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Sicker shows that the political history of the pre-Islamic Middle East provides ample evidence that the geopolitical and religious factors conditioning political decision-making tended to promote military solutions to political problems, making conflict resolution through war the norm, with the peaceful settlement of disputes quite rare.

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This edited collection offers a much-needed interdisciplinary exploration of the longevity and impact of the spatial turn across disciplines. It is aimed at advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars interested in space and place in the humanities and social sciences.

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This edited collection offers a much-needed interdisciplinary exploration of the longevity and impact of the spatial turn across disciplines. It is aimed at advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars interested in space and place in the humanities and social sciences.

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Ra is the story of Heyerdahl's voyage from North Africa to South America in a 45 ft papyrus boat modelled on those depicted in the pharoah's wall paintings. A violent storm ended the first expedition but within a year the seven men had embarked on their second journey in Ra II.

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A sweeping chronicle of the brave and hardy souls, ranging from the Spanish seafarer Vicente Pinzon, who discovered the Amazon River, to contemporary heroes and heroines, like Sister Dorothy Stang and Chico Mendes, whose efforts to save the rain forest cost them their lives.

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Throughout the natural world, organisms have responded to predators, inadequate resources, or inclement conditions by forming ongoing mutually beneficial partnerships--or symbioses--with different species. Symbiosis is the foundation for major evolutionary events, such as the emergence of eukaryotes and plant eating among vertebrates, and is also a

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With his companions from nine nations, Heyerdahl set sail in a boat made of reeds in search of the sea routes which he thought were used by the Sumerians in vessels like his own, 5000 years ago. Heyerdahl recounts the discoveries and hazards of his journey down the Tigris to the Indian Ocean.

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The true story of Gerard Mercator, the greatest map-maker of all time, who was condemned to death as a heretic.

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This easy-to-read tidal atlas includes comprehensive and detailed tidal streams and tidal heights and an annual Cherbourg tide table. It covers The Solent and Approaches, Portland Bill, Alderney and Cherbourg, Poole, Russell Channels, St Helier Approaches, St Malo Approaches and more.

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Theorising Literary Islands is an epistemological study of the development of the Robinsonade genre, its ideological functions within contemporary Anglophone cultural thought, and the role of literary and filmic mediation in constructing twentieth and twenty-first century European and American relations with and to the Pacific region.

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Designed for students as an accessible and enjoyable introduction to this new landscape of geographical ideas. The book takes the reader through the history of geographic thought up to a survey of the present. Contemporary theory is then used to explore real world issues drawn from across the discipline.

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Argues that what we call American literature is quite often a shorthand, a simplified name for an extended tangle of relations. This book contends that American literature is answerable not to the nation-state, but to the human species as a whole and that it looks dramatically different when removed from a national or English-language context.

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cholars from science and technology studies, media studies and critical cartography come together in this book to explore different ways of understanding these shifts, and draw attention to temporal aspects of mapping, as against taken-for-granted ideas that maps are spatial things. -- .

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By engaging a range of burgeoning debates on sustainable socio-economic development, this book offers a deep dive into the dynamics that have shaped tourism in South Africa.

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This volume of essays highlights the autobiogeographies of eight selected geographers who are university faculty members and work and reside in the United States. Drawing from various geographical narratives, the contributors explore their trajectories and how they have navigated their personal and professional transnational livelihoods in the United States.

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Links the concept of transnationalism to Jewish historical experience in order to explore Jewishness as a form of cultural-historical in-betweeness.

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Links the concept of transnationalism to Jewish historical experience in order to explore Jewishness as a form of cultural-historical in-betweeness.

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The collection brings together theoretical discussions and rigorous empirical analysis by key scholars in order to move Urban Political Ecology into current debates about urbanization and climate change.

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The collection brings together theoretical discussions and rigorous empirical analysis by key scholars in order to move Urban Political Ecology into current debates about urbanization and climate change.

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What do long-distance travelers gain from their voyages, especially when faraway lands are regarded as the source of esoteric knowledge Mary Helms explains how various cultures interpret space and distance in cosmological terms, and why they associate political power with information about strange places, peoples, and things. She assesses the dive

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Martin Selby's textbook makes available to practitioners and students seeking to understand the phenomenon of tourism in towns and cities the methods and concepts that are currently enhancing and transforming our understanding of society in other areas of the social sciences.