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Prisoners of Geography

Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World

par Tim Marshall ...

Collections series Politics of Place
UPDATED TO REFLECT CURRENT EVENTS! In this fascinating New York Times bestseller—fully revised to reflect the events of our current world—award-winning journalist Tim Marshall uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain how physical landscapes influence geopolitical strategies of world leaders, showing “how geography shapes not just history but destiny” (Newsweek).Maps have always captivated us, ... En savoir plus

$21.99 CAD

UPDATED TO REFLECT CURRENT EVENTS! In this fascinating New York Times bestseller—fully revised to reflect the events of our current world—award-winning journalist Tim Marshall uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain how physical landscapes influence geopolitical strategies of world leaders, showing “how geography shapes not just history but destiny” (Newsweek).Maps have always captivated us,
... En savoir plus
Concentration and Power in the Food System

Who Controls What We Eat?

par Professor Philip H. Howard ...

Collections series Contemporary Food Studies: Economy, Culture and Politics
Nearly every day brings news of another merger or acquisition involving the companies that control our food supply. Just how concentrated has this system become? At almost every key stage of the food system, four firms alone control 40% or more of the market, a level above which these companies have the power to drive up prices for consumers and reduce their rate of innovation. Researchers have ... En savoir plus

$39.99 CAD

Nearly every day brings news of another merger or acquisition involving the companies that control our food supply. Just how concentrated has this system become? At almost every key stage of the food system, four firms alone control 40% or more of the market, a level above which these companies have the power to drive up prices for consumers and reduce their rate of innovation. Researchers have
... En savoir plus
Guns, Germs, and Steel

The Fates of Human Societies

par Jared Diamond, Ph.D. ...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize • New York Times Bestseller • Over Two Million Copies Sold“One of the most significant projects embarked upon by any intellectual of our generation” (Gregg Easterbrook, New York Times), Guns, Germs, and Steel presents a groundbreaking, unified narrative of human history.Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, ... En savoir plus

$19.79 CAD

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize • New York Times Bestseller • Over Two Million Copies Sold“One of the most significant projects embarked upon by any intellectual of our generation” (Gregg Easterbrook, New York Times), Guns, Germs, and Steel presents a groundbreaking, unified narrative of human history.Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans,
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Food System Transformations

Social Movements, Local Economies, Collaborative Networks

Modifié par Cordula Kropp, Irene Antoni-Komar, Colin Sage ...

Collections series Critical Food Studies
This book examines the role of local food movements, enterprises and networks in the transformation of the currently unsustainable global food system. It explores a series of innovations designed to re-integrate sustainable modes of food production and encourage food sovereignty.It provides detailed insights into a specialised network of social actors collaborating in novel ways and creating new ... En savoir plus

$71.44 CAD

This book examines the role of local food movements, enterprises and networks in the transformation of the currently unsustainable global food system. It explores a series of innovations designed to re-integrate sustainable modes of food production and encourage food sovereignty.It provides detailed insights into a specialised network of social actors collaborating in novel ways and creating new
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Progress

How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It

par Samuel Miller McDonald ...

For readers of Thomas Piketty, David Graeber, and Jared Diamond: A bold, provocative, wide-ranging argument about the human idea of progress that offers a new vision of our futureProgress is power. Narratives of progress, the stories we tell about whether a society is moving in the right or the wrong direction, are immensely potent. Progress has built cities, flattened mountains, charted the globe ... En savoir plus

$24.99 CAD

For readers of Thomas Piketty, David Graeber, and Jared Diamond: A bold, provocative, wide-ranging argument about the human idea of progress that offers a new vision of our futureProgress is power. Narratives of progress, the stories we tell about whether a society is moving in the right or the wrong direction, are immensely potent. Progress has built cities, flattened mountains, charted the globe
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Lieux du voyage

par Rémy Knafou ...

Le voyage est assurément affaire de lieux, de lieux rêvés et imaginés, de lieux habités et pratiqués. Il constitue l’une des modalités inventées par les hommes pour passer d’un registre à un autre, du rêve à la réalité, du quotidien au hors-quotidien. Mettre en perspective ces représentations, confronter le lieu d’aujourd’hui à ce qu’il était cinquante ans plus tôt, à d’autres lieux comparables à ... En savoir plus

$24.99 CAD

Le voyage est assurément affaire de lieux, de lieux rêvés et imaginés, de lieux habités et pratiqués. Il constitue l’une des modalités inventées par les hommes pour passer d’un registre à un autre, du rêve à la réalité, du quotidien au hors-quotidien. Mettre en perspective ces représentations, confronter le lieu d’aujourd’hui à ce qu’il était cinquante ans plus tôt, à d’autres lieux comparables à
... En savoir plus
The Power of Geography

Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

par Tim Marshall ...

