Human geography Books
Cambridge University Press Restructuring Territoriality
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Cambridge University Press Global South Asians Introducing the modern Diaspora 1 New Approaches to Asian History Series Number 1
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Cambridge University Press Roman Ionia
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Cambridge University Press Fields of Glass
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Cambridge University Press Reconstructing the Human Population History of East Asia through Ancient Genomics
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Cambridge University Press The Cultural Geography of Early Modern Drama 16201650
Book SynopsisLiterary geographies is an exciting new area of interdisciplinary research. Innovative and engaging, this book applies theories of landscape, space and place from the discipline of cultural geography within an early modern historical context. Different kinds of drama and performance are analysed: from commercial drama by key playwrights to household masques and entertainment performed by families and in semi-official contexts. Sanders provides a fresh look at works from the careers of Ben Jonson, John Milton and Richard Brome, paying attention to geographical spaces and habitats like forests, coastlines and arctic landscapes of ice and snow, as well as the more familiar locales of early modern country estates and city streets and spaces. Overall, the book encourages readers to think about geography as kinetic, embodied and physical, not least in its literary configurations, presenting a key contribution to early modern scholarship.Trade Review"In addition to her acknowledgement of critics and theorists who have come before, Sanders generously opens up new avenues-paths-waterways for future inquiry. One can imagine a raft of scholarship that will draw on her insights and apply them elsewhere." -Gavin Hollis,The City University of New York, Hunter CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction: entering the bear pit: cultural geography and early modern drama; 1. Liquid landscapes: water, culture, and society in the Caroline period; 2. Into the woods: spatial and social geographies in the forest; 3. 'Hospitable fabrics': thinking through the early modern household; 4. Moving through the landscape: mobility and sites of social circulation; 5. Neighbourhoods and networks; 6. Writing the city: emergent spaces.
£75.00
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Masters of the Lost Land
Book Synopsis?Gripping. ... Araujo's accretion of detail has a powerful effect, demonstrating how deeply the culture of violence has seeped into the social fabric of Amazonia and how hard it will be to eradicate.? New York Times Book ReviewA raw account of the critical struggle between law and lawlessness on the world's last great frontier. Christian Science MonitorIn the tradition of Killers of the Flower Moon, a haunting murder mystery revealing the human story behind one of the most devastating crimes of our time: the ruthless destruction of the Amazon rain forest and anyone who stands in the wayDeep in the heart of the Amazon, the city of Rondon do Para, Brazil, lived for decades in the shadow of land barons, or fazendeiros, who maintained control of the region through unscrupulous land grabs and egregious human rights violations. They razed and burned the jungle, expelled small-scale farmers and Indigenous tribes from their lands, and treated their farmhands as slaves all with impunity. The only true opposition came from Rondon's small but robust farmworkers' union, led by the charismatic Dezinho, who fought to put power back into the hands of the people who called the Amazon home. But when Dezinho was assassinated in cold blood, it seemed the farmworkers' struggle had come to a violent and fruitless end.What no one anticipated was that this event would bring forth an unlikely hero: Dezinho's widow. Against great odds, and at extreme personal risk, Maria Joel, now a single mother of four young children, used her ingenuity and unwavering support from union members to bring her husband's killer to account in court. Her campaign gained unexpected momentum, helping to bring international attention to the dire situation in Rondon, from Brazil's president Lula to international celebrities and civil rights groups.Maria Joel's fight for justice had far-reaching implications: it unearthed a chilling world of corruption and lawlessness rooted in Brazil's quest to turn the largest rain forest on earth into an economic frontier. As more details came out, it began to look increasingly likely that Dezinho's killer, a reluctant and inexperienced gunman, was just one piece of a larger criminal consortium, with ties leading all the way up to one of the region's most powerful and notorious fazendeiros of all.Featuring groundbreaking revelations and exclusive interviews, this gripping work of narrative nonfiction is the culmination of journalist Heriberto Araujo's years-long investigation in the heart of the Amazon. Set against the backdrop of appalling deforestation rates and resultant superfires, Masters of the Lost Land vividly reveals the human story behind the loss of and fierce crusade to protect one of our greatest resources in the fight against climate change and one of the last wild places on earth.
£19.99
Penguin Random House Australia The Village that Vanished
Book SynopsisYoung Abikanile and all of the villagers of Yao feel safe hidden deep within the African jungle. But word has come that the slavers are on their way! Abikanile looks to her mother and her grandmother for strength and guidance. These two brave women come up with a plan to fool the slavers and protect their tribe. But as the villagers retreat into the forest, Abikanile finds that she too has the courage to help her people stay safe and free.
