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Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Zheng He's Art of Collaboration: Understanding
Book Synopsis""Know your enemies, know yourself"", advised Sun Zi in his famous Art of War (AoW). In contrast, the legendary Admiral Zheng He would have said, ""Know your collaborators, know yourself"", and this would be the essence of his Art of Collaboration (AoC). This book offers a fresh new approach to doing business and providing leadership in the twenty-first century, where Zheng He's peaceful and win-win collaborative paradigm present in his AoC provides an alternative to the aggressive and antagonistic mindset inherent in Sun Zi's AoW. The author has culled from the existing literature on the historical, cultural, diplomatic, and maritime-oriented Zheng He, connected the dots of his discovery of a managerial Zheng He, and wrote this book to present both the big message of Zheng He's Art of Collaboration as well as an understanding of Zheng He's specific work as a leader and manager.
£21.56
NUS Press Marriage Migration in Asia: Emerging Minorities at the Frontiers of Nation-States
Book SynopsisMen are disadvantaged in the marriage markets of many Asian countries, and in some cases their response is to look abroad for a partner. Receiving countries for marriage migrants include Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, while the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and parts of mainland China supply wives to these territories. In the absence of uniform international regulations concerning the rights and obligations of partners, such unions are treated differently in different jurisdiction. In extreme cases migrants or their children become stateless, and when marriages break down, migrants sometimes face major legal problems.In such circumstances, marriage migrants are often portrayed as powerless, uneducated victims. Rejecting this perspective, the authors in this volume explore the agency of women who migrate abroad to acquire opportunities unavailable to them in their homelands. They show that the trajectories of marriage migrants are often not a simple movement from home to destination but can involve return, repeated, or extended migrations, and that these transitions that can alter geographies of power in economics, nationality or ethnicity. Based on features shared by many marriage migrants, the book identifies them as an emerging minority at the frontier of the nation-state, a group whose status may well carry over to future generations.
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Hardpress Publishing A Voyage to the Isle of France the Isle of Bourbon and the Cape of Good Hope With Observations and Reflections Upon Nature and Mankind 1
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HardPress Publishing The Chronicles of Oonao
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Hardpress Publishing An Arctic Boat Journey in the Autumn of 1854 1
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Hardpress Publishing Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions 1
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Hardpress Publishing A Treatise on the Comparative Geography of Western Asia Accompanied With an Atlas of Maps 1
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Hardpress Publishing The Possibility of Approaching the North Pole Asserted 1
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HardPress Publishing History and Topography of the City of York the Ainsty Wapentake and the East Riding of Yorkshire by J.J. Sheahan and T. Whellan
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Prepare to Publish Ltd The Old Straight Track
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Anagrama El Motin de la Naturaleza
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Editorial Cantico Fuenteovejuna lo hizo: El relato de un sitio
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Oxford University Press All Possible Worlds
Book SynopsisUpdated and revised to include theoretical and other developments, bibliographical additions, new photographs and illustrations, and expanded name and subject indexes, the fourth edition of All Possible Worlds: A History of Geographical Ideas is the most complete and comprehensive book of its kind. The text also features a layout and readability that make the material easy to navigate and understand. The book investigates the ways in which the subject of geography has been recognized, perceived, and evaluated, from its early acknowledgment in ancient Greece to its disciplined form in today''s world of shared ideas and mass communication. Strong continuities knit the Classical Period to the Age of Exploration, then carry students on through Varenius to Humboldt and Ritter--revealing the emergence of the new geography of the Modern Period. The history of American geography--developed in seven of the twenty chapters--is strongly emphasized pursuant to the formal origins of geography in Trade Review"Since its first appearance in 1972, All Possible Worlds has become an indispensable reference text for courses in the history of geography. Offering a broad historical sweep of the scholarly record from classical, medieval, and modern times, it also affords succinct summary accounts of twentieth-century geography and geographers in North America and in a wide range of countries. This new edition, carefully revised and updated by Geoffrey Martin, with its ample illustrations and expanded index, promises a welcome maintenance of this highly laudable contribution to cross-cultural understanding in the practice of geography internationally."