Collections series Politics of Place
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, a fascinating, “refreshing, and very useful” (The Washington Post) follow-up that uses ten maps to explain the geopolitical challenges to today’s world powers and how they presage a volatile future.Tim Marshall’s global bestseller Prisoners of Geography offered us a “fresh way of looking at maps” (The New York Times Book ... En savoir plus

$18.99 CAD

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, a fascinating, “refreshing, and very useful” (The Washington Post) follow-up that uses ten maps to explain the geopolitical challenges to today’s world powers and how they presage a volatile future.Tim Marshall’s global bestseller Prisoners of Geography offered us a “fresh way of looking at maps” (The New York Times Book
... En savoir plus
This Way Up

When Maps Go Wrong (And Why It Matters)

par Map Men ...

***AN INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!**AUDIO BOOK NARRATED BY MARK COOPER-JONES AND JAY FOREMAN**An Audible Most Anticipated Listen!*The debut book from the YouTube sensation and all-round cartographical nerds, The Map Men!**Hello, we’re the Map Men and in the following pages, we’ve selected what we believe to be some of the very best wrong maps. Some of them are decades old, some are centuries ... En savoir plus

$20.99 CAD

***AN INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!**AUDIO BOOK NARRATED BY MARK COOPER-JONES AND JAY FOREMAN**An Audible Most Anticipated Listen!*The debut book from the YouTube sensation and all-round cartographical nerds, The Map Men!**Hello, we’re the Map Men and in the following pages, we’ve selected what we believe to be some of the very best wrong maps. Some of them are decades old, some are centuries
... En savoir plus
Magdalena. Historias de Colombia

par Wade Davis ...

El río Magdalena es la principal razón por la que Colombia existe como nación. Es el surco de vida que permitió a los colombianos establecerse en un territorio que es de las geografías más complejas de todo el planeta. En la cuenca del Magdalena viven cuatro de cada cinco habitantes del país y es la fuente del ochenta por ciento de la riqueza económica de la nación. El Magdalena es al mismo tiempo ... En savoir plus

$11.99 CAD

El río Magdalena es la principal razón por la que Colombia existe como nación. Es el surco de vida que permitió a los colombianos establecerse en un territorio que es de las geografías más complejas de todo el planeta. En la cuenca del Magdalena viven cuatro de cada cinco habitantes del país y es la fuente del ochenta por ciento de la riqueza económica de la nación. El Magdalena es al mismo tiempo
... En savoir plus
España

Anatomía de un país extraordinario

par Francisco J. Tapiador ...

Este libro utiliza las herramientas que proporciona la geografía para ayudar al lector español a apreciar su país, aportándole datos y argumentos que expresen mejor su sentimiento de pertenencia y simpatía por España. Tras décadas de cuestionamiento de los valores y virtudes de un país que hizo una transición política modélica en 1978 y, desde entonces, una espectacular renovación económica y ... En savoir plus

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Este libro utiliza las herramientas que proporciona la geografía para ayudar al lector español a apreciar su país, aportándole datos y argumentos que expresen mejor su sentimiento de pertenencia y simpatía por España. Tras décadas de cuestionamiento de los valores y virtudes de un país que hizo una transición política modélica en 1978 y, desde entonces, una espectacular renovación económica y
... En savoir plus
The Crimean Tatars

From Soviet Genocide to Putin's Conquest

par Brian Glyn Williams ...

The Russian annexation of the Crimea in March 2014 focused the world's attention on the Peninsula in ways not seen since the Crimean War. Thousands of Crimean Tatars clashed with pro-Russian militiamen in Simferopol, while Moscow has in turn stoked fears of jihadi terrorism among the overwhelmingly Muslim Tatars as retrospective justification for its invasion. The key thread in this book is the ... En savoir plus

$55.99 CAD

The Russian annexation of the Crimea in March 2014 focused the world's attention on the Peninsula in ways not seen since the Crimean War. Thousands of Crimean Tatars clashed with pro-Russian militiamen in Simferopol, while Moscow has in turn stoked fears of jihadi terrorism among the overwhelmingly Muslim Tatars as retrospective justification for its invasion. The key thread in this book is the
... En savoir plus
Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

par Leslie Kern ...

From the author of the best-selling Feminist City, this urbanite’s guide to gentrification knocks down the myths and exposes the forces behind the most urgent housing crisis of our time.Gentrification is no longer a phenomenon to be debated by geographers or downplayed by urban planners—it’s an experience lived and felt by working-class people everywhere. Leslie Kern travels to Toronto, Vancouver, ... En savoir plus

$18.39 CAD

From the author of the best-selling Feminist City, this urbanite’s guide to gentrification knocks down the myths and exposes the forces behind the most urgent housing crisis of our time.Gentrification is no longer a phenomenon to be debated by geographers or downplayed by urban planners—it’s an experience lived and felt by working-class people everywhere. Leslie Kern travels to Toronto, Vancouver,
... En savoir plus
The Nature of Our Cities

Harnessing the Power of the Natural World to Survive a Changing Planet

par Nadina Galle ...