£7.99
Penguin Putnam Inc The State of the World Atlas
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Oxford University Press, Canada Human Geography
Book SynopsisInternational in scope and written for Canadians - an authoritative and comprehensive introduction to Human GeographyThe tenth edition of this bestselling text offers a comprehensive introduction to the discipline''s essential concepts and methods. With a well-balanced mix of international and Canadian examples, the text examines the ways in which human behaviour transforms the earth''s surface in response to changing social, cultural, political, and environmental factors.Trade ReviewFrom previous editions: "This is my favourite introductory human geography textbook... This text provides a solid foundation for intro human geography. It introduces the key vocabulary in an accessible way and draws in a variety of current research in a way that makes geography both interesting and approachable." -Patricia Fitzpatrick, University of Winnipeg "Most other texts are American-focused or Canadian adaptations of American texts. Of the global texts, Norton and Mercier is the best at providing a comprehensive treatement of human geography." -Brent Doberstein, Univeristy of WaterlooTable of ContentsNote: All chapters include: - Chapter Introduction - Points to Consider - Conclusion - Summary - Questions for Critical Thought - List of Links to Other Chapters Tenth Edition: Special Features 1. What Is Human Geography? NEW Defining Human Geography Concepts: Space, Place, and Region Concepts: Interaction, Communication, and Movement Geographic Tools People and Places 2. Population and Health Geography Population Distribution Population Dynamics Fertility Mortality Natural Increase Government Policies The Composition of a Population History of Population Growth Explaining Population Growth Migration Health Geographies 3. Uneven Development and Global Inequalities Identifying Global Inequalities Explaining Global Inequalities Interpreting the Significance of Global Inequalities Feeding the World Refugees Natural Disasters and Diseases Prospects for Economic Growth Striving for Equality, Fairness, and Social Justice 4. Geographies of Culture and Landscape A World Divided by Culture? Formal Cultural Regions Vernacular Cultural Regions The Making of Cultural Landscapes Cultural Variables: Language and Religion Language Religion 5. Geographies of Identity and Difference The Cultural Turn The Myth of Race Ethnicity Gender Sexuality Identities and Landscape Geographies of Well-Being Folk Culture and Popular Culture Tourism 6. Political Geography State Creation Geopolitics (and Geopolitik) Unstable States Groupings of States The Role of the State Elections: Geography Matters The Geography of Peace and War Our Geopolitical Future? 7. An Urban World An Urbanizing World The Origins and Growth of Cities The Location of Cities Urban Systems and Hierarchies Global Cities 8. Urban Form and the Social Geography of the City Explaining Urban Form Housing and Neighbourhoods Suburbs and Sprawl Inequality and Poverty Cities as Centres of Production and Consumption Transportation and Communication Planning the City Cities of the Less Developed World 9. Geographies of Food and Agriculture The Geography of Food Production Distance, Land Value, and Land Use Domesticating Plants and Animals The Evolution of World Agricultural Landscapes World Agriculture Today: Types and Regions Global Agricultural Restructuring Food Production, Food Consumption, and Identity 10. Geographies of Energy, Industry, and Services Economic Activity The Industrial Location Problem The Industrial Revolution Fossil Fuel Sources of Energy World Industrial Geography Globalization and Industrial Geographies Uneven Development in More Developed Countries 11. Geographies of Globalization Introducing Globalization Geography as a Discipline in Distance Overcoming Distance: Transportation Overcoming Distance: Trade Overcoming Distance: Transnational Corporations (TNCs) Overcoming Distance: Transmitting Information Interpreting, Conceptualizing, and Measuring Globalization The Global Economic System Cultural Globalization Political Globalization Globalization: Good or Bad? 12. Humans and the Environment A Global Perspective Environmental Concern Human Impacts on Vegetation Human Impacts on Animals Human Impacts on Land, Soil, Air, and Water Earth's Vital Signs Sustainability and Sustainable Development Glossary References Index
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University of Chicago Press London The Selden Map and the Making of a Global
Book SynopsisIf one had looked for a potential global city in Europe in the 1540s, the most likely candidate would have been Antwerp. Using his discovery of a network of Chinese merchant shipping routes on John Selden's map of China, the author reveals how London also flourished because of its encounters, engagements, and exchanges with East Asian cities.Trade Review"In the course of a tumultuous seventeenth century, London changed from an energetic newcomer on the fringes of old Europe to a global center of trade, power, and interactive knowledge. In a work of amazing erudition and ambition, Robert K. Batchelor shows how new forms of organization and knowledge of more Asian histories and languages shaped this transformation." -John E. Wills, Jr., University of Southern California"
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The University of Chicago Press Scenescapes How Qualities of Place Shape Social
Book SynopsisLet's set the scene: there's a regular on his barstool, beer in hand. He's watching a young couple execute a complicated series of moves on the dance floor, while at the table in the corner the DJ adjusts his headphones and slips a new beat into the mix. These are all experiences created by a given sceneone where we feel connected to other people, in places like a bar or a community center, a neighborhood parish or even a train station. Scenes enable experiences, but they also cultivate skills, create ambiances, and nourish communities. In Scenescapes, Daniel Aaron Silver and Terry Nichols Clark examine the patterns and consequences of the amenities that define our streets and strips. They articulate the core dimensions of the theatricality, authenticity, and legitimacy of local scenescafes, churches, restaurants, parks, galleries, bowling alleys, and more. Scenescapes not only reimagines cities in cultural terms, it details how scenes shape economic development, residential pattern
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University of Chicago Press Maps with the News The Development of American
Book SynopsisAn assessment of the role of cartography in American journalism. The text traces the use of maps in American news reporting from the 18th century to the 1980s, and explores why and how journalistic maps have achieved such importance.
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The University of Chicago Press Maps with the News The Development of American
Book SynopsisAn assessment of the role of cartography in American journalism. The text traces the use of maps in American news reporting from the 18th century to the 1980s, and explores why and how journalistic maps have achieved such importance.
