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A collection of studies of individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. It includes essays on Dick Chorley, the influential geomorphologist, and Charles P Daly, long-serving president of the American Geographical Society.

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A collection of studies of individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. It provides key insight into the shaping of this discipline and of its practitioners in modern context.

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From simple road maps to advanced global-position satellite (GPS) technology, geographic information is essential in today's world.

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Drawing on global case studies, this is the first book to outline and elaborate on the ways that human geography has extended our understanding of disasters.

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Provides a series of personal reflections on the complex connections between seeing, imagining and representing the world geographically. This book contains essays which draw upon pictorial images to explore the varied ways in which the earth, and at times the heavens beyond, have been both imagined and represented as a place of human habitation.

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This book captures the significance of John Berger's political and creative praxis for scholarship on space, place, landscape, and spatial experience.

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Global Movements is the first comprehensive examination of the relationship between global mobility and dance. It includes chapters from geographers, dance historians, and other humanities scholars and examines how the diffusion of global cultures has impacted dance and given new meaning to the everyday spaces where dance occurs.

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Global Movements is the first comprehensive examination of the relationship between global mobility and dance. It includes chapters from geographers, dance historians, and other humanities scholars and examines how the diffusion of global cultures has impacted dance and given new meaning to the everyday spaces where dance occurs.

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Looking at issues such as how trends toward globalization affect the Caribbean, this volume explores the abrupt transformations in work and society now facing the region. The book includes consideration of foreign investment promotion.

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Describes the diverse histories and the processes of Greek Jews that worked to make them emerge as a Greek collective. This book follows the Jews as they left Greece - as deportees to Auschwitz or emigres to Palestine/Israel and New York's Lower East Side.

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Can you identify the "Bride of the Adriatic", the "Home of Bock Beer", or the "Sick Man of Europe" These nicknames and many others - appellations of countries, cities, mountains, rivers, capes and places of historical interest - are identified in Harold Sharp's concise volume.

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Examines the concept of landscape as a multitude of places and spaces haunted by spectres, memory, trauma and nostalgia in literature, art and film from Victorian times to the present.

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Examines the concept of landscape as a multitude of places and spaces haunted by spectres, memory, trauma and nostalgia in literature, art and film from Victorian times to the present.

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Describes a natural site or historic building in each state and four Canadian provinces that has become the focus for tales of apparitions, spooky presences, and other signs of haunting.

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High mountains, polar expanses, volcanic peaks are special environments. This volume explores different aspects of these environments - disorientation, exploration, native knowledge, polar research. It is suitable for geographers, historians of science, and those interested in polar/mountain studies, landscape, culture and environment.

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This book examines how ideas about bodies, homes, and nature were deployed to serve three interrelated imperatives: the healthy population, the nation, and empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through an analysis of archive material it explores how the role of women in progressive reform was a form of governmentality.

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Explores the impact of nostalgia on the construction of individual and collective identity for diasporic South-Asians in the UK and US. It argues that in the postcolonial context the affect produced by this nostalgia can have radical potential as a form of resistance.