of transportation technology—from those stagecoaches and trains to cars to buses to planes—there was hope on the part of African Americans (and their allies) that the invention would result in a fairer and more equitable system. But each time, white supremacy found its way into the new sphere. * Car and Driver *Takes readers on a journey through the history of segregated travel to travel issues faced by contemporary African Americans…Bay provides a detailed historical account of the experiences of African American travelers…A [deep] examination of the history of legal changes pertaining to segregation in transportation. -- Maggie E. C. Jones * Technology and Culture *A deep dive into the history of Black resistance to travel segregation…Bay offers a wealth of detail, reminding readers that for every Rosa Parks there are thousands of less famous people engaged in the same struggle, all worthy of having their stories told. * Christian Century *Fantastic…both a richly detailed history of travel and transportation from the late nineteenth century to the 1960s that centers the experiences of Black travelers, and a deeply researched history of resistance to discrimination that brings to light those travelers’ active and ongoing efforts to demand equal treatment…Bay urges us to rethink our histories of this era in order to acknowledge a much longer and more extensive pattern of resistance than previously known. -- Joanna Grisinger * Jotwell *Important and disturbing…Filled with vivid first-person accounts, Traveling Black is a superb history that captures a shameful aspect of the American story. -- Joseph Barbato * New York Journal of Books *A well-guided scholarly journey through Black travel experiences from the antebellum period to the present…Effectively organized, carefully argued, and meticulously researched, Traveling Black makes a significant contribution to the literature by tracing how the struggle over segregated travel ultimately led to the desegregation of all public spaces—one of the most important achievements of the civil rights movement. -- Karen Kossie-Chernyshev * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *Bay gives us an insightful history of travel segregation for Black people from the late 19th century to the 1960s…You’ll come away from Bay’s book with the realization that for every Rosa Parks…there were countless and unknown Black men and women in segregated America who lived and traveled with determination, resistance, and dignity. * Fodor’s Travel *Disturbing and absorbing…From stagecoaches to iron horses to Cadillacs to the unfriendly skies, Black people in the U.S. have never been truly free to traverse the open road…Bay elevates the importance of the Black right to mobility in the struggle for civil rights. Not simply a record of oppression, the book also illuminates the determined spirit that underpins the fight for Black equality across the country, exploring the methods that Black people have used to subvert a racist system that persists today…A book that shocks, shames, and enlightens. * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *Mia Bay is one of America’s foremost intellectual and social historians, and her deft treatment of the personal indignities and structural inequities that beset African American travelers rearranges our understanding of the racial dimensions of one of our country’s most sacred rights—the right of free movement. In Bay’s telling, Black travelers emerge as innovators and early adopters of new transportation technologies, out of both social necessity and a dogged commitment to resisting every limit placed on their right to self-determination. She reminds us, as the best historians always do, that for African Americans you cannot understand the destination without sustained attention to the journey. -- Brittney Cooper, author of Eloquent RageThis extraordinary book is a powerful addition to the history of travel segregation. Traveling Black reveals how travel discrimination transformed over time from segregated trains to buses and Uber rides. Mia Bay shows that Black mobility has always been a struggle. -- Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an AntiracistOne of the supposed hallmarks of a free democratic society is the ability to travel without restriction. That has not been the case for Black Americans. From slavery through Jim Crow and beyond they faced a plethora of rules, formal and informal, that made travel a daunting enterprise. Mia Bay is one of the outstanding historians of her generation, and she asks crucial questions: Why were so many of the early challenges to segregated travel brought by women? Why was travel by train and bus such a problem for the racial hierarchy, particularly in the South, and why did it become such a focal point of resistance? Timely and well written, Traveling Black offers a powerful new vision of the long arc of protest against racial segregation in America. -- Annette Gordon-Reed, author of The Hemingses of MonticelloIn America, freedom so often is ‘just another word for’ the right to go where we want to go. Yet as Mia Bay reveals in her dynamic history, African Americans have rarely enjoyed this right without the strings—or stings—of discrimination, whether by law or custom, intimidation, or outright violence. At the core of her story is the struggle over human dignity itself. Bay takes us on a journey from the caprices of the early color line in the antebellum North to the harrowing experiences of ‘driving while Black’ today. Bay shows that the civil rights movement has much deeper roots than many imagine and its movements have long tracked the battle for safe and equal access to the rights of passage. Traveling Black is well worth the fare. Indeed, it is certain to become the new standard on this important, and too often forgotten, history. -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author of Stony the RoadTraveling Black is a stunning achievement that promises to transform our understanding of the character and importance of segregated travel. Based on prodigious research, its richly textured and insightful narrative takes us on a fascinating and eye-opening journey of discovery along the roads and rails of Jim Crow America. -- Raymond Arsenault, author of Freedom RidersA comprehensive survey of the relationship between travel restrictions, racial segregation, and civil rights in America. * Publishers Weekly *
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Harvard University Press Give and Take
Book SynopsisGive and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (1600–1868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants, artisans, villagers, and people at the margins of society. Maren Ehlers explores how high and low people negotiated and collaborated with each other as they addressed the problem of poverty in early modern Japan.
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HarperCollins Publishers Ultimate Navigation Manual
Book SynopsisAll the techniques you need to become an expert navigator.The Ultimate Navigation Manual is a unique guide to finding your way on land from the basic principles right up to the advanced technology of GPS. Designed to allow even the absolute beginner to find their way anywhere in the world, it also develops a unique confidence in navigation with or without technical aids.With a preface by Sir Ranulph Fiennes, contents will also include:Environmental clues Using the natural environment to navigateMaps An introduction to the different types of mapsThe Compass and North How compasses work, how to use them and how to choose the right oneMap and Compass Navigation twenty-five easy-to-learn skills are describedRelocation Procedures What to do when lost, dealing with well-known relocation procedures and some ground-breaking new onesStellar Navigation Simple methods that are easy to learnGNSS (GPS) Navigation Why Global Satellite Navigation Systems are the most significant advance in nTrade ReviewOutdoors Magic 'The Collins Ultimate Navigation Manual is the best and most comprehensive navigation guide we've come across'. Trail Magazine 'Seamlessly integrating traditional methods with cutting-edge GPS techniques into a fresh and intuitive format' Adventure Travel ‘Defines the word ‘comprehensive’. It’s got everything you could think of to do with navigation’ Field Magazine ‘It’s an essential for anyone who spends time in the countryside’ The Great Outdoors ‘This is an excellent reference manual for all navigators, both amateur and professional, and I recommend it highly’ Walk Magazine ‘This comprehensive and richly illustrated guide has everything you could ever wish to know about navigation’ The Royal Institute of Navigation ‘(An) outstanding achievement in writing…a comprehensive book for Land Navigation’
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Pearson Education Target Grade 5 Edexcel GCSE 91 Geography Spec B
Book SynopsisHelp your students catch up, keep up and make expected progress in Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Geography B with this new series of intervention workbooks.