--Anne Buttimer, President of the International Geographical Union, 2000-2004"What a pleasure! All Possible Worlds is back. Geoffrey Martin's work is a wonderful 'tour de force'-a clear panorama of the evolution of geography from Greece to the present with a fair view on its emerging trends both in the English-speaking world and elsewhere."--Paul Claval, University of Paris, Sorbonne"This book--a study in the history of geographical thought--sweeps majestically from the ancient Greeks to the present. It has been published in four languages other then English and has been the most comprehensive work on the subject since its inception in 1972 when I first used it as the text in my 'Nature of Geography' course. This is essential reading for all geographers."--Peter Nash, University of Waterloo, Canada"After thirty-odd years, All Possible Worlds remains without peer: a uniquely valuable treasure for anyone curious about the evolution of geographic thought and achievement throughout the world from ancient times to a troubled present. Perhaps what is most remarkable about this chronicle is the judicious manner with which the author deals with endlessly contentious philosophies and methodologies. We have here an essential item for the library of every serious geographer."--Wilbur Zelinsky, The Pennsylvanuia State UniversityTable of ContentsPREFACE; PART ONE: CLASSICAL; PART TWO: MODERN
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Historical Geographies of Anarchism Early Critical Geographers and PresentDay Scientific Challenges Routledge Research in Historical Geography
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Taylor & Francis Indian Ocean The New Frontier
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Taylor & Francis Historical Geographies of Prisons
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Taylor & Francis Gardens and Human Agency in the Anthropocene
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The History of the Study of Landforms Volume 3 Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Late Stone Age Hunters of the British Isles
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Natural Environmental Change
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Interpreting the Landscape
Book SynopsisMost places in Britain have had a local history written about them. Up until this century these histories have addressed more parochial issues, such as the life of the manor, rather than explaining the features and changes in the landscape in a factual manner. Much of what is visible today in Britain''s landscape is the result of a chain of social and natural processes, and can be interpreted through fieldwork as well as from old maps and documents.Michael Aston uses a wide range of source material to study the complex and dynamic history of the countryside, illustrating his points with aerial photographs, maps, plans and charts. He shows how to understand the surviving remains as well as offering his own explanations for how our landscape has evolved.Trade Review'...an interesting and stimulating account' - - Current Archaeology'...this is a book written to engage the interest of a wide readership, and it deserves to succeed' - - Antiquaries Journal'...an attractively presented and profusely illustrated book' - - Landscape Research'... a fascinating and lavishly-illustrated account' - 3rd Stone'[Aston] succeeds in putting over a series of potentially complex concepts in a straight-forward manner. The numerous illustrations and wealth of aerial photography enhance the text superbly.' - The Ley HunterTable of ContentsChapter 1 How do we know what we know?; Chapter 2 Early landscapes; Chapter 3 Estates and boundaries; Chapter 4 Status in the landscape; Chapter 5 Deserted villages and offer; Chapter 6 Surviving villages; Chapter 7 Farms and hamlets; Chapter 8 Sites and patterns; Chapter 9 Land uses; Chapter 10 Field systems; Chapter 11 Communications — the links between; Chapter 12 What does It all mean?;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Human Geography of the UK
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sea Changes Historicizing the Ocean
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Taylor & Francis Reconstructing Quaternary Environments
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Taylor & Francis Ltd History of Urban Form Before the Industrial Revolutions 3rd Edition
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Taylor & Francis Ltd South Africa Past Present and Future Gold at the End of the Rainbow
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Taylor & Francis Gardens and Human Agency in the Anthropocene
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Anthropocene