£999.99
University of Washington Press How to Read the American West
Book SynopsisOffers a fresh perspective on the natural and human history of the American West and encourages readers to discover that history has shaped the places where people live, work, and visit. This book includes stories, photographs, maps, and diagrams on a hundred landscape features across the American West.Trade Review"[Wyckoff] encourages us to see with fresh eyes even as we're barreling down the interstate - to remember to think about the role of time in shaping a landscape, as well as the role of water. He asks us to think about who controls the landscape, and how these places have been shaped by different human interventions. . . . [How to Read the American West] is a marvelous springtime tonic for wanderlust and a wonderful invitation to see our surroundings in a new light." -- Barbara Lloyd McMichael * Bellingham Herald *"Wyckoff has created a delightful package that would be especially useful in a classroom or, for that matter, as a gift to someone outside the field of cultural landscape studies but curious about it. . . . On the basis of its sheer good looks, the book could double as a coffee table book about the modern West." -- Cathleen D. Cahill * Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum *"A field guide unlike any other, with a focus on patterns, variations and the distribution of landscape features . . . it draws attention to eco-tones, watersheds, settlement patterns and corridors of connection . . . ultimately, it considers our grip on the land and the land's grip on us." -- Michael Engelhard * High Country News *"If you like to travel the American West, put this book on your holiday gift list . . . even the experienced Western traveler will come away with new ways to look at familiar places." -- Carl Abbott * Oregon Historical Quarterly *"William Wyckoff, a professor of geography at Montana State University and talented photographer, has created a strange, fascinating and often humorous book that surveys our modern American landscape, both natural and human-built." -- Christian Martin * Cascadia Weekly *"Visually delightful and intellectually informative. . . . [A] truly outstanding field guide to the American West." -- J. Clark Archer * Montana: The Magazine of Western History *"A lavish coverage of western landscapes that will trigger remembrance of past place visits, and spur an almost inescapable urge to find competing views in scanned 35 mm slides or among recent images gone straight-to-digital. . . . And the text here is fully equal to the visuals. Just in case you haven’t yet guessed, I’m going to tell you that Bill Wyckoff’s new book, a field guide explaining in delicious detail, How to Read the American West, is a movable feast of narrative and landscape elucidation. . . . So get thee into the field. Bring this book with you." -- Paul F. Starss * The Geographic Review *"I will not hide my fandom of this book. . . . The text is clear, descriptive, and appropriately analytical for a wide audience, thus making it equally useful in the classroom. The full color pictures are gorgeous. . . . Belongs on the shelf of any scholar, amateur or professional, with interests in the western half of this country." -- Chris W. Post * Historical Geography *Table of ContentsForeword by William Cronon Preface Ackowledgements Map of the Eleven Western States Navigating Western Landscapes: An Introduction 1. Nature's Fundament 2. Farms and Ranches 3. Landscapes of Extraction 4. Places of Special Cultural Identity 5. Connections 6. Landscapes of Federal Largesse 7. Cities and Suburbs 8. Playgrounds Chronology Further Reading Index
£44.23
University of Washington Press Idahos Place
Book SynopsisFocuses on Gem State history. From the state's indigenous roots and early environmental battles to recent political and social events, this title includes essays that provided context for understanding Idaho's important role in the development of the American West.Trade Review"[A] guidebook to recent interpretations of the state’s history. For scholars teaching and researching Northwest history, the volume provides an informed way-station to advancing understanding of the region." -- William G. Robbins * Oregon Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Idaho's Place: Reckoning with History / Adam M. Sowards 2. The Confluence of Rivers: The Indigenous Tribes of Idaho / Rodney Frey and Robert McCarl IDAHO VOICES: Native American History 3. Crossing Divides: An Environmental History of Idaho / Kevin R. Marsh IDAHO VOICES: Environmental History 4. Idiosyncrasy and Enigma: Idaho Politics / Katherine G. Aiken IDAHO VOICES: Political History 5. The Power and the Glory: Idaho's Religious History / Jill K. Gill IDAHO VOICES: Religious History 6. Defying Boundaries: Women in Idaho History / Laura Woodworth-Ney and Tara A. Rowe IDAHO VOICES: Women's History 7. Confronting Race and Creating Community: Idaho's Ethnic History / Laurie Mercier IDAHO VOICES: Ethnic History 8. Latinos in Idaho / Making Their Way in the Gem State: Errol D. Jones IDAHO VOICES: Latino History 9. Shifting Currents: Cultural Expressions in Idaho / Richard W. Etulain IDAHO VOICES: Cultural History 10. Telling Stories: Idaho's Histories / Judith Austin IDAHO VOICES: Historians Contributors Index
£39.00
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Driftless Reader
Book SynopsisAncient glaciers passed by the Driftless Area and waterways vein its interior, forming an enchanting, enigmatic landscape of sharp ridgetops and deep valleys. The Driftless Reader gathers writings that highlight the unique natural and cultural history, landscape, and literature of this region that encompasses southwestern Wisconsin and adjacent Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois.Trade ReviewA timely resource for anyone interested in the natural and cultural history of the Driftless Area. The varied texts create a kaleidoscopic portrait that shifts and reassembles with each new view that is offered."" - Beth Lynch,Luther College""As unique as the Driftless bioregion is, so are the writings, old and new, of our region. This land speaks clearly through these words to reflect our collective love of the Driftless, our common sense, our community spirit, and the unique characters we are."" - George Siemon, chief executive, Organic Valley/CROPP CooperativeTable of Contents List of Illustrations Credits Preface Acknowledgments Editors’ Note 1 Geologic Origins Getting to Black Earth (2013), Patricia Monaghan From Roadside Geology of Wisconsin (2004), Robert H. Dott Jr. and John W. Attig From Wisconsin’s Foundations (2004), Gwen M. Schultz From “Preliminary Paper on the Driftless Area of the Upper Mississippi Valley” (1885), T. C. Chamberlin and Rollin D. Salisbury From “The Pleistocene History of Northeastern Iowa” (1891), W J McGee Watch for Fallen Rock (2012), Katherine Mead 2 Ancient Peoples Wisconsin Mounds (1963), Edna Meudt From Twelve Millennia: Archaeology of the Upper Mississippi River Valley (2003), James L. Theler and Robert F. Boszhart From Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal (2001), Patty Loew From “Notes Respecting Certain Indian Mounds and Earthworks, in the Form of Animal Effigies, Chiefly in the Wisconsin Territory, U.S.” (1838), Richard C. Taylor From Buried Indians: Digging Up the Past in a Midwestern Town (2006), Laurie Hovell McMillin From Oneota Flow: The Upper Iowa River and Its People (2009), David S. Faldet Wisconsin’s Cave of Wonders (2003), E. Barrie Kavasch 3 Historical Ecologies Meditations (1931), Laura Sherry From “Notes on the Journey West” (1861), Henry David Thoreau From Caddie Woodlawn (1936), Carol Ryrie Brink From “An Ecological Survey of the Driftless Area of Illinois and Wisconsin” (1909), H. S. Pepoon From The Vegetation of Wisconsin (1959), John T. Curtis From “Reconstructing Vegetation Past: Pre-Euro-American Vegetation for the Midwest Driftless Area, USA” (2014), Monika E. Shea, Lisa A. Schulte, and Brian J. Palik Changes in Wildlife Over Time (2012), Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Desoto Hills (1951), Cecile Houghton Stury 4 Native Voices Native Names on the Land The Story of Devil’s Lake (1930), Ulysses S. White Statement to U.S. Indian Commissioners at Prairie du Chien (1829), Hoowaneka/Huwanika (Little Elk) From Life of Black Hawk or Mà-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kià-Kiàk (1833), Black Hawk From A Canoe Voyage Up the Minnay Sotor (1847), George William Featherstonhaugh From “Narrative of Spoon Decorah” (1887), Spoon Decorah From Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder (1961), Xehaciwi?ga (Mountain Wolf Woman) 5 Explorations La Crosse at Ninety Miles an Hour (1953), Richard Eberhart From Le Premier Voÿage qu’a Fait Le P. Marquette . . . [Of the First Voyage Made by Father Marquette . . . ] (1674), Jacques Marquette From The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike to Headwaters of the Mississippi River (1810), Zebulon Montgomery Pike From Narrative Journal of Travels through the Northwestern Regions of the United States (1821), Henry R. Schoolcraft Recess in the Bluffs near MacGregor (1863), John Muir From “Landscape and Home: Environmental Traditions in Wisconsin” (1990), William Cronon From Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (2003), Robin Wall Kimmerer Old Man Fishing (1960), August Derleth 6 Early Economies Diggings (2011), Alice D’Alessio Life in the Diggings (1898), Henry E. Legler Public Land Sale (1847), James M. Goodhue From “Recollections of Antoine Grignon” (1914), Antoine Grignon From A Raft Pilot’s Log (1930), Walter A. Blair From History of the White Pine Industry in Minnesota (1949), Agnes M. Larson From Order Upon the Land (1976), Hildegard Binder Johnson Dreamers (1931), Laura Case Sherry 7 Settler Stories Sesquicentennial Song, for Wisconsin Statehood, 1848 (2008), Thomas R. Smith From Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest (1873), Juliette Kinzie Macaja Revels Camped at a Stream of Water (2013), Fabu From A Badger Boy in Blue (1862), Chauncey Cooke From The Kickapoo Valley: The Gem of Wisconsin (1896), Gertrude Frazier and Rose B. Poff “Every Time I Travel the Great River Road . . .” (1990), Pearl Swiggum Yanys (2010), Jacqueline West 8 Farming Lives Me and My Man (1931), Laura Sherry From Incidents of a Journey from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin Territory (1837), William Rudolph Smith From A Son of the Middle Border (1917), Hamlin Garland From Little House in the Big Woods (1932), Laura Ingalls Wilder From The Land Remembers: The Story of a Farm and Its People (1975), Ben Logan It Is Natural (2006), Lynne Burgess 9 Waterways The Pinery Boy (1926), Collected by Franz Rickaby From Life on the Mississippi (1883), Mark Twain From American Places (1981), Wallace Stegner Water Song (2013), Catherine Young From Crossing the Driftless: A Canoe Trip through a Midwestern Landscape (2015), Lynne Diebel War (1956), Joseph Langland 10 Conserving Lands From Wisconsin Sketches (1973), Robert E. Gard Coon Valley: An Adventure in Cooperative Conservation (1935), Aldo Leopold From Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography (1943), Frank Lloyd Wright Letter from the Old Order Amish Churches (1995) An Ecological Play on a Stage Known as Dunlap Hollow (1998), Stanley Temple From A Thousand Pieces of Paradise: Landscape and Property in the Kickapoo Valley (2005), Lynne Heasley Frac Sand Song (2013), Emmett J. Doyle 11 Communities in Transition Driftless Elegy (2013), Mark Wunderlich “Richland Center, the Cradle of Su¤rage in Wisconsin: How Earliest Enthusiasts Led Sisters” (1924), Mary Elizabeth Hussong From The Driftless Zone; or, A Novel Concerning the Selective Outmigration from Small Cities (1997), Rick Harsch From Driftless (2008), David Rhodes Postville: Iowa’s Entry into the Post-Modern (2009), Robert Wolf Things I Love About Where I Am (2012), Kathe Davis 287 12 Futures Broken Gates (2012), Ken McCullough From Way Station (1963), Clifford D. Simak From Going Driftless: Life Lessons from the Heartland for Unraveling Times (2015), Stephen Lyons From Jerusalem Creek: Journeys into Driftless Country (2002), Ted Leeson From The Driftless Land: Spirit of Place in the Upper Mississippi Valley (2010), Kevin Koch Sources and Further Readings Index
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St Martin's Press Why the West RulesFor Now
Book SynopsisA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA remarkable book . . . an important book?one that challenges, stimulates and entertains. Anyone who does not believe there are lessons to be learned from history should start right here.?The EconomistSometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West''s rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the development of computers and nuclear weapons in the twentieth century secured its global supremacy. Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, many worry that the emerging economic power of China and India spells the end of the West as a superpower. In order to understand this possibility, we need to look back in time. Why has the West dominated the globe for the past two hundred years, and will its power last?Describing the patterns of human history, the archaeologist and historian Ian Morris offers surprising new answers to both questions. It is not, he reveals, differences of race or culture, or even the strivings of great individuals, that explain Western dominance. It is the effects of geography on the everyday efforts of ordinary people as they deal with crises of resources, disease, migration, and climate. As geography and human ingenuity continue to interact, the world will change in astonishing ways, transforming Western rule in the process.Deeply researched and brilliantly argued, Why the West Rules?for Now spans fifty thousand years of history and offers fresh insights on nearly every page. The book brings together the latest findings across disciplines?from ancient history to neuroscience?not only to explain why the West came to rule the world but also to predict what the future will bring in the next hundred years.