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Pearson Education Target Grade 9 Edexcel GCSE 91 History Medicine in Britain c1250present Workbook
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Hodder Education Essential Maths Skills for ASAlevel Geography
Book SynopsisExam Board: AQA, OCR, Edexcel, WJEC Eduqas, WJECLevel: A-levelSubject: GeographyFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2017 (AS), Summer 2018 (A-level)Don''t let your students miss out on easy marks; help them improve their skills and feel confident about the maths they need for AS/A-level Geography with this essential guide.If your students struggle with student t-test or Spearman rank correlation, this is the book for them. This textbook companion will improve students'' essential maths skills for geography, whichever awarding body specification you''re following. You can use it throughout the course, whenever you feel your students need some extra help.- Develop understanding of both maths and geography using worked examples and questions that are all set within a geography context- Improve confidence with a step-by-step approach to every maths skill- Measure progress with
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Multiracism: Rethinking Racism in Global Context
Book SynopsisRacism is a world problem. From Morocco to China, Brazil to Indonesia, racism is being debated and contested. Multiracism broadens the horizon on this global challenge, showing that racism has a diverse history with multiple roots and routes. Drawing on examples of racism from across the globe, with particular focus on cases from Asia and Africa, Alastair Bonnett rethinks the origins of racism and the connections between racism and modernity. Arguing that plural modernities are interwoven with plural racisms, he explores the relationship of racism to history, religion, politics, and nationalism, as well as to anti-Black prejudice and discourses of whiteness. Empirically rich, with numerous in-depth case studies, Multiracism equips readers to understand racism in a multipolar world where power is no longer the sole possession of the West. It provides and provokes a new, international, and post-Western vision of racism for the twenty-first century.Trade Review‘Elegantly written with a breath-taking level of global reach, this highly readable account draws on a varied and engaging set of examples to articulate and elaborate the fundamental argument about global multiracism. This is a central paradigmatic challenge to mainstream positions in the field of racial and ethnic studies which fail to recognize and account for the huge range of racisms operating across the planet.’Ian Law, University of Leeds ‘Covering many non-Western societies where the binary White/non-White is absent, this book provides an incisive, insightful, and important contribution to the understanding of the specificities, practices, and consequences of “world racism”. Highly recommended for specialists as well as general readers.’Zaheer Baber, University of Toronto‘A fantastic book … which I was extremely impressed by and extremely interested in because I believe it to be the only piece of work that looks at these issues in a global context.’Aynsley Taylor, Director, Ipsos Knowledge Centre‘[A]n excellent read, for racism practitioners, students, tutors, and researchers alike. […] The explanations of the effect of capitalism, globalization, and postmodernity in perpetuating racism are first class.’Sociological InquiryTable of ContentsIntroduction: Reframing RacismsChapter 1 Explaining Racisms Beyond the West: Roots and RoutesChapter 2 History and Nostalgia: Ruptures, Racism, and the Experience of LossChapter 3 Religion’s Furies: Racism in Fundamentalism, Casteism, and IslamophobiaChapter 4 Political Sites of Racist Modernity: Communism, Capitalism, and NationalismChapter 5 Shifting Symbols: Whiteness in Japan and Blackness in MoroccoConclusions
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Hodder Education WJEC/Eduqas A-level Geography Student Guide 6:
Book SynopsisExam Board: WJEC/EduqasLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: GeographyFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2017 (AS), Summer 2018 (A-level)Reinforce students' geographical understanding throughout their course; clear topic summaries with sample questions and answers help students improve their exam technique and achieve their best.Written by a teacher with extensive examining experience, this guide:- Helps students identify what they need to know with a concise summary of the topics examined at AS and A-level- Consolidates understanding through assessment tips and knowledge-check questions- Offers opportunities for students to improve their exam technique by consulting sample graded answers to exam-style questions- Develops independent learning and research skills- Provides the content students need to produce their own revision notes
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John Murray Press Found in Translation: The Unexpected Origins of
Book SynopsisFound in Translation: The Unexpected Origins of Place Names unravels the tangled threads of history and etymology to uncover the strange, intriguing and enlightening stories that have shaped the names of countries and places around the world.Starting in the world's second largest country, Canada, whose name means 'the village', renowned travel writer, Duncan Madden takes us on a spellbinding tour through the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania, visiting the weird and wonderful along the way. Learn about the Land Protected by Fire , otherwise known as Azerbaijan; drop by Hippopotamus, or Mali; and sail to the Land of Frizzy-Haired Men in Papua New Guinea.Found in Translation will entertain and inspire the culturally curious - armchair explorers and avid travellers, historians, linguists and lovers of language - painting a new perspective on the names, histories and origins of the places we live in and travel to. Visiting more than sixty countries across all six continents, Found in Translation includes the stories of Canada, USA, Mexico, Costa Rica, Cuba, Brazil, Argentina, Iceland, Ireland, UK, Germany, Russia, Italy, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Iraq, India, China, Thailand, Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and many more...The foreword, written by bestselling author, explorer and photographer, Levison Wood, sets the context for this revelatory work that is part travelogue, history book and etymological reference.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Chicken: A History from Farmyard to Factory
Book SynopsisWhy has the chicken become the meat par excellence, the most plentifully eaten and popular animal protein in the world, consumed from Beijing to Barcelona? As renowned historian Paul Josephson shows, the story of the chicken's rise involves a whole host of factors; from art, to nineteenth-century migration patterns to cold-war geopolitics. And whereas sheep needed too much space, or the cow was difficult to transport, these compact, lightweight birds produced relatively little waste, were easy to transport and could happily peck away in any urban back garden. Josephson tells this story from all sides: the transformation of the chicken from backyard scratcher to hyper-efficient industrial meat-product has been achieved due to the skill of entrepreneurs who first recognized the possibilities of chicken meat and the gene scientists who bred the plumpest and most fertile birds. But it has also been forced through by ruthless capitalists and lobbyists for “big farmer”, at the expense of animal welfare and the environment. With no sign of our lust for chicken abating, we're now reaching a crisis point: billions of birds are slaughtered every year, after having lived lives that are nasty, brutish and short. The waste from these victims is polluting rivers and poisoning animals. We’re now plunging “egg-first” into environmental disaster. Alongside this story Josephson tells another, of an animal with endearing characteristics who, arguably, can lay claim to being man’s best friend long before the dog reared its snout or the cat came in from the cold. Lionized in medieval romances and modern cartoons, the chicken’s relationship to humanity runs deep; by treating these animals as mere food products, we become less than human.Trade Review"Timely, important and forensically researched."Australian Book Review"This book swiftly and very readably outlines the century-long rise of [factory farming corporations] and the re-creation of the chicken into the world�s staple food. Josephson brings the various corporate and scientific personalities of his story alive, and despite the relatively breezy tone he�s chosen to adopt, he never flinches from the ugly reality of his subject."Open Letters Review"Wise and scrupulously referenced."The Spectator MagazineTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Egg First 1 Chicken Culture 2 Ecology and Industry 3 Chicken as Machine 4 Shit and Feathers 5 Pecking and Protest 6 Drumsticks Epilogue: Broiler Chernobyl Notes Index