Book SynopsisThis book is devoted to the Anthropocene, the period of unprecedented human impacts on Earth's environmental systems, and illustrates how Geographers envision the concept of the Anthropocene. This edited volume illustrates that geographers have a diverse perspective on what the Anthropocene is and represents. The chapters also show that geographers do not feel it necessary to identify only one starting point for the temporal onset of the Anthropocene. Several starting points are suggested, and some authors support the concept of a time-transgressive Anthropocene. Chapters in this book are organized into six sections, but many of them transcend easy categorization and could have fit into two or even three different sections. Geographers embrace the concept of the Anthropocene while defining it and studying it in a variety of ways that clearly show the breadth and diversity of the discipline.This book will be of great value to scholars, researchers, and students interestTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Anthropocene Part 1: Definitions and Conceptual Considerations 1. The Anthropocene: The One, the Many, and the Topological 2. The Geoethical Semiosis of the Anthropocene: The Peircean Triad for a Reconceptualization of the Relationship between Human Beings and Environment 3. Placing the Anthropos in Anthropocene 4. The Inhumanities 5. Language and Groundwater: Symbolic Gradients of the Anthropocene 6. Agri-Food Systems and the Anthropocene 7. On Decolonizing the Anthropocene: Disobedience via Plural Constitutions Part 2: Historical Perspectives on the Anthropocene 8. Nothing New under the Sun? George Perkins Marsh and Roots of U.S. Physical Geography 9. Synchronizing Earthly Timescales: Ice, Pollen, and the Making of Proto-Anthropocene Knowledge in the North Atlantic Region 10. Geographic Thought and the Anthropocene: What Geographers Have Said and Have to Say Part 3: Physical Geography and the Anthropocene 11. Floodplain and Terrace Legacy Sediment as a Widespread Record of Anthropogenic Geomorphic Change 12. Hotter Drought as a Disturbance at Upper Treeline in the Southern Rocky Mountains 13. Onset of the Paleoanthropocene in the Lower Great Lakes Region of North America: An Archaeological and Paleoecological Synthesis 14. Identifying a Pre-Columbian Anthropocene in California 15. Wetland Farming and the Early Anthropocene: Globally Upscaling from the Maya Lowlands with LiDAR and Multiproxy Verification 16. Putting the Anthropocene into Practice: Methodological Implications Part 4: Natural Hazards, Disasters, and the Anthropocene 17. The Changing Nature of Hazard and Disaster Risk in the Anthropocene 18. Seismic Shifts: Recentering Geology and Politics in the Anthropocene 19. Understanding Urban Flood Resilience in the Anthropocene: A Social–Ecological–Technological Systems (SETS) Learning Framework Part 5: The Environment and Environmental Degradation 20. Reframing Pre-European Amazonia through an Anthropocene Lens 21. Forests in the Anthropocene 22. Abandoning Holocene Dreams: Proactive Biodiversity Conservation in a Changing World 23. Re-envisioning the Toxic Sublime: National Park Wilderness Landscapes at the Anthropocene 24. Climate Necropolitics: Ecological Civilization and the Distributive Geographies of Extractive Violence in the Anthropocene 25. Cultures and Concepts of Ice: Listening for Other Narratives in the Anthropocene 26. Ruins of the Anthropocene: The Aesthetics of Arctic Climate Change 27. The New (Ab)Normal: Outliers, Everyday Exceptionality, and the Politics of Data Management in the Anthropocene Part 6: The Anthropocene and Geographic Education 28. What Does That Have to Do with Geology? The Anthropocene in School Geographies around the World 29. Geographic Education in the Anthropocene: Cultivating Citizens at the Neoliberal University
£128.25
Cambridge University Press The Sugar Cane Industry 6001950 An Historical Geography from its Origins to 1914 12 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series Number 12
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Cambridge University Press Trade and Urban Development in Poland
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Cambridge University Press Ideology and Landscape in Historical Perspective
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Cambridge University Press Geography Science and National Identity
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Cambridge University Press Peasantry to Capitalism
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Cambridge University Press imperialvisions
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Cambridge University Press Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis
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Cambridge University Press Migration in Colonial Spanish America
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Cambridge University Press An Historical Geography of France
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Cambridge University Press Peasants Politicians and Producers
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Cambridge University Press Empire Forestry Origin Environment 34 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series Number 34
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Cambridge University Press Urbanising Britain
Book SynopsisUrbanising Britain brings together the work of some leading British historical geographers of the younger generation to consider nineteenth-century urbanization as a process, emphasizing the dimensions of class and community.Table of ContentsList of figures; List of tables; Preface; Notes on contributors; Introduction: class, community and the processes of urbanisation Gerry Kearns and Charles W. J. Withers; 1. Biology, class and the urban penalty Gerry Kearns; 2. Public space and local communities: the example of Birmingham, 1840–1880 Bill Bramwell; 3. Class, culture and migrant identity: Gaelic Highlanders in urban Scotland Charles W. J. Withers; 4. The country and the city: sexuality and social class in Victorian Scotland J. A. D. Blaikie; 5. Mobility, the artisan community and popular politics in early nineteenth-century England Humphrey Southall; Notes; Consolidated bibliography; Index.
