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As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty are once more drawing international attention.

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Students and scholars in all the political and social science disciplines will find Cross-Cultural Studies in Human Development a source of stimulating ideas.

The book begins with a focus on childhood issues, including a Piagetian cognitive study in a Third World country.

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Challenges standard understandings of deterrence by analyzing it as a form of talk and reaches conclusions about the effectiveness of diplomacy that are much more optimistic. This book argues that diplomacy works precisely because it is so valuable.

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Complete cross referencing of concepts and an appendix that groups concepts into broad categories make the dictionary an especially valuable reference tool for both beginning students interested in the scope of physical geography and advanced students pursuing graduate study in the field.

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This dictionary is the very first to cover the whole span of geopolitics from 1870 to the present. The 219 entries are fairly lengthy essays about the major schools, doctrines, strategies, people, controversies, and policies of geopolitics in the main countries practicing geopolitics.

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The volume is divided into five major sections, four of which are based on Pattison's four traditions in American geography: earth science, man-land, area studies, and spatial. In the fifth section, Wheeler and Sibley focus on geographic education, citing quotations pertaining to techniques, application, and thought.

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What do our attitudes to dirt and cleanliness tell us about ourselves and the societies we live in Exploring a variety of settings - domestic, urban, suburban and rural, this title exposes how our ideas about dirt are intimately bound up with issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality and the body.

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Explains the meanings of more than 1500 place-names and discusses the techniques by which this information is obtained.

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How an imagined land became a real continent

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In the decades following World War II, American scientists were celebrated for their contributions to social and technological progress. They were also widely criticized for their increasingly close ties to military and governmental power--not only by outside activists but from among the ranks of scientists themselves. Disrupting Science tells the

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Presents a mix of statistical data and narrative entries on the major geophysical events of the year - earthquakes, storms, forest fires, volcanic eruptions, droughts, and floods.

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Complements theoretical analysis with detailed discussions of the empirics of the economics of agglomeration, offering a mix of theoretical and empirical research that gives a fresh perspective on spatial disparities. This book provides an introduction to economic geography and includes history and background of the field of spatial economics.

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This text provides an essential reference handbook for students of geography and related social sciences.

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Explore the magic and mystery of the world's tropical rainforests in this fascinating volume that brings to life the plants, animals, and people that inhabit this fragile ecosystem.

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Covers the range of history from prehistoric times to the present, offering biographical entries on the most famous real and fictional women travellers, explorers, and adventurers from all countries of the world.

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This bibliographical survey of energy and the development of West Africa contains 774 entries and materials on all but one country of the region.

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