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Harvard University Press A Nation under Our Feet
Book SynopsisThis is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people—an embryonic black nation. As Hahn demonstrates, rural African-Americans were central political actors in the great events of disunion, emancipation, and nation-building.Trade ReviewSteven Hahn’s A Nation under Our Feet is the most comprehensive account yet of black politics in the rural South before, during and after the Civil War. Whereas most previous work has focused either on the slave experience or on post-Emancipation struggles, Hahn’s book encompasses both and shows the continuities between how blacks fought for self-determination in the two periods… Based on prodigious research in primary sources, A Nation under Our Feet is one of the most important works in American social history to appear in recent years… This book [is] a major achievement and a landmark in African-American history. -- George M. Frederickson * The Nation *In this magisterial new book, University of Pennsylvania historian Steven Hahn gives us the history of the South from the eve of the Civil War through the dawn of the Great Migration from the perspective of rural blacks. It is an awesome and audacious undertaking. Not since W. E. B. Du Bois’ monumental Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880 (1935) has a historian ventured to structure a political history of the entire post-emancipation South around black politics. -- Jane Dailey * Chicago Tribune *Steven Hahn’s meticulously researched, richly detailed history of the black political tradition is a book of the first importance, for the author demonstrates how recently freed slaves drew on their experiences under the peculiar institution to create political communities. He explains how they responded to black nationalism, formed alliances across geographical and cultural divisions, and eventually gained rights previously denied them. This outstanding book should win more than one prize. -- Lee Milazzo * Dallas Morning News *Hahn argues, in this ambitious and fascinating book, that associations of slaves—centered on kinship, work, and religion—were far more intricate, enduring, and politicized than has been realized… One of the most striking theses here is that black rural laborers, rather than urban, educated freeborn leaders, radicalized Reconstruction. * New Yorker *Drawing synthetically but fruitfully on a vast scholarship on slavery, emancipation, and the New South, it will likely become required reading, if not for the general public, then at least for students of American history. Those readers will encounter an elegantly written, deeply moving, powerful statement of black humanity and black agency in the momentous struggles to end slavery and to define freedom. -- Eric Arnesen * The Nation *A compact but challenging volume… Hahn looks at the complex way the African-American struggle for emancipation took shape both under slavery and in the wake of its abolition… Only the most small-minded conception of American life would assume that these are matters of interest only to black readers. In a healthy culture, this little book would be a best-seller. -- Scott McLemee * Inside Higher Ed *Hahn’s book demonstrates that from slavery to the Great Migration of the last century, African Americans were astute politicians, using alliances with the good and bad to ensure socioeconomic and political success. But first and foremost the author reveals for his readers how blacks dealt with the dynamics of change in the post-Civil War South as it impacted their daily lives. -- A. J. Williams-Myers * MultiCultural Review *Hahn’s work links periods normally considered distinct and even autonomous in scholarly studies of African-American life… Along the way he introduces us to a cast of remarkable characters who labored relatively anonymously but heroically to give meaning to black Americans’ visions for freedom… Hahn’s compelling narrative shows how black workers and their political and social leaders ‘energized the meaning of democracy’ and forced the nation to confront ‘deep historical problems’ that have resided at the heart of the American polity. This majestic and impassioned narrative is perhaps the deepest and most penetrating exploration we have of the long prehistory of the twentieth-century civil rights movement. -- Paul Harvey * New York Journal of American History *In Steven Hahn’s Pulitzer Prize–winning A Nation under Our Feet, the aims and organization of black political agency from the final years of slavery into the early twentieth century receive a sweeping reassessment… The Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to towns and then to the North had its roots in the 1890s and progressed sharply during World War One… Both those who moved to other regions and those who remained in the South maintained a collective identity, but they also held on to the promise that American democracy was meant to cross racial boundaries. With a wealth of evidentiary detail and lucid prose, Hahn confronts the challenges made to that promise in an engaging and cohesive work. -- Scott Taylor Morris * Southern Historian *Hahn examines how disenfranchised African Americans in the rural South exercised grassroots strategies to gain political power—albeit limited—after emancipation until the migration to the North. Hahn asserts that southern rural blacks were much more active and assertive in gaining political rights than is typically portrayed and explores the connection between labor and political rights… Readers interested in the history of the struggle for racial justice will appreciate this new perspective on the period that preceded the modern civil rights movement. -- Vanessa Bush * Booklist *The broad scope of this study and Hahn’s ability to articulate the complex characteristics of African American political origins and growth supersedes Eric Foner’s seminal work or any other more specialized study on the era. -- B. A. Wineman * Choice *Original and deeply informed, the book does an excellent job of rendering those devoted ‘to the making of a new political nation while they made themselves into a new people.’ * Publishers Weekly *A Nation under Our Feet is the best study of working class politics published in a generation. By unraveling the riddle of black politics in slavery and tracing the growth of black political activism through Reconstruction into the twentieth century, Hahn forces us to think differently about the American polity and what he calls ‘the inspiring and dispiriting history of American democracy.’ An extraordinary achievement. -- Ira Berlin, author of Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American SlavesAn original book about what it means to be political in America. With stunning research and sparkling narrative, Steven Hahn has written a moving story about political behavior among the slavery and freedom generations of rural, southern blacks. He demonstrates how a people with roots in slavery converted freedom into integrationist and separatist ends all at once. Blacks practiced the craft of bending wills as they bent their backs in labor. This book will take its place among a handful of classics on southern black life and politics. -- David W. Blight, author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American MemoryIn this sweeping account of black political culture in the rural south, Steven Hahn reveals a century of black community mobilization from slave resistance before the Civil War to the rise of Garveyism in the Deep South of the 1920s. Hahn’s breathtaking research and his focus on public activism return to the subject of black rural life a political currency that can only grow in interest. -- Evelyn Higginbotham, Editor-in-Chief, The Harvard Guide to African-American HistoryImagine a world in which slaves were thoughtful, purposeful political beings before the Northern ‘liberators’ showed up at the gates of Southern plantations. Steven Hahn identifies the constituent elements of slave politics and uncloaks the relationship between public acts of politics and the less visible world of African-American institutions, practices, obligations, communities, and understandings that enabled them. This is a wonderful book which dramatically revises our assumptions about the formidable role of rural working-class people in remaking the nation after slavery. -- Tera Hunter, author of To ’Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil WarTable of ContentsPrologue: Looking Out from Slavery Part I: "The Jacobins of the Country" 1. Of Chains and Threads 2. "The Choked Voice of a Race at Last Unloosed" 3. Of Rumors and Revelations Part II: To Build a New Jerusalem 4. Reconstructing the Body Politic 5. "A Society Turned Bottomside Up" 6. Of Paramilitary Politics Part III: The Unvanquished 7. The Education of Henry Adams 8. Of Ballots and Biracialism 9. The Valley and the Shadows Epilogue: "Up, You Mighty Race" Appendix: Black Leaders Data Set Notes Acknowledgments Index