£29.44
Cambridge University Press Domesday Gazetteer Author H C Darby Apr2010
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Cambridge University Press The Domesday Geography of Northern England
Book SynopsisThe Domesday Book has long been used as a source of information about legal and economic matters, but its bearing upon the geography of medieval England has been comparatively neglected. This volume on the northern counties of England contains chapters on Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire and the Northern Counties.Table of ContentsPart of folio 305b of the Domesday Book; Preface; List of maps; 1. Yorkshire: the West Riding I. S. Maxwell; 2. Yorkshire: the North Riding I. S. Maxwell; 3. Yorkshire: the East Riding I. S. Maxwell; 4. Nottinghamshire I. B. Terrett; 5. Derbyshire D. Holly; 6. Cheshire I. B. Terrett; 7. Lancashire I. B. Terrett; 8. The Northern counties H. C. Darby; Appendix I: The Yorkshire folios I. S. Maxwell; Appendix II: Summary of the Domesday Book for the Northern counties; Appendix III: Extension and translation of Frontispiece; Index.
£45.98
Cambridge University Press The Underdraining of Farmland in England During the Nineteenth Century 15 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series Number 15
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Cambridge University Press An Historical Geography of Europe 15001840
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Cambridge University Press Geography in Classical Antiquity
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Cambridge University Press Antarctic Marine Geology
Book SynopsisThe geological history of the Antarctic provides a special record of important interactions between a closely linked system of the lithosphere, atmosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere. Antarctic Marine Geology is a comprehensive single-authored book to introduce students and researchers to the geology of the region and the unique processes that occur there.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: ' … a well-organized format that brings a sense of real progress to a diverse series of subjects. This book is going to be a classic reference.' Eugene W. Domack, EOS: Transactions, American Geophysical UnionReview of the hardback: 'This is a fascinating and well-produced volume … It is easily readable and refreshingly lacking in obscure language. It deserves a place in any geological library.' A. J. Sheehan, Open University Geological Society JournalReview of the hardback: 'Although there are several useful accounts of these topics, this is the first time that the subject has received comprehensive treatment. The book, in fact, is more wide-ranging than the title implies, and will thus be of value to all earth scientists and others working in Antarctica. … this book represents a dignificant achievement in drawing together a wide range of disparate information. … the book is a valuable addition to the literature. It will prove to be essential reading for all Antarctic marine and glacial geologists, whilst students taking advanced courses in glacial sedimentology will find much of relevance.' Journal of Polar RecordTable of Contents1. Antarctica's environment; 2. Geological history of Antarctica; 3. Continental shelf geomorphology and relief-forming processes; 4. Sedimentology; 5. Continental margin evolution; 6. Antarctica's glacial history; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Explorations in Historical Geography Interpretative Essays 5 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series Number 5
Book SynopsisThe debate about the purpose and practice of historical geography has often focused upon the progress to be made in the discipline through an adaptation to new problems, new methodologies, new techniques and new sources. Originally published in 1984, this volume of interpretative essays extends that debate by exploring in tentative fashion some basic methodological and substantive issues from essentially interdisciplinary standpoints. In any exploration, risks have to be accepted as an integral part of this enterprise. All of the contributors to this book take pleasure in one another's polemical company, and each essay explores a wide field while being soundly based in personal research. The hope is that some of this pleasure will be shared by those who critically read these essays.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Reflections on the relations of historical geography and the Annales school of history Alan R. H. Baker; 2. Hegemony, class and power in late Georgian and early Victorian England: towards a cultural geography Mark Billinge; 3. Contours in crisis? Sketches for a geography of class struggle in the early Industrial Revolution in England Derek Gregory; 4. Agricultural revolution? Development of the agrarian economy in early modern England Mark Overton; 5. 'Modernization' and the corporate medieval village community in England: some sceptical reflections Richard M. Smith; 6. Some terrae incognitae in historical geography: an exploratory discussion Alan R. H. Baker and Derek Gregory; Notes to the text; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Period and Place Research Methods in Historical Geography 1 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series Number 1
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