In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Michael Pollan, The Nature of Our Cities is a stirring exploration of how innovators from around the world are combining urban nature with emerging technologies, protecting the planet’s cities from the effects of climate change and safeguarding the health of their inhabitants.We live in an age when humanity spends 90% of its time indoors, yet the nature ... En savoir plus

$18.99 CAD

In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Michael Pollan, The Nature of Our Cities is a stirring exploration of how innovators from around the world are combining urban nature with emerging technologies, protecting the planet’s cities from the effects of climate change and safeguarding the health of their inhabitants.We live in an age when humanity spends 90% of its time indoors, yet the nature
... En savoir plus
The Making of Migration

The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe’s Borders

par Martina Tazzioli ...

Collections series Society and Space
The Making of Migration addresses the rapid phenomenon that has become one of the most contentious issues in contemporary life: how are migrants governed as individual subjects and as part of groups? What are the modes of control, identification and partitions that migrants are subjected to?Bringing together an ethnographically grounded analysis of migration, and a critical theoretical engagement ... En savoir plus

$78.39 CAD

The Making of Migration addresses the rapid phenomenon that has become one of the most contentious issues in contemporary life: how are migrants governed as individual subjects and as part of groups? What are the modes of control, identification and partitions that migrants are subjected to?Bringing together an ethnographically grounded analysis of migration, and a critical theoretical engagement
... En savoir plus
Why We're Wrong About Nearly Everything

A Theory of Human Misunderstanding

par Bobby Duffy ...

A leading social researcher explains why humans so consistently misunderstand the outside worldHow often are women harassed? What percentage of the population are immigrants? How bad is unemployment? These questions are important, but most of us get the answers wrong. Research shows that people often wildly misunderstand the state of the world, regardless of age, sex, or education. And though the ... En savoir plus

$22.99 CAD

A leading social researcher explains why humans so consistently misunderstand the outside worldHow often are women harassed? What percentage of the population are immigrants? How bad is unemployment? These questions are important, but most of us get the answers wrong. Research shows that people often wildly misunderstand the state of the world, regardless of age, sex, or education. And though the
... En savoir plus
After Childhood

Re-thinking Environment, Materiality and Media in Children's Lives

par Peter Kraftl ...

Collections series Routledge Spaces of Childhood and Youth Series
This book offers a new approach for theorising and undertaking childhood research. It combines insights from childhood and generational studies with object-oriented ontologies, new materialisms, critical race and gender theories to address a range of key, intractable challenges facing children and young people.Bringing together traditional social-scientific research methods with techniques from ... En savoir plus

$86.56 CAD

This book offers a new approach for theorising and undertaking childhood research. It combines insights from childhood and generational studies with object-oriented ontologies, new materialisms, critical race and gender theories to address a range of key, intractable challenges facing children and young people.Bringing together traditional social-scientific research methods with techniques from
... En savoir plus
Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Water Diplomacy

A Principled and Pragmatic Approach

Modifié par Shafiqul Islam, Kevin M. Smith ...

Collections series Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
This book introduces the concept of Water Diplomacy as a principled and pragmatic approach to problem-driven interdisciplinary collaboration, which has been developed as a response to pressing contemporary water challenges arising from the coupling of natural and human systems.The findings of the book are the result of a decade-long interdisciplinary experiment in conceiving, developing, and ... En savoir plus

$86.56 CAD

This book introduces the concept of Water Diplomacy as a principled and pragmatic approach to problem-driven interdisciplinary collaboration, which has been developed as a response to pressing contemporary water challenges arising from the coupling of natural and human systems.The findings of the book are the result of a decade-long interdisciplinary experiment in conceiving, developing, and
... En savoir plus
The Land of the Green Man

A Journey through the Supernatural Landscapes of the British Isles

par Carolyne Larrington ...

Beyond its housing estates and identikit high streets there is another Britain. This is the Britain of mist-drenched forests and unpredictable sea-frets: of wraith-like fog banks, druidic mistletoe and peculiar creatures that lurk, half-unseen, in the undergrowth, tantalising and teasing just at the periphery of human vision. How have the remarkably persistent folkloric traditions of the British ... En savoir plus

$24.49 CAD

Beyond its housing estates and identikit high streets there is another Britain. This is the Britain of mist-drenched forests and unpredictable sea-frets: of wraith-like fog banks, druidic mistletoe and peculiar creatures that lurk, half-unseen, in the undergrowth, tantalising and teasing just at the periphery of human vision. How have the remarkably persistent folkloric traditions of the British
... En savoir plus
Urban Comics

Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives

par Dominic Davies ...