£23.75
Random House Canada Planet Canada How Our Expats Are Shaping the
Book SynopsisA leading thinker on Canada's place in the world contends that our country's greatest untapped resource may be the three million Canadians who don't live here.Entrepreneurs, educators, humanitarians: an entire province's worth of Canadian citizens live outside Canada. Some will return, others won't. But what they all share is the ability, and often the desire, to export Canadian values to a world sorely in need of them. And to act as ambassadors for Canada in industries and societies where diplomatic efforts find little traction. Surely a country with people as diverse as Canada's ought to plug itself into every corner of the globe. We don't, and sometimes not even when our expats are eager to help.Failing to put this desire to work, contends bestselling author and longtime foreign correspondent John Stackhouse, is a grave error for a small country whose voice is getting lost behind developing nations of rapidly increasing influence. The soft power we once boaste
£20.80
Farrar, Straus and Giroux On the Move
Book SynopsisA New York Times Book Review Editors'' ChoiceOn the Move explains how we got here and where we''re headed. It''s crucial guide to the world we are creating. Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth ExtinctionA vivid, journalistic account of how climate change will make American life as we know it unfeasible.Humanity is on the precipice of a great climate migration, and Americans will not be spared. Tens of millions of people are likely to be driven from the places they call home. Poorer communities will be left behind, while growth will surge in the cities and regions most attractive to climate refugees. America will be changed utterly.Abrahm Lustgarten's On the Move is the definitive account of what this massive population shift might look like. As he shows, the United States will be rendered unrecognizable by four unstoppable forces: wildfires in the West; frequent flooding
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Routledge The Social Fabric of the Networked City
Book SynopsisFeatures contributions focusing on the transformation of the fabric of the networked city in terms of policies and social practices. This book includes articles that cover a range of areas, such as architecture, local public action, including its sociohistorical transformation, and mobility practices which create tensions between places and flows.Table of Contents1. Introduction: New perspectives on urban forms, power and experiences Géraldine Pflieger, Luca Pattaroni, Christophe Jemelin, Vincent Kaufmann Part I. Urban technologies, power and experiences: a theoretical framework 2. The Networked City Manuel Castells 3. Architecture and Reflexivity Jean-Louis Genard Part II. Mobility and accessibility: new planning practices and challenges 4. Mobility pioneers in Germany: New patterns of (im)mobility in an age of second modernity Sven Kesselring 5. Spatial patterns and social inequality in Switzerland – modern or post-modern? Max Bergman and Katharina Manderscheid Part III: The modern urban planning ideal 6. Atypical Haussman boulevards in the 19th century: the non-standardized development of the Rue des Pyrénées project Agnès Sander 7. "Villes nouvelles" and political infrastructures in France: a 1960s sociological viewpoint Vincent Guigueno Part IV. New articulations between flows and places 8. Expertise for the neighbourhood – neighbourhood against expertise: case study of the Berne West Tramway Fritz Sager 9. An airport in its environment: non-territorialization or re-territorialization? Guillaume Faburel 10. Conclusion: Reshaping Cities Géraldine Pflieger, Luca Pattaroni, Jerôme Chenal, Vincent Kaufmann
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Penguin Putnam Inc Cities
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Johns Hopkins University Press Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures
Book SynopsisPublishing essays that examine American societies and cultures in global and local contexts, the journal contributes to the understanding of the United States, its diversity, and its impact on world politics and culture.Trade ReviewProvides a lively sample of the latest scholarship that critics and fans of Los Angeles alike will enjoy. -- Allison Varzally Southern California Quarterly 2006Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Los Angeles Studies and the Future of Urban CulturesChapter 1. Best MTA Bus Line: The Number 18, yes, let's take a trip down Whittier BoulevardChapter 2. Learning from Los Angeles: Another One Rides the BusChapter 3. Los Angeles and American Studies in a Pacific World of MigrationsChapter 4. Border City: Race and Social Distance in Los AngelesChapter 5. The Figure of the Neighbor: Los Angeles Past and FutureChapter 6. Straight into Compton: American Dreams, Urban Nightmares, and the Metamorphosis of a Black SuburbChapter 7. L.A. Race Woman: Charlotta Bass and the Complexities of Black Political Development in Los AngelesChapter 8. "What's Good for Boyle Heights Is Good for the Jews":Chapter 9. Creating Multiracialism on the Eastside during the 1950sChapter 10. The Art of the City: Modernism, Censorship, and the Emergence of Los Angeles's Postwar Art SceneChapter 11. Bringing Music to the People: Race, Urban Culture, and Municipal Politics inChapter 12. Postwar Los AngelesChapter 13. The Battle of Los Angeles: The Cultural Politics of Chicana/o Music in the Greater Eastside Chapter 14. What Is an MC If He Can't Rap to Banda?Chapter 15. Making Music in Nuevo L.A.Chapter 16. Fools Banished from the Kingdom: Remapping Geographies of Gang Violence between the Americas (Los Angeles and San Salvador)Chapter 17. Borders and Social Distinction in the Global SuburbChapter 18. Nuestra Los AngelesContributors Index
£27.73
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Early American Cartographies
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£67.00
Random House USA Inc Pandoras Seed Why the HunterGatherer Holds the
Book SynopsisTen thousand years ago, our species made a radical shift in its way of life: We became farmers rather than hunter-gatherers. Although this decision propelled us into the modern world, renowned geneticist and anthropologist Spencer Wells demonstrates that such a dramatic change in lifestyle had a downside that we’re only now beginning to recognize. Growing grain crops ultimately made humans more sedentary and unhealthy and made the planet more crowded. The expanding population and the need to apportion limited resources created hierarchies and inequalities. Freedom of movement was replaced by a pressure to work that is the forebear of the anxiety millions feel today. Spencer Wells offers a hopeful prescription for altering a life to which we were always ill-suited. Pandora’s Seed is an eye-opening book for anyone fascinated by the past and concerned about the future.