£24.26
Oxford University Press IB Geography Study Guide Oxford IB Diploma
Book SynopsisPrepare learners for IB assessment. Fully updated to cover the revised syllabus for first examination 2019, this comprehensive Study Guide reinforces the essential understanding learners need for IB exams. With an accessible format that clarifies and explains all the essential principles, this book supports maximum achievement in assessment.Achieve in IB assessment reinforce and master the essential understandingFully grasp the key principles concise and focused approach simplifies complex ideas, building confident comprehensionFully matched to the revised syllabus first examined 2019 with complete support for the internal and external assessmentsClear language optimally supports EAL learnersTable of ContentsOption A Freshwater - Drainage basins 1: Drainage basin hydrology and geomorphology 2: Flooding and flood mitigation 3: Water scarcity and water quality 4: Water management futures Option B Oceans and coastal margins 1: Ocean-atmosphere interactions 2: Interactions between oceans and the coastal places 3: Managing coastal margins 4: Ocean management futures Option C Extreme environments 1: The characteristics of extreme environments 2: Physical processes and landscapes 3: Managing extreme environments 4: Extreme environments' futures Option D Geophysical hazards 1: Geophysical systems 2: Geophysical hazard risks 3: Hazard risk and vulnerability 4: Future resilience and adaptation Option E Leisure, tourism and sport 1: Changing leisure patterns 2: Tourism and sport at the local and national scale 3: Tourism and sport at the international scale 4: Managing tourism and sport for the future Option F The geography of food and health 1: Measuring food and health 2: Food systems and the spread of disease 3: Stakeholders in food and health 4: Future health and food security sustainability Option G Urban environments 1: The variety of urban environments 2: Changing urban systems 3: Urban environmental and social stresses 4: Building sustainable urban systems for the future Unit 1 Changing population 1: Population and economic development patterns 2: Changing populations and places 3: Challenges and opportunities Unit 2 Global climate - vulnerability and resilience 1: The causes of global climate change 2: The consequences of global climate change 3: Responding to climate change Unit 3 Global resource consumption and security 1: Global trends in consumption 2: Impacts of changing trends in resource consumption 3: Resource stewardship Unit 4 Power, places and networks 1: Global interactions and global power 2: Global networks and flows 3: Human and physical influences on global interactions Unit 5 Human development and diversity 1: Development opportunities 2: Changing identities and cultures 3: Local responses to global interactions Unit 6 Global risks and resilience 1: Geopolitical and economic risks 2: Environmental risks 3: Local and global resilience
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Oxford University Press AQA A Level Geography Exam Practice Bayliss Get
Book SynopsisAQA A Level Geography Exam Practice covers the skills and techniques required to be successful in the new rigorous A Level AQA Geography specification, plus key geographical skills practice - written specially to target the demands of answering synoptic exam questions. Accessible, clear and thorough, this exam practice book engages all your students. Clearly-written using Oxford''s popular On Your Marks approach, it focuses on planning, writing, and marking answers supported with sample answers at a range of levels, with marked and annotated versions pointing out good practice and useful tips. Motivating skills practice - based on the AQA sample assessment materials - reinforces this rigorous approach. In addition, guided answers and mark schemes will be provided online.
£12.25
Oxford University Press Lakes
Book SynopsisRanging from vast inland seas to hydro-reservoirs, lakes are unique, complex, ecosystems. Warwick Vincent introduces lake science, or limnology, and the importance of protecting and sustaining these vitally important living resources. He explains the impact of factors such as climate, seasons, salinity, and sedimentation on lake biodiversity.Trade ReviewA fast-track insight into lakes, from how they're formed to a hit list of 'extreme lakes' in unusual places. Packed with facts but not (ahem) a dry read. * Sarah Barrell, National Geographic Traveller *Does an excellent job at showing how biology, chemistry and physics are inextricably linked and necessary to understand lakes. Overall, this short book provides an excellent and lucid introduction to the beauty and complexity of lakes. * Yves Prairie, UNESCO Chair in Global Environmental Change *This book is a sparkling gem! It is a must-read not only for novices intrigued by freshwaters but also academics teaching limnology (study of inland waters) and university students interested in the subject. * Marianne Moore, Frost Professor Emerita in Environmental Science, Wellesley College. *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Deep waters 2: Sunlight and motion 3: Life support systems 4: Food chains to fish 5: Extreme lakes 6: Lakes and us Further reading Index
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Oxford University Press Landscapes and Geomorphology
Book SynopsisWhat were the landscapes of the past like? What will landscapes look like in the future? Landscapes are all around us, but most of us know very little about how they have developed, what goes on in them, and how they react to changing climates, tectonics and human activities. Examining what landscape is, and how we use a range of ideas and techniques to study it, Andrew Goudie and Heather Viles demonstrate how geomorphologists have built on classic methods pioneered by some great 19th century scientists to examine our Earth. Using examples from around the world, including New Zealand, the Tibetan Plateau, and the deserts of the Middle East, they examine some of the key controls on landscape today such as tectonics and climate, as well as humans and the living world. They also discuss some key ''landscape detectives'' from the past, including Charles Darwin who did some important, but often overlooked, research on landscape. Concluding with the cultural importance of landscape, and exploring how this has led to the conservation of much ''earth heritage'', they delve into the future and look at how we can predict the response of landscapes to climate change in the future.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. The changing landscape ; 2. The present is the key to the past ; 3. Landscapes past and present ; 4. Landscapes, tectonics, and climate ; 5. Living landscapes ; 6. Landscapes and us ; 7. Landscapes of the future ; 8. Landscapes, art, and culture ; 9. Unseen landscapes ; Further Reading
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MIT Press Ltd Sewer of Progress Corporations Institutionalized
Book SynopsisA creative and comprehensive exploration of the institutional forces undermining the management of environments critical to public health.For almost two decades, the citizens of Western Mexico have called for a cleanup of the Santiago River, a water source so polluted it emanates an overwhelming acidic stench. Toxic clouds of foam lift off the river in a strong wind. In Sewer of Progress, Cindy McCulligh examines why industrial dumping continues in the Santiago despite the corporate embrace of social responsibility and regulatory frameworks intended to mitigate environmental damage. The fault, she finds, lies in a disingenuous discourse of progress and development that privileges capitalist growth over the health and well-being of ecosystems. Rooted in research on institutional behavior and corporate business practices, Sewer of Progress exposes a type of regulatory greenwashing that allows authorities to deflect accusations of environmental du
£36.00
Pearson Education Target Grade 5 Reading AQA GCSE 91 French
Book SynopsisHelp your students catch up, keep up and make expected progress in their GCSE (9-1) studies with this new series of intervention workbooks.
£10.69
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Geography Militant
Book Synopsis* New perspective on the history of geographical exploration (concerned with the relationships between culture, science and empire). * Brings together a wealth of unpublished and published material in an engaging, well--illustrated and accessible book.Trade Review"A valuable contribution to the 'culture of exploration'. Geography militant lives on in advertising, photography, guide books, magazines and- virtually- in our imaginations." Traveller Magazine "Expoliting the divide 'twixt' science and the sensational and pointing to differing geographies of various periods , this well wrought, closely knit book of nine illustrated chapters dwells on the age of exploration, colonization and the concomitant rise of the British Empire and its institutions. A listing of manuscripts consulted, extensive bibliography, and an index complete this rigorous work." Choice "...consistently thoughtful and lively; Felix Driver produces a powerful sense of the complexity and strangeness of his material." Times Literary Supplement. "extremely wide ranging book which raises a multitude of issues", Journal of European Studies. " This book adds effectively to the traditional accounts of exploration known to so many of us" International Journal of Environement Studies "a lot of material, many interesting ideas and observations, some fascinating juxtapositions, tantalizing suggestions, rich references, and polished prose ..." Environment and Planning A "wonderful book [...] with Geography Militant Felix Driver has dined sumptuously at the Ritz-Carlton. To great advantage, he has quite successfully mined many veins of knowledge far bayond those disciplines where geographers normally toil. Each place is revealed as pertinent and fascinating [...] This volume contains so many meaty ideas, it is difficult [...] to give them the attention they properly deserve. Suffice to say, Felix Driver's Militant Geography is a tour de force. The research conducted to write this remarkable book is impeccable" Terrae Incognitae, the journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries "The range of material included in this book, only a portion of which can be covered here, is exceptional. Geography Militant is a welcome contribution and will certainly spark a reconsideration of assumptions in a number of fields, including the history of science, cultural history and the history of imperialism." Susan Schulten, the History of Science Society "this splendid book describes the culture of exploration and the making of he discipline of Britain in the 'militant' epoch. So many themes and substantive descriptions tumble from these pages that summary is difficult" Christopher Lawrence, Medical History [Driver contributes] to the ongoing project of reevaluating the history of Empire, demonstrating that the science of location and its graphic productions were far less stable and effective than postcolonial critics have claimed" Robert D. Aguirre, Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. 1. Geographical Knowledge, Exploration and Empire. 2. The Royal Geographical Society and the Empire of Science. 3. Hints to Travellers: Observation in the Field. 4. Missionary of Science: David Livingstone and the Exploration of Africa. 5. Becoming an Explorer: The Martyrdom of Winwood Reade. 6. Exploration by Warfare: Henry Morton Stanley and his Critics. 7. Making Representations: From an African Exhibition to the High Court of Justice. 8. Exploring Darkest England: Mapping the Heart of Empire. 9. Geography Militant and its After-life. Index.
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Harvard University Press Walter Benjamin
Book SynopsisWalter Benjamin was perhaps the twentieth century's most elusive intellectual. His writings defy categorization, and his improvised existence has proven irresistible to mythologizers. In a major new biography, Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings present a comprehensive portrait of the man and his times, as well as extensive commentary on his work.Trade Review[An] outstanding and monumental biography of Walter Benjamin… In the thoroughness of their account and the acuity and delicacy of their philosophical analyses, Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings have provided an indispensable sighting of Benjamin’s achievement. -- Anthony Phelan * Times Literary Supplement *[This] is a careful synthesis of all the available sources for Benjamin’s life—letters, diaries, reminiscences of friends—with all of his major writings, to produce the comprehensive account that has been sorely lacking until now… Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life makes clear how intimately Benjamin’s biography was shaped by the history of Europe during his lifetime. -- Adam Kirsch * New York Review of Books *In their superb new biography, Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings have given us a portrait of this elusive but paradigmatic thinker that deserves to be ranked among the few truly indispensable intellectual biographies of the modern era. I am tempted to call it a masterpiece. Nearly seven hundred pages in length, this is not only a study of Benjamin’s life, it is also a guide to the bewildering mix of themes and preoccupations that populated this most prolific and unfamiliar of minds… To write the biography of an intellectual is difficult business, since so much of what passes for an event is taking place only in the mind or on the page—but those are the events that really matter. Eiland and Jennings move with deliberation through Benjamin’s major works, expounding and explaining with uncommon lucidity even when the text in question is one of notorious difficulty. The result is not a mere chronicle of a life but also a reliable map into Benjamin’s intellectual labyrinth. -- Peter E. Gordon * New Republic *The most comprehensive biography we are ever likely to have of Benjamin… Both authors have spent close to a lifetime on the subject. The devotion and care evident in their account are clearly based on sympathy and admiration. Their exposition of Benjamin’s thought is exemplary, their sleuthing about his personal life breathtaking. Definitive is an archaic and much abused term that Benjamin would have abhorred; suffice it to say that it is unlikely that anyone will ever be able to tell us more about this German-Jewish thinker or present that knowledge with greater stylistic aplomb. -- Modris Eksteins * Wall Street Journal *[Eiland and Jennings] argue compellingly that as a critic [Benjamin] not only reshaped our understanding of many important writers, but he recognized the potentials and hazards of technological media that revolutionized culture during his lifetime… An impressive work of exegesis… Indispensable. -- Stuart Jeffries * The Guardian *Serious and imposing, it seeks to gather up and bind the threads of Benjamin’s career, unite the unpublished and the half-finished essays and book projects, weaving together a comprehensive biography both of the man and his thought. A great strength of Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life is how it lays out Benjamin’s major works as part of an evolution of thought, providing not only invaluable context to each piece, but tracing each work’s central claims in a lucid and approachable manner. One need not be a PhD to approach this book, and it will intrigue anyone with a passing interest in the intellectual history of the 20th century. With key essays and books given substantive contextualization and explanation, Eiland and Jennings make Benjamin’s work accessible and networked into a larger set of themes and concerns… As omnipresent as [Benjamin’s] tragic fate is throughout the book, Eiland and Jennings also provide a host of surprising (and even delightful) details of Benjamin’s life, which round out the melancholic caricature of him in favor of a complex, conflicted individual. -- Colin Dickey * Los Angeles Review of Books *Impressive… [Eiland and Jennings] portray their subject as a kind of ragpicker in the neglected alleyways of a culture in transition—a specialist in the marginal and mundane, the fragmentary and forgotten… They succeed in offering not only the most comprehensive biography to date, but a tour de force introduction to an incomparably incandescent mind. -- Benjamin Balint * Books & Ideas *Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings have rightly sought and successfully produced the thread that gives a biography of Benjamin the kind of weight and significance his influence deserves… Their curiosity in searching out an expanded wealth of details now available about Benjamin, both personal and intellectual, historical and anecdotal, has produced an account that enlivens the already well-known turning points in Benjamin’s development… This biography far surpasses not just any preceding biographical history of Benjamin but in its searching out of what remains consistent in Benjamin it has found the thread that allows a narrative