Collections series Routledge Advances in Comics Studies
Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives makes an important and timely contribution both to comics studies and urban studies, offering a decolonisation and reconfiguration of both of these already interdisciplinary fields. With chapter-length discussions of comics from cities such as Cairo, Cape Town, New Orleans, Delhi and Beirut, this book shows how ... En savoir plus

$89.31 CAD

Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives makes an important and timely contribution both to comics studies and urban studies, offering a decolonisation and reconfiguration of both of these already interdisciplinary fields. With chapter-length discussions of comics from cities such as Cairo, Cape Town, New Orleans, Delhi and Beirut, this book shows how
... En savoir plus
Down From The Mountain

The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear

par Bryce Andrews ...

The story of a grizzly bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs, and what they reveal about the changing character of the American West.An "ode to wildness and wilderness" (Outside Magazine), Down from the Mountain tells the story of one grizzly in the changing Montana landscape.Millie was cunning, a fiercely protective mother to her cubs. But raising those cubs in the mountains was hard, as ... En savoir plus

$13.99 CAD

The story of a grizzly bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs, and what they reveal about the changing character of the American West.An "ode to wildness and wilderness" (Outside Magazine), Down from the Mountain tells the story of one grizzly in the changing Montana landscape.Millie was cunning, a fiercely protective mother to her cubs. But raising those cubs in the mountains was hard, as
... En savoir plus
Cuba - Ombres et lumières

par Jean-Marie Beuzelin ...

Cuba, un pays à nul autre pareil : de José Martí au Che, de la Révolution castriste à Guantánamo, de La Havane à Santiago de Cuba, de la Santería au Buena Vista Social Club, de la débrouille à la cubaine à la Libreta, le carnet d’alimentation...Ce livre est un voyage au coeur de Cuba et de la vie de ses habitants dans ses souffrances quotidiennes, mais aussi dans sa beauté et sa dignité, sans ... En savoir plus

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Cuba, un pays à nul autre pareil : de José Martí au Che, de la Révolution castriste à Guantánamo, de La Havane à Santiago de Cuba, de la Santería au Buena Vista Social Club, de la débrouille à la cubaine à la Libreta, le carnet d’alimentation...Ce livre est un voyage au coeur de Cuba et de la vie de ses habitants dans ses souffrances quotidiennes, mais aussi dans sa beauté et sa dignité, sans
... En savoir plus
Rights of Passage

Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow

par Nicholas Blomley ...

Collections series Social Justice
Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow documents a powerful and under-researched form of urban governance that focuses on pedestrian flow. This logic, which Nicholas Blomley terms 'pedestrianism', values public space not in terms of its aesthetic merits, or its success in promoting public citizenship and democracy. Rather, the function of the sidewalk is understood to be ... En savoir plus

$86.56 CAD

Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow documents a powerful and under-researched form of urban governance that focuses on pedestrian flow. This logic, which Nicholas Blomley terms 'pedestrianism', values public space not in terms of its aesthetic merits, or its success in promoting public citizenship and democracy. Rather, the function of the sidewalk is understood to be
... En savoir plus
Public Transport

Its Planning, Management and Operation

par Peter R. White ...

Collections series Natural and Built Environment Series
Public Transport provides an accessible introductory text to the field of public transport systems, covering bus, coach, rail, metro, domestic air and taxi modes. The market structure is set out, together with data collection methods. The technology of bus and rail systems is introduced with particular reference to peak capacity and energy consumption. An analysis of cost structures and costing ... En savoir plus

$114.04 CAD

Public Transport provides an accessible introductory text to the field of public transport systems, covering bus, coach, rail, metro, domestic air and taxi modes. The market structure is set out, together with data collection methods. The technology of bus and rail systems is introduced with particular reference to peak capacity and energy consumption. An analysis of cost structures and costing
... En savoir plus
Letters to the Earth

Writing to a Planet in Crisis

A profound, powerful and moving collection of 100 letters from around the world responding to the climate crisis, introduced by Emma Thompson and lovingly illustrated by CILIP award winner Jackie Morris.‘All power to this amazing project.’ JOANNE HARRIS‘Makes sense of the climate crisis in a whole new way’ MAGID MAGIDHow can we begin to talk about what is happening to the world? How can we explain ... En savoir plus

$13.99 CAD

A profound, powerful and moving collection of 100 letters from around the world responding to the climate crisis, introduced by Emma Thompson and lovingly illustrated by CILIP award winner Jackie Morris.‘All power to this amazing project.’ JOANNE HARRIS‘Makes sense of the climate crisis in a whole new way’ MAGID MAGIDHow can we begin to talk about what is happening to the world? How can we explain
... En savoir plus

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