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Random House USA Inc The End of Nature
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£15.30
University of Arizona Press North American Borders in Comparative Perspective
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University of Minnesota Press Fast Policy
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Drawing on theory and cases, the authors present slowly matured, insightful, and agenda-setting scholarship on the accelerated development, fast cross-border transfer, and quick implementation of welfare and labor market policies."—Bob Jessop, Lancaster University, UK"Fast Policy is a publication full of methodological innovations, a fruitful dialogue between in-depth case study research and theory formulation, and the valiant act of discussing important substantive questions across the boundaries of various disciplines."—Journal of Economic Geography"A compelling landmark study in the heretofore insufficiently researched domain of policy transfer analysis. Moreover, it is written in a colorful, thoroughly engaging style, rare for a book on public policy."—CHOICE"Fast Policy marks an interesting new step in the research trajectory that Peck and Theodore have shared for years."—Social Service Review"Peck and Theodore have developed a rich and original approach to thinking about how transnational networks and relationships have profoundly transformed policy-making in the contemporary period."—European Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Policies without BordersPart I. In Pursuit of Fast Policy1. Geographies of Policy2. Reflections: Pursuing Projects, Following PoliciesPart II. Social Policy as Practical Science3. New Ideas for New York City4. Globalizing Social-Policy Expertise5. Reflections: Tailwinds, Turning PointsPart III. Propagating Progressive Practice6. Porto Alegre as Participatory Laboratory7. Democracy on the Move8. Reflections: Headwinds, Hollowing OutConclusion: Exploring (Fast) Policy WorldsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Meeting Place
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Paul Carter's commentaries on cross-cultural encounters have long been philosophically sophisticated and deservedly influential. His new book raises the question of what the value of meeting is, in whose terms. It takes us to the very heart of the histories of encounter and confrontation that have proven so intractable for so long in Australia and elsewhere." —Nicholas Thomas, University of Cambridge"The Meeting Place, Carter’s latest foray into colonial and postcolonial encounters of peoples, epistemologies, and longings, exposes what he foregrounds and reiterates as a ‘meeting place’ of desired belonging and social union. It is an imaginative, referentially capacious, formally demanding, as well as theoretically inventive book." —Rob Wilson, University of California, Santa CruzTable of ContentsContentsResponseBorderlineAsideRendez-vousHollowed OutCladdingCatching UpEcho LocationScalesOver and AboveThirdingsAll ChangeLiaisonsSinging ThroughX Marks the SpotG/hostsEnigma VariationsIn PassingPigeon HolesErotic ZonesFirst ImpressionsWithin a CooeeDangerousI Read Marx (I Don’t)TerminalMiddle GroundBlind SpotSave the WallAll EarsI Have Wondered beyond AbsolutesAccompanimentProxyNotesIndex
£19.79
John Wiley & Sons Paradise Wild Reimagining American Nature
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Africas Information Revolution
Book SynopsisAfrica's Information Revolution was recently announced as the2016 prizewinner of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences - congratulations to the authorsJames T. Murphy and Padraig Carmody! Africa's Information Revolution presents an in-depth examination of the development and economic geographies accompanying the rapid diffusion of new ICTs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Represents the first book-length comparative case study ICT diffusion in Africa of its kind Confronts current information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) discourse by providing a counter to largely optimistic mainstream perspectives on Africa's prospects for m- and e-development Features comparative research based on more than 200 interviews with firms from a manufacturing and service industry in Tanzania and South Africa Raises key insights regarding the structural challenges facing Africa even in the context of the continentTable of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface viii Acknowledgements ix Abbreviations xi Introduction xiii 1 ICT4D: The Making of a Neoliberalized Meta-discourse (with Bjoern Surborg) 1 2 ICTs and Economic Development in Africa: Theorizing Channels, Assessing Impacts 25 3 ICTs, Industrial Change, and Globalization in Africa: A Conceptual Framework 47 4 ICTs in Action: SMMEs and Industrial Change in South Africa and Tanzania 73 5 ICT Integration, Sociotechnical Regimes, and Global Production Networks 113 6 Downgrading and Differentiation in African SMMEs 147 7 Emerging Regime and GPN Configurations: Neo-intermediation and ICT-enabled Extraversion (with Bjoern Surborg) 176 8 Conclusion 200 References 215 Index 243
£33.55
Flatiron Books Nomad Century
Book SynopsisThe MOST IMPORTANT BOOK I imagine I''ll ever read.Mary RoachFROM AN AWARD-WINNING SCIENCE JOURNALIST comes an urgent investigation of environmental migrationthe most underreported, seismic consequence of our climate crisis that will force us to change whereand howwe live.An IMPORTANT and PROVOCATIVE start to a crucial conversation. Bill McKibbenWe are facing a species emergency. We can survive, but to do so will require a planned and deliberate migration of a kind humanity has never before undertaken. This is the biggest human crisis you've never heard of.Drought-hit regions bleeding those for whom a rural life has become untenable. Coastlines diminishing year on year. Wildfires and hurricanes leaving widening swaths of destruction. The culprit, most of us accept, is climate change, but not enough of us are confronting one of its biggest, and most present, consequences: a total reshaping of the earth's human geography. As Gaia Vince
£26.09
Flatiron Books Nomad Century
Book SynopsisFrom an award-winning science journalist comes Nomad Century, an urgent investigation of environmental migrationthe most underreported, seismic consequence of our climate crisis that will force us to change whereand howwe live.The MOST IMPORTANT BOOK I imagine I''ll ever read.Mary RoachAn IMPORTANT and PROVOCATIVE start to a crucial conversation. Bill McKibbenWe are facing a species emergency. We can survive, but to do so will require a planned and deliberate migration of a kind humanity has never before undertaken. This is the biggest human crisis you've never heard of.Drought-hit regions bleeding those for whom a rural life has become untenable. Coastlines diminishing year on year. Wildfires and hurricanes leaving widening swaths of destruction. The culprit, most of us accept, is climate change, but not enough of us are confronting one of its biggest, and most present,
£16.99
McGraw-Hill Education Connect Access Card for Human Geography
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£102.14
McGraw-Hill Education Loose Leaf for Human Geography
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£140.40
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Strayed Homes
Book SynopsisEdwina Attlee is Senior Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies at the Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design and a Teaching Fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture.Trade ReviewStrayed Homes brings a valuable contribution on spaces as they’re occupied and used; a type of enquiry that is rare in architectural history, which tends to be concerned predominantly with designers. It would make heartening reading for architects who feel stuck in regulations and requirements and would like to rediscover spaces as sites of practices, movements and memories; and for anyone who enjoys cultural history written with care and attention to the small details, anxieties and pleasures of life in buildings. * Architect’s Journal *This highly-original study offers a celebration of ordinary spaces – from fire escapes to launderettes – that connect strangers in cities. Providing refuge from regulation, these spaces of temporary togetherness, waiting and daydreaming challenge readers to ask: in what places can citizenship thrive? * Barbara Penner, Professor of Architectural Humanities, University College London, UK *Strayed Homes explores everyday spaces that have none of the cultural or emotional investments of home but which, when examined as carefully as Edwina Attlee does here, tell us how we live. With an eye for the arresting detail and a poetic turn of phrase, Attlee opens up exciting new spaces for the study of everyday life. * Joe Moran, Professor of English and Cultural History, Liverpool John Moores University, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. INTRODUCTION Rocks, Dreams and Extensions 1. Secular Eruvin 2. Question your teaspoons a. Reading: Roland Barthes b. The Everyday: Michel de Certeau c. Space: Gaston Bachelard 2. LAUNDERETTE 1. Gossip shops for lazy people 2. What was the state of Britain’s laundry in 1949? a. The public washhouse b. The commercial laundry 3. The arrival of the launderette 4. Play 5. Wait 3. COUCHETTE 1. Double negative: a. Location b. Consciousness 2. Cut up and carve 3. Hide and seek 4. Missing and Crossing 5. Strayed homes 4. FIRE ESCAPE 1. The long and heavy ladder 2. Trapdoor 3. Unmarried women 4. Theatre box 5. Left space 5. GREASY SPOON 1. The milk comes and the post goes 2. Home-cooking 3. Stay 4. Cramped 5. For the price of a cup of tea 5. STRAYED HOMES: Politics, Practices, Emotions Bibliography Index
£90.00
Raintree Environment Infographics
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£999.99
Rowman & Littlefield Demography
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive, introductory text takes an applied, interdisciplinary approach. Because one author is a sociologist and the other a demographer, the text introduces perspectives from many different disciplines. The most applied book on the market, Demography: The Science of Population teaches students how to use the multitude of demographic resources available to them as consumers of data. Using case studies throughout to illustrate key concepts in a realistic and concrete manner, the authors also draw examples from recent U.S. Census data, United Nations and World Bank reports, tables from the National Center for Health Statistics, and other U.S. state- and county-level sources. New to the Second EditionThis second edition is divided into four main parts; each part begins with a short introduction, and all chapters include end-of-chapter summaries. All tables, related narrative, and graphics have been updated to include data from the 2000 and 2010 census counts, more recent estiTrade ReviewThe strength of the book is its many tables and graphs which illustrate many features of demography in an accessible and clear way. The case studies, for example, the way in which Zambia arrived at its population policy, are useful and well presented. * European Journal of Population *
£90.00
DK Student World Atlas 9th Edition
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£18.99
Rowman & Littlefield Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
Book SynopsisThis richly-illustrated, full-color textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the basics of Geographic Information Systems. Written in a clear and accessible style, it makes the complex and sophisticated field of GIS and spatial thinking comprehensible for first-time users. Exercises in every chapter allow students to master GIS skills.
£100.00
Basic Books Why We're Wrong about Nearly Everything: A Theory
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£22.40
Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd Enough
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£9.45
Monthly Review Press,U.S. Hell's Kitchen and the Battle for Urban Space:
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£85.82
The New York Review of Books, Inc Names on the Land: A Historical Account of
Book SynopsisGeorge R. Stewart’s classic study of place-naming in the United States was written during World War II as a tribute to the varied heritage of the nation’s peoples. More than half a century later, Names on the Land remains the authoritative source on its subject, while Stewart’s intimate knowledge of America and love of anecdote make his book a unique and delightful window on American history and social life.Names on the Land is a fascinating and fantastically detailed panorama of language in action. Stewart opens with the first European names in what would later be the United States—Ponce de León’s flowery Florída, Cortés’s semi-mythical isle of California, and the red Rio Colorado—before going on to explore New England, New Amsterdam, and New Sweden, the French and the Russian legacies, and the unlikely contributions of everybody from border ruffians to Boston Brahmins. These lively pages examine where and why Indian names were likely to be retained; nineteenth-century fads that gave rise to dozens of Troys and Athens and to suburban Parksides, Brookmonts, and Woodcrest Manors; and deep and enduring mysteries such as why “Arkansas” is Arkansaw, except of course when it isn’t.Names on the Land will engage anyone who has ever wondered at the curious names scattered across the American map. Stewart’s answer is always a story—one of the countless stories that lie behind the rich and strange diversity of the USA.
£20.70
Temple University Press,U.S. Managing the Infosphere: Governance, Technology,
Book SynopsisDrawing on their expertise in geography, political science, international relations, and communication studies, McDowell, Steinberg, and Tomasello investigate specific policy problems encountered as international organizations, corporations, and individual users try to "manage" a space that simultaneously contradicts and supports existing institutions and systems of governance, identity, and technology.Trade Review"Accessible and welcoming. The theoretical underpinnings are clearly explicated, and strong. The book will be particularly useful as an introductory text in classes on globalization and information technology for those in the first two years of their undergraduate studies." Sandra Braman, University of Wisconsin "The main strength of this book is its strong theoretical framework... Managing the Infosphere will prove useful as a foundational text for anyone who wants to explore deeply how governance, cultural practices and technology shape and territorialize the space of information - and sometimes the other way around."- Spring 2009 issue of Global Media Journal "The book's strength lies in its cogent look at the space that hosts the virtual in order to help users understand mobile technologies--whether in applications of communication, tourism, or institution... What is particularly impressive in this work is the authors' depth of analysis despite handling so many and varied concepts... Managing the Infosphere is a stimulating book." Journalism & Mass Communication, Spring 2009 "The authors do admirably in taking a difficult and fluid topic and discussing it in such a way you can readily make sense of it... Like any good scholarly work, this [book] offers no solutions, only cautions and insights. In that sense, Managing the Infosphere may prove a valuable work for scholars and researchers looking for light to help them forge the way ahead."-Technical Communication, May 2009Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1: Managing the Infosphere Chapter 2: Managing Technological Change Chapter 3: Scales of Governance, Governance of ScalesChapter 4: Communication Technology, Mobility, and Cultural ConsumptionChapter 5: Internet Names, Semiotics, and Alternative Spaces of GovernanceChapter 6: Fixity, Mobility, and the Governance of Internet NamesChapter 7: The Infosphere: A World of Places, an Ocean of Information or a Special Administrative Region?References
£999.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Berlusconi's Italy: Mapping Contemporary Italian
Book SynopsisEmphasizes the influence of regional demographics over the cult of Berlusconi's personalityTrade Review"This book presents a novel argument in a succinct manner, offering a new perspective on a big issue: the rise to prominence of Silvio Berlusconi. It adds considerably to our understanding of the Berlusconi phenomenon." Martin Bull, University of Salford "Short but detailed...The book is written in part as a reaction to notions that political geography no longer matters, and that personality and national media are dominant in Italian politics and Western politics generally...The most crucial chapters...detail how Berlusconi put together center-right coalitions with differing allies in different parts of Italy. Summing Up: Recommended." Choice "This book is not just another of the many explanations of why and how Berlusconi keeps returning to power. It is, rather, an impressive and, in my view, a much needed correction to overly facile claims about the effects on elections of modern systems of communication, and particularly of television... highly recommended." - Perspectives on Politics, March 2009 "Political geographers Michael Shin and John Agnew offer historians of contemporary Italy fresh insights with their in-depth study entitled Berlusconi's Italy. They challenge the common explanations for Berlusconi's rise in Italian politics...In sum, this is a thought-provoking book with a highly convincing argument." The Journal of Contemporary History, July 2009 "Shin and Agnew illustrate [their] argument with a convincing narrative sustained by sophisticated spatial analyses... In making [their] argument so well, sustained by careful analyses of the rich electoral data available, Shin and Agnew have not only illuminated Italy's recent electoral history as, in fact, a historical geography, but have also provided a paradigm for studies elsewhere. This short book is a worthy extension of Agnew's work on Italy and on the role of place in politics and a fine example of what geography has to offer to electoral analysis." Party Politics, May 2011Table of ContentsPreface; 1 Introduction; 2 The Geography of the New Bipolarity, 1994-2006; 3 Party Replacement, Italian Style; 4 The Geographical Secret to Berlusconi's Success; 5 What Went Up Later Came Down; 6 Conclusion; References
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Temple University Press,U.S. Telling Young Lives: Portraits of Global Youth
Book SynopsisExamines the changing political and social strategies of contemporary young people around the globeTrade Review"Telling Young Lives provides us with thirteen in depth portraits of young people around the globe, as they navigate their way through homelessness, precarious labor, ethnic conflict, religious persecutions and simple everyday challenges of growing up. Told in rich, often lyrical detail, and through the voices of these young people themselves, each narrative is supplemented with suggested additional scholarly readings. Telling Young Lives provides the reader with a compelling introduction into the politics of everyday life as shaped and experienced by contemporary young people. A great read."—Sue Ruddick, Associate Professor of Geography, University of TorontoTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Saka: Growing Up in the Indian Himalayas 3. "All My Life, I've Bounced Around": A Portrait of Blacc 4. Vusi Majola: "Walking Until the Shoes Is Finsihed" 5. Young, White, Male, and Working Class: A Portrait of Richard 6. Young, Male, Scottish, and Muslim: A Portrait of Kabir 7. Politics, Lifestyle, and Identity: The Story of Sven, Eastern Germany 8. "Each and Every Single Story About Me…There's Like a Huge Twist to It": Growing Up at Risk in the United States —A A Portrait of Mike 9. Zilho's Journeys: Displacement and Return in Bosnia-Herzegovina 10. Rocks: A Portrait of Mohammed 11. From Footballs to Fixer: Suresh and the New Politicians in North India 12. Telling Nala's Story: Negotiating the Global Agendas and Local Politics of Maasai Development in Tanzania 13. Darkest Whiteness: Race, Class, and Culture in Global Times: A Portrait of Helena 14. Young, Deaf, and Lesbian: A Portrait of Susannah 15. Afterword: Global Portraits and Local Snapshots About the Contributors Index
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Counterpoint The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of
Book SynopsisIn March 1946, scientists began to track thousands of children born in one cold week. No one imagined that this would become the longest-running study of human development in the world, growing to encompass five generations of children. Today, they are some of the best-studied people on the planet, and the simple act of observing human life has changed the way we are born, schooled, parent and die. This is the tale of these studies and the remarkable discoveries that have come from them. Touching people across the globe, they are one of the world's best-kept secrets.
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