of life and work to unfold in a way that does not subordinate one to the other… This achievement will remain not only a standard and resource-full account of Benjamin but in its comprehensiveness as well as its acute accounts of Benjamin’s thought across the whole range of that thinking, it will continue to provide the foundation for the fuller understanding of his place and contribution to the critical, cultural, political and historical present we have inherited from the twentieth century. -- David Ferris * Critical Inquiry *Walter Benjamin deserves to be more celebrated, and Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life, by Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings, is a step in the right direction. It is an efficient introduction to his work and legacy while also offering a detailed account of Benjamin the man, his strengths and weaknesses and the world he lived in. It is also a deeply poignant story of his struggle to survive in a hostile Europe and his tragic suicide at the age of 48. -- Cyril Kavanaugh * The Guardian *Presented here in what looks like a definitive version, Benjamin’s life emerges as a tragedy of incompleteness. -- John Gray * Literary Review *[Benjamin] produced some of the most memorable and generative critical writing of the last century. There is no end in sight of the need to grapple with that writing and its legacies. This magisterial biography by Eiland and Jennings sets that writing in its place and time with profane illuminations on almost every one of its many pages. Benjamin had scorn for people who produced needlessly ‘fat’ books, but I think this fairly huge one hits the sweet spot of detail. Most biographical treatments to date tend to be half the length or less and content themselves with the highlights and the fairly well known, however well articulated. If one wants more, this ‘critical’ biography is the place to look. -- Ian Balfour * Los Angeles Review of Books *Despite its numerous predecessors, this biography is the first of its kind to succeed in uniting most of the previously published biographical material in one book, including translations of documents which were until now only available in German. With the still-growing interest in Benjamin’s thought, one can expect this book to become the standard English-language biography on Benjamin. In A Critical Life, the contours of Benjamin’s day-to-day life become graspable for the first time. It is fascinating to read about his whereabouts and travels, the people and places that formed the stages for his life and thought… This biography is also an intellectual biography, which puts the reader herself in a position to navigate the labyrinth-like edifice of Benjamin’s thought. For this alone, this biography proves to be a landmark achievement in the history of Benjamin scholarship. -- Sami Khatib * New Inquiry *Through this fair-minded and meticulously detailed biography we can, perhaps for the first time in the extensive literature on Benjamin, see clearly the way that the arc of his life and work, culminating in the overdose of morphine taken in the Hotel de Francia in Port Bou, is an expression of, and also an epic meditation on, the political and aesthetic conditions that provided the context of his coming into maturity as both a thinker and a man. -- Gregory Day * Sydney Morning Herald *[Eiland and Jennings] have produced this massive and gripping account of Benjamin’s life and troubles, testimonial both to their own efforts in bringing his elusive writings into view, and to the circumstances in which Benjamin arrived at such scope, depth and brilliance… This is Benjamin warts and all, but in place of an impressionistic biographical sketch of a life, marked by false starts and a final mischance, what emerges is an astonishing panorama of a life and of theorizing, of research and of publishing, on the crest of that wave of disaster that was the destruction of European Jewry and of German intellectual life. -- Joanna Hodge * Times Higher Education *I’ve been waiting for a book like this since first coming across Benjamin’s mesmerizing essays as a student. Like others who have fallen under his spell, I’ve had to make do with bits and pieces of biographical information over the years, not all of them reliable. Jennings and Eiland have spent almost two decades re-editing and retranslating all of Benjamin’s works and have also managed to create a map through the maze of his restless, exilic life. -- Eric Bulson * Times Literary Supplement *[Benjamin was] one of the most versatile men of letters the 20th century had known… [This is] an epic, 700-page-plus saga of his peripatetic life and his whirlwind of productivity. -- Eric Banks * Bookforum *In this ambitious biography, Benjamin scholars (and editors) Eiland and Jennings chart the protean, prolific—albeit short—life of the German-Jewish critic and philosopher with masterly aplomb. As a literary critic, a dodger of both World Wars, flâneur, and eventual victim of Hitler’s reign, Benjamin (1892–1940) lived with a funny gait, ‘an impenetrable façade’ of courtesy, and severe depression; fearing capture and deportation to Germany, he committed suicide in a Spanish hotel. Born to an affluent Berlin family, Benjamin advocated for the radical youth culture movement and education reform in Germany before he pursued a tenured professor of philosophy post in academia, which he never achieved. With intense wanderlust, Benjamin turned to an itinerant existence as he penned thousands of essays, reviews, and books. Shaping avant-garde realism and arguably inventing pop culture, he wrote that he hoped to be ‘the foremost critic of German literature.’ Leaving Germany for good in 1933, Benjamin spent his last dark decade in exile, where most of his writings contributed to his never completed masterpiece The Arcades Project—‘his cultural history of the emergence of urban commodity capitalism in mid-nineteenth-century France.’ The authors, in impressive and accessible fashion, reveal Benjamin as an eyewitness to Europe’s changing modernity. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *Here, for the first time, is a thorough, reliable, non-tendentious, and fully developed account of Benjamin’s life and the sources of his work. Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life is by far the best biography of Benjamin that has yet appeared. A remarkable scholarly achievement, it will prove of enduring value and will doubtless become the standard reference work for those who become intrigued by the complicated contours of Benjamin’s life. -- Peter Fenves, Northwestern UniversityWalter Benjamin himself often grappled with the vexed and constantly shifting relations between self and work, life (bios) and writing (graphein). Whatever faint yet abiding hyphen may connect the two, that same line also forever holds them apart. The new biography by Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings, two Benjamin scholars of the first rank, offers a sober, meticulous, and often moving image of Benjamin’s brief life in the shadow of catastrophe. Brilliantly interweaving the conceptual threads of Benjamin’s enigmatic work with his no less enigmatic existence, this impeccably informed and eminently readable account of Benjamin’s life sets a new standard for his biographers and critics in any language. Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life is destined to stand the test of time. -- Gerhard Richter, Brown University
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Harvard University Press Voice Choice and Action The Potential of Young
Book SynopsisYoung people have the potential to educate and inspire their communities, if only adults will listen to them. Felton Earls and Mary Carlson have spent decades listening to children and encouraging them to use their voices for social change.Trade ReviewEarls and Carlson have discovered, studied, and advocated for an aspect of development previously unrecognized: how children and youth can find their voice, feel empowered to use that voice, and translate that voice into political action. This is a remarkable book, personally, scientifically, and politically. -- Gordon Harper * Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry *Aims to provide convincing proof that children are and can be political actors in their own communities, and attempts to show the tools required for child and youth citizenship to develop and flourish…It provides a comprehensive exploration of the potential for enabling children to develop into deliberative citizens…A valuable read for researchers on childhood in any discipline. -- Nico Brando * Journal of Human Development and Capabilities *Reflecting their years of research and dedication to an action-based, participatory approach, the authors provide specific guidelines for parents, teachers, police, and other authority figures in setting up a Young Citizens program, aimed at children ages 10 to 14, in their own communities…An inspiring vision of a newly inclusive democracy. * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *A wide-ranging and inspiring study of citizen engagement among young people…Earls and Carlson provide an educational program for improving children’s communication skills and reasoning capacities in order to make them effective advocates for themselves and others…Readers interested in childhood development, progressive causes, and public health will want to take note. * Publishers Weekly *This important book presents fascinating research about children’s experiences under difficult conditions in several parts of the world. The book shines with rich detail, heartfelt concern, and deep insight. -- William Damon, Professor and Director, Stanford Center on AdolescenceHere is a compelling argument for the democratic capacities of children and youth. Science, philosophy, and two lifetimes of hands-on experience support its bold vision. -- Peter Levine, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts UniversityIn this insightful and revelatory book, Earls, a psychiatrist, and Carlson, a neurobiologist—lifelong partners in work and love—sing a duet that blends empiricism and social activism, theory and practice, intellectual biography and interdisciplinarity. Their international journeys and projects, distinguished by scientific rigor, innovation, and discovery, offer strong evidence of the power and wisdom of children’s voices, raised in disciplined and deliberative discourse, to the building of a more inclusive and just democracy. Voice, Choice, and Action is at once a richly detailed narrative, a discerning analysis, a moral declaration, a rigorous roadmap, and an urgent call to action. -- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Emily Hargroves Fisher Research Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of EducationA landmark work. Integrating neurobehavioral and social sciences, Earls and Carlson link theory and social action to offer a transformative vision of children as active agents in democratic societies around the world. -- Lincoln Chen, President, China Medical Board of Cambridge, MA; Chair, BRAC/USA; former Chair, CARE/USAVoice, Choice, and Action is a book for these times as we confront the fault lines in our democracy. Tony Earls and Maya Carlson have written a cri de coeur, urging us to include children as full citizens, as participants in the public square. It’s a deeply provocative work about the place of children in strengthening our sense of community. -- Alex Kotlowitz, author of An American Summer and There Are No Children Here
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Economic Geography
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This will be an exciting new edition and conceptually right up to date. It will weave together new thinking with essential knowledge of the field in a highly successful way. Students will find the structuring of the chapters around major topics attractive. Economic geography has been undergoing an intellectual transformation as it moves to incorporate new approaches and what is proposed here is very much in line with that. It will be highly suitable as a required text.” Nancy Ettlinger, Ohio State University “I like the changes proposed for the latest edition. This text blends together a culturally aware analysis of economic geography with a clear sense of what the discipline is about and the international range of case studies is impressive. I have no doubts about the quality of this author team. Individually they are scholars and writers of distinction. Collectively they complement each other and work together extremely well.” Adam Tickell, University of SussexTable of ContentsList of Figures xi List of Tables xv List of Boxes xvii Preface to the Third Edition xix Acknowledgements xxvi Part I Conceptual Foundations 1 1 Geography: How do we think spatially? 3 1.1 Introduction: Message in a Bottle 3 1.2 Bottled Water: A Contentious Commodity 7 1.3 Location and Patterns in Space 11 1.4 The Uniqueness of Place 15 1.5 Connecting Across Space Through Networks 20 1.6 Defining and Controlling Space Through Territory 26 1.7 Summary 30 2 The Economy: What does it mean? 36 2.1 Introduction 36 2.2 What ‘Counts’ as the Economy? 38 2.3 A Brief History of ‘the Economy’ 44 2.4 Basic Economic Processes 50 2.5 From Economics to Economic Geography 55 2.6 Summary 65 3 Dynamics of Capitalism: Why is economic growth so uneven? 69 3.1 Introduction 69 3.2 Uneven Development – Naturally! 73 3.3 Fundamentals of the Capitalist System 74 3.4 The Spaces and Scales of Uneven Geographical Development 82 3.5 Can Places and Regions Chart Their Own Futures? 93 3.6 Summary 98 4 Networks: How is the world economy interconnected? 102 4.1 Introduction 102 4.2 The Missing Relations Between Producers and Consumers? 105 4.3 Production Networks: Connecting Distant Places and Economies 108 4.4 Bringing Commodities Together: The Logistics Revolution 123 4.5 Where Does a Production Network End? From Waste to Commodities Again 127 4.6 Summary 129 Part II Key Economic Actors 135 5 Transnational Corporations: How do they keep it all together? 137 5.1 Introduction 137 5.2 The Myth of Being Everywhere, Effortlessly 139 5.3 The Changing Organization of TNCs 142 5.4 Organizing Transnational Economic Activities 1 – Intra‐firm Relationships 146 5.5 Organizing Transnational Economic Activities 2 – Inter‐firm Relationships 155 5.6 The Risks of Global Presence 164 5.7 Summary 167 6 Labour: Are migrant workers the new normal? 171 6.1 Introduction 171 6.2 Are Migrants the Problem? 174 6.3 Territorial Power and Migrant Types 178 6.4 Migrant Labour and Places of Settlement 183 6.5 Migrant Labour and Places of Origin 189 6.6 Organizing Migrant Labour 192 6.7 The Migration Industry 197 6.8 Summary 200 7 Consumers: Who decides what we buy? 206 7.1 Introduction 206 7.2 Towards Viewing Consumption as a Sociocultural Process 209 7.3 The Shifting Spatial Patterns of Retailing 213 7.4 Uneven Geographies of Consumption 232 7.5 Consuming Places: Travel and Tourism 238 7.6 Summary 243 8 Finance: How has capital become so powerful? 247 8.1 Introduction 247 8.2 How is the Real Economy Financed? 251 8.3 Deregulation and the Rise of Global Finance 253 8.4 Putting Global Finance in Its Place 257 8.5 Financialization: Circulating Global Capital 263 8.6 A Different Kind of Finance? 273 8.7 Summary 276 Part III Governing the Economy 281 9 States: Who runs the economy? 283 9.1 Introduction 283 9.2 Neo‐liberal Globalization and the End of the State? 286 9.3 The State as the Architect of the National Economy 289 9.4 Varieties of Capitalisms and States 301 9.5 Graduated Sovereignty and the State 309 9.6 Summary 309 10 International Institutions: How do they govern and foster global development? 314 10.1 Introduction 314 10.2 A Market Mechanism for the ‘Global South’? 317 10.3 Governing the Global Economy 319 10.4 Fostering Development in the Global South 331 10.5 Bottom‐Up? The Rise of Community‐Based Development 339 10.6 Summary 340 11 Environment: Does global climate change change everything? 345 11.1 Introduction 345 11.2 Climate Complacency 348 11.3 Causes and Sources of Climate Change 351 11.4 The Impacts and Costs of Climate Change 356 11.5 Regulating Emissions 360 11.6 Geographies of the Green Economy 368 11.7 Should this Change Everything? 373 11.8 Summary 375 Part IV Social and Cultural Dimensions 381 12 Clusters: Why does proximity matter? 383 12.1 Introduction 383 12.2 Industrial Location Theory 387 12.3 Towards a Typology of Clusters? 390 12.4 Binding Clusters Together: Agglomeration Economies 398 12.5 Untraded Interdependencies and Regional Cultures of Production 402 12.6 A Dynamic Approach to Clusters 409 12.7 Can Clusters Be Temporary? 412 12.8 Summary 415 13 Identities: Are economies gendered and racialized? 420 13.1 Introduction 420 13.2 Seeing Gender and Race in the Economy 422 13.3 Uneven Geographies of Gender and Work 425 13.4 Gender, Race, and the Labour Market 432 13.5 Identity and the Workplace 433 13.6 Ethnic Clusters and Networks 437 13.7 Intersecting Identities 446 13.8 Summary 448 14 Alternatives: Can we create diverse economies? 453 14.1 Introduction 453 14.2 Beyond a ‘Capitalocentric’ View of the Economy 456 14.3 Alternative Markets 461 14.4 Alternative Enterprises 465 14.5 Alternative Working 473 14.6 Alternative Property 477 14.7 The Limits to Diverse Economies? 481 14.8 Summary 485 Part V Conclusion 489 15 Economic Geography: Intellectual journeys and future horizons 491 15.1 Introduction 491 15.2 A Changing Field 493 15.3 A Changing World 505 15.4 Summary 510 Index 515
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Jossey Bass Be Expert with Map and Compass
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Hodder Education My Revision Notes OCR ALevel Geography Second
Book SynopsisOur clear and concise approach to revision will help students learn, practise and apply their skills and understanding. Coverage of key content is combined with practical study tips and effective revision strategies to create a guide that can be relied on to build both knowledge and confidence.
