Tag: Geography

Free Download Theory and Explanation in Geography
by Yeung, Henry Wai-chung;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1119845505 | 338 pages | True PDF EPUB | 6.32 MB
THEORY AND EXPLANATION IN GEOGRAPHY "With this book Henry Yeung puts Geography back into the driver’s seat of new theory development. Foregrounding mid-range theories and mechanism-based explanations, he offers a pragmatic approach that has the capacity to shape the wider social sciences for years to come. The timing of this intervention is pitch-perfect, as scholars search for ways to understand and intervene in an increasingly distrustful and polarized world."

Free Download A Dictionary of Geography
by Mayhew, Susan;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0192896393 | 464 pages | True EPUB | 9.29 MB
This bestselling dictionary contains over 3,000 entries on both physical and human geography, covering topics such as cartography, surveying, meteorology, climatology, ecology, population, industry, and development. Over 70 diagrams complement the text, and many entries include worked examples. This edition has been fully revised and updated, and many entries are accompanied by useful web links which can be accessed on the dedicated companion website.

Free Download The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions by Jeffrey D. Sachs, Steve Menasche, Tantor Audio
English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B088ZW44HH | MP3@64 Kbps | Duration: 8:58 h | 250 Mb
Today’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity’s story has always been on a global scale.
Sachs takes listeners through a series of seven distinct waves of technological and institutional change, starting with the original settling of the planet by early modern humans through long-distance migration and ending with reflections on today’s globalization.

Free Download Dennis Rumley, Julian V. Minghi, "The Geography of Border Landscapes"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1138815632, 1138815586 | EPUB | pages: 332 | 4.2 mb
This book is an outcome of the 26th international geographical union congress in Perth, Western Australia. It focuses on border landscapes, with emphasis on the varying impact that political decision-making and ideological differences can have on the environment at border locations.

Free Download George Rengert, "The Geography Of Illegal Drugs"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 081336650X, 0367318504 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 4.3 mb
The nightly news and other media provide a constant reminder of illegal drug transport over American borders and along routes between various U.S. cities. The general public is well aware that law enforcement efforts to address the foreign supply and trafficking of illegal drugs into the United States is an ongoing battle.This useful and readable compendium gives a fascinating account of how illegal drugs are transported into and around the United States and throughout its neighborhoods. Criminologist and geographer George F. Rengert takes a unique approach to the problem of illegal drug distribution and U.S. drug markets. Using maps and charts to illustrate his findings, Rengert applies spacial diffusion models to the illegal drug trade and explains why certain drugs are transported and found in different parts of the country. For example, the highest concentration of marijuana plants is not on either coast, but rather across the middle of the United States?throughout what is known as the corn belt. At the local level Rengert assesses the patterns and processes that interconnect drug sales and neighborhood deterioration and change.The book also addresses the important issues of how illegal drugs in this country operate on wholesale and retail levels and ways in which law enforcement at the federal, state, and local levels contend with this widespread problem. Using ethnographic material to provide real-life examples, Rengert explores how drug dealers on the street expand spatially and predictably in their neighborhoods. He illustrates how this knowledge helps law enforcement in efforts to get these drugs off the streets.

Free Download Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography By Crampton, Jeremy W(Editor);Elden, Stuart
2007 | 390 Pages | ISBN: 0754646548 | PDF | 3 MB
Michel Foucault’s work is rich with implications and insights concerning spatiality, and has inspired many geographers and social scientists to develop these ideas in their own research. This book, the first to engage Foucault’s geographies in detail from a wide range of perspectives, is framed around his discussions with the French geography journal Hérodote in the mid 1970s. The opening third of the book comprises some of Foucault’s previously untranslated work on questions of space, a range of responses from French and English language commentators, and a newly translated essay by Claude Raffestin, a leading Swiss geographer.The rest of the book presents specially commissioned essays which examine the remarkable reception of Foucault’s work in English and French language geography; situate Foucault’s project historically; and provide a series of developments of his work in the contemporary contexts of power, biopolitics, governmentality and war. Contributors include a number of key figures in social/spatial theory such as David Harvey, Chris Philo, Sara Mills, Nigel Thrift, John Agnew, Thomas Flynn and Matthew Hannah. Written in an open and engaging tone, the contributors discuss just what they find valuable – and frustrating – about Foucault’s geographies. This is a book which will both surprise and challenge.

Free Download Sitings: Critical Approaches to Korean Geography By Tangherlini, Timothy R(Editor)
2007 | 237 Pages | ISBN: 0824831381 | PDF | 14 MB
Arranged around a set of provocative themes, the essays in this volume engage in the discussion from various critical perspectives on Korean geography. Part One, Geographies of the (Colonial) City, focuses on Seoul during the Japanese colonial occupation from 1910-1945 and the lasting impact of that period on the construction of specific places in Seoul. In Part Two, Geographies of the (Imagined) Village, the authors delve into the implications for the conceptions of the village of recent economic and industrial development. In this context, they examine both constructed space, such as the Korean Folk Village, and rural villages that were physically transformed through the processes of rapid modernization. The essays in Geographies of Religion (Part Three) reveal how religious sites are historically and environmentally contested as well as the high degree of mobility exhibited by sites themselves. Similarly, places that exist at the margins are powerful loci for the negotiation of identity and aspects of cultural ideology. The final section, Geographies of the Margin, focuses on places that exist at the margins of Korean society.Contributors: Todd A. Henry, Jong-Heon Jin, Laurel Kendall, David J. Nemeth, Robert Oppenheim, Michael J. Pettid, Je-Hun Ryu, Jesook Song, Timothy R. Tangherlini, Sallie Yea.

Free Download Battisti, "Islands in Geography, Law, and Literature: A Cross-Disciplinary Journey "
English | ISBN: 3110769697 | 2022 | 250 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This collection explores the heterogeneous places we have traditionally been taught to term ‘islands.’ It stages a conversation on the very idea of ‘island-ness’, thus contributing to a new field of research at the crossroads of law, geography, literature, urban planning, politics, arts, and cultural studies.

Free Download Christoph Mauntel, "Geography and Religious Knowledge in the Medieval World "
English | ISBN: 3110685957 | 2021 | 262 pages | EPUB | 17 MB
In the medieval world, geographical knowledge was influenced by religious ideas and beliefs. Whereas this point is well analysed for the Latin-Christian world, the religious character of the Arabic-Islamic geographic tradition has not yet been scrutinised in detail.

Free Download Garrett Nagle, "Cambridge International AS and A Level Geography second edition"
English | 2016 | pages: 513 | ISBN: 1471868567 | PDF | 389,0 mb
Endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education for full syllabus coverage. Rely on a course with international focus and examples and case studies from around the world, which has been especially written to cover the Cambridge International AS & A Level Geography syllabus for examination from 2018 (9696). – Build geographical skills with clear guidance and practice, including advice on fieldwork – Ensure complete coverage with the core syllabus and all the human and physical geography options included – Provide an international focus with examples and case studies from around the world