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Hodder Education A-level Geography Topic Master: The Water and
Book SynopsisExam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC/EduqasLevel: A-levelSubject: GeographyFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2017 (AS); Summer 2018 (A-level)Master the in-depth knowledge and higher-level skills that A-level Geography students need to succeed; this focused topic book extends learning far beyond your course textbooks.Blending detailed content and case studies with questions, exemplars and guidance, this book:- Significantly improves students' knowledge and understanding of A-level content and concepts, providing more coverage of The Water and Carbon Cycles than your existing resources- Strengthens students' analytical and interpretative skills through questions that involve a range of geographical data sources, with guidance on how to approach each task- Demonstrates how to evaluate issues, with a dedicated section in every chapter that shows how to think geographically, consider relevant evidence and structure a balanced essay- Equips students with everything they need to excel, from additional case studies and definitions of key terminology, to suggestions for further research and fieldwork ideas for the Independent Investigation- Helps students check, apply and consolidate their learning, using end-of-chapter refresher questions and discussion points, plus tailored advice for the AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC/Eduqas specifications- Offers trusted and reliable content, written by a team of highly experienced senior examiners and reviewed by academics with unparalleled knowledge of the latest geographical theories
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HarperCollins Publishers An Atlas of Extinct Countries
Book SynopsisPrisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated and timely history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist.Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. They're all equally implausible once you get up close'Countries die. Sometimes it's murder, sometimes it's by accident, and sometimes it's because they were so ludicrous they didn't deserve to exist in the first place. Occasionally they explode violently. A few slip away almost unnoticed. Often the cause of death is either got too greedy' or Napoleon turned up'. Now and then they just hold a referendum and vote themselves out of existence.This is an atlas of nations that fell off the map. The polite way of writing an obituary is: dwell on the good bits, gloss over the embarrassing stuff. This book fails to do that. And that is mainly because most of these dead nations (and a lot of the ones that are still alive) are so weird or borderline nonsensical that it's impossible to skip the embarrassing stuff.The life stories of the sadly deceased involve a catalogue of chancers, racists, racist chancers, conmen, madmen, people trying to get out of paying tax, mistakes, lies, stupid schemes and General Idiocy. Because of this and because treating nation states with too much respect is the entire problem with pretty much everything these accounts are not fussed about adding to all the earnest flag saluting in the world, however nice some of the flags are.Trade Review‘This entertaining atlas of nations that fell off the map is a joyously compiled catalogue of chancers, conmen, madmen, mistakes, lies and far fetches schemes that laid waste the genuine hopes of a nation or exploded the overreaching ambitions of bombastic megalomaniac … a riot of revisionist history and political ambition’ Traveller Magazine ‘A whirlwind tour through the pleasingly oddball tales of history's also-rans … If you’re looking for a delightful stocking stuffer for the travel and history aficionado in your life, look no further’ Frommers
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Octopus Publishing Group Philips 2027 Easy to Read Multiscale Road Atlas of Europe
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University of California Press Sahel The End of the Road
Book SynopsisHighlights the larger meaning of what is happening to the author's subjects with an imagery that testifies to the fundamental dignity of all humanity while simultaneously protesting its violation by war, poverty, and other injustices.Trade Review"While art should speak for itself, Salgado's photography is first and foremost a documentary way of bearing witness to something else. His work is both an anguished cri de coeur and, although he professes not to be religions, something of a votive offering presented in the hopes of getting the attention of a world that sometimes seems to have fallen asleep." - Orville Schell, from the Foreword"Table of ContentsForeword Sahel: Man in Distress / Orville Schell Introduction Twenty Years Ago, and Later / Fred Ritchin Photographs Captions Afterword Salgado / Eduardo Galeano Biographical Note Acknowledgments
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Harvard University Press Shattered Dreams Infinite Hope
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Harvard University Press The Radical Spanish Empire How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World
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Princeton University Press Japan
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Japan] explores not just the animals of the country’s islands, but also the regions and the best seasons to see them – perfect for armchair travelling."---Penny Sarchet, New Scientist Wild Wild Life"Gloriously illustrated, deeply informed introduction by naturalist Mark Brazil."---Andrew Robinson, Nature"No matter what experience on Japan you have there is much to be learnt from this book. It is a wonderful compendium of Japan’s natural history that neatly complements the author’s other writings, and is an essential and enjoyable addition to the documentation of Japan’s wildlife."---Dave Brassington, Birdwatch"This book is excellent, deeply interesting and a real achievement to condense such a large and complex topic into something so accessible. If, like me you have ever dreamt of going to Japan this book is a great place to start planning an adventure of your own, even if you never get any further than your armchair."---David Swales, British Naturalists Association"For anyone even marginally interested in the wildlife of Japan this work will fill in the gaps in your knowledge, and expand on what you already know - all brought to you by one of Asia's foremost wildlife authorities."---David Gascoigne, Travels with Birds"Beautifully illustrated . . . a rich introduction to the diverse habitats contained within Japan, and the animals which live there."---Ian Rapley, Asian Review of Books"Nobody has done more in recent years than Mark Brazil to raise the profile of Japan’s wildlife and this latest book packs in a lot of information . . . . [This book] adds information about the ecology of the country that helps the visitor to make sense of how everything fits together."---Keith Betton, IBIS Book Reviews.
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Princeton University Press Small Things Writ Large An Intermediate Reader of Modern Chinese
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Harvard University